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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 2026
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.
Spring 2026 Schedule
| Jan 30 | Audrey Cheng (UC Berkeley) | Rethinking Transaction Scheduling for Database Performance | details |
| Feb 5, 3pm | Ziteng Sun (Google Research) | Advances in Accelerating LLM Inference and Test-Time Compute Through Speculative Drafts | details |
| Feb 20 | Amin Gohari (CUHK) | The Auxiliary Receiver Approach in Network Information Theory | details |
| Feb 27 | Ahmad Beirami (Google DeepMind) | TBD | TBD |
| Mar 19, 10am | Kangwook Lee (KRAFTON AI) | TBD | TBD |
| Apr 10 | Geir Eirik Dullerud (University of Minnesota) | TBD | TBD |
| May 1 | Haipeng Chen (William & Mary) | Steering LLMs with Light-Weight Auxiliary Policy Models using Reinforcement Learning | details |
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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 |
| Nov 14 | Bose Subhonmesh (UIUC) | Autonomous Design in Piecewise-Stationary Environments | details |
| Dec 9 | Andreas Schlaginhaufen (EPFL) | Geometric perspective on reward identifiability and transferability in inverse reinforcement learning | details |
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