Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Talk: How Models Learn From Each Other
Speaker: Sarah Pratt, Advisor: Ali Farhadi, Supervisory Committee: Ali Farhadi (Chair), Andrea Stocco (GSR, Psychology), Hanna Hajishirzi, Ranjay Krishna, Abstract TBA.
Friday, October 9, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
HuskyADAPT Toy Adaptation Workshop
HuskyADAPT club members get together to modify switch toys to be more accessible by adding universal jacks.
Register now, Learn more about the HuskyADAPT Toy Adaptation program, Subscribe to HuskyADAPT email list to get updates, Become a HuskyADAPT student club member.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thaddeus and Lois Spratlen Hall (MDR). Campus room: 311. Accessibility Contact: adaptuw@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Student Activities. Workshops. Target Audience: UW HuskyADAPT members.
Friday, October 9, 2026, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
For more info visit www.huskyadapt.me.uw.edu. Virtual Ph.D. Information Session
The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering Ph.D. Program at the University of Washington is a full-time, research-intensive doctoral program that prepares students to become leaders in academia, industry, and research. Ph.D. students work closely with world-renowned faculty on groundbreaking research across a wide range of computer science and computer engineering disciplines while receiving comprehensive financial support, including tuition, health insurance, and a competitive stipend throughout the program.
Our virtual information session is a convenient opportunity for prospective students to learn more about the Allen School Ph.D. Program and connect directly with a panel of current graduate students, and admissions staff. We will provide an overview of the program, research opportunities, funding, student life, and the admissions process, along with practical guidance for preparing a competitive application. Whether you are considering applying this year or planning for a future applicat…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/nPx4hOeDS4S6TARrRUkURg#/registration. Accessibility Contact: grad-admissions@cs.washington.edu. Event Types: Academics. Information Sessions. Target Audience: Applicants.
Monday, October 12, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit www.cs.washington.edu. 🍕 CREATE Student information session 🍕
Join CREATE for a student information session to meet CREATE's new Director of Education, Amy Ko and get an overview of CREATE’s mission and vision: How we support students who are working toward an accessible future, The unique benefits and opportunities that come with membership, Meet other students who are passionate about accessibility, RSVP for pizza and add the event to your calendar, CREATE is the Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences. Our mission is to make technology accessible and to make the world accessible through technology. Our vision is a world where people with disabilities are full participants in shaping tomorrow’s world.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE2). Campus room: 271. Accessibility Contact: oliviapb@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Information Sessions. Student Activities. Target Audience: Current and prospective CREATE students, undergraduate and graduate.
Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit create.uw.edu. Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Talk: Towards Adapting to the Problem Difficulty of Sequential Decision-Making in Combinatorial Settings
Speaker: Arnab Maiti, Advisors: Kevin Jamieson, Lillian Ratliff, Supervisory Committee: KEVIN G JAMIESON (Chair), Lillian Jane Ratliff (Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering), Yingfei Wang (GSR, Business - Foster School of), Haipeng Luo (University of Southern California), Abstract: Sequential decision-making in domains such as multi-armed bandits and Markov
Decision Processes (MDPs) is a widely studied topic. The central goal in these
settings is to select near-optimal actions based on feedback received from the
environment. The performance of sequential decision-making algorithms is
typically evaluated in terms of regret or sample complexity, depending on the
precise formulation of the problem. In both bandits and MDPs, algorithms have
been developed whose guarantees adapt to and reflect the inherent difficulty of
the underlying problem instance.
Motivated by these advances, our work aims to characterize the notion of
problem difficulty in sequential decision-making for more complex…
Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Information Session: Professional Master's in Computer Science
Click here to register for the session!
The Allen School’s Professional Master’s Program (PMP) is a part-time program designed for software professionals in the Puget Sound region interested in acquiring critical skills to move into positions and projects of greater responsibility and impact. Courses meet one weekday evening per week and are taught in-person on the UW Seattle campus.
Online information sessions are a low-barrier opportunity for prospective students to learn more about the PMP and ask questions directly to program staff. We will share information about PMP courses and learning outcomes and an overview of the application process, including tips for preparing your materials. We hope you will join us!
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/s-JzzqWOTAyCx4f1Huaepg. Accessibility Contact: masters@cs.washington.edu. Event Types: Academics. Information Sessions.
