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Friday, September 13, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Intelligence in Everything: How to Scale, Secure, and Sustain
Nirupam Roy
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Scaling Law of Quantum Confinement in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Ben Eller - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, September 12, 2024
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CATS
The Submodular Adaptive Switching Problem
Alexander Estes - Assistant Professor, R. H. Smith School of Business and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
AI Resilient Interfaces for Code Generation and Efficient Reading
Jonathan Kummerfeld - University of Sydney
3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Achieving low circuit depth with few qubits, for arithmetic and the QFT
Greg Kahanamoku-Meyer - MIT
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Four approaches to blockchain rollups
Noemi Glaeser
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, September 6, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Learning the Dynamic World
Ming C. Lin
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Entangling four logical qubits beyond break-even in a nonlocal code
Yifan Hong - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, September 5, 2024
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Entanglement and the density matrix renormalisation group in the generalised Landau paradigm
Frank Verstraete - University of Cambridge
ATL 3100A Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Information in a Photon
Saikat Guha - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95621286471?pwd=tbhSkbaJ5CEyT9kGfEOt4AZ1ohhoH9.1 Meeting ID: 956 2128 6471 Passcode: 285935 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
3-minute madness
CLIP lab members
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
"It was honestly just gambling": Investigating the Experiences of Teenage Cryptocurrency Users on Reddit
Phoebe Moh
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, August 30, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Extracting Private Info from Public Services
Dave Levin
IRB 0318 (Gannon) or https://umd.zoom.us/j/97919102992?pwd=LbSBM2MZy4QpVfnj92ukT5AIqyTYaO.1#success
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A quantum monomer-dimer model on a Penrose tiling
Jeet Shah - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
3-minute madness
CLIP lab members
3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, August 26, 2024
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quadratic lower bounds on the stabilizer rank: A probabilistic approach
Saeed Mehraban - Tufts University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97118160686 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, August 23, 2024
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Building up more human-aligned foundational models: Data and Algorithms
Lichang Chen
Remote
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: New Efficient Bilevel Optimization Algorithms and their Applications in Federated Learning
Junyi Li
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, August 22, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Typed Embeddings for Metaprogramming
Jacob Prinz
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Privacy Implications of Large-Scale Network Address Enumeration
Erik Rye
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
10:30 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: From Demonstration to Dynamic Interaction: Enabling Long-Term Robotic Planning
Mara Levy
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: High Performance Distributed Transactions for Multi-region Database Systems
Cuong Nguyen
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Efficient and Robust Point Cloud Embedding: Theories, Algorithms and Applications
Dehao Yuan
IRB-4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/8594561040
Thursday, August 15, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Stabilization of cat-state manifolds using nonlinear reservoir engineering
Ivan Rojkov - ETH Zurich
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9137887602?pwd=ei84WW1MZG9aUWtiempMWVNCWVY3dz09&omn=96873377618 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
10:30 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Neural Networks as Databases - From data to model compression
Shishira R Maiya
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, August 9, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: On Provable Robustness against Data Poisoning
Wenxiao Wang
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, August 5, 2024
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Minimalist Sensing Toward Ubiquitous Perception
Yang Bai
https://umd.zoom.us/j/94236579484?pwd=ua1W20X3KPxtmd5wpaZonu0qSb5437.1
Friday, August 2, 2024
3:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Implementing Universal Design to Support Neurodivergent Students in Undergraduate Introductory Computer Science Classes
Emily Kaplitz
IRB-3137 or https://go.umd.edu/zoomWeintrop
Thursday, August 1, 2024
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Developing and Measuring Latent Constructs in Text
Alexander Hoyle
IRB-3137 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/9845968708
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
4:00 pm
- 5:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: It’s Not Just What You Say, It’s How You Say It: Exploring How Third Parties Manipulate the Style and Information of Security Content to Influence Users
Richard Roberts
https://umd.zoom.us/j/6975862994?omn=93346301112
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Mosaicing Prevention in Declassification
Nathaniel Rollings
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, July 19, 2024
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Excursion in the Quantum Loss Landscape: Learning, Generating and Simulating in the Quantum World
Ali Izadi Rad - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5132784141?pwd=NUJaSXVBZmdMQkYxMFFxeHdiUmIzUT09 Meeting ID: 513 278 4141 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, July 18, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Extracting Private Info from Public Services
Dave Levin
LTS Auditorium, 8080 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Separating Quantum Black-Box Security Reductions for SNARGs from Falsifiable Assumptions
Manasi Shingane
Atlantic 3100A
Sunday, July 14, 2024
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Jonas Buchli - Google DeepMind
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, July 12, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Hybrid Memory Hierarchies for Next Generation HPC Systems
Richard Johnson
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Hybrid Memory Hierarchies for Next Generation HPC Systems
Richard Johnson
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, July 11, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Simulating Meson Scattering on Spin Quantum Simulators
Elizabeth Bennewitz - University of Maryland
PSC 2134 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99675829668 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Fairness and Equity in Machine Learning for Healthcare
Daniel Smolyak
IRB-4105
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Efficient Optimization Algorithms for Nonconvex Machine Learning Problems
Wenhan Xian
IRB-5107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Learning shallow quantum circuits and quantum states prepared by shallow circuits in polynomial time
Yunchao Liu - UC Berkeley
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98607076942?pwd=o98gU8L1qeYS2jmMAvWrZZ77Qzr3YI.1 Meeting ID: 986 0707 6942 Passcode: 850846 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Spin Chains and Symmetric Functions
Marcos Crichigno - Phasecraft
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=95220137852 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Enhancing Modern Query Federation Systems: Execution Optimization, Performance Prediction, and Systems Assessment
Chujun Song
IRB-5165
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Enhanced Robot Planning and Perception through Environment Prediction
Vishnu Sharma
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, July 8, 2024
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Planning and Perception for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Object and Environmental Monitoring
Harnaik Dhami
IRB-5105
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Auditing the Accuracy and Fairness of COVID-19 Forecasting and Modeling Tasks with Mobility and Contextual Data
Saad Mohammad Abrar
