Improving Accessibility in Computing Courses: Open office hours
Drop-in (online via Zoom) office hours for computing instructors to talk through, co-design, or evaluate efforts to make computing course resources more accessible. Potential topics include broad overviews on digital accessibility, discuss auditing and remediation strategies for specific types of content (e.g. PDFs, websites, videos, math, diagrams), or co-develop a plan for implementing accessibility (for example, making a checklist, planning TA or staff trainings, or evaluating automated tools and their shortcomings).
Join the Zoom session during these times:
Thu, Sept 18 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Oct 6 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Oct 16 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Nov 3 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Nov 20 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Dec 1 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Dec 18 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Consultants: Kevin Lin and Matt Wang, Kevin Lin and Matt Wang are both teaching professors at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. They have prior experience in and are happy to consult about web…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98992837185. Accessibility Contact: doit@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Information Sessions. Special Events. Academics. Target Audience: Computing instructors.
Monday, November 3, 2025, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Race, Disability & Technology Initiative: Annual convening
Spark new ideas | Collaborate | Discuss future work
We invite researchers and community partners to our annual convening of the Race, Disability, and Technology Initiative. Current and past grantees will discuss their research and community partnerships, and together we’ll brainstorm possible new topics and avenues of research. There will also be a short overview of RDT grant opportunities.
Register by October 28 so we have enough food for all.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE2). Campus room: 371. Accessibility Contact: create-contact@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Information Sessions. Meetings. Special Events. Target Audience: UW faculty, students, staff investigating the intersection of race, disability, and technology.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit create.uw.edu. Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Talk: Generative Keyframing
Speaker: Xiaojuan Wang, Advisors: Brian Curless, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Steven Seitz, Supervisory Committee: Brian Curless (Chair), Steven M Seitz (Chair), Tivon C. Rice (GSR, Digital Arts and Experimental Media), Aleksander K. Holynski (Google/Berkeley), Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Abstract: Video is one of the most expressive forms of storytelling, conveying motion, emotion, and narrative through the temporal orchestration of frames. A fundamental concept in video creation is keyframing---the specification of important frames that define how motion and composition evolve over time. In practice, this involves three components: defining and creating keyframes, arranging them along the timeline, and producing inbetween transitions.
Traditional keyframing relies heavily on heuristics and, at times, manual labor to implement these components. With the rapid progress of visual generative models, this thesis investigates how the concept of keyframing---long used in conventional video creation---can be…
Monday, November 10, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Veterans Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. CREATE-HuskyADAPT Panel Discussion
Details TBA. Stay tuned for speakers and topics.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Paul G. Allen Center For Computer Science & Engineering (CSE). Campus room: Gates Commons. Accessibility Contact: apfist8@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Information Sessions. Meetings. Special Events. Lectures/Seminars. Student Activities. Target Audience: UW students interested in accessibility.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Distinguished Lecture Series: Hoifung Poon - Learning the Language of Patients: Multimodal Generative AI for Precision Health
Abstract
The dream of precision health is to develop a data-driven, continuous learning system where new health information is instantly incorporated to optimize care delivery and accelerate biomedical discovery. The confluence of technological advances and social policies has led to rapid digitization of multimodal, longitudinal patient journeys, such as electronic health records (EHRs), imaging, and multiomics. Our overarching research agenda lies in advancing multimodal generative AI for precision health, where we harness real-world data to pretrain powerful multimodal patient embedding, which can serve as digital twins for patients. This enables us to synthesize multimodal, longitudinal information for millions of cancer patients, and apply the population-scale real-world evidence to advancing precision oncology in deep partnerships with real-world stakeholders such as large health systems and life sciences companies. BioHoifung Poon is the General Manager of Real-World Evidence at Microsoft Research…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Gates Center (CSE2), G20 | Amazon Auditorium.
For more info visit www.cs.washington.edu. Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Talk: Towards Flexible and Efficient Datacenter TCP Stacks
Speaker: Rajath Shashidhara, Advisor: Simon Peter, Supervisory Committee: Simon Peter (Chair), Ang Li (GSR, Electrical and Computer Engineering), Tom Anderson, Antoine Kaufmann (MPI-SWS), Arvind Krishnamurthy, Abstract TBA.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Improving Accessibility in Computing Courses: Open office hours
Drop-in (online via Zoom) office hours for computing instructors to talk through, co-design, or evaluate efforts to make computing course resources more accessible. Potential topics include broad overviews on digital accessibility, discuss auditing and remediation strategies for specific types of content (e.g. PDFs, websites, videos, math, diagrams), or co-develop a plan for implementing accessibility (for example, making a checklist, planning TA or staff trainings, or evaluating automated tools and their shortcomings).
Join the Zoom session during these times:
Thu, Sept 18 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Oct 6 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Oct 16 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Nov 3 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Nov 20 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Dec 1 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Dec 18 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Consultants: Kevin Lin and Matt Wang, Kevin Lin and Matt Wang are both teaching professors at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. They have prior experience in and are happy to consult about web…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98992837185. Accessibility Contact: doit@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Information Sessions. Special Events. Academics. Target Audience: Computing instructors.
