Colloquia@CS
From Representation to Workflow: Computational Tools for Human Visual Creativity
Oct. 10, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 10, 2025, 3:30 p.m. Number-theoretic methods in quantum computing
Oct. 3, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 3, 2025, 3:30 p.m. Compositional Reasoning for Natural Language Comprehension and Grounding Leveraging Neuro-Symbolic AI
Sept. 26, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 26, 2025, 3:30 p.m. Next-Gen Data Infrastructure for Enterprise Generative AI
Sept. 19, 2025, 2:49 p.m. - Sept. 15, 2025, 3:30 p.m. SOCS Prof Lighting Talks #2
Sept. 12, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 12, 2025, 3:30 p.m. SOCS Prof Lighting Talks #1
Sept. 5, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 5, 2025, 3:30 p.m. Bridging Graphics and Machine Learning: differentiable simulators as inductive biases
April 4, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - April 4, 2025, 2:30 p.m. Competitive Programming Initiatives at SOCS
March 28, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - March 28, 2025, 3:30 p.m. Charles Deguire: CEO Kinova Robotics
March 21, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - March 21, 2025, 3:30 p.m. The Future of Gaming
Feb. 14, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 14, 2025, 3:30 p.m. ML for Hardware: A New Frontier in Design Automation
Feb. 7, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 7, 2025, 3:30 p.m. Building representations to enable robots to complete complex and abstract tasks
Jan. 31, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 31, 2025, 3:30 p.m. The Role of Morphology and Structure in Robot Intelligence
Jan. 24, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 24, 2025, 3:30 p.m. Music Instrument Modeling at McGill University
Jan. 17, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 17, 2025, 3:30 p.m. Learning from Proofs
Jan. 10, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 10, 2025, 3:30 p.m. Robot Behavior with Deep RL and Friends
Nov. 15, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 15, 2024, 2:30 p.m. Effective Presentations
Nov. 8, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 8, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Effective Writing
Nov. 1, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 1, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Co-Creating with Artificial Intelligence
Oct. 25, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 25, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Manipulating 3D Objects with Machine Learning
Oct. 11, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 11, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Synergy of Graph Data Management and Machine Learning in Explainability and Query Answering
Oct. 4, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 4, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Topological Defects, Topological Barriers, and Convex Relaxation
Sept. 27, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 27, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Integrating technology with circus performances
Sept. 20, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 20, 2024, 3:30 p.m. SOCS Profs Highlights #2
Sept. 13, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 13, 2024, 3:30 p.m. SOCS Profs Highlights #1
Sept. 6, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 6, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Title: Computational Methods in Theoretical Astrophysics
April 12, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - April 12, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Squeezing the most out of your physics engine
March 15, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - March 15, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Distinguished Alumni Series - Jade Raymond
March 1, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - March 1, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Double Danish Dynamism: Foundation Models and Biological Shape
Feb. 16, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 16, 2024, 4 p.m. The evolution of robotics and our work at McGill
Feb. 2, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 2, 2024, 3:30 p.m. A culture of open and reproducible research, in the era of large AI generative models
Jan. 19, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 19, 2024, 3:30 p.m. A gentle introduction to privacy research and some results on fitness trackers
Nov. 24, 2023, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 24, 2023, 3:30 p.m. Towards hardware-agnostic application development in an era of heterogeneous SoCs
Nov. 24, 2023, 10 a.m. - Nov. 24, 2023, 10:45 a.m. Sustainable Software Artifacts
Oct. 27, 2023, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 27, 2023, 3:30 p.m. When is the right time to start a start-up. One person’s journey.
Oct. 13, 2023, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 13, 2023, 3:30 p.m. Software Innovation through Collaboration and Diversity
Sept. 29, 2023, 1:30 p.m. - Sept. 29, 2023, 2:30 p.m. SOCS Prof Lightning Research Talks (Round 2)
Sept. 15, 2023, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 15, 2023, 3:30 p.m. SOCS Prof Lightning Research Talks (Round 1)
Sept. 8, 2023, 2:35 p.m. - Sept. 8, 2023, 3:25 p.m. Caveats and rewards of introducing digital solutions for biomedical Core Facilities
March 24, 2023, 2:30 p.m. - March 22, 2023, 3:30 p.m. Data Science of the Cloud
Feb. 10, 2023, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 10, 2023, 3:30 p.m. Theory-driven Federated Learning Algorithms for Heterogeneous Data
Nov. 11, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 11, 2022, 3:30 p.m. GFlowOut: Dropout with Generative Flow Networks
Nov. 4, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 4, 2022, 3:30 p.m. Academic Writing Panel Discussion
Oct. 28, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 28, 2022, 3:30 p.m. Opening Colloquium of the 2022-2023 academic year (Sep 30)
Sept. 30, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 30, 2022, 3:30 p.m. Opening Colloquium of the 2022-2023 academic year (Sep 16)
Sept. 16, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 16, 2022, 3:30 p.m. Compiler Validation via Equivalence Modulo Inputs
April 29, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - April 29, 2022, 3:30 p.m. Research in the Borlderlands: Citizen Science and Videogames FTW
April 22, 2022, 10 a.m. - April 22, 2022, 11 a.m. Pacer: Comprehensive Network Side-Channel Mitigation in the Cloud
April 8, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - April 8, 2022, 3:30 p.m. Reliable Contact Simulation with IPC
March 25, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - March 25, 2022, 3:30 p.m. Taming Variability in Software Engineering: Past, Present & Future
Feb. 25, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 25, 2022, 3:30 p.m. Learning-based Algorithms in DBMS: Hype or Future?