IRB-4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, July 5, 2024
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Distribution-Preserving Watermarks for Large Language Models
Yihan Wu
Remote
Friday, June 28, 2024
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Enabling Ubiquitous Analytics through Physical Computing
Biswaksen Patnaik
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Dynamical Memory in Deep Neural Networks - A Pathway Towards Embodied Connectionist Systems
Matthew Evanusa
IRB-4105
Thursday, June 20, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Building Trustworthy AI Even When We Don’t Understand It
Hal Daumé III
LTS Auditorium, 8080 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740
Monday, June 17, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Automating Hierarchical Task Network Learning
Ruoxi Li
3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Improving and validating computational algorithms for the assembly, clustering, and taxonomic classification of microbial communities
Tu Luan
4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
Time-Space Trade-Offs and Lower Bounds in Quantum Ideal Models
Kaiyan Shi
5107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, June 14, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Machine Learning with Differentiable Physics Priors
Yiling Qiao
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Machine Learning with Differentiable Physics Priors
Yiling Qiao
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, June 13, 2024
10:30 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
Efficient Rendering, Display, and Compression Techniques for Virtual and Augmented Reality
Susmija Jabbireddy
3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Near-optimal simulation of quantum field theory
Michael Kreshchuk - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
6:30 pm
- 7:45 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Seyed A. Esmaeili - University of Chicago
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, June 10, 2024
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Circuits for Chiral Topological Order
Su-Kuan Chu - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92795095725?pwd=NVFLb2prWXNXMDFGR2lnbVh0Rzg5dz09 Meeting ID: 927 9509 5725 Passcode: 019031 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Simulation, Representation, and Automation: Human-Centered AI for Augmenting Visualization Design
Sungbok Shin
5161 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: DATA-DRIVEN ALGORITHMS FOR CHARACTERIZING STRUCTURAL VARIATION IN METAGENOMIC DATA
Harihara Subrahmaniam Muralidharan
IRB-3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, May 31, 2024
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Algorithmic Decision-making and Model Evaluation in Socially Consequential Domains
Christine Herlihy
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
6:30 pm
- 7:30 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Recent Developments in Coalition Formation Theory
Niclas Boehmer - Harvard University
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, May 23, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Simulation, Representation, and Automation: Human-Centered AI for Augmenting Visualization Design
Sungbok Shin
IRB-5161 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Harnessing Quantum Systems for Sensing, Simulation, and Optimization
Jake Bringewatt - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97331537883?pwd=cUJMcWRuaVdBd0VIWkNzTmhEUWZuUT09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
CATS
Tight Lower Bound on Equivalence Testing in Conditional Sampling Model
Diptarka Chakraborty - National University of Singapore
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Controlling quantum ergodicity in molecules large and small: From C60 to ultracold alkali dimers
Timur Tscherbul - University of Nevada, Reno
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=95385603985 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Foundation Models and Generative AI for Medical Imaging Segmentation in Ultra-Low Data Regimes
Pengtao Xie
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/5482450617
Monday, May 20, 2024
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards Generalizable Computational Representations for Data Visualizations
Chen Chen
https://umd.zoom.us/j/7496374091?pwd=YXU5ZmNsWUxMajE1d1ROd2lPclRTdz09
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Learning with Incomplete Information
Kiarash Banihashem
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Probabilistic notions of Fairness for problems in Combinatorial Optimization
Sharmila Duppala
4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, May 16, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Speeding up Density Functional Theory with Machine Learning
Phillip Pope
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Taming Generative Priors for Consistent and Faithful Video Processing
Yiran Xu
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
10:30 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Robust and Interpretable Deep Learning: Understanding the Role of Data and Architecture
Vasu Singla
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Obtaining Fine-Grained Control over Large Language Models
Sicheng Zhu
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: On Quantum Query Complexity, Divide-and-Conquer, and Regular Languages
Matt Kovacs-Deak
ATL 3100A
Monday, May 13, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Advanced Techniques for Reconstructing Objects and Scenes from Variations in Lighting and Viewpoint
Daniel Lichy
4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, May 10, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
A DMRG Study of Excitons in the 2D t-J Model
Nikko Pomata - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, May 9, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
Participant Data Considerations for the Virtual Experience Research Accelerator (VERA)
Greg Welch - University of Central Florida
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/my/niallw
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Accurate and Scalable Phylogenetic Tree Estimation via Graph Cuts
Yunheng Han
IRB 3137
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
QCVV: Making Quantum Computers Less Broken
Kenneth Rudinger - Sandia National Laboratory
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=92105995014 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Efficiently verifiable quantum advantage on near-term analog quantum simulators
Zhenning Liu - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99675829668 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
3:30 pm
- 5:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Symmetric-Key Cryptography and Query Complexity in the Quantum World
Chen Bai - University of Maryland
AV Williams 2460 A.V. Williams Building (AVW)
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
4:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Translating AI to Impact in Public Health
Aditya Mate - Microsoft
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, May 6, 2024
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
EXAMPLE AIDED DESIGN: A PATH TO AUTOMATING EXPRESSIVE VISUALIZATION DESIGN
Hannah Bako
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, May 3, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Electron-Photon Exchange-Correlation Functional in the Weak and Strong Light–Matter Coupling Regimes
Iman Ahmadabadi - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:00 pm
- 4:45 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Multi-Agent Autonomous Decision Making in Artificial Intelligence
Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay
4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, May 2, 2024
12:30 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
Towards AI Alignment: Advancing Fairness, Reliability, and Human-Like Perception in AI
Bang An
4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Tailoring Fault-Tolerance to Quantum Algorithms
Narayanan Rengaswamy - University of Arizona
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=98060507945 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
Towards Responsible Human-AI Collaboration
Maria De-Arteaga - University of Texas - Austin
IRB 5137 and Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96972699892?pwd=ak43dmhIYy8ybEdnRUVRUkNnb3lNZz09
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
How to relate quantum position verification to information-theoretic cryptography, and new steps towards practical implementation
Florian Speelman - University of Amsterdam
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96834502660 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum Advantage in Sensing and Simulation
