Talks

ATL 3332 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

A double quantum dot spin valve

Arunav Bordoloi - University of Maryland

Thursday, March 16, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

A (Slightly) Improved Approximation Algorithm for Metric TSP

Nathan Klein

IRB 4105, Zoom link-https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

10:15 am

-11:15 am

Risk and Resilience: Promoting Privacy and Online Safety by Empowering People through Human-Centered Computing

Pamela Wisniewski

IRB 5105- Zoom Link-https://umd.zoom.us/j/97439013499?pwd=WHkzbmErZVA1a21CMG5qUEExbCtpUT09

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Antonios Anastasopoulos - George Mason University

Hierarchical Approaches for Expanding NLP Language Coverage

4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Distance-Estimation in Modern Graphs: Algorithms and Impossibility

Nicole Wein

IRB- 4105, Zoom Link-https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Designing Provably Performant Networked Systems

Venkat Arun

IRB- 4105, Zoom Link-https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

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

Clarion: Anonymous Communication from Multiparty Shuffling Protocols

Saba Eskandarian

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Risk and Resilience: Promoting Privacy and Online Safety by Empowering People through Human-Centered Computing

Pamela Wisniewski

IRB 4105- Zoom Link-https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09

Monday, March 13, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Learning 3D Modeling and Simulation From and For the Real World

Wei-Chiu Ma

IRB 4105, Zoom Link-https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09

12:30 pm

- 2:30 pm

PhD Proposal: Immersive Visual Analytics of Radio Frequency Signal Propagation and Network Health

Alexander Rowden

3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

1:15 pm

- 2:15 pm

Characterising the quantum work distribution

Steve Campbell - University College Dublin

IPST 1116

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Yonghwi Kwon - University of Virginia

Towards Secure Systems via Precise Causal Analysis and Program Transformation

Iribe, Room 4105 (Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09)

2:15 pm

- 3:15 pm

3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Verified Safe Kernel Extensions

Dan Williams - Virginia Tech

Friday, March 10, 2023

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Incorporating Prosocial Constraints and Exploiting Problem Structure in Sequential Decision-making and Model Evaluation

Christine Herlihy

5165 https://umd.zoom.us/my/christine.herlihy Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Thursday, March 9, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Multisensory Machine Intelligence

Ruohan Gao

IRB- 4105, Zoom Link-https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Privacy-Preserving Accountability Online

Nirvan Tyagi - Cornell University

Iribe, Room 4105 (Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09)

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Responsible Machine Learning through the Lens of Causal Inference

Amanda Coston

CSI 1115, Zoom Link- https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

10:15 am

-11:15 am

Building a Community of Equity-Minded CS Professionals

Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

IRB- 5105, Zoom link-https://umd.zoom.us/j/97439013499?pwd=WHkzbmErZVA1a21CMG5qUEExbCtpUT09

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Unleashing the Potential of Approximate Computing Systems

Alan Zaoxing Liu

IRB 0318, Zoom Link-https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

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

Security Foundations for Application-Based Covert Communication Channels

Erica Blum

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Full-Stack Privacy: Cryptography to People and Back Again

Gabriel Kaptchuk - Boston University

Iribe, Room 4105 (Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09)

Monday, March 6, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Data Structures for Fast Systems

Alexander Conway

IRB 3137, Zoom Link- https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Why Is My Computer Still Monolingual?

Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

IRB- 4105, zoom link- https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09

Friday, March 3, 2023

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 3332 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Quantum Hall physics in light-matter hybrid systems

Daniel Suárez - University of Maryland

Thursday, March 2, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Designing Formally Correct Intermittent Systems

Milijana Surbatovich

IRB- 4105, Zoom link-https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Profiling of antibody repertoires and immunoglobulin loci enables large-scale analysis of adaptive immune responses

Yana Safonova - Johns Hopkins University (Computer Science)

Iribe Center, Room 4105 (Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97287503999)

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Supporting User-Centered Analytical Interfaces at Scale

Dixin Tang

IRB 4105, Zoom Link-https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Collaborative, Communal, & Continual Machine Learning

Colin Raffel

IRB- 0318, Zoom Link - https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

Asleep at the Keyboard? Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot's Code Contributions

Noel Warford

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

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Nicholas Spooner - University of Warwick, UK

How efficiently can we check a computation?

Iribe, Room 4105 (Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09)

Monday, February 27, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Accelerating Modern Data Analytics

Remy Wang

CSI 1115, Zoom Link-https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

Learning about Light without Labeled Data

Anand Bhattad

IRB 4105, Zoom Link- https://umd.zoom.us/j/7316339020

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Looking past the Abstractions: Characterizing Information Flow in Real-World Systems

Pubali Datta - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Iribe, Room 4105 (Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09)

Friday, February 24, 2023

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 3332 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Simulating Mesonic Scattering Processes on Trapped-Ion Simulators

Elizabeth Bennewitz - University of Maryland

Thursday, February 23, 2023

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

PhD Proposal: ML for Anime: Illustration, Animation, and 3D Characters

Shuhong Chen

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Programming Distributed Systems

Mae Milano

IRB 4105, Zoom Link-https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96052912971?pwd=SWJGbzlqVnVrQmhOMEhqNWhpZ1dpZz09 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)

Towards cross-platform verification in quantum networks

Johannes Knorzer - ETH Zurich

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Outbreak cluster identification for food safety: algorithms in NCBI's Pathogen Detection Pipeline

Richa Agarwala - National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

Iribe Center, Room 4105 (Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97287503999)

3:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

Non-Markovian Quantum Process Tomography

Gregory White - University of Melbourne

Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Good Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill codes from the NTRU cryptosystem

Jonathan Conrad - Freie Universität Berlin

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Gasper Begus - University of California, Berkeley

Modeling language from raw speech with GANs

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

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Aligning Robot and Human Representations

Andreea Bobu

IRB 4105- Zoom Link-https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

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

How to Count Bots in Longitudinal Datasets of IP Addresses

Leon Böck - TU Darmstadt

Monday, February 20, 2023

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Rethinking System Design for Expressive Cryptography

Sam Kumar - University of California, Berkeley

Iribe, Room 4105 (Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09)

Friday, February 17, 2023

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 3332 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

The Riemann Zeta Function, Poincare Recurrence, and Quantum Chaos

Michael Winer - University of Maryland

Thursday, February 16, 2023

10:00 am

-11:00 am

PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97880726390 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)

