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Sunday, March 17, 2019
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Monday, March 18, 2019
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
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March 19, 2019 -MEAM Seminar: “Nanoparticle Heating for Therapeutics, Regenerative Medicine and Diagnostics”
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March 19, 2019 -CIS Seminar: “Security for All: Modeling Structural Inequities to Design More Secure Systems”
MEAM Seminar: “Nanoparticle Heating for Therapeutics, Regenerative Medicine and Diagnostics”
Gold and iron oxide nanoparticles have unique and tunable properties that allow transduction of optical (light), or radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields to affect heating of biomaterials at multiple scales. This talk will explore the underlying physics and relative advantages of each form of nanoparticle heating for therapeutic treatment of cancer or other disease by heating […]
CIS Seminar: “Security for All: Modeling Structural Inequities to Design More Secure Systems”
Users often fall for phishing emails, reuse simple passwords, and fail to effectively utilize "provably" secure systems. These behaviors expose users to significant harm and frustrate industry practitioners and security researchers alike. As consequences of security breaches become ever more grave, it is important to study why humans behave seemingly irrationally. In this talk, I […]
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
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March 20, 2019 -CIS Seminar: ” Natural language to structured knowledge representations”
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March 20, 2019 -John A. Quinn Distinguished Lecture: “Some Uses and Misuses of Equilibrium Thermodynamics”
CIS Seminar: ” Natural language to structured knowledge representations”
Computing machinery such as smartphones are ubiquitous, and so will be smart home appliances, self-driving cars and robots in the near future. Enabling these machines with natural language understanding abilities opens up potential opportunities for the broader society to benefit from, e.g., in accessing the world’s knowledge, or in controlling complex machines with little effort. […]
John A. Quinn Distinguished Lecture: “Some Uses and Misuses of Equilibrium Thermodynamics”
We will discuss a number of legitimate and of wrongful applications of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, in particular, in the screening of chemical processes. We consider how ideas of equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics can be of value in some non-equilibrium situations, particularly in the cases of very slow diffusion and reaction.
Thursday, March 21, 2019
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March 21, 2019 -MSE Inaugural David P. Pope Lecture: “High-entropy alloys: what’s all the fuss about?”
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March 21, 2019 -CIS Seminar: “Machine Learning: Why Do Simple Algorithms Work So Well?”
CIS Seminar: “Machine Learning: Why Do Simple Algorithms Work So Well?”
While state-of-the-art machine learning models are deep, large-scale, sequential and highly nonconvex, the backbone of modern learning algorithms are simple algorithms such as stochastic gradient descent, or Q-learning (in the case of reinforcement learning tasks). A basic question endures---why do simple algorithms work so well even in these challenging settings? This talk focuses on two […]
Friday, March 22, 2019
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Saturday, March 23, 2019
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