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Past Events
September 2016
Computer Science Colloquium - Welcome Back!
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A brief welcome back for Computer Science students and faculty. Meet new professors, find out what is in store for the semester, and receive colloquium credit for attending. Snacks will be provided as usual. We hope to see you there!
Find out more »September 2018
“Losing the Nobel Prize: A Cosmic Memoir”
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- Free
Please join Brian Keating of UC, San Diego during his joint physics and astronomy public lecture on Friday, September 14th at 8PM in Wege Auditorium.
A book selling/signing will immediately follow with Williams Bookstore. Book info: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA.
Computer Science Colloquium - Richard Ward '89, Microsoft
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Thursday 9/20 @ 7:30pm, TCL 123. Rich Ward '89, will give a talk titled "Don’t Forget Division I, or Why that Liberal Arts Degree is Valuable in the Tech World." CS majors will receive colloquium credit.
Find out more »Chemistry Class of 1960 Scholars Colloquium: Self-Synthesizing Peptide-based Materials
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Professor Gonen Ashkenasy from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev will be presenting a Chemistry Class of 1960 Scholars Colloquium: "Self-Synthesizing Peptide-based Materials" in TCL 202 at 1:10 p.m.
Find out more »Biology Colloquium: Dr. Tarjinder Singh '12, Harvard Medical School
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Join us for Dr. Singh's talk "The promise of human genetics in uncovering the biological mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders and mental illnesses" at 1:10pm in Wege Auditorium. All are welcome, light refreshments will be available.
Find out more »Computer Science Colloquium - Dan Goldstein, Microsoft
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Friday, 9/21 @ 2:35pm, TCL 123; Dan Goldstein, Microsoft, will give a talk titled, "To Put That in Perspective: Generating Analogies That Make Numbers More Easily Understood by Laypeople."
Find out more »Set, Cap Sets, Arithmetic Progressions, Polynomials by Prof. Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Math/Stats Kick-Off Colloquium
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Set, Cap Sets, Arithmetic Progressions, Polynomials by Prof. Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Math/Stats Kick-Off Colloquium
Supported by the Class of 1960s Scholars Fund and the John and Louise Finnerty Class of 1971 Fund, Wednesday, September 26, 1-1:45 pm, Wege Auditorium
Quantum Computing Today and Tomorrow by Alán Aspuru-Guzik, University of Toronto
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- Free
This talk will survey the field of quantum computing from the perspective of a quantum computer programmer, describing the progress of the field so far, the current challenges, and a potential roadmap for the future of this technology.
Find out more »BIMO Class of 1960 Scholar Colloquium with Dr. Tannishtha Reya '91
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The fall BIMO Class of 1960 Scholar is Dr. Tannishtha Reya '91 from UC - San Diego will be giving her talk titled "The promise of human genetics in uncovering the biological mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders and mental illnesses” at 1:10 today in Wege Auditorium. All are welcome.
Find out more »Computer Science Colloquium - What I Did Last Summer, Part II
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Friday, September 28, 2018
2:35 pm in TCL 123, Wege Auditorium
“What I Did Last Summer,” Part II
Short presentations by your fellow CS students, about summer research at Williams.
October 2018
The Williams Sigma Xi Fall Lectures: Marek Demianski, visiting professor of Astronomy, discusses Gravitational Waves
Marek Demianski, visiting professor of astronomy at Williams College, will present “Gravitational Waves: A New Window on the Universe” for the college’s autumn Sigma Xi lecture.
Find out more »The Williams Sigma Xi Fall Lectures: Marek Demianski, visiting professor of Astronomy, discusses Gravitational Waves
Marek Demianski, visiting professor of astronomy at Williams College, will present “Gravitational Waves: A New Window on the Universe” for the college’s autumn Sigma Xi lecture.
Find out more »Computer Science Colloquium - "Tracking Bitcoins in Criminal Operations"
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Friday, October 26 @ 2:35pm in Wege Auditorium (TCL 123)
Computer Science Colloquium - Danny Huang '11 will give a talk titled "Tracking Bitcoins in Criminal Operations."
November 2018
Computer Science Colloquium - "Designing Tools for More Effective Remote Communication"
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Friday, November 9 @ 2:35pm in TCL 123. Steve Oney, University of Michigan gives a talk titled "Designing Tools for More Effective Remote Communication."
Find out more »February 2019
Computer Science Colloquium – Student Thesis Proposals
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Friday, February 01@ 2:35pm in TCL 123
Computer Science seniors Ari Ball-Burack, Miranda Chaiken, and Nam Nguyen present their thesis proposals. Snacks provided and colloquium credit offered!
Faculty Lecture Series: Chad Topaz
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Professor of Mathematics Chad Topaz will discuss "Patterns, Swarms, and the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics" in the first of six Faculty Lecture Series talks this year. Free and open to the public.
Find out more »Mathematics Faculty Seminar by Prof. Cesar Silva
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On Rank-One Transformations in Finite and Infinite Measure and Examples Related to Chacon's Transformation by Prof. Cesar Silva, Friday February 8, 1-1:45 pm, Thompson Chemistry 206
Find out more »Computer Science Colloquium – Phillipa Gill, UMass Amherst
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Friday, February 08 @ 2:35pm, TCL 123 - Wege
Phillipa Gill, UMass Amherst, will give a talk titled, "Developing a Science of Internet Censorship Resistance: Opportunities and Challenges for Network Measurement."
Faculty Lecture Series - Phoebe Cohen
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Associate Professor of Geosciences Phoebe Cohen presents "The Evolution of Life before Animals: Building Shields, Dodging Snowballs, and Gasping for Breath" as part of the Faculty Lecture Series this year. Free and open to all. Refreshments to follow.
Find out more »Faculty Lecture Series: María Elena Cepeda
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Join us for Professor María Elena Cepeda's presentation of "Latina Feminist Moments of Recognition: A U.S. Colombiana Encounter with Bomba Estéreo's 'Soy Yo'". All are welcome!
Find out more »Mathematics Faculty Seminar by Prof. Julie Blackwood
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From Fisheries to Disease Outbreaks: Managing Ecosystems Under Multiple Administrative Jurisdictions by Prof. Julie Blackwood, Friday, February 22, Mathematics Faculty Seminar, 1 - 1:45 pm, Thompson Chemistry 206
Find out more »Chemistry Colloquium with Lilliana Morris ’14, Cornell University
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"Bimetallic Catalysts and Chain Shuttling Agents: Controlled Access to Isotactic Poly (propylene oxide)" Poly (propylene oxide) (PPO) accounts for 5% of polymer production worldwide with 14 million tons produced in 2011. Although commercially successful for the synthesis of polyurethane foams, the vast majority of PPO manufactured is low molecular weight and atactic. A wide range of polymer properties could potentially…
Find out more »Computer Science Colloquium - Learning Language Through Interaction
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Friday, February 22 @ 2:35pm in Wege (TCL 123)
Hal Daumé III, Microsoft, will give a talk titled, "Learning Language Through Interaction."
