Monday, October 12
Self-Distillation is Optimal Among Spectral Shrinkage Estimators in Spiked Covariance Models
12:15 p.m.
Speaker: Debarghya Mukherjee, Boston University
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Series: S. S. Wilks Memorial Seminar in Statistics
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Tuesday, October 13
From AI Innovation to AI Deployment: Building the Institutions for an AI-Driven Economy
12:15 p.m.
Speaker: Liat Krawczyk, NJ AI Hub
Sponsor: Center for Information Technology Policy
Series: CITP Seminar
Location: Option to meet in Sherrerd Hall, 306 or participate remotely by visiting this link. See event website for additional details regarding registration.
Wednesday, October 14
Critical Materials Processing via Closed-Loop Redox-Mediated Leaching
12:05 p.m.
Speaker: Alan West, Columbia University
Sponsor: Princeton Materials Institute
Series: PMI/PCCM SEMINAR SERIES
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Introducing the StellarAI Cluster
1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Jonathan Menard, PPPL; Chris Dalton, PPPL; Stephane Ethier, PPPL; and Jonathan Halverson, Princeton University
Sponsor: Research Computing
Series: Research Computing Workshops
Location: Participate remotely by visiting this link. See event website for additional details regarding registration.
Material Chemistry Approaches to the Design of Electrocatalyst for Sustainability
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Hong Yang, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Sponsor: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Series: Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Location: Chemical and Biological Engineering, F204 SEAS-CBE
Thursday, October 15
How to Make Your Figures Pop: Colormaps
10:30 a.m.
Speaker: Carolina Roe-Raymond, Princeton University and Matt Coleman, Princeton University
Sponsor: Research Computing
Series: Research Computing Workshops
Location: Commons Building, D112
From Voluntary Commitments to Mandatory Kill Switches: How the Regulatory Debate over Model Weights Has (and Hasn’t) Changed
12:15 p.m.
Speaker: Ben Brooks, Black Forest Labs
Sponsor: Center for Information Technology Policy
Series: William Pierson Field Lecture
Location: Friend Center, Convocation Room
Control of Tissue Flow and Embryo Geometry in Avian Gastrulation
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Mattia Serra, University of California-San Diego
Sponsor: Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute
Series: BioE Colloquium Series
Location: Bioengineering, BioE E105
A.I. x Journalism: How to Report from the Digital Wild West
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Arvind Narayanan, Computer Science and CITP; Christo Grozev, Journalism; Dylan Freedman, The New York Times; Madelyne Xiao, Computer Science
Sponsor: Center for Information Technology Policy
Location: Chancellor Green, Rotunda
Getting Started with Deep Learning Using PyTorch
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Jonathan Halverson, Princeton University
Sponsor: Research Computing
Series: Research Computing Workshops
Location: Lewis Library, 138
Monday, October 19
Frontiers in Electron and Scanning Probe Microscopy for the Physical and Life Sciences
12:00 a.m.
Speaker: Qian Chen, Yifan Cheng, Amir Yacoby
Sponsors: Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton Engineering
Location: Maeder Hall, Auditorium
Fall Break 2026 Parallel Programming & GPU Bootcamp
10:00 a.m.
Speaker: Various Speakers, Princeton University
Sponsor: Research Computing
Series: Research Computing Workshops
Location: Lewis Library, 138
Wednesday, October 21
Discover, Build and Explore AI with Microsoft Discovery and GitHub
11:30 a.m.
Speaker: Ash Jogalekar, Microsoft Discovery; Vikram Parvathaneni, Microsoft Azure; and Jonathan Adams, Microsoft Azure
Sponsor: Research Computing
Series: Research Computing Workshops
Location: Lewis Library, 138
Thursday, October 22
Scaling Research Applications with Profiling
10:00 a.m.
Speaker: Christopher Brissette, NVIDIA
Sponsor: Research Computing
Series: Research Computing Workshops
Location: Lewis Library, 122
Tuesday, October 27
Mathematical Communities in the Age of AI Generated Proof
12:15 p.m.
Speaker: Eamon Duede, Princeton University
Sponsor: Center for Information Technology Policy
Series: CITP Seminar
Location: Option to meet in Sherrerd Hall, 306 or participate remotely by visiting this link. See event website for additional details regarding registration.
Commons Visualization Lab for Research and Teaching
2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Eliot Feibush, Princeton University
Sponsor: Research Computing
Series: Research Computing Workshops
Location: Commons Building, D119
An ORFE Department Colloquia Talk
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Tim Roughgarden, Columbia University
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Using Large Language Models in your Research: Fine-Tuning, Embeddings and Using APIs
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Yoonsang Lee, Princeton University and Simon Park, Princeton University
Sponsor: Research Computing
Series: Research Computing Workshops
Location: Lewis Library, 138
Wednesday, October 28
Creating Abundance through Catalysis
12:05 p.m.
Speaker: Joseph Fedeyko, Johnson Matthey
Sponsor: Princeton Materials Institute
Series: PMI/PCCM SEMINAR SERIES
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Understanding, Simulating and Designing Catalysts with Machine Learning
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Bryan Goldsmith, University of Michigan
Sponsor: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Series: Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Location: Chemical and Biological Engineering, F204 SEAS-CBE
Architecting Immersive Intelligence: From Glasses to the Datacenter
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Sarita Adve, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Sponsors: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science
Series: Emerging Frontiers in Computer Architecture and Systems Seminar
Location: Engineering Quad, B205
Thursday, October 29
2026 Annual Meeting – Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
8:00 a.m.
Note: No speaker provided
Sponsor: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Location: Maeder Hall, auditorium
Information Session with Exponent
12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Ted Zirkle, Exponent and Lauren Katch, Exponent
Sponsors: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Office of the Dean of the Graduate School
Location: Computer Science Building, 104
Leveraging Engineered Virus-like Particles for Intracellular Protein and RNA Delivery
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Aditya Raguram, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Sponsor: Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute
Location: Commons Building, D301
Monday, November 02
Princeton Societal AI Launch
12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Brian Merchant, Author; Audrey Watters, Author; and Alondra Nelson, Institute for Advanced Study.
Sponsors: Data and Intelligent Systems (DaIS), Princeton AI
Location: Chancellor Green
An S. S. Wilks Memorial Seminar in Statistics Talk
12:15 p.m.
Speaker: Koulik Khamaru, Rutgers University
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Series: S. S. Wilks Memorial Seminar in Statistics
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Tuesday, November 03
ArabIan Nights: Tales of AI, Science, and Trouble
12:10 p.m.
Speaker: Nihar Shah, Carnegie Mellon University
Sponsor: Computer Science
Series: CS Colloquium Series
Location: Computer Science Building, 105
From Code to Care: The Moralization of Healthcare Machine Learning
12:15 p.m.
Speaker: Shira Zilberstein, Princeton University
Sponsor: Center for Information Technology Policy
Series: CITP Seminar
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 306
Wednesday, November 04
Recent Advances in the Modeling of Shape Memory Alloys
12:05 p.m.
Speaker: Dimitris Lagoudas, Texas A&M University
Sponsor: Princeton Materials Institute
Series: PMI/PCCM SEMINAR SERIES
Location: Bowen Hall, Bowen 222
A Stochastic Analysis and Financial Mathematics Seminar Talk
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Alejandra Quintos, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Thursday, November 05
An Optimization Seminar Talk
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Andre Wibisono, Yale University
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Friday, November 06
Current Understanding and Unsolved Problems in the Thermal Conductivity of Materials
3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. David Cahill, University of Illinois Urban-Champaign
Sponsor: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Monday, November 09
An S. S. Wilks Memorial Seminar in Statistics Talk
12:15 p.m.
Speaker: Zhonghua Liu, Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Series: S. S. Wilks Memorial Seminar in Statistics
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Tuesday, November 10
Toward Social-Ecosystem-Aware AI for Interpersonal Support
12:15 p.m.
