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Thursday, December 18, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computer Graphics • Time Stepping Methods for Coupled Fluid-rigid Body Simulation

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2314 and online.

Rikin Gurditta, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Christopher Batty

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • Coloring Graphs with Few Colors in the Streaming Model

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1304 and online.

Helia Yazdanyar, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Sepehr Assadi

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Human–Computer Interaction • Haptic Retargeting with World-in-Miniature in Virtual Reality

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place online.

Junhyeok Kim, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Mark Hancock, Daniel Vogel

Friday, December 12, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Machine Learning • A Unifying Framework for Gradient Aggregation in Multi-Objective Optimization

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 1302 and online.

Zeou (Theo) Hu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Yaoliang Yu

Tuesday, December 2, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems • A Framework for Explaining LLM Reasoning with Knowledge Graphs

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Moein Shirdel, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Lukasz Golab

Friday, December 5, 2025 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Programming Languages • Towards Safe Initialization of Scala Global Objects

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place in DC 2314.

Enze Xing, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ondřej Lhoták

Wednesday, November 26, 2025 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • Towards Multi-Language Visualization Coding Agents

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Yuansheng Ni, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Wenhu Chen

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Data Systems • Maximizing a Practical Utility Objective for Differentially Private Linear Queries

Please note: This PhD seminar will take place in DC 3301 and online.

Karl Knopf, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Xi He

Thursday, December 11, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human–Computer Interaction • Exploring Gender and Gender-Based Stereotyping in a Voice Agent Running Coach

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will take place online.

Casey O’Neill, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Edith Law