Tuesday, September 01
Engineering Graduate Student Welcome
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Julie Yun, Princeton University
Sponsor: Princeton Engineering
Location: Friend Center, Courtyard Under the Tent
Wednesday, September 02
Reshaping Light via Photon Up-and Down-Conversion
12:05 p.m.
Speaker: Sean Roberts, University of Texas at Austin
Sponsors: Princeton Materials Institute, Program in Materials Science and Engineering
Series: PMI/PCCM SEMINAR SERIES
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Beyond the Monomer: Designing Sequence, Patterns, Composition, and Architecture in Macromolecules
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Michael Webb, Princeton University
Sponsor: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Series: Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Location: Bioengineering, E105
Thursday, September 03
Keller Center Open House
1:30 p.m.
Note: No speaker provided
Sponsor: Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
Location: 110 Prospect St.
Friday, September 04
The Structure of Optimal Nonlinear Feedback Control and Its Implications
1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Suman Chakravorty, Texas A & M University
Sponsor: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Series: MAE Departmental Seminars
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Tuesday, September 08
AI Agents and the Augmentation Agenda
12:15 p.m.
Speaker: Arvind Narayanan, 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.
Uncovering Latent Stock Risk Linkages: Financial Graph Learning via Mixed Membership Co-jump Networks
12:15 p.m.
Speaker: Yingying Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Series: S. S. Wilks Memorial Seminar in Statistics
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
An S. S. Wilks Distinguished Lecture Series Talk
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Xihong Lin, Harvard University
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Wednesday, September 09
The Bittersweet Lesson of Scaling in AI for Materials
12:05 p.m.
Speaker: Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsors: Princeton Materials Institute, AI at Princeton, Program in Materials Science and Engineering
Series: PMI/PCCM SEMINAR SERIES
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Structure-function Relationships for Sustainable Feedstock Upgrading: Lessons in Oxidation Chemistry
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Gina Noh, The Pennsylvania State University
Sponsor: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Series: Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
An S. S. Wilks Distinguished Lecture Series Talk
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Xihong Lin, Harvard University
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Series: S. S. Wilks Memorial Seminar in Statistics
Note: No location or remote link provided
Tuesday, September 15
The Bystander Privacy Problem
12:15 p.m.
Speaker: Helen Nissenbaum, Princeton University
Sponsor: Center for Information Technology Policy
Series: CITP Seminar
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 306
An ORFE Department Colloquia Talk
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: John Duchi, Stanford University
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Wednesday, September 16
Capturing Light Induced Phase Transitions with Femtosecond Movies
12:05 p.m.
Speaker: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsors: Princeton Materials Institute, Program in Materials Science and Engineering
Series: PMI/PCCM SEMINAR SERIES
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Network Phases in Block Polymers
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Kevin Dorfman, University of Minnesota
Sponsor: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Series: Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Quantitative propagation of chaos and fluctuations for non-exchangeable diffusions
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Lane Chun Yeung, Illinois Institute of Technology
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Thursday, September 17
Sustainable Energy and Electronics need… Sustainable Materials
12:30 p.m.
Speaker: David Cahen, Weizmann Institute of Science
Sponsors: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Program in Sustainable Energy
Series: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment Highlight Seminar Series
Location: Maeder Hall, auditorium
Monday, September 21
Interpolation-based learning under data heterogeneity
12:15 p.m.
Speaker: Sohom Bhattacharya, University of Florida
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Series: S. S. Wilks Memorial Seminar in Statistics
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Wednesday, September 23
Organic Solvent Reverse Osmosis Membranes for Complex Mixture Separations
12:05 p.m.
Speaker: Ryan Lively, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sponsors: Princeton Materials Institute, Program in Materials Science and Engineering
Series: PMI/PCCM SEMINAR SERIES
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Crystal Engineering in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Opportunities for Further Innovation
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Christopher Burcham, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Sponsor: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Series: Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
A Stochastic Analysis and Financial Mathematics Seminar Talk
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Graeme Baker, Colombia University
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Friday, September 25
Industrial Electrification: Technologies and Interactions with the Energy System
3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Ciez, Purdue University
Sponsor: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Monday, September 28
An S. S. Wilks Memorial Seminar in Statistics Talk
12:15 p.m.
Speaker: Annie Qu, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Series: S. S. Wilks Memorial Seminar in Statistics
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Tuesday, September 29
Dark Mansions: AI, Innovation, and Fermat’s Last Theorem
12:15 p.m.
Speaker: Joshua Cohen, Apple 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.
An ORFE Department Colloquia Talk
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Ankur Moitra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Wednesday, September 30
Flow, Structure, and Motion Correlation in Nearly-jammed Suspensions
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Jeffrey Morris, The City College of New York
Sponsor: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Series: Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Wednesday, October 07
Selective Ion Transport in Hydration-limited Sub-nm Pores of Polymer Membranes
4:00 p.m.
Speaker: Chinedum Osuji, University of Pennsylvania
Sponsor: Chemical and Biological Engineering
Series: Chemical and Biological Engineering Seminar Series
Friday, October 09
The Mechanics of Asteroid Exploration: Recent Missions and Future Plans
3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Dan Scheeres, University of Colorado
Sponsor: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Location: Bowen Hall, 222
Monday, October 12
An S. S. Wilks Memorial Seminar in Statistics Talk
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
Wednesday, October 14
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
Tuesday, October 27
An ORFE Department Colloquia Talk
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Tim Roughgarden, Columbia University
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
Wednesday, October 28
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
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
Monday, November 02
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
Wednesday, November 04
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, Columbia University
Sponsor: Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Series: S. S. Wilks Memorial Seminar in Statistics
Location: Sherrerd Hall, 101
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
Wednesday, December 02
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
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
Thursday, September 03
From Closed-Loop Systems to Closed-Loop Design: Full-Stack Co-Design for the AI Era
4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Yakun Sophia Shao, University of California-Berkeley
Sponsor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Location: Engineering Quad, B205