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Computer Science Reunion

Events Schedule For The Next Three Months:

Wednesday, March 18 12:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Sysread Talk: Systems Research in the Era of AI Agents

Wednesday, March 18 12:00PM - 01:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Theory Seminar by Alma Ghafari: Lower Bounds for Non-adaptive Local Computation Algorithms

Friday, March 20 10:00AM - 12:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Thesis Defense: Scott Griffy (“Mercurial signatures with stronger privacy and anonymous systems”)

Friday, March 20 12:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Chris Scarvelis (MIT) - “Foundations of Generative AI: Data Dependence in Diffusion Models”

Friday, March 20 2:00PM, 164 Angell Street

• Model Synthesis Architectures for Reasoning and Planning

Monday, March 23 8:30AM - 06:00PM, Sayles Hall and the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center

• 2026 Postdoctoral Research Day

Thursday, March 26 9:00AM - 02:00PM, MacMillan Hall

• STEM Day 2026

Monday, March 30 1:00PM - 03:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Thesis Defense: Reza Esfandiarpoor (“Optimizing Inter-model Interactions for More Effective and Interpretable Machine Learning Systems”)

Wednesday, April 1 1:30PM - 03:30PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Thesis Defense: Shijie Wang (“From Text to Pixels: How Can Language Pre-training Help Multimodal Video Understanding”)

Thursday, April 2 2:00PM - 03:30PM, 164 Angell Street

• Carney Methods Meetup: AI Agents for the Practicing Brain Scientist

Friday, April 3 9:00AM - 04:00PM, The Omni Hotel

• A Pivotal Turn: AI, Society, and Education at the Crossroads

Friday, April 3 12:00PM - 01:00PM

• DSCoV Workshop | The Agile Lab: Navigating Research Uncertainty through Iterative Discovery

Monday, April 6 10:00AM - 12:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Thesis Defense: Rafael Rodriguez Sanchez (“Action-driven Learning of Structured Representations for Sequential Decision Making”)

Monday, April 6 5:00PM, Andrews House

• Trust in Data/Research Panel - What Threatens, Makes, and Maintains It

Tuesday, April 7 4:00PM, 164 Angell Street

• Data Matters Seminar: Sharad Goel (Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School)

Friday, April 10 12:00PM - 01:00PM

• DSCoV Workshop | Dimensionality reduction, visualization, and clustering of genomic data

Friday, April 17 9:15AM - 05:30PM, Cogut Institute, Andrews House

• AI and the Humanities • [SCALE]: Software, Community, Territory (Day 1)

Saturday, April 18 9:30AM - 05:30PM, Cogut Institute, Andrews House

• AI and the Humanities • [SCALE]: Software, Community, Territory (Day 2)

Monday, April 20 3:00PM - 05:00PM, Pembroke Hall

• Thinking at Risk: A Pedagogy Workshop

Wednesday, April 22 5:00PM, Smith-Buonanno Hall

• Critical Infrastructure for AI: Demands and Impacts Panel

Monday, April 27 4:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• 11th Annual Brown CS Undergraduate Research Symposium

Wednesday, April 29 4:00PM, 164 Angell Street

• Computational Biology Seminar: Steve Reilly (Yale)

Thursday, April 30 4:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Leonidas J. Guibas Gives The 25th Annual Paris C. Kanellakis Memorial Lecture: “The Space Between The Images – Visual Learning From Relations”

Friday, May 22 5:30PM - 07:30PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Brown CS 47th Anniversary Reunion