Colloquia

September 12, 2025
Building Backwards to Tech: 3 Robotics Start-Up Stories
Elaine Chen, Cummings Family Professor of the Practice in Entrepreneurship
Tufts Gordon Institute, Tufts University
 

September 19, 2025
No Seminar
 

September 26, 2025
AI-Driven Video Compression and Enhancement: From Core Technologies to Real-World Applications
Zoe Liu, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Visionular
 

October 3, 2025
Learning Compositional Models of the World
Yilun Du, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Kempner Institute, Harvard University
 

October 10, 2025
How do we understand uncertainties in physics simulations?
Liping Liu, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Tufts University
 

October 17, 2025
Abani Patra, Center Director for Data Science of TIAI, Professor of Computer Science and Math
Tufts University
 

October 24, 2025
Marin Soljačić, Professor, Physics Department
MIT
 

October 31, 2025
Tess Smidt, X-Window Consortium Professor; Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 

November 7, 2025
Sitan Chen, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Harvard University
 

November 14, 2025
Pulkit Agrawal, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 

November 21, 2025
Semiconductor Nanolaser Particles: The Building Blocks of Next-Generation, Highly Multiplexed Photonic Systems
Sangyeon (Fred) Cho, Assistant Professor
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School
 

November 28, 2025
No Seminar - Thanksgiving Break
 

December 5, 2025
Synthesis and Properties of SmN Thin Films
Kevin Vallejo, Epitaxy Physicist in the Materials Science and Engineering Department 
Idaho National Laboratory