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Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science Receives Renewed Federal Funding from NIST
The Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS)—a research powerhouse focused on quantum computation, quantum communication and quantum cryptography—recently received a renewal of federal funding from the National Institute of Standards and Technology...read more
Leila De Floriani , an affiliate professor of computer science who also has an appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies , has been elected to serve as an IEEE Division...read more
A University of Maryland-led team of researchers recently won an Internet Defense Prize for a paper that uncovered a unique form of distributed denial-of-service attack. The prize—funded by Facebook in partnership with the USENIX Association...read more
The Mokhtarzada brothers’ startup success story comes home with a new student venture incubator at UMD
Idris Mokhtarzada (B.S. ’10, computer science) took his first computer science class at the University of Maryland before he even started high school. He and his older brother Haroon (B.A. ’01, economics) still get a...read more
Michelle Mazurek, an associate professor of computer science and an expert in human-centered security and privacy, is the newest director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2). She now leads numerous successful programs and partnerships established...read more
A University of Maryland expert on quantum computing is part of a multi-institutional team awarded $7.5 million by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to understand and create an efficient quantum random access memory (QRAM)...read more
Amitabh Varshney , professor of computer science and dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS), has been named interim vice president for research for the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD)...read more
The two emeritus faculty were recognized for their foundational work two decades ago that underlies modern treemap algorithms.
Two University of Maryland experts in visualization and visual analytics will be honored in October for academic papers they co-authored 20 years ago. Benjamin Bederson (left in photo), professor emeritus of computer science, and Ben...read more
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10.25.2021 11:00 to 13:00
PhD Defense: Data-Driven Techniques For Vulnerability Assessments
Octavian Suciu
IRB 3137
PhD Defense: Data-Driven Techniques For Vulnerability Assessments
Octavian Suciu
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10.25.2021 12:00 to 14:00
PhD Proposal: The Evolution of Cloud Data Architectures: Storage, Compute, and Migration
Gang Liao
IRB 5165
PhD Proposal: The Evolution of Cloud Data Architectures: Storage, Compute, and Migration
Gang Liao
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11.12.2021 12:00 to 14:00
PhD Proposal: On Algorithmic Fairness and Stochastic Models for Combinatorial Optimization and Unsupervised Machine Learning
Leonidas Tsepenekas
IRB 5105
PhD Proposal: On Algorithmic Fairness and Stochastic Models for Combinatorial Optimization and Unsupervised Machine Learning
Leonidas Tsepenekas
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10.20.2021 11:00 to 12:15
Nonequilibrium phases of matter on NISQ hardware
(In-person) ATL 3100A and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/2821742741?pwd=SWJSRm1DTGFoYUtVMllVSEo5bzdmdz09
Nonequilibrium phases of matter on NISQ hardware
10.20.2021 14:00 to 15:15
Accelerating Atmospheric Turbulence Simulation for Deep Learning Algorithms
Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/92528272976
Accelerating Atmospheric Turbulence Simulation for Deep Learning Algorithms
10.21.2021 14:00 to 15:00
Clifford groups are not always 2-designs
Virtual Via Zoom: https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/j/93025194699?pwd=bjVJZVpIQXJkS1U2aXg2d3Q3QVhB...
Clifford groups are not always 2-designs
10.22.2021 12:00 to 12:45
Classification of (2+1)D invertible fermionic topological phases with symmetry
ATL 2324 and Virtual Via Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/99484119207
Classification of (2+1)D invertible fermionic topological phases with symmetry