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Tomorrow, 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
TRAILS
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
CLIP
Ritwik Gupta - University of Maryland
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Getting to Know QuICS
Various Speakers - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
CBCB Seminar
Relational Biosecurity: Observability in Connected AI-Bio Systems
Michelle Holko - Computercraft
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, October 23, 2026
10:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
Specifications, Tests, and Audits: the Building Blocks of First-Year CS in an Agentic Era
Kathi Fisler - Brown University
IRB 1116 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/99365998212?pwd=CEJUNoBeooaDkYchGXoRdmGyCMESLM.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Learning Noise-Robust Stabilizer Structure via Bell Sampling
Thomas Steckmann - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Next week
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
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Sharon Levy - Rutgers University
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum score matching with applications to learning thermal states
Jiaqi Leng - Virginia Tech
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98531138611 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, October 30, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Ordering-aware theory of Trotter error
Zhenning Liu - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Further ahead
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
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Learning Many-Body Hamiltonians Using a Local Probe
Zitai Xu - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
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
CBCB Seminar
TBD
Marcus Fedarko - Pop Lab, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, November 16, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Query-Optimal and Gate-Efficient Time-Dependent Hamiltonian Simulation
Xinzhao Wang - Peking University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/93081761228?pwd=fhsBUzsdeVOgaNspZfSrZXBXG7oQGu.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
Wednesday, November 18, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
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
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
Wednesday, December 2, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
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
CBCB Seminar
TBD
Rachel Parsons - Molloy Lab, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, December 7, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Optimal Quantum Eigenvalue Transformation
Yanqiao Wang - Tsinghua University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96122257395?pwd=n8g1abBEJLfan4dmeErJBZAQdbMrLV.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, December 10, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
PhD Defense
MG Hirsch - Przytycka / Molloy Labs
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)