Adam Ehrenberg - University of Maryland
ATL 3332 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2144033185?pwd=TVNvWERUeHlpRUlybW10b20rV1UyUT09&omn=94991888500 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Scaling Policy Gradient Methods to Open-Ended Domains
Ryan Sullivan
2137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Feedback for Vision
Michael Maynord
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
AI Empowered Music Education
Snehesh Shrestha
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
Towards Trustworthy Models in Machine Learning
Xiaoyu Liu
4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Incentives, Expertise, and Capacity: Unlocking the Power of Professionals to Protect Users’ Security and Privacy
Wentao Guo
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
6:30 pm
- 7:30 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
AI Alignment with Changing and Influenceable Reward Functions
Micah Carroll - University of California, Berkeley
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, April 29, 2024
4:05 pm
- 5:05 pm
QuICS Seminar
Introduction to Quantum Error Correction Part 2: Geometrically Local Quantum Codes
Xiaozhen Fu - University of Maryland
Kirwan Hall 3206
Friday, April 26, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Towards Experimental Realization of Topological Floquet Models in Circuit QED
Martin Ritter - JQI
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Towards the Verification of Quantum Networks
Yusuf Alnawakhtha
ATL 3100A
Thursday, April 25, 2024
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
Human-centered Explainable AI: Expanding Explainable & Responsible AI
Upol Ehsan
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
AI in Public Services: Local Justice, Street-Level Bureaucracy, and Scarce Societal Resource Allocation
Sanmay Das - George Mason University
IRB 5137 and Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94550653164?pwd=cDUzR1hzMG9USkw5R2ozdFlFUFFtUT09
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Filters
Ben Landrum
5161 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Enhancing Multi-user Experiences in XR: Interface Design for Workspace Awareness
Geonsun Lee
5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
MS Defense: Optimal Point-Spread-Function Engineering with Dynamic Optics and Event Cameras
Sachin Shah
4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
10:30 am
-11:30 am
QuICS Seminar
Dynamic codes and quantum computation
Margarita Davydova - MIT
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95804820261?pwd=cXNvU0JyemhLbjBuMWtGdmQ0MjhWdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:30 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Visual Content Synthesis at Scale
Songwei Ge
IRB-3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:15 pm
- 3:15 pm
QuICS Seminar
On the optimal error exponents for classical and quantum antidistinguishability
Hemant Mishra - Cornell University
PSC 3150 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5972416689?omn=92004592340 Meeting ID: 597 241 6689 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
FreePart: Hardening Data Processing Software via Framework-based Partitioning and Isolation
Ali Ahad
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CVSS
Asymptotically Free Sketching and Applications in Ridge Regression
Daniel LeJeune - Stanford University
3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
4:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
CleanRL / Cleanba: The most readable and hackable RL codebase
Costa Huang - HuggingFace
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, April 22, 2024
4:05 pm
- 5:05 pm
QuICS Seminar
Minimizing Resources for Cryptographic Proofs of Quantumness
Carl Miller - University of Maryland
Kirwan Hall 3206
Friday, April 19, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Reducing circuit depth of commuting Pauli Strings diagonalization
Edison Murairi - George Washington University
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, April 18, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Adaptive Low Probability of Detection Radar Waveform Design with Generative Deep Learning
Matthew Ziemann
LTS Auditorium, 8080 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Growing the MARL software ecosystem in JAX
Ruan de Kock & InstaDeep Team - InstaDeep
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
Large Language Models for Teacher Feedback
Dora Demszky - Stanford University
IRB 5137 and Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94590804477?pwd=Ym9RWjJNK3F6cm1kclNXMXpQTjhxUT09
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
One-shot quantum information theory and quantum gravity
Chris Akers - IAS
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96272644488?pwd=cCtXejhUV0ttMmhVQjkyUFJ5cG9jQT09 Meeting ID: 962 7264 4488 Passcode: 573131 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Genie: Generative Interactive Environments
Jack Parker-Holder - Google DeepMind
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems
Erik Rye
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, April 15, 2024
3:30 pm
- 4:10 pm
CS Department
Integrating interactive devices with the user’s body
Pedro Lopes
IRB 4105
4:05 pm
- 5:05 pm
QuICS Seminar
Circuit QED Lattices: From Synthetic Quantum Systems to Spectral Graph Theory
Alicia Kollár - University of Maryland
PSC 1136 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
4:15 pm
- 4:45 pm
CS Department
Toward Human-Computer-World Interaction
Seongkook Heo
IRB 4105
Friday, April 12, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Photon-Mediated Interactions in Lattices of Coplanar Waveguide Resonators
Maya Amouzegar - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, April 11, 2024
10:00 am
-11:00 am
QuICS Seminar
Quantum algorithm for linear non-unitary dynamics with near-optimal dependence on all parameters
Dong An - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99675829668 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Accessible Foundation Models: Systems, Algorithms, and Science
Tim Dettmers
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
Workshop: What Participatory AI looks like today… and why we need you to innovate!
Maria Isabel Magaña Arango - UMD
IRB 4107 and Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96579421934?pwd=dXBoaFFMazFSOWZXZDVmdmR6bEdnZz09
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
CATS
Online Contention Resolution Schemes for the Matching Polytope of Graphs
Calum MacRury - Columbia Business School
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Towards Immersive Streaming for Videos and Light Fields
David Li
IRB 4107
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Foundations of Multisensory Artificial Intelligence
Paul Liang
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Next-Gen AI: Advancing Watermarking, Algorithm Synthesis, and Diverse Generative Strategies
Arpit Bansal
IRB-5105
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
9:30 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Defense: Machine Learning for Non-photorealistic Illustration, Animation, and 3D Characters
Shuhong Chen
IRB 3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Practical(ish) Multiparty Protocols from Lattice Assumptions
Kamil Doruk Gur
IRB 5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Diversifying AI: Towards Creative Chess with AlphaZero
Tom Zahavy - Google DeepMind
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, April 8, 2024
10:30 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Interpretability of Deep Models Across different Architectures and Modalities
Hamid Kazemi
IRB 5165
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Toward End-to-end Reliable Robot Learning for Autonomy and Interaction
Glen Chou
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
4:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Group Theory and the Post-Quantum Security of SHA-3
Joseph Carolan - University of Maryland
Kirwan Hall 3206
Friday, April 5, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Zero-knowledge proofs for programmable anonymity, moderation, and reputation
Michael Rosenberg
IRB 5165
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Ferromagnetism in the Hubbard Model: Squares, Rings and More
Yan Li - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:30 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: PhD Preliminary: Towards scalability and efficiency in distributed systems
Jan Olkowski
IRB 5165
3:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Theoretical and Practical High-Assurance Software Tools for Quantum Applications
Yuxiang Peng
IRB-4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, April 4, 2024
10:30 am
-12:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Quantum algorithms for nonconvex optimization: theory and implementation