Speaker: Angel Hwang, Princeton University
Sponsor: Center for Information Technology Policy
Series: CITP Seminar
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 306
Wednesday, November 11
Beyond Conventional Silicon: Perovskite Solar Cells and X-ray Detectors
12:05 p.m.
Speaker: Makhsud Saidaminov, University of Victoria
Sponsor: Princeton Materials Institute
Series: PMI/PCCM SEMINAR SERIES
Location: Bowen Hall, Bowen 222
Thursday, November 12
Extensive Gene Evolution on Laboratory Timescales
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Chang Liu, University of California-Irvine
Sponsor: Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute
Series: BioE Colloquium Series
Location: Bioengineering, E105
Book Talk: Reboot: AI and the Race to Save Democracy
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Beth Simone Noveck, Northeastern University
Sponsors: Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Series: CITP Special Event
Location: Robertson Hall, 016
Tuesday, November 17
Crowdsourcing as Evaluation, Crowdsourcing as Intervention
12:15 p.m.
Speaker: Eve Fleisig, Princeton University
Sponsor: Center for Information Technology Policy
Series: CITP Seminar
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 306
Wednesday, November 18
Programming and Architecting Physical Intelligence: A Sensing-Computing-Human Co-Optimization Approach
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Yuhao Zhu, University of Rochester
Sponsors: Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Series: Emerging Frontiers in Computer Architecture and Systems Seminar
Location: Engineering Quad, B205
Thursday, November 19
Investment Decision-Making in Critical Mineral Supply Chains under Geological, Economic, Regulatory and Geopolitical Uncertainty
12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Jef Caers, Stanford University
Sponsors: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Geosciences
Series: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment Highlight Seminar Series
Location: Maeder Hall, auditorium
Friday, November 20
Nuclear Electric Propulsion: Progress, Challenges and the Path to High-Power Space Systems
3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Kurt Polzin, NASA
Sponsor: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Tuesday, December 01
Examining AI-generated Political Information: Design, Ideology, and Congruence
12:15 p.m.
Speaker: Alia ElKattan, Princeton University
Sponsor: Center for Information Technology Policy
Series: CITP Seminar
Location: Option to meet in Sherrerd Hall, 306 or participate remotely by visiting this link. See event website for additional details regarding registration.
Wednesday, December 02
Atomically Thin Membranes: Opportunities and Challenges
12:05 p.m.
Speaker: Piran Kidambi, University of Florida
Sponsor: Princeton Materials Institute
Series: PMI/PCCM SEMINAR SERIES
Location: Bowen Hall, Bowen 222
Decoding Repetitive Proteins to Design Stimuli-responsive Biopolymers
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Danielle Mai, Stanford University
Sponsor: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Series: Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Location: Chemical and Biological Engineering, F204 SEAS-CBE
A Stochastic Analysis and Financial Mathematics Seminar Talk
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Felipe Verastegui-Gruenewald, Columbia University
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Friday, December 04
Local Maps Are All You Need
3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Timothy Barfoot, University of Toronto Institute for Space Studies
Sponsor: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Thursday, April 30
The Path to Useful Quantum Computing
This event has been cancelled.
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Jay Gambetta, IBM
Sponsors: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton Quantum Initiative
Location: Engineering Quad, B205
Monday, October 19
AI Alignment + Safety (AIAS) Inaugural Symposium & Launch Event
9:00 a.m.
Speaker: Elad Hazan, AIAS Director; Mark Braverman, AIAS Associate Director; Featured speakers include: Boaz Barak, Harvard University, Open AI; Surbhi Goel, University of Pennsylvania; Peter Henderson, Princeton University; Lydia Liu, Princeton University; Helen Qu, Flatiron Institute; Adam Tauman Kalai, Institute for Responsible Superintelligence; Benjamin Van Roy; Stanford University, Google Deep Mind
Sponsors: Data and Intelligent Systems (DaIS), Princeton AI
Location: Friend Center, 101