Events Spotlight
10
Sep
Anesia Auguste, "Processing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers"
Abstract:
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are widely recognized for their exceptional promise as actuating materials. Under external stimuli, LCEs exhibit dramatic shape...
September 10, 2026
3:30pm to 4:30pm
24
Sep
Pramod Varshney, "Six Blind Men of Indostan: Theory and Applications of Distributed Inference"
Abstract: Distributed inference refers to the synergistic combination of information gathered by various knowledge sources and sensors to provide inference regarding a...
September 24, 2026
3:30pm to 4:30pm
01
Oct
Ali Tajer, "Causal Representation Learning"
Abstract: Building reliable world models for physical systems is a central challenge in modern AI, with broad implications for scientific discovery, robotics, autonomy, and...
October 01, 2026
3:30pm to 4:30pm
08
Oct
Vikram Krishnamurthy, "Adversarial Sensing: Infer, Reveal, and Conceal"
Abstract:
In sophisticated sensing and inference systems, such as cognitive radars or networks of interacting LLMs, observations can reveal far more than the physical state:...
October 08, 2026
3:30pm to 4:30pm
12
Nov
Neng Fan, Topic to be announced
Neng Fan is a professor of Systems and Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona and a member of the Applied Mathematics-GIDP and Statistics-GIDP. He received his...
November 12, 2026
3:30pm to 4:30pm
