Past Events

Cindy Cohn in conversation with Rishab Nithyanand - "Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance." promotional image

Cindy Cohn in conversation with Rishab Nithyanand - "Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance."

Friday, April 10, 2026 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Cindy Cohn will read from her new book, Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance, and will be joined in conversation by University of Iowa associate professor Rishab Nithyanand.
Colloquium - "Transfer Learning for Individualized Prediction" promotional image

Colloquium - "Transfer Learning for Individualized Prediction"

Friday, April 10, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
We welcome UIowa's Chao Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering who will share his approach to improving prediction accuracy when functional responses need to be inferred from limited data.
ISE:5000 GRADUATE SEMINAR -- DR.TIANYU ZHANG promotional image

ISE:5000 GRADUATE SEMINAR -- DR.TIANYU ZHANG

Thursday, April 9, 2026 3:30pm to 4:20pm
Seamans Center

From industrial robots and autonomous vehicles to smart manufacturing and other closed-loop cyber-physical systems, many emerging applications rely on wireless communication to carry sensing, control, and coordination traffic under tight timing and reliability requirements. In these real-time mission-critical systems (RT-MCSs), correct operation depends not only on functional correctness but also on whether messages are delivered within predictable and bounded time. This talk examines how 5G...

Final Exam - Runtime and Compiler Optimizations for Subgraph Matching Algorithms on GPUs (RSVP) promotional image

Final Exam - Runtime and Compiler Optimizations for Subgraph Matching Algorithms on GPUs (RSVP)

Monday, April 6, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
MacLean Hall
Final Exam - PhD candidate Shihui Song: "Data Volume Reduction and Efficient Data Placement for Accelerator-Based HPC Systems" (RSVP requested)
Final Exam - Data Volume Reduction and Efficient Data Placement for Accelerator-Based HPC Systems (RSVP) promotional image

Final Exam - Data Volume Reduction and Efficient Data Placement for Accelerator-Based HPC Systems (RSVP)

Friday, April 3, 2026 4:00pm to 5:00pm
MacLean Hall
Final Exam - PhD candidate Shihui Song: "Data Volume Reduction and Efficient Data Placement for Accelerator-Based HPC Systems" (RSVP requested)
Colloquium - "From Anxiety to Agency: Empowering users against SMiShing and digital stress in the age of AI" promotional image

Colloquium - "From Anxiety to Agency: Empowering users against SMiShing and digital stress in the age of AI"

Friday, April 3, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
We welcome Cori Faklaris, Ph.D., from University of North Carolina - Charlotte, whose focus is on understanding people's needs and designing for safe, secure, and trustworthy computing.
WiCS - Pottery Painting promotional image

WiCS - Pottery Painting

Thursday, April 2, 2026 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Renee's Ceramic Cafe
Spring into the new season with some painting! 🎨 💐
Canceled
Computer Science - Founders Day Celebration 2026 promotional image

Computer Science - Founders Day Celebration 2026

Friday, March 27, 2026 4:30pm to 5:30pm
MacLean Hall
Come celebrate the 61st anniversary of the Department of Computer Science at UIowa. RSVP.
Rising Stars! - CS Colloquium promotional image

Rising Stars! - CS Colloquium

Friday, March 27, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
We welcome visiting PhD students from across the country to share their important Computer Science research.
WiCS - Jeopardy Night promotional image

WiCS - Jeopardy Night

Thursday, March 26, 2026 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Macbride Hall
Back from break? Come join WiCS for a Jeopardy Night!

Library Workshop: OrcID

Thursday, March 26, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Sciences Library

ORCiD (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a persistent digital identifier to resolve the researcher's name ambiguity problem. Researchers are required to provide their ORCiD iD when applying for a grant or submitting an article for publication. Learn more about creating an ORCiD iD at www.iam.uiowa.edu/planter, linking your ORCiD iD to the University of Iowa, and adding your publication records from data sources (Scopus, CrossRef, etc.) to your ORCiD. Led by Carol Hollier, sciences reference...

One Day for Iowa | The University of Iowa's Annual Giving Day promotional image

One Day for Iowa | The University of Iowa's Annual Giving Day

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 (all day)
Virtual

One Day for Iowa returns on Wednesday, March 25, marking 10 years of Hawkeyes coming together to support what matters most at the University of Iowa.

Give now: https://1dayforiowa.org/3N96oqb

Our 24-hour online giving day is a chance for alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends to make an impact — supporting scholarships, research, health care, the arts, student experiences, and more. With special matching and unlocking opportunities throughout the day, every gift has the power to go further...

