Colloquia@CS

Title: Computational Methods in Theoretical Astrophysics
April 5, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - April 5, 2024, 3:30 p.m.
Squeezing the most out of your physics engine
March 15, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - March 15, 2024, 3:30 p.m.
Distinguished Alumni Series - Jade Raymond
March 1, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - March 1, 2024, 3:30 p.m.
Double Danish Dynamism: Foundation Models and Biological Shape
Feb. 16, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 16, 2024, 4 p.m.
The evolution of robotics and our work at McGill
Feb. 2, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 2, 2024, 3:30 p.m.
A culture of open and reproducible research, in the era of large AI generative models
Jan. 19, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 19, 2024, 3:30 p.m.
A gentle introduction to privacy research and some results on fitness trackers
Nov. 24, 2023, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 24, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
Towards hardware-agnostic application development in an era of heterogeneous SoCs
Nov. 24, 2023, 10 a.m. - Nov. 24, 2023, 10:45 a.m.
Sustainable Software Artifacts
Oct. 27, 2023, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 27, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
When is the right time to start a start-up. One person’s journey.
Oct. 13, 2023, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 13, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
Software Innovation through Collaboration and Diversity
Sept. 29, 2023, 1:30 p.m. - Sept. 29, 2023, 2:30 p.m.
SOCS Prof Lightning Research Talks (Round 2)
Sept. 15, 2023, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 15, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
SOCS Prof Lightning Research Talks (Round 1)
Sept. 8, 2023, 2:35 p.m. - Sept. 8, 2023, 3:25 p.m.
Caveats and rewards of introducing digital solutions for biomedical Core Facilities
March 24, 2023, 2:30 p.m. - March 22, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
Data Science of the Cloud
Feb. 10, 2023, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 10, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
Theory-driven Federated Learning Algorithms for Heterogeneous Data
Nov. 11, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 11, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
GFlowOut: Dropout with Generative Flow Networks
Nov. 4, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 4, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Academic Writing Panel Discussion
Oct. 28, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 28, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Opening Colloquium of the 2022-2023 academic year (Sep 30)
Sept. 30, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 30, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Opening Colloquium of the 2022-2023 academic year (Sep 16)
Sept. 16, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 16, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Compiler Validation via Equivalence Modulo Inputs
April 29, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - April 29, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Research in the Borlderlands: Citizen Science and Videogames FTW
April 22, 2022, 10 a.m. - April 22, 2022, 11 a.m.
Pacer: Comprehensive Network Side-Channel Mitigation in the Cloud
April 8, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - April 8, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Reliable Contact Simulation with IPC
March 25, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - March 25, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Taming Variability in Software Engineering: Past, Present & Future
Feb. 25, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 25, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Learning-based Algorithms in DBMS: Hype or Future?
Feb. 11, 2022, 4 p.m. - Feb. 11, 2022, 5 p.m.
Synthesis-powered Data Visualization
Jan. 14, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 14, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
A Logical Perspective on Program Synthesis and Neuro-Symbolic AI
Nov. 26, 2021, 10 a.m. - Nov. 26, 2021, 11 a.m.
Enforcing Robust Control Guarantees within Neural Network Policies
Nov. 19, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 19, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
On The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SAT Solvers
Nov. 5, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 5, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Reconfiguring Data Stream Processing Applications on Edge Computing
Nov. 4, 2021, 4:30 p.m. - Nov. 4, 2021, 5:30 p.m.
Emerging Opportunities and Challenges of Non-Volatile Memory – From Storage to AI-Oriented Computing
Oct. 8, 2021, 10 a.m. - Oct. 8, 2021, 11 a.m.
In-Network Support for microsecond-scale Remote Procedure Calls
Sept. 24, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 24, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Secure Learning in Adversarial Environments
Sept. 10, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 10, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Secure multi-party computation in MiniQCrypt
April 9, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - April 9, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
A Mathematical View of Language
March 26, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - March 26, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
The History of CGI in Film: The Good, the Bad, and the Racist
March 12, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - March 12, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Really Big Data: The Challenges of Managing Zettabyte-Scale Data in Real Time
Feb. 19, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 19, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
User-centered Programming Language Design for Obsidian, a Safer Blockchain Programming Language
Jan. 22, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 22, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Understanding the Nanoscopic Structural Framework of Brain Astrocytes
Dec. 4, 2020, 2:30 p.m. - Dec. 4, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Imaging Brain Disorders
Oct. 18, 2019, 1:30 p.m. - Oct. 18, 2019, 2:30 p.m.
The Need for Context in Software Engineering
Feb. 15, 2019, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 15, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Latent topic models to interpret patients' healthcare and genomic data
Jan. 25, 2019, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 25, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Distributional Reinforcement Learning
Jan. 18, 2019, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 18, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Opal: A patient portal and an opportunity for teaching and research
Jan. 11, 2019, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 11, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Quantum cryptography with untrusted devices
Dec. 14, 2018, 1:30 p.m. - Dec. 14, 2018, 2:30 p.m.
Formal Verification of Differential Privacy
Dec. 7, 2018, 2:30 p.m. - Dec. 7, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Preference Modelling in Multiagent Systems
Nov. 30, 2018, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 30, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Medical image segmentation: going beyond standard CNNs
Nov. 23, 2018, 2:30 a.m. - Nov. 23, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Research Skills Seminar
Nov. 16, 2018, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 16, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Deep learning for graphs and sets.
Nov. 9, 2018, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 9, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Challenges and advances in quantum annealing at D-Wave
Nov. 2, 2018, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 2, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Ethics First, Data First, or Business First?
Oct. 26, 2018, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 26, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Best-By-Simulations
Oct. 19, 2018, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 19, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
The Evolution of Requirements Practices in Software Startups: Is 'good' RE essential to a startup's
Oct. 5, 2018, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 5, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Deciphering regulatory landscapes using interpretable deep learning models
Sept. 28, 2018, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 28, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Opening Colloquium of the 2018-2019 academic year (Sep 21)
Sept. 21, 2018, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 21, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Opening Colloquium of the 2018-2019 academic year (Sep 14)
Sept. 14, 2018, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 14, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Quantitative radiological imaging: an overview of current methods and challenges
May 4, 2018, 2:30 p.m. - May 4, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Studying momentum dynamics for faster training, better scaling, and easier tuning
April 27, 2018, 2:30 p.m. - April 27, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Symmetric Sums of Squares Over k-Subset Hypercubes
April 13, 2018, 2:30 p.m. - April 13, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Debugging Models
March 23, 2018, 2:30 p.m. - March 23, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Who models the modelers? Empirically investigating consequences of computational systems
Feb. 23, 2018, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 23, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Finding the rank median of three matrices
Feb. 2, 2018, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 2, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Deep Exploration via Randomized Value Functions
Jan. 26, 2018, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 26, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Using Deep Learning to Digitize Humans from Webcams
Dec. 8, 2017, 2:30 p.m. - Dec. 8, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Robots in the Real World: Accounting for Resource Constraints To Achieve Tasks
Dec. 1, 2017, 2:30 p.m. - Dec. 1, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Designing for Physics and Play in Computational Fabrication
Oct. 27, 2017, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 27, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Citizen Science in EVE Online - An unlikely marriage
Sept. 29, 2017, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 29, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Opening colloquium of the 2017 - 2018
Sept. 15, 2017, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 15, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
The CloudMdsQL Multistore System
May 4, 2017, 2:30 p.m. - May 4, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Timothy J. O'Donnell: Computation, Storage, and Generalization in Language
April 28, 2017, 2:30 p.m. - April 28, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Modern Image Synthesis: Much more than just pretty pictures
March 31, 2017, 2:30 p.m. - March 31, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Sublinear-Time Algorithms
March 17, 2017, 2:30 p.m. - March 17, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Amin Coja-Oghlan: The cavity method
Feb. 24, 2017, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 24, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Data Mining for Privacy Protection, Authorship Analysis, and Reverse Engineering
Jan. 27, 2017, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 27, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Moral Artificial Intelligence and the Societal Tradeoffs Problem
Dec. 15, 2016, 2 p.m. - Dec. 15, 2016, 3 p.m.
McGill Computer Science Research Area Overviews
Nov. 11, 2016, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 11, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
Self-Admitted Technical Debt: Recent Results and Upcoming Challenges
Nov. 4, 2016, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 4, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
The Evolving Internet
June 5, 2016, 4 p.m. - June 5, 2016, 5 p.m.
NRC'S Interactive Simulation Platform
Jan. 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 29, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
On folding pathways, recycling, and reversible programming
Jan. 18, 2016, 4 p.m. - Jan. 18, 2016, 5 p.m.
How to Go Really Big in AI: Strategies & Principles for Distributed Machine Learning
Dec. 10, 2015, 2:30 p.m. - Dec. 10, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
Expert information processing as strategic information encryption
Dec. 4, 2015, 2:30 p.m. - Dec. 4, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
Central-limit approach to risk-aware Markov decision processes
Nov. 27, 2015, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 27, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
Entity-Centric Data Management
Nov. 6, 2015, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 5, 2015, 4 p.m.
