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

Advice for a Career in Academia

Friday, April 12, 2024 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Joe Eichholz, United States Air Force Academy

Mechanics of Collagenous soft tissue and meso-structural models

Friday, April 5, 2024 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Jia Lu, Dept of Mechanical Engineering

Statistical Modeling and Inference for Social Networks

Friday, March 29, 2024 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Buddhika Nettasinghe, Dept. of Business Analytics

The Power of Mathematical Symmetry in Theoretical Physics

Friday, March 22, 2024 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Vincent Rodgers, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy

Stochastic differential equations

Friday, March 8, 2024 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall

Speaker: Palle Jorgensen, Dept. of Mathematics