This course consists of seminar talks given by different faculty members of Columbia's Computer Science Department. Its goal is to give students an opportunity to hear about the breadth of research going on in our department, while satisfying their PhD elective requirements.
This course is led by Silvia Sellán and John Hewitt. Each session is given by a different faculty member of the Computer Science Department.
This course's teaching assistant is Xiana Carrera. Please contact her for any issues related to attendance.
If you have questions or suggestions about the course, please reach out to either instructor: silviasellan@cs.columbia.edu or jh5020@columbia.edu.
The seminar room is TBD. Talk titles are tentative, and the remaining speakers will be announced as the schedule is confirmed.
| Week | Tuesday (2:40pm - 3:55pm) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 8th: Welcome — Silvia Sellán & John Hewitt | … |
| 2 | September 15th: Lydia Chilton | AI, HCI, The Universe and Everything |
| 3 | September 22nd: Eugene Wu | … |
| 4 | September 29th: Itsik Pe'er | Beyond Flat Genomes: Mixed-Curvature Geometry for Single-Cell and Microbiome Inference |
| 5 | October 6th: Simha Sethumadhavan | … |
| 6 | October 13th: Kostis Kaffes | … |
| 7 | October 20th: David Blei | the magical mind-blowing world of empirical bayes |
| 8 | October 27th: Zhuo Zhang | … |
| 9 | November 3rd: No class: Election Day | … |
| 10 | November 10th: Speaker TBD | … |
| 11 | November 17th: Speaker TBD | … |
| 12 | November 24th: No class: Thanksgiving | … |
| 13 | December 1st: Aleksander Hołyński | … |
| 14 | December 8th: Speaker TBD | … |
This course is graded based on attendance. Students who attend and are engaged in the lectures can expect to obtain an A grade.
Please review the Academic Honesty and Integrity policies from the Department of Computer Science and the School of Engineering. Students must abide by these policies, or suffer the penalties enumerated in them.