Current Seminars
MCS Seminars
- The Computer Science Theory Seminar is held jointly with the CS department.
- The Combinatorics and Probability Seminar
- The Departmental Colloquium occasionally has MCS speakers
Graduate Student Seminars
External MCS Visitors and Speakers
2024-2025
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Emily Heath | Cal Poly Pomona | 4/28/2025 |
| Abishek Dhawan | UIUC | 3/31/2025 |
| Ji Zhu | University of Michigan | 3/14/2025 |
| Zachary Chase | UCSD | 3/10/2025 |
| Mathias Schacht | University of Hamburg | 2/17/2025 |
| Jacob Richey | Rényi Institute | 11/18/2024 |
| Tom Bohman | CMU | 11/11/2024 |
| Himanshu Gupta | Regina | 11/7/2024 |
| Corrine Yap | Georgia Tech | 10/28/2024 |
| Jeffrey Kuan | TAMU | 10/14/2024 |
| Gil Kur | ETH Zurich | 9/30/2024 |
| Julian Sahasrabudhe | Cambridge | 9/23/2024 |
| Maria Chudnovsky | Princeton | 9/20/2024 |
| Emily Barnard | De Paul | 9/6/2024 |
2023-2024
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| James Anderson | Georgia Tech | 4/22/2024 |
| Patrick Lutz | UC Berkeley | 5/19/2024 |
| Cosmin Pohoata | Emory | 3/29/2024 |
| Mark Rudelson | University of Michigan | 2/16/2024 |
| Matthew Kwan | IST Austria | 2/14/2024 |
| Anurag Sahay | Purdue | 2/12/2024 |
| Manolis Vlatakis | Berkeley | 1/22/2024 |
| Anton Bernshteyn | Georgia Tech | 1/19/2024 |
| Tomer Galanti | MIT | 1/12/2024 |
| Dmitry Kunisky | Yale | 1/11/2024 |
| Siting Liu | UCLA | 1/10/2024 |
| Caroline Terry | Ohio State | 12/8/2023 |
| Lior Gishboliner | ETH Zurich | 12/5/2023 |
| Zihan Tan | Rutgers | 10/18/2023 |
| Will Perkins | Georgia Tech | 10/9/2023 |
| Liana Yepremyan | Emory | 10/6/2023 |
| Huy Tuan Pham | Stanford | 9/25/2023 |
| Oren Yakir | Tel Aviv | 9/11/2023 |
| Jozsef Balogh | UIUC | 9/1/2023 |
2022-2023
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Sean O'Rourke | CU Boulder | 4/17/2023 |
| Fernando Granha Jeronimo | IAS | 2/24/2023 |
| Hailun Zheng | University of Houston | 2/22/2023 |
| Hoi Nguyen | Ohio State | 2/20/2023 |
| Matthew Harrison-Trainor | University of Michigan | 2/17/2023 |
| Sami Davies | Northwestern | 12/9/2022 |
| Xiaoyu He | Princeton | 12/8/2022 |
| Rachel Greenfeld | IAS | 12/7/2022 |
| Ilias Zadik | MIT | 12/5/2022 |
| Bhargav Narayanan | Rutgers | 11/18/2022 |
| Leonardo Coregliano | IAS | 11/16/2022 |
| Alexander Barvinok | University of Michigan | 11/11/2022 |
| Huy Tuan Pham | Stanford | 11/4/2022 |
| Thuy-Duong Vuong | Stanford | 10/31/2022 |
| Nikhil Bansal | University of Michigan | 10/28/2022 |
| Aadirupa Saha | TTI-C | 10/18/2022 |
| Hunter Spink | Stanford | 10/17/2022 |
| Christian Gorski | Northwestern | 10/3/2022 |
| Julia Gaudio | Northwestern | 9/19/2022 |
2021-2022 (in-person and virtual talks)
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Keziah Naggita | TTI-C | 4/27/2022 |
| Aravind Reddy | Northwestern | 4/20/2022 |
| Pjotr Buys | University of Amsterdam | 4/11/2022 |
| Aaron Potechin | University of Chicago | 4/6/2022 |
