Spring 2024 (Current) Past UDLS Lineups Fall 2023 Spring 2023 Fall 2022 Fall 2018 Spring 2018 Fall 2017 Spring 2017 Fall 2016 Spring 2016 Fall 2015 Spring 2015 Fall 2014 Spring 2014 Fall 2013 A bi-weekly graduate student-run event, Thursdays at 5pm in the LCR. Feel free to bring your own games or make some friends and have fun! Free pizza provided by the SoC.
The Undistinguished Lecture Series (UDLS) is a set of talks given by (typically) grad students in the School of Computing at the University of Utah. UDLS gives us a chance to learn about the incredibly vast interests of our fellow grad students, while also practicing our speaking skills. There is only one rule: you must present an original topic that does not pertain to your research.
Date Speaker Topic 2023-09-07 Kosumi Nix magic: reproducible build and configuration 2023-09-21 Jakob Johnson Kombucha 2023-10-05 Benjamin Mastripolito Emergent, Evolving, and Self-Organizing Systems 2023-10-19 Gaurav Sharma The different mediums of Horror 2023-11-02 Elie Diaz Barbershop Quartetting: An Hour with Mischief Quartet 2023-11-16 Ashton Wiersdorf Zen and the Art of Software Maintenance, or: Gumption, Tools, and Traps 2023-11-30 Harvey Dam How to Play Concertos Alone
Date Speaker Topic 2023-01-19 Jakob Johnson Coffee Brewing 2023-02-02 Benjamin Mastripolito The Hypnotic World of Esoteric Literature 2023-02-16 Ashton Wiersdorf Down the rabbit hole: mechanical keyboards 2023-03-02 Brandt Redd Inflated Consequences of Standardized Testing 2023-03-16 Saurabh Raje Pulling a perfect shot: Espresso 2023-03-30 Ananth Krishna TBD 2023-04-13 Kangchen Chen “Language and dialect, a discussion about the power of words”
Date Speaker Topic 2022-09-22 Anh Tran Lord of The Ring, a Lit Review (the fun one) 2022-10-06 Benjamin Mastripolito How to Make Sound With Your Eyes 2022-10-20 Jakob Johnson Bike Racing 2022-11-03 Alper Sahistan Howard the Duck or “How to get your intellectual property back?” 2022-12-01 Eisen Montalvo Missile Defender
Date Speaker Topic 2018-11-09 Ian Mallett Mental Math Tricks 2018-11-02 (Movie Night) A Quiet Place 2018-10-26 Vidhi Zala Everything about Tattoos 2018-10-19 Krunal Jain Principles of Design 2018-10-12 (None?) (Unofficial UDLS) 2018-10-05 (Movie Night) Hunt for the Wilderpeople 2018-09-28 Ned Peters Other Nuclear Disasters 2018-09-21 Rushit “Rush” Sanghrajka Lessons from the Labor Movement 2018-09-14 Riddhish Bhalodia Unification of Japan: Sengoku Jidai 2018-09-07 Sumanth Gudaparthi and Ian Mallett All about GradSAC (and all about UDLS)
Date Speaker Topic 2018-04-27 Ned Peters Unthinkable (Historical Context of Nuclear War) 2018-04-20 (Various) (Slideshow Karaoke) 2018-04-13 Pavol Klacansky Useless Operating System 2018-04-06 Claire Zhang Real Estate 101 2018-03-30 Anand Tripathi Time Travel in Fiction 2018-03-16 Krunal Jain Cricket: More Than a Game 2018-03-09 Mohammed Musaddiq Physics/Logic/Reason across (certain) movies 2018-03-02 Ian Mallett Lasers!!! 2018-02-23 Srivatsan Kumar Self-published books and the editorial question 2018-02-16 Michael Matheny The Dying Banana 2018-02-09 Siddhant Ranade Pretty Patterns 2018-02-02 Chris Brooks How big can numbers be? 2018-01-26 Ned Peters The South Seas Company: Making Enron Look Good 2018-01-19 Riddhish Bhalodia Game Balancing