Novel Applications and Noise-enabled Control for a Trapped-ion Quantum Simulator

Alaina Green - University of Maryland

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Deconstructing models and methods in deep learning

Pavel Izmailov

IRB- 4105, Zoom Link-https://umd.zoom.us/j/92977540316?pwd=NVF2WTc5SS9RSjFDOGlzcENKZnNxQT09

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Preslav Nakov - Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Fighting the Global Social Media Infodemic: from Fake News to Harmful Content

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

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Learning-based Autonomous Driving with Enhanced Data Efficiency and Policy Training

Yu Shen

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

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Eric Wallace - University of California, Berkeley

Memorization in Large Language Models

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

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Learning, Optimization and Control for Safety, Efficiency, and Security of Cyber-Physical Systems

Fei Miao

IRB 4105,Zoom Link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94829400667?pwd=TkxHUGViQktxcW82L2pYRmNkMVZaUT09

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

Using Undervolting as an On-Device Defense Against Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks

David Miller

Friday, February 10, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Understanding the Visual World Through Naturally Supervised Code

Jiajun Wu

IRB 4105, Zoom link-https://umd.zoom.us/j/7316339020

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 3332 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Spin cross-correlation experiments in a Cooper Pair Splitter

Arunav Bordoloi - University of Maryland

Thursday, February 9, 2023

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

James Zou - Stanford (Biomedical Data Science, CS, EE)

Generative AI for Biomedicine

AVW 2460 (Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97287503999)

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Stephan Mandt - University of California, Irvine

Towards Practical and Efficient Neural Data Compression

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

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Do Vision-Language Pretrained Models Learn Primitive Concepts for Recognition and Reasoning?

Chen Sun - Brown University

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

Monday, February 6, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Emanuele D'Osualdo - MPI-SWS

Towards expressive, automatic and scalable software verification

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

Friday, February 3, 2023

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 3332 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Tailoring three-dimensional topological codes for biased noise

Eric Huang - University of Maryland

Thursday, February 2, 2023

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Scalable statistical methods and software for single-cell and spatial data science

Stephanie Hicks - Johns Hopkins University (Biostatistics)

Iribe Center, Room 3137

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Audience Diversity and the Socio-algorithmic Foundations of Trustworthy News Recommendation

Giovanni Ciampaglia - University of Maryland

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

Friday, January 27, 2023

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

Bosonic Qiskit: Qubit-boson quantum circuits for simulating lattice gauge theories

Eleanor Crane - University of Maryland

ATL 3332 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Thursday, January 26, 2023

10:00 am

-11:00 am

To learn and cancel quantum noise: Probabilistic error cancellation with sparse Pauli-Lindblad models on noisy quantum processors

Zlatko Minev - IBM

PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5942646305 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)

11:15 am

-12:30 pm

PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5942646305 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)

Discuss career progression and opportunities for young researchers

Zlatko Minev - IBM

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Computational models of language acquisition: Lessons from humans for machines and from machines for humans

Libby Barak - Rutgers University

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

Thursday, January 19, 2023

10:00 am

-11:00 am

PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97880726390 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)

Quantum Back-action Limits in Dispersively Measured Bose-Einstein Condensates

Emine Altuntas - University of Maryland

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91342511944?pwd=L2ZlbktpLzhkYU5PNE5IeE1PYkJTQT09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Quantum majority vote

Maris Ozols - University of Amsterdam

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

12:30 pm

- 2:30 pm

PhD Defense: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Systems for Evaluation and Applications To Complex Systems

Jordan Terry

Online: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2920984437

3:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Towards Effective Temporal Modeling for Video Understanding and Beyond

Bo He

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

Friday, January 13, 2023

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Quantum many-body scars, connection to Floquet automata, and ‘broken unitary’ dynamics

Kartiek Agarwal - McGill University

PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

12:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

PhD Proposal: Curriculum Learning for Hierarchical Task Networks

Ruoxi Li

Monday, December 19, 2022

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Learning-based Motion Planning for High-DOF Robot Systems

Biao Jia

Zoom: Umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha

Friday, December 16, 2022

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

Fusion category symmetry-protected topological order in the generalized cluster state

Christopher Fechisin - University of Maryland

ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Thursday, December 15, 2022

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Interpretability of Deep Models Across different Architectures and Modalities

seyedhamidreza kazemitabaiezavare

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

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

10:30 am

-12:30 pm

4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

PhD Defense: Reliable deep learning: a robustness perspective

Sahil Singla

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Linear Growth of Complexity in Brownian Circuits

Gregory Bentsen - Brandeis University

Thursday, December 8, 2022

10:00 am

-11:00 am

PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97880726390 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)

Lattice-Based Quantum Advantage from Rotated Measurements

Carl Miller - University of Maryland

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Document Information extraction, Structure Understanding, and Manipulation (Virtual Only)

Puneet Mathur - University of Maryland

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

PhD Defense: Stronger Inductive Biases for Sample-Efficient and Controllable Neural Machine Translation

Weijia Xu

4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96508005344 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Post-quantum security of symmetric-key constructions

Chen Bai - University of Maryland

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

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

When Frodo Flips: End-to-End Key Recovery on FrodoKEM via Rowhammer

Hunter Kippen

Friday, December 2, 2022

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

3+1 D Quantum spin liquid from Rydberg interactions -- a proposal

Jeet Shah - University of Maryland

Thursday, December 1, 2022

3:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

PSC 3150 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5942646305 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)

Grant Writing 2/2 (Research Grants)

Mohammad Hafezi - University of Maryland

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

PhD Proposal: Towards Immersive Streaming for Videos and Light Fields

David Li

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Source Separation and Sound Field Decomposition for Acoustic Scene Analysis

Bowen Zhi

4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Malihe Alikhani - University of Pittsburgh

Towards Inclusive and Equitable Human Language Technologies

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

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96508005344) Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Using nonlocal games to verify quantum advantage

Nishant Rodrigues - University of Maryland

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

MS Defense: Real-time Cybersecurity Situation Awareness Through a User-Centered Network Security Visualization

Kaitlyn DeValk

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

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

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

Opportunities and Challenges of using Cryptography for CPS Security

Andreea Alexandru

Monday, November 21, 2022

12:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Data-driven Algorithms for Characterizing Structural Variation in Metagenomic Data

Harihara Subrahmaniam Muralidharan

3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5942646305 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Grant Writing 1/2 (Education Grants)

