Upcoming Seminars

CS Colloquium - "Approximation Algorithms: Some ancient, some new - the good, the bad and the ugly" promotional image

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

Using constant step sizes and time-rescaling in the numerical integration of differential equations

Friday, April 14, 2023 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Laurent Jay, Dept. of Mathematics

Streamflow prediction via Gated Recurrent Unit

Friday, April 7, 2023 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Shaoping Xiao, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Connecting family trees to understand the past, present and future of our society

Friday, March 31, 2023 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Caglar Koylu, Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences

Canceled

Applications and Consequences of the Friendship Paradox in Human Social Sensing

Friday, March 31, 2023 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Buddhika Nettasinghe, Dept. of  Business Analytics

Canceled

Inversion and optimization problems in remote sensing: challenges and opportunities

Friday, March 24, 2023 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Jun Wang, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering