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Today, Thursday, April 2, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Rethinking AI Systems Through Efficient Model Communication
Yuhan Liu
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
PL Reading Group
Circuit Optimization via Gradients and Noise-Aware Compilation
Finn Voichick
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tomorrow, Friday, April 3, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Measurement-enhanced entanglement in monitored superconductors
Zhi-Yuan Wei - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Investigating Reasoning Model: Overthinking and Thinking Episode Theory
Chenrui Fan
IRB-4137 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7644695948?pwd=EBpu4TsE5FGh3bXRSrECeht6bfYzvH.1
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: A Systems Perspective on Interconnects for Quantum Computing
Connor Clayton
ATL-3100A https://umd.zoom.us/j/98645006306?pwd=WPL4bhZtqvHib5jPLPbYEihNToZtZe.1
Next week
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum simulation of dissipative non-Markovian dynamics
Abtin Ameri - MIT
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92255190173?pwd=hfjVBcWXsfBKqvW3dJkjDVFxzbzrbi.1 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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
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
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Making a Difference: Values and Social Impact in Human-Centered Security and Privacy Research
Daniel Zappala - Brigham Young University
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Limitations of Quantum Methods for Breaking Cryptography and for Optimization
Kaiyan Shi
Atlantic Building 3100A
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Limitations of Quantum Methods for Breaking Cryptography and for Optimization
Kaiyan Shi - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2846460812?pwd=VDEvNmowQ0UrNzRNb1NYTlpFLzJHUT09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Transversal non-Clifford logical gates for quantum error-correcting codes
Eric Huang - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5143281910?pwd=yVnFnQ8H1qenNqHjvVDuNeoMsufWko.1&omn=99297334957 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
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
CS Department
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
CS Department
PhD Defense: Efficient Geometric Algorithms for Stochastic and Categorical Data
Aditya Acharya
RB-5165 https://umd.zoom.us/j/2666211831
Thursday, April 9, 2026
9:00 am
-10:30 am
CS Department
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
CS Department
Making Robust AI Safeguards Run Deep
Stephen Casper
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Adaptive Segmentation in Nanopore Raw Signal Analysis
Bhargav Srinivasan - STORM Research Group, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, April 10, 2026
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Scaling Agent-based Epidemic Diffusion on HPC Clusters
Joy Kitson
IRB-4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7678805793?pwd=a09qSWI5VFdiY0hPRVVVUW8zQ0tYZz09
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Robustness-Runtime Tradeoff for Quantum State Transfer
Twesh Upadhyaya - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:40 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
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
CS Department
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
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Public-Key Quantum Fire and Key-Fire From Classical Oracles
Alper Çakan - Carnegie Mellon University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/4992673461?pwd=ZlEK5cTdd0MBUBqpsF0zQXE6uqb0pB.1 Meeting ID: 499 267 3461 Passcode: 2341459 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
4:00 pm
- 5:30 pm
CS Department
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
CLIP
TBD
Sarah Wiegreffe - University of Maryland
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
To be announced
Felix Binder - Trinity College Dublin
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: To be announced Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
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
CS Department
Your host is a distributed system!
Midhul Vuppalapati
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/93666933047?pwd=gWgqOgGbBP6laZclyURdDG2mNdArBt.1
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Statistical Consistency of Quartet-based Species Tree Methods Under a Unfied Model of Duplication, Loss, and Incomplete Lineage Sorting
Rachel Parsons - Molloy Lab, University of Maryland
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, April 17, 2026
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Exactly solvable topological phase transition in a quantum dimer model
Laura Shou - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
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)
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)
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)
Thursday, April 30, 2026
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
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
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
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
To be announced
Jeet Shah - University of Maryland
ATL 2400 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)