Erin Sohr - University of Maryland

Friday, November 18, 2022

10:00 am

-11:00 am

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95581983776?pwd=WHdRWTZSTW5UeW5MSmtnVjJPckYzQT09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Quantum recurrent neural networks

Viktoria Schmiesing - Leibniz University Hannover

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Algorithms and Data Structures for Organizing Genomic Data at Massive Scales

Rob Patro

IRB 0318- Zoom link-https://umd.zoom.us/j/99950842587?pwd=U1pnTXVUNzVJWjgrbi83d2VaMGFPZz09

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Exploring one-dimensional Z2 lattice gauge theories with dynamical matter

Matjaž Kebrič - LMU Munich, Germany

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

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

Theoretical and Practical High-Assurance Software Tools for Quantum Applications

Yuxiang Peng

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Independent Learning in Stochastic Games: Where Strategic Decision-Making Meets Reinforcement Learning

Kaiqing Zhang

Zoom link- https://umd.zoom.us/j/96249161322?pwd=eStZNnJ4ZWZTS3NybnBlMk5hTnl0Zz09

4:00 pm

- 6:00 pm

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

PhD Defense: A FRAMEWORK FOR DEXTEROUS MANIPULATION THROUGH TACTILE PERCEPTION

Kanishka Ganguly

Thursday, November 17, 2022

10:00 am

-11:00 am

PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97880726390 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)

Quantum Simulation for Nuclear Effective Field Theories

James Watson - University of Maryland

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Detection of emerging Bt resistance in agricultural pest, Helicoverpa zea, using whole genome resequencing

Megan Fritz - University of Maryland, College Park (Entomology)

Iribe Center, Room 4105 (Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97287503999)

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

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

Student Practice Talks II

Aquia Richburg, Chenglei Si, Neha Srikanth - University of Maryland

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96508005344 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Position Verification with Classical Communication

Yusuf Alnawakhtha - University of Maryland

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Analyzing communicative choices to understand their motivations, context-based variation, and social consequences

Pranav Goel

3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

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

TSPU: Russia’s Decentralized Censorship System

Aaron Ortwein

Monday, November 14, 2022

9:30 am

-12:30 pm

4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

PhD Defense: Dense 3D Reconstructions from Sparse Visual Data

Tao Hu

3:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

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

PhD Proposal: Learning The Physics World with Differentiable Simulation

Yiling Qiao

Friday, November 11, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Acoustical Scene Analysis and Fast Solution of Wave Propagation Problems

Ramani Duraiswami

IRB 0318-https://umd.zoom.us/j/99950842587?pwd=U1pnTXVUNzVJWjgrbi83d2VaMGFPZz09

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

A quantum prediction as a collection of knowledge-restricted classical predictions

Billy Braasch - NIST and University of Maryland

ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94440005174?pwd=azh5VVpnOHl1Q0NoTEhIQS9nQWdEZz09 Meeting ID: 944 4000 5174 Passcode: 783735 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Quantum Cryptography in Algorithmica

William Kretschmer - University of Texas, Austin

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

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

Student Practice Talks

Nate Rollings, HyoJung Han, Kyle Seelman - University of Maryland

1:00 pm

- 1:50 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96508005344 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Quantum Money with Minimal Quantum

Joseph Carolan - University of Maryland

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

Phase diagram of the XXZ spin-1/2 model on the pyrochlore lattice and its relation to the Programmable Rydberg Atoms Simulator

Nikita Astrakhantsev - University of Zürich

ATL 3332 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

PhD Defense: Entanglement, dynamics and computation in many-body systems with power-law interactions

Andrew Guo - University of Maryland

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/4349132819?pwd=Vml2QVpWd0o4UWxJUzZidWdQWUZVZz09 Meeting ID: 434 913 2819 Passcode: 123456 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

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

Erica Blum's proto-job talk on cryptography research

Erica Blum

5:00 pm

- 6:00 pm

SE(3)-Transformers: 3D Roto-Translation Equivariant Attention Networks by Fuchs et al. (2020)

Josh McClellan - UMD

4137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Monday, November 7, 2022

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

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

PhD Defense: Robustness and Understandability of Deep Models

Mohammad Amin Ghiasi

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Deriving with Derivatives: Efficient Implementations of Abstract Abstract Machines

Ben Quiring

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

3:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

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

PhD Defense: Parallel Algorithms for Processing Massive Texts and Graphs

Hamed Saleh

Friday, November 4, 2022

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

New species of butterflies reported in topological crystalline states

Naren Manjunath - University of Maryland

Thursday, November 3, 2022

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

How much can we learn about the process of lineage diversification from molecular phylogenies?

Matt Pennell - University of Southern California (Quantitative and Computational Biology)

Iribe Center, Room 4105 (Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97287503999)

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

9:00 am

-11:00 am

5137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

PhD Proposal: Complexity Controlled Natural Language Generation

Sweta Agrawal

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Topological order from finite-depth circuits and measurements: from theory to quantum devices

Nathanan Tantivasadakarn - Caltech

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99762943527?pwd=b0pPOEtBTDBSOCtsZVRab0lDWkxHUT09 Meeting ID: 997 6294 3527 Passcode: 383045 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

12:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Towards Leveraging Sparsity for Immersive and Interactive 3D Displays

Susmija Jabbireddy

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

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96508005344 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Lattice-Based Quantum Advantage from Rotated Measurements

Carl Miller - University of Maryland

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

No Privacy Among Spies: Assessing the Functionality and Insecurity of Consumer Android Spyware Apps

Julio Poveda

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

Monday, October 31, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Georgia Tech’s Online Masters Program and the Future of Online Learning in Higher Education

Zvi Galil

IRB- 4105 zoom link- https://umd.zoom.us/j/95074261694?pwd=YnVGcWc2TS94emZMUUkwWGplWnB6dz09

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

Learning With and Beyond Visual Knowledge

Boyi Li - Research Scientist at NVIDIA & Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley

Virtual talk: https://umd.zoom.us/j/7316339020

Friday, October 28, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Provable Security and Automated Reasoning at Amazon

Michael Hicks

IRB-0318 Zoom link- https://umd.zoom.us/j/99950842587?pwd=U1pnTXVUNzVJWjgrbi83d2VaMGFPZz09

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Exciton in Mott insulator

Tsung-Sheng Huang - University of Maryland

Thursday, October 27, 2022

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Connecting Food Systems to Health: A Microbial Ecology Perspective

Ryan Blaustein - University of Maryland, College Park (Nutrition and Food Science)

