Talks

Decoding epigenetic programs in differentiation and disease

Christina Leslie - Sloan Kettering Institute

12:00 pm

-12:40 pm

Momentum-space entanglement of disordered one-dimensional fermions after a quantum quench

Rex Lundgren - JQI

PSC 2136 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

CATS

Martingale tail bounds and their applications

Aravind Srinivasan - University of Maryland, College Park

Monday, February 18, 2019

10:30 am

-11:30 am

Weakly-supervised Modeling of Language, Social, and Behavioral Abstractions for Microblog Political Discourse Classification

Kristen Johnson - Purdue University

HBK 2119

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Earlence Fernandes - University of Washington

Computer Security and Privacy for Emerging Technologies

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Noam Brown - Carnegie Mellon University

AI for Imperfect-Information Games: Beating Top Humans in No-Limit Poker

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

10:30 am

-11:30 am

Hamed Zamani - University of Massachusetts Amherst

Neural Information Retrieval without Labeled Data

HBK 2119

11:00 am

-12:15 pm

Alpha-bits, Teleportation and Black Holes

Geoff Penington - Stanford

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Behnam Neyshabu - New York University

Why do neural networks learn?

Thursday, February 21, 2019

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

From Barriers to Bridges: Designing Infrastructures for Help in Online Programming Communities

Denae Ford - North Carolina State University

Friday, February 22, 2019

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

Processing Multiword Expressions & Verbal Argument Structure: A fMRI study

Shohini Bhattasali - Department of Linguistics, Cornell University

1108B Mary Mount Hall

12:00 pm

-12:40 pm

PSC 2136 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)

Weak-link Josephson Junctions Made from Topological Crystalline Insulators

Rodney Snyder - JQI

3:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

Jelani Nelson - Harvard University

Sketching Algorithms

Iribe Center 1116

Monday, February 25, 2019

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Marco Gaboardi - University of Buffalo

Differential Privacy: Formal Verification and Applications

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Rachel Rudinger - Johns Hopkins University

Natural Language Understanding for Events and Participants in Text

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Srijan Kumar - Stanford University

Data Science for Healthy Online Interactions

4127 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Thursday, February 28, 2019

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

From single cells to thousands of genomes: computational challenges and algorithmic solutions in high-throughput genomics

Rob Patro - Stony Brook University

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

From single cells to thousands of genomes: computational challenges and algorithmic solutions in high-throughput genomics

Rob Patro - Stonybrook University

TBD A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Monday, March 4, 2019

6:30 pm

- 8:30 pm

Books

The Fifth Risk

Faculty Book Club - UMD

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

3:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

Rediet Abebe - Cornell University

TBA--Inclusion speaker series

TBA

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

11:00 am

-12:15 pm

TBA - QuICS Seminar

Kai-Min Chung - Academia Sinica

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Ben Carterette - University of Delaware and Spotify

TBA

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

TBA

Oluwatobi Olabiyi - Capital One

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

11:00 am

-12:15 pm

ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

TBA - QuICS Seminar

Serge Fehr - CWI-Amsterdam

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

11:00 am

-12:15 pm

TBA - QuICS Seminar

Ramis Movassagh - IBM Research

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Xiaozhong Liu - Indiana University Bloomington

TBA

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

11:00 am

-12:15 pm

PSC 1136 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)

TBA - QuICS Seminar

Anne Broadbent - Ottawa

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Alan Ritter - The Ohio State University

TBA

3259 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

11:00 am

-12:15 pm

PSC 1136 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)

TBA - QuICS Seminar

Fred Chong - University of Chicago

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Julia Stoyanovich - New York University

TBA

Wednesday, May 8, 2019

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Rada Mihalcea - University of Michigan

TBA

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

11:00 am

-12:15 pm

TBA - QuICS Seminar

Marco Tomamichel - University of Technology, Sydney