CEMSE Event Updates - October 30, 2025 - AMCS/STAT Graduate Seminar Wed, Oct 29 2025 Newsletter Upcoming Events Urgent Notice The AMCS/STAT Graduate Seminar speaker and talk title on October 30 has been updated. Updated Events Unlocking Euclidean Problems with Isotropic Initialization Mikhail Skopenkov, Research Scientist, Computer Science Oct 30, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 The seminar introduces a novel, general approach for solving challenging constraint systems in Euclidean geometry problems by leveraging analogous, structure-preserving simplifications found in isotropic geometry to initialize and guide optimization algorithms. Accelerating Branch-and-Bound Graph Algorithms with GPUs Izzat El Hajj, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, American University of Beirut Oct 30, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 This talk presents multiple techniques that we have developed to load balance the search tree traversal on GPUs and mitigate the strain on memory capacity and bandwidth.