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Today, Friday, September 25, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
OpenAI’s 2026 Summer of Misalignment
Yizheng Chen & William Pugh
IRB 2107 or Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/91267609044?pwd=g4uLkhpH4T8d2Gln0HXg6s4qaxzpbj.1
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
The Pound-Drever-Hall Method for Superconducting-Qubit Readout
Won Chan Lee - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Next week
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
Like Nailing Jello to the Wall? Challenges for Evaluating Common Sense and Cultural Consensus
Rachel Rudinger - UMD CS
CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Toward Natural Metalanguage Processing
Nathan Schneider - Georgetown University
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, October 1, 2026
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
PL Reading Group
The Past, Present, and Future of Roulette
Cameron Moy
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, October 2, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Blind Quantum Computing for Secure Quantum Chemistry
Sunny Kang - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Further ahead
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
TBD
Sanghamitra Dutta - UMD CS
CSI 2120 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93960331973?pwd=tVQ7gtFucJEkSYna38zePzkPpHm3J7.1
Friday, October 9, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Spectral transitions for OTOCs in random quantum circuits
Kai Klocke - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Yu Meng - University of Virginia
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, October 15, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
TBD
Yun William Yu - Carnegie Mellon University
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
TRAILS
TBD
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)
Thursday, October 22, 2026
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Relational Biosecurity: Measuring Security in Connected AI-Bio Systems
Michelle Holko - Computercraft
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
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
To be announced
Jiaqi Leng - Virginia Tech
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: To be announced Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
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)