OrderLab Reading Group

Fall 2026

Thursday 10:30 am–12:00 pm, 4941 BBB Coordinator: Ziming Zhou

Description

The reading group organized by the OrderLab covers latest advances in the research of computer systems. Students will read and discuss recent papers in top systems conferences such as OSDI, SOSP, NSDI, EuroSys, and ASPLOS.

Each week, one student will present the paper and lead the discussion. Other students should read the paper to be presented before the seminar. This seminar is supposed to generate in-depth discussions. It is impossible to do so without reading the paper first.

The focus topics covered in the papers vary semester to semester. Example topics include fault-tolerance, reliability, verification, energy efficiency, and virtualization. The presenter decides which paper to present. In general, select the papers that are relevant to your research project first (i.e., depth-first). If you are not sure, check with the coordinator Ziming. Also, try to avoid picking papers that have already been picked in the past (the past schedules are linked on the left-side menu).

If you need to present, please first sign up in the schedule spreadsheet at least two weeks in advance. Then, around one week before the meeting, you should send another reminder to the group via our reading group mailing list orderlab-talk@umich.edu, which will also be used to generate follow-up discussions of the presented paper. Students who wish to sign up for the mailing list, please email ryanph@umich.edu.

Schedule

7 sessions
Date Presenter Title Venue Material
09/03/2026 Ryan and everyone

New semester kickoff!

09/10/2026 Roger Zhou (Ziming)

Ziming's project presentation

09/17/2026 Roger Zhou (Ziming)

Ziming's project presentation

09/24/2026 Wanning He

Wanning's project presentation

10/01/2026 Ryan and everyone

Project pitch practice!

10/08/2026 Kevin Xue

Kevin's project presentation

10/15/2026 Ruiyan Hu

Ruiyan's project presentation