Computer Systems Seminar

The purpose of this seminar is to provide an open opportunity to advertise, present, and discuss Computer Systems research among students and faculty.

Every week, we will invite faculty, students, and guests to present interesting Computer Systems research. If you are interested in giving a talk or presenting a paper, please contact the current administrator. For real time communication, please join our Teams group.

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Upcoming Weeks

December 11, 2024 (Wednesday)

Topic: Emerging Challenges for Future Memory Systems

Abstract: Across all markets, computing systems are being driven to achieve higher performance in the face of rising power, cost, and reliability challenges. These systems are increasingly reliant on their DRAM memory, one of the semiconductor industry’s foundational components, to achieve system performance and power-efficiency targets. As the industry looks towards the future, increasing DRAM and memory systems performance is becoming more difficult as new reliability challenges emerge. In this talk I’ll describe some of our research work on RowHammer for server memory systems, and some of the key challenges future DRAMs and memory systems face in AI systems as data rates increase.

Presenter: Steven Woo

Bio: Steven Woo is a Fellow and Distinguished Inventor at Rambus Inc., working on technology and business development efforts across the company.
He currently leads research within Rambus Labs on advanced memory systems for accelerators and computing infrastructure, and manages a team of senior architects. Since joining Rambus, Steve has worked in various roles leading architecture, technology, and performance analysis efforts, and in marketing and product planning roles leading strategy and customer programs. Steve received his PhD and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and Master of Engineering and BS Engineering degrees from Harvey Mudd College.

Location: Physical and Data Sciences Building Room 1025 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Previous Weeks

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December 5, 2024

Topic: Cloud System Security: From Cloud Orchestration to Hardware Micro-Architectural Attacks

Location: Physical and Data Sciences Building Room 1025 from 3:10 PM to 4:00 PM

Presenters:

Name Materials
Chongzhou Fang TBD

November 21, 2024

Topic: TBD

Location: Kemper Hall room 1131 and 1127 from 3:10 PM to 4:00 PM

Presenters:

Name Materials
Professor Amanda Raybuck TBD

October 24, 2024

Location: Kemper Hall room 1131 and 1127 from 3:10 PM to 4:00 PM

Presenters:

Name Topic Materials
Muhammad Hassnain Counterexamples in Safe Rust TBD
Professor Alexander Gamero-Garrido TBD TBD

October 17, 2024

Topic: GlucOS: Security, correctness, and simplicity for automated insulin delivery

Location: Kemper Hall room 1131 and 1127 from 3:10 PM to 4:00 PM

Presenters:

Name Materials
Hari Venugopalan Paper and Presentation Slide

October 10, 2024

Topic For the first Computer System Research Seminar, we will be presenting our cutting-edge research and projects.

Location: Kemper Hall room 1131 and 1127 from 3:10 PM to 4:00 PM

Presenters:

Name Materials
Professor Jason Lowe-Power Presentation Slide
Professor Caleb Stanford Presentation Slide
Professor Tapti Palit TBD
Professor Amanda Raybuck TBD
Professor Dipak Ghosal TBD

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Administrator

School Year Name Email
Fall 2024 Zhantong Qiu ztqiu@ucdavis.edu