November 19 @ 12:20 PM - 12:50 PM ECE Discovery Panel: Applied Electromagnetics & Acoustics 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 Electromagnetics and Acoustics! All undergraduate students are welcome as Assistant Professor Chu Ma, Assistant Teaching Professor Nathan Strachen, and Assistant Professor Haihan Sun talk about application ideas, advanced course electives in this area, and future job opportunities....
November 19 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CBE Seminar Series: Simon Rogers 1610 Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States Simon RogersDepartment of Chemical EngineeringUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL Recovery Rheology Rheological studies of real-world behaviors use idealized protocols to elucidate the underlying constitutive relations and are typically based on measurements of the stress response to strains or strain rates or vice versa. Strains and rates can therefore be thought of as rheological “atoms”,...
November 19 @ 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM Talking Tech in San Francisco Merchants Exchange Club 75 Leidesdorff St., San Francisco, California Join us for Talking Tech in San Francisco, featuring Andy Konwinski (CS BS’07), co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity. Konwinski will share insights from his entrepreneurial journey and discuss topics related to data intelligence and AI. This event is a great opportunity to connect with fellow Badgers in the San Francisco Bay Area who share an interest...
November 21 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ME 903 Graduate Seminar: Stephanie Whitehorse 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. Stephanie Whitehorse is the Director of Intellectual Property at WARF.
November 22 @ 12:05 PM - 12:55 PM Mechanics Seminar Series: Professor Grégoire Winckelmans 3M Auditorium, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Ave, Madison The Mechanics Seminar Series is a weekly seminar given by campus and visiting speakers on topics across the spectrum of mechanics research (solids, fluids, and dynamics). Professor Grégoire Winckelmans is a professor at the Université catholique de Louvai.
November 25 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Takashi Kozai, PhD 1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States Optimizing Intracortical Microstimulation: Addressing Perceptual Fading through Inhibition, Metabolic Stress Reduction, and Gliomodulation Takashi Kozai, PhDAssociate ProfessorDepartment of BioengineeringUniversity of Pittsburgh Abstract:Intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) offers promising applications in neuroprosthetics by providing direct modulation of neural circuits. However, long-term ICMS effectiveness is limited by perceptual fading, a phenomenon where neural responses decrease with repeated stimulation. This...
December 2 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Galit Pelled, PhD 1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States Translational and bioinspired technologies for restoring neural connections and enhancing performance Galit Pelled, PhDProfessor of Mechanical Engineering, Radiology and NeuroscienceMichigan State University Abstract:My research focuses on understanding motor behavior and developing devices and analytical tools for enhancing neuro-performance that will lead to higher levels of speed and strength. We are capitalizing on advances in neuroengineering,...
December 2 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CBE Seminar Series: Joel Paulson 1610 Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States Joel PaulsonDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringThe Ohio State UniversityColumbus, OH Physics-Informed Bayesian Optimization: A Sequential Learning Framework for Accelerating Scientific Design and Discovery Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful tool for optimizing non-convex black-box functions that are expensive and/or time-consuming to evaluate and subject to random noise in their observations. Many important real-world science...
December 3 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CBE Seminar Series: Michael Webb 1610 Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States Michael WebbDepartment of Chemical EngineeringPrinceton UniversityPrinceton, NJ Data-driven Strategies to Navigate Sequence, Composition, and ArchitecturalComplexity in Polymer Design Understanding and designing polymers with target structural and/or functional properties are grand challenges in materials science. The field of polymer physics provides invaluable scaffolding to elucidate general phenomena of polymer-based materials, but contributions fall short of proffering...
December 5 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Yang Lu, PhD 2188 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin, United States Advancing Agentic, Data-Driven, and Trustworthy Hypothesis Generation in Biomedical Research Yang Lu, PhDAssistant ProfessorCheriton School of Computer ScienceUniversity of Waterloo Abstract:Rapid developments in high-throughput sequencing have enabled biologists to collect large volumes of multi-omics data with unprecedented resolution. However, interpretation of such an increasing amount of heterogeneous biological data becomes highly nontrivial. In my talk,...