Information Foraging Theory in Software Navigation
Oct. 30, 2015, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 30, 2015, 4 p.m.
Joint Optimal Design and Operation of Hybrid Energy Storage Systems
Oct. 2, 2015, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 2, 2015, 4 p.m.
Opening colloquium of the 2015 - 2016
Sept. 25, 2015, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 25, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
Learning Models for Monitoring and Prognosis from Electronic Health Data
May 15, 2015, 2:30 p.m. - May 15, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
Geometric Paradigms for MRI Analysis with Applications to Cardioimaging and Neuroimaging
April 24, 2015, 2:30 p.m. - April 24, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
The Role of Models in Engineering of Cyber-Physical Systems: Challenges and Possibilities
March 6, 2015, 2:30 p.m. - March 6, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
Scaling Deep Learning
Dec. 10, 2014, 2 p.m. - Dec. 10, 2014, 3 p.m.
Dimension Independent Similarity Computation using MapReduce (DIMSUM)
Dec. 10, 2014, 10:30 a.m. - Dec. 10, 2014, noon
Two Solitudes
April 11, 2014, 1 p.m. - April 11, 2014, 2 p.m.
Bipolar Robotics: From the Arctic to the Antarctic with a stop at a few places in between
April 4, 2014, 1 p.m. - April 4, 2014, 2 p.m.
Kinectricks: Space-time Capture of Dynamic Objects using Hybrid Cameras
March 28, 2014, 1 p.m. - March 28, 2014, 2 p.m.
Sequential Transfer in Multi-armed Bandit with Finite Set of Models
March 21, 2014, 1 p.m. - March 21, 2014, 2 p.m.
Use of 3D Ultrasound Imaging in image-guided interventions
March 14, 2014, 1 p.m. - March 14, 2014, 2 p.m.
Optimizing data placement for distributed computation
Feb. 28, 2014, 1 p.m. - Feb. 28, 2014, 2 p.m.
A secure distance-bounding protocol preserving the anonymity of the participants
Nov. 22, 2013, 1 p.m. - Nov. 22, 2013, 2 p.m.
Understanding Our Environment through Computational Landscape Ecology
Nov. 15, 2013, 1 p.m. - Nov. 15, 2013, 2 p.m.
The Billion Dollar Question in Online Videos: How Video Performance Impacts Viewer Behavior?
Nov. 8, 2013, 1 p.m. - Nov. 8, 2013, 2 p.m.
Architectural Decay in Software Systems: Symptoms, Causes, and Remedies
Nov. 1, 2013, 1 p.m. - Nov. 1, 2013, 2 p.m.
Algorithmic Challenges for Greening Data Centers
Oct. 25, 2013, 1 p.m. - Oct. 25, 2013, 2 p.m.
Assuring the Safety of On-Demand Medical Cyber-Physical Systems
Oct. 4, 2013, 1 p.m. - Oct. 4, 2013, 2 p.m.
Smart tools for photos and 3D models manipulation
Sept. 27, 2013, 1 p.m. - Sept. 27, 2013, 2 p.m.
Research Overviews
Sept. 13, 2013, 1 p.m. - Sept. 13, 2013, 2 p.m.
SMURFLite: combining simplified Markov random fields with simulated evolution improves remote homolo
April 17, 2013, 1 p.m. - April 17, 2013, 2 p.m.
Feature-Based Controllers for Physics-Based Character Animation
April 12, 2013, 1 p.m. - April 12, 2013, 2 p.m.
Computational modeling of human learning and cognitive development
April 5, 2013, 1 p.m. - April 5, 2013, 2 p.m.
Perceptual Grouping using Superpixels
March 22, 2013, 1 p.m. - March 22, 2013, 2 p.m.
Computation of Least Fixed Points
March 15, 2013, 1 p.m. - March 15, 2013, 2 p.m.
Proof engineering, from the Four Color to the Odd Order Theorem
March 1, 2013, 1 p.m. - March 1, 2013, 2 p.m.
Entanglement, Matrix Multiplication and Group Representations
Feb. 22, 2013, 1 p.m. - Feb. 22, 2013, 2 p.m.
Game Theory and Computational Complexity
Feb. 15, 2013, 1 p.m. - Feb. 15, 2013, 2 p.m.
Duality of State and Observation in Automata
Feb. 8, 2013, 1 p.m. - Feb. 8, 2013, 2 p.m.
Path analysis of continuous-time stochastic systems
Feb. 1, 2013, 1 p.m. - Feb. 1, 2013, 2 p.m.
The Epistemology of Big Data and Volunteered Geographic Information
Jan. 25, 2013, 1 p.m. - Jan. 25, 2013, 2 p.m.