Talks

Yu Meng - University of Virginia

5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Yu Meng - University of Virginia

Beyond Brute-Force Compute: Training Light and Thinking Deep for LLM Reasoning

5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Thursday, October 15, 2026

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

PL Reading Group

ZX Calculus: Untangling the Spider’s Web of Quantum Circuits

Lucas Silver - JHU APL

5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Yun William Yu - Carnegie Mellon University

(beyond) k-mer sketching: applications to metagenomic alignment and comparison

4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

CS Department

Architecting The Future Of Scientific Discovery: Unleashing Frontier Artificial Intelligence And Advanced Simulation For The Doe Genesis Mission

Han-Wei Shen - Ohio State University and National Science Foundation

IRB 2207

Friday, October 16, 2026

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2305684852?pwd=czBlbjREek1kQVRITEtmZmhlUHg1dz09&omn=95394874358 Meeting ID: 230 568 4852 Passcode: 3fZcEv Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

PhD Defense: Exploring quantum dynamics with analog quantum simulators

Elizabeth Bennewitz - University of Maryland

11:00 am

-12:30 pm

CS Graduate Office

PhD Proposal: Toward a Haptic Codec: Composing Perceptual Mechanisms Into a Programmable Haptic Medium

Zining Zhang

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Hybrid continuous-discrete variable quantum computing on trapped-ion platforms

Anton Than - University of Maryland

3:00 pm

- 4:30 pm

CS Graduate Office

PhD Defense: Improving Deep Networks by Learning from Their Failures and Successes

Matthew Walmer

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

1:00 pm

- 3:30 pm

CS Graduate Office

PhD Defense: The Anatomy of Trust in Foundation Models: Representations, Reasoning, and Alignment

Atoosa Malemir Chegini

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Privacy Protection and Reliable Evaluation in Multimodal AI

Paola Cascante-Bonilla - Stony Brook University

https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Ritwik Gupta - University of Maryland

5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Getting to Know QuICS

Various Speakers - University of Maryland

3:30 pm

- 4:30 pm

CS Department

Characterizing and Mitigating Performance Variability in Accelerator-Rich Systems

Matt Sinclair - University of Wisconsin-Madison

IRB 4105

Thursday, October 22, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Michelle Holko - Computercraft

Relational Biosecurity: Measuring Security in Connected AI-Bio Systems

4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Friday, October 23, 2026

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Learning Noise-Robust Stabilizer Structure via Bell Sampling

Thomas Steckmann - University of Maryland

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

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

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Sharon Levy - Rutgers University

5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98531138611 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Quantum score matching with applications to learning thermal states

Jiaqi Leng - Virginia Tech

Friday, October 30, 2026

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Ordering-aware theory of Trotter error

Zhenning Liu - University of Maryland

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

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

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Tuhin Chakrabarty - Stony Brook University

5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

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

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

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Daniel Khashabi - Johns Hopkins University

5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Thursday, November 12, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Marcus Fedarko - Pop Lab, University of Maryland

TBD

4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Monday, November 16, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/93081761228?pwd=fhsBUzsdeVOgaNspZfSrZXBXG7oQGu.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Query-Optimal and Gate-Efficient Time-Dependent Hamiltonian Simulation

Xinzhao Wang - Peking University

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

TBD

Ilaria Canavotto - UMD PHIL / AIM

CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Nishant Balepur - University of Maryland

5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Tuesday, November 24, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

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

TBD

Rebecca Hwa - GWU CS

CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1

Wednesday, December 2, 2026

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Yiwei Xu - University of Maryland

5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Thursday, December 3, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Rachel Parsons - Molloy Lab, University of Maryland

TBD

4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Monday, December 7, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm