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Sunday, February 23, 2025
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Monday, February 24, 2025
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February 24, 2025 -MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Leveraging Impedance-Related Properties for Free Self-Sensing in Actuators for Compact Robots”
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February 24, 2025 -Spring 2025 GRASP Seminar: Sarah Keren, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, “Encouraging Autonomous Agents to Behave Nicely”
MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Leveraging Impedance-Related Properties for Free Self-Sensing in Actuators for Compact Robots”
Robotic systems, particularly at small scales, require efficient actuation and sensing solutions that maintain compactness. We are interested in systems where sensing and actuation are seamlessly integrated, specifically using impedance-related properties—such as electrical resistance, induced electromotive force (emf), and inductance— for free self-sensing in actuators without additional sensors. We explore three main example applications: (1) […]
Spring 2025 GRASP Seminar: Sarah Keren, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, “Encouraging Autonomous Agents to Behave Nicely”
This will be an in-person event only with attendance in Levine 307. This seminar will NOT be recorded. ABSTRACT Autonomous AI agents are deployed in increasingly complex and uncertain environments where they must account for the presence of other agents while trying to achieve their own objectives. Moreover, such agents may require assistance from other […]
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
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February 25, 2025 -MEAM Seminar: “Neural Operator for Scientific Computing”
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February 25, 2025 -Spring 2025 GRASP Seminar: Shenlong Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Interactive Images, Videos, and Worlds”
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February 25, 2025 -ESE Spring Seminar – “Towards quantum interconnects: entangling microwave and optical photonic qubits”
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February 25, 2025 -ESE Guest Seminar – “On Team Decision Problems with Nonclassical Information Structures”
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February 25, 2025 -Spring 2025 GRASP Seminar: Erdem Bıyık, University of Southern California, “Robot Learning with Minimal Human Feedback”
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February 25, 2025 -CIS Seminar: ” Specializing LLMs for Reliability”
MEAM Seminar: “Neural Operator for Scientific Computing”
Accurate simulations of physical phenomena governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) are foundational to scientific computing. While traditional numerical methods have proven effective, they remain computationally intensive, particularly for complex, large-scale systems. This talk introduces the neural operator, a machine learning framework that approximates solution operators in infinite-dimensional spaces, enabling efficient and scalable PDE simulations […]
Spring 2025 GRASP Seminar: Shenlong Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Interactive Images, Videos, and Worlds”
This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 512 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Our group's goal is to build a world simulator from visual observations that can answer "what-if" questions. In pursuit of this goal, we develop various methods for modeling the world from images and harnessing physical simulation and […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “Towards quantum interconnects: entangling microwave and optical photonic qubits”
Modern computing and communication technologies, such as supercomputers and the internet, are based on optically-linked networks of information processors operating at microwave frequencies. An analogous architecture has been proposed for quantum networks using optical photons to distribute entanglement between remote superconducting quantum processors. Here I will discuss our recent demonstration of a chip-scale source of […]
ESE Guest Seminar – “On Team Decision Problems with Nonclassical Information Structures”
Team theory is a mathematical formalism for decentralized stochastic control problems in which a “team,” consisting of a number of members, cooperates to achieve a common objective. It was developed to provide a rigorous mathematical framework of cooperating members in which all members have the same objective yet different information. In static team problems, the […]
Spring 2025 GRASP Seminar: Erdem Bıyık, University of Southern California, “Robot Learning with Minimal Human Feedback”
This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT The lack of large robotics datasets is arguably the most important obstacle in front of robot learning. While large pretrained models and algorithms like reinforcement learning from human feedback led to breakthroughs in other domains like language […]
CIS Seminar: ” Specializing LLMs for Reliability”
Large language models (LLMs) have advanced the frontiers of AI reasoning: they can synthesize information from multiple sources, derive new conclusions, and explain those conclusions to their users. However, LLMs do not do this reliably. They hallucinate facts, convincingly state incorrect deductions, and exhibit logical fallacies like confirmation bias. In this talk, I will describe […]
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
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February 26, 2025 -Spring 2025 GRASP SFI: Harshil Parekh, BotBuilt, “From GRASP to BotBuilt: Using Robotics and AI to Revolutionize Construction”
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February 26, 2025 -CBE Seminar: “Prioritization of Research, Development, and Deployment Pathways for a Circular Bioeconomy” (Jeremy Guest, UIUC)
Spring 2025 GRASP SFI: Harshil Parekh, BotBuilt, “From GRASP to BotBuilt: Using Robotics and AI to Revolutionize Construction”
This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Construction remains one of the least automated industries, struggling with labor shortages, inefficiencies, and rising costs. At BotBuilt, we are revolutionizing the way homes are built by leveraging robotics and AI to automate framing, making construction faster, […]
