CS majors Spring 2021
811%Percentage of growth in number of Comp Sci undergrads in the last 10 years
$128KAverage starting salary for graduates of the Professional Master’s Program
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CS News
Celebration of Life Held for CS Emeritus Professor Olvi Mangasarian
On Saturday, October 30, 2021, family and friends celebrated the life of Computer Sciences Emeritus Professor Olvi Mangasarian (1934-2020). The service was recorded and is available here, including tributes by Leon Mangasarian (his son), CS …
New associate professor Yudong Chen joins UW-Madison CS in statistical and theoretical machine learning
Yudong Chen comes to UW-Madison Computer Sciences from a faculty position in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University. He is researching and teaching in the area of machine learning, statistics, …
Cheesehacks Hackathon Participants Build Apps to Address Real-World Issues, Eat A Lot of Cheese
by Elea Levin Over 100 students participated in the first ever CheeseHacks hackathon event October 23 and 24, hosted by the UW-Madison Google Developers Student Club and UW Web Dev Club. The Hackathon aimed to …
Over 100 students participate in first UW-Madison Datathon
By Elea Levin One hundred and three participants competed in the first ever UW-Madison Datathon on October 16 and 17, hosted by the UW-Madison Data Science Club. In addition to the hackathon, the event included …
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Events
- January
- January 27Talk: Matching in Evolving Environments David Wajc: Motwani Postdoctoral Fellow in Theoretical Computer Science at Stanford; PhD Computer Sciences, Carnegie Mellon 4:00 PM, Online
Also offered online - January 31Talk: Understanding Statistical-vs-Computational Tradeoffs via Low-Degree PolynomialsAlexander Wein: Postdoc, Georgia Tech; formerly Simons-Berkeley Research Fellow at UC Berkeley; formerly, Courant Instructor at NYU4:00 PM, Online
Also offered online
- February
- February 1Talk: Theoretical Foundations for Emerging Multiprocessor HardwareNaama Ben-David: Postdoc at VMware; PhD, Carnegie Mellon University4:00 PM, Online
Also offered online - February 3Talk: On the Approximability of Polynomial Maximization over Convex Sets Vijay Bhattiprolu: Member, School of Mathematics in the Institute for Advanced Study and postdoc, Princeton University4:00 PM, Online
Also offered online - February 7Talk: New Directions in Garbled CircuitsDavid Heath: Ph.D. candidate studying cryptography at Georgia Tech4:00 PM, 1240 Computer Sciences