Iribe Center, Room 4105 (Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97287503999)

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

Machine Learning for Digital Try-On

Junbang Liang - Amazon

Virtual Lecture on Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94421106201?pwd=WlM2cnA3bWdtbkxZZloxWGNmZ1FkQT09

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

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

zkPoL: Zero-Knowledge Proof-of-Learning

Kasra Abbaszadeh

Monday, October 24, 2022

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

PhD Defense: A Multi-Faceted Approach for Evaluating Visualization Recommendation Algorithms

Zehua Zeng

3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

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

Solver-Based Gradual Type Migration

Deena Postol

Friday, October 21, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Heterogeneity-Aware Learning for Spatial Data

Yiqun Xie

IRB 0318- Zoom Link- https://umd.zoom.us/j/99950842587?pwd=U1pnTXVUNzVJWjgrbi83d2VaMGFPZz09

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Continuous-variable quantum state designs: theory and applications

Joseph Iosue - University of Maryland

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Danqi Chen - Princeton University

(Re)thinking Retrieval and Reasoning in the Era of Large Language Models

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

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96508005344 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

From 1 to K: Improved Certifiable Randomness

Rushil Dandamudi - University of Maryland

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

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

Foundations of Coin Mixing Services

Noemi Glaeser

Monday, October 17, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

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

NJPLS Practice

Ben Quiring; Henry Blanchette and Jacob Prinz

2:30 pm

- 4:30 pm

PhD Defense: On Algorithmic Fairness and Stochastic Models for Combinatorial Optimization and Unsupervised Machine Learning

Leonidas Tsepenekas

4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Friday, October 14, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Quantum divide and conquer

Andrew Childs

IRB0318-https://umd.zoom.us/j/99950842587?pwd=U1pnTXVUNzVJWjgrbi83d2VaMGFPZz09

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Cavity Light-Matter Hybridization Driven by Quantum Fluctuations

Christian Eckhardt - Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter

3:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

Building (and breaking) machines that think fast and slow

Tom Goldstein

IRB 0318- https://umd.zoom.us/j/97012302837?pwd=aHZldjgySnF1S29vcTRuZ3pZaUFjUT09

4:00 pm

- 6:00 pm

5107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

PhD Proposal: Long Context Multimodal Understanding

Puneet Mathur

Thursday, October 13, 2022

10:00 am

-11:00 am

PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97880726390 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)

Statistical mechanics models for hybrid quantum circuits

Romain Vasseur - UMass Amherst

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Learning global charges from local measurements

Romain Vasseur - UMass Amherst

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Tianyi Zhou - University of Maryland

Curriculum Learning: Scores, Plans, Dynamics, and NLP

4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96508005344 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

The Yamakawa-Zhandry breakthrough

Daochen Wang - University of Maryland

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

5:00 pm

- 6:00 pm

4137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Clifford Neural Layers for PDE Modeling by Brandstetter et al. (2022)

Ian DesJardin - UMD

Monday, October 10, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

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

The Derivative of a Regular Type is its Type of One-Hole Contexts

Henry Blanchette

Friday, October 7, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Learning to see the 3D world

Jia-Bin Huang

IRB0318-https://umd.zoom.us/j/99950842587?pwd=U1pnTXVUNzVJWjgrbi83d2VaMGFPZz09

12:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

PhD Proposal: An Approximation Framework for Large-scale Spatial Games

Vincent Hsiao

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Lieb-Robinson bounds and their application to disordered systems

Christopher Baldwin - University of Maryland

Thursday, October 6, 2022

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Genomic tracking of superbugs in the Military Health System: from continents to hospital wards

Francois Lebreton - Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

Iribe Center, Room 4105 (Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97287503999)

Wednesday, October 5, 2022

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96508005344 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Remote State Preparation (Part II)

Atul Mantri - University of Maryland

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

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

Attacks on Deidentification's Defenses

David Miller

Monday, October 3, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Sanjiva Prasad - Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi

A Sound Secure Information Flow Type System for LUSTRE

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

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

CVSS

Innovations in Computer Vision and Computational Imaging can Enable Fairness in Medical Devices

Achuta Kadambi - UCLA

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

Friday, September 30, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Scalability is Boring, Privacy is Dead: ZK-Proofs, What are They Good for?

Ian Miers

IRB0318- https://umd.zoom.us/j/99950842587?pwd=U1pnTXVUNzVJWjgrbi83d2VaMGFPZz09

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Krylov complexity and many-body localization

Jacob Lin - University of Maryland

3:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

Symptoms or Diseases: Understanding Reliability Issues in Deep Learning and Potential Ways to Fix Them

Soheil Feizi

IRB 0318- https://umd.zoom.us/j/97012302837?pwd=aHZldjgySnF1S29vcTRuZ3pZaUFjUT09

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Yonatan Bisk - Carnegie Mellon University

Following Instructions and Asking Questions

4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96508005344 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Remote State Preparation (Part I)

Alexandru Cojocaru - University of Maryland

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09 ID: 9893676372 passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Quantum gravity experiments on a quantum computer

Hrant Gharibyan - Caltech

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

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

Spoki: Unveiling a New Wave of Scanners through a Reactive Network Telescope

Erik Rye

Monday, September 26, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

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

Semantics-Guided Synthesis

Sankha Narayan Guria

3:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Attacking Big Data: Efficient Algorithms with Sparsification and Parallelism

Jacob Gilbert

2143 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Friday, September 23, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Efficient Algorithms and Systems for Dynamic and Streaming Graphs

Laxman Dhulipala

IB 0318-https://umd.zoom.us/j/99950842587?pwd=U1pnTXVUNzVJWjgrbi83d2VaMGFPZz09

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Topological gauge theory for mixed Dirac stationary states in all dimensions

Zemin Huang - University of Maryland

Thursday, September 22, 2022

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

PhD Proposal: Numerical Acoustics for Physical and Simulated Worlds

Shoken Kaneko

10:30 am

-12:30 pm

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

PhD Proposal: Self-Supervised learning on large scale datasets

Shlok Mishra

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Lichun Ma - NIH / National Cancer Institute

Understanding of tumor heterogeneity and tumor evolution in liver cancer

Iribe Center, Room 4105 (Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97287503999)

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

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

PhD Defense: Affective Human Motion Detection and Synthesis

Uttaran Bhattacharya

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

CLIP Member Introductions (Session II)

