12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ISyE – Choice-based Operations At Scale: Complementarity and Dynamic Decisions January 12 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ISyE – Choice-based Operations At Scale: Complementarity and Dynamic Decisions Assortment and inventory decisions lie at the core of supply chain and retail operations. In practice, these decisions face two fundamental challenges arising from complex customer choice behavior. First, customers often purchase complementary products across categories, which makes category-level decisions interdependent. Second, inventory is limited and customers arrive over time, so product availability changes dynamically... Free
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ISyE – Auto-Conditioned First-Order and Stochastic Optimization Methods January 15 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ISyE – Auto-Conditioned First-Order and Stochastic Optimization Methods First-order methods are widely used to tackle data science and machine learning problems with complex structures, such as nonconvexity, nonsmoothness, and stochasticity. However, in many real-world scenarios, the problem structure and parameters can be unknown or ambiguous, creating significant challenges for algorithm design and stepsize selection. In this talk, I will present a novel class... Free
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM BME Bay Area Meetup January 15 @ 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM BME Bay Area Meetup We're headed to the California Bay Area to kick off a new year of innovation. You and your guests are invited to join fellow Wisconsin BME alumni and friends for an alumni reception at Steins Beer Garden in Mountain View, CA. RSVP Free
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ECE Virtual Alumni Town Hall January 21 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ECE Virtual Alumni Town Hall ECE alumni, please join us for a one-hour virtual event with ECE Department Chair Susan Hagness and Dean Devesh Ranjan as he shares insights from his first year, his vision for the college, and other timely topics.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ISyE – GPU-Accelerated Linear Programming and Beyond January 21 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ISyE – GPU-Accelerated Linear Programming and Beyond The rapid progress in GPU computing has revolutionized many fields, yet its potential in mathematical programming, such as linear programming (LP), has only recently begun to be realized. This talk aims to provide an overview of recent advancements in GPU-based first-order methods for LP, with a particular focus on the design and development of cuPDLPx.... Free
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ME 903 Graduate Seminar: Professor Jeff Tithof January 22 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ME 903 Graduate Seminar: Professor Jeff Tithof 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 Jeff Tithof is a professor at the University of Minnesota. Title: Coupled Blood–CSF Flow Dynamics Driving Waste Clearance in the Brain Abstract: The last decade has seen a...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Mechanics Seminar: Professor Melissa Brindise January 23 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Mechanics Seminar: Professor Melissa Brindise 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 Melissa Brindise is a professor at Penn State University. Title: Uncovering mechanical drivers of cerebral aneurysm growth and rupture Abstract: Clinical evaluation of cerebral aneurysms requires a difficult decision...
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM ISyE – Game night! January 23 @ 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM ISyE – Game night! Join the students of IISE for game night!
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ECE Research Seminar Series: Dr. Jan Jeske, Quantum Sensing Group at Fraunhofer IAF January 26 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ECE Research Seminar Series: Dr. Jan Jeske, Quantum Sensing Group at Fraunhofer IAF Laser-enhanced magnetometry (and other quantum sensing) with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond Abstract: By integrating NV centres into a laser cavity and combining it with a second gain medium, we have achieved 100% contrast and 16mW of signal power in optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) read out via a laser signal instead of fluorescence. This...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ISyE – From Dyads to Teams: Modeling Human Trust Dynamics and Behaviors in Human-Autonomy Interactions January 26 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ISyE – From Dyads to Teams: Modeling Human Trust Dynamics and Behaviors in Human-Autonomy Interactions Technology is evolving rapidly, and human interaction with autonomous technologies is no longer confined to one-to-one decision-support settings. Intelligent agents are increasingly working alongside groups of people in diverse contexts such as defense, transportation, and manufacturing. Consequently, there is a growing need to design trust- and behavior-aware adaptive agents that allow humans and autonomous systems... Free
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Lennon Rogers, PhD January 26 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BME Seminar Series: Lennon Rogers, PhD Prototyping with Purpose Lennon Rodgers, PhDDirector, Grainger Engineering Design Innovation LabCollege of EngineeringUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Abstract:What do high-speed motorcycles, zoo animal feeders, spacecraft and medical supplies have in common? They are all challenges I’ve tackled using rapid prototyping as my primary engine for design and innovation. In this talk, I’ll take you behind the scenes...
12:20 PM - 12:50 PM ECE Discovery Panel: Energy Systems January 27 @ 12:20 PM - 12:50 PM ECE Discovery Panel: Energy Systems Engineering undergraduates! Join us in 1610 Engineering Hall as faculty members explore the technical area of Energy Systems! All undergraduate students are welcome as Assistant Professor Mahima Gupta, Assistant Professor Manish...
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM ISyE – Student information session, Douglas Dynamics January 27 @ 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM ISyE – Student information session, Douglas Dynamics Join the students of IISE as they welcome Shannan Vlieger, SVP of Douglas Dynamics.
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Discover ISyE January 28 @ 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Discover ISyE Come and discover what a degree in the field of industrial and systems engineering is all about. The possibilities are endless.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ISyE – Finding the needle in the haystack: How gradient descent converges to low-dimensional solutions in over-parameterized models. January 29 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ISyE – Finding the needle in the haystack: How gradient descent converges to low-dimensional solutions in over-parameterized models. In contemporary machine learning, realistic models exhibit increasing nonconvexity and overwhelming overparameterization. This nonconvex nature often leads to numerous undesirable or "spurious" local solutions, while overparameterization exacerbates the risk of overfitting. Yet, simple “short-sighted” algorithms, such as gradient descent (GD) or its variants, often find the needle in the haystack: they converge to the correct,... Free
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ME 903 Graduate Seminar: Professor Matteo Bucci January 29 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ME 903 Graduate Seminar: Professor Matteo Bucci 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 Matteo Bucci is a professor at MIT. Title: FARAWAY, SO CLOSE: HIGH RESOLUTION INVESTIGATIONS OF BOILING HEAT TRANSFER, FROM CRYOGENIC FLUIDS TO HIGH-PRESSURE WATER Abstract: In every field...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Mechanics Seminar: Professor Haneesh Kesari January 30 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Mechanics Seminar: Professor Haneesh Kesari 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 Haneesh Kesari is a professor at Brown University.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ISyE – Advancement of Large-Scale 3D Printing January 30 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ISyE – Advancement of Large-Scale 3D Printing Most advances for the integration of 3D printing (3DP) into production settings have focused on small-scale 3DP with manufacturing of components such as aerospace fuel nozzles, aircraft’s hydraulic components, and military hardware to name a few. But when it comes to large-scale applications 3DP research has been minimally explored. Defining large-scale 3DP as additive manufacturing... Free
January 12 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ISyE – Choice-based Operations At Scale: Complementarity and Dynamic Decisions
January 15 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ISyE – Auto-Conditioned First-Order and Stochastic Optimization Methods
January 26 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ECE Research Seminar Series: Dr. Jan Jeske, Quantum Sensing Group at Fraunhofer IAF
January 26 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ISyE – From Dyads to Teams: Modeling Human Trust Dynamics and Behaviors in Human-Autonomy Interactions
January 29 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ISyE – Finding the needle in the haystack: How gradient descent converges to low-dimensional solutions in over-parameterized models.