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
Optimization & approximation: the mathematical challenges of machine learning
Friday, February 18, 2022 3:30am to 4:20am
MacLean Hall
Speaker: David Stewart, Department of Mathematics
Evidence Synthesis
Friday, February 11, 2022 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker: Ariel Aloe, Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
Introduction to Scientific Machine Learning
Friday, February 4, 2022 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker: Xueyu Zhu, Department of Mathematics.
Intelligent traffic light via policy-based reinforcement learning
Friday, January 28, 2022 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker: Shaoping Xiao, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Flattening the error curve of predictors for implicit methods in IVPs
Friday, January 21, 2022 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker: Laurent Jay, Department of Mathematics