CLIP Members

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

Online Website Fingerprinting: Evaluating Website Fingerprinting Attacks on Tor in the Real World

Sadia Nourin

Friday, September 16, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Automatically Learning How to Evade Censorship

Dave Levin

IRB 0318- https://umd.zoom.us/j/99950842587?pwd=U1pnTXVUNzVJWjgrbi83d2VaMGFPZz09

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Measurement and entanglement in atom arrays

Nathan Schine - University of Maryland

3:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

Empowering Users Facing Insurmountable Odds

Dave Levin

IRB 0318-https://umd.zoom.us/j/97012302837?pwd=aHZldjgySnF1S29vcTRuZ3pZaUFjUT09

Thursday, September 15, 2022

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Ben Langmead - Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University

Pan-genomic advances for fighting reference bias

Iribe Center, Room 4105 (Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97287503999)

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Pan-genomic advances for fighting reference bias

Ben Langmead

IRB- 4105- Zoom Link-https://umd.zoom.us/j/97287503999

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Ernesto Calvo - University of Maryland

Winning! Election Returns and Engagement in Social Media

4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

PhD Defense: A flexible approach for orchestrating adaptive scientific workflows for scalable computing

Swati Singhal

4137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96508005344 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Introduction to Proofs of Quantumness

Manasi Shingane - University of Maryland

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

A Large-scale Temporal Measurement of Android Malicious Apps: Persistence, Migration, and Lessons Learned

Wentao Guo

5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

3:30 pm

- 4:30 pm

Passive and Active Multi-Task Representation Learning

Simon S. Du

https://umd.zoom.us/j/95197245230?pwd=cDRlVWRVeXBHcURGQkptSHpIS0VGdz09

Monday, September 12, 2022

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

PhD Defense: Structural Scaffolding for Sensemaking in Document Collections

Joe Barrow

Friday, September 9, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Adventures in Property-Based Testing

Leonidas Lampropoulos

IRB 0318- https://umd.zoom.us/j/99950842587?pwd=U1pnTXVUNzVJWjgrbi83d2VaMGFPZz09

12:00 pm

- 1:00 pm

ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Topology Through Quantum Evolution with Ultracold Atoms

Graham Reid - NIST/University of Maryland

3:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

On the Foundation of End-to-End Quantum Applications

Xiaodi Wu

IRB 0318- Zoom link- https://umd.zoom.us/j/97012302837?pwd=aHZldjgySnF1S29vcTRuZ3pZaUFjUT09

Thursday, September 8, 2022

10:00 am

-11:00 am

Efficient experimental verification of quantum computers and quantum simulators via randomized analog verification

Ryan Shaffer - UC Berkeley

PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/7984811536 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)

3:30 pm

- 4:30 pm

How do we build models that learn and generalize?

Andrew Wilson

Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95197245230?pwd=cDRlVWRVeXBHcURGQkptSHpIS0VGdz09

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95124188987?pwd=c3FWQ1BLLzlwZ014Q21KYy9XRmt1dz09 Meeting ID: 951 2418 8987 Passcode: 386063 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Stellar representation of quantum computations

Ulysse Chabaud - Caltech

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96508005344 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

A Brief Introduction to Post-Quantum Cryptography

Yusuf Alnawakhtha - University of Maryland

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

3:30 pm

- 4:30 pm

Remarkable phenomena of deep learning through the prism of interpolation.

Mikhail Belkin

https://umd.zoom.us/j/95197245230?pwd=cDRlVWRVeXBHcURGQkptSHpIS0VGdz09

Monday, August 29, 2022

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

PSC 3150 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)

Everything you always wanted to know about papers (the human side of physics)

Alessandro Villar - Physical Review Letters

Thursday, August 25, 2022

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Publicly Verifiable Quantum Money from Random Lattices

Andrey Boris Khesin - MIT

Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98807853995

Thursday, August 18, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

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

PhD Proposal: Neural representations for videos

Hao Chen

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Tight bounds for Quantum Learning and Testing without Quantum Memory

Jerry Li - Microsoft Research

Virtual Via Zoom: https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/94331500184?pwd=NjUxOE81OVJSSWdoeEltai9MRkNVUT09

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

2:30 pm

- 3:30 pm

Paul Brown - UMD - Public Policy

Grand Challenges in Public Engagement

Zoom

Monday, August 15, 2022

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

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

PhD Defense: Egocentric Vision in Assistive Technologies For and By the Blind

Kyungjun Lee

Thursday, August 11, 2022

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Uncertainty Relations from Graph Theory

Kiara Hansenne - Universitat Siegen

Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/7068476897

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

General guarantees for non-uniform randomized benchmarking and applications to analog simulators

Ingo Roth - Technology Innovation Institute

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Friday, August 5, 2022

12:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Towards Human-Centered NLP Systems through Fair and Productive Human-Machine Collaboration

Yang (Trista) Cao

Remote

Thursday, August 4, 2022

10:00 am

-11:00 am

Strong converse bounds for compression of mixed states

Zahra Khanian - Technical University of Munich

Virtual Via Zoom: https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/98435686246?pwd=YWlGZWRzSUNJMGpaVjRuWnFjRlo0Zz09

11:00 am

-12:30 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Quantum Error Correction & Bosonic Coding: Bosonic Fock-state codes

Victor Albert - University of Maryland

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

11:00 am

-12:30 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Quantum Error Correction & Bosonic Coding: Bosonic stabilizer codes

Victor Albert - University of Maryland

1:15 pm

- 2:15 pm

Noncommuting charges: Bridging theory to experiment

Shayan Majidy - University of Waterloo, IQC

IPST 1116

Monday, August 1, 2022

11:00 am

-12:30 pm

Quantum Error Correction & Bosonic Coding: Introduction to quantum error correction

Victor Albert - University of Maryland

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Dualities in one-dimensional quantum lattice models: symmetric Hamiltonians and matrix product operator intertwiners

Laurens Lootens - Ghent University

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Friday, July 22, 2022

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

PhD Defense: Learning and Robustness With Applications to Mechanism Design

Michael Curry

Thursday, July 21, 2022

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

A sufficient family of necessary inequalities for the quantum marginals problem

TC Fraser - Perimeter Institute

Virtual Via Zoom: https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/96276466460?pwd=Y21OaFJhM3BpWWMwQkY3QWYrMDFZZz09

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

3:15 pm

- 4:15 pm

4237 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Diffusion Models (two papers)

Lee Sharma - UMD

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91917720452 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Sample-optimal classical shadows for pure states