Thursday, October 15, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit www.cs.washington.edu. A&A Monday Seminar with ISE's Ashis Banerjee
Structured AI Methods for Real-Time Autonomy in Mobile Robot Systems, Abstract
Structured AI aims to fuse the benefits of classical, analytical techniques with modern-day machine learning approaches by extracting and incorporating the embedded structures in the operating environments. To do so, it draws inspiration from various fields, such as system dynamics, geometry and topology, cognition, and information theory. In this seminar, I will present some of the recent efforts in this direction to augment the visual perception and information gathering capabilities of autonomous mobile robots. Extensive evaluations show enhanced generalization capabilities in cluttered and confined spaces, while reducing computational efforts and (training) data requirements.
Bio
Ashis G. Banerjee is an Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington (UW). Prior to joining UW, he was a Research Scientist at GE Global Research and a Postdoctoral Associate at…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Guggenheim Hall (GUG). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93258516397. Campus room: 218. Accessibility Contact: aafrontdesk@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, October 19, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
🧸 HuskyADAPT Toy Adaptation Workshop
HuskyADAPT club members get together to modify switch toys to be more accessible by adding universal jacks.
Registration opens soon. Check HuskyADAPT's Instagram for updates. Learn more about the HuskyADAPT Toy Adaptation program, Subscribe to HuskyADAPT email list to get updates, Become a HuskyADAPT student club member.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Thaddeus and Lois Spratlen Hall (MDR). Campus room: 311. Accessibility Contact: adaptuw@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Student Activities. Workshops. Target Audience: UW HuskyADAPT members.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit www.huskyadapt.me.uw.edu. Distinguished Lecture Series: Prabhakar Raghavan - Forthcoming
Abstract is forthcoming.
BIO
Prabhakar Raghavan, is Google's Chief Technologist.
, Prabhakar is one of the foremost authorities on Search and is the co-author of two widely-used graduate texts on algorithms and on search: Randomized Algorithms and Introduction to Information Retrieval. He has over 20 years of research spanning algorithms, web search and databases, published over 100 papers in various fields, and holds 20 issued patents, including several on link analysis for web search.
He joined Google in 2012. Most recently, as Google's Senior Vice President for Knowledge & Information (K&I), Prabhakar was responsible for Google’s Search, Ads, Commerce, Geo, Assistant & Gemini products. Under his leadership of K&I, Prabhakar and team introduced AI Overviews in Search, new search modalities like multisearch with Google Lens and Circle to Search, and rebuilt core Search infrastructure, significantly reducing end-user latency and low-quality, unoriginal content in search results. Before that, he…
Thursday, October 22, 2026, 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: Personalizing Intelligence: Sample-Efficient Learning For and From Diverse Users Through Structured Interaction
Speaker: Avinandan Bose, Advisors: Simon S Du, Maryam Fazel, Supervisory Committee: SIMON S DU (Chair), Maryam Fazel (Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering), Lucy Lu Wang (GSR, Information School), Lin Xiao (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Luke Zettlemoyer, Abstract TBA.
Monday, October 26, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
Information Session: Professional Master's in Computer Science
Click here to register for the session!
The Allen School’s Professional Master’s Program (PMP) is a part-time program designed for software professionals in the Puget Sound region interested in acquiring critical skills to move into positions and projects of greater responsibility and impact. Courses meet one weekday evening per week and are taught in-person on the UW Seattle campus.
Online information sessions are a low-barrier opportunity for prospective students to learn more about the PMP and ask questions directly to program staff. We will share information about PMP courses and learning outcomes and an overview of the application process, including tips for preparing your materials. We hope you will join us!
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/s-JzzqWOTAyCx4f1Huaepg. Accessibility Contact: masters@cs.washington.edu. Event Types: Academics. Information Sessions.
Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit www.cs.washington.edu. Virtual Ph.D. Information Session
The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering Ph.D. Program at the University of Washington is a full-time, research-intensive doctoral program that prepares students to become leaders in academia, industry, and research. Ph.D. students work closely with world-renowned faculty on groundbreaking research across a wide range of computer science and computer engineering disciplines while receiving comprehensive financial support, including tuition, health insurance, and a competitive stipend throughout the program.
Our virtual information session is a convenient opportunity for prospective students to learn more about the Allen School Ph.D. Program and connect directly with a panel of current graduate students, and admissions staff. We will provide an overview of the program, research opportunities, funding, student life, and the admissions process, along with practical guidance for preparing a competitive application. Whether you are considering applying this year or planning for a future applicat…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/nPx4hOeDS4S6TARrRUkURg#/registration. Accessibility Contact: grad-admissions@cs.washington.edu. Event Types: Academics. Information Sessions. Target Audience: Applicants.
Thursday, October 29, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit www.cs.washington.edu. Virtual Ph.D. Information Session
The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering Ph.D. Program at the University of Washington is a full-time, research-intensive doctoral program that prepares students to become leaders in academia, industry, and research. Ph.D. students work closely with world-renowned faculty on groundbreaking research across a wide range of computer science and computer engineering disciplines while receiving comprehensive financial support, including tuition, health insurance, and a competitive stipend throughout the program.
Our virtual information session is a convenient opportunity for prospective students to learn more about the Allen School Ph.D. Program and connect directly with a panel of current graduate students, and admissions staff. We will provide an overview of the program, research opportunities, funding, student life, and the admissions process, along with practical guidance for preparing a competitive application. Whether you are considering applying this year or planning for a future applicat…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/nPx4hOeDS4S6TARrRUkURg#/registration. Accessibility Contact: grad-admissions@cs.washington.edu. Event Types: Academics. Information Sessions. Target Audience: Applicants.
Monday, November 9, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit www.cs.washington.edu. Veterans 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: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Wednesday, November 11, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Information Session: Professional Master's in Computer Science
Click here to register for the session!
The Allen School’s Professional Master’s Program (PMP) is a part-time program designed for software professionals in the Puget Sound region interested in acquiring critical skills to move into positions and projects of greater responsibility and impact. Courses meet one weekday evening per week and are taught in-person on the UW Seattle campus.
Online information sessions are a low-barrier opportunity for prospective students to learn more about the PMP and ask questions directly to program staff. We will share information about PMP courses and learning outcomes and an overview of the application process, including tips for preparing your materials. We hope you will join us!
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/s-JzzqWOTAyCx4f1Huaepg. Accessibility Contact: masters@cs.washington.edu. Event Types: Academics. Information Sessions.
Thursday, November 19, 2026, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit www.cs.washington.edu. Virtual Ph.D. Information Session
The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering Ph.D. Program at the University of Washington is a full-time, research-intensive doctoral program that prepares students to become leaders in academia, industry, and research. Ph.D. students work closely with world-renowned faculty on groundbreaking research across a wide range of computer science and computer engineering disciplines while receiving comprehensive financial support, including tuition, health insurance, and a competitive stipend throughout the program.
Our virtual information session is a convenient opportunity for prospective students to learn more about the Allen School Ph.D. Program and connect directly with a panel of current graduate students, and admissions staff. We will provide an overview of the program, research opportunities, funding, student life, and the admissions process, along with practical guidance for preparing a competitive application. Whether you are considering applying this year or planning for a future applicat…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/nPx4hOeDS4S6TARrRUkURg#/registration. Accessibility Contact: grad-admissions@cs.washington.edu. Event Types: Academics. Information Sessions. Target Audience: Applicants.
Monday, November 23, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit www.cs.washington.edu. Thanksgiving 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: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, November 26, 2026.
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: 2026. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, November 27, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Talk: Re-Imagining AI-Powered Augmented Reality for All
Speaker: Jae Lee, Advisor: Jon E Froehlich, Supervisory Committee: JON E FROEHLICH (Chair), Jacob O. Wobbrock (GSR, THE INFORMATION SCHOOL), Ranjay Krishna, Andy Wilson (Microsoft Research), Yuhang Zhao (U of Wisconsin - Madison), Abstract TBA.
Friday, December 4, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
Information Session: Professional Master's in Computer Science
Click here to register for the session!
The Allen School’s Professional Master’s Program (PMP) is a part-time program designed for software professionals in the Puget Sound region interested in acquiring critical skills to move into positions and projects of greater responsibility and impact. Courses meet one weekday evening per week and are taught in-person on the UW Seattle campus.
Online information sessions are a low-barrier opportunity for prospective students to learn more about the PMP and ask questions directly to program staff. We will share information about PMP courses and learning outcomes and an overview of the application process, including tips for preparing your materials. We hope you will join us!
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/meeting/register/s-JzzqWOTAyCx4f1Huaepg. Accessibility Contact: masters@cs.washington.edu. Event Types: Academics. Information Sessions.
Tuesday, December 8, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit www.cs.washington.edu. Instruction Ends - Autumn 2026
Dates of Instruction
Instruction ends.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, December 11, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Final Examinations - Autumn 2026
Dates of Instruction
Week of final examinations for autumn quarter.
Event interval: Ongoing event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Saturday, December 12, 2026 – Friday, December 18, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Quarter Break - Winter
Dates of Instruction
Break between autumn and winter quarters.
Event interval: Ongoing event. Year: 2027. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Saturday, December 19, 2026 – Sunday, January 3, 2027.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Christmas Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2027. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, December 25, 2026.
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: 2027. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, January 1, 2027.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Instruction Begins - Winter 2027
Dates of Instruction
Instruction begins.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2027. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, January 4, 2027.
For more info visit www.washington.edu.