Upcoming Seminars

A Data-Driven Framework for Flood Mitigation Using Transformers and Reinforcement Learning

Friday, February 6, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Shaoping Xiao, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Colloquium - A Hessian View of Fine-tuning, Task Attribution, and Reinforcement Learning: Three Vignettes in Modern Machine Learning promotional image

Colloquium - A Hessian View of Fine-tuning, Task Attribution, and Reinforcement Learning: Three Vignettes in Modern Machine Learning

Friday, February 13, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
We welcome Hongyang Zhang, Ph.D., from Northeastern University, whose research lies at the intersection of machine learning, optimization algorithms, and statistical learning.

Past Seminars

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Colloquium - Diderot: A Parallel Domain-Specific Language for Image Analysis and Visualization

Friday, September 10, 2021 4:00pm to 5:00pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker

John Reppy

Abstract

The analysis of structure in three-dimensional images is increasingly valuable for biomedical research and computational science.  At the same time, the computational burden of processing images is increasing as devices produce images of higher resolution (e.g., typical CT scans have gone from 128^3 to roughly 512^3 resolutions).  With the latest scanning technologies, it is also more common for the values measured at each sample to be multi-dimensional rather than...

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GAUSS Seminar: Mathematics and Redistricting

Tuesday, September 7, 2021 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Schaeffer Hall
What we know, what we don't, and where we're going

Every ten years, the Census Bureau conducts the Census, a nation-wide tallying of every single individual living in the United States. In addition to helping governments and researchers manage land, understand population trends, and distribute resources, the Census is essential to a key democratic function: drawing electoral districts. The process of drawing electoral districts, called “redistricting,” divides every state in the United States...

AMCS Seminar

Friday, April 30, 2021 3:30pm to 4:30pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Ariel Aloe, Dept. of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations

Topic: Evidence synthesis and meta-analysis

AMCS Seminar

Friday, April 23, 2021 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Yannick Meurice, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy

Topic: Finding the boundary of quantum advantage for quantum field theory

AMCS Seminar

Friday, April 16, 2021 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Jia Lu, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Topic: What machine learning can tell us about tissue rapture