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. Seminar with scholars from Seoul National University
We have two great speakers, both PhD candidates in mechanical engineering from Seoul National University!
1. Youngkwon “YK” Kim, Modular Reconfigurability for Auxiliary Attitude Control
Abstract
The evolution of spaceborne structures is increasingly driven by modular design principles that enable adaptable, scalable, and multifunctional operational capabilities. From deployable arrays to robotic servicing platforms, such modularity is redefining how spacecraft adapt to evolving mission requirements. In this work, we investigate how structural metamorphism within multifunctional modular assemblies can be exploited as an auxiliary attitude-control mechanism for spacecraft. We consider a reconfigurable modular chain–spacecraft assembly in which the modular units can fold, deploy, and reorient relative to one another, thereby altering the overall configuration and tuning the spacecraft’s inertia properties through internal momentum exchange.
To evaluate the resulting attitude-control capability, we develop a…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE2). Campus room: 371. Accessibility Contact: aafrontdesk@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, January 20, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Distinguished Lecture Series: Meredith Ringel Morris - HCI for AGI
Abstract:
The past few years have seen rapid advances in frontier AI models, demonstrating increasing performance and generality. As progress continues toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) scholarship and practice has a critical role to play in ensuring that AI technology is useful to and usable by people to accomplish tasks they value. HCI insights can help us maximize the benefit of AI technologies to individuals, communities, and society while allowing us to understand how to mitigate harms. In this talk, I will describe a research vision for the field of HCI in the AGI era, examining how researchers can facilitate progress toward and adoption of advanced AI via interaction techniques, interface designs, physical form factors, design methods, evaluation methods, benchmarking approaches, and data collection techniques.
Bio:
Meredith Ringel Morris is Director for Human-AI Interaction Research at Google DeepMind. Prior to joining DeepMind, she was Director of the…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Gates Center (CSE2), G20 | Amazon Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, January 29, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Gates Center (CSE2), G20 | Amazon Auditorium.
For more info visit www.cs.washington.edu. Hackathon to design adaptations for people w/ disabilities
Save the date for a hackathon where teams will design adaptations to everyday challenges for people with disabilities!
Students interested in learning about the design and fabrication of such adaptations are encouraged to attend. Saturday, January 31, 12:30-5 p.m. , Bellevue Library Makerspace , Sign-up info to be provided, Attendees will be coached in fabrication skills, including: 3D printing , CAD , lo-fi prototyping , soldering , basic circuitry , sewing , coding, CREATE and HuskyADAPT are partnering with the King County Library System for a second year to host this event.
Bus route suggestion:
From the 15th Ave NE & NE 40th St stop (across from the Population Health building), take the 271 bus until the NE 8th St & 106th Ave NE stop. From there, it is approximately an 11 minute walk to the final destination (1111 110th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA, 98004).
Questions? Email apfist8@uw.edu.
Interested in volunteering to support teams in design and fabrication? Apply by Friday, January 9 at 11:59 p.m.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: apfist8@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Special Events. Student Activities. Target Audience: Teams & individuals interested in design/fabrication of adaptations for people w/ disabilities.
Saturday, January 31, 2026, 12:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Bellevue library.
For more info visit forms.cloud.microsoft. Presidents' 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, February 16, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Talk: Title TBA
Speaker: Bowei Chen, Advisors: Brian Curless, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Steven Seitz, Supervisory Committee: Brian Curless (Chair), Steven M Seitz (Chair), Jeffrey A Bilmes (GSR, Electrical and Computer Engineering), Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Abstract TBA.
Friday, February 27, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Talk: Accelerating Collective Communication for Distributed Machine Learning
Speaker: Liangyu Zhao, Advisors: Arvind Krishnamurthy, Ratul Mahajan, Supervisory Committee: Arvind Krishnamurthy (Chair), Akshay Gadre (GSR, Electrical and Computer Engineering), Baris Kasikci, Ratul Mahajan, Abstract TBA.
Friday, March 6, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Instruction Ends - Winter 2026
Dates of Instruction
Instruction ends.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, March 13, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Final Examinations - Winter 2026
Dates of Instruction
Week of final examinations for winter quarter.
Event interval: Ongoing event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Saturday, March 14, 2026 – Friday, March 20, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Quarter Break - Spring 2026
Dates of Instruction
Break between winter and spring quarters.
Event interval: Ongoing event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Spring. Event Types: Academics.
Saturday, March 21, 2026 – Sunday, March 29, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Instruction Begins - Spring 2026
Dates of Instruction
Instruction begins.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Spring. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, March 30, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Distinguished Lecture Series: Mike Dodds - Forthcoming
Abstract is forthcoming. Bio:
Mike Dodds joined Galois in 2017 as a Principal Scientist. He specializes in applying formal methods to systems engineering problems in areas such as cryptography, distributed protocols, cyber-physical systems, and hardware semantics. Much of Mike’s work has focused on building tools that can be used by non-expert developers as part of their regular engineering workflow.
Mike has led a range of projects at Galois, including our work on CN, a unified testing and verification tool for C code; Daedalus, a safe parsing language developed under the DARPA SafeDocs project; c2rust, a transpiler used by several popular Rust crates; and several verified cryptography projects using SAW and Cryptol, including a long-running collaboration with Amazon Web Services on core components of their AWS-LibCrypto library.
Mike received his PhD from the University of York, UK, in 2008, under the supervision of Dr. Detlef Plump. He then spent four years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Gates Center (CSE2), G20 | Amazon Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, April 16, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Gates Center (CSE2), G20 | Amazon Auditorium.
For more info visit www.cs.washington.edu.