Hakop Pashayan - Free University Berlin

Monday, July 18, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Improved Characterization and Provably Optimal Control of Temporally Correlated Control Noise

Robert Barr and Colin Trout - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95071159938?pwd=NWpXTDdoNisyckNGbnROc3JZcTlqQT09 Meeting ID: 950 7115 9938 Passcode: 681204 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

10:30 am

-12:30 pm

5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

PhD Defense: Practical Robust Learning under Domain Shifts

Luyu Yang

Friday, July 8, 2022

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

PhD Defense: Efficient Environment Sensing and Learning for Mobile Robots

Varun Suryan

Thursday, July 7, 2022

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

PhD Defense: Algorithms for scalable and efficient population genomics and metagenomics

Kiran Javkar

3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

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

PhD Defense: Interpretable Deep Learning for Time Series

Aya Ismail

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Quantum information about unknown parameters can be compressed unboundedly without loss

David Arvidsson-Shukur - Hitachi/University of Cambridge

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/4111099146 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

PhD Defense: Transfer Learning in Natural Language Processing through Interactive Feedback

Michelle Yuan

4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

3:15 pm

- 4:15 pm

Geometric Deep Learning: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges (Section 4.2, Grids & Euclidean Spaces)

Lee Sharma - UMD

4237 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Thursday, June 30, 2022

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Rigidity for Monogamy-of-Entanglement Games

Eric Culf - University of Ottawa

Virtual Via Zoom: https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/95167691364?pwd=R3hGUnc1c0FnbDVWaHNuSDlHUmZVUT09

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

3:15 pm

- 4:15 pm

Geometric Deep Learning: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges (Section 4.1, Graphs & Sets)

Joshua McClellan

4237 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96845698894 Meeting ID: 968 4569 8894 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Describing solutions to QMA problems

Chinmay Nirkhe - UC Berkeley

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Effective integration of genome-scale data across species and samples

Jason Fan

3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Thursday, June 9, 2022

10:00 am

-11:00 am

PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/7984811536 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)

Quantum simulations of topological Majorana modes

Oles Shtanko - IBM

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

PhD Defense: Neural Rendering Techniques for Photo-realistic Image Generation and Novel View Synthesis

Moustafa Meshry

5137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

5137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

PhD Defense: Enriching Communication between Humans and AI Agents

Khanh Nguyen

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

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

PhD Defense: Language-Based Techniques for Secure Programming

Ian Sweet

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

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

PhD Defense: Language-Based Techniques for Secure Programming

Ian Sweet

3:15 pm

- 4:15 pm

4237 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Feature Learning in Infinite-Width Neural Networks by Yang and Hu (2020)

Dayal Kalra - UMD

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Real-World Security in Sensitive Contexts

Noel Warford

3137 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/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Candidate for a self-correcting quantum memory in two dimensions

Simon Lieu - University of Maryland

Monday, June 6, 2022

11:00 am

- 1:00 pm

PhD Defense: Effective Training and Efficient Inference of Deep Neural Networks for Visual Understanding

Hengduo Li

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

Friday, May 20, 2022

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Detecting Fine-Grained Semantic Divergences to Improve Translation Understanding Across Languages

Eleftheria Briakou

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

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Master's Thesis Defense: Quantum algorithms and the power of forgetting

Amin Shiraz Gilani - University of Maryland

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

MS Defense: Quantum algorithms and the power of forgetting

Amin Shiraz Gilani

3100A ATL

Thursday, May 19, 2022

10:00 am

-11:00 am

Dequantizing the Quantum Singular Value Transformation: Hardness and Applications to Quantum Chemistry and the Quantum PCP Conjecture

Sevag Gharibian - Paderborn University

Virtual Via Zoom: https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/99584979176?pwd=R3FWeU5xK3FJT3pTYzFJek5pcVU0QT09

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

PhD Defense: Time-Situated Metacognitive Agency and Other Aspects of Commonsense Reasoning

Matthew Goldberg

3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

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

PhD Proposal: Scalable Methods for Robust Machine Learning

Alexander Levine

Monday, May 16, 2022

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

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

PhD Defense: A Verified Software Toolchain for Quantum Programming

Kesha Hietala

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

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

PhD Proposal: Parsimonious AI: Software-Hardware Synergy For Robot Autonomy

Chahat Deep Singh

Friday, May 13, 2022

12:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

5137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

PhD Proposal: Learning-Based Physics Simulation with Collision Handling

Qingyang Tan

3:30 pm

- 5:30 pm

3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

PhD Defense: Towards Reliable and Efficient Representation Learning

Chen Zhu

Thursday, May 12, 2022

10:00 am

-11:00 am

PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/7984811536 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)

Software architectures for real-time quantum control systems

Leon Riesebos - Duke University

3:00 pm

- 4:30 pm

Candidacy Talk: Quantum Algorithms for Simulation and Spectroscopy of Nuclear Physics

Alexander Shaw - University of Maryland

ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Monday, May 9, 2022

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

PhD Defense: Algorithms and Data Structures for Faster Nearest-Neighbor Classification

Alejandro Flores-Velazco

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

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Topological order and error correction on fractal geometries: fractal surface codes

Arpit Dua - Caltech

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Friday, May 6, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Privacy and Security Issues in Speech Processing

Bhiksha Raj Ramakrishnan

IRB 4105, Virtual- https://umd.zoom.us/j/98095131895?pwd=bFRySUJZSytQcjFVVis0dFpuWU1TZz09

1:00 pm

- 1:45 pm

A semidefinite programming based approach to near-term quantum advantage and device certification

Kishor Bharti - University of Maryland

ATL 2324 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96160177762 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Thursday, May 5, 2022

10:00 am

-11:00 am

LDPC Quantum Codes: Recent developments, Challenges and Opportunities

Nikolas Breuckmann - University College London

Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95894683976

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

AI-driven voice forensics: The threat, power and potential of the human voice

Rita Singh

IRB-4105-Virtual- https://umd.zoom.us/j/98095131895?pwd=bFRySUJZSytQcjFVVis0dFpuWU1TZz09

3:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

Noemi Glaeser - UMD/MPI-SP

Foundations of Coin Mixing Services

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

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

10:00 am

-11:00 am

Encoded Silicon Qubits: A High-Performance & Scalable Platform for Quantum Computing

Dr. Matthew Rakher - HRL Laboratories

PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91031026741 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

