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Today, Friday, April 17, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Entanglement and circuit complexity in finite-depth random linear optical networks
Laura Shou - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Steering Generative AI on the fly: Inference-time Approaches for Safe, Reliable and Inclusive Language Models
Soumya Suvra Ghosal
IRB-5105 umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
Next week
Monday, April 20, 2026
3:30 pm
- 5:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Advancing Audio Processing in the Age of Large Language Models
Sreyan Ghosh
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
AI Alignment through Participation and Evaluation: Promises and Pitfalls
Michael Feffer
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
TBD
Yasmine Kotturi - University of Maryland, Baltimore County
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
TBD
Yasmine Kotturi - University of Maryland Baltimore County
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Well-Separation Heuristics for the Metric Traveling Salesman Problem
Addison Hanrattie
IRB-5165 https://umd.zoom.us/j/8277636096
Thursday, April 23, 2026
11:30 am
-12:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Metrology Enhanced by Effective Time Reversal
Yuxin Wang - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99758309213 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Sketching and matching in the brain
Saket Navlakha - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, April 24, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Compressed unitary learning from non-markovian interactions
Anantha Rao - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Further ahead
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
TBD
Kianté Brantley - Harvard Univesrity
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
To be announced
Chinmay Nirkhe - University of Washington
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: To be announced Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Practical fault tolerance with quantum error-correcting codes: logical protocols, decoders, and code design
Shi Jie Samuel Tan
ATL-3100A or https://umd.zoom.us/j/3144621979?pwd=Y2lWYWhJWm5rU2pjdWl3QnRTSmRLUT09&omn=93025505672&jst=2urQY64iTr-eH6qegJDNP
2:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Proposal: Practical fault tolerance with quantum error-correcting codes: logical protocols, decoders, and code design
Shi Jie Samuel Tan - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/3144621979?pwd=Y2lWYWhJWm5rU2pjdWl3QnRTSmRLUT09&omn=93025505672&jst=2urQY64iTr-eH6qegJDNP Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, April 30, 2026
10:00 am
-11:00 am
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Preparation of Ground-State Ultracold Lithium Dimers and Coherent Control of Their Reactions: A Theoretical Study
Jing-Chen Zhang - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/3161863135?pwd=Mmh0bm12aUpPYk1pMzFvS1UxbWh2UT09&omn=93159059288 Meeting ID: 316 186 3135 Passcode: morecoffee Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
TBD
Nathalie Bonin - Pop Lab, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, May 1, 2026
10:15 am
-11:30 am
CLIP
Using video games to reverse engineer human intelligence
Samuel J. Gershman - Harvard University
1103 Biosciences Research Building (BRB)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Strategic Codes: The Universal Spatio-temporal Framework for Quantum Error-Correction
Kishor Bharti - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CLIP
TBD
Anietie Andy - Howard Univesrity
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, May 7, 2026
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Toward Sustainable Electronics through Computational Refabricatio
Zeyu Yan
IRB-5107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/96272454305
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
TBD
Liz Hunter - COMBINE Lab, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, May 8, 2026
9:45 am
-11:45 am
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: The Boundaries of Computational Hardness in Noisy Quantum Circuits
Joel Rajakumar - University of Maryland
PSC 3150 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/3010642404?pwd=5Bwsxvwne0QwXBs5ra9d4wr4J56OTi.1&omn=96440539296 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Exactly Solvable Topological Phase Transition in a Quantum Dimer Model
Jeet Shah - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)