CS Distinguished Lecture Series

Spring 2024 Distinguished Lectures

April5

Distinguished Lecture: Fast and Simple Sorting Using Partial Information

Robert E. Tarjan

James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University

11:00 AM

6011, Donald Bren Hall

Abstract: We consider the problem of sorting a set of items having an unknown total order by doing binary comparisons of the items, given the…

Fall 2023 Distinguished Lectures

September29

CS Seminar Series

Distinguished Lecture Series: “Testing Quantumness in the NISQ Era”

Umesh Vazirani

Strauch Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley; Director, Berkeley Quantum Computing Center

11:00 AM

Calit2 Auditorium, Calit2

Abstract: We are well into the NISQ era of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum Computers. Four years on from Google’s “quantum supremacy” experiment, we have a…

November21

CS Seminar Series

Distinguished Lecture: All-day Augmented Reality Glasses: Promises and Problems

Henry Fuchs

Federico Gil Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2:00 PM

Donald Bren Hall

Many of us foresee of a future in which AR eyeglasses are worn all day, replacing, and enhancing of our current prescription eyewear. That future…