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

Dynamical Models of Collective Behavior

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

Speaker: Buddhika Nettasinghe, Dept. of Business Analytics

Multi-view Representation Learning and Disentanglement of Information

Friday, February 27, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Weiran Wang, Department of Computer Science

Welcome to be a mathematician,  from my life and researches

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

Speaker: Lihe Wang, Department of Mathematics

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.

Numerics in the Life Sciences

Friday, February 13, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Bruce Ayati, Department of Mathematics