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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/phd-defence-ir-hci-automat
 ed-large-scale-cinematic-colour-palette
LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West DC 2314 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:PhD Defence • Information Retrieval | Human-Computer Interaction 
 •\nAutomated\, Large-Scale Cinematic Colour Palette Extraction and\nAnal
 ysis for Movie Recommendations
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS PHD DEFENCE WILL TAKE PLACE IN DC 2314.\n\nAN
 DREEA POCOL\, PhD candidate\n_David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
 _\n\nSUPERVISORS: Professors Lesley Istead &amp; Craig S. Kaplan
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/masters-thesis-presentatio
 n-pl-transitioning-explicit-nulls-scala
LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Hybrid: DC 2314 | Online Master’s Thesis Presentation Waterloo O
 N N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Master’s Thesis Presentation • Programming Languages •\nTrans
 itioning to Explicit Nulls in Scala
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS MASTER’S THESIS PRESENTATION WILL TAKE PLAC
 E IN DC\n2314 AND ONLINE.\n\nHARRIS LAU\, MASTER’S CANDIDATE\n_David R. 
 Cheriton School of Computer Science_\n\nSUPERVISOR: Professor Ondřej Lho
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LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Online master’s thesis presentation Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography\, Security\, and\nP
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 m
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS MASTER’S THESIS PRESENTATION WILL TAKE PLAC
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 ton School of Computer Science_\n\nSUPERVISOR: Professor N. Asokan
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/phd-defence-ai-ml-physics-
 constrained-learning-scientific-discovery-inference-differential-equations
 -inverse-design-via-generative-models
LOCATION:M3 - Mathematics 3 200 University Avenue West Hybrid: M3 3001 | On
 line PhD defence Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning •\nPhy
 sics-Constrained Learning for Scientific Discovery: Inference in\nDifferen
 tial Equations and Inverse Design via Generative Models
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS PHD DEFENCE WILL TAKE PLACE IN M3 3001AND ONL
 INE.\n\nLENA PODINA\, PHD CANDIDATE\n_David R. Cheriton School of Computer
  Science_\n\nSUPERVISORS: Professors Mohammad Kohandel\, Ali Ghodsi
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/seminar-symbolic-computati
 on-complete-validated-algorithm-for-initial-value-problem-of-ordinary-diff
 erential-equations
LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Hybrid: DC 1302 | Online seminar Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Seminar • Symbolic Computation • A Complete Validated Algorithm
 \nfor the Initial Value Problem of Ordinary Differential Equations
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE IN DC 1302 AND ONLINE
 .\n\nCHEE YAP\, PROFESSOR\n_Department of Computer Science\, Courant Insti
 tute of Mathematical\nSciences\nNew York University_
DTSTAMP:20260722T172323Z
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260731T150000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/phd-seminar-hci-thinkink-2
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LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online PhD seminar Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:PhD Seminar • Human–Computer Interaction • Thinkink: 2D Spati
 al\nInk-native Interaction with LLMs
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS PHD SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE IN DC 3317 AND ON
 LINE.\n\nMOHAMMAD HASAN PAYANDEH\, PHD CANDIDATE\n_David R. Cheriton Schoo
 l of Computer Science_\n\nSUPERVISOR: Professor Jian Zhao
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/phd-seminar-ai-ml-learning
 -to-understand-and-generate-multimodal-contents-within-a-unified-model
LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Online PhD seminar Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning •\nLea
 rning to Understand and Generate Multimodal Contents Within a\nUnified Mod
 el
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS PHD SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE ONLINE.\n\nWEIMIN
 G REN\, PHD CANDIDATE\n_David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science_\n\nS
 UPERVISOR: Professor Wenhu Chen
DTSTAMP:20260722T172323Z
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260729T150000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/phd-seminar-ai-ml-recent-a
 dvances-in-unified-multimodal-understanding-and-generation
LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Online PhD seminar Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • Rece
 nt\nAdvances in Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS PHD SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE ONLINE.\n\nCONG W
 EI\, PHD CANDIDATE\n_David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science_\n\nSUPE
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/phd-seminar-ai-ml-learning
 -to-evaluate-and-improve-visual-generation-from-human-preferences
LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Online PhD seminar Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning •\nLea
 rning to Evaluate and Improve Visual Generation from Human\nPreferences
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS PHD SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE ONLINE.\n\nCONG W
 EI\, PHD CANDIDATE\n_David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science_\n\nSUPE
 RVISOR: Professor Wenhu Chen
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/phd-seminar-ai-ml-evolving
 -the-knowledge-boundary-in-agentic-visual-generation
LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Online PhD seminar Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning •\nEvo
 lving the Knowledge Boundary in Agentic Visual Generation
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS PHD SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE ONLINE.\n\nCONG W
 EI\, PHD CANDIDATE\n_David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science_\n\nSUPE
 RVISOR: Professor Wenhu Chen
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