Events

CS Colloquium - Fantastic Bots and How to Find Them
Monday, January 30, 2023 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Kai-Cheng Yang (Indiana University Bloomington) on "Fantastic Bots and How to Find Them."

ACM@UIOWA: Intro Meeting w/ Free Food!
Monday, January 30, 2023 5:00pm to 6:00pm
We will have an informational meeting as it is the first meeting of the semester. In this meeting, we will cover important upcoming events and provide a social time where members can ask questions regarding ACM, career planning, or computer science graduation paths. Along with this, we will be providing free pizza!
Learn & Create Workshops - Soldering Basics: Through Hole
Wednesday, February 1, 2023 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Soldering is one of the most fundamental skills needed to explore the world of electronics. With this simple skill, you will gain a better understanding of electronics and be better equipped to create your own. This workshop will focus on through-hole soldering.
Taught by John Kostman, Engineering Electronics Shop.

CS Colloquium - Privacy-Preserving Accountability Online
Wednesday, February 1, 2023 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Nirvan Tyagi (Cornell University) on "Privacy-Preserving Accountability Online."

CS Colloquium - Algorithmic Foundation of Parallel Paging and Fast Stencil Computation
Friday, February 3, 2023 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Rathish Das (University of Liverpool) on "Algorithmic Foundation of Parallel Paging and Fast Stencil Computation."

CS Colloquium - Parasocial Interaction: Examine YouTube as a Mental Health Support Community
Monday, February 6, 2023 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Shuo Niu ( Clark University) on "Parasocial Interaction: Examine YouTube as a Mental Health Support Community."
Learn & Create Workshops - Soldering Basics: Surface-Mount
Wednesday, February 8, 2023 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Soldering is one of the most fundamental skills needed to explore the world of electronics. With this simple skill, you will gain a better understanding of electronics and be better equipped to create your own. This workshop will focus on surface-mount soldering.
Taught by John Kostman, Engineering Electronics Shop.

CS Colloquium - Planted Matching Problem
Wednesday, February 8, 2023 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Mehrdad Moharrami (UIUC) on "Planted Matching Problem."

Spring 2023 In-Person Engineering Career Fair
Thursday, February 9, 2023 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Each year the College of Engineering holds two career fairs, one in late September/early October and another in early February. This is a great way for students to meet over 100 engineering, manufacturing, consulting and governmental organizations to discuss full-time, co-op and internship opportunities in the areas of Biomedical, Chemical, Civil & Environmental, Electrical & Computer, Industrial & Systems, and Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science.
The Spring 2023 Engineering Career...

CS Colloquium - Computations and Complex Socio-Technical Systems
Friday, February 10, 2023 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Suman Kalyan Maity (MIT) on "Computations and Complex Socio-Technical Systems."

CS Colloquium - Formal Verification and Real Quantifier Elimination
Monday, February 13, 2023 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Katherine Kosaian (Carnegie Mellon) on "Formal Verification and Real Quantifier Elimination."
Learn & Create: Build Your Own - LED Pendants
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Spice up your Spring with some LED pendants. Learn to solder your own LED jewelry or pendants. All materials will be provided.
Taught by John Kostman, Engineering Electronics Shop.

CS Colloquium - Leveraging Multimodal Sensing for Enhancing the Security and Privacy of Mobile Systems
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Habiba Farrukh (Purdue University) on "Leveraging Multimodal Sensing for Enhancing the Security and Privacy of Mobile
Systems."

CS Colloquium - Human-Centered Technologies for Inclusive Collection and Analysis of Public-Generated Data
Monday, February 20, 2023 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Mahmood Jasim (UMass Amherst) on "Human-Centered Technologies for Inclusive Collection and Analysis of Public-Generated Data."
All Majors Career Fair
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 12:00pm to 4:00pm
This job & internship fair will focus on recruiting students typically in ALL MAJORS! Typically around 100+ employers attend and 1,000+ students attend!
Visit: https://careers.uiowa.edu/all-majors-career-fair for more details!

The University of Iowa Computing Conference (UICC) 2023 - Save the Date
Friday, February 24 3:30pm to Saturday, February 25, 2023 8:00pm
"The UICC is hosted by the students and for the students to promote computing as a science and a profession."
Date: Feb 25-26
You can learn about this year's speakers and schedule below!
Check out past conferences! [ 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022]
UICC 2023 Schedule
Friday, Feb. 24, 2023
5:30 p.m.
Talk 1 (Keynote): Shambaugh, Main Library
7:15 p.m.
Activity + Food: (Adler Journalism Building Rotunda + AJB E120 + AJB E126)
Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023
11a.m.
Talk 2: ...

CS Colloquium - Bridging the Trustworthy Gap between AI and Humans: Interpretation Techniques for Modern NLP
Monday, February 27, 2023 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Hanjie Chen (University of Virginia) on "Bridging the Trustworthy Gap between AI and Humans: Interpretation Techniques for Modern NLP."

CS Colloquium - Scalable Graph Algorithms: Parallel, Dynamic, and Private
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Quanquan Liu (Northwestern University) on "Scalable Graph Algorithms: Parallel, Dynamic, and Private."

CS Colloquium - Towards Precision Sensing in IoT for Human Interaction, Healthcare, and Beyond
Friday, March 3, 2023 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Chenhan Xu (University at Buffalo) on "Towards Precision Sensing in IoT for Human Interaction, Healthcare, and Beyond."

CS Colloquium - Learning with Graphs and Networks: From Theory and Methods to Applications in Social Science
Friday, March 10, 2023 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Harlin Lee (UCLA) on "Learning with Graphs and Networks: From Theory and Methods to Applications in Social Science."