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

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

AMCS Seminar

Friday, April 9, 2021 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Vincent Rodgers

Topic: Gauged Projective Geometry in Gravitation

AMCS Seminar

Friday, April 2, 2021 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Shaoping Xiao, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Topic: Motion Planning in Robotics by Using Reinforcement Learning with LTL Constraints

Abstract: High-level robotics motion planning requires the robot to accomplish complex tasks instead of simple go-to-goal navigations. This seminar presents a research topic of motion planning in robotics via the integration of reinforcement learning (RL) and linear temporal logics (LTL). The framework consists of a Markov decision process (MDP)...

AMCS Seminar

Friday, March 26, 2021 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Virtual

Speaker: David Stewart

Topic: TBA

AMCS Seminar

Friday, March 19, 2021 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Virtual

Speaker: Weimin Han

Topic: Boundary Value Problems of Partial Differential Equations: Weak Formulation and Numerical Solution