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Talk: Extending Human Capabilities with Deep Learning-Powered Wearables
Speaker: Maruchi Kim, Advisor: Shyam Gollakota, Supervisory Committee: Shyam Gollakota (Chair), Sep Makhsous (GSR, Electrical and Computer Engineering), Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Steven M Seitz, Abstract TBA.
Friday, November 21, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Talk: Approximate Timestamp Storage for Efficient Concurrency Control in On-Disk Data Systems
Speaker: Deukyeon Hwang, Advisor: Simon Peter, Supervisory Committee: Simon Peter (Chair), Radha Poovendran (GSR, Electrical and Computer Engineering), Ratul Mahajan, Adriana Szekeres (VMware), Abstract TBA.
Monday, November 24, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Talk: Delivering Predictable Tail Latency in Data Center Networks
Speaker: Kevin Zhao, Advisor: Thomas Anderson, Supervisory Committee: Tom Anderson (Chair), Akshay Gadre (GSR, Electrical and Computer Engineering), Mohammad Alizadeh (MIT), Ratul Mahajan, Simon Peter, Abstract TBA.
Wednesday, November 26, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Thanksgiving Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, November 27, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Native American Heritage Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, November 28, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Improving Accessibility in Computing Courses: Open office hours
Drop-in (online via Zoom) office hours for computing instructors to talk through, co-design, or evaluate efforts to make computing course resources more accessible. Potential topics include broad overviews on digital accessibility, discuss auditing and remediation strategies for specific types of content (e.g. PDFs, websites, videos, math, diagrams), or co-develop a plan for implementing accessibility (for example, making a checklist, planning TA or staff trainings, or evaluating automated tools and their shortcomings).
Join the Zoom session during these times:
Thu, Sept 18 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Oct 6 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Oct 16 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Nov 3 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Nov 20 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Dec 1 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Dec 18 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Consultants: Kevin Lin and Matt Wang, Kevin Lin and Matt Wang are both teaching professors at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. They have prior experience in and are happy to consult about web…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98992837185. Accessibility Contact: doit@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Information Sessions. Special Events. Academics. Target Audience: Computing instructors.
Monday, December 1, 2025, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Distinguished Lecture Series: Michael Abrash - Reality Labs Research: A look back, a look forward
Abstract
11 years ago, as Michael started what was then called Oculus Research, at Facebook, he gave a talk at UW about the potential he saw in virtual reality. That talk turned out to be a pivotal moment on the path to where what is now called Reality Labs Research, at what is now called Meta. He’ll look at what his goals were back then and how that’s worked out in both expected and surprising ways, where things are today, and what might be coming over the upcoming years. BioMichael Abrash is the Chief Scientist of Facebook Reality Labs, a research laboratory that brings together a world-class R&D team of scientists, developers and engineers to build the future of connection via virtual reality, augmented reality, and wearables. He was graphics leads for the first two versions of Windows NT, teamed with John Carmack on Quake, worked on the first two versions of Microsoft’s Xbox, and helped develop virtual reality at Valve. He is also the author of several books, including Michael Abrash’s Programming Black…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, December 4, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Gates Center (CSE2), G20 | Amazon Auditorium.
For more info visit www.cs.washington.edu. Instruction Ends - Autumn 2025
Dates of Instruction
Instruction ends.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, December 5, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Final Examinations - Autumn 2025
Dates of Instruction
Week of final examinations for autumn quarter.
Event interval: Ongoing event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Saturday, December 6, 2025 – Friday, December 12, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Quarter Break - Winter 2026
Dates of Instruction
Break between autumn and winter quarters.
Event interval: Ongoing event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Saturday, December 13, 2025 – Sunday, January 4, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Improving Accessibility in Computing Courses: Open office hours
Drop-in (online via Zoom) office hours for computing instructors to talk through, co-design, or evaluate efforts to make computing course resources more accessible. Potential topics include broad overviews on digital accessibility, discuss auditing and remediation strategies for specific types of content (e.g. PDFs, websites, videos, math, diagrams), or co-develop a plan for implementing accessibility (for example, making a checklist, planning TA or staff trainings, or evaluating automated tools and their shortcomings).
Join the Zoom session during these times:
Thu, Sept 18 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Oct 6 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Oct 16 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Nov 3 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Nov 20 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Dec 1 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Dec 18 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Consultants: Kevin Lin and Matt Wang, Kevin Lin and Matt Wang are both teaching professors at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. They have prior experience in and are happy to consult about web…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98992837185. Accessibility Contact: doit@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Information Sessions. Special Events. Academics. Target Audience: Computing instructors.
Thursday, December 18, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Christmas Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, December 25, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. New Year's Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, January 1, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Instruction Begins - Winter 2026
Dates of Instruction
Instruction begins.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, January 5, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, January 19, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu.