Weekly Announcements

Presentation this week

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Optimization in Modern Computational Settings: Algorithms and Impossibility Results
Santhoshini Velusamy, Research Assistant Professor
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
10:00 a.m. • DC 1304

Upcoming presentations

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

PhD Seminar • Software Engineering  |  Program Reduction
Toward a Better Understanding of Probabilistic Delta Debugging
Mengxiao (Max) Zhang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 2564  |  Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Chengnian Sun

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Data Systems Seminar Series
Efficient Simple Keyword Private Information Retrieval
Weiran Liu, Staff Security Engineer
Alibaba Group
12:00 p.m. • DC 1302

Friday, January 31, 2025

PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence
The Power of Experimental Approaches to Social Choice
Ben Armstrong, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317  |  Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Kate Larson

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

PhD Defence • Algorithms and Complexity
Reweighted Eigenvalues: A New Approach to Spectral Theory Beyond Undirected Graphs
Kam Chuen Tung, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:30 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Lap Chi Lau

Friday, February 7, 2025

PhD Defence • Computer Graphics
A First-Principles Framework for Simulating Light and Snow Interactions
Petri Varsa, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • DC 3317
Supervisor: Professor Gladimir V.G. Baranoski

Friday, March 14, 2025

PhD Defence • Human-Computer Interaction
Paidian Playful Interaction in Non-game User Interfaces
Matthew Lakier, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • Hybrid: DC 3317  |  Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Daniel Vogel