Frontier Lecture Series
The goal is to introduce the audience to a wide gamut of research topics spanning across various facets of Computer Science through lectures by highly renowned researchers from all over the world.Oct 2020
Accelerator-level Parallelism
Dr. Mark D. Hill, Gene M. Amdahl and John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
– 15/10/2020 at 6:30 pm
Lecture Video Recording: 
Feb 2020
How AI and Cloud Innovations are Transforming the Future of Computing
Dr. Giovanni Pacifici, Vice President, Hybrid Cloud, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
– 26/02/2020 at 4:00 pm
MRC Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science
Lecture Video Recording:
Jan 2020
Algorithmic fairness in online decision-making
Avrim Blum, Professor and Chief Academic Officer, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC)
– 29/01/2020 at 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science
Lecture Video Recording:
The Power of Encounters
Peter Druschel, Director, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
– 29/01/2020 at 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science
Lecture Video Recording:
Law and Algorithms: A Cryptographic Lens
Ran Canetti, IACR Fellow, Boston University
– 23/01/2020 at 4:00 pm
Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science
Lecture Video Recording:
Secure Multiparty Computation
Yuval Ishai, Abraham Tulin Professor of Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
– 17/01/2020 at 4:00 pm
Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science
Lecture Video Recording:
Machine learning models: From birth to serving the real world
Prof. Sunita Sarawagi, Institute Chair Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
– 08/01/2020 at 4:00 pm
Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science
Lecture Video Recording:
Dec 2019
A Graph-Theorist's Perspective on the Quest for Dichotomy
Pavol Hell, Professor of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University
– 06/12/2019 at 4:00 pm
Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science
Lecture Video Recording:
Nov 2019
An Algorithmic View of Smart Living: The Next Frontier
Sajal K. Das, Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair, Department of Computer Science, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
– 29/11/2019 at 4:00 pm
Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science
Lecture Video Recording:
State of Permissionless and Permissioned Blockchains: Myths and Reality
Dr. C. Mohan, IBM Fellow, IBM Almaden Research Center and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in China
– 21/11/2019 at 2:30 pm
Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science
Lecture Video Recording:
Towards a Blend of Machine Learning and Microeconomics
Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley
– 07/11/2019 at 10:00 am
Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science
Due to health reasons, Prof. Mike Jordan has cancelled his visit to Bangalore. Hence, the talk stands cancelled. Inconvenience caused is deeply regretted .
Lecture Video Recording:
Oct 2019
High Throughput Computing in the Service of Scientific Discovery
Prof. Miron Livny, John P. Morgridge Professor of Computer Science Center for High Throughput Computing University of Wisconsin-Madison
– 28/10/2019 at 4:00 pm
Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science
Lecture Video Recording:
Aug 2019
Shuffling Chromosomes, Chasing Kangaroos and Other Mathematical Curiosities
Prof. Prasad Tetali, Regents’ Professor, School of Mathematics and School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
– 22/08/2019 at 4:00 pm
Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science
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The Multi-armed Bandit Problem Revisited
Prof. P.R.Kumar, Professor and College of Engineering Chair in Computer Engineering Texas A&M University, USA
– 08/08/2019 at 4:00 pm
Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science
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