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Department-wide talks
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Next week
Monday, April 6, 2026
5:00 pm
- 6:15 pm
CS Department
From Algorithms to Fault-Tolerant Execution: Advances in Quantum Approximate Optimization
Zichang He
Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/99511466935?pwd=3C2nIEb2HkX62xsKG5Uae9XcrZ8cNS.1
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
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Building Principled and Generalizable Intelligence for Engineering Design
Lyle Regenwetter
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Building Principled and Generalizable Intelligence for Engineering Design
Lyle Regenwetter
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
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PhD Defense: Limitations of Quantum Methods for Breaking Cryptography and for Optimization
Kaiyan Shi
Atlantic Building 3100A
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
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PhD Proposal: Towards Trustworthy Distributed Quantum Computing: From Programming, Semantics, and Verification to Executable Programs
Le Chang
IRB-5107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4087857922
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
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MS Defense: Distributed Swarm Formation Recognition via Local Features and Gossip-Averaged Graph Neural Networks
Samuel Badalov
IRB-5105
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
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MS Defense: Demystifying Property-Based Testing through Evaluation & Visualization
Ceren Mert
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/95950618771
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
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PhD Defense: Efficient Geometric Algorithms for Stochastic and Categorical Data
Aditya Acharya
RB-5165 https://umd.zoom.us/j/2666211831
5:00 pm
- 6:15 pm
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Optimal-distance atom-loss correction via the Pauli Envelope?
Pengyu Liu
IRB 1207
Thursday, April 9, 2026
9:00 am
-10:30 am
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MS Defense: Vantage Point Path Planning for Efficient UAV Coverage Control
Alec Luterman
IRB-5105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4074500437?omn=93914316921
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
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Making Robust AI Safeguards Run Deep
Stephen Casper
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
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PhD Defense: DATA-DRIVEN DECISION-MAKING FOR SOCIETAL SYSTEMS: AUDITING MOBILITY, CONTEXTUAL DATA AND MODELS FOR HIGH-STAKES APPLICATIONS
Saad Mohammad Abrar
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/3781038639?omn=97483647707
Friday, April 10, 2026
9:00 am
-11:00 am
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PhD Defense: Scaling Agent-based Epidemic Diffusion on HPC Clusters
Joy Kitson
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7678805793?pwd=a09qSWI5VFdiY0hPRVVVUW8zQ0tYZz09
12:40 pm
- 2:00 pm
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PhD Proposal: Fine-Grained Control for Video Editing
Yao-Chih Lee
IRB-4107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4410993015
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
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PhD Defense: Hyperdimensional Computing As A Basis For Constructing Artificial Intelligence
Peter Sutor
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4187498378?omn=95933894398
Further ahead
Monday, April 13, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Rethinking AI Model Storage with Model-aware and Tensor-centric Compression
Yue Cheng
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
4:00 pm
- 5:30 pm
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PhD Defense: Designing and Evaluating Capable, Safe, and Trustworthy Generative AI Systems
Neel Jain
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/4106837750?pwd=ZEZxbG9UT2dHMTNhK0MxbDQwbGwvZz09&omn=98770465780&jst=2
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
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Inference as Measurement: Models and Systems for Auditing the Internet
Loqman Salamatian
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
Thursday, April 16, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
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Your host is a distributed system!
Midhul Vuppalapati
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
Thursday, May 7, 2026
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
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PhD Defense: Toward Sustainable Electronics through Computational Refabricatio
Zeyu Yan
IRB-5107 https://umd.zoom.us/j/96272454305
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