| Youngtak Sohn | MIT | 4/4/2022 |
| Jafar Jafarov | University of Chicago | 3/30/2022 |
| Jacob Richey | UBC | 3/28/2022 |
| Kevin Stangl | TTI-C | 3/16/2022 |
| Eren Kizildag | MIT | 3/14/2022 |
| Shuangping Li | Princeton | 3/7/2022 |
| Omar Montassir | University of Chicago | 2/16/2022 |
| Damek Davis | Cornell University | 2/9/2022 |
| Truong Son Hy | University of Chicago | 1/26/2022 |
| Eric Bates | Wisconsin | 11/29/2021 |
| Sean O'Rourke | CU Boulder | 11/22/2021 |
| Cosmin Pohoata | Yale | 11/19/2021 |
| Patrick Bennett | Western Michigan University | 11/17/2021 |
| Chris Jones | University of Chicago | 11/10/2021 |
| Julia Gaudio | Northwestern | 11/8/2021 |
| Oren Yakir | Tel Aviv | 11/1/2021 |
| Sami Davies | Northwestern | 10/20/2021 |
| Evgeni Dimitrov | Columbia | 10/11/2021 |
| Ewan Davies | CU Boulder | 9/27/2021 |
| Corrine Yap | Rutgers | 9/13/2021 |
2020-2021 (virtual talks)
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Swee Hong Chan | UCLA | 4/27/2021 |
| Asaf Ferber | UC Irvine | 4/12/2021 |
| Mehtaab Sawhney | MIT | 4/5/2021 |
| Corrine Yap | Rutgers | 3/29/2021 |
| Nick Cook | Duke | 3/15/2021 |
| Lina Li | Waterloo | 3/8/2021 |
| Izabella Stuhl | Penn State | 3/1/2021 |
| Matan Harel | Northeastern | 2/22/2021 |
| Mark Huber | Claremont McKenna | 2/15/2021 |
| Ewan Davies | CU Boulder | 2/8/2021 |
| - - - the MCS seminars were suspended for the first half of 2010-2021 due to COVID before resuming virtually - - - - | ||
2019-2020
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| - - - - - - - - - - our seminars and colloquia were suspended for the remainder of 2019-2020 due to COVID - - - - - - - - - - | ||
| Ricky Liu | NC State | 2/26/2020 |
| Lisa Hellerstein | NYU Tandon | 2/25/2020 |
| Clément Canonne | IBM Research Almaden | 2/19/2020 |
| Gabor Berend | University of Szeged | 2/18/2020 |
| Alexey Pokrovskiy | Birkbeck, London | 2/17/2020 |
| Greg Bodwin | Georgia Tech | 2/14/2020 |
| Cynthia Vinzant | NC State | 2/12/2020 |
| Andrew Suk | UCSD | 2/6/2020 |
| Caroline Terry | University of Chicago | 2/5/2020 |
| Alexander Golovnev | Harvard | 1/31/2020 |
| Vishesh Jain | MIT | 1/29/2020 |
| Ilias Diakonikolas | UW Madison | 1/17/2020 |
| Yury Makarychev | TTI-C | 12/4/2019 |
| Elton Hsu | Northwestern | 11/18/2019, 11/25/2019 |
| Alex Wein | NYU Courant | 11/20/2019 |
| Xue Cheng | Northwestern | 11/13/2019 |
| Matthew Jenssen | Oxford | 11/11/2019 |
| Simina Brânzei | Purdue | 11/5/2019 |
| Sami Davies | University of Washington | 11/4/2019 |
| Gweneth McKinley | MIT | 10/28/2019 |
| Karthik Chandrasekaran | UIUC | 10/22/2019 |
| Antonio Auffinger | Northwestern | 10/21/2019 |
| Qiang Zeng | CUNY | 10/14/2019 |
| Zilin Jiang | MIT | 9/30/2019 |
| Hao Huang | Emory | 9/13/2019 |
| Vishesh Jain | MIT | 10/9/2019 |
| Anush Tserunyan | UIUC | 10/7/2019 |
| Changji Xu | University of Chicago | 9/30/2019 |
| Akash Kumar | Purdue | 9/25/2019 |
| Arturs Backurs | TTI-C | 9/4/2019 |
| Youming Qiao | University of Technology Sydney | 8/28/2019 |
2018-2019
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Andrzej Dudek | Western Michigan University | 4/29/2019 |
| Samantha Petti | Georgia Tech | 4/22/2019 |
| Balázs Szörényi | Yahoo! Research | 4/15/2019 |
| Nikhil Srivastava | UC Berkeley | 4/12/2019 |
| Andrew Suk | UCSD | 4/8/2019 |
| Bhargav Narayanan | Rutgers | 3/8/2019 |
| John Wright | MIT | 2/27/2019 |
| Nima Anari | Stanford | 2/26/2019 |
| Alex Psomas | CMU | 2/25/2019 |
| Yu Cheng | Duke | 2/21/2019 |
| Euiwoong Lee | NYU Courant | 2/18/2019 |
| Subhabrata Sen | MSR NE and MIT | 2/15/2019 |
| Matthew Jenssen | Oxford | 12/3/2018 |
| Bridget Tenner | DePaul | 11/16/2018 |
| Ruth Luo | UIUC | 11/12/2018 |
| Steve Hanneke | TTI-C | 11/5/2018 |
| Avi Wigderson | IAS | 11/2/2018 |
| David Galvin | Notre Dame | 10/29/2018 |
| Hemanshu Kaul | IIT | 10/15/2018 |
| Peter L. Erdos | Rényi Institute | 10/8/2018 |
| Lihong Zhi | ICERM | 10/5/2018 |
2017-2018
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Stephane Gaubert | INRIA and École Polytechnique | 5/23/2018 |
| Jacques Verstraete | UCSD | 3/30/2018 |
| Avrim Blum | TTI-C | 3/16/2018 |
| Tom Bohman | CMU | 3/5/2018 |
| Bhargav Narayanan | Rutgers | 2/21/2018 |
| Joseph M. Landsberg | Texas A&M University | 2/16/2018 |
| Daniel Lokshtanov | University of Bergen | 2/5/2018 |
| John Wilmes | Georgia Tech | 1/19/2018 |
| Will Perkins | University of Birmingham | 1/18/2018 |
| Florian Frick | Cornell | 1/9/2018 |
| Joshua Cooper | University of South Carolina | 10/23/2017 |
| Benjamin Reiniger | IIT | 10/9/2017 |
2016-2017
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Boris Bukh | CMU | 4/17/2017 |
| Yi Zhao | Georgia State University | 3/13/2017 |
| Dimitris Diochnos | University of Virginia | 3/7/2017 |
| Tom Bohman | CMU | 3/6/2017 |
| Ilya Volkovich | University of Michigan | 2/27/2017 |
| Lisa Hellerstein | NYU Tandon | 2/17/2017 |
| Andrzej Dudek | Western Michigan University | 2/13/2017 |
| Radoslav Fulek | IST Austria | 12/5/2016 |
| Michael Overton | NYU Courant | 11/4/2016 |
| Jacques Verstraete | UCSD | 10/10/2016 |
2015-2016
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Aravindan Vijayaraghavan | Northwestern | 5/2/2016 |
| Ingrid Daubechies | Duke | 2/26/2016 |
| Mohit Bansal | TTI-C | 2/15/2016 |
| Josh Zahl | MIT | 11/23/2015 |
| Noga Alon | IAS/Tel Aviv University | 11/20/2015 |
| Miklos Ruszinko | Renyi Institute and Memphis | 10/19/2015 |
| Jason Hartline | Northwestern | 10/9/2015 |
| Yisong Yue | Caltech | 10/5/2015 |
| Antonis Kakas | University of Cyprus | 10/1/2015 |
| Apoorva Khare | Stanford | 9/28/2015 |
| Greg Kuperberg | UC Davis | 9/16/2015, 9/17/2015 |
2014-2015
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Matus Telgarsky | University of Michigan | 5/6/2015 |
| Gyula O. H. Katona | Rényi Institute | 4/20/2015 |
| Loizos Michael | Open University of Cyprus | 3/18/2015 |
| Pooya Hatami | University of Chicago | 3/16/2015 |
| Jacques Verstraete | UCSD | 3/9/2015 |
