Thursday, February 13
CITP Special Event: AI and Labor Seminar: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI: Introducing the Fairwork Action Research Project
1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Mark Graham, Oxford Internet Institute
Sponsor: Center for Information Technology Policy
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 306
Valentine’s Day Card Making Workshop
3:00 p.m.
Note: No speaker provided
Sponsor: Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
Location: Engineering Quad, Makerspace H212
Interpretable machine learning for biological discovery and design
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Jason Yang, Rutgers University
Sponsor: Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute
Series: BioE Colloquium Series
Location: Louis A. Simpson International Building, A71
Friday, February 14
Meditation
8:30 a.m.
Speaker: Sue Kim, Princeton University
Location: Maeder Hall, 103
Getting Started with LaTeX
3:15 p.m.
Speaker: Jerry Zhu, Princeton University
Sponsor: Engineering Library
Location: Engineering Library, Fine Visualization Lab, Room A15
Policy Optimization for Control: Geometry and Algorithms
3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Mehran Mesbahi (University of Washington)
Sponsor: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Series: MAE Departmental Seminars
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Monday, February 17
Efficient derivative-free Bayesian Inference for Large-scale Inverse Problems
12:25 p.m.
Speaker: Jiaoyang Huang, University of Pennsylvania
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Series: S. S. Wilks Memorial Seminar in Statistics
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Twisting Light with Nanomachines
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Haoning Tang, Harvard University
Sponsor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Series: ECE Departmental Seminars
Location: Engineering Quad, B205
Tuesday, February 18
CITP Seminar: The Reach of Fairness: From Algorithmic Justice to Experimental Design
12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Lydia Liu, 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.
Tinkercad Workshop
4:00 p.m.
Note: No speaker provided
Sponsor: Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
Location: Engineering Quad, Makerspace H212
Large AI Model Lecture Series: Just a Parrot? — How Language Models Learn, Reason, and Self-Improve
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University
Sponsors: AI at Princeton, Princeton Language and Intelligence Initiaive
Location: Friend Center, 101
Rapid Bayesian Computation and Estimation for Neural Networks via Log-concave Coupling
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Andrew Barron, Yale University
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Series: ORFE Department Colloquium
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Wednesday, February 19
Harnessing Electron Dynamics: Atosecond and Nanometer Scale Control and Observation
12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Matthias Kling, Stanford University
Sponsor: Princeton Materials Institute
Series: PMI/PCCM SEMINAR SERIES
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Electrification and Decarbonization of Chemical Synthesis
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Karthish Manthiram, Caltech
Sponsor: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Series: Dudley A. Saville Lectureship in Chemical and Biological Engineering
Location: Maeder Hall, Auditorium
Exciting Games and the Specific Relative Entropy
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Julio Backhoff, University of Vienna
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Series: Financial Mathematics Seminar
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Thursday, February 20
Pathways Into the Academy
9:00 a.m.
Speaker: Julie Yun, Princeton University
From Structure to Function: Immune Cells and Biomimicry in Vascularized Organs-on-a-Chip
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Milica Radisic, University of Toronto
Sponsor: Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute
Series: BioE Colloquium Series
Location: Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, A17
Friday, February 21
Meditation
8:30 a.m.
Speaker: Sue Kim, Princeton University
Location: Maeder Hall, 103
Monday, February 24
Learning Shared Representations with Multi-source Data: A Distributionally Robust Optimization Approach
12:25 p.m.
Speaker: Zijian Guo, Rutgers University
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Series: S. S. Wilks Memorial Seminar in Statistics
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Controlling Language Models
12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Xiang Lisa Li
Sponsor: Computer Science
Series: CS Department Colloquium Series
Location: Computer Science Building, 105
Nanoscale Engineering of Advanced Materials to Unlock Optoelectronic Performance
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Dane de Quilettes, Optigon, Inc.
Sponsor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Series: ECE Departmental Seminars
Location: Engineering Quad, B205
Tuesday, February 25
What Does Generative AI Mean for the Hardware That Has to Ultimately Run It?
12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Naveen Verma, Princeton University
Sponsor: Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Series: Luncheon Speaker Series
Location: Bendheim House, 103
CITP Seminar: AI Manipulation and Freedom of Thought
12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Inyoung Cheong, 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, February 26
Coffee Chat
9:30 a.m.