Faculty Lecture Series: Guy Hedreen
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Professor Guy Hedreen, Amos Lawrence Professor of Art, will present "The Origin of Species in Empedocles and the Visual Representation of Monsters: A Tale of Two Theories" as part of the annual Faculty Lecture Series. Hedreen teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the art of ancient Greece. His courses are interdisciplinary in orientation, touching on literature, religion, mythology, and society…
Find out more »March 2019
Perfect Test Ideals by Prof. Andrew Bydlon, Friday, March 1, Mathematics Faculty Seminar
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Perfect Test Ideals by Prof. Andrew Bydlon, Friday, March 1, Mathematics Faculty Seminar, Friday, March 1, 1 - 1:45 pm, Thompson Chemistry 206
Find out more »Chemistry Colloquium, Dr. Daniel Suess ’07, MIT
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"Organometallic Chemistry of Iron-Sulfur Clusters" Iron-sulfur enzymes are among Nature’s most ancient metallocofactors. They catalyze myriad processes including electron-transfer, radical rearrangements, and small-molecule redox reactions, and in doing so play prominent roles in energy, environmental, and health sciences. My research group studies both biological and abiological iron-sulfur clusters in order to gain molecular-level insights into how these complex metallocofactors function.…
Find out more »Faculty Lecture Series: Neil Roberts
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Neil Roberts, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, will present "How to Live Free in an Age of Pessimism" as part of the annual Faculty Lecture Series. Roberts's research involves the intersections of Caribbean, Continental, and North American political theory with respect to theorizing the concepts of freedom and agency. He is author of the award-winning book Freedom as Marronage, the collaborative work Journeys…
Find out more »Trace Ideals and the Classification of Commutative Rings by Prof. Haydee Lindo
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Trace Ideals and the Classification of Commutative Rings by Prof. Haydee Lindo, Friday, March 8, 1 - 1:45 pm, Thompson Chemistry 206, Mathematics Faculty Seminar
Find out more »Computer Science Colloquium - Class of 60's, Q + A with James Mickens
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Computer Science Colloquium - Q + A with Class of '60s speaker James Mickens, Harvard.
Friday, 3/08 @ 2:35pm in Wege (TCL 123)
Chemistry Colloquium Dr. Robert Hansen, Indiana University
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"Nitrogen Oxides at the Soil-Air Interface: Mechanisms and Processes Affecting Atmospheric Composition" Heterogeneous chemistry of atmospheric reactive nitrogen species (NOy, which includes HONO and N2O5) at soil surfaces represents a pathway by which reactive nitrogen can be incorporated into soil organic matter. One reaction of potential importance for biospheric nitrogen cycling is that of soil organic matter with N2O5. The…
Find out more »Faculty Lecture Series - Alison Case
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Alison Case, Dennis A. Meenan '54 Third Century Professor of English, will present "Authorizing Nelly: Female Narrative Authority, Wuthering Heights, and Me" as part of the annual Faculty Lecture Series. Case is an expert on Victorian Literature and the Novel. The author of two books and several articles on Nineteenth-century British fiction and poetry, she published her first novel, Nelly Dean: A…
Find out more »Lines and Circles: Factoring and Rotations: Sequences and Miracles by Prof. Thomas Garrity
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Lines and Circles: Factoring and Rotations: Sequences and Miracles by Prof. Thomas Garrity, Friday, March 15, 1 - 1:45 pm, Thompson Chemistry 206, Mathematics Faculty Seminar
Find out more »April 2019
Chemistry Colloquium Professor Kana Takematsu, Bowdoin College
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"The Challenge of Moving Protons" The controlled movement of charges is essential to many redox processes in chemistry, including the harnessing of solar energy. The conversion of solar to chemical energy is key for environmental sustainability and national security. Our group uses a class of compounds called photoacids to investigate the coupling between light energy and movement of protons. Photoacids…
Find out more »Set-valued Young Tableaux in Algebraic and Tropical Geometry by Prof. Nathan Pflueger
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Set-valued Young Tableaux in Algebraic and Tropical Geometry by Prof. Nathan Pflueger, Amherst College, Class of 1960s Speaker, Friday, April 12, Mathematics Faculty Seminar, 1:00 pm, Thompson Chemistry 206
Find out more »Chemistry Charles Compton Lectureship Professor Ashleigh Theberge ’06
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Professor Ashleigh Theberge '06, University of Washington "Studying Cell Signaling in Complex Environments Using Open Microfluidic Models" Small molecule and protein signals provide a rich vocabulary for cellular communication. To better understand signaling processes in both normal and disease states, there is a growing need for cell culture platforms that interface with analytical chemistry tools and recreate key features of…
Find out more »Visibility in N^k by Santiago Estupiñan Salamanca, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
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Visibility in N^k by Santiago Estupinan Salamanca, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, Class of 1960s Speaker, Friday, April 19, Mathematics Faculty Seminar
Find out more »Fixed Subpolytopes of the Permutahedron by Andrés R. Vindas Meléndez, Class of 1960s Speaker
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Fixed Subpolytopes of the Permutahedron by Andrés R. Vindas Meléndez, University of Kentucky, Class of 1960s Speaker, Friday, April 26, 1-1:45 pm, Thompson Chemistry 206
Find out more »Biology Seminar with Byron Weckworth from Panthera
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Bryon Weckworth, Deputy Director, Snow Leopard Program & Conservation Genetics Coordinator will be today's speaker at 1:10pm in Wege. All are welcome.
Find out more »Chemistry Class of 1960 Scholars Colloquium, Professor Jesse Kroll, MIT
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"Tracking Atmospheric Organic Carbon in the Field and in the Lab" Organic species in the Earth’s atmosphere play a central role in many processes important to human health, ecosystem health, and global climate: they can have impacts on human and ecosystem health, they influence atmospheric oxidant levels, and their oxidation products include secondary pollutants such as ozone and secondary organic…
Find out more »May 2019
Class of 1960s Speaker, Veronica Ciocanel, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State Univ.
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The Mathematical Journey of RNA Molecules Along Cellular Roads by Veronica Ciocanel, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, Class of 1960s Speaker, Friday, May 3, 1 - 1:45 pm, Thompson Chemistry 206
Find out more »Biology Student Thesis Presentations
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Biology Student Thesis Presentations!! Starting in Wege at 1:00pm with a short, one-minute presentation about their work to a general audience, followed by a poster session on the second floor of the new South Science Center building.
Find out more »Chemistry Senior Thesis Presentations
An event every week that begins at 1:00pm on Friday, repeating until Fri, May 10th, 2019
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Chemistry Senior Thesis Presentations
Find out more »Navigating the Spectrum of Dynamics in High Dimensional Systems by Prof. Stewart Johnson
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Navigating the Spectrum of Dynamics in High Dimensional Systems by Prof. Stewart Johnson, Mathematics Faculty Seminar, Friday, May 10, 1 - 1:45 pm, Thompson Chemistry 206
Find out more »September 2019
Joint Math/Stat Kick Off Colloquium with Class of 1960s Speaker Prof. Moon Duchin, Tufts University
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Making Models that Matter: Computation, Gerrymandering, and the Search for Fairness, by Class of 1960s Speaker, Prof. Moon Duchin, Tufts University, Joint Math/Stat Kick Off Colloquium, Wednesday, September 11
Find out more »Chemistry Colloquium with Professor Andrew Berke, Smith College
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"Peering inside: Understanding aerosol chemistry through bulk-phase reactions" The reaction between an a-dicabonyl and an amine is a model system for the production of light-absorbing compounds in secondary organic aerosol (SOAs). In the atmosphere, SOA-producing reactions can be perturbed by the myriad airborne chemicals that can enter the particle phase. These compounds can also play a role in mediating (or…
Find out more »Computer Science Colloquium – April Shen ’13
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Friday, September 13 @ 2:35pm in TCL 123 (Wege Auditorium). April Shen '13 will give a talk titled, "Thinking Outside the Box: Non-Geometric Perspectives on Semantic Similarity." Snacks will be served and CS colloquium credit offered.
Find out more »Chemistry Class of 1960 Colloquium with Professor Angel Marti, Rice University
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Light Activated Metal Complexes for Sensing, Studying and Inhibiting Amyloid-Beta Aggregation Protein misfolding and aggregation mark the onset of a variety of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). For AD in particular, different stages in the misfolding and aggregation of Amyloid-beta (Ab) has been related to the development of this disease. Amyloid-beta is a relatively unstructured…
Find out more »October 2019
Chemistry Senior Thesis Presentations
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Chemistry seniors will be presenting their thesis projects. Projects to be discussed on two Fridays in October depending on Mountain Day (10/4, 10/11, 10/18).
Find out more »Chemistry Seminar: Prof. James Keller ’83, Kenyon College
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Mr. Tomkins in Wonderland (A Chemist's Exploration of Cold Physics) Join a physical chemist on a journey tracking the evolution of a dense gas of diatomic molecules to ultracold plasma—an exotic neutral state of matter with liquid and even crystalline properties. Having these kinds of laboratory plasmas help us to better understand the interiors of large planets and white dwarf…
Find out more »Humorous Math Theater for Family Days, Saturday, Oct. 26, 3 - 4 pm, Wege Auditorium, Chemistry
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Humorous Math Theater for Family Days, Saturday, Oct. 26, 3 - 4 pm, Wege Auditorium, Chemistry
Colin Adams and Students
Three pieces, including "Cylindra Ella", "The Great Storm" and "Prime Suspect"
All invited
November 2019
Computer Science Colloquium – “Personalized Behavior-Powered Systems”
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Friday, November 1
2:35pm @ TCL 123 (Wege Auditorium)
Jeff Huang, Brown University will give a talk titled, "Personalized Behavior-Powered Systems." Students can earn CS colloquium credit for attending and snacks will be served.
Find out more »Computer Science Colloquium – Katherine Keith, UMass Amherst
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Computer Science presents Katherine Keith, UMass Amherst will give a talk titled, "Methodological Challenges in Computational Text Analysis." Snacks will be served and CS colloquium credit offered for attendance.
Find out more »Computer Science Class of ’60s Speaker – Kathi Fisler ’91, Brown University
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Kathi Fisler '91, Brown University will give a public talk titled, "Curriculum Design as an Engineering Problem: Lessons from the Field." Reception to follow.
Find out more »Computer Science Class of ’60s Colloquium – Kathi Fisler ’91, Brown University
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Computer Science alum, Kathi Fisler '91, Brown University will give a talk titled, "In Defense of Little Code."
Find out more »December 2019
Computer Science Colloquium – Iris Bahar, Brown University
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Friday, December 06 @ 2:35pm, Computer Science welcomes Iris Bahar, Brown University. She will give a talk titled, "Combined Discriminative-Generative AI Techniques for Robust Scene Perception in Adversarial Environments."
Find out more »January 2020
Computer Science Colloquium – Melanie Subbiah ’17
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Computer Science welcomes back Melanie Subbiah '17 to give a talk titled, "AI Research at OpenAI: Language Models and Unsupervised Learning." Friday, January 10 at 2:35pm in Wege (TCL 123).
Find out more »February 2020
Computer Science Colloquium – Faculty Research
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Friday, February 07 @ 2:35pm in Wege Auditorium (TCL 123). Computer Science Faculty will present their current research and discuss student research opportunities. Receive colloquium credit for attending and enjoy light snacks!
Find out more »Computer Science Colloquium - Thesis Proposals (Part 1)
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Friday, February 21 @2:35pm in TCL 202*
*Please note location change for this week.
Class of 2020 students Phoebe Huang, Yo Akiyama, and Emmie Hine will present their thesis proposals.
Find out more »Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Rabi Musah, SUNY Albany
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Chemistry Colloquium
Find out more »Math/Bio Colloquium and the Public Health Class of 1960s Speaker, Leah Katzelnick, UC Berkeley
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The Shadow of the Virus: Measuring Antibodies to Track Viruses as they Move Across Populations by Leah Katzelnick, UC Berkeley, Math/Bio Colloquium and the Public Health Class of 1960s Speaker, Friday, February 28
Find out more »March 2020
Chemistry Seminar: Professor Jesse Kroll, MIT
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Laboratory Studies of the Atmospheric Oxidation of Reactive Organic Carbon Organic compounds in the Earth’s atmosphere play a central role in health and climate: they can have impacts on human and ecosystem health, they influence atmospheric oxidant levels, and their oxidation products include secondary pollutants such as ozone and secondary organic aerosol. However our ability to predict these effects is…
Find out more »Computer Science Colloquium – Nate Derbinsky, Northeastern
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Nate Derbinsky will give a talk titled, "Adventures in Hybrid Architectures for Intelligent Systems." CS colloquium credit offered for attendance.
Find out more »November 2021
Computer Science Class of ’60s Speaker – Jon Kleinberg, Cornell
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Class of '60s Speaker Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University, will give a talk titled, "Designing Algorithms for High-Stakes Decisions." CS colloquium credit for students attending in person (TCL 123), Zoom webinar free and open to the public.
Find out more »February 2023
Primes I have enjoy'd
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Faculty Lecture Series talk by Leo Goldmakher, Associate Professor of Mathematics. Free and open to the campus community and the public!
Find out more »March 2023
Julie Cassiday on Russian Style, or What Twerking Air Cadets and ‘Gay’ Propaganda Tell Us About Putin’s War in Ukraine
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- Libraries
Faculty Lecture Series talk by Julie Cassiday, Willcox B. and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of Russian. Free and open to the campus community and the public!
Find out more »Panics without Borders: How Global Sporting Events Drive Myths about Sex Trafficking
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Faculty Lecture Series talk by Greg Mitchell, Chair and Associate Professor of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies. Free and open to both the campus community and the public!
Find out more »Brahim El Guabli presents Saharanism: Genealogies and Manifestations of a Desert-Focused Imaginary
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Faculty Lecture Series talk by Brahim El Guabli, Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies and Comparative Literature. Free and open to the campus community and the public!
Find out more »April 2023
Charlie Doret: Learning Something from Measuring Nothing: Probing the Deepest Puzzles of the Universe, One Atom at a Time
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Faculty Lecture Series talk by Charlie Doret, Associate Professor of Physics. Free and open to the campus community and the public!
Find out more »American Yiddishkayt: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful
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Faculty Lecture Series talk by Jeff Israel, Associate Professor of religion and Jewish studies. Free and open to the campus community and the public!
Find out more »September 2023
The Zarankiewicz Problem By Professor Larry Guth, MIT, The Class of 1960 Scholars Program
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The Zarankiewicz Problem By Professor Larry Guth, MIT, The Class of 1960 Scholars Program, Monday September 11, 1:00 – 1:50PM, Wege Auditorium, Thompson Chemistry Labs 123
Find out more »April 2018
Computer Science Colloquium - Jeff Epstein
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An Introduction to Distributed Hash Tables The familiar hash table is a staple data structure, but how can we scale it up? Can we provide a useful, fast key:value store with arbitrarily large capacity and that can withstand even hardware failure? The answer is yes. Let's find out how." Jeff Epstein is a Visiting Instructor at Wesleyan University. He's previously…
Find out more »April 2017
Computer Science Colloquium - Joel Sommers, Colgate University
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Joel Sommers, Colgate, will give a talk titled, "Internet Research Needs Better Simulation Tools."
Find out more »February 2017
Computer Science Colloquium - Jelani Nelson, Harvard
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Jelani Nelson of Harvard will give a talk titled, "Heavy Hitters via Cluster-Preserving Clustering."
Find out more »December 2016
Computer Science Colloquium - Martin Farach-Colton, Rutgers
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"Ubiquitous Write Optimization" The B-tree was introduced some 45 years ago as a dictionary data structure for data that is too big to fit in memory. As an out-of-core replacement for a binary search tree, the B-tree has played a central role in indexed storage systems, such as databases and file systems. B-trees have optimal I/O performance on searches but…
Find out more »May 2018
Computer Science Colloquium - Martin Farach-Colton
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Friday, May 4th @ 2:35pm; Wege Auditorium "WhatÕs PageRank and How do I Spam it?" PageRank is an example of a graph ranking function. Some functions can be link spammed, which means that the rank of a node can be boosted by the manipulation of the link structure of the edges in the graph. In this talk, we will examine…
Find out more »April 2018
Computer Science Colloquium - Chris Umans '96
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Friday, April 27 @ 2:35pm, Wege Auditorium "New Algorithms for Matrix Multiplication " It is widely believed that there is an algorithm for multiplying n-by-n matrices that runs in time roughly n^2. However, the best algorithms we know for this problem run in time n^{2.373}, and there is reason to believe that the prevailing approach cannot do much better. In…
Find out more »March 2018
Computer Science Colloquium - Cuong Pham, Microsoft
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Fast and Accurate Indoor Localization based on Spatially Hierarchical Classification Location fingerprinting is a common approach to indoor localization. For good accuracy, the training set of sample fingerprints should be sufficiently large to be well-representative of the environment in terms of both spatial coverage and temporal coverage. As such, the computation required during the positioning phase can be expensive because…
Find out more »November 2017
Computer Science Colloquium - Introductory Courses Panel Discussion
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Join CS faculty for a panel discussion and Q&A session to learn about introductory courses and milestones for achieving a CS major.
Find out more »Computer Science Colloquium - Gavin Andresen
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On Cryptocurrencies and Distributed Ledger Tech Billions of dollars have poured in to Bitcoin, Ethereum, "initial coin offerings" and other "blockchain-based" ideas. I will describe what they are, and will explain why I think most of them are ill-conceived and over-hyped. I will also give a very brief overview of some academic work being done on distributed ledger technologies, and…
Find out more »October 2017
Computer Science Colloquium -Elissa Shevinsky '01
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ÒCryptography and Bug Bounties: Building a Secure ApplicationÓ Elissa Shevinsky Ô01 is a successful serial entrepreneur, and the editor of ÒLean Out: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Startup Culture.Ó Shevinsky is best known for her work launching security startups, notably Glimpse and Brave. She was on the early teams at Geekcorps (acquired) and Everyday Health (IPO.) Shevinsky…
Find out more »Computer Science Colloquium - Stephen Van Wert
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Treating the Brain with Electronics and Code: A Computational Neuroscience Perspective The use of electrical stimulation to treat the brain has become more prevalent in recent decades, with FDA-approved devices like deep brain stimulators being used to treat a range of disorders such as Parkinson's disease. These devices have proven their effectiveness, but there are still many improvements that can…
Find out more »September 2017
Computer Science Colloquium - Google Visits Williams!
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Dan Evangelakos '15 and Hilary Hutchinson '97 will give talks about their current work at Google.
Find out more »Computer Science Colloquium - "What I Did Last Summer"
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Short presentations by your fellow CS students on summer research, jobs, and internships, including places like Facebook and Google.
Find out more »May 2017
Computer Science Senior Thesis Defenses
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Computer Science Thesis Students Jamie Lesser, Melanie Subbiah and Alexander Majercik will present their theses.
Find out more »November 2016
Computer Science Colloquium - Stephanie Taylor, Colby College
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"Computational Models are Critical to Understanding Circadian Clock Networks" Circadian rhythms, such as sleeping at night and waking in the morning, are critical to the health of mammals, including humans. To correct circadian malfunction and to help people more quickly recover from jetlag, we want to understand rhythm generation and control. To better understand how human rhythms are controlled, we…
Find out more »April 2018
Computer Science Class of '60s Speaker - Chris Umans '96
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Thursday, April 26 @ 8:00pm; Wege Auditorium (TCL 123) "Algorithmic Magic: Behind the Scenes of Modern Computer Science" Algorithmic advances have been responsible for some of the most remarkable applications of computation today, from search engines to machine learning to error-correcting codes, cryptography and scientific computing. Yet, even now, some of the most basic algorithmic questions remain unanswered, and among…
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Computer Science Colloquium - Rodica Neamtu
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Interactive Exploration of Time Series Powered by Time Warped Distances Modern applications in this digital age collect a staggering amount of data from diverse domains ranging from astronomy, finance, and e-commerce to genome sequencing, a significant percentage of which is in the form of time series. To make sense of it, analysts interactively sift through these collections in search of…
Find out more »Computer Science Colloquium - Student Thesis Presentations
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Join CS seniors as they present their thesis proposals. Matheus Cruz Correia de Carvalho Souza, James Marcus Hughes, Joseph Oh, and Michael Zuo will speak.