PhD Proposal: Matching Under Uncertainty

Nathaniel Grammel

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Jaan Altosaar - Columbia University

Scaling health care delivery with machine learning

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

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Towards Usability, Transparency, and Trust for Data-Intensive Computations

Juliana Freire

IRB 1116, Virtual-https://umd.zoom.us/j/98095131895?pwd=bFRySUJZSytQcjFVVis0dFpuWU1TZz09

3:00 pm

- 5:00 pm

PhD Proposal: The Limitations of Deep Learning Methods in Realistic Adversarial Settings

Yigitcan Kaya

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

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96025919736 Meeting ID: 960 2591 9736 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Shadow sequence estimation: a primitive for learning gate set noise

Jonas Helsen - CWI, Amsterdam

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Ultra-scale Machine Learning Algorithms with Theoretical Foundations

Heng Huang

IRB-4105, Virtual- https://umd.zoom.us/j/98095131895?pwd=bFRySUJZSytQcjFVVis0dFpuWU1TZz09

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

An Analysis of the Role of Situated Learning in Starting a Security Culture in a Software Company by Tuladhar et al

Kelsey Fulton

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

Monday, May 2, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Data-Driven Cities and the Use of City Imagery for Improving Accessibility

Claudio Silva

IRB 4105, Virtual-https://umd.zoom.us/j/98095131895?pwd=bFRySUJZSytQcjFVVis0dFpuWU1TZz09

Friday, April 29, 2022

12:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

PhD Proposal: Towards Multimodal and Context-Aware Emotion Perception

Trisha Mittal

1:00 pm

- 1:45 pm

ATL 2324 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96160177762 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Optical conductivity and orbital magnetization of Floquet vortex states

Iman Ahmadabadi - University of Maryland

Thursday, April 28, 2022

9:00 am

-11:00 am

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

PhD Proposal: Improving Model and Data Efficiency for Deep Learning

Renkun Ni

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Neuromorphic Visual Motion Analysis

Cornelia Fermüller

IRB 4105- Virtual- https://umd.zoom.us/j/98095131895?pwd=bFRySUJZSytQcjFVVis0dFpuWU1TZz09

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Interactive Proofs for Synthesizing Quantum States and Unitaries

Gregory Rosenthal - University of Toronto

Virtual Via Zoom: https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/92541289425?pwd=bDVWYTZBTXpDSE1XMFloMEtLYXJiUT09

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

The Data Deluge: Overcoming the barriers to extreme scale science

Scott A. Klasky

IRB 4105, Virtual- https://umd.zoom.us/j/98095131895?pwd=bFRySUJZSytQcjFVVis0dFpuWU1TZz09

3:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

Chelsea Holland Komlo - University of Waterloo

Multi-Party Signatures for Discrete-Log Based Cryptosystems

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

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Mark Riedl - Georgia Tech

The Quest for Automated Story Generation

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

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Are You Really Muted?: A Privacy Analysis of Mute Buttons in Video Conferencing Apps

Kassem Fawaz - University of Wisconsin

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

4:00 pm

- 6:00 pm

PhD Defense: Automating the Discovery of Censorship Evasion Strategies

Kevin Bock

4109 and via zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/8266983021

5:00 pm

- 6:00 pm

Geometric Deep Learning: Grids, Groups, Graphs, Geodesics, and Gauges (Section 3, Geometric Priors)

Lee Sharma

Monday, April 25, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Cameron Moy - Northeastern University

Programming with Trace Contracts

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

Friday, April 22, 2022

1:00 pm

- 1:45 pm

ATL 2324 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96160177762 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Atomic frequency combs for broadband quantum memory

Aditya Sharma - University of Maryland

Thursday, April 21, 2022

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Universal efficient compilation: Solovay-Kitaev without inverses

Tudor Giurgica-Tiron - Stanford University

Virtual Via Zoom: https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/93303967968?pwd=bm9VWjkwRGZTUjVOTkptekhleHdsZz09

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

10:30 am

-12:30 pm

PhD Proposal: Efficient Algorithms for processing Evolving Geometric data

Aditya Acharya

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

"Understanding" and prediction: Controlled examinations of meaning sensitivity in pre-trained models

Allyson Ettinger - University of Chicago

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

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

Saturation and recurrence of quantum complexity in random quantum circuits

Michal Oszmaniec - Quantum Information Research Group

Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123

12:30 pm

- 2:30 pm

4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

PhD Proposal: Towards Inverse Rendering with Global Illumination

Saeed Hadadan

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Autonomous systems in the intersection of learning, formal methods, and controls

Ufuk Topcu

IRB 4105- Virtual- https://umd.zoom.us/j/98095131895?pwd=bFRySUJZSytQcjFVVis0dFpuWU1TZz09

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

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

Protecting Cryptography Against Compelled Self-Incrimination by Scheffler et al.

Nathan Reitenger

Monday, April 18, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Repeated Quantum Error Correction in a Distance-Three Surface Code with Superconducting Circuits

Andreas Wallraff - ETH Zürich

ATL 2400, Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91508910194?pwd=RXlQU2YyMUhyUUtGSlI5NnRCbm9xdz09 Meeting ID: 915 0891 0194 Passcode: 617935, Live stream on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/JQInews Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

5:00 pm

- 7:00 pm

PhD Defense: Towards Autonomous Driving in Dense, Heterogeneous, and Unstructured Environments

Rohan Chandra

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

Friday, April 15, 2022

1:00 pm

- 1:45 pm

ATL 2324 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96160177762 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Non-equilibrium critical phenomena in a trapped-ion quantum simulator

Arinjoy De - University of Maryland

Thursday, April 14, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Yizheng Chen - University of California, Berkeley

Verifiable Machine Learning for Security

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

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Inverse Graphics for Next-Gen Video Communication

Soumyadip Sengupta

IRB-4105, Virtual- https://umd.zoom.us/j/98095131895?pwd=bFRySUJZSytQcjFVVis0dFpuWU1TZz09

3:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

Albert Cheu - Georgetown University

Differential Privacy in the Shuffle Model

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

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Dakuo Wang - IBM Research

Designing Human-Centered AI Systems for Human-AI Collaboration

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

1:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

CVSS

Computational Imaging with Multiply Scattered Photons

Adithya Pediredla - Carnegie Mellon University

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

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

10:00 am

-11:00 am

A quantum algorithm for thermal state preparation based on nonequilibrium fluctuation theorems