Jiaqi Leng - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92807017669?pwd=WEtHQUlSSHdWVnRCWEhPaDM0STdPZz09 Meeting ID: 928 0701 7669 Password: 639238 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Flow models with applications to cell trajectories and protein design
Alex Tong
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
Generative Models AAA: Acceleration, Application, Adversary
Amin Karbasi
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
Fairness and Explainability in Machine Learning for High-Stakes Applications
Sanghamitra Dutta - UMD
IRB 5137 and Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92534907666?pwd=bVUwaGJjTGo4Wi9Md25oai9EQWcvdz09
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
CATS
Online fractional knapsack in the random order model
Jeff Giliberti - University of Maryland, College Park
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
12:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Analysis and Synthesis of Repetitive Patterns in Digital Images
Peihan Tu
IRB-5105
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Frameworks for Efficient Algorithms for Learning: Robustness and Data Compression
Abhishek Shetty
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
4:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
The Importance of Being Educable: A New Theory of Human Uniqueness
Turing Award Laureate Prof. Leslie Valiant - Harvard University
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, April 1, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Unleashing the Power of Data through Neurosymbolic Program Synthesis
Jocelyn (Qiaochu) Chen
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
Architecture-Tailored Parallelization for Accessible Large Model Era
Xupeng Miao
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Foundations of Trustworthy Deep Learning: Fairness, Robustness, and Explainability
Vedant Nanda
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
4:05 pm
- 5:05 pm
QuICS Seminar
The Quantum ALU: An Exploration of Arithmetic Methods for Quantum Computers
Addison Hanrattie - University of Maryland
Kirwan Hall 3206
Friday, March 29, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Towards a Renormalization Group scheme for field theories on loops
Gautam Nambiar - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, March 28, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Towards Principled Sequential Decision-Making
Qinghua Liu
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
Empowering Large Language Models with Efficient and Automated Systems
Zhuohan Li
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
Bridging the AI Divide: Towards Equitable Technology Futures for People with Disabilities
Vaishnav Kameswaran - UMD
IRB 5137 and Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98495031728?pwd=Q0lqKzRNMFlMMm1EQTFrcmFsTDFEQT09
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Spacetime codes of Cliffords circuits
Nicolas Delfosse - IonQ
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96213063691?pwd=YjRBemE4R2lNdjVTMDl6WVA2bFFCdz09, Meeting ID: 962 1306 3691, password: 375291 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
4:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
Finite Expression Method: A Symbolic Approach for Scientific Machine Learning
Haizhao Yang
IRB 4105
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Designing Reliable Human-AI Interactions: Translating Languages and Matching Students
Niloufar Salehi
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
11:30 am
- 1:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Defense: Towards Effective and Inclusive AI: Aligning AI Systems with User Needs and Stakeholder Values Across Diverse Contexts
Yang Cao
Hornbake 0108
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
Quantum Computational Advantages in Energy Minimization
Leo Zhou
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: On Utilizing Learning Shortcuts for Robustness and Dataset Security
Pedro Sandoval Segura
IRB 4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Designing efficient and scalable cache management systems
Juncheng Yang
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Examining the roles of Internally and Externally Learned Priors for Video Modeling
Gaurav Shrivastava
IRB 4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Approximating Nash Equilibria in Normal-Form Games via Stochastic Optimization
Ian Gemp - Google DeepMind
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
No Easy Way Out: the Effectiveness of Deplatforming an Extremist Forum to Suppress Hate and Harassment
Emma Shroyer
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
Making and measuring progress in long-form language processing
Mohit Iyyer
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
Monday, March 25, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Trustworthy Machine Learning under Social and Adversarial Data Sources
Han Shao
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
Intelligent Systems that Perceive, Imagine, and Act Like Humans by Aligning Vision and Language Representations
Boyi Li
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
Thursday, March 21, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Performance bounds for autonomous quantum error correction
Oles Shtanko - IBM
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98488635831 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Emergent Dominance Hierarchies in Reinforcement Learning Agents
Ram Rachum - Bar-Ilan University
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, March 15, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Universal Sharpness Dynamics in Neural Network Training: Fixed Point Analysis, Edge of Stability, and Route to Chaos
Dayal Singh Kalra - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, March 14, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
The Future is not Set: Visual Decision-Making with Predictive Models
Fumeng Yang
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
Leveraging Multimodal Foundation Models for Exploring the 3D World
Hadar Averbuch-Elor
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
AI Explainability in the Global South: Towards an Inclusive Praxis for Emerging Technology Users
Chinasa Okolo - Brookings Institution
IRB 5137 and Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97442068396?pwd=SUR2anVvWnJRd3dyQVFqK2JaVzlNdz09
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
CATS
Equity-Driven Facility Location: A Two-Stage Robust Optimization Approach
Hoda Bidkhori - George Mason University
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Algorithms, Circuits and Learning with Quantum Computers
Luke Schaeffer
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Unifying non-Markovian characterisation with an efficient and self-consistent framework
Gregory White - Freie Universität Berlin
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
Towards 4D Reconstruction in the Wild
Gengshan Yang
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
3:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Dissertation Defense: Efficient Models and Learning Strategies for Resource-Constrained Systems
Tahseen Rabbani
IRB-4109 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Towards Transparent Representation Learning
Yaodong Yu
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Smooth and sharp complexity transitions in learning with bounded quantum memory
Weiyuan Gong - Harvard University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98629607065?pwd=WWhIbG84ZHZsRWtTanQ0RlZrZTBNdz09 Meeting ID: 986 2960 7065 Passcode: 677535 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
7:00 pm
- 8:00 pm
ACM Talks
Research on Human Motion Synthesis
Uttaran Bhattacharya (ACM Distinguished Speaker) - Adobe
Zoom
Monday, March 11, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Instance-Optimization: Rethinking Database Design for the Next 1000X
Jialin Ding - Applied Scientist, AWS
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
Causal Inference for Robust, Reliable, and Responsible NLP
Zhijing Jin
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
4:05 pm
- 5:05 pm
QuICS Seminar
Introduction to Quantum Error Correction via the 5 qubit Code
Eric Kubischta - University of Maryland
Kirwan Hall 3206
Friday, March 8, 2024
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: PhD Preliminary: Bridging the gulf of evaluation in human-AI interaction for knowledge workers
Yuexi Chen
IRB-5107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
9:30 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: PhD Preliminary: Communication-efficient Hybrid Parallel Algorithms for Neural Network Training
Siddharth Singh
IRB 5165
