Research
Today, October 15, 2026
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Talk: Beyond UDFs: Optimizing LLM-Powered Operators in Data Systems
Shreya Shankar: CMU Assistant Professor (2027)
11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Online
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Pathology Grand Rounds
Dawn Davis, MD - UW Madison "It’s Not Just Insulin and Glucagon: Novel Islet Paracrine Signaling Pathways"
Noon-1 p.m.
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CSA Fall 2026 Lecture Series
Taymour Soomro, "Reading: 'The Calcutta Affair,' a short story"
Noon-1 p.m.
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Sociohistorical Contexts of Racial Violence: Sundown Towns and the Durability of Racialized Public Space
Institute for Research on Poverty Seminar - Michael Esposito
12:15-1:30 p.m.
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Statistics Seminar
David Dahl: Bayesian Clustering with Elicited Beliefs about Cluster Sizes
1-2 p.m.
7560 Morgridge Hall
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Differential Geometry Seminar
Gavin Ball (U. Missouri) - Maxwell's conjecture is false
1:15 p.m.
901 Van Vleck Hall
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Number Theory and Representation Theory
Daniel Townsend (Northwestern) - p-adic Equidistribution of Special Loci in a Product of Modular Curves
2:25 p.m.
B235 Van Vleck Hall
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Biology Colloquium: Robert Jinkerson
Engineering plant form and function to produce the foods of the future
3:30-4:30 p.m.
B302 Birge Hall
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Anthropology Colloquium: Dr. Marta-Laura Haynes
Who Doesn't Trust, Isn't to Be Trusted
3:30 p.m.
206 Ingraham Hall
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Ticks, Bats and Manatees – Forecasting Zoonotic Risk in a Changing World
Weston Roundtable
4:15-5:15 p.m.
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From the Archives to the Dance Floor: My Work with the Arnold Munkel Collection
Presented by Go Big Read program & Mills Music Library
4:30-5:30 p.m.
126 Memorial Library
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A Conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed
A Humanities Without Boundaries: 1776/2026 event with Annette Gordon-Reed
5-6:30 p.m.
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Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of George B. Schaller
5:30-6:30 p.m.
Madison Public Library, Central Library Room 302