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, March 12, 2021 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Virtual

Speaker: Tong Wang, Dept. of Business Analytics

Topic: Hybrid Predictive Model: When an Interpretable Model Collaborates with a Black-box Model

AMCS Seminar

Friday, March 5, 2021 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Virtual

Speaker: Nicholas Yannelis, Dept. of Economics

Topic: Contracts under Asymmetric Information

AMCS Seminar

Friday, February 26, 2021 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Mathews Jacob, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Topic: Learning algorithms for next-generation computational MRI

AMCS Seminar

Friday, February 19, 2021 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Topic: Multi-scale methods in quantum field theory

Speaker: Wayne Polyzou, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy

AMCS Seminar

Friday, February 12, 2021 3:30pm to 4:30pm
MacLean Hall

Topic: Harmonic analysis, fractals, and applications

Speaker: Palle Jorgensen