Barr Prize in Public Speaking Competition
Thursday, April 3
7pm - 8:30pm
Sadler Center, Commonwealth Auditorium

The competition will feature Barr Fellows, outstanding Arts & Sciences Honors seniors, who will have just five minutes to effectively explain their research and its importance to a general audience.

Dissertation Defense - Noah Donald
Friday, April 4
10am - 1pm
Small Hall, Room 122

Noah Donald, "Physics beyond the standard model and Nature’s smallest length scales"


Spring Honors Research Symposium
Friday, April 4
10am - 4pm
Sadler Center, James, York, Tidewater, Chesapeake

The Spring Honors Research Symposium will feature the research of undergraduate W&M seniors from any Arts & Sciences major completing Departmental Honors in a variety of presentation formats. 

Physics Colloquium - Dr. Marianna Safronova
Friday, April 4
4pm - 5pm
Small Hall, Room 111

Dr. Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware & University of Maryland, Title: Quantum Technologies for New-physics Searches in the Laboratory and in Space

CS Schmidt Distinguished Talk: Miryung Kim
Monday, April 7
12pm - 1pm
McGlothlin-Street Hall, Room 020

Title: Software Engineering for Big Data and Heterogeneous Computing

This talk will present automated software engineering techniques (debugging, testing, and refactoring) designed in the domain of data-intensive, scalable, and heterogeneous computing.

Dissertation Defense - Yiqi Yang
Thursday, April 10
3pm - 6pm
Small Hall, Zoom Link

Yiqi Yang, "Exploring Electron Correlation Effects in Two-dimensional Models and Materials: A Quantum Monte Carlo Study"

    Physics Colloquium - Dr. Rachel Hyneman
    Friday, April 11
    4pm - 5pm
    Small Hall, Room 111

    Dr. Rachel Hyneman, University of Arizona, Title: Probing Higgs Boson Self-Interactions at the ATLAS Experiment 

    David Nader, Computer Science - Dissertation Defense
    Monday, April 14
    11:30am - 1pm
    Integrated Science Center (ISC), Room 3280

    David Nader, Computer Science - Dissertation Defense
    Title: Towards a Science of Causal Interpretability in Deep Learning for Software Engineering
    Advisor: Professor Denys Poshyvanyk, PhD
    Virtual: Zoom at [Link]


      Yichen Luo, Computer Science - Thesis Defense
      Wednesday, April 16
      9am - 10am
      Chancellors Hall (formerly Tyler Hall), small seminar

      Yichen Luo, Computer Science - Thesis Defense
      Advisor: Dr. Sidi Lu
      Virtual (Zoom)

        Shaochang Liu, Computer Science - Thesis Defense
        Friday, April 18
        10am - 11am
        Swem Library, group studey 118

        Shaochang Liu, Computer Science - Thesis Defense
        Title: Understanding the Multi-Generational LRU in Linux’s Page Reclaim Mechanism
        Advisor: Dr. Jie Ren
        Virtual: Zoom


          Mathematics Colloquium - Ratnasingham Shivaji, Univ of North Carolina at Greensboro
          Friday, April 18
          2pm - 3pm
          Jones Hall, Room 301

          Uniqueness of Positive Solutions for a Class of Nonlinear Elliptic Equations with Robin Boundary Conditions

          Physics Colloquium - Dr. Ruixing Zhang
          Friday, April 18
          4pm - 5pm
          Small Hall, Room 111

          Dr. Ruixing Zhang, University of Tennessee, Title: Majorana Quasiparticles in Superconducting Vortices

          Sarah Revillar, Computer Science - Thesis Defense
          Thursday, April 24
          2pm - 3:30pm
          McGlothlin-Street Hall

          Sarah Revillar, Computer Science - Thesis Defense
          Title: Incremental Algorithms and System Design for Streaming Graphs
          Advisor: Dr. Pradeep Kumar
          Location: TBD


            Physics Colloquium - Dr. Antonino Di Piazza
            Friday, April 25
            4pm - 5pm
            Small Hall, Room 111

            Dr. Antonino Di Piazza, University of Rochester, Title: Modern Tests of Quantum Electrodynamics in the Strong-field Regime