College-wide events

Please join us for the 2022 Career Fair for Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Meet local industry employers, many of whom employ department alumni.

Questions?  Please contact Director of Undergraduate Studies, Josh Feinberg at feinberg@umn.edu

*subject to change, depending on University rules and guidelines regarding Covid-19

Please join us for our next seminar of spring semester in person! This seminar will feature Nishith Pathak from Wargaming who will discuss player experience management in online games.

About the Seminar

Online games are a rich ecosystem of many users interacting and participating in goal-oriented activities. Developing and maintaining such systems is a non-trivial process. User satisfaction in online games is an important and complex concept which has many factors feeding into it, such as attaining goals in the game, the social experience of interacting with other players as well as the UI and UX aspects of the game world. Traditionally the gaming industry has relied on game designers’ experience and user surveys along with AB testing for informing various decisions related to these topics. However, with recent advances in machine learning, particularly the ability of deep networks to deal with unstructured data, there are now various possibilities for designing automated systems for more agile, scalable and effective user experience management. This talk will focus on how how deep networks and transfer learning can be used for some of the challenges faced in maintaining a positive user experience. Pathak and his colleagues specifically look at models for analyzing text data and focus on two problems. The first one is related to identifying toxic behavior among users. The second problem is extracting sentiment and relevant topics from user feedback.

About the speaker

Nishith Pathak is a senior data scientist with Wargaming.net, and a developer of some of the most popular online games such as World of Tanks and World of Warships. He completed his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and his Bachelor's in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. 

More than 70 companies and organizations are registered to attend the Fall 2022 Virtual Career Fair on Friday, Oct. 7. Employers are eager to speak with you about their opportunities for jobs, internships, and co-ops! Individual and group meeting sign-up is required and opens Friday, Sept. 30, at 8 a.m. Central Time. Slots will fill quickly so make sure you prioritize your top employers.

Sign up for sessions
The CSE Virtual Career Fair will be held via Handshake, the University's career events and job/internship/co-op platform that provides features that allow you to connect with employers personally. You'll have the opportunity to schedule 10-minute, one-on-one conversations with employers, as well as attend employer group information sessions.

You can sign up for meetings with employers starting on Friday, Sept. 30, at 8 a.m. Central Time. To ensure you're able to view employers of interest and schedule meetings with employers, you must follow these steps:

• Log into Handshake and search for the College of Science and Engineering Virtual Career Fair in the Events tab.
• Within My Profile, select your major, GPA, and month and year of graduation (called End Date).
• In your Settings, select Employers or Community (Recommended).
• If you are an international student, we recommend selecting Prefer not to answer these questions for work authorization to allow access to more one-on-one meetings.
• Next, begin searching for employers and signing up for time slots to speak one-on-one with employers. Many companies are also offering group sessions.

Please join us for our first seminar of fall semester! This seminar will feature Ping Zhong from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities who will discuss the static and dynamic nature of the equilibration process in a sampled community graphon network.

Ping Zhong, graduate student, Minnesota Center for Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Ping Zhong is studying the static and dynamic nature of the equilibration process in a simple market consisting of agents trading complementary commodities in a sampled community graphon network. Interestingly, the convergence seems to be suboptimal over a wide range of graphon parameters and network sizes. It remains to be seen whether stochastic perturbation in the agent endowments or the network connections can lead to improved outcomes. This work is undertaken through the University of Minnesota Master of Financial Mathematics (MFM) directed study elective under the guidance of professor John Dodson

You are invited to join us at this year's Mechanical Engineering Three Minute Thesis (ME3MT) competition to see the latest research being conducted by our talented graduate students. Watch as they have exactly three minutes to explain their research in an engaging and easy-to-understand format.

UMN ME graduate students engage in pioneering, interdisciplinary research and are poised to become the next leaders in mechanical engineering in both academia and industry. The purpose of the competition is to celebrate the innovative research conducted by our graduate students and to cultivate their academic, presentation, and research communications skills. Help support the leaders of tomorrow by attending ME3MT.

Learn more and register for the event! Plan to join us live or virtually.

If you have questions, contact Jennifer Clarke at jclarke@umn.edu. More information is also available on the ME website's 3MT competition page. 

The Center for Sustainable Polymers hosts this annual lecture for leaders working on issues in sustainability to deliver a talk designed for a general audience. Community members from all backgrounds are encouraged to attend. Keefe Harrison, CEO of The Recycling Partnership, will deliver the 2022 lecture and speak about plastic waste and the circular economy.

Consumers are calling on companies to help stop plastic waste. The public understands that if we don’t address the global plastics crisis there will be more plastics in the ocean than fish by 2050. On one side, plastics play a critical role in our lives and in reducing greenhouse gas output, but the way we use and dispose of them matters. From policy to corporate accountability, data-driven packaging design tools to global pledges, Harrison will highlight five signs that the circular economy is driving a shift in the way companies and the public use plastics.

Learn more and register for the event!

Please join us for the College of Science and Engineering's (CSE) Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. CSE graduate students will have exactly three minutes to explain their research in an engaging and easy-to-understand format.

This will be an exciting display of the diversity of research in CSE today, with topics ranging from energy and the environment to robotic systems and human health. The purpose of the competition is to celebrate the innovative research conducted by our graduate students and to cultivate their academic, presentation, and research communications skills.

Register for the event! 

You may attend the event in-person or view it live on Zoom. All registered audience members will receive instructions for joining virtually a day or two before the competition event.

Join Boston Scientific and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota for a virtual grand rounds event.

Register for the Zoom webinar

Speakers

Delivering cancer therapy with Y90 radioembolization
Bruce Forsyth
Boston Scientific

Manipulating the dynamics of the cellular DNA damage response to control tumor cell fate
Eric Batchelor
Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology