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Events Schedule For The Next Three Months:

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

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

• Computational Fabrication of Flexible Forms

Friday, April 17 2:00PM, 164 Angell Street

• Modeling and measuring human speech perception using artificial neural networks

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

• 2026 CS Wellness Week

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

• Thinking at Risk: A Pedagogy Workshop

Tuesday, April 21 12:00PM - 01:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• 2026 CS Wellness Week

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

• Sysread Talk: Edge vs. Core, Revisited: Multi-Path Load Balancing for Machine Learning at Data-Center Scale

Wednesday, April 22 12:00PM - 01:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Matteo Riondato - Theory seminar talk on Wednesday 4/22 from 12-1pm in CIT 477

Wednesday, April 22 12:00PM - 01:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• 2026 CS Wellness Week

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

• Critical Infrastructure for AI: Demands and Impacts Panel

Thursday, April 23 12:00PM - 01:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• 2026 CS Wellness Week

Friday, April 24 12:00PM - 01:00PM, Barus and Holley

• Special Joint Engineering and AI Seminar: Jason Cong, UCLA

Friday, April 24 12:00PM - 01:30PM, Andrews House

• AI and the Humanities • John Cayley, “From ‘Writing Implements’ to ‘If the Humanities Lost Language, Have We Lost It for Good?’”

Monday, April 27 4:00PM - 06:30PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• 11th Annual Brown CS Undergraduate Research Symposium

Wednesday, April 29 12:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Sysread Talk: Planning as Policy: Securing Agents against Untrusted Tools

Wednesday, April 29 12:00PM - 02:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Thesis Proposal: Michael Lepori (“Uncovering Convergent Algorithms in Minds and Machines: A Mechanistic Approach”)

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

• Computational Biology Seminar: “De-coding (and re-coding) the non-coding genome”- 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 12:00PM - 02:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Thesis Defense: Samuel Musker (“A Multi-Level Analysis of Representation and Reasoning in Large Language Models”)

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”

Tuesday, May 5 10:00AM - 12:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Thesis Proposal: Thomas Fawcett (“Teaming Linear Temporal Logic”)

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

• Brown’s National Labs Day

Wednesday, May 20 1:00PM - 03:00PM, Watson Center for Information Technology (CIT)

• Thesis Proposal: Siddhartha Prasad (“Lightweight Diagramming by Refinement”)

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

• Brown CS 47th Anniversary Reunion

Saturday, May 23 1:00PM, 164 Angell Street

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