The Penn Database Group meets weekly, on Fridays in the DSL Conference Room (in Moore 100). We also generally support remote participation via Zoom.

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DateTopic / PaperPresenter
9/6Welcome back / Planning
9/13VLDB Fun PapersRyan Marcus
9/20Queryable Graph Views over Semi-Structured DataSahil Makhijani
9/27Bayes Opt for Query PlanningJeff Tao
10/4(Fall Term Break)
10/11Next-generation Intelligent Assistants for Wearable DevicesLuna Dong (Meta)
10/18The Overlooked Repetitive Lengthening Form in Sentiment AnalysisLei (Tom) Wang (Temple)
10/25Beyond Training: Harnessing Multi-Vector Search in Vector DatabasesAustin Wang
11/1Benchmarking and Evaluating Entity and Relation Extraction in Scientific DocumentsQi Zhang (Temple)
11/8Low Rank Learning for Offline Query OptimizationZixuan Yi
11/15LLMs for Query SteeringPeter Akioyamen 
11/22
11/29(Thanksgiving Break)
12/6A Theory of Generalization in Selectivity LearningPeizhi Wu
12/13TBDVarun Jana