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Computer Science Colloquium - Faculty Research
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Friday, February 2nd @ 2:35pm in Wege Auditorium, TCL 123; Computer Science faculty members will give short presentations on their research and students can learn about opportunities to become research assistants through the Summer Science Research program.
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Computer Science Colloquium - What I Did Last Summer, Part 2
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Students will give short presentations about their summer work, research, or internships. Presenters: Victoria Jasuta Matheus Cruz Correia de Carvalho Souza Miranda Chaiken Benjamin Solis-Cohen Zander Majercik Ben Drews Julia Goldman
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Computer Science Colloquium - Rodric Rabbah
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Friday, 4/6 @ 2:35pm; Wege Auditorium, TCL 123 Serverless Computing with Functions Apache OpenWhisk is an open-source, state-of-the-art, serverless computing platform. It was developed by my group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. It now powers IBM Cloud Functions and the Adobe I/O Runtime. It is also integrated with Red Hat's OpenShift and deployed on-prem in several organizations worldwide.…
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Computer Science Colloquium - Ward Prize Presentations
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Friday, 2/23; Wege (TCL 123) @ 4:00pm. Colloquium will feature a presentation by students nominated for the 2018 Rich Ward Prize for Best Student Project in Computer Science. "Paraphrase: a concurrent, robust, language-agnostic macro processor in Rust." - Jason Hansel "Going Postal: a framework for email-based social networks." - Gary Chen, Jason Hansel "RASAN Call Routing" - Carl Rustad, Kevin…
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Computer Science Colloquium - "What I Did Last Summer"
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Short presentations by your fellow CS students, on summer research at Williams, plus experiences at Twitter, Valt, Dropbox and more.
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Computer Science Colloquium - Ward Prize Presentations
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A presentation by students nominated for the 2017 Rich Ward Prize for Best Student Project in Computer Science.
Find out more »Computer Science Colloquium - Class of '60s speaker, Hany Farid
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"Photo Forensics" From the tabloid magazines to main-stream media outlets, political campaigns, courtrooms, and the photo hoaxes that land in our email, doctored photographs are appearing with a growing frequency and sophistication. The resulting lack of trust is impacting law enforcement, national security, the media, e-commerce, and more. The field of photo forensics has emerged to help return some trust…
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Computer Science Colloquium
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Sam Blackshear '10, of Facebook, will give a talk titled, "Moving Fast With Static Program Analysis."
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Joint Colloquium: Physics and Computer Science
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Friday @ 2:30pm in TPL 205 Join the Departments of Physics and Computer Science in welcoming Larry Ruzzo, University of Washington. Larry will give a talk titled "Bias in RNA Sequencing and What to do About it."
Find out more »Computer Science Colloquium - feat. Kevin Webb, Swarthmore College
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Kevin Webb of Swarthmore College will give a talk titled, "Outsourcing Complexity to the Cloud."
Find out more »October 2016
Computer Science Colloquium - Sara Mathieson, "Deep Learning for Population Genetic Inference"
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In population genetics, the factors that shape variation often leave signatures that are difficult to disentangle. This makes joint inference both necessary and challenging, especially in the case of demographic history (population size changes) and natural selection. This talk will focus on a novel deep learning algorithm, evoNet, that can jointly estimate population genetic parameters. Deep learning automatically teases out…
Find out more »Computer Science Colloquium - "Walk This Way: Natural Language Interaction for City Exploration"
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Johan Boye will discuss some methods for robust spoken natural-language interaction between humans and machines in a rapidly changing spatial context. The scenario is that of a spoken dialogue system helping pedestrians in a city; people carrying a mobile phone with a GPS receiver, and who are in need of information about directions or services in the immediate vicinity. In…
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