Follow CS on #1DayforIowa - Help Us Meet our $3K Matching Challenge! promotional image

Follow CS on #1DayforIowa - Help Us Meet our $3K Matching Challenge!

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 (all day)
Virtual
On One Day for Iowa, don't forget to follow and support UIowa's Department of Computer Science. Help us meet our $3,000 Matching Challenge!
Data Centers in Iowa: Perspectives from Community, Government, and Research promotional image

Data Centers in Iowa: Perspectives from Community, Government, and Research

Monday, March 9, 2026 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building
This panel will offer a high-level overview of how community, government, and industry considerations shape data center development in Iowa and the broader Midwest.
Colloquium - When 'Good' Systems Fail: What Employment Technologies Miss Under Real-World Constraints promotional image

Colloquium - When 'Good' Systems Fail: What Employment Technologies Miss Under Real-World Constraints

Friday, March 6, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
We welcome Tawanna Dillahunt, PhD, from the University of Michigan School of Information, who will speak to the design and deployment of employment technologies, considering real-world constraints rather than idealized conditions.
WiCS x SASI - Bracelet Making promotional image

WiCS x SASI - Bracelet Making

Thursday, March 5, 2026 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Macbride Hall
Let’s get crafty with the Sexual Assault Survivors at Iowa (SASI) club and make some bracelets together!
WiCS - Career Speaker: Kelsey Skaja promotional image

WiCS - Career Speaker: Kelsey Skaja

Thursday, February 26, 2026 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Macbride Hall
Come learn alongside Kelsey Skaja, Google Software Engineer, to prepare for interviews and resumes in the tech industry!
All Majors Career Fair promotional image

All Majors Career Fair

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

This job and internship fair will focus on recruiting students in ALL MAJORS! Typically about 100+ employers attend and 1,000+ students attend!

Visit careers.uiowa.edu/all-majors-career-fair for more details.

The University of Iowa Computing Conference (UICC) 2026 promotional image

The University of Iowa Computing Conference (UICC) 2026

Sunday, February 22, 2026 (all day)
University of Iowa Main Library
Welcome students, faculty, and all members of the community to our annual UIowa Computing Conference!
The University of Iowa Computing Conference (UICC) 2026 promotional image

The University of Iowa Computing Conference (UICC) 2026

Saturday, February 21 to Sunday, February 22, 2026 (all day)
University of Iowa Main Library
Welcome students, faculty, and all members of the community to our annual UIowa Computing Conference!
WiCS - Career Speaker: Professor Kleiman promotional image

WiCS - Career Speaker: Professor Kleiman

Thursday, February 19, 2026 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Macbride Hall
We'll be joined by Professor Kleiman to talk on behalf of her experience as a computer science educator and researcher!
Colloquium - A Hessian View of Fine-tuning, Task Attribution, and Reinforcement Learning: Three Vignettes in Modern Machine Learning promotional image

Colloquium - A Hessian View of Fine-tuning, Task Attribution, and Reinforcement Learning: Three Vignettes in Modern Machine Learning

Friday, February 13, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
We welcome Hongyang Zhang, Ph.D., from Northeastern University, whose research lies at the intersection of machine learning, optimization algorithms, and statistical learning.
WiCS - Galentine's promotional image

WiCS - Galentine's

Thursday, February 12, 2026 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Macbride Hall
Come decorate cookies with us in celebration of Valentine’s Day!

Spring 2026 Engineering Career Fair

Thursday, February 12, 2026 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
The Spring Engineering Career Fair will take place on Thursday, February 12, 2026, from 12:00–4:00 p.m. at the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union.
WiCS - Bracelet Making & Hear Me Out Cake promotional image

WiCS - Bracelet Making & Hear Me Out Cake

Thursday, February 5, 2026 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Macbride Hall
Should we hear you out?🤨 We’ll be making bracelets and create a hear me out cake together👂 🍰
Colloquium - Supporting Ethical Design & Confronting the Threats of Dark Patterns promotional image

Colloquium - Supporting Ethical Design & Confronting the Threats of Dark Patterns

Friday, January 30, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
We welcome Colin M. Gray, PhD, from Indiana University. Colin’s research and engagement activities cross multiple disciplines, including human-computer interaction, instructional design and technology, law and policy, design theory and education, and engineering and technology education.
Colloquium - New Challenges for (Contextual) Multi-Armed Bandits: Fairness Objectives, Indirect Feedback, and Beyond promotional image

