Seminars
Upcoming Seminars
CS Colloquium - "Approximation Algorithms: Some ancient, some new - the good, the bad and the ugly"
Friday, September 25, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
Northwestern University's Peter and Adrienne Barris Chair of Computer Science will speak on the use of greedy algorithms for a basic graph problem called connected dominating set, and the development of LP based algorithms for a basic scheduling problem in the context of data center scheduling.
Past Seminars
CS Colloquium - "Learning Sparse Dependence Structure in Complex-Valued Tensor Data"
Friday, September 18, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
Complex-valued tensor data arise in signal processing and neuroscience. Learn more about the method using local field potential recordings, where sparse separable factor analysis (SSFA) captures dependence across brain region, frequency, and time and supports reconstruction of missing signals
CS Colloquium - "Easy, Hard, and Impossible: Phase Transitions in Computation"
Friday, September 11, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor, Dr. Cristopher Moore, shows how to classify key problems in computing, data science, and statistical inference.
Colloquium - "Submodular optimization for epidemic applications"
Friday, September 4, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
UIowa Associate Professor, Bijaya Adhikari, offers strategies for choosing locations for disease surveillance and deciding how to distribute vaccines, especially when given a limited budget.
Rocket Science: 101, A Work in Progress ...
Friday, May 1, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker: Dr. John T. Betts, The Boeing Company
Implicit Runge-Kutta methods for differential-algebraic equations of index 2
Friday, April 24, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker: Laurent Jay (Department of Mathematics)