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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: New Directions From Old Codes
Nolan Coble - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95150714511?pwd=0fn2vQPJNZoD7NFihlaxXrn2ipVc0X.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: New Directions From Old Codes
Nolan Coble
ATL 3100A https://umd.zoom.us/j/95150714511?pwd=0fn2vQPJNZoD7NFihlaxXrn2ipVc0X.1
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Rearchitecting cloud telemetry through approximation-first techniques
Zeying Zhu
IRB-5161 https://umd.zoom.us/j/95503569537?pwd=7cqT8mNQ2OFDh3YqEBoCGbxnROH8ba.1
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Free fermions beyond Jordan-Wigner
Sam Elman - University of Technology Sydney
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/4139825524?omn=95620093490 Meeting ID: 413 982 5524 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Using LLMs to Measure and Improve the Quality of Open-Ended Survey Responses
Masha Krupenkin - University of Maryland
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Fault-tolerant protocols through spacetime concatenation
Yichen Xu - Cornell University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5356797043?pwd=b1OnafMkEt6s4gbFfL4gqFKxUbaVLU.1&omn=96911691897 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Watermarking for Transparent Large Language Model Development and Deployment
John Kirchenbauer
IRB-5105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97837256573 (Passcode: wm4attr)
Thursday, November 13, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
PL Reading Group
Divide-and-Conquer Termination Checking
Henry Blanchette
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Characterization of quantum states and dynamics
Srilekha Gandhari - University of Maryland
PSC 3150 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95990801447?pwd=wCgQLhUF4zpi3uQZyYqyzyRaGE68va.1 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Random Pulse Sequences for Quantum Noise Spectroscopy
Kaixin Huang - University of Maryland
PSC 2204 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/8902553848 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Friday, November 14, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Optimal Distillation of Coherent states with Phase-insensitive operations
Shiv Akshar Yadavalli - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Code-switching revisited: high-fidelity logical magic state preparation using color codes
Lucas Daguerre - University of California, Davis
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95583554326?pwd=iZC5M9UAO6mTxnqsCq1pHvK2MvFyzz.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Next week
Monday, November 17, 2025
11:30 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: LEARNING ROBOT POLICIES FROM INTUITIVE HUMAN GUIDANCE
Amisha Bhaskar
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/my/tokekar
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
MIPco=coRE
Junqiao Lin - CWI
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92049544549 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Optimal bounds and computational complexity of perfect quantum state classification
Jamie Sikora - Virginia Tech
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91679364399 Meeting ID: 916 7936 4399 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Unified Metadata Management of Data Lake Systems
Keonwoo Oh
IRB-5137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6060059703?pwd=XijRCLNpxDIo1kUPoFbn3dYza0DQRS.1&omn=97508823749&jst=2
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Methods for Improving the Communication Efficacy of Language Models: Faithfulness and Pragmatics
Lingjun Zhao
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/6758003397
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Model-free Stateful Random Testing
Ethan Chou
IRB-4105
Friday, November 21, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
To be announced
Kyle Kawagoe - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Further ahead
Monday, November 24, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Evaluating the trade-offs of Topic Models, Neural Models, and Large Language Models
Zongxia Li
IRB 5107 https://umd.zoom.us/my/maksimezhang
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
To be announced
Thomas Barthel - University of Maryland/Duke University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=91238398672 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
To be announced
Brayden Ware - Google
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, December 4, 2025
3:15 pm
- 4:15 pm
QuICS Seminar
Approximate Markovianity and the Classical Simulability of Noisy Quantum Circuits
Yifan Frank Zhang - Princeton University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/94173454653 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, December 5, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Exponential entanglement advantage in sensing spatially correlated noise
Yuxin Wang - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Local fault-tolerant error correction with simulated confinement
Ethan Lake - UC Berkeley
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=93545772585 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372, Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, December 12, 2025
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Andreev Optoelectronics: Absorption Spectroscopy and Microwave-Optical Transduction
Benyamin Remez - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)