Speaker: Julie Yun, Princeton University
Location: Engineering Quad, Equad Cafe
DNA liquids
12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Omar Saleh, University of California Santa Barbara
Sponsor: Princeton Materials Institute
Series: PMI/PCCM SEMINAR SERIES
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Engineering Transformative Materials and Devices for 3D-Integrated Energy-Efficient Electronics
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Asir Intisar Khan, University of California, Berkeley
Sponsor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Series: ECE Departmental Seminars
Location: Engineering Quad, B205
Thursday, February 27
Engineering environmentally resilient plants with synthetic biology
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Jennifer Brophy, Stanford University
Sponsor: Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute
Series: BioE Colloquium Series
Location: Louis A. Simpson International Building, A71
Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Accelerations in Optimization and Machine Learning
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Ernest Ryu, University of California-Los Angeles
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Series: Princeton Optimization Seminar
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Digital Embroidery Workshop
5:00 p.m.
Note: No speaker provided
Sponsor: Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
Location: Engineering Quad, Makerspace H212
Friday, February 28
Meditation
8:30 a.m.
Speaker: Sue Kim, Princeton University
Location: Maeder Hall, 103
Monday, March 03
Theoretical Foundations for Multi-Agent Learning
12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Noah Golowich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsor: Computer Science
Series: CS Department Colloquium Series
Location: Computer Science Building, 105
Tuesday, March 04
CITP Seminar: Governance Frictions In Decentralized Social Media
12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Sohyeon Hwang, 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, March 05
Unlocking Non-Equilibrium Phases: How Strain and Light Transform Mott Materials
12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Andrej Singer, Cornell University
Sponsor: Princeton Materials Institute
Series: PMI/PCCM SEMINAR SERIES
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Thursday, March 06
Building Expert-Level Language Models from Decomposed Weak Validations
12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Ruiqi Zhong, University of California-Berkeley
Sponsor: Computer Science
Series: CS Department Colloquium Series
Location: Computer Science Building, 105
Highlight Seminar: Steven Boeynaems
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Steven Boeynaems
Sponsor: Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute
Series: BioE Colloquium Series
Note: No location or remote link provided
Reflections on the Impact of Design Research in Society
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Jodi Forlizzi, Carnegie Mellon University
Sponsor: Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
Location: Friend Center, 006
Friday, March 07
Meditation
8:30 a.m.
Speaker: Sue Kim, Princeton University
Location: Maeder Hall, 103
Exquisite Energetics of the Ultrafast: An Interdisciplinary Nexus of Discovery
3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Sheila Patek, Duke University
Sponsor: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Series: MAE Departmental Seminars
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Tuesday, March 18
CITP Seminar: Consensus Building in Remote Collaborations
12:30 p.m.
Speaker: James Mellody, Princeton Univeristy
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.
Pareto-efficient AI systems: Expanding the quality and efficiency frontier of AI
12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Simran Arora, Stanford University
Sponsor: Computer Science
Series: CS Department Colloquium Series
Location: Computer Science Building, 105
Thursday, March 20
Photocatalytic and Electrocatalytic Pathways to Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals: Insights into Reaction Kinetics from Optical Spectroscopy
12:30 p.m.
Speaker: James Durrant, Imperial College
Sponsor: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Series: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment Highlight Seminar Series
Location: Maeder Hall, Auditorium
Highlight Seminar: Fei Chen
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Fei Chen, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Sponsor: Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute
Series: BioE Colloquium Series
Note: No location or remote link provided
Friday, March 21
Low Temperature Plasmas in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: Quo Vadis?
3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Mark Cappelli, Stanford University
Sponsor: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Series: MAE Departmental Seminars
Location: Bowen Hall, Atrium 222
Tuesday, March 25
Cracking the Market Code: Building Large Foundation Models for High-frequency Trading
12:00 p.m.
Speaker: Zhangyang “Atlas” Wang, University of Texas-Austin
Sponsor: Center for Statistics and Machine Learning
Series: Luncheon Speaker Series
Location: Bendheim House, 103
Natural Language Processing for the Public Sector
12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Dominik Stammbach, 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.
