Spring 2026

11 AM-12:30 PM on Fridays
POB 4.116
Presentations Guest Speakers Planning Breaks
Date ↕ Title ↕ Presenter ↕ Resources
January 16th 2026 Bayesian Inference
presentation
Dr. Pingali 📊 Slides
January 23rd 2026 Autonomous Discovery of Sorting Networks with Deep Reinforcement Learning
presentation
Aryan Dua 📊 Slides
January 30th 2026 QMIX
presentation
Eshan 📊 Slides
📄 QMIX: Monotonic Value Function Factorisation for Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
February 6th 2026 Flow Q-Learning
presentation
Sungyoung 📊 Slides
📄 Flow Q-Learning
February 13th 2026 DDPO
presentation
Reina 📊 Slides
📄 Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning
February 20th 2026 GPU programming made easy: CUDA, warps, thread blocks and all that
presentation
Dr. Pingali 📊 Slides
February 27th 2026 GPUs at warp speed
presentation
Dr. Pingali 📊 Slides
March 6th 2026 Shared memory and thread blocks (GPUs Part III)
presentation
Dr. Pingali 📊 Slides
March 13th 2026 Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learning
presentation
Eshan 📄 Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learning
March 20th 2026 Spring Break - No Meeting
break
March 27th 2026 GradFest - No Meeting
break
April 3rd 2026 Trust Region Methods
presentation
Dr. Pingali and Lain
April 10th 2026 TBD
tbd
April 17th 2026 TBD
tbd
April 24th 2026 TBD
tbd
May 1st 2026 TBD
tbd
May 8th 2026 TBD
tbd