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LRSM Seminar: “Expanding Our Vision of Glasses: Physical Vapor Deposition Prepares Ultrastable and Anisotropic Materials”

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MEAM Seminar: “Robots that Evolve on Demand”

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CIS Seminar: “Decentralized Mechanism Design: Cryptography Meets Game Theory”

3 events,

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ASSET Seminar: “Efficient Sharing of AI Infrastructures with Specialized Serverless Computing”

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Spring 2025 GRASP SFI: Guandao Yang, Stanford University, “Toward Spatial Intelligence with Limited Data”

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CBE Seminar: “Engineering Technologies for Enhanced Modeling, Detection, and Treatment of Neurological Disease” (Alice Stanton, MIT)

3 events,

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MSE Seminar: “Tuning Nanostructured Materials for Combustion Applications” (Kerri-lee A. Chintersingh, Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology)

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Herman P. Schwan Distinguished Lecture: “Engineering Proteins, Genomes, Viruses & Organs” (George Church, Harvard & MIT)

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Spring 2025 GRASP Seminar: Nat Trask, University of Pennsylvania, “Geometric structure preservation in probabilistic digital twins”

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MEAM Seminar: “Digital Twins for the Earth System”

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CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “A molecular understanding of the structure-property relationships of model end-linked polymer networks” (Han Zhang)

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CIS Seminar: “Thinking Outside the GPU: Systems for Scalable Machine Learning Pipelines”

3 events,

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ASSET Seminar: “Steering Machine Learning Ecosystems of Interacting Agents”

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Spring 2025 GRASP & CIS Seminar: Yossi Gandelsman, University of California, Berkeley, “Interpreting the Inner Workings of Vision Models”

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CBE Seminar: “Toward Efficient and Synthesizable In-silico Molecular Design” (Wenhao Gao, MIT)

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BE Seminar – “Engineering cell state-specific gene regulation with AI and synthetic biology” (Sebastián Castillo Hair, University of Washington)

3 events,

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Spring 2025 GRASP Seminar: Hersh Sanghvi, University of Pennsylvania, “Online Controller Adaptation with Meta-Learned Models”

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MSE Thesis Defense: “Cryogenic Microscopies of Energy Storage Materials: Insights into Metal Anodes, Solid-Electrolyte Interfaces, and Mxenes”

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MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Bio-inspired Architected Materials/structures with Enhanced Failure Characteristics”

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Energy Week: Joseph Bordogna Forum

4 events,

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MEAM Seminar: “Flow Architectures, From Capillary Networks to Blood Transport through Organs”

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ESE Spring Seminar – “Machine Learning: Algorithmic and Economic Perspectives”

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Energy Week: “Catalyzing Clean Energy Investments in the Private Sector: The Role of the Federal Government”

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ASSET Seminar: “Beyond Scaling: Frontiers of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models”

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CBE Seminar: “Genetically Encodable Designer Biomaterials” (Shunzhi Wang, University of Washington)

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Postponed Energy Week: Viewing of Legion 44 Documentary Film

5 events,

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CBE & VIEST Joint Seminar: “Lignin Conversion to Performance-advantaged Fuels, Chemicals, and Polymers” (Gregg Beckham, NREL)

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Energy Week: “Climate 101: Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence”

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IDEAS/STAT Optimization Seminar: “Foundations of Deep Learning: Optimization and Representation Learning”

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PICS Colloquium: Powering decarbonization with modeling and optimization of renewables in the multi-scale atmosphere

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MEAM Seminar: “Miniaturized Robots and Probes for Precision Health”

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ESE Spring Seminar – “AI as a Lens: Expanding Vision for Scientific Discovery”

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CIS Seminar: “Efficient Probabilistically Checkable Proofs from High-Dimensional Expanders”

4 events,

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MEAM Seminar: “Real-Time Safe and Energy-Efficient UAV Motion Planning in Windy Urban Environments”

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ASSET Seminar: “Demystifying the Inner Workings of Language Models”

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Spring 2025 GRASP SFI: Qinghua Liu, Microsoft Research, “When Is Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning Not Scary?”

3 events,

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ESE Spring Seminar – “Quantum Simulation of Electronic Materials with a Superconducting Qubit Array”

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IDEAS/STAT Optimization Seminar: “Theoretical foundations for multi-agent learning”

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CIS Seminar: “Learning Theoretic Foundations for Modern (Data) Science”

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PICS Colloquium: Unraveling Internal Friction in a Coarse-Grained Protein Model

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MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Leveraging Impedance-Related Properties for Free Self-Sensing in Actuators for Compact Robots”

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Spring 2025 GRASP Seminar: Sarah Keren, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, “Encouraging Autonomous Agents to Behave Nicely”

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MEAM Seminar: “Neural Operator for Scientific Computing”

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ESE Spring Seminar – “Towards quantum interconnects: entangling microwave and optical photonic qubits”

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ESE Guest Seminar – “On Team Decision Problems with Nonclassical Information Structures”

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CBE Seminar: “Prioritization of Research, Development, and Deployment Pathways for a Circular Bioeconomy” (Jeremy Guest, UIUC)

4 events,

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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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BE Seminar – “Scaffold-Modulated Healing in Irradiated Bone” (Katie Hixon, Dartmouth Engineering)

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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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MSE Thesis Defense: “Chain and Pendant Architecture Effects in Associating Polyolefins” Eli Jared Fastow

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