Date Speaker Topic 2017-12-08 Siddhant Ranade Mathematics of the Rubik’s Cube 2017-12-01 Ian Mallett Elizebeth Smith Friedman: The Mother Of Cryptanalysis Erased From History By The FBI 2017-11-17 Annie Cherkaev I Love Pie 2017-11-10 Anand Tripathi Dissecting Malware 2017-11-03 Will Usher Dwarf Fortress 2017-10-27 Hong Xu Food, flavors, umami, and truffles. 2017-10-20 Riddhish Bhalodia Miniature Painting 101 2017-10-05 Ankit Agrawal Fat Loss and Weight Loss 2017-09-29 Ned Peters Chernobyl: How the Soviet Union built a giant steampunk shotgun, loaded it with Uranium, and blasted it at the sky. 2017-09-15 Will Byrd Thoughts on giving a talk 2017-09-08 Nipun Gottapu Fancy Pigeons 2017-09-01 Ian Mallett UDLS Intro and Folk Tales From the North
Date Speaker Topic 2017-04-28 Celeste Hollenbeck Vegan Desserts 2017-04-21 Ian Briggs Lockpicking 2017-04-14 William Hatch Yo-Yos 2017-04-07 Sierra Allred Camping in Utah 2017-03-31 Will Byrd Camp Greentop Story Time 2017-03-24 Michael Matheny Blue-Tongued Skinks 2017-03-10 Dustin Webb and othersAcroyoga 2017-03-03 Riddhish Bhalodia Norse Mythology 2017-02-24 Slideshow Karaoke 2017-02-17 Will Usher Sound Synthesis 2017-02-10 Srivatsan Kumar Jallikattu: Enga veetu Maadu 2017-02-03 Guru Pragaash The Trolley Problem 2017-01-27 Celeste Hollenbeck Cognitive Load 2017-01-20 Will Byrd Nanotechnology
Date Speaker Topic 2016-12-09 Guru Annasamymani Hindu Mythology 2016-12-02 James Nagel Analysis of an Interstellar Communications Link) 2016-11-18 Will Usher Dwarf Fortress 2016-11-11 Hari Subramanyam 3D Xpoint Memory 2016-11-04 Michael Ballantyne Dating (the radiometric kind) 2016-10-28 Michael Adams Orbital Mechanics 2016-10-21 Riddish Bhalodia The Banach-Tarski Paradox 2016-10-07 Srivatsan Kumar Zipf’s Law 2016-09-30 Michael Ballantyne Reusable Rockets 2016-09-23 Ian Mallett Measuring Time 2016-09-16 Chris Brooks Tool assisted speedrunning 2016-09-09 Josh Kunz Conspiracies 2016-09-02 Will Byrd History of Writing
Date Speaker Topic 2016-04-29 Chris Brooks Higher Mathematics 2016-04-22 Michael Adams Kerbal Space Program 2016-04-15 Rohith Prasad Kalaripayattu 2016-04-08 John Holman Altcoins 2016-04-01 Will Byrd CRISPR 2016-03-25 Sarah Spall Figure Skating 2016-03-11 Lucas Paul Security vulnerabilities in pacemakers 2016-03-04 Robert Christensen Fallacies in Baby and Toddler Logic, and How We Can Benefit 2016-02-26 Josh “The importance of being prepared” 2016-02-12 Scotty Bauer Exploit Development 2016-02-05 Ian Mallett Austempered Ductile Iron 2016-01-29 Scotty Bauer Cold Fusion 2016-01-22 Ian Mallett Realities of Space (KSP) 2016-01-15 Michael Ballantyne TempleOS