Yigit Subasi - Los Alamos National Lab

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91755777057?pwd=Z0U2dDVjRG1icFBFN1VSbXZmbGtuQT09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Privacy for the People: Designing systems that shift power over personal data to end-users

Sauvik Das - Georgia Institute of Technology

Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98095131895?pwd=bFRySUJZSytQcjFVVis0dFpuWU1TZz09

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

MS Defense: A Goal, Question, Metric Approach to Coherent Use Integration within the DevOps Lifecycle

Kelsey Rassmann

4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Monday, April 11, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Haojian Jin - Carnegie Mellon University

Human/System Co-Design to Protect Data Privacy

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

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Neuro-Symbolic Embodied AI For Visual Intelligence

Chuang Gan

Virtual-https://umd.zoom.us/j/98095131895?pwd=bFRySUJZSytQcjFVVis0dFpuWU1TZz09

Friday, April 8, 2022

10:00 am

-11:00 am

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Quantum advantage in learning from experiments

Hsin-Yuan (Robert) Huang - Caltech

12:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

PhD Defense: A Neurocomputational Model of Causal Reasoning and Compositional Working Memory for Imitation Learning

Gregory Davis

3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

1:00 pm

- 1:45 pm

ATL 2324 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96160177762 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Equivalence between fermion-to-qubit mappings in two spatial dimensions

Yijia Xu - University of Maryland

Thursday, April 7, 2022

10:00 am

-11:00 am

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98334495382?pwd=MVdzczB0dFpVYVRKRU5WWGVQd0pqZz09 Meeting ID: 983 3449 5382 Passcode: 606007 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Tuning arrays with rays: Physics-informed tuning of quantum dot charge states

Justyna Zwolak - NIST

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Nikos Vasilakis - Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Security in a World of Software Supply-Chain Vulnerabilities

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

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

The Complexity of Near-Term Quantum Computers

Daniel Grier

Virtual- https://umd.zoom.us/j/98095131895?pwd=bFRySUJZSytQcjFVVis0dFpuWU1TZz09

3:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

Hemanta Maji - Perdue University

Secure Non-interactive Simulation

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

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

10:00 am

-12:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Algorithmic Fairness Issues in Machine Learning and Operations Research

Seyed Esmaeili

4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

11:00 am

-12:15 pm

How to simulate quantum measurement without computing marginals

David Gosset - University of Waterloo/IQC

Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91489930870?pwd=Zzhzcjh1K1pGMVhSUzI4VndyZzBLdz09 Meeting ID: 914 8993 0870 Passcode: 202544

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Ashique KhudaBukhsh - Rochester Institute of Technology

Social, Cultural, and Political biases and Blind Spots in AI Systems

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

12:00 pm

- 2:00 pm

Dissertation Defense: Quantum algorithms for linear and nonlinear differential equations

Jin-Peng Liu - University of Maryland

Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/4484328258?pwd=RitURDMvVGxXanFuSVZVWjRjOUNvUT09

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Allison McDonald - University of Michigan

Advancing Digital Safety for High-Risk Communities

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

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Wouter Lueks - EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Designing End-to-End Privacy-Friendly and Deployable Systems

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

Monday, April 4, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Neural Representation and Rendering of 3D Real-world Scenes

Lingjie Liu

IRB 4105- Virtual- https://umd.zoom.us/j/98095131895?pwd=bFRySUJZSytQcjFVVis0dFpuWU1TZz09

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

Quantum Computation and Cryptography: a changing landscape

Andrea Coladangelo

Virtual- https://umd.zoom.us/j/98095131895?pwd=bFRySUJZSytQcjFVVis0dFpuWU1TZz09

Friday, April 1, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Hardware-centric Quantum Algorithm Design

Murphy Niu

IRB-4105 Virtual-https://umd.zoom.us/j/98095131895?pwd=bFRySUJZSytQcjFVVis0dFpuWU1TZz09

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

RLSS

Generally Capable Reinforcement Learning Agents

Jakob Bauer - DeepMind

Remote

12:30 pm

- 2:30 pm

Efficient Acoustic Simulation for Learning-based Virtual and Real World Audio Processing

Zhenyu Tang

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

1:00 pm

- 1:45 pm

ATL 2324 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96160177762 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Monopole Josephson effects in Dirac Spin Liquids

Gautam Nambiar - University of Maryland

Thursday, March 31, 2022

8:30 am

-11:30 am

4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Quantum Computing for Optimization and Machine Learning

Shouvanik Chakrabarti

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Gururaj Saileshwar - Georgia Institute of Technology

Rethinking Security for Computing Hardware through Principled Randomization

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

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97066068585 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)

Post-quantum security of the Even-Mansour cipher

Chen Bai - University of Maryland

3:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

Noemi Glaeser - UMD/MPI-SP

Constant-Round Zero-Knowledge for NP: the Goldreich-Kahan protocol

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

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

A Systematic Approach for Studying Security Flaws and Threats in Smart-Home IoT Deployments

Omar Alrawi - Georgia Institute of Technology

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

11:30 am

- 1:00 pm

PhD Defense: The Evolution of Cloud Data Architectures: Storage, Compute, and Migration

Gang Liao

5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

1:00 pm

- 3:00 pm

PhD Proposal: Breath Analytics: A sensor-driven study on day-to-day human respiration

Faizan Wajid

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

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

1131 Mathematics Building (MTH)

PhD Proposal: Constraint SAT problems for Infinite Structures

Shaopeng Zhu

2:00 pm

- 4:00 pm

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

PhD Defense: The First Principles of Deep Learning and Compression

Max Ehrlich

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Grant Ho - University of California, San Diego

Protecting Organizations with Practical Data-Driven Methods

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

5:00 pm

- 6:00 pm

Simulation Intelligence: Towards a New Generation of Scientific Methods by Lavin et al. (2021)

Lee Sharma - UMD

4137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)

Monday, March 28, 2022

11:00 am

-12:00 pm

Yuan Tian - University of Virginia

Securing Emerging Computing Platforms

Zoom - https://umd.zoom.us/j/98095131895?pwd=bFRySUJZSytQcjFVVis0dFpuWU1TZz09

12:30 pm

- 1:30 pm

Kristopher Micinski - Syracuse University

Scaling Binary Corpus Analysis: Assemblage and Reversi

virtual: https://umd.zoom.us/j/93825468763?pwd=UXlYZmVkVndXb1owMkpYb2tOQjZFQT09

2:00 pm

- 3:00 pm