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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/phd-defence-information-re
 trieval-breaking-information-silos
LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Hybrid: M3 4001 | Online PhD defence Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:PhD Defence • Information Retrieval • Breaking Information Silo
 s:\nAdvancing Search Systems for Unified Information Seeking
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS PHD DEFENCE WILL TAKE PLACE IN M3 4001 AND ON
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/phd-seminar-symbolic-compu
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LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Online PhD seminar Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:PhD Seminar • Symbolic Computation • Sobolev Regularized\nPolyn
 omial Features for Robust Handwritten Symbol Recognition
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS PHD SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE ONLINE.\n\nDEEPAK
  SINGH KALHAN\, PHD CANDIDATE\n_David R. Cheriton School of Computer Scien
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/phd-defence-programming-la
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LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Hybrid: DC 3317 | Online PhD defence Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:PhD Defence • Programming Languages • Implementation Techniques
 \nfor Lexical Effect Handlers
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS PHD DEFENCE WILL TAKE PLACE IN DC 3317 AND ON
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/seminar-algorithms-complex
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LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Hybrid: DC 1304 | Online seminar ON Canada
SUMMARY:Seminar • Algorithms & Complexity • Paintability of Bipartite\n
 Graphs
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE IN PERSON DC 1304 AN
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/masters-thesis-presentatio
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LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West DC 2310 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Master’s Thesis Presentation • Computational Finance • Data\n
 Scarcity and the Decumulation Problem: Two Challenges in Finance
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS MASTER’S THESIS PRESENTATION WILL TAKE PLAC
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/masters-thesis-presentatio
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LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
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SUMMARY:Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence | Machin
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CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS MASTER’S THESIS PRESENTATION WILL TAKE PLAC
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/seminar-hci-ai-scaling-fou
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LOCATION:CSB - Central Services Building 200 University Avenue West DC 1304
  Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Seminar • Human–Computer Interaction | Artificial Intelligence 
 •\nScaling Foundation Models & Agentic AI that Supports Healthy Living
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE IN DC 1304.\n\nDANIEL
  MCDUFF\n_Senior Staff Research Scientist and Manager\, Google\nAffiliate 
 Professor\, University of Washington_
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/phd-seminar-ai-ml-from-ver
 ifiable-rewards-to-tool-using-agents-verltool-for-agentic-reinforcement-le
 arning
LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Online PhD seminar Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning • From
 \nVerifiable Rewards to Tool-Using Agents: VerlTool for Agentic\nReinforce
 ment Learning
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS PHD SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE ONLINE.\n\nDONGFU
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/phd-seminar-ai-ml-understa
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LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Hybrid: DC 2310 | Online PhD seminar Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning •\nUnd
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CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS PHD SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE IN DC 2310 AND ON
 LINE.\n\nWEIMING REN\, PHD CANDIDATE\n_David R. Cheriton School of Compute
 r Science_\n\nSUPERVISOR: Professor Wenhu Chen
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/phd-seminar-algorithms-and
 -complexity-container-lemmas-and
LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West Hybrid: DC 1304 | Online PhD seminar Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity • Container Lemmas and 
 the\nQuery Complexity of Graph Property Testing
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS PHD SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE IN DC 1304 AND ON
 LINE.\n\nCAMERON SETH\, PHD CANDIDATE\n_David R. Cheriton School of Comput
 er Science_\n\nSUPERVISOR: Professor Eric Blais
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