Colloquium - New Challenges for (Contextual) Multi-Armed Bandits: Fairness Objectives, Indirect Feedback, and Beyond

Friday, December 12, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
MacLean Hall
How to efficiently learn the best policy when the objective is to ensure fairness among agents.
Colloquium - The Shape of a 40-Year Career in Academia promotional image

Colloquium - The Shape of a 40-Year Career in Academia

Friday, December 5, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
An overview of Professor Srinivasan's academic career with an emphasis on her research at the intersection of computational linguistics and text analytics.
Mathematics Faculty Colloquium - Palle Jorgensen; University of Iowa Department of Mathematics promotional image

Mathematics Faculty Colloquium - Palle Jorgensen; University of Iowa Department of Mathematics

Thursday, November 20, 2025 3:30pm
MacLean Hall

Title: Harmonic analysis and algorithms for fractal IFS L2 spaces via infinite products of projections.

Abstract: We present new results at the cross roads of spectral theory for operators in Hilbert space, optimization, large sparse systems, geometry of fractals from iterated function systems (IFS), and new results in fractal harmonic analysis. In detail, we present a new recursive iteration scheme involving as input a prescribed sequence of selfadjoint projections. Applications include random...

Final Exam - Deep Learning for Real-World Sound Processing in Healthcare promotional image

Final Exam - Deep Learning for Real-World Sound Processing in Healthcare

Monday, November 17, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Virtual
Virtual Event - Deep Learning for Real-World Sound Processing in Healthcare
2025 Graduate Research Symposium Keynote:  Mehrdad Moharrami promotional image

2025 Graduate Research Symposium Keynote: Mehrdad Moharrami

Friday, November 7, 2025 4:00pm to 5:00pm
University Capitol Centre
Mehrdad Moharrami, PhD - Recovering Planted Structures in Randomly Weighted Graphs
2025 Prospective Student Visit Day and Graduate Research Symposium promotional image

2025 Prospective Student Visit Day and Graduate Research Symposium

Friday, November 7, 2025 1:30pm to 5:00pm
University Capitol Centre
The Computer Science (CS) department welcomes prospective students interested in our graduate programs to our annual Prospective Student Visit Day and Graduate Research Symposium
2025 CS Prospective Graduate Student Visit Day - Morning Sessions promotional image

2025 CS Prospective Graduate Student Visit Day - Morning Sessions

Friday, November 7, 2025 9:30am to 1:25pm
Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories
The Computer Science (CS) department welcomes prospective students interested in our graduate programs to our annual Prospective Student Visit Day and Graduate Research Symposium
Colloquium - Bridging Public Health with Clinical Decisions from a Data Centric Perspective promotional image

Colloquium - Bridging Public Health with Clinical Decisions from a Data Centric Perspective

Friday, October 31, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
MacLean Hall
We welcome Jiaming Cui, PhD, from Virginia Tech who will speak on "Bridging Public Health with Clinical Decisions from a Data Centric Perspective."
Learn to Solder: Fundamentals promotional image

Learn to Solder: Fundamentals

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Seamans Center

Soldering is one of the most fundamental skills needed to explore the world of electronics. Learn through-hole soldering to combine LEDs, resistors, and other components to create a fun light-up creepy-crawly bug. This workshop will help you gain a better understanding of electronics and be better equipped to create your own. This hands-on workshop is a standalone event. It will be taught by Instructional Lab Manager Kara Beauchamp.

Co-sponsored by IEEE and the Lichtenberger Engineering Library

Dept. of Computer Science - AY2026-27 CS Curriculum Changes Meetings promotional image

Dept. of Computer Science - AY2026-27 CS Curriculum Changes Meetings

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 12:00pm to 2:45pm
MacLean Hall

Computer Science majors are invited to attend Computer Science meetings hosted by Prof. Liza Kleiman (our Dir. of Undergraduate Studies) on Tuesday, October 28 in MLH.

Prof. Kleiman will present the changes coming to both CS BA and BS curricula starting in Fall 2026. As this may impact your course planning as early as Spring 2026, all CS majors are strongly encouraged to attend.

Two sessions:

1-1:45 pm [in 110 MLH]

2-2:45 pm [in 217 MLH]

RSVP by Monday, Oct. 27

Colloquium - Proofs and Programs promotional image

Colloquium - Proofs and Programs

Friday, October 24, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
MacLean Hall
This talk will give a high-level introduction to the Curry-Howard correspondence, assuming a minimal background in either logic or programming languages.