Date Speaker Topic 2015-12-11 Celeste Hollenbeck How to throw a punch 2015-12-04 Will Byrd The art of teaching 2015-11-20 Dawn Sweeney Walkability and Pedestrian Safety 2015-11-13 Dylan Yokoyama and Siddartha Magic: The Gathering and Android: Netrunner 2015-11-06 Sarah Spall Rock Climbing 2015-10-30 Scotty Bauer Jury Nullification 2015-10-23 Ian Mallett , Chris Brooks, Will Usher , Josh Kunz, Sarah Spall, and Celeste Hollenbeck.Slideshow Karaoke 2015-10-09 Michael Adams Dancing the Charleston 2015-10-02 Josh Kunz Tor: What is it Good For? 2015-09-25 Dylan Yokoyama How to Make a Game in Four Weeks 2015-09-18 Chris Brooks Super Smash Brothers as a Spectator Sport 2015-09-11 Mark Baranowski Speaking Semi-Highly About Rust 2015-09-04 Celeste Hollenbeck How to Give a UDLS Lecture / Demo: Now We’re Going to Talk About Some Awesome Horror Movies
Date Speaker Topic 2015-05-01 Scotty Bauer Numbers Stations 2015-04-17 Ian Mallett Linguistics 2015-04-10 Shishir Bhargav Yoga 2015-03-27 Josh Kunz Internet Protocols, Governance, and History 2015-03-13 John Holman Insane Clown Posse 2015-03-06 many Lightning Research Talks 2015-02-27 Ian Mallett Celtic Music 2015-02-13 Michael Ballantyne Smalltalk and Lisp Machines 2015-02-06 Scotty Bauer Stuxnet, Flame, Duqu and the future of cyber war 2015-01-30 Lucas Paul The Double-Slit Experiment 2015-01-23 Christian Schreiner Computer Engineering for the Apollo Missions 2015-01-16 Will Byrd Rockets, the moon, space, and the Cold War
Date Speaker Topic 2014-12-12 Leif Andersen Sonic the Hedgehog 2014-12-05 Celeste Hollenbeck Cognitive Mechanisms of Art 2014-11-21 James Nigel Game Theory 2014-11-14 Dawn Sweeney Stealing History – A brief look at archaeological law and ethics 2014-11-07 Will Byrd Cuttlefish 2014-10-31 Will Usher The Psychology of Free to Play Games 2014-10-24 Michael Ballantyne Legal Justifications for NSA Surveillance 2014-10-10 Scotty Bauer Hockey 2014-10-03 Christian Schreiner Statistical Process Control 2014-09-26 Rohith Acting 2014-09-19 Adiyta Dave Hadoop 2014-09-12 Misc. Lightning Research Talks 2014-09-05 James Nagel Martial Arts
Date Speaker Topic 2014-05-09 Charlie Jacobsen Backpacking 2014-04-25 Leif Andersen Mad Cow Disease and Cannibalism 2014-04-11 Ethan Kerzner and Thibault Dupont Genetically Modified Organisms 2014-04-04 Will Byrd The Rules and Strategy of Go 2014-03-28 Michelle Hromatka The Troubles in Northern Ireland 2014-03-21 Scott Bauer Financial Derivatives 2014-03-07 Yohann Bearzi Europe: a deja-vu 2014-02-28 Graham Pederson Violence Over Time 2014-02-14 Anshul Joshi Exoskeletons 2014-02-07 Ethan Kerzner An Inconvenient Banana 2014-01-31 Michael Ballantyne A History of NSA Hijinks 2014-01-24 Chris Earl Bitcoin 2014-01-17 Leif Andersen Video Game Development 2014-01-10 Dustin Webb ROS (Robotic Operating System)
Date Speaker Topic 2013-12-13 Yohann Bearzi Les Guignois de l’info (News Puppets) 2013-12-06 Mukund Raj Squash 2013-11-22 Tony Tuttle Bicycle Commuting 2013-11-15 Raghvendra Singh and Nitin Yadav Card Tricks 2013-11-08 Will Byrd Starcraft 2013-11-01 Ben Jones Matt and Trey: My Heroes 2013-10-25 Andy Keep Homebrew Beer 2013-10-11 Bruce Bolick The serpent Prince: A Swedish Legend 2013-10-04 Sean McKenna Lightsabers 2013-09-27 Leif Andersen Lucid Dreaming 2013-09-20 Chris Malloy Lock Picking 2013-09-13 Anshul Joshi Archery 2013-09-06 Dustin Webb Quadrotors 2013-08-23 Ben Jones The Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center or What DropBox could be with a huge budget and no morals