The Penn Database Group meets weekly, on Fridays in Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 315. We also generally support remote participation via Zoom. We welcome visitors, and our meeting is joint between the database groups at Temple and Penn.

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DateTopic / PaperPresenter
1/24Welcome back / Planning
1/31
2/7LLMs for AI native data systemsZixuan, Varun
2/14
2/21Faster row-level LLM completions Paul, Ashwin
2/28Intelligence Augmentation for Scientific Researchers
(CIS Distinguished Lecture Talk @ AGH 105)
Dr. Dan Weld (AI2 & UW)
3/7
3/14(Spring Term Break)
3/21(PhD Open House)
3/28Efficient, Vectorized, and Concurrent Hash AggregationsDaniel Xue
4/4
4/11
4/18Enriching indices for RAG (10:30 AM @ AGH 615) Peter Baile Chen (MIT)
4/25LLM-enhanced Database TuningFangping Lan (Temple)
5/2TBDVarun Jana/guest