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Generalized framework for fermion-to-qubit mappings through Clifford transformations
Jeffery Yu - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, March 7, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Programmable Software Systems for Correct High-performance Applications
Konstantinos Kallas
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
Dexterity: The Crucial Motion Intelligence for Future Robots
Xianyi Cheng
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
AI for Spatial Data: Fairness, Adaptation, and Social Good
Yiqun Xie - UMD
IRB 4107 and Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/91496378363?pwd=a3dWc0h5VTJRY3F4TnE2dUxZakRkQT09
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
CATS
Polylogarithmic Universal Steiner Trees and Strong Sparse Partition Hierarchies
D Ellis Hershkowitz - Brown University
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Decoding Abusive Adversaries for Safer Digital Systems
Rosanna Bellini
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Search Beyond the Digital: Finding Undigitized Items in Archival Repositories
Doug Oard (UMD), Tokinori Suzuki (Kyushi University), Emi Ishita (Kyushi University)
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
Making machine learning predictably reliable
Andrew Ilyas
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Theoretical understanding of learning through the computational lens
Binghui Peng
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Understanding, Uncovering, and Mitigating the Causes of Inference Slowdown for Language Models
Kamala Varma
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
An Introduction to MARL Textbook and EPyMARL Codebase
Lukas Schäfer - University of Edinburgh
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, March 4, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Building More Reliable and Scalable AI Systems with Language Model Programming
Omar Khattab
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
4:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Introduction to Unclonable Quantum Cryptography
Yusuf Alnawakhtha - University of Maryland
Kirwan Hall 3206
Friday, March 1, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Collective exciton properties in charge-ordered moire' transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers
Tsung-Sheng Huang - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, February 29, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Building Quantum Software with Trustworthiness
Runzhou Tao
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
Small (Computational) Artifacts for Augmented (Human) Ability
Huaishu Peng - UMD
IRB 4105 and Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99485146203?pwd=Wk8vKzF1ekthT0lPcjVBdDRKUG9sZz09
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
CS Department
Modern Algorithms for Massive Graphs: Structure and Compression
Zihan Tan
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Harnessing Temporal Entanglement for Quantum Many-Body Dynamics
Michael Sonner - Universite de Geneve
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97654344056?pwd=MWRTSXNic3o0d0JLRE9LT0g4cHprQT09 Meeting ID: 976 5434 4056 Passcode: 443955 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
"Parallelism First”: New Foundations for Provably Efficient and Safe Parallel Programming
Sam Westrick
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Malla: Demystifying Real-world Large Language Model Integrated Malicious Services
Julio Poveda
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
6:30 pm
- 7:30 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Fine-tuning Text-to-Image Models: Reinforcement Learning and Confidence-aware Reward Optimization
Mohammad Ghavamzadeh - Amazon AWS AI Labs
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, February 26, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Building Personalized and Efficient 3D Models
Roni Sengupta
CSI 1115 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/7316339020
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
Query Processing for Big Data
Xiao Hu
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
4:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Engineering 101: A Mathematical Perspective
David Roberts - University of Maryland
Kirwan Hall 3206
6:00 pm
- 7:00 pm
ACM Talks
Real-Time Machine Learning for Quickest Detection
Dr. Houbing Song - Director of NSF Center for Aviation Big Data Analytics and the Director of the Security and Optimization for Networked Globe Laboratory at UMBC
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, February 23, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Total functions exhibit exponential quantum advantage — albeit in a parallel universe
Mahathi Vempati - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, February 22, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Toward Reliable Quantum Computing Systems with Intelligent Cross-Stack Co-Design
Hanrui Wang
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
Why Artificial Intelligence relies on Humans (& Humanists) in the Loop: Models of Information, Misinformation & Disinformation
Holly Brewer - UMD
IRB 4105 and Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97884449871?pwd=UFlReWh3ckpuMTI2ZXVEVXRoeGErdz09
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Evaluating and Designing Computing Systems for the Future of Work
Hancheng Cao
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Panning for gold: Interpretable and error-controlled hypothesis generation from biomedical data
Yang Lu - Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/95853135696?pwd=VVEwMVpxeElXeEw0ckVlSWNOMVhXdz09
6:00 pm
- 7:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Spring 2024 1st Meeting and Introduction to Multi-Agent AI
Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay and Ryan Sullivan - University of Maryland, College Park
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, February 16, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Evaluating the security of CRYSTALS-Dilithium in the quantum random oracle model
Kelsey Anne Jackson - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Classical and quantum codes, 2d CFTs and holography
Anatoly Dymarsky - University of Kentucky
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/9893676372?pwd=VVNOd2xNZ3FCblk4aFdTMjkzTllvQT09&omn=93471668941 Meeting ID: 989 367 6372 Passcode: abc123 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Decoding the Secrets of Machine Learning in Windows Malware Classification: A Deep Dive into Datasets, Feature Extraction, and Model Performance
Sungsu Kwag
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, February 12, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
CVSS
Computational Optics for 3D Display Design
Aswin Sankaranarayanan - CMU
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, February 9, 2024
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Graphene to gravity
Alireza Parhizkar - JQI and CMTC
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, February 8, 2024
11:15 am
-12:15 pm
QuICS Seminar
Steane Error Correction with Trapped Ions
Marko Cetina - Duke University
Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99675829668
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
The cost of solving linear differential equations on a quantum computer: fast-forwarding to explicit resource counts
Matteo Lostaglio - PsiQuantum
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2384231224?pwd=Yzlpb3ZGWjh2THJTL3IzNXU4aWtEdz09 Meeting ID: 238 423 1224 Passcode: 021227 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Monday, February 5, 2024
3:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Preliminary: Autonomous Navigation of Mobile Robots in Complex Indoor and Outdoor Scenarios
Jing Liang
IRB 5161 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
4:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Information Math RIT - Organizational Meeting
MathQuantum RTG Program
3206 Mathematics Building (MTH)
Friday, February 2, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: PhD Preliminary: Understanding and Enhancing Machine Learning Models with Theoretical Foundations
Zhengmian Hu
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Dynamically Generated Decoherence-Free Subspaces and Subsystems in Superconducting Qubits
Gregory D. Quiroz - Johns Hopkins University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96497799769 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Optical pumping of electronic quantum Hall states with vortex light
Deric Session - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: PhD Preliminary: Learning Parallel Code and System Behaviors Across Modalities
Daniel Nichols
IRB 5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, February 1, 2024
