Events Newsletter
Thursday, March 28
Distress, Awareness, and Response
12:00 pm
Speaker: Calvin Chin, CPS
Location: Carl A. Fields Center, 104
Scaling up Actionable Knowledge
12:00 pm
Speaker: Maria Carmen Lemos, University of Michigan
Sponsors: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Location: Louis A. Simpson International Building, A71
CITP Lecture: Building Human-AI Alignment: Specifying, Inspecting, and Modeling AI Behaviors
12:30 pm
Speaker: Serena Booth, U.S. Senate
Sponsors: Center for Information Technology Policy
Series: CITP Lecture Series
The COSMOS Testbed – A Platform for Advanced Wireless, Edge Cloud, Optical, Smart Streetscapes, and International Experimentation
4:30 pm
Speaker: Gil Zussman, Columbia University
Sponsors: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Series: Princeton Wireless Distinguished Seminar Series
Location: Engineering Quad, B205
The Delusion of Scaling and the Democratization of Generative AI
4:30 pm
Speaker: Bjorn Ommer, University of Munich
Sponsors: Princeton Language and Intelligence Initiaive
Location: Robertson Hall, Arthur Lewis Auditorium 100A
Monday, April 01
Multidimensional Monotonicity Discovery via mBART
12:25 pm
Speaker: Edward I. George, University of Pennsylvania
Sponsors: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Series: S. S. Wilks Memorial Seminar in Statistics
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Learning From Interaction
12:30 pm
Speaker: Kianté Brantley, Cornell University
Sponsors: Computer Science
Series: CS Department Colloquium Series
Tuesday, April 02
Coffee Chat
9:00 am
Speaker: Julie Yun, Princeton University
Location: Engineering Quad, Equad Cafe
The Host Network (and Its Implications to Network Protocols, OS and Hardware)
12:30 pm
Speaker: Saksham Agarwal, Cornell University
Sponsors: Computer Science
Series: CS Department Colloquium Series
Is Machine Learning a New Style of Knowledge? Or of Ignorance?
12:30 pm
Speaker: Christian Sandvig, Institute for Advanced Study
Sponsors: Center for Information Technology Policy
Series: CITP Seminar
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 306
Projecting Flooding by Bringing the Physical Processes Back in the Flood Frequency Analysis
12:30 pm
Speaker: Gabriele Villarini, Princeton University
Sponsors: High Meadows Environmental Institute
Location: Guyot Hall, 10
Regulation of Energy Markets: Past, Present, and Future
4:30 pm
Speaker: Richard O'Neill, ARPA-E
Sponsors: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Series: ORFE Department Colloquium
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Can Capitalism Save the Planet? Financing the Energy Transition
4:30 pm
Speaker: Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University; Robinson Meyer, Heatmap News
Sponsors: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Location: Robertson Hall, Auditorium
Wednesday, April 03
Princeton Materials Institute Symposium
8:00 am
Sponsors: Princeton Materials Institute
Location: Maeder Hall, Auditorium
Catch M(oor)e If You Can: Agile Hardware/Software Co-Design for Hyperscale Cloud Systems
12:30 pm
Speaker: Sagar Karandikar, University of California-Berkeley
Sponsors: Computer Science
Series: CS Department Colloquium Series
Developing Strategies for Polymer Redesign and Recycling Using Reaction Pathway Analysis
4:00 pm
Speaker: Linda Broadbelt, Northwestern University
Sponsors: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Series: Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Location: Engineering Quad, A224
Thursday, April 04
Generalizing Beyond the Training Distribution Through Compositional Generation
12:30 pm
Speaker: Yilun Du, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsors: Computer Science
Series: CS Department Colloquium Series
Friday, April 05
Tech and Mental Health Symposium
9:00 am
Speaker: Keynote: Ine Beyens, University of Amsterdam
Sponsors: Princeton Precision Health
Location: Lewis Library, 120
Ensuring Robot Safety Through Safety Index Synthesis
11:00 am
Speaker: Changliu Liu, Carnegie Mellon University
Sponsors: Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Series: Princeton Robotics Seminar
Location: Computer Science Building, Small Auditorium 105
Mapping Entrepreneurial Women of Color: From Pastry Chefs to Washerwomen in 1855 Charleston, South Carolina
12:30 pm
Speaker: Dr. Alisha Marie Topete Cromwell, Assistant Professor of History, Albany State University
Sponsors: Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
Participate remotely by visiting this link. See event website for additional details regarding registration.
Visualization with VisIt
2:00 pm
Speaker: Eliot Feibush, Princeton University
Sponsors: Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering
Series: PICSciE Mini-courses & Workshops
Participate remotely by visiting this link. See event website for additional details regarding registration.
