The Berkeley–Hopkins Seminar Series on Learning-Enabled Multi-Agent Systems (LEMAS) is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers working at the forefront of learning and/or incentive design in multi-agent systems. We hope to create a platform for sharing recent advances, discussing key challenges, and fostering new research directions. We are based at Johns Hopkins University and UC Berkeley and currently operating in a hybrid format (talks occur both in-person and livestreamed over Zoom).
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Time: Every Friday, 10-11 a.m. PT / 1-2 p.m. ET
Zoom link for the virtual attendance: https://wse.zoom.us/j/91046643368
Organizers:
Chinmay Maheshwari (Assistant Professor, ECE, Johns Hopkins University)
Shankar Sastry (Professor, EECS, UC Berkeley)
Pan-Yang Su (Ph.D. Student, EECS, UC Berkeley)
Maria Gabriela Mendoza (Ph.D. Student, ME, UC Berkeley)
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Berkeley-HopkinsLEMAS
Fall 2026 Schedule
Fall 2026 Schedule
Note: Presentation titles in parentheses provide tentative descriptions of upcoming talks, and will be replaced with actual presentation titles when available. Titles for past talks link to more information about the talk and speaker, as well as a recording and/or slide deck when available.
Date Speaker Presentation Title
September 25 Mengdi Wang Canceled
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October 2 Yuan Xue From Human Raters to AI Judges: Calibration and Alignment Across Diverse Preferences
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October 9 Mustafa Karabag Why Do LLMs Struggle in Strategic Play? Broken Links Between Observations, Beliefs, and Actions
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October 16 Kaiqing Zhang Towards Understanding Learning-to-Communicate in Multi-agent RL: An Information-Structure Perspective
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October 23 Yang Cai Pluralistic Alignment of Language Models via Test-Time Scaling
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October 30 Alvaro Cardenas Securing Next Generation Physical AI: From Physical Prompt Injection to Counter Swarm Defenses
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November 6 TBD TBD
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November 13 Saurabh Amin TBD
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November 20 David Parkes Organizing the Agent Society
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December 4 Amy Greenwald TBD
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