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
Algorithmic Fairness in an Ever-Changing World
Furong Huang - UMD
IRB 4105 and Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96516874709?pwd=RG0xMnQ4aWkzTVY4ZXNxZ09TQnJGQT09
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Novel tweezer-assisted sub-Doppler cooling of a 171Yb+ trapped ion crystal
Bas Gerritsen - University of Amsterdam
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98497601477?pwd=bXFUQWFlNFNxNUpCcWNrU255WmtLZz09 Meeting ID: 984 9760 1477 Passcode: 699240 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Friday, January 26, 2024
10:00 am
-11:30 am
CS Department
PhD Proposal: PhD Preliminary: Pruning for Efficient Deep Learning: From CNNs to Generative Models
Alireza Ganjdanesh
IRB-5105 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building (KEB)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Succinct Fermion Data Structures
Joseph Carolan - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, January 25, 2024
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Logical quantum processor based on reconfigurable atom arrays with a focus on degree-3 IQP circuits
Dominik Hangleiter - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5942646305 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Folding-Free ZNE: A Comprehensive Quantum Zero-Noise Extrapolation Approach for Mitigating Depolarizing and Decoherence Noise
Hrushikesh Pramod Patil - North Carolina State University
Virtual Via Zoom: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/96267431332?pwd=bnFXbnorSHAwcWVVOGRrdjhrTVZIZz09 Meeting ID: 962 6743 1332 Passcode: 129122
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
CATS
Optimal bounds on private graph approximation
Zongrui Zou - Nanjing University
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
12:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: PhD Preliminary: UNDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING ONLINE TRACKING
Nathan Reitinger
https://umd.zoom.us/j/5255974788?pwd=L1AwbGdyOFlCWEc5ck5vZDZNSjE0Zz09&omn=94081502700
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: PhD Preliminary: Local Hamiltonians and the Quantum PCP Conjecture
Nolan Coble
https://umd.zoom.us/j/97946334970?pwd=TUpEV2FsZk12dVpmRGUwY0p0eDdmZz09
Monday, January 22, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: PhD Preliminary: Cryptography for Private and Secure Blockchain Applications
Noemi Glaeser
https://umd.zoom.us/my/jkatz
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Some Unexpected Applications of Analog Quantum Computers
Carleton Coffrin - LANL
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99386800978?pwd=SlZMam5wTkQyU0s1RHlUdWtkWmlCdz09 Meeting ID: 993 8680 0978 Passcode: 343626 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, January 18, 2024
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Preliminary: Enhancing Modern Query Federation Systems: Execution Optimization, Performance Prediction, and Systems Assessment
Chujun Song
IRB-5165 or via Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/my/cjsong
3:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Preliminary: Developing and Measuring Latent Constructs with Natural Language Processing
Alexander Hoyle
IRB 4237 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Preliminary: Everything efficient all at once - Compressing data and deep networks
Sharath Girish
IRB 4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, January 12, 2024
1:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Preliminary: Supervision and Data Dynamics in Vision Across Recognition and Generation Landscapes
Saksham Suri
IRB-4105 or via Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/98653959669?pwd=NWN0TTMrOHJNTzFnZE0xMjRHbU4yUT09
Thursday, January 4, 2024
2:30 pm
- 4:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Preliminary: High Performance Distributed Transactions for Multi-region Database Systems
Cuong Nguyen
IRB-5165 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/4894262225?omn=97322941406 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, December 18, 2023
9:00 am
-11:00 am
CS Department
PhD Preliminary: Towards Reliable Deep Learning via Efficient Interpretation and Intervention
Mazda Moayeri
IRB-4105 or via Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/5680985925 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
3:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Preliminary: Interpreting Visual Representations and Mitigating their Failures
Neha Kalibhat
IRB-4105 or via Zoom https://umd.zoom.us/j/6732901799 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, December 11, 2023
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Dissertation Defense: Ray Chen
Ray Chen
IRB-5165
Friday, December 8, 2023
10:00 am
-11:00 am
CATS
Timeliness in Through Telephones: Approximating Information Freshness in Vector Clock Models
Da Qi Chen - University of Virginia
Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
11:00 am
-11:55 am
CS Department
Robust AI for Security
Yizheng Chen
IRB 0318 or via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Measuring finite-energy properties of the Fermi-Hubbard model in a trapped-ion quantum computer
Alexander Schuckert - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, December 7, 2023
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Observation of a finite-energy phase transition in a one-dimensional quantum simulator
Alexander Schuckert - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5942646305 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Analysis of Google Ads Settings Over Time: Updated, Individualized, Accurate, and Filtered
Nathan Reitinger
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, December 4, 2023
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Achieving Codec Telepresence
Michael Zollhoefer
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/7316339020
Friday, December 1, 2023
11:00 am
-11:55 am
CS Department
How Hard Is It for Networks to Run Themselves?
Alan Zaoxing Liu
IRB 0318 or via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Fault-tolerant hyperbolic Floquet quantum error correcting codes
Ali Fahimniya - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, November 30, 2023
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
TDB
Heng Huang - UMD Computer Science
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
Piecemeal knowledge acquisition for computational normative reasoning
Ilaria Canavotto - UMD
IRB 2207 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99896626594?pwd=ODd6TVRyYllnK3lxQUx1YTJnT0o4Zz09
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Local Hamiltonian Problem with succinct ground state is MA-Complete
Jiaqing Jiang - Caltech
Location: ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96286023374?pwd=YXFHRThodEpvQ01YbWFYc2RNTy9VUT09 Meeting ID: 962 8602 3374 Passcode: 536883 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
When the Majority is Wrong: Modeling Annotator Disagreement for Language Tasks
Eve Fleisig - UC Berkeley
4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Human-Timescale Adaptation in an Open-Ended Task Space
Edward Hughes - Google DeepMind
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
VCAI
The realities and illusions of AI
Jared Moore - Stanford
IRB 5137 and Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92497160817?pwd=bVlVRjdWQTU0STZESFZHdE1TMDVBQT09
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Data Poisoning Won't Save You From Facial Recognition
Tasos Toumazatos
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, November 27, 2023
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
VCAI
The Politics of Information Technologies: Democratic Platform and AI Governance
Laura Fichtner - University of Hamburg
IRB 4105
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Paradigms of AI alignment: components and enablers
Victoria Krakovna - Google DeepMind
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, November 20, 2023
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Tensor Network Decoding Beyond 2D
Christophe Piveteau - ETH Zürich
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97165169156?pwd=MHNwMmp3eGFPSld4c3dScCs2MkVIZz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Friday, November 17, 2023
10:00 am
-11:00 am
CATS
Relative Survivable Network Design
Ama Koranteng - Johns Hopkins University
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
11:00 am
-11:55 am
CS Department
Reconstructing Reality: Creating Digital Twins for the Metaverse
Ming C. Lin
IRB 0318 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
The Spin SYK Model: Quantum Gravity without Fermions
Michael Winer - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
VCAI
Sociotechnically Grounded Responsible Machine Learning
