February 13 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Shailaja Seetharaman, PhD 3210 Mechanical Engineering 1513 University Ave., Madison, WI, United States Vascular Dysfunction in Disease: Engineering Mechanobiology Holds the Solution Shailaja Seetharaman, PhDPostdoctoral ResearcherJames Franck Institute and Department of PhysicsUniversity of Chicago Abstract:Abnormalities in blood vessel and blood flow properties are key drivers of severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular pathologies. The remarkable ability of the vasculature to sense and respond to mechanical and biochemical signals across multiple...
February 13 @ 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM MS&E Seminar Series: Assistant Professor Samuel Teitelbaum UW-Madison Department of Materials Science and Engineering welcomes Assistant Professor Samuel Teitelbaum. Their seminar on “Uncovering Real-time Structural Transformations with Femtosecond X-rays” will be on Thursday, Feb. 13 in MS&E 265 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Abstract Material transformations (i.e. phase transitions) are foundational processes in technologies and natural phenomena from solid-state memory and...
February 13 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ME 903 Graduate Seminar: Professor Kyoko Yoshida 3M Auditorium, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Ave, Madison The ME 903: Graduate Student Lecture Series features campus and visiting speakers who present on a variety of research topics in the field of mechanical engineering. Professor Kyoko Yoshida is a professor at the University of Minnesota.
February 16 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM ISyE – IISE Pickleball Social Bakke Recreation & Wellbeing Center 1976 Observatory Dr, Madison, Wisconsin Feeling ready for some friendly competition? Play Pickleball with IISE at the Bakke!
February 17 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Dhananjay Bhaskar, PhD 1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States Harnessing Geometry and Topology in Machine Learning for Biomedical Discovery Dhananjay Bhaskar, PhDPostdoctoral Researcher, Yale UniversityYale - Boehringer Ingelheim FellowKavli Institute for Neuroscience FellowVisiting Scholar in Engineering, Brown University Abstract:Understanding the shape of data through geometry and topology offers a powerful perspective with the potential to drive breakthroughs in biomedical science and engineering. This talk...
February 17 @ 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM ISyE- IISE JEOPARDY game night Location TBD (Check ME building for signage) 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison Join UW-ISyE's IISE student org forJeopardy nigh
February 18 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ISyE Foundations of Private Optimization for Modern Machine Learning 2188 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Avenue, Madison, WI, United States How can we develop optimization algorithms for training machine learning models that preserve the privacy of individuals' training data? In this talk, I will present my work addressing this challenge through differential privacy (DP). Differential privacy offers a rigorous, quantifiable standard of privacy that limits potential leakage of training data. I will explore the fundamental... Free
February 18 @ 12:20 PM - 12:50 PM ECE Discovery Panel: Quantum, Optics & Photonics 1413 Engineering Hall - Cheney Room 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States Engineering undergraduates! Join us in the Cheney Room (1413 Engineering Hall) as faculty members explore the technical area of Quantum, Optics & Photonics! All undergraduate students are welcome as Assistant Professor Jennifer Choy, Professor Mikhail Kats, and Assistant Professor Ying Wang talk about application ideas, advanced course electives in this area, and future job opportunities. It’s...
February 19 @ 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM ISyE Alumni Panel All students are invited to join us as we welcome back these ISyE alumni.
February 20 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ISyE Accounting Individual Cognition and Social Influence for Better Human-AI Collaboration 2188 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Avenue, Madison, WI, United States Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly integrated into our lives, enabling a new paradigm of human-AI decision-making where AI provides recommendations, and humans make the final decision. However, such human-AI collaboration often yields mixed results in reality, highlighting the need to understand how humans engage with AI-based systems and optimize human-AI collaboration's effectiveness. In this... Free