2021 Young Investigator Lectures

Atomic-scale Understanding of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials
Date: January 27, 2021, 4:00 pm
Speaker: Salva Salmani-Rezaie, University of California, Santa Barbara

Experimental Fluid Mechanics with Machine Learning
Date: March 4, 2021, 11:00 am
Speaker: Isabel Scherl, University of Washington

Identifying New CFC Emissions Through Joint Inference of Banks and Lifetimes, with Impacts on the Ozone Layer and Climate
Date: March 10, 2021, 4:00 pm
Speaker: Megan Lickley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A Networked Systems Approach to Engineering Synthetic Biological Patterning in Theory and Practice
Date: April 5, 2021, 11:00 am
Speaker: Melinda Perkins, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Decentralized Multi-Robot Active Search and Rescue
Date: April 8, 2021, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Ramina Ghods, Carnegie Mellon University

Coping with Trauma: Noninvasive Technologies for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Date: April 15, 2021, 4:00 pm
Speaker: Nil Gurel, University of California, Los Angeles

Shock Generated Vortex Rings Drive Entrainment and Cooling in Flow Induced by a Spark Discharge
Date: April 16, 2021, 3:00 pm
Speaker: Bhavini Singh, Purdue University

Provable Representation Learning: The Importance of Task Diversity and Pretext Tasks
Date: May 3, 2021, 4:00 pm
Speaker: Qi Lei, Princeton

RUN as fast as you can: efficient tape spring analysis
Date: June 4, 2021, 3:00 pm
Speaker: Zahra Soltani, Imperial College London
2021 Young Investigators Forum

Formal Behavior Synthesis Applied to Managing a Team of UAVs for Fighting Fires and Specification Inference Applied to Human Prediction
Date: June 3, 2021, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Estefany Carrillo, University of Maryland

Trustworthy Machine Learning: On the Preservation of Individual Privacy and Fairness
Date: June 3, 2021, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Xueru Zhang, University of Michigan