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Sunday, October 6, 2024
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Monday, October 7, 2024
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Tuesday, October 8, 2024
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October 8, 2024 -MEAM Seminar: “Systemic Disadvantages for LGBTQ Professionals in STEM”
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October 8, 2024 -ESE Fall Seminar – “Reflections on learning about learning: A case study on where ideas come from in (In-)Secure Processor Design”
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October 8, 2024 -CIS Special Industry Seminar: “Improving Foundation Models Using Human Data”
MEAM Seminar: “Systemic Disadvantages for LGBTQ Professionals in STEM”
Researchers have documented race and gender bias in STEM for decades, but there has been little parallel examination of LGBTQ status as an axis of inequality. How do LGBTQ-identifying STEM professionals fare in STEM? Drawing on data from her NSF-funded STEM Inclusion Study, which included surveys of over 25,000 STEM workers, Dr. Cech will discuss […]
ESE Fall Seminar – “Reflections on learning about learning: A case study on where ideas come from in (In-)Secure Processor Design”
When it comes to security, hardware is the new software. Starting some years ago, this shift was made plain when a litany of attacks, such as "Spectre/Meltdown" and "Rowhammer", shattered our confidence in processors as a root of trust. Making matters worse, modern processors are incredibly complex, and have (as it turns out) been designed […]
CIS Special Industry Seminar: “Improving Foundation Models Using Human Data”
Foundation models including LLMs and multi-modal models released by OpenAI (GPT), Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), Meta (Llama), and others have shown very impressive capabilities across a range of tasks. Some key drivers of this performance — such as investments in GPUs/compute, model size, and pre-training data — are relatively well understood. This presentation will focus […]
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
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October 9, 2024 -CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Investigation of Thin-film Cerium-based Oxides and Single Atom Catalysts Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition” (Kai Shen)
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October 9, 2024 -ASSET Seminar: “Wood Wide Models”
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October 9, 2024 -Fall 2024 GRASP SFI: Tushar Kusnur, The AI Institute, “Robotic Information Gathering: Experiences and Perspectives”
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October 9, 2024 -CBE Seminar: “Organic Batteries for a More Sustainable Future” (Jodie Lutkenhaus, Texas A&M University)
CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Investigation of Thin-film Cerium-based Oxides and Single Atom Catalysts Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition” (Kai Shen)
Abstract: Metal oxides play a critical role in heterogeneous catalysis, acting as active catalysts in a wide range of reactions from dehydrogenation to selective and complete oxidation. However, many catalytically active metal oxides suffer from low surface areas in their bulk form, particularly after high-temperature calcination. This thesis focuses on cerium-based oxides due to their […]
ASSET Seminar: “Wood Wide Models”
Abstract: Foundation models are monolithic models that are trained on a broad set of data, and which are then in principle fine-tuned to various specific tasks. But they are ill-suited to many heterogeneous settings, for instance numeric tabular data, or numeric time-series data, where training a single monolithic model over a large collection of such […]
Fall 2024 GRASP SFI: Tushar Kusnur, The AI Institute, “Robotic Information Gathering: Experiences and Perspectives”
This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Despite all the interest and hype both from within and outside our community, robotics is a relatively new and highly specialized field. We embody substantial diversity in research direction and style, the focus and flavor of industrial […]
CBE Seminar: “Organic Batteries for a More Sustainable Future” (Jodie Lutkenhaus, Texas A&M University)
Abstract: Cobalt, nickel, and lithium are essential ingredients in today’s lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), but their continued use presents economic, ethical, and environmental challenges. Society must now begin to consider the implications of a LIB’s full life cycle, including the carbon footprint, the economic and environmental costs, and material access. These challenges motivate the case for […]
Thursday, October 10, 2024
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October 10, 2024 -MSE Seminar: “Color From Colorless Materials: Harnessing Multi-reflection Interference in Microstructures”
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October 10, 2024 -ESE Fall Seminar – “Deep Latent Variable Models for Compression and Natural Science”
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October 10, 2024 -BE Seminar: “Synthetic reconstitution of complex cellular behavior” (Ahmad Khalil, Boston University)
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October 10, 2024 -CIS Seminar: “Neurosymbolic AI for Safety-Critical Agile Control”
MSE Seminar: “Color From Colorless Materials: Harnessing Multi-reflection Interference in Microstructures”
Many of the colors found in nature, such as those of iridescent, color-shifting organisms like beetles, butterflies, and birds, are structural colors. Structural coloration is often generated by optical interference occurring within nanoscale periodic structures, like diffraction gratings, photonic crystals, or thin films. In these cases, the periodicity of the structure is similar to the […]
ESE Fall Seminar – “Deep Latent Variable Models for Compression and Natural Science”
Latent variable models have been an integral part of probabilistic machine learning, ranging from simple mixture models to variational autoencoders to powerful diffusion probabilistic models at the center of recent media attention. Perhaps less well-appreciated is the intimate connection between latent variable models and data compression, and the potential of these models for advancing natural […]
BE Seminar: “Synthetic reconstitution of complex cellular behavior” (Ahmad Khalil, Boston University)
Cells use genetically-encoded molecular circuits to execute diverse biological functions. We are developing novel tools of synthetic biology that allow us to construct regulatory circuitry inside living cells that recapitulate complex functions like those seen in nature. In this talk, I will describe how we use this approach to achieve three objectives. First, I will […]
CIS Seminar: “Neurosymbolic AI for Safety-Critical Agile Control”
This talk overviews research at Caltech on designing hybrid or neurosymbolic AI systems that blend learning with symbolic structure, in order to achieve both the flexibility of the former and the formal interpretability and generalization power of the latter. By having systems that are formally interpretable, one can employ a wide range of formal analysis […]
Friday, October 11, 2024
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October 11, 2024 -Fall 2024 GRASP on Robotics: Antonio Loquercio, University of Pennsylvania, “Simulation: What made us intelligent will make our robots intelligent”
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October 11, 2024 -PICS Colloquium: Mean flow and turbulence in unsteady urban canopy flows
Fall 2024 GRASP on Robotics: Antonio Loquercio, University of Pennsylvania, “Simulation: What made us intelligent will make our robots intelligent”
This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Simulation-to-reality transfer is an emerging approach that enables robots to develop skills in simulated environments before applying them in the real world. This method has catalyzed numerous advancements in robotic learning, from locomotion to agile flight. […]
PICS Colloquium: Mean flow and turbulence in unsteady urban canopy flows
Advancing the current understanding and capability to predict atmospheric flow and related transport in urban areas is critical for many applications, including air quality modeling, urban climate, pedestrian comfort and structural resilience. Turbulence in these environments is rarely in equilibrium with the underlying surface and is typically characterized by strong departures from statistical stationarity. For […]
Saturday, October 12, 2024
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