Thursday, March 27
Highlight Seminar: Sarah Helishorn
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Sarah Helishorn, Stanford University
Sponsor: Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute
Series: BioE Colloquium Series
Location: Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, A17
The Cost of Craft: Art, Labor and Livelihood
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Sarah Hussaini, Not Work Related
Sponsor: Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
Location: Friend Center, 006
Friday, March 28
The Era of Autonomy in Space Exploration – It’s Finally Here!
3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Robert Braun, Johns Hopkins University
Sponsor: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Series: MAE Departmental Seminars
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Wednesday, April 02
Princeton Materials Institute Annual Research Symposium
8:00 a.m.
Speaker: Richard Register, Peter Schiffer, Andrea J. Goldsmith, Princeton University
Sponsor: Princeton Materials Institute
Location: Maeder Hall
Organization and Dynamics of Neuronal Systems at Cellular and Molecular Scales
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Karthik Shekhar, University of California Berkeley
Sponsor: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Series: Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Location: Engineering Quad, A224
Thursday, April 03
Highlight Seminar: Hal Alper
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Hal Alper, The University of Texas-Austin
Sponsor: Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute
Series: BioE Colloquium Series
Note: No location or remote link provided
Friday, April 04
Solar Simulations in the Shadows of Racial Capitalism
3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Myles Lennon, Brown University
Sponsor: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Series: MAE Departmental Seminars
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Wednesday, April 09
Exploring Entrepreneurship as Resistance Among Black Women Street Vendors in Antebellum Charleston
12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Heather Butina-Sutton, University of Houston
Sponsor: Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
Location: Participate remotely by visiting this link. See event website for additional details regarding registration.
Thursday, April 10
Towards Autonomous Language Model Systems
12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Ofir Press, Princeton University
Sponsor: Computer Science
Series: CS Department Colloquium Series
Location: Computer Science Building, 105
Highlight Seminar: Leonardo Morsut
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Leonardo Morsut, University of Southern California
Sponsor: Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute
Series: BioE Colloquium Series
Note: No location or remote link provided
Friday, April 11
Rethinking Problems in Thermal Science and Engineering: From Atoms to Applications
3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Asegun Henry, MIT
Sponsor: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Series: MAE Departmental Seminars
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Wednesday, April 16
Multi-phase, Multi-physics Modeling of Interfacial Phenomena in Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems
12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Emily Ryan, Boston University
Sponsor: Princeton Materials Institute
Series: PMI/PCCM SEMINAR SERIES
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Predicting Structure and Charge Transport in Semiconducting Polymers
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Scott Milner, Pennsylvania State University
Sponsor: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Series: Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Location: Engineering Quad, A224
Thursday, April 17
Highlight Seminar: Beth Pruitt
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Beth Pruitt, University of California-Santa Barbara
Sponsor: Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute
Series: BioE Colloquium Series
Note: No location or remote link provided
Wednesday, April 23
Coffee Chat
9:30 a.m.
Speaker: Julie Yun, Princeton University
Location: Engineering Quad, Equad Cafe
Mutexa: A Physics-based Ecosystem for Intelligent Protein Engineering
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Zhongyue (John) Yang, Vanderbilt University
Sponsor: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Series: Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Location: Engineering Quad, A224
Thursday, April 24
Highlight Seminar: Dan Voytas
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dan Voytas, University of Minnesota
Sponsor: Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute
Series: BioE Colloquium Series
Note: No location or remote link provided
Wednesday, April 30
Machine Learning Based Analyses and Interpretation of Structural Characterization Data from Soft Materials
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Arthi Jayaraman, University of Delaware-Newark
Sponsor: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Series: Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Location: Engineering Quad, A224
Thursday, May 01
Academic Colloquium & Reception
10:30 a.m.
Note: No speaker provided
Sponsor: Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
Location: Friend Center
Highlight Seminar: Susan Margulies
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Susan Margulies, National Science Foundation
Sponsor: Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute
Series: BioE Colloquium Series
Note: No location or remote link provided
Tuesday, May 06
Coffee Chat
9:30 a.m.
Speaker: Julie Yun, Princeton University
Location: Engineering Quad, Equad Cafe