BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6ae93ff6a82e6 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261027T100000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261027T113000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/artificial-intelligence-institute/events/when-stru cture-matters-structure-aware-learning LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven ue West DC 1304 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:When Structure Matters: Structure-Aware Learning for Interpretable and\nReliable AI CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Join Tengfei Ma to discuss \"When Structure Matters: Structure- Aware\nLearning for Interpretable and Reliable AI\". This seminar will le ad a\nthought-provoking conversation and will be taking place at DC 1304 o n\nTuesday\, October 27th\, 10:00AM-11:30AM. DTSTAMP:20261103T015918Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6ae93ff6a91ab DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260910T140000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260910T150000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/artificial-intelligence-institute/events/can-nns-l earn-computational-algorithms-generalize-ood LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven ue West DC 1304 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Can NNs Learn Computational Algorithms That Generalize OOD?\nPerspe ctives from the Interplay Between Architecture and Computational\nStructur e. CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Join Yusu Wang to discuss \"Can NNs Learn Computational Algorit hms That\nGeneralize OOD? Perspectives from the Interplay Between Architec ture\nand Computational Structure\". This seminar will lead a\nthought-pro voking conversation and will be taking place at DC 1304 on\nThursday\, Sep tember 10th 2:00pm-3:00pm DTSTAMP:20261103T015918Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6ae93ff6a99fd DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260904T103000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260904T113000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/artificial-intelligence-institute/events/beyond-pa rameter-interference-fine-tuning-routing-and LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven ue West DC 1304 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Beyond Parameter Interference: Fine-Tuning\, Routing\, and Recovery in\nModel Merging CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Join Sungyong Baik to discuss \"Beyond Parameter Interference:\ nFine-Tuning\, Routing\, and Recovery in Model Merging\". This seminar\nwi ll lead a thought-provoking conversation and will be taking place at\nDC 1 304 on Friday\, September 4th — time to be confirmed. DTSTAMP:20261103T015918Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6ae93ff6aa21d DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250910T140000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250910T150000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/artificial-intelligence-institute/events/attributi on-crisis-llm-search-results-estimating-ecosystem-0 LOCATION:Virtual ON Canada SUMMARY:The Attribution Crisis in LLM Search Results Estimating Ecosystem\n Exploitation CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Join Ilan Straus to discuss \"The Attribution Crisis in LLM Sea rch\nResults Estimating Ecosystem Exploitation\". This seminar will lead a \nthought-provoking conversation and will take place virtually on\nWednesd ay\, September 10th\, starting from 2:00 pm EDT. DTSTAMP:20261103T015918Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6ae93ff6aaa21 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250723T140000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250723T150000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/artificial-intelligence-institute/events/incentivi zing-collaboration-federated-learning LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven ue West DC 1302 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Incentivizing Collaboration in Federated Learning CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Join Nikola Konstantinov to discuss \"Incentivizing Collaborati on in\nFederated Learning\". This seminar will lead a thought-provoking\nc onversation and will be taking place at DC 1302 on Wednesday\, July\n23rd\ , starting from 2:00 pm EDT. DTSTAMP:20261103T015918Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6ae93ff6ab18d DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250714T103000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250714T113000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/artificial-intelligence-institute/events/invisible -yet-powerful-watermarking-protect-datasets-and LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven ue West DC 1304 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Invisible Yet Powerful: Watermarking to Protect Datasets and Models in\nMachine Learning CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Join Lingyang Yu to discuss \"Invisible Yet Powerful: Watermark ing to\nProtect Datasets and Models in Machine Learning\". This seminar wi ll\nlead an intriguing conversation and will be taking place at DC 1304 on \nMonday\, July 14th\, starting from 10:30 am EDT. DTSTAMP:20261103T015918Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6ae93ff6ab8c4 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250710T120000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250710T130000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/artificial-intelligence-institute/events/build-tra inium-amazon-lunch-learn LOCATION:E5 - Engineering 5 200 University Avenue West Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Build on Trainium – Amazon Lunch & Learn CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Amazon’s Academic Research Initiatives (ARI) team is visiting the\nUniversity of Waterloo to present their Build on Trainium (BoT)\npr ogram\n[https://aws.amazon.com/ai/machine-learning/trainium/research/#:~:t ext=Build%20on%20Trainium%2C%20is%20a\,art%20AI%20ideas%20and%20applicatio ns.]\,\nwhich is offering $110 MILLION IN AWS CREDITS to support academi c\nresearchers in AI\, ML\, DL\, and compiler-related fields.  DTSTAMP:20261103T015918Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6ae93ff6ac0ae DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250512T103000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250512T113000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/artificial-intelligence-institute/events/where-dat abase-management-system-comes-and-why-it-matters LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven ue West DC 1302 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Where the Database Management System Comes From\, and Why it Matter s CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Join Thomas Haigh to discuss \"Where the Database Management Sy stem\nComes From\, and Why it Matters\". This seminar will lead a\nthought -provoking conversation and will be taking place at DC 1302 on\nMonday\, M ay 12th\, starting from 10:30 am EDT. DTSTAMP:20261103T015918Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6ae93ff6acdca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250429T140000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250429T150000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/artificial-intelligence-institute/events/adversari al-robustness-and-privacy-measurements-using LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven ue West DC 1304 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada SUMMARY:Adversarial Robustness and Privacy Measurements using Hypothesis-te sts CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Mathias Lecuyer to discuss \"Adversarial Robustness and Privacy \nMeasurements using Hypothesis-tests\". This seminar will lead a\nthought -provoking conversation and will be taking place at DC 1304 on\nTuesday\, April 29th\, starting at 2:00 pm EDT. DTSTAMP:20261103T015918Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6ae93ff6adb1b DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250403T120000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250403T133000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/artificial-intelligence-institute/events/securing- world-ai-some-adventures LOCATION:Balsillie School 67 Erb Street West Room 142 Waterloo ON N2L 6C2 C anada SUMMARY:Securing the World with AI – Some Adventures CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Join V.S. Subrahmanian to discuss \"Securing the World with AI – Some\nAdventures\". This seminar will lead a thought-provoking convers ation\nand will be taking place at Room 142 at the Balsillie School on\nTh ursday\, April 3rd\, starting from 12:00 pm EDT. DTSTAMP:20261103T015918Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR