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Events Calendar

16 Nov
PhD Thesis Defense
Hybrid - LGRC A311 and Zoom
Thursday, 11/16/2023 3:00pm to 5:00pm

With the emergence of large-scale data, there is a massive surge in machine learning (ML) applications. In many of these applications, uncertainty calibration and interpretability of ML predictions are crucial. Gaussian...

16 Nov
Alumni Event
Microsoft New England, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142
Thursday, 11/16/2023 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Join UMass alumni, faculty, and friends of the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at Microsoft New England for our annual Alumni Meetup.

Dean Laura Haas will present an update on the state of...

17 Nov
Seminar
LGRC Low Rise - Room A112
Friday, 11/17/2023 10:00am to 11:00am

Abstract: The Multistakeholder Model is described as a framework that encourages the engagement of various stakeholders in Internet Policy Development Processes (PDPs). These stakeholders include governments, technical...

17 Nov
PhD Thesis Defense
Hybrid - LGRC A104 and Zoom
Friday, 11/17/2023 12:00pm to 2:00pm

Variational Inference performance strongly depends on many algorithmic choices, such as the optimization algorithm used, the objective, and the variational family. The right combination for these components is highly...

17 Nov
Seminar
Computer Science Building, Room 150/151; Virtual via Zoom
Friday, 11/17/2023 1:30pm to 2:30pm

Abstract: Over the past few years, and especially since the deployment of ChatGPT in November 2022, neural language models with billions of parameters and trained on trillions of words are powering the fastest-growing...

17 Nov
Career Development
ILC N101
Friday, 11/17/2023 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Join us from 6 - 7 PM on Friday, November 17th for a Meta Virtual Panel with pizza! In the ILC Room N101, we will be virtually hosting four employees from Meta with specialties in security, software, data engineering, and...

20 Nov
PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense
LGRC A311
Monday, 11/20/2023 2:30pm

In recent years, an important new class of applications has emerged that is characterized by its tight latency requirements. Latency-sensitive applications pose new challenges to cloud providers as cloud data centers are...

21 Nov
Academic Calendar
Tuesday, 11/21/2023 (All day)

Thanksgiving recess begins after last class

21 Nov
Theory Seminar
Computer Science Building, Room 140
Tuesday, 11/21/2023 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Abstract: In 2003, Cohn and Umans proposed a group-theoretic approach to bounding the exponent of matrix multiplication. Previous work within this approach ruled out certain families of groups as a route to obtaining ω=2...

21 Nov
Undergraduate Event
Lederle Graduate Research Center, Room A311
Tuesday, 11/21/2023 5:30pm to 6:30pm

Women in Informatics and Computer Science (WiCS) focuses on uplifting women and non-binary students in the Manning CICS by creating a community focused on career success, specifically through our events. These include...

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