Angelina Wang - Princeton
IRB 5137 and Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99805654842?pwd=c21PRDh6c0MvYXhDa09qb1dTck9CZz09
Thursday, November 16, 2023
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
Philosophical and computational aspects of voting
Eric Pacuit - UMD
IRB 2207 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96974683952?pwd=UjJhQ1ZCZlgzdEFyM2M0RnE1L2pkZz09
2:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
CBCB Seminar
NaKyung Lee - UMD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Resource theory of quantum thermodynamics: State convertibility from qubit cooling and heating
Thomas Theurer - University of Calgary
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95326169178 Meeting ID: 953 2616 9178 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Glaze: Protecting Artists from Style Mimicry by Text-to-Image Models
Noel Warford
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
CICERO: Human-Level Performance in the Game of Diplomacy by Combining Language Models with Strategic Reasoning
Noam Brown - OpenAI
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
4:30 pm
- 5:30 pm
CS Department
Research at Dolby Laboratories - Where Art and Technology Intersect
Brett Crockett and Samir N. Hulyalkar
IRB 4105 or Zoom: umd.zoom.us/my/dmanocha
Monday, November 13, 2023
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Plastic Dynamism: Delightful Decomposition, Destruction, Decay, Deformation, and Digestive Designs
Eric Paulos
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/my/huaishu
Friday, November 10, 2023
10:00 am
-11:00 am
CATS
Nearest Neighbors from Theory to Practice
Magdalen Dobson Manohar - CMU
IRB 4105 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
11:00 am
-11:55 am
CS Department
Revisiting what it means to be usable: Usable security beyond end users
Michelle Mazurek
IRB 0318 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Correlation Spectroscopy for Correlated Materials – G(2) spectroscopy of Mott insulators
Gautam Nambiar - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
Robot Foundation Models: Training Robots with Internet Scale Data
Jie Tan - Google
JMP 2116 or https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=66a19ef9-e9cd-434e-b0f3-b06000fc2ff5
Thursday, November 9, 2023
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Optimized experiment design and analysis for fully randomized benchmarking
Alexander Kwiatkowski - NIST
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5942646305 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
Audits and Accountability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Inioluwa Deborah Raji - UC Berkeley
IRB 2207 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98094500341?pwd=QUF2by9sZnpXYW5EL1I5dkhTV0I4dz09
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
Computational Approaches for Analyzing the Epigenome and Non-coding Genome
Jason Ernst - University of California, Los Angeles
IRB-4105 or Zoom (https://umd.zoom.us/j/91412516867)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
Remote Procedure Call as Managed System Service
Prof. Danyang Zhuo - Duke University
IRB 5105
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CATS
Building Personalized Decision Models with Federated Human Preferences
Aadirupa Saha - Apple ML Research
Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Measurement Quantum Cellular Automata and Anomalies in Floquet Codes
Roger Mong - University of Pittsburgh
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92765739920?pwd=aEZBMTM5WTY4Nkw2aXBDQUpINmIvZz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Unlocking Optimization with Generative AI: Reward-Directed Conditional Diffusion
Mengdi Wang - Princeton University
IRB-4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
Unlocking Optimization with Generative AI: Reward-Directed Conditional Diffusion
Mengdi Wang - Princeton University
IRB 4105
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Works in progress: cryptography and de-identification
Khalil Guy and Wentao Guo
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Online Learning of quantum processes
Asad Raza - LIP6, Sorbonne Université, Paris
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/95166907340?pwd=MUU2Ynd0aWk4ZXVsRTM4cTdBbnZsUT09 Meeting ID: 951 6690 7340 Passcode: 954587 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
4:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
A theory of appropriateness with applications to generative artificial intelligence
Joel Z. Leibo - Google DeepMind
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, November 3, 2023
11:00 am
-11:55 am
CS Department
Towards Controllable and Personalized AI Models
Tianyi Zhou
IRB 0318 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
VCAI
Toward Practical and Scalable ML Safety
Jongheon Jeong - KAIST
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Can armchair nanotubes host organic color centers?
Ben Eller - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:15 pm
- 2:00 pm
VCAI
Language models for science and science for language models
Jacob Andreas - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gannon Auditorium (IRB 0318) Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Thursday, November 2, 2023
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
[CANCELLED] Let's get practical: measuring (algorithmic) bias in the real world
Kristian Lum - UChicago
IRB 2207 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97391087636?pwd=WDh1eEFkWGxseEFocGJUZWR6NkE3UT09
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CBCB Seminar
TBD
Mihai Pop - UMD
IRB-4105
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
Reviewing Innovations in Fermion-Qubit Mappings
Christopher Kang - University of Chicago
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/my/murphyniu?pwd=Sytqd3lVTVpaL0JCaXZqS0hRZXpCdz09 Meeting ID 865 425 0894 Passcode 129873 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
1:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
PhD Defense: Improved Algorithms and Primitives for Quantum Cryptography
Nishant Rodrigues - University of Maryland
Iribe 5105 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://go.umd.edu/rodrigues_defense Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
Julien Perolat - Google DeepMind
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, October 30, 2023
10:00 am
-11:00 am
CATS
Framework for Parallel Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering
Shangdi Yu - MIT
IRB 4105 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
Friday, October 27, 2023
10:00 am
-11:00 am
CATS
Fair Allocation of Indivisible Goods
Eklavya Sharma - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
11:00 am
-11:55 am
CS Department
Neural Wavefront Shaping
Christopher Allan Metzler
IRB 0318 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Eternal Wormhole Behavior in Critical Spin Chains
Emil Khabiboulline - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department
Enabling Collaboration between Human Creators and Generative Visual Models
Jun-Yan Zhu - Carnegie Mellon University
IRB 4105
2:00 pm
- 3:00 pm
CS Department ⋅ DBChat
Texera: Supporting Collaborative ML-Centric Data Science for All
Prof. Chen Li - UC Irvine
IRB 5165 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/98138228458?pwd=eE0wczU2eDZmR1AzTEtSY2c3a1cvdz09
Thursday, October 26, 2023
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
Attaining Sparsity in Large Language Models: Is it Easy or Hard?
Atlas Wang - University of Texas at Austin
2460 A. V. Williams
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
Harnessing the Power of AI to Support Educators with Automated Feedback
Jing Liu - UMD
IRB 2207 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96886431898?pwd=SEFEaEJ0Q2VuRUoyeHlUeGNpQjRlZz09
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Real-time quantum calibration with Linear-Quadratic-Gaussian control
John Paul Marceaux - UC Berkeley
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/my/murphyniu?pwd=Sytqd3lVTVpaL0JCaXZqS0hRZXpCdz09 Meeting ID 865 425 0894 passcode: 129873 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Analyzing Text with Causal Models
Dhanya Sridhar - Université de Montréal, MILA
4107 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Using AI for classification of software vulnerabilities and malware detection
Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
4:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
The Offline Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) Coordination Problem
Paul Barde - McGill University and MILA (Quebec AI Institute)
IRB-5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, October 23, 2023
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
From Sparse to Dense, and back to Sparse again?