Engineering Library Workshop: Data Management in 60 Minutes

Thursday, October 23, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Seamans Center
Get ahead on your research skills! These workshops are designed for graduate students and faculty but also open to undergraduates.
Colloquium - Optimization Over Trained Neural Networks: What, Why, and How? promotional image

Colloquium - Optimization Over Trained Neural Networks: What, Why, and How?

Friday, October 17, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
MacLean Hall
Learn more about designing optimization algorithms that take into account the structure of neural networks.

Maker Breaks: Computer Code Friendship Bracelets and Keychains

Tuesday, October 14, 2025 11:30am to 1:00pm
Seamans Center

Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Celebrate one of the first computer programmers by learning some binary code. Use the fundamental language of computers that uses only 0 and 1 to create a bracelet or keychain with your initials, your birthday, or a secret message.

Colloquium - Structured Data Analysis with Weak Supervision in Healthcare Applications promotional image

Colloquium - Structured Data Analysis with Weak Supervision in Healthcare Applications

Friday, October 10, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
MacLean Hall
A talk on structured data analysis with weak supervision to develop systematic data-driven analytics methodologies for complex system modeling, monitoring, and diagnosis with applications in healthcare.
Colloquium - Exams with More Learning and Less Stress with a Computer-Based Testing Facility promotional image

Colloquium - Exams with More Learning and Less Stress with a Computer-Based Testing Facility

Friday, October 3, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
MacLean Hall
Hear how the University of Illinois reduced instructor workload, reduced student test anxiety, and achieved other benefits through implementing a Computer-Based Testing Facility.
CS Colloquium - How to Detect a Line and Related Questions promotional image

CS Colloquium - How to Detect a Line and Related Questions

Friday, September 26, 2025 3:30pm to 4:30pm
MacLean Hall
Learn a framework for testing whether a function is close to being linear using a limited number of queries, from our own Prof. Sourya Roy.
 All Majors Career Fair promotional image

All Majors Career Fair

Thursday, September 25, 2025 11:00am to 4:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

This job and internship fair will focus on recruiting students in ALL MAJORS! Typically about 100+ employers attend and 1,000+ students attend!

Visit careers.uiowa.edu/all-majors-career-fair for more details.

DeLTA Center Roundtable Discussion: Lucas Silva promotional image

DeLTA Center Roundtable Discussion: Lucas Silva

Friday, September 19, 2025 9:00am to 10:20am
Lindquist Center

The DeLTA Center Roundtable Discussion is an event that expands the interdisciplinary research community by promoting reciprocal interactions between basic and applied researchers. These events showcase presenters from a wide variety of academic disciplines and an open discussion about implications of the presenter's ideas across fields of study and research. This roundtable event features Dr. Lucas Silva. Lucas is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Iowa.

Towards...

Dept. of Computer Science - New Student Meet and Greet promotional image

Dept. of Computer Science - New Student Meet and Greet

Thursday, September 18, 2025 3:30pm to 5:00pm
University Capitol Centre

Inviting all new undergraduate Computer Science, Informatics, Computer Science & Engineering, Data Science students — and others pondering a degree in those disciplines!

Two sessions:

3:30-4:15pm, or

4:15-5:00pm

Come enjoy a free cookie and meet our Department Chair, Prof. Alberto Segre, Director of  Undergraduate Studies, Prof. Liza Kleiman, academic advisors, as well as representatives from our student groups, ACM and WiCS, and your fellow students.

Please help us plan by submitting your RSVP by...

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Study Abroad Fair

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 11:00am to 3:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

Discover short-term and semester study and internship programs that let you earn academic credit while immersing yourself in new cultures. Connect with study abroad advisors, faculty program directors, former participants, and academic advisors to see how international experiences can enhance your time at UI!

Fall Engineering Career Fair promotional image

Fall Engineering Career Fair

Thursday, September 11, 2025 11:00am to 4:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
Fall 2025 Engineering Career Fair
Leaders in Discovery: Understanding 'Forever Chemicals' in Soil and Groundwater with Linda Abriola promotional image

Leaders in Discovery: Understanding 'Forever Chemicals' in Soil and Groundwater with Linda Abriola

Monday, September 8, 2025 3:30pm to 5:30pm
Old Capitol Museum

Linda Abriola, a nationally recognized environmental engineer and member of the National Academy of Engineering, will deliver the second talk in the University of Iowa's "Leaders in Discovery" series.

Abriola is the Joan Wernig and E. Paul Sorensen Professor of Engineering at Brown University and former dean of the Tufts University School of Engineering. Her research focuses on how contaminants move through soil and groundwater — and how we can better predict and manage their impact.

In this...

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