Theory Seminar
Welcome to the Fall 2025 series of the University of Massachusetts Computer Science Theory Seminar. The seminar is noon-1 pm on Wednesdays in CS 140, in the Computer Science Building at UMass Amherst, and is free and open to the public. The faculty hosts are Mohammad Hajiesmaili and Hedyeh Beyhaghi. If you are interested in giving a talk, please email the faculty hosts, or Adam Lechowicz. Note that in addition to being a public lecture series, this is also a one-credit graduate seminar (CompSci 891M) that can be taken repeatedly for credit.
All Wednesday talks are in CS 140, unless otherwise stated.
Fall 2025 Schedule of Speakers
NOTE: In order to ensure you get weekly updates for all the talks, please make sure you are part of the seminars@cs.umass.edu mailing list. If you wish to give a talk, or would like to nominate someone to give one, please email us to let us know!
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Wednesday, September 3 @ noon
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Wednesday, September 10 @ noon
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Ellen Vitercik (Stanford) – Wednesday, September 17 @ noon
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Yang Cai (Yale) – Wednesday, September 24 @ noon
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Yan Dai (MIT) – Wednesday, October 1 @ noon
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Vahideh Manshadi (Yale) – Wednesday, October 8 @ noon
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Sid Banerjee (Cornell) – Wednesday, October 15 @ noon
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Wednesday, October 22 @ noon
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Wednesday, October 29 @ noon
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Nico Christianson (Stanford) – Wednesday, November 5 @ noon
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Wednesday, November 12 @ noon
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Wednesday, November 19 @ noon
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No seminar (Thanksgiving break)
Wednesday, November 26
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Wednesday, December 3 @ noon
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