CBE Seminar: “Prioritization of Research, Development, and Deployment Pathways for a Circular Bioeconomy” (Jeremy Guest, UIUC)
Abstract: Societies have prospered using a linear “take-make-use-dispose” approach, extracting natural resources to make products, using them, and ultimately discarding them or their residues. This unsustainable approach has exploited natural resources at a rate that has caused excessive pollution and loss of biodiversity, and is leading to a global climate crisis. In response to this […]
Thursday, February 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025 -CBE Seminar: “Machine-learning-assisted Atomistic Modeling and Design of Complex Ionic Conductors for Next-Generation Energy Storage” (KyuJung Jun, MIT)
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February 27, 2025 -IDEAS/STAT Optimization Seminar: “ML for an Interactive World: From Learning to Unlearning”
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February 27, 2025 -BE Seminar – “Scaffold-Modulated Healing in Irradiated Bone” (Katie Hixon, Dartmouth Engineering)
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February 27, 2025 -CIS Seminar: “Realizing the Promise of Language-level Security in Real Systems”
CBE Seminar: “Machine-learning-assisted Atomistic Modeling and Design of Complex Ionic Conductors for Next-Generation Energy Storage” (KyuJung Jun, MIT)
Abstract: Fast solid-state Li-ion conductors are a crucial class of materials with the potential to enable all-solid-state batteries, offering enhanced safety and energy density. However, these materials remain rare, and progress in developing novel solid electrolytes has been hindered by a lack of clear descriptors for superionic conductivity and a limited understanding of ion transport […]
IDEAS/STAT Optimization Seminar: “ML for an Interactive World: From Learning to Unlearning”
The remarkable recent success of Machine Learning (ML) is driven by our ability to develop and deploy interactive models that can solve complicated tasks by understanding and adapting to the ever-changing state of the world. However, the development of such models demands significant data and computing resources. Moreover, as these models increasingly interact with humans, […]
BE Seminar – “Scaffold-Modulated Healing in Irradiated Bone” (Katie Hixon, Dartmouth Engineering)
Bone is the third most common site for cancer metastasis, affecting ~66% of patients with common cancers—breast, lung, prostate, renal, thyroid—incurring skeletal events in up to 400,000 people in the US/year. Metastatic bone disease (MBD) results in weakened bone, leading to refractory pain and pathological fracture that increase disease state morbidity. Despite bone tissue’s dynamic […]
CIS Seminar: “Realizing the Promise of Language-level Security in Real Systems”
Promises are cheap. Software vendors routinely describe their offerings as “secure”, but few are based on designs that can guarantee even the most basic security properties. To address this problem, services like Cloudflare, Android, and Firefox are increasingly relying on languages like Rust and WebAssembly to provide safety by design. But these promises too can […]
Friday, February 28, 2025
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February 28, 2025 -CIS Seminar: “Privacy, Copyright, and Data Integrity: The Cascading Implications of Generative AI”
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February 28, 2025 -Spring 2025 GRASP on Robotics: Bruno Olshausen, University of California, Berkeley & Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, “Invariance and equivariance in brains and machine”
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February 28, 2025 -CIS Seminar: “Intelligence Augmentation for Scientific Researchers”
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February 28, 2025 -MSE Thesis Defense: “Chain and Pendant Architecture Effects in Associating Polyolefins” Eli Jared Fastow
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February 28, 2025 -Spring 2025 GRASP Seminar: James Tompkin, Brown University, “Joint Depth and 3D Motion Estimation Two Ways”
CIS Seminar: “Privacy, Copyright, and Data Integrity: The Cascading Implications of Generative AI”
The rapid adoption of generative AI has created a cycle where personal information cascades perpetually: from people to models to applications and online platforms, then back through scrapers into the system. Simple blanket rules such as "don't train on this data" or "don't share sensitive information" are inadequate, as we face training data scarcity while […]
Spring 2025 GRASP on Robotics: Bruno Olshausen, University of California, Berkeley & Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, “Invariance and equivariance in brains and machine”
This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT The goal of building machines that can perceive and act in the world as humans and other animals do has been a focus of AI research efforts for over half a century. Over this same period, […]
CIS Seminar: “Intelligence Augmentation for Scientific Researchers”
Special location for this talk: 105 Amy Gutmann Hall Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence are powering revolutionary interactive tools that will transform the very nature of the scientific enterprise. We describe several large-scale projects at the Allen Institute for AI aimed at developing open models, agentic platforms, and novel interaction paradigms in order to amplify […]
MSE Thesis Defense: “Chain and Pendant Architecture Effects in Associating Polyolefins” Eli Jared Fastow
The United States recycles less than 9% of plastic waste, representing a tremendous environmental catastrophe and a loss of embodied value. This dissertation presents the structure-property relationships of functional polymers made from an upcycling approach targeting polyolefins for polymer-to-polymer conversions. The overall strategy proceeds by first dehydrogenating polyolefins, then functionalizing the resulting C=C to generate […]
Spring 2025 GRASP Seminar: James Tompkin, Brown University, “Joint Depth and 3D Motion Estimation Two Ways”
This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 512 and virtual attendance on Zoom. This seminar will NOT be recorded. ABSTRACT Dynamic scene reconstruction from monocular cameras often requires us to simultaneously estimate depth and 3D motion, where knowledge of either one would help to constrain the other. I will review two […]
Saturday, March 1, 2025
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