Languages, Systems, and Data Seminar (Fall 2025)

Time: Fridays, noon - 1:05pm (PT)
Location: The Internet / The LSD Lab (Engineering 2, Room 398)
Organizers: Lindsey Kuper, Tyler Sorensen, Reese Levine, and Achilles Benetopoulos


The Languages, Systems, and Data Seminar meets weekly to discuss interesting topics in the areas of programming languages, systems, databases, formal methods, security, software engineering, verification, architecture, and beyond. Our goal is to encourage interactions and discussions between students, researchers, and faculty with interests in these areas. The seminar is open to everyone interested. Participating UCSC students should register for the 2-credit course CSE 280O (let the organizers know if you’re an undergrad and need a permission code).

For fall 2025, we will continue to host the LSD Seminar in a hybrid fashion. Anyone can attend on Zoom, and local folks can gather in person in the lab. Speakers can join either in person or on Zoom, whichever is convenient.

Talks will be advertised on the ucsc-lsd-seminar-announce (for anyone) and lsd-group (for UCSC-affiliated people) mailing lists.

Date Speaker Title
Sept 26 NA NA
Oct 3 Jessica Dagostini, Yanwen Xu, and Patrick Redmond Conference Practice Talks
Oct 10 TBD TBD
Oct 17 TBD TBD
Oct 24 TBD TBD
Oct 31 Mingwei Zheng TBD
Nov 7 TBD TBD
Nov 14 TBD TBD
Nov 21 TBD TBD
Nov 28 NA NA
Dec 5 TBD TBD

Sept. 26

Social Hour!

Oct. 3

This week we will have practice talks for upcoming conference presentations.

Jessica Dagostini: miniGiraffe: A Pangenomic Mapping Proxy App, to appear at IISWC 2025

Yanwen Xu: BetterTogether: A Interference-Aware Framework for Fine-grained Software Pipelining on Heterogeneous SoCs, to appear at IISWC 2025.

Patrick Redmond: Exploring the Theory and Practice of Concurrency in the Entity-Component-System Pattern, to appear at OOPSLA 2025

Oct. 10

Speaker: TBD

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Abstract: TBD

Oct. 17

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Oct. 24

Speaker: TBD

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Oct. 31

Speaker: Mingwei Zheng

Title: TBD

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Nov. 7

Speaker: TBD

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Nov. 14

Speaker: TBD

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Nov. 21

Speaker: TBD

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Nov. 28

No seminar (Thanksgiving break)

Dec. 5

Speaker: TBD

Title: TBD

Abstract: TBD

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