| Alan Frieze | CMU | 3/2/2015 |
| Choongbum Lee | MIT | 12/10/2014 |
| Maryam Sharifzadeh | UIUC | 10/27/2014 |
| Choongbum Lee | MIT | 10/20/2014 |
| Avi Wigderson | IAS | 10/15/2014-10/17/2014 |
| Jozsef Dombi | University of Szeged | 9/22/2014 |
2013-2014
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Saieed Akbari | Sharif University and IPM | 7/28/2014 |
| Julia Ehrenmuller | Technical University of Munich | 6/23/2014 |
| Richard Microft | Birmingham | 4/2/2014 |
| Rakesh Vohra | UPenn | 3/21/2014 |
| Hoi Nguyen | Ohio State | 2/26/2014 |
| Ammera Chowdhuri | CMU | 2/5/2014 |
| Lisa Hellerstein | NYU Poly | 1/22/2014 |
| Benjamin Moseley | TTI-C | 11/20/2013 |
| Samory Kpotufe | TTI-C | 10/23/2013 |
2012-2013
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Jan Volec | University of Warwick | 5/17/2013 |
| Will Perkins | Georgia Tech | 5/8/2013 |
| Lek-Heng Lim | University of Chicago | 4/26/2013 |
| Bernard Lidicky | UIUC | 4/24/2013 |
| Rick Wilson | Caltech | 4/17/2013 |
| Anthony Man-Cho So | CUHK | 4/2/2013 |
| Wojtek Samotij | Tel Aviv and Cambridge | 3/13/2013 |
| Ping Hu | UIUC | 2/27/2013 |
| Carl Miller | University of Michigan | 2/13/2013 |
| Madhur Tulsiani | TTI-C | 1/30/2013 |
| Andrew Suk | MIT | 1/16/2013 |
| Ágnes Tóth | Rényi Institute | 12/6/2012 |
| Wesley Pegden | NYU Courant | 12/5/2012 |
| Benny Sudakov | UCLA | 11/2/2012 |
2011-2012
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Karell Bertet | La Rochelle University | 5/21/2012 |
| Salem Benferhat | CRIL-CNRS and Artois University | 5/17/2012 |
| Jozsef Balogh | UIUC | 4/27/2012 |
| Kira Adaricheva | Yeshiva University | 4/25/2012 |
| Pedro J. Freitas | University of Lisbon Portugal | 4/23/2012 |
| Saúl Blanco | DePaul | 4/18/2012 |
| Afshin Behmaram | University of Tehran Iran | 4/11/2012 |
| Matthew Yancey | UIUC | 4/9/2012 |
| Tom Bohman | Carnegie Mellon | 3/16/2012 |
| Andrzej Dudek | Western Michigan University | 3/7/2012 |
| Ferdinando Cicalese | University of Salerno | 2/16/2012 |
| Raphael Loewy | Technion | 2/8/2012 |
| Lev Reyzin | Georgia Tech | 1/18/2012 |
| Luke Postle | Georgia Tech | 10/12/2011 |
2010-2011
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Alexander Barvinok | University of Michigan | 4/20/2011 |
| Alexander Kostochka | UIUC | 4/13/2011 |
| Ernie Davis | NYU Courant | 4/12/2011 |
| Andrew Treglown | Birmingham | 4/6/2011 |
| Stephane Gaubert | INRIA | 4/6/2011 |
| Hal Kierstead | Arizona State University | 4/4/2011 |
| Pedro J. Freitas | University of Lisbon | 3/16/2011 |
| Jacob Fox | MIT | 12/3/2010 |
| Tim Hinrichs | University of Chicago | 12/1/2010 |
| Ketan Mulmuley | University of Chicago | 11/17/2010 |
| Peter L. Erdos | Rényi Institute | 11/10/2010 |
| Christine T. Cheng | UW - Milwaukee | 10/27/2010 |
| Peter L. Erdos | Rényi Institute | 10/13/2010 |
| Jozsef Balogh | UIUC | 9/22/2010 |
2009-2010
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Yuri Makarychev | TTI-C | 3/29/2010 |
| Martin C. Golumbic | University of Haifa | 2/22/2010 |
