Talks

Ritwik Gupta - University of Maryland

TBD

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

Characterizing and Mitigating Performance Variability in Accelerator-Rich Systems

Matt Sinclair - University of Wisconsin-Madison

IRB 4105

Tomorrow, Thursday, October 22, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Michelle Holko - Computercraft

Relational Biosecurity: Observability in Connected AI-Bio Systems

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

Friday, October 23, 2026

10:00 am

-11:00 am

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

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

From Pixels to Physics: Learning to Reason, Act, and Explore

Jia-Bin Huang

IRB 2107 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/91267609044?pwd=g4uLkhpH4T8d2Gln0HXg6s4qaxzpbj.1

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

TBD

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

Monday, November 2, 2026

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

CS Graduate Office

MS Defense: Structured World Models: Predict, Remember, Act

Tan Dat Dao - CS Department, 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

TBD

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

Friday, November 6, 2026

10:00 am

-11:00 am

What We Leave Behind: Delegating Sensemaking in the Age of Generative AI

Niklas Elmqvist - Aarhus University

IRB 4105

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Learning Many-Body Hamiltonians Using a Local Probe

Zitai Xu - University of Maryland

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

TBD

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)

Friday, November 13, 2026

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Squeezed Quantum Spatial Mode Reconstruction

Kalea Wen - University of Maryland

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

TBD

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

Thursday, November 19, 2026

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Groundwork for Open Speech Foundation Models: Data, Recipes, and Task-Specific Models

Shinji Watanabe - Carnegie Mellon University

IRB 4105

Friday, November 20, 2026

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

To be announced

Jiayao Zhao - University of Maryland

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

TBD

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)

Friday, December 4, 2026

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Strong-to-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Transitions on a Quantum Processor

Zhi-Yuan Wei - University of Maryland

Monday, December 7, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96122257395?pwd=n8g1abBEJLfan4dmeErJBZAQdbMrLV.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Optimal Quantum Eigenvalue Transformation

Yanqiao Wang - Tsinghua University

Thursday, December 10, 2026

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm