Featured Lectures
Illinois Computer Science has two named lecture series. The Donald B. Gillies Memorial Lecture honors the memory of a renowned CS faculty member. The Robert Mueller-Thuns Lecture honors the memory of a graduate who died at a young age, but whom always strove for excellence.
Distinguished Lecture Series
The Illinois Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series brings prominent leaders and experts to campus to share their ideas and promote conversations about important challenges and topics in the discipline.
2018-2019 Speakers
| Date (Link to Calendar) |
Speaker | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9/10 |
Luiz Andre Barroso, Google |
Google Maps - A Planet-Scale Playground for Computer Scientists |
| 9/24 |
Lexing Ying, Stanford University |
Interpolative Decomposition and Its Applications |
| 10/1 |
Tamara Kolda, Sandia National Lab |
Randomized and Generalized Tensor Decompositions for Analysis of Multiway Datasets |
| 10/8 |
Alexei (Alyosha) Efros, University of California, Berkeley |
Self-Supervised Visual Learning and Synthesis |
| 10/22 |
Omer Reingold, Stanford University |
A Complexity-Theoretic Perspective on Algorithmic Fairness |
| 10/29 |
Kunle Olukotun, Stanford University |
Computer Architecture for Software 2.0 |
| 11/5 |
Venkatesan Guruswami, Carnegie Mellon University |
The Polymorphic Gateway Between Structure and Algorithms: CSPs and Beyond |
| 12/3 |
Sean Follmer, Stanford University |
Physical and Spatial Interaction with Robotic Displays |
| 1/28 |
Jennifer Mankoff, University of Washington |
Making Accessibility |
| 4/29 |
Luca Trevisan, University of California, Berkeley |
A Theory of Spectral Clustering |
