By year 2021, the number of existing wireless electronic devices is expected to be four times greater than the world’s human population. They will be used for countless “smart” applications that are nearly unimaginable today. However, the range of functions these devices serve across applications is very broad, often having widely different device requirements and tradeoffs. This seminar presents...

In this talk, I’ll describe how I reformulated traditional web PBD around the insight that demonstrations are not always the easiest way for non-programmers to communicate their intent.

Come learn about how we solve challenging problems at Uber! Uber is in over 600+ cities, 65 countries, and has completed over 10 bilion rides. At such a scale, Uber continues to explore new frontiers and provide access to safe and reliable transportation for 75 million montly active riders with 15 million trips every day. Outside of rideshare, we are also foraying into new territories, such as...

What is the connection between a phase transition in a statistical physics model and the computational complexity of sampling from the given model? In the setting of the hard-core and Potts models on lattices, it is known that in the phase coexistence regime the Glauber dynamics mix slowly. Using some of the same tools used to prove slow mixing (the cluster expansion and Pirogov-Sinai theory), we...

Computational Anatomy aims to model and analyze healthy and pathological distributions of organ shapes. We are interested in the computational representation of the brain anatomy using brain MRIs (Magnetic Resonance Imaging). How can we define the notion of brain shapes and how can we learn their distribution in the population? Landmarks’ shapes, curve shapes or surface shapes can be seen as the...

Please join us for an evening with engineers from Electronic Arts! Learn about their careers, life at EA, and all the exciting things we are doing here. The format will be a bit intimate, as we will look to break into small groups with them so you can ask direct questions about how to improve your resume, get some tips on acing technical interviews, how to break into the industry or start your...

Many of humanity's most pressing needs and exciting advances are critically dependent on the effective use of energy. Such applications are often space-, cost-, or efficiency-limited by the power converters at their heart. These power conversion challenges are converging with new technology opportunities.

This talk is motivated by three (seemingly unrelated) questions: 1. For which tasks do quantum algorithms outperform classical computation? 2. Does parallel computing always offer a speed-up, or are some tasks inherently sequential? 3. Do randomized algorithms have deterministic counterparts with similar memory footprint?

Formerly called Career Night, this year’s event, the Career Energy Forum, will take place on the first of the two days of the Energy Summit conference on February 21st, 2019. The Career Energy Forum is an annual event connecting prestigious energy and cleantech companies with top graduate student talent interested in dedicating their careers to this field. We have more than 20 companies confirmed.

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