Wilson Lecture Series - spring 2025 colloquium schedule

01/23/2025

Professor Ankur Mani
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Information and Operational Foundations of Social Commerce
Host: Professor Murti Salapaka

01/30/2025

Professor Zirui (Ray) Liu
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Breaking Barriers: Advancing Long Context LLMs
Host: Professor Yang (Katie) Zhao

02/06/2025

Professor Alexey Gorshkov
NIST/University of Maryland
Quantum sensor networks
Host: Professor Mehmet Akcakaya

02/13/2025

Professor Marzia Cescon
University of Houston
Data-driven control
Host: Professor Donatello Materassi
 

02/20/2025

Professor Peter Seiler
University of Michigan 
Robust online convex optimization for disturbance rejection
Host: Professors Andy Lamperski and Sairaj Dhople

02/27/2025

Professor Qianwen Wang
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Visualization and explainable ML
Host: Professor Marc Riedel
 

03/06/2025

Senior AI researcher Morteza Mardani
NVIDIA
Generative models, inverse problems
Host: Professor Mehmet Akcakaya

03/20/2025

Professor Yu Shimieng
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ferroelectric devices, circuits and architectures for AI hardware design 
Host: Professor Tony Low

03/27/2025

Professor Takashi Taneda
University of Texas at Austin
Hypothesis testing in particle control
Host: Professor Donatello Materassi

04/03/2025

Professor KC Fong
Northeastern University
Single photon detector
Host: Professor Tony Low
 

04/10/2025

Professor Onur Bakiner
Seattle University
Governing AI: Beyond the Hype and Doom
Host: Professor Mehmet Akcakaya

04/17/2025

Professor Pulickel Ajayan
Rice University
Diamond and HBN electronics and materials
Host: Professor Joey Talghader

04/24/2025

Research scientist Dawn Sepehr
Amazon
Large language models
Host: Professor Donatello Materassi

 

05/01/2025

Marcus Pan
Natcast
Topic: TBD
Host: Professor Sachin Sapatnekar