CSAIL Event Calendar

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	31	1 How does one bit-flip corrupt an entire deep neural network, and what to do about it (4:00 PM)	2 EECS Special Seminar: Rachit Nigam - Modular Abstractions for Hardware Design (11:00 AM) Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series 2023 - 2024: Quest | CBMM Seminar Series: The Debate Over “Understanding” in AI’s Large Language Models (4:00 PM) Hot Topics in Computing: Beyond information retrieval: what does Search mean these days? (5:00 PM) On Feature Design, Overcoming Data Scarcity, and Multimodal Feature Learning—A Music Informatics Journey (5:00 PM)	3 Efficient Consensus and Synchronization for Distributed Systems (10:00 AM) EECS Special Seminar: Hao Liu, "Towards a Machine Capable of Learning Everything" (11:00 AM) Automatic Parallelization of Software Network Functions (12:00 PM) Neuro-Symbolic Learning For Bilevel Robot Planning (Thesis Defense) (3:00 PM) Compositional Approaches to Modelling Language and Concepts (4:00 PM) Viaduct: A New Alternative to Monoliths (4:00 PM) Dongsu Han: Rethinking Internet Video Delivery in the Era of AI (4:00 PM)	4 Why Music Technology is a Two-Way Street, and How Engineering Can Benefit From It (9:30 AM) EECS Special Seminar: Paul Krogmeier - Learning Symbolic Concepts and Domain-specific Languages (11:00 AM) CSAIL Security Seminar Series 2023 - 2024: End-to-End Encrypted Group Chats with MLS: Design, Implementation and Verification (12:00 PM) THESIS DEFENSE: Scalable Methodologies for Optimizing Over Probability Distributions (12:00 PM) EI Seminar - Octavia Camps - Frugal, Interpretable, Dynamics-Inspired Architectures for Sequence Analysis (4:00 PM) ML Tea: Interpolating Item and User Fairness in Multi-Sided Recommendations (4:00 PM)	5 Thesis Defense | Learning Low-level Priors from Images for Inference and Synthesis (10:00 AM) CIS Seminar Series 2023 - 2024: Valerio Cini:: Lattice-Based SNARKs: Publicly Verifiable, Preprocessing, and Recursively Composable (10:30 AM)	6
	7	8	9 EECS Special Seminar: Geoff Ramseyer: Scaling the Unscalable: Solving Worst-Case Contention with Better Economic Mechanisms (11:00 AM) Graph Mining and Data Efficiency@Scale: From scalability to ML applications (2:00 PM) HCI Seminar Series 2024: Christina Harrington - Considering Design’s Role in Health Equity and Access Among Marginalized Populations (4:00 PM)	10 Flexible Privacy via Disguising and Revealing (10:00 AM)	11 CSAIL Security Seminar Series 2023 - 2024: Recent Results on Threshold Signatures: Supporting Weights and Adaptive Security (12:00 PM) Algorithms and Complexity Seminar 2024: ML Efficiency for Large Models: Faster Transformers, Sparsity, and beyond (2:00 PM) Don’t Panic! Empowering AI Research At Scale Beyond Big Names and Big Budgets (2:45 PM) ML Tea: Removing Biases from Molecular Representations via Information Maximization (4:00 PM) EI Seminar - Aude Oliva - Spatio-Temporal Maps of the Human Brain (4:00 PM) Thesis Defense: Neural MMO: Massively Multiagent Simulation and Learning (4:30 PM)	12 Thesis Defense | TEXterity: Tactile Extrinsic deXterity (4:30 PM)	13
	14	15	16 HCI Seminar Series 2024: Joshua Miele - Blindness and Displays – a quick survey of non-visual methods for presenting spatial information (4:00 PM) Theory of Computation (ToC) Seminar 2024: Succinct arguments for QMA from compiled nonlocal games (4:15 PM)	17 Algorithms and Complexity Seminar 2024: An Exponential Lower Bound for Linear 3-Query Locally Correctable Codes (4:00 PM)	18 THESIS DEFENSE: Advancing Equity & Reliability in Machine Learning (2:00 PM) Algorithms and Complexity Seminar 2024: Optimal Sample Complexity of Contrastive Learning (4:00 PM) ML Tea: Improving data efficiency and accessibility for general robotic manipulation (4:00 PM) EI Seminar - Lawson Wong - High-level guidance for generalizable reinforcement learning (4:00 PM)	19 ParlayANN: Scalable and Deterministic Parallel Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Algorithms (3:00 PM)	20
	21	22 THESIS DEFENSE: Graphs of Convex Sets with Applications to Optimal Control and Motion Planning (2:00 PM)	23 Thesis Defense: Learning the language of biomolecular interactions (10:30 AM) Thesis defense - Automated interpretation of machine learning models (11:00 AM) Visual Computing Seminar | Tim Brooks - Sora: Video Generation Models as World Simulators (12:00 PM) HCI Seminar Series 2024: Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao - Designing Hybrid Skins (4:00 PM) Theory of Computation (ToC) Seminar 2024: On some Recent Dynamic Graph Algorithms (4:15 PM)	24 Unblocking CPU Performance Bottlenecks for Data Center Workloads (11:00 AM) Algorithms and Complexity Seminar 2024: Lipschitz Continuous Graph Algorithms via Proximal Gradient Analysis (4:00 PM)	25 Thesis Defense: Symbolic-numeric programming in scientific computing (10:00 AM) THESIS DEFENSE: Using Principles from Cognitive Science to Train and Analyze Language-Related Neural Networks (11:00 AM) CSAIL Security Seminar Series 2023 - 2024: Constrained Pseudorandom Functions from Weaker Assumptions (12:00 PM) Training Human-AI Teams (1:00 PM) Cluster Analysis in High Dimensions: Robustness, Privacy, and Beyond (2:30 PM) Algorithms and Complexity Seminar 2024: Theory and Practice of Fair Food Allocation (4:00 PM) ML Tea: ML-Tea: Ablation Based Counterfactuals (4:00 PM)	26 Designing human-centric systems for learning physical skills (10:00 AM) Thesis Defense: Advancing Dexterous Manipulation via Machine Learning (1:00 PM)	27
	28	29 ML-enabled Genetic Analysis of High-Content Phenotypes (1:00 PM)	30 CANCELLED: THESIS DEFENSE: Machine Learning Approaches for Healthcare Discovery, Delivery, and Equity (10:00 AM) Privacy-Preserving ML with Fully Homomorphic Encryption (2:00 PM)	1 Theory of Computation (ToC) Seminar 2024: Efficient Algorithms for Vector Similarities (11:00 AM) SQL and Large Language Models: A Marriage Made in Heaven? (1:00 PM) Practical Considerations For the Deployment of Clinical NLP Systems (1:30 PM) Thesis Defense: Visual Representation Learning from Synthetic Data (3:00 PM) Algorithms and Complexity Seminar 2024: Shaving Logs via Large Sieve Inequality: Faster Algorithms for Sparse Convolution and More (4:00 PM)	2 [Thesis defense] Reliable and trustworthy AI for evidence-based clinical decision support in cancer care. (10:00 AM) From Systemic to Regional: Personal Health and Medical Monitoring Systems that Adapt to Individual Variance (10:00 AM) Thesis Defense: Learning to Model Atoms Across Scales (1:30 PM) CANCELLED: Designing for Participation and Power in Data Collection and Analysis (2:00 PM) Efficient Learning Control via Structural Policy Priors, Hierarchical Abstraction, and Latent World Models (2:30 PM) ML Tea: Decomposing Predictions by Modeling Model Computation (4:00 PM) EI Seminar - Hyung Won Chung (OpenAI) - Don’t teach. Incentivize: Scale-first view of Large Language Models (4:00 PM)	3 CIS Seminar Series 2023 - 2024: Aparna Gupte: How to Construct Quantum FHE, Generically (10:30 AM) Thesis Defense: Effective and Flexible Acceleration of Sparse Computations (2:00 PM)	4