Prof. Fuxin Li - Oregon State University
IRB 4105 https://umd.zoom.us/j/7316339020
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
PL Reading Group
Satisfiability Modulo Finite Fields (with applications to compilers to zero-knowledge proofs)
Alex Ozdemir - Stanford in the Center for Automated Reasoning
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, October 20, 2023
10:00 am
-11:00 am
CATS
Near-Optimal Differentially Private k-Core Decomposition
George Li - University of Maryland, College Park
IRB 4105 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
11:00 am
-11:55 am
CS Department
Leveraging Learning and Combinatorial Optimization for Advancing Multi-Robot Systems
Pratap Tokekar
IRB 0318 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum quenches for enhancing qubit-based quantum noise spectroscopy
Yuxin Wang - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, October 19, 2023
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
Innovating AI Accountability: Bridging Social Science and Technical Approaches
Mona Sloane - UVA
IRB 2207 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96540631686?pwd=bUlCNkNpbDdqZEd2MXAzNG1VWFRtdz09
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Rethinking evaluation in the age of large language models
Mohit Iyyer - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
VCAI
The Hidden Governance of AI
Abigail Jacobs - University of Michigan
IRB 4105 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96297753876?pwd=YVhPZCt0LzQ4eTVLSTNnaVVQeHlOZz09
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Realizing 2D topologically ordered states and their phase transitions in a programmable quantum processor
Yu-Jie (Leo) Liu - Technical University of Munich
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/93192862443?pwd=TnNteDdxalNsYVplcXVxWmtEQTNldz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
1:00 pm
- 2:00 pm
Multi-agent RL Reading Group
Normal-Form Games at Scale
Luke Marris - Google DeepMind; University College London
IRB-5165 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, October 13, 2023
9:00 am
- 7:00 pm
ISR
Workshop on New Frontiers in Networked Dynamical Systems: Assured Learning, Communication & Control
Slate of speakers - Various
Zupnik Forum, Clark Hall
11:00 am
-11:55 am
CS Department
Generative AI Unveiled: Detection, Interpretation and Robustness
Soheil Feizi
IRB 0318 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Topological Defects and Textures in Two-Dimensional Quantum Orders: Interplay of Symmetry Breaking and Topological Order
Yan-Qi Wang - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, October 12, 2023
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Fault-tolerant hyperbolic Floquet quantum error correcting codes
Ali Fahimniya - University of Maryland
PSC 2136 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5942646305 Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
Differentiable Material Point Method’s Recent Connections to Real World
Chenfanfu Jiang - University of California at Los Angeles
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/5812269672?pwd=d1pKVndXWFhkb1JNaEhJY05CU2ZiQT09
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
Revealing and Explaining Hidden Biases in AI Models
Soheil Feizi - UMD
IRB 2207 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/97123681700?pwd=YVp2TVkzRVRFWjJKOE5OU2M1d2NrUT09
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
10:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Entity-centric Understanding of Long Documents
Abhilasha Sancheti
4109 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/9216050397?pwd=aTdlMXc4UWFnemdKbXlZdWxTYXBDQT09 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Recent progress in Hamiltonian learning
Yu Tong - Caltech
Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2384231224?pwd=Yzlpb3ZGWjh2THJTL3IzNXU4aWtEdz09 Meeting ID: 238 423 1224 Passcode: 021227
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
CLIP
From Mechanistic Interpretability to Mechanistic Reasoning
Antoine Bosselut - École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL)
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
12:15 pm
- 1:15 pm
CATS
Ex-Post Group Fairness and Individual Fairness in Ranking
Sruthi Gorantla - Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
IRB 3137 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
Computing in Miniature: Differentiable Representations for Simulating and Optimizing Small Physical Systems
Bo Zhu - School of Interactive Computing College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/5812269672?pwd=d1pKVndXWFhkb1JNaEhJY05CU2ZiQT09
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Lessons Learned: Surveying the Practicality of Differential Privacy in the Industry
Wentao Guo
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, October 9, 2023
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
Challenges in Augmenting Large Language Models with Private Data
Ashwinee Panda
IRB 4105
Friday, October 6, 2023
10:00 am
-11:00 am
CATS
Controlling Tail Risk in Online Ski-Rental
Michael Dinitz - Johns Hopkins University
IRB 4105 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
11:00 am
-11:55 am
CS Department
Large-Scale Machine Learning Model Computing and Compression
Heng Huang
IRB 0318 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum interference of radiations from many atoms and many excited levels
Ahreum Lee - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
New directions in quantum state learning and testing
Ryan O'Donnell - Carnegie Mellon University
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99765607463?pwd=WGJFNXI2UWxzb2ZaNGNXaXo3ZVM1QT09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
3:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
QuICS Seminar
The Quantum Internet
Saikat Guha - University of Arizona
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Room 1110 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building (KEB)
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum Advantage Without Speed-Ups
Alexander Poremba - MIT
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/94964523987?pwd=dDM1Z0dPbWtSc0dDbUdrRkFmSmJjdz09 Meeting ID: 949 6452 3987 Passcode: 996869 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
Neurosymbolic Storytelling or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Large Language Model
Lara Martin - University of Maryland, Baltimore County
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
CVSS
When Compressive Imaging Met Deep Learning
Adrian Stern - Ben-Gurion University
3137 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
10:00 am
-11:00 am
CATS
On (1+ε)-Approximate Flow Sparsifiers
Zihan Tan - Rutgers University
IRB 4105 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
An Audit of Facebook's Political Ad Policy Enforcement
Noemi Glaeser
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Friday, September 29, 2023
11:00 am
-11:55 am
CS Department
If We Want AI to be Interpretable, We Need to Measure Interpretability
Jordan Boyd-Graber
IRB 0318 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Investigating the feasibility of a trapped atom interferometer with movable traps
Gayathrini Tarisha Premawardhana - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, September 28, 2023
2:00 pm
- 3:15 pm
VCAI
If We Want AI to be Explainable, We Need to Measure Interpretability
Jordan Boyd-Graber - UMD
IRB 2207 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/93280391309?pwd=MEJTTWxmRk9Ib2djMmpiblIrc3ZHQT09
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Getting to know QuICS
Various Speakers - University of Maryland
ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92287409033?pwd=anEwazR1aGNES1JVV0ZkNWpTSVBnZz09 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Destination Unreachable: Characterizing Internet Outages and Shutdowns
Sadia Nourin
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, September 25, 2023
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CS Department
Visual Imagination in the 3D Physical World
Shenlong Wang - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
IRB 4105 or zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/7316339020
Friday, September 22, 2023
10:00 am
-11:00 am
CATS
2-Approximation for Prize-Collecting Steiner Forest
Ali, Iman, Peyman, and Mohammad - University of Maryland, College Park
IRB 4105 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/6778156199?pwd=NkJKZG1Ib2Jxbmd5ZzNrVVlNMm91QT09
11:00 am
-11:55 am
CS Department
Compositional Learning for Object-centric Attributes and Relations
Abhinav Shrivastava
IRB 0318 or Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92721031800?pwd=dGhidU13dzl0cmI2eUM4SzJLNTZrZz09
12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Quantum ergodicity beyond random matrices
Amit Vikram - University of Maryland
ATL 2324 Computer and Space Sciences Building (CSS)
Thursday, September 21, 2023
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
QuICS Seminar
Theory of quantum circuits with Abelian symmetries and new methods for circuit synthesis with XY interaction
Iman Marvian - Duke University
Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5942646305
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
CS Department
Learned Optics — Improving Computational Imaging Systems through Deep Learning and Optimization
Wolfgang Heidrich - KAUST Visual Computing Center
IRB 4105 or https://umd.zoom.us/j/5812269672?pwd=aVkyTksvS1dGNXN2Kzk1K0xZU2pDZz09
3:30 pm
- 5:30 pm
CS Department
PhD Proposal: Understanding the Interplay of Fairness, Robustness, and Efficiency in Deep Learning
Vedant Nanda
Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/5422705818
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
11:00 am
-12:00 pm
CLIP
CLIP Madness II
No speaker yet
4105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
12:30 pm
- 1:30 pm
Security Reading Group
Adventures in Recovery Land: Testing the Account Recovery of Popular Websites When the Second Factor is Lost
Phoebe Moh
5105 Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering (IRB)
Monday, September 18, 2023
2:30 pm
- 3:30 pm
CS Department
Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with Less Labeling Cost
Tuo Zhao - Georgia Tech
https://go.umd.edu/MTHDataScience