Winter 2026
For the Winter 2026 semester, the reading group will meet on Fridays at 2PM on a roughly weekly basis. Meetings will be held in a hybrid fashion. More information including room locations, Google Meet link and Google calendar link will be found in the emails we will send announcing speakers/discussion topics both to the Mila-wide email and the CompLing mailing list. Below is a tentative schedule of speakers/topics for the semester. It is actively updated. All times are in ET.
| Date @ Time | Speaker(s) | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 13 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | Roundtable Discussion |
| Feb 20 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | Internal Panel on Reasoning Diversity hosted by David Austin |
| Feb 27 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | TBD |
| Mar 6 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | TBD |
| Mar 13 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | Internal Presentation Practice |
| Mar 20 @ 2PM | Johnny Wei | Memorization |
| Mar 27 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | TBD |
| Apr 3 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | TBD |
| Apr 10 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | Internal Presentation Practice |
| Apr 17 @ 2PM | Jieyu Zhao | Agent |
| Apr 24 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | TBD |
| May 8 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | TBD |
| May 15 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | TBD |
| May 22 @ 2PM | Mila NLP | TBD |
| May 29 @ 2PM | Shalom Lappin | Neural-Symbolic Models |