Computer and Information Science
A Department of the School of Engineering and Applied Science
CIS Events
Fall 2024 CIS Distinguished Lecture and Colloquium Series
CIS Colloquia are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:30PM – 4:30PM, unless otherwise noted. A calendar of upcoming events is available here. For all school events, visit the Penn Engineering Events Calendar. If you need further information please contact cherylh@cis.upenn.edu.
If you are unable to attend the talk please use:
Zoom Talk link:
https://upenn.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 929 2835 8554
Passcode: 488035
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Distinguished Lecturer
Date: Thursday, September 12th , 2024
Speaker: Robert Kleinberg
Affiliation: Computer Science Dept., Cornell University
Talk Title: “Trustworthy Forecasting Algorithms”
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Colloquium Speaker
Date: Tuesday, September 17th, 2024
Speaker: Gordon Wetzstein
Talk Title: “Recent Advances in Spatial Generative AI”
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Distinguished Lecturer
Date: Thursday, September 19th, 2024
Speaker: Gaurav Sukhatme
Affiliation: Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Southern California
Talk Title: “Learning Controllers for multi-robot Teams”
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Distinguished Lecturer
Date: Tuesday, September 24th, 2024
Speaker: Oded Regev
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Special Industry Colloquium Speaker
Date: Tuesday, October 8th, 2024
Speaker: Vijay Krishnan
Affiliation: Founder and CTO of Turing
Talk Title: “Improving Foundation Models Using Human Data”
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Distinguished Lecturer
Date: Thursday, October 10th, 2024
Speaker: Yisong Yue
Talk Title: “Neurosymbolic AI for Safety-Critical Agile Control”
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Distinguished Lecturer
Date: Tuesday, October 15th, 2024
Speaker: Hakim Weatherspoon
Affiliation: Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture
Talk Title: “Optimal Oblivious Reconfigurable Networks”
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Distinguished Lecturer
Date: Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024
Speaker: Krzysztof Gajos
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Grace Hopper Distinguished Lecturer
Date: Thursday, Oct 24th , 2024
Speaker: Hanna Hajishirzi
Affiliation: Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
and a Senior Director of NLP at AI2.
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Colloquium Speaker
Date: Tuesday, October 29th, 2024
Speaker: Ronghui Gu
Affiliation: Computer Science at Columbia University
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Distinguished Lecturer
Date: Thursday, November 7th, 2024
Speaker: Michael Hicks
Affiliation: Senior Principal Scientist at Amazon Web Services
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Distinguished Lecturer
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CIS Special Industry Colloquium
Date: Wednesday, November 20th, 2024
Speaker: Jason Wei
Affiliation: AI researcher, San Francisco CA
Talk Title: “Scaling Paradigms for Large Language Models”
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Colloquium Speaker
This will be held in the Spring of 2025
Date: Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
Speaker: Elaine Shi
Affiliation: Computer Science Department and Electrical and Computer Engineering Carnegie Mellon University
Talk Title: “Just Infrastructures”
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