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Events Schedule For The Next Three Months:

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

• Data Matters Seminar: The use and misuse of AI in university admissions (Sharad Goel, Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School)

Wednesday, April 8 12:00PM - 01:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Theory Seminar by Miranda Christ: in Room 477 on 4/8/2026 at Noon

Thursday, April 9 1:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Assessing Adaptive World Models in Machines with Novel Games

Thursday, April 9 4:00PM - 05:00PM, MacMillan Hall

• 2026 Appleton Lecture • Garnet Chan • California Institute of Technology

Friday, April 10 12:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• BVC Seminar - Chang Xiao (BU Assistant Professor of CS) “Context Is All You Need: Toward Naturally Intelligent Interaction”

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

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

Friday, April 10 3:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Optimization Solution Development and Deployment - A Framework for Success

Wednesday, April 15 10:00AM - 12:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Thesis Defense: Ruochen Zhang (“Understanding Multilingualism in Large Language Models”)

Wednesday, April 15 1:00PM - 03:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Thesis Defense: Atishay Jain (“Deep Learning with Improved Graph Representations ofSpatially Distributed Biological Data”)

Thursday, April 16 11:00AM - 01:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Thesis Defense: Tian Yun (“Internal Representations in Vision-Language Models”)

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

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

Friday, April 17 10:00AM - 12:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Thesis Defense: Nathaniel Gillman (“Controlling Deep Generative Models via Physical and Mathematical Priors”)

Friday, April 17 12:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Mixed-Initiative Dialog for Human-Robot Collaboration

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

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

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

• Thesis Defense: Tassallah Amina Abdullahi (“Towards Trustworthy Clinical AI: Knowledge Grounding, Inference Reliability, and Behavioral Control”)

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

• Thinking at Risk: A Pedagogy Workshop

Tuesday, April 21 4:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Victor Naroditskiy PhD ’09; Gen AI: RAG and tool calling

Tuesday, April 21 4:00PM - 05:30PM, Cogut Institute, Andrews House

• Meghan O’Gieblyn, “Attention and the Sacred in the Age of AI”

Tuesday, April 21 4:00PM - 06:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Thesis Defense: Brandon Woodard (“Characterizing Constraints for Audio Feedback Dimensions in Extended Reality”)

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

• CS1250 Final Projects Screening

Thursday, April 30 12:00PM, CIT

• CS1250 Final Projects Screening

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”

Thursday, May 14 8:00AM - 06:00PM, South Street Landing

• Brown’s National Labs Day

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

• Brown CS 47th Anniversary Reunion

Saturday, May 23 2:00PM, 164 Angell Street

• DSI Commencement Panel: How Do We Reclaim Our Humanity in an AI-Driven World?