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Sep
26
Northwestern 2025 Tech Career Fair
Engineering Career Development (ECD)
12:00 PM Norris University Center
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Northwestern's 2025 Fall Tech Career Fair
Co-hosted by Department of Computer Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Engineering Career Development Office
Date: Friday, September 26, 2025
12:00pm – 4:00pm
Norris University Center - 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
Join us for the Northwestern 2025 Fall Tech Career Fair, a collaborative in person career fair, connecting you with employers looking for talented students in computer science, data science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, machine learning, and similar programs. This is a great opportunity for you to learn, network and possibly be recruited with various industries. This fair is open to undergraduate, Masters and PhD students for internship, co-ops, and full-time positions.
Registrations for this event will be handled through Handshake, please click here to get started!
Pre-registration is preferred but students will be given access on the day of the event.
Wildcards will be required for all attendees.
Professional Business Attire recommended (No Jeans, Joggers, Sweats/Sweatshirts, or T-Shirts, please)
Check back regularly to see which companies are coming! List is subject to change.
·Conduct company research to better familiarize yourself with companies.
·Search McCormickConnect and Handshakefor available positions and apply for the position(s) ahead of time so companies know you’re interested.
·Be prepared and be ready with your “elevator pitch”.
·Bring copies of your resume and business cards! Resume should be uploaded into McCormickConnect
Engineering Career Development (ECD is here to assist as you prepare for the fair. You can schedule an appointment in McCormickConnect to meet with your dedicated career advisor.
Additional questions, please contact:
Engineering Career Development (ECD) Office
Ford Motor Engineering and Design Center, First Floor, 1.200
847.491.3366
ecd@northwestern.edu
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TIME Friday, September 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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CONTACT Engineering Career Development Staff    ecd@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Engineering Career Development (ECD)
Sep
29
CS Seminar: Zoe Hitzig
Department of Computer Science (CS)
12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)
EVENT DETAILS
Monday / CS Seminar
September 29th / 12:00 PM
Hybrid / Mudd 3514
Speaker
Zoe Hitzig
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TIME Monday, September 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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CONTACT Wynante R Charles    wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
Oct
1
CS Seminar: Designing Quantum Codes using Physics Constraints (Lane Gunderman)
Department of Computer Science (CS)
12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)
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CS Seminar: Designing Quantum Codes using Physics Constraints (Lane Gunderman)
Wednesday / CS Seminar
October 1st / 12:00 PM
Hybrid / Mudd 3514
Speaker
Lane Gunderman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Talk Title
Designing Quantum Codes using Physics Constraints
Abstract
Quantum computers are widely believed to enable massive computational speedups for certain tasks. The downside to quantum computers, due to their very nature, is that they require having reliable information that is extremely susceptible to noise. For this reason quantum error-correction is expected to be needed to perform reliable computations. In this talk I will discuss my work in improving the quality of error-correction through two different approaches. Firstly designing around different platform's qubit characteristics, such as mobility. Secondly, as many qubit devices are a simplification of the physics underlying these systems, I have developed methods for generating quantum error-correcting codes which are perhaps more suitable for these systems and can better leverage the true dynamics of the system.
Biography
Lane is originally from Chicago (or Evanston depending on the year). He obtained Bachelor degrees in physics and math from MIT, then obtained his PhD from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo in Canada in the Fall of 2022. He then worked at Xanadu Quantum Technologies for about a year, then joined HRL for half a year, before joining UIC's ECE department, in the Fall of 2024.
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TIME Wednesday, October 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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CONTACT Wynante R Charles    wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
Oct
2
CANCELLED - BMO Talk
Department of Computer Science (CS)
12:00 PM
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TIME Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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CONTACT Bella Barrios    marbella.barrios@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
Oct
6
NITMB-IDEAL Fall 2025 Kickoff Event
Department of Computer Science (CS)
9:30 AM
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Date: Monday, October 6th 2025
Location: NITMB (The National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology) (875 N. Michigan Avenue, 35th floor, Chicago, Illinois) (Suite 3500)
Building Entrance: 172 E Chestnut St suite 3500, Chicago, IL 60611
Parking and Transportations : https://www.nitmb.org/getting-here
Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSexnDf-PS7bIBrmiMp9rbD-bZ_8KGrQMHqUF7VLyqdv53V08w/viewform
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TIME Monday, October 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
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CONTACT Indira Munoz    indira.munoz@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
Oct
7
Data Warehousing: The Industrial Perspective | ACM Chicago Talk
Department of Computer Science (CS)
6:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)
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Join us in Mudd 3514 for a presentation by Henrietta Dombrovskaya, ACM Chicago Chapter Communications Chair and Illinois Prairie Postgres User Group Organizer for an abbreaviated version of the Data Warehousing: The Industrial Perspective tutorial. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A and information about the Northwestern ACM Chicago Student Chapter.