Feb. 11, 2022, 4 p.m. - Feb. 11, 2022, 5 p.m. Synthesis-powered Data Visualization
Jan. 14, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 14, 2022, 3:30 p.m. A Logical Perspective on Program Synthesis and Neuro-Symbolic AI
Nov. 26, 2021, 10 a.m. - Nov. 26, 2021, 11 a.m. Enforcing Robust Control Guarantees within Neural Network Policies
Nov. 19, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 19, 2021, 3:30 p.m. On The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SAT Solvers
Nov. 5, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 5, 2021, 3:30 p.m. A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Reconfiguring Data Stream Processing Applications on Edge Computing
Nov. 4, 2021, 4:30 p.m. - Nov. 4, 2021, 5:30 p.m. Emerging Opportunities and Challenges of Non-Volatile Memory – From Storage to AI-Oriented Computing
Oct. 8, 2021, 10 a.m. - Oct. 8, 2021, 11 a.m. In-Network Support for microsecond-scale Remote Procedure Calls
Sept. 24, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 24, 2021, 3:30 p.m. Secure Learning in Adversarial Environments
Sept. 10, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 10, 2021, 3:30 p.m. Secure multi-party computation in MiniQCrypt
April 9, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - April 9, 2021, 3:30 p.m. A Mathematical View of Language
March 26, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - March 26, 2021, 3:30 p.m. The History of CGI in Film: The Good, the Bad, and the Racist
March 12, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - March 12, 2021, 3:30 p.m. Really Big Data: The Challenges of Managing Zettabyte-Scale Data in Real Time
Feb. 19, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 19, 2021, 3:30 p.m. User-centered Programming Language Design for Obsidian, a Safer Blockchain Programming Language
Jan. 22, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 22, 2021, 3:30 p.m. Understanding the Nanoscopic Structural Framework of Brain Astrocytes
Dec. 4, 2020, 2:30 p.m. - Dec. 4, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Oct. 10, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 10, 2025, 3:30 p.m. Number-theoretic methods in quantum computing
Oct. 3, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 3, 2025, 3:30 p.m. Compositional Reasoning for Natural Language Comprehension and Grounding Leveraging Neuro-Symbolic AI
Sept. 26, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 26, 2025, 3:30 p.m. Next-Gen Data Infrastructure for Enterprise Generative AI
Sept. 19, 2025, 2:49 p.m. - Sept. 15, 2025, 3:30 p.m. SOCS Prof Lighting Talks #2
Sept. 12, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 12, 2025, 3:30 p.m. SOCS Prof Lighting Talks #1
Sept. 5, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 5, 2025, 3:30 p.m. Bridging Graphics and Machine Learning: differentiable simulators as inductive biases
April 4, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - April 4, 2025, 2:30 p.m. Competitive Programming Initiatives at SOCS
March 28, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - March 28, 2025, 3:30 p.m. Charles Deguire: CEO Kinova Robotics
March 21, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - March 21, 2025, 3:30 p.m. The Future of Gaming
Feb. 14, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 14, 2025, 3:30 p.m. ML for Hardware: A New Frontier in Design Automation
Feb. 7, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 7, 2025, 3:30 p.m. Building representations to enable robots to complete complex and abstract tasks
Jan. 31, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 31, 2025, 3:30 p.m. The Role of Morphology and Structure in Robot Intelligence
Jan. 24, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 24, 2025, 3:30 p.m. Music Instrument Modeling at McGill University
Jan. 17, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 17, 2025, 3:30 p.m. Learning from Proofs
Jan. 10, 2025, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 10, 2025, 3:30 p.m. Robot Behavior with Deep RL and Friends
Nov. 15, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 15, 2024, 2:30 p.m. Effective Presentations
Nov. 8, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 8, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Effective Writing
Nov. 1, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 1, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Co-Creating with Artificial Intelligence
Oct. 25, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 25, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Manipulating 3D Objects with Machine Learning
Oct. 11, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 11, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Synergy of Graph Data Management and Machine Learning in Explainability and Query Answering
Oct. 4, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 4, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Topological Defects, Topological Barriers, and Convex Relaxation
Sept. 27, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 27, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Integrating technology with circus performances
Sept. 20, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 20, 2024, 3:30 p.m. SOCS Profs Highlights #2
Sept. 13, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 13, 2024, 3:30 p.m. SOCS Profs Highlights #1
Sept. 6, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 6, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Title: Computational Methods in Theoretical Astrophysics
April 12, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - April 12, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Squeezing the most out of your physics engine
March 15, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - March 15, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Distinguished Alumni Series - Jade Raymond
March 1, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - March 1, 2024, 3:30 p.m. Double Danish Dynamism: Foundation Models and Biological Shape
Feb. 16, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 16, 2024, 4 p.m. The evolution of robotics and our work at McGill
Feb. 2, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 2, 2024, 3:30 p.m. A culture of open and reproducible research, in the era of large AI generative models
Jan. 19, 2024, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 19, 2024, 3:30 p.m. A gentle introduction to privacy research and some results on fitness trackers
Nov. 24, 2023, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 24, 2023, 3:30 p.m. Towards hardware-agnostic application development in an era of heterogeneous SoCs
Nov. 24, 2023, 10 a.m. - Nov. 24, 2023, 10:45 a.m. Sustainable Software Artifacts
Oct. 27, 2023, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 27, 2023, 3:30 p.m. When is the right time to start a start-up. One person’s journey.
Oct. 13, 2023, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 13, 2023, 3:30 p.m. Software Innovation through Collaboration and Diversity
Sept. 29, 2023, 1:30 p.m. - Sept. 29, 2023, 2:30 p.m. SOCS Prof Lightning Research Talks (Round 2)
Sept. 15, 2023, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 15, 2023, 3:30 p.m. SOCS Prof Lightning Research Talks (Round 1)
Sept. 8, 2023, 2:35 p.m. - Sept. 8, 2023, 3:25 p.m. Caveats and rewards of introducing digital solutions for biomedical Core Facilities
March 24, 2023, 2:30 p.m. - March 22, 2023, 3:30 p.m. Data Science of the Cloud
Feb. 10, 2023, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 10, 2023, 3:30 p.m. Theory-driven Federated Learning Algorithms for Heterogeneous Data
Nov. 11, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 11, 2022, 3:30 p.m. GFlowOut: Dropout with Generative Flow Networks
Nov. 4, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 4, 2022, 3:30 p.m. Academic Writing Panel Discussion
Oct. 28, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Oct. 28, 2022, 3:30 p.m. Opening Colloquium of the 2022-2023 academic year (Sep 30)
Sept. 30, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 30, 2022, 3:30 p.m. Opening Colloquium of the 2022-2023 academic year (Sep 16)
Sept. 16, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 16, 2022, 3:30 p.m. Compiler Validation via Equivalence Modulo Inputs
April 29, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - April 29, 2022, 3:30 p.m. Research in the Borlderlands: Citizen Science and Videogames FTW
April 22, 2022, 10 a.m. - April 22, 2022, 11 a.m. Pacer: Comprehensive Network Side-Channel Mitigation in the Cloud
April 8, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - April 8, 2022, 3:30 p.m. Reliable Contact Simulation with IPC
March 25, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - March 25, 2022, 3:30 p.m. Taming Variability in Software Engineering: Past, Present & Future
Feb. 25, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 25, 2022, 3:30 p.m. Learning-based Algorithms in DBMS: Hype or Future?
Feb. 11, 2022, 4 p.m. - Feb. 11, 2022, 5 p.m. Synthesis-powered Data Visualization
Jan. 14, 2022, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 14, 2022, 3:30 p.m. A Logical Perspective on Program Synthesis and Neuro-Symbolic AI
Nov. 26, 2021, 10 a.m. - Nov. 26, 2021, 11 a.m. Enforcing Robust Control Guarantees within Neural Network Policies
Nov. 19, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 19, 2021, 3:30 p.m. On The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SAT Solvers
Nov. 5, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - Nov. 5, 2021, 3:30 p.m. A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Reconfiguring Data Stream Processing Applications on Edge Computing
Nov. 4, 2021, 4:30 p.m. - Nov. 4, 2021, 5:30 p.m. Emerging Opportunities and Challenges of Non-Volatile Memory – From Storage to AI-Oriented Computing
Oct. 8, 2021, 10 a.m. - Oct. 8, 2021, 11 a.m. In-Network Support for microsecond-scale Remote Procedure Calls
Sept. 24, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 24, 2021, 3:30 p.m. Secure Learning in Adversarial Environments
Sept. 10, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - Sept. 10, 2021, 3:30 p.m. Secure multi-party computation in MiniQCrypt
April 9, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - April 9, 2021, 3:30 p.m. A Mathematical View of Language
March 26, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - March 26, 2021, 3:30 p.m. The History of CGI in Film: The Good, the Bad, and the Racist
March 12, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - March 12, 2021, 3:30 p.m. Really Big Data: The Challenges of Managing Zettabyte-Scale Data in Real Time
Feb. 19, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - Feb. 19, 2021, 3:30 p.m. User-centered Programming Language Design for Obsidian, a Safer Blockchain Programming Language
Jan. 22, 2021, 2:30 p.m. - Jan. 22, 2021, 3:30 p.m. Understanding the Nanoscopic Structural Framework of Brain Astrocytes
Dec. 4, 2020, 2:30 p.m. - Dec. 4, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