| Alexander Razborov | University of Chicago | 2/8/2010 |
| Janos Simon | University of Chicago | 2/1/2010 |
| Zhilong Zhang | UIUC | 12/2/2009 |
| Hal Schenck | UIUC | 10/29/2009 |
| Morteza Deghani | Northwestern | 11/23/2009 |
| Eyal Amir | UIUC | 11/2/2009 |
| Jeong Han Kim | NIMS Seoul | 10/16/2009 |
2008-2009
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Tao Jiang | Miami University of Ohio | 4/1/2009 |
| Penny Haxell | University of Waterloo | 3/30/2009 |
| David Galvin | Notre Dame | 3/11/2009 |
| Yi Zhao | Georgia State University | 3/4/2009 |
| Ken Takata | Hamline University | 2/25/2009 |
| Alan Frieze | Carnegie Mellon University | 2/2/2009 - 2/6/2009 |
| Malcom Atkinson | University of Edinburgh | 12/5/2008 |
| Bridget Tenner | Depaul | 10/15/2008 |
| Jozsef Balog | UIUC | 10/8/2008 |
| Oleg Pikhurko | Carnegie Mellon | 10/1/2008 |
| Arash Rafiey Hafshejani | Simon Fraser | 9/24/2008 |
2007-2008
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Janos Pach | City College and NYU Courant | 4/23/2008 |
| Damir Dzhafarov | University of Chicago | 4/3/2008 |
| Emanuele Viola | Columbia University | 2/13/2008 |
| Marcus Schaefer | CTI DePaul | 10/24/2007 |
| Thomas Hayes | TTI-C | 10/17/2007 |
| Matjaz Konvalinka | MIT | 10/10/2007 |
| Caroline Klivans | University of Chicago | 9/19/2007 |
2006-2007
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Hemanshu Kaul | IIT | 4/4/2007 |
| Benny Sudakov | Princeton | 3/21/2007, 3/23/2007 |
| Gyorgy Elekes | Memphis and Eotvos University | 2/19/2007 |
| Peter Keevash | Caltech | 12/11/2006 |
| Laszlo Babai | University of Chicago | 12/8/2006 |
| Tamas Horvath | Fraunhofer Institut and University of Bonn | 12/6/2006 |
| Raphael Loewy | Technion | 11/8/2006 |
| Bridget Tenner | DePaul | 11/1/2006 |
| Markus Schweighofer | University of Konstanz | 9/29/2006 |
2005-2006
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Bela Bollobas | Cambridge and University of Memphis | 4/7/2006 |
| John Talbot | University College London | 4/5/2006 |
| Alexandr Kostochka | UIUC | 2/22/2006 |
| Jan Vondrak | Microsoft | 2/15/2006 |
| Martin C. Golumbic | University of Haifa | 11/21/2005 |
| Peter Keevash | Caltech | 11/16/2005 |
| Jaikumar Radhakrishnan | TTI-C and Tata Institute | 11/9/2005 |
| Fred J. Hickernell | IIT | 11/4/2005 |
| Leonid Gurvits | Los Alamos National Laboratory | 11/2/2005 |
| Gruia Calinescu | IIT | 9/21/2005 |
| Carly Klivans | University of Chicago | 9/14/2005 |
| Eli Ben-Sasson | TTI-C and University of Chicago | 9/7/2015 |
2004-2005
| Name | Institution | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Kyle Peterson | Brandeis | 4/20/2005 |
| Oleg Pikhurko | Carnegie Mellon University | 4/13/2005 |
| Klas Markstrom | Umeå University | 4/6/2005 |
| Ryan Martin | Iowa State University | 3/16/2005 |
| Evelina Toumpakari | University of Chicago | 12/1/2004 |
| Carly Klivans | University of Chicago | 11/17/2004 |
| Jason Williford | Albion College | 11/2/2004 |