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Tutorial Title
Data Warehousing: The Industrial Perspective
Abstract
"Like with many other concepts, the theoretical ideas regarding how data warehouses should be organized are rarely followed in real-life systems. The notion of data warehouses as storage for historical, rarely or never changing records used for summary reports, slicing and dicing, and trend analysis do not reflect the most common business needs. In this tutorial, we will closely examine existing business demands and discuss how to support them. In this tutorial, we are going to discuss the data warehousing industry needs and whether these needs are covered by existing commercial offerings. We will outline some known challenges and discuss how new research could address them. We want to convince attendees that data warehouses are more complicated than they are usually thought of and are therefore interesting as a source of research problems."
Presenter
Henrietta Dombrovskaya is a database researcher and practitioner with over 40 years of academic and industrial experience. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Saint Petersburg, Russia. At present she is Database Architect at DRW Holdings in Chicago, IL. Her research interests are focused on developing efficient interactions between applications and databases and implementation of temporal data. Henrietta is an active community member, a PostgreSQL Contributor and a frequent speaker at the PostgreSQL Conferences. She is a founder of Prairie Postgres, a not-forprofit with the goal to promote Postgres education in the Midwest states of the USA.
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TIME Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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CONTACT Bella Barrios    marbella.barrios@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
Oct
9
Adobe Northwestern Workshop
Department of Computer Science (CS)
2:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)
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TIME Thursday, October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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CONTACT Wynante R Charles    wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
Oct
10
Adobe Northwestern Workshop
Department of Computer Science (CS)
9:00 AM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)
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TIME Friday, October 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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CONTACT Wynante R Charles    wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
Oct
15
CS Seminar: Scoring Rules for a Theory of AI (Jason Hartline)
Department of Computer Science (CS)
12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)
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CS Seminar: Scoring Rules for a Theory of AI (Jason Hartline)
Wednesday / CS Seminar
October 15th / 12:00 PM
Hybrid / Mudd 3514
Speaker
Jason Hartline, Northwestern University
Talk Title
Scoring Rules for a Theory of AI
Abstract
Scoring rules are foundational in decision theory and, therefore, are foundational for a developing theory of artificial intelligence. Just as simple models from decision theory provide context for understanding the decisions of complex humans, so too can they for complex AI systems. Bayesian decision theory considers an agent receiving a signal that is correlated with the state, choosing an action, and obtaining a payoff that depends on both the state and action. With Bayesian updating and the revelation principle, the signal becomes a posterior belief and the decision problem becomes a scoring rule. Given a scoring rule, baseline performance is the optimal score under the prior; benchmark performance is the optimal score under the posterior; and the optimal scoring rule — framed as a mechanism design problem — maximizes the difference between them. The talk reviews this theory and applies it to evaluate the value of information, the losses from predictive models, and the accuracy of human and AI decision makers.
Biography
"Prof. Hartline’s research introduces design and analysis methodologies from computer science to understand and improve outcomes of economic, legal, and AI systems. Optimal behavior and outcomes in complex environments are complex and, therefore, should not be expected; instead, the theory of approximation can show that simple and natural behaviors are approximately optimal in complex environments. This approach is applied to auction theory and mechanism design in his graduate textbook Mechanism Design and Approximation which is under preparation.
Prof. Hartline received his Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of Washington under the supervision of Anna Karlin. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Avrim Blum; and subsequently a researcher at Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley. He joined Northwestern University in 2008 where he is a professor of computer science. He was on sabbatical at Harvard University in the Economics Department during the 2014 calendar year and visiting Microsoft Research, New England for the Spring of 2015. He was on sabbatical at Stanford University for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Prof. Hartline is the director of Northwestern’s Online Markets Lab, he was a founding codirector of the Institute for Data, Econometrics, Algorithms, and Learning from 2019-2022, and is a cofounder of virtual conference organizing platform Virtual Chair."
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TIME Wednesday, October 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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CONTACT Wynante R Charles    wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
Oct
23
MS in Information Technology (MSIT) Online Information Session
MS in Information Technology (MSIT) Program
7:00 PM
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Want to join the decision-makers? Register for Northwestern University's Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT) Program Information Session and learn how you can enhance your knowledge of IT and gain the business management skills you need to direct effective IT strategy.
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TIME Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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CONTACT Svetlana Korzeniowski    msit@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR MS in Information Technology (MSIT) Program
Oct
29
Computer Science Public Lecture Series
Department of Computer Science (CS)
4:00 PM Cohen Commons, Technological Institute
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TBA
Free and open to the public.
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TIME Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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CONTACT Wynante R Charles    wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
Oct
30
Bagel Thursday
Department of Computer Science (CS)
9:00 AM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)
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CS Community! Join us for our monthly free bagels and coffee while mingling with fellow faculty and students.
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TIME Thursday, October 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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CONTACT Wynante R Charles    wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
Nov
3
CS Seminar: Aloni Cohen
Department of Computer Science (CS)
12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)
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Monday / CS Seminar
November 3rd/ 12:00 PM
Hybrid / Mudd 3514
Speaker
Aloni Cohen
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TIME Monday, November 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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CONTACT Wynante R Charles    wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
Nov
10
CS Seminar: Aravindan Vijayaraghavan
Department of Computer Science (CS)
12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)
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Monday / CS Seminar
November 10th/ 12:00 PM
Hybrid / Mudd 3514
Speaker
Aravindan Vijayaraghavan
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TIME Monday, November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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CONTACT Wynante R Charles    wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL
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