Beyond the Bytes Undergraduate Seminar Series
Please email Dr. Divya Vernerey at divya.vernerey@colorado.edu.
This seminar is designed for undergraduate students, especially if you're interested in getting involved with undergraduate research or considering grad school. We want to foster meaningful interactions with faculty and introduce you to the rich and fascinating world of computer science beyond the classroom. Talks will be given by leading researchers and educators from the computer science faculty.
Join us for our faculty presentation, and plenty of time for Q&A!
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Fall 2026 Presenters
Aug. 31
Jose Santos
AI infrastructure implications
Sept. 14
Ashutosh Trivedi
Building Trustworthy AI: From Fairness and Security to Legal Compliance
Sept. 21
Vlakkies Schreuder
Unintended Consequences: A history lesson from water rights
Sept. 28
Gerhard Fischer (emeritus)
A Research Framework Focused on ‘AI and Humans’ Instead of ‘AI Versus Humans’
Oct. 5
Kevin Gifford
Spectrum Engineering and Spectrum Sharing: Protecting the Passive Critical Services
Oct. 19
Bobby Schnabel
Ethics and Computing/AI Discussion
Oct. 26
Huck Bennett
Cryptography from Antiquity to Present
Nov. 2
Divya Vernerey
From Smoke to Flame: A Journey into Travelling Waves
Nov. 9
Ellen Yi-Luen Do
Creative Technology and Design with Mind, Might and Magic
Nov. 16
Laureline Logiaco
@cu anschutz
(Zoom/remote) Learning to Move: Motor Control in Brains and Artificial Neural Networks
- Monday, Feb. 2: Liz Bradley. Chaos theory.
- Monday, Feb. 9: Vlakkies Schreüder. Colorado water rights.
- Monday, Feb. 16: Danny Dig. AI programming assistant. Online/remote.
- Monday, March 2: Bobby Schnabel. Ethics and computing discussion.
- Monday, March 9: Raf Frongillo. Testing hypotheses by betting.
- Monday, March 23: Josh Grochow. The Graph Isomorphism Problem, tensors and a little cryptography. Online/remote.
- Monday, March 30: Jeremy L. Thompson. Memory bandwidth vs. FLOPs tradeoffs on modern hardware.
- Monday, April 6: Leysia Palen. Social computing studies to understand disinformation behavior.
- Monday, Sept. 22: Divya Vernerey. Social event to introduce CSUAC members and discuss undergraduate research opportunities.
- Monday, Oct 6: Fruzsina Agocs. Her research blends scientific computing with numerical analysis and computational physics, and is guided by physics and engineering applications.
- Monday, Oct. 20: Bill Wright. Hehas 37 years of industry experience, primarily done server-side coding (full-stack microservices) with a strong emphasis on behavior-driven development and test-driven development.
- Monday, Nov. 3: Bobby Schnabel.Professor of computer science, external chair of the department (including strategic planning, tech community and alumni relations, and faculty mentoring) and campus thought-leader on computing. His hope is to infuse ethics in computing.
- Monday, Nov. 17: Willem “Vlakkies” Schreüder. He has more than 40 years of experience in mathematical modeling and data analysis, in particular basin scale groundwater models. His work focuses on computer graphics, system administration and network systems.