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BLISS Seminar
About
The BLISS seminar
is the area seminar of the Berkeley Laboratory for Information and System Sciences. Talks at the seminar cover topics including but not limited to information and coding theory, signal processing, optimization, statistics, and control. The list of talks for the current semester can be found below, and past seminars from 2016 onwards are listed here.
Spring 2025
Regular seminar time: Fridays 2 PM - 3 PM PT
Regular seminar venue: Soda Hall 510, UC Berkeley
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To give a talk at the seminar, contact Mert Cemri or Tom Courtade.
Dates marked in bold indicate that talks are at non-regular dates / times.
Recordings of the talks are available here.
Fall 2025 Schedule
| Sep 23 (Soda 510, 4pm-5pm) | Rajesh Sundaresan (IISc) | The four levels of fixed points in mean-field interacting particle systems, with applications to communication networks | details |
| Oct 10 | Beliz Gunel (Google DeepMind) | PRISM: Efficient Long-Range Reasoning With Short-Context LLMs | details |
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Spring 2025 Schedule
| Feb 26 (Soda 510, 3pm-4pm) | Niklas Muennighoff (Stanford University) | s1: Simple test-time scaling | details |
| Mar 14 | Wuyang Chen (SFU) | PDE-Controller: LLMs for Autoformalization and Reasoning of PDEs | details |
| Mar 31 (Simons Institute, Room 116, 2pm-3pm) | Xiangxiang Xu (MIT) | Deep Learning From an Information Perspective | details |
| Apr 18 | Berivan Isik (Google) | Beyond Pretraining Loss: Evaluating Value of Pretraining Data for Large Language Models at Scale | details |
| Jun 17 (Soda 510, 11am-12pm) | Ameet Talwalkar (CMU & Datadog) | Why AI Needs Specialization | details |
| Jun 19 (Cory 531, 11am-12:30pm) | Chandra Nair (CUHK) | Information Inequalities on Additive Structures | details |
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