Research Colloquia
Each year, the Allen School welcomes researchers from computer science programs around the world to share their latest research with interested faculty and students. Use our YouTube Channel to find live and archived research colloquia videos online.
UW Allen School Colloquia features accessible talks by leading computer scientists and computer engineers from the University of Washington, the region, the nation, and the world.
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Upcoming Colloquia Events
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Live in Person
Allen School Colloquia typically takes place Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3:30 pm Pacific time in the Amazon Auditorium (G20) in the Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE2) on the University of Washington campus. (The schedule and location of our Distinguished Lecture Series varies.) The public is welcome.
Live Webcast
Our colloquia are streamed live on the Allen School YouTube channel. Live links are available approximately 1 hour before the start of the lecture.
All Events
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Kevin Weil (OpenAI ) May 7, 2026
Mike Dodds (Galois) April 16, 2026
Meredith Ringel Morris (Google DeepMind) January 29, 2026
David Baker (University of Washington) January 15, 2026
Scott Aaronson (The University of Texas at Austin) January 8, 2026
Michael Abrash (Facebook Reality Labs) December 4, 2025
Hoifung Poon (Microsoft Research) November 13, 2025
Learning the Language of Patients: Multimodal Generative AI for Precision Health
David Patterson & Andy Konwinski ((UC Berkeley and Google) and (Laude Institute)) June 3, 2025
Jiayuan Mao (MIT) April 14, 2025
Learning, Reasoning, and Planning with Neuro-Symbolic Concepts
J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira (UC Berkeley) April 10, 2025
The Language of Creation: Pitfalls and Possibilities in Program Design with Generative AI
Yangruibo Ding (Columbia University) April 7, 2025
From Code Generation Towards Software Engineering: Advancing Code Intelligence w/ Language Models
Simran Arora (Stanford University) April 1, 2025
Pareto-efficient AI systems: Expanding the quality and efficiency frontier of AI
Karl Pertsch (UC Berkeley and Stanford University) March 31, 2025
Yue Jiang (Aalto University) March 17, 2025
Olivia Hsu (Stanford University) March 13, 2025
From Language to Silicon: Programming Systems for Sparse Accelerators
Lisa Li (Stanford University) March 4, 2025
Pratyusha Sharma (MIT) March 3, 2025
Discovering and Engineering the Computation Underlying Large Intelligent Agents
Jules Jacobs (Cornell University) February 27, 2025
Alexander Spangher (University of Southern California) February 25, 2025
Rose Wang (Stanford University) February 24, 2025
Scaling Expertise via Language Models: With Applications to Education
Siddharth Karamcheti (Stanford University) February 20, 2025
David Smith (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) February 18, 2025
Jeff Nivala (Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering) February 13, 2025
Toward nanopore protein sequencing for next-generation proteomics and programmable nanotechnology
Craig Mundie (Mundie & Associates) January 7, 2025
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
Marc Raibert (The AI Institute) November 21, 2024
Larry Zitnick (Meta, Inc.) November 14, 2024
Jason Ansel (Meta AI) November 7, 2024
Persi Diaconis (Stanford University) November 1, 2024
Jitendra Malik (UC Berkeley + Meta Inc.) October 31, 2024
Ryan Williams (MIT CSAIL) October 24, 2024
Andrew Owens (University of Michigan) October 18, 2024
Emily Mower Provost (University of Michigan) October 10, 2024
From Speech to Emotion to Mood: Mental Health Modeling in Natural Environments