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Tomorrow, Wednesday, September 2, 2026
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Response Behavior in Large Language Models: Data Selection, Gradient Analysis, and Reasoning Evaluation
Ming Li
ttps://umd.zoom.us/j/2762491074?omn=91264661808
Thursday, September 3, 2026
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Defense: Embodied Action Understanding
Eadom Dessalene
IRB-4105
Friday, September 4, 2026
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Towards Efficient LLM Post-training and Reasoning
Yanjun Fu
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/my/sanghamd?pwd=OEhISW9hZTV6M0JDRG16YTIzN2JJdz09
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Towards Efficient LLM Post-training and Reasoning
Yanjun Fu
Friday, September 4 11:00:00 AM EST IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/my/sanghamd?pwd=OEhISW9hZTV6M0JDRG16YTIzN2JJdz09
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
A New Balancing Act: Reflections Computational Linguistics and AI
Philip Resnik
IRB 2107 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/91267609044?pwd=g4uLkhpH4T8d2Gln0HXg6s4qaxzpbj.1
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Human-Centered NLP Under Verification Barriers: Designing for Appropriate Reliance
Calvin Bao
IRB-4109 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4921309992?pwd=dkFNU29XQ2FPcGowazNKcDl1U3VwZz09&omn=94450383659
Next week
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
Bias and Worldview in LLMs
Phillip Honenberger - Morgan State University
https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
To be announced
John Bostanci - Simons Institute and UC Berkeley
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94359815285 Meeting ID: 943 5981 5285 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search at Billion Scale and Beyond
Tobias Janssen
IRB-5105
Thursday, September 10, 2026
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: Trustworthy and Efficient AI Agents
Monte Hoover
IRB-5165 https://umd.zoom.us/s/94156175987?pwd=eHaQBci14km4O06ZF9g5KivovyfIrq.1
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Caveats of Metagenomic Assembly: The Secret Life of Mobile Genetic Elements
Nathalie Bonin - Pop Lab, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Proposal: REAL-TIME PHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING FOR CYBERSICKNESS
Mattie Johnson
IRB-3137
Further ahead
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
LLM Interpretability
Sarah Wiegreffe - UMD CS
CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
11:30 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Graduate Office
PhD Defense: Realizing Conceptual Databases: Query Optimization, Schema Compilation, and Constraint Enforcement
Hasara Kalumin
IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7123055142
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
TBD
Furong Huang - UMD CS
CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Exploring Magic in Quantum Computers and Many-Body Systems
Tobias Haug - Technology Innovation Institute
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/3953943156 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, September 24, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
TBD
Ege Sirvan - STORM Research Group, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
Like Nailing Jello to the Wall? Challenges for Evaluating Common Sense and Cultural Consensus
Rachel Rudinger - UMD CS
CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
TBD
Sanghamitra Dutta - UMD CS
CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Thursday, October 8, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
TBD
Michelle Holko
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, October 15, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
TBD
Yun William Yu - Carnegie Mellon University
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
TBD
Paola Cascante-Bonilla - Stony Brook University
https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Thursday, October 22, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
TBD
Wenshan Wu - Molloy Lab, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
Formal Methods for Safe and Interpretable Reinforcement Learning
Calin Belta - UMD ECE / CS
CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
From Quality to Communication Success: Insights from Recent Research and Open Questions for AI Translation
Marine Carpuat - UMD CS
CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Friday, November 6, 2026
10:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
What We Leave Behind: Delegating Sensemaking in the Age of Generative AI
Niklas Elmqvist - Aarhus University
IRB 4105
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
Towards Understanding and Post-training LLMs as Decision-Making Agents: A Regret-based Approach
Kaiqing Zhang - UMD ECE
CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Tuesday, November 17, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
TBD
Ilaria Canavotto - UMD PHIL / AIM
CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Tuesday, November 24, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
AutoSR: Automatic Symbolic Regression by Searching Research States
Haizhao Yang - UMD Math
https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Tuesday, December 1, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
TBD
Rebecca Hwa - GWU CS
CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1