The SACT Seminar is held weekly: this semester (S1, 2025), the seminar takes place on Wednesdays, 12:30pm to 2:00pm, in the boardroom (Room 124) of the School of Computer Science Building (J12). (Food is served at 12:30pm; talks at 1pm.) If you are interested in giving a seminar, please contact Zijin Huang.

Schedule

Date Speaker Title
12/02/2025 Siu-Wing Cheng (HKUST) Fréchet Distance in Subquadratic Time
26/02/2025 Clément Canonne The Randomness Complexity of Differential Privacy
12/03/2025 Steven Galbraith (University of Auckland) Open questions about group actions in cryptography
26/03/2025 Sam Sutherland Tensor Networks and Their Use In Quantum Computing
09/04/2025 Eduardo Velloso Algorithmic puzzles from HCI research
30/04/2025 Joachim Gudmundsson Realistic input assumptions for geometric graphs
07/05/2025 Daniel Tubbenhauer How good are (quantum) knot invariants?
09/05/2025 Peaker Guo Algorithms and Combinatorics of String Net Frequency
28/05/2025 Pranav Ghorpade TBC
28/05/2025 3-4pm Hakop Pashayan TBC
04/06/2025 Lindsey Deryckere TBC
11/06/2025 Abigail Gentle TBC