PL Seminar
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PL Seminar is UW-Madison’s weekly Programming Languages Seminar where presentations are given broadly in the area of programming languages, formal methods, and compilers.
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Fall 2025
Tuesdays 3:00-4:00pm CT; 6631 Morgridge Hall
Organizer: Abtin Molavi
Spring 2025
Wednesdays 12:30-1:15pm CT; CS 3310; 30min presentation + 15min Q&A
Organizer: Abtin Molavi
Fall 2024
Tuesdays 12-1pm CT; CS 4310
Organizer: Amanda Xu
Spring 2024
Mondays 1:10-2pm CT; CS 4310
Fall 2023
Tuesdays 12-1pm CT; CS 3310
Summer 2021
| Date | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| May 21 | Composable, Sound Transformations for Nested Recursion and Loops | Kirshanthan Sundararajah |
Spring 2021
| Date | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 24 (9am CST) | Functional Synthesis: An Ideal Meeting Ground for Formal Methods and Machine Learning | Kuldeep Meel |
| Apr 23 | Synthesis with Uncertainties | Eva Darulova |
| Apr 30 | MANTIS: Semantics-Guided Inductive Program Synthesis | Roopsha Samanta |
Fall 2020
| Date | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 11 | Objectively Measure Developers’ Cognitive Activities: Code, Biases, and Brains | Yu Huang (Univeristy of Michigan) |
| Dec 4 | Expanding the Reach of Fuzz Testing | Caroline Lemieux (UC-Berkeley) |
| Nov 20 | How To Find ML Bugs That Expose Data and Bias Outcomes | Matt Fredrikson (CMU) |
| Nov 13 | On the Design, Implementation, and Use of Laziness in R | Aviral Goel (Northeastern) |
| Nov 6 | Discussion of Resource-Guided Program Synthesis | Qinheping Hu |
| Oct 30 | Discussion of Liquid Information Flow Control | Zachary Susag |
| Oct 23 | Automated Testing and Precision Tuning of Numerical Software | Cindy Rubio-González (UC-Davis) |
| Oct 16 | Discussion of Detecting Numerical Bugs in Neural Network Architectures | Yuhao Zhang |
| Oct 9 | Discussion of Data-Driven Inference of Representation Invariants | Jialu Bao |
| Sep 18 | Resource-Aware Session Types for Digital Contracts | Ankush Das (CMU) |