Monday, April 08
Playing with Fire: Adventures in Space Entrepreneurship
4:30 pm
Speaker: Tom Markusic, Firefly Aerospace
Sponsors: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Series: MAE Departmental Seminars
Location: Friend Center, Convocation Room 113
Tuesday, April 09
CITP Seminar: Producing More While Knowing Less: The Epistemic Risks of AI
12:30 pm
Speaker: Molly Crockett, Princeton University
Sponsors: Center for Information Technology Policy
Series: CITP Seminar
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 306
Scaling Deep Learning Up and Down
12:30 pm
Speaker: Zhuang Liu, Meta AI Research
Sponsors: Computer Science
Series: CS Department Colloquium Series
The Swarm Garden: An Interactive Architecture Exhibition
4:00 pm
Sponsors: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science
Series: MAE Departmental Seminars
Wednesday, April 10
Soft Materials Mechanics and Immunomechanics
12:00 pm
Speaker: Xuanhe Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsors: Princeton Materials Institute
Series: PMI/PCCM SEMINAR SERIES
Location: Bowen Hall, Auditorium 222
Opportunities and Challenges in Engineering Natural Product Biosynthetic Pathways
4:00 pm
Speaker: Vinayak Agarwal, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sponsors: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Series: Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Location: Engineering Quad, A224
Inside ChatGPT: Startups & AI With the World’s Most Powerful Company
4:30 pm
Speaker: Marc Manara, OpenAI/ChatGPT; Shilla Kim-Parker, Princeton University
Sponsors: Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
Location: Computer Science Building, Small Auditorium 105
Thursday, April 11
Experiential Design Schemas: Connecting People and Nature Through Architecture and Building Science
12:30 pm
Speaker: Gail Brager, University of California-Berkeley
Sponsors: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Architecture
Series: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment Highlight Seminar Series
Location: Maeder Hall, Auditorium
Library as Design Ecology
4:30 pm
Speaker: Shannon Mattern, University of Pennsylvania
Sponsors: Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
Location: Louis A. Simpson International Building, A71
2024 Anthony B. Evnin Lecture: Black Hole Blues
4:30 pm
Speaker: Janna Levin, Barnard College
Sponsors: Council on Science and Technology
Monday, April 15
Extending the Scope of Nonparametric Empirical Bayes
12:25 pm
Speaker: Bodhisattva Sen, Columbia University
Sponsors: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Series: S. S. Wilks Memorial Seminar in Statistics
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Tuesday, April 16
Princeton NextG Faculty Spotlight Series: Professor Yasaman Ghasempour
12:00 pm
Speaker: Yasaman Ghasempour, Princeton University
Sponsors: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Series: Princeton Wireless Distinguished Seminar Series
Participate remotely by visiting this link. See event website for additional details regarding registration.
The Relative Value of Prediction
12:30 pm
Speaker: Juan Carlos Perdomo, Harvard University
Sponsors: Center for Information Technology Policy
Series: CITP Seminar
Wednesday, April 17
Influence of Visible Photons on Catalytic Reactions at Metal Nanoparticle Surfaces
4:00 pm
Speaker: Phillip Christopher, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sponsors: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Series: Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Location: Engineering Quad, A224
Regular Sparse NOMA: Ultimate Performance in Closed Form
4:30 pm
Speaker: Ori Shental, Qualcomm Research
Sponsors: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Series: Princeton Wireless Distinguished Seminar Series
Location: Engineering Quad, B205
Diversification Quotients: Quantifying Diversification via Risk Measures
4:30 pm
Speaker: Ruodu Wang, University of Waterloo
Sponsors: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Series: Financial Mathematics Seminar
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Thursday, April 18
Blockchain Meets Networking: Promises, Enhancements, and Threat
12:00 am
Speaker: Maria Apostolaki and Pramod Viswanath, Princeton University
Sponsors: Center for Decentralization of Power Through Blockchain Technology (DeCenter)
Princeton Tiger Entrepreneurs Conference 2024
4:00 pm
Sponsors: Princeton Entrepreneurship Council
Location: McCosh Hall, Courtyard
Tuesday, April 23
CITP Seminar: Simplifying a Tax Code: How to Algorithmically Reduce Complexity in Rules Systems
12:30 pm
Speaker: Mark Verhagen, Princeton University
Sponsors: Center for Information Technology Policy
Series: CITP Seminar
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 306
Wednesday, April 24
History and Legacy of Black Entrepreneurship Spring Roundtable
12:30 pm
Speaker: Betsy Schlabach, Lawrence University; Allisha Marie Topete Cromell, Albany State University; Sylvea Hollis, Montgomery College
Sponsors: Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
Participate remotely by visiting this link. See event website for additional details regarding registration.
Toward Interpretable and Sustainable AI/ML
4:30 pm
Speaker: C.-C. Jay Kuo, University of Southern California
Sponsors: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Series: ECE Departmental Seminars
Location: Engineering Quad, B205
Macroscopic Properties of Equity Markets: An Empirical Study for the US Market
4:30 pm
Speaker: Ting-Kam Leonard Wong, University of Toronto
Sponsors: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Series: Financial Mathematics Seminar
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Thursday, April 25
High-tech Mining and Exploration
12:30 pm
Speaker: Kurt House, KoBold Metals
Sponsors: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Series: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment Highlight Seminar Series
Location: Maeder Hall, Auditorium
Access Is Capture: Datafication, Race, and Urban Schools
4:30 pm
Speaker: Roderic Crooks, University of California Irvine
Sponsors: Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
Location: Friend Center, Convocation Room 113
Wednesday, May 01
Coffee Chat
9:00 am
Speaker: Julie Yun, Princeton University
Location: Engineering Quad, Equad Cafe
Annual Princeton NextG Symposium
9:00 am
A Multiscale Model of Flow-induced Crystallization in Polymers
4:00 pm
Speaker: Gregory C Rutledge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsors: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Series: Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Location: Engineering Quad, A224
Thursday, May 02
Academic Colloquium Reception
10:00 am
Sponsors: Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
Friday, May 24
Welcome Alumni – Computer Science Department Event
2:30 pm
Sponsors: Computer Science
Location: Computer Science Building, Banana Gallery
Tuesday, June 04
Princeton Open (GPU) Hackathon
9:00 am
Sponsors: Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering