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SUMMARY:COE Study Abroad Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Amanda Earley\, GEO and Joy Erb\, COE. \nLearn about the opportunities to study in another country while enjoying local culture from fellow COE students. \nFor more information please contact Joy Erb:  j.erb@northeastern.edu. \nZoom Study Abroad Info Link \nMeeting ID: 924 3292 5382 \n 
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/coe-study-abroad-info-session-4/
CATEGORIES:use the department, audience, and topic lists
ORGANIZER;CN="Undergraduate Academic Advising":MAILTO:COEAdvising@northeastern.edu
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SUMMARY:Engineers Week: A Multi-Scale Approach to Plant Specialized Metabolic Engineering
DESCRIPTION:The Chemical Engineering department is hosting Susan Roberts as a speaker for this year’s Engineers Week events. \n\nLocation: This event is virtual\, free\, and open to the public. \nRegister to join \n\nSusan RobertsWorcester Polytechnic Institute \nA Multi-Scale Approach to Plant Specialized Metabolic Engineering \nProfessor Roberts’ research is focused on cellular engineering and design of bioprocesses using plant-based systems. Plants produce sophisticated small molecules that play key roles in defense against predators and environmental elements. These natural products are synthesized through specialized metabolic pathways\, that have both shared and unique components when compared amongst plant systems. These specialized metabolites are useful in a variety of societal applications including as nutraceuticals\, flavorings\, colorings and pharmaceuticals. The supply of these compounds is often hindered due to low yields in nature and the inability to chemically synthesize at scale. She uses plant cell culture technology as both a system of study and a scalable production system due to the ability to engineer cells and the environment to optimize accumulation of products of interest. During this event she will present the story of understanding and optimizing paclitaxel production in Taxus plant cell suspension culture using a multi-pronged cellular engineering approach (intracellular\, intercellular and extracellular scales). She will focus on recent approaches and results in considering global specialized metabolism\, specialized metabolite transport and epigenetic mechanisms. Her group uses a combination of traditional bioprocess engineering techniques (e.g.\, bioreactor design\, cell culture\, cell encapsulation)\, modern molecular biology and analytical chemistry techniques (e.g.\, gene transfer\, transcriptomics analyses\, UPLC) and mathematical modeling (e.g.\, genome scale modeling\, metabolic flux analyses). Her research has been funded largely through the NSF\, NIH and industrial collaborations. \nDr. Susan Roberts is Professor and Head of Chemical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). She received her BS degree in Chemical Engineering from WPI in 1992\, PhD in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University in 1998\, served on the faculty at UMass Amherst Chemical Engineering for 17 years and joined WPI as Professor and Head in 2015. Dr. Roberts’ research interests are in biomanufacturing\, cellular engineering and cell culture\, with a primary focus on plant-based systems for synthesis of natural products. She has received a number of awards for her research and education work including the NSF ADVANCE Program\, NIIMBL Workforce Development Award\, UMass President’s Science and Technology Fund Award\, NSF IGERT Award\, NSF CAREER Award\, and UMass Amherst College of Engineering Junior Faculty\, Teaching and Advising awards. Her research is supported by the NSF\, NIH and industry. She is passionate about faculty development\, training interdisciplinary engineers\, innovating graduate education and advocating for advancement of women and underrepresented groups in STEM fields. She is a proud mom to three children\, Justin (17)\, Benjamin (14)\, and Emmelyn (10)\, and puppy Molly. \nDownload Flyer (pdf)
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/engineers-week-a-multi-scale-approach-to-plant-specialized-metabolic-engineering/
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SUMMARY:ECE PhD Proposal Review: Jinghan Zhang
DESCRIPTION:PhD Proposal Review: Design Space Exploration: Designing a Unified Platform for a Domain of Streaming Applications \nJinghan Zhang \nLocation: Zoom Link \nAbstract: Many demanding streaming applications share functional and structural similarities with\nother applications in their respective domain\, e.g. video analytics\, software-defined radio\, and radar. This opens the opportunity for specialization (e.g. heterogeneous computing) to achieve the needed efficiency and/or performance. However\, current Design Space Exploration (DSE) focuses on an individual application in isolation (e.g. one particular vision flow)\, but not a set of similar applications.Hence\, optimizations that occur due to considering multiple applications simultaneously are missed. New DSE methodologies and tools are needed with a broader scope of application sets instead of individual applications.\nThis dissertation introduces a novel Domain DSE approach focusing on streaming applications. Key contributions are: (1) a formalized method to extract the functional and structural similarities of domain applications\, (2) domain application generation to provide enough synthetic domains as study cases\, (3) a rapid platform performance estimation and comparison at two abstraction levels: Domain Score (DS) and Analytic Performance Estimation (APE) model\, (4) a methodology to evaluate a platform’s benefit for a set of applications\, (5) two novel algorithms\, Dynamic Score Selection (DSS) and GenetIc Domain Exploration (GIDE)\, to allocate a domain-specific platform to maximize the throughput across domain applications under certain constraints\, and (6) Multi-Granularity Domain DSE (MG-DmDSE) to extend DSE considering multi-granularity functionality similarity in the platform allocation and application binding. \n 
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/ece-phd-proposal-review-jinghan-zhang/
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SUMMARY:MathWorks-Northeastern Symposium on BioMechanics
DESCRIPTION:Topics of Discussion\n\nLife in Action with MATLAB Speaker: Rob Holt\, MathWorks\nMaking of a Matlab Mind  Speaker: Sandra Shefelbine\, Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering\nMaking Ideas Come to Life with Simulink Speaker\, CJ Hasson\, Physical Therapy\, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences\n\nRSVP for Meeting Link
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/mathworks-northeastern-symposium-on-biomechanics/
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SUMMARY:Engineers Week: Laser Cutting 101
DESCRIPTION:The Bioengineering Department presents speaker Noah Joseph for this year’s Engineers Week events. \n\nLocation: This event is virtual\, free\, and open to the public. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://northeastern.zoom.us/j/93306770038?pwd=c1JqWHhUZFR2bFNvVG1DdnR5akI5dz09 \nMeeting ID: 933 0677 0038\nPasscode: 709079\nOne tap mobile\n+19292056099\,\,93306770038#\,\,\,\,*709079# US (New York)\n+13017158592\,\,93306770038#\,\,\,\,*709079# US (Washington DC) \n\nLaser Cutting 101 \nNoah JosephLab Technician\, Northeastern University \nNoah Joseph\, Lab Technician\, Northeastern University \nTake a tour of the newly renovated 3D Print room of the Bioengineering Capstone Collaborative. Briefly explore different 3D printing technologies (Fused Deposition Modeling\, Stereolithography\, Fused Filament Fabrication\, and Continuous Filament Fabrication). Then\, take a deep dive into the world of laser cutting with the Boss Laser LS-1420 machine. Learn about how this CO2 laser cutter works and what materials can be cut and engraved. We’ll walk through the process of bringing an idea from file to real-world object. \nNoah Joseph earned his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University in 2018. Since September 2018\, he has worked as a Lab Technician for both Northeastern’s Bioengineering department as well as the Michael J. and Ann Sherman Center for Engineering Entrepreneurship Education. \nNoah oversees the day-to-day operations of the Bioengineering Capstone Collaborative (BCC)\, which is a workspace that serves bioengineering undergraduates\, graduate students\, and faculty. He maintains and operates instrumentation in the BCC\, which include a suite of 3D printers\, a laser cutter\, hand tools\, power tools\, and various electronic fabrication/testing equipment. \nDownload Flyer (pdf)
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/engineers-week-laser-cutting-101/
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SUMMARY:Engineers Week: Can AI Models Advance Our Understanding of Exposure to Local Scale Mobile Source Pollutants in Highly Urbanized Areas?
DESCRIPTION:The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department presents Distinguished Seminar speaker Deb Niemeier for this year’s Engineers Week events. \n\nLocation: This event is virtual\, free\, and open to the NU community. \nJoin Zoom Meeting \n\nCan AI Models Advance Our Understanding of Exposure to Local Scale Mobile Source Pollutants in Highly Urbanized Areas? \nDeb Niemeier\, PhD \nDeb Niemeier\, Ph.D.\nClark Distinguished Chair in Energy and Sustainability\, University of Maryland\, College Park \nABSTRACT: The surface topography\, emission source variation\, and population distribution of urban landscapes all lend themselves to highly variable air pollutant concentrations in urban areas; concentrations that can vary dramatically even within short distances. The spatial variations in air pollutant concentrations can be as large as the contrast between cities and epidemiological studies clearly show that within-city PM exposure is larger than the between-city effect. One of the critical gaps in our understanding is how to best characterize within-city air pollutant concentration gradients\, which is crucial for exposure assessment\, urban planning\, air pollution monitoring\, and environmental equity. The development of high accuracy portable pollution sensing instruments and Global Positioning System (GPS) technology\, the use of vehicles for mobile air pollution monitoring can be used to tackle some of the challenges of estimating pollutants based on stationary monitoring sites. These mobile sensors can typically achieve high spatial resolution for air pollutants measurement\, but generate incredible amounts of data. This talk explores the trade-offs between using different ML approaches to produce credible micro-scale estimates for regional or hotspot modeling. \nBIO: Deb Niemeier is the Clark Distinguished Chair in Energy and Sustainability at the University of Maryland\, College Park and serves as a professor in the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She has extensive expertise in understanding the spatial properties of mobile source emissions\, developing new methods for improving vehicle emissions inventories\, and accelerating the implementation of regulatory guidance to better identify vulnerable populations and environmental health disparities. Her research is currently focused on understanding infrastructure features that give rise to inequitable outcomes in the built environment\, particularly with the onset of climate change. In 2014\, Niemeier was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for “distinguished contributions to energy and environmental science study and policy development.” In 2015\, she was named a Guggenheim Fellow for foundational work on pro bono service in engineering. In 2017\, she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Niemeier received a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Texas (1982)\, her M.S. from the University of Maine and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Washington (1994). \nDownload Flyer (pdf)
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/engineers-week-can-ai-models-advance-our-understanding-of-exposure-to-local-scale-mobile-source-pollutants-in-highly-urbanized-areas/
ORGANIZER;CN="Civil & Environmental Engineering":MAILTO:civilinfo@coe.neu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210226T123000
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SUMMARY:Engineers Week: Exotic Interactions with Light and Sound in Metamaterials with Broken Symmetries
DESCRIPTION:The Electrical and Engineering Department presents speaker Andrea Alù for this year’s Engineers Week events. \n\nLocation: This event is virtual\, free\, and open to the NU community. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://northeastern.zoom.us/j/94710036507?pwd=RWFqbmtPMit0RktsSXpCZE1Fd3VmZz09 \nPasscode: 0000 \nMeeting ID: 947 1003 6507\nOne tap mobile\n+13017158592\,\,94710036507# US (Washington DC)\n+13126266799\,\,94710036507# US (Chicago) \n\nExotic Interactions with Light and Sound in Metamaterials with Broken Symmetries \nAndrea Alù Founding Director and Einstein Professor at the Photonics Initiative\, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center \nAndrea Alù\nPhotonics Initiative\, Advanced Science Research Center\, City University of New York\nPhysics Program\, Graduate Center\, City University of New York\nDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, City College of New York\n85 St. Nicholas Terrace\, New York\, NY 10031\, U.S.A.\naalu@gc.cuny.edu\, http://alulab.org \nIn this talk\, I discuss our recent research findings in nano-optics\, electromagnetics and acoustics\, showing how suitably tailored meta-atoms and arrays of them enable new phenomena to manipulate light\, radio-waves and sound. I discuss venues to largely break Lorentz reciprocity and realize isolation without the need of a magnetic bias\, based on broken time-reversal symmetry induced by mechanical motion\, spatio-temporal modulation and/or nonlinearities. I also discuss how broken symmetries in space and space-time provide the opportunity to induce topological order in metamaterials. Another class of metamaterials based on broken symmetries are parity-time symmetric media\, which are asymmetric in space\, but symmetric upon parity and time inversion\, and can enhance the exotic response of metamaterials beyond the limitations of passive systems. In the talk\, I will discuss the impact of these concepts from basic science to technology\, from classical waves to quantum phenomena. \nAndrea Alù is the Founding Director and Einstein Professor at the Photonics Initiative\, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center. He received his Laurea (2001) and PhD (2007) from the University of Roma Tre\, Italy\, and\, after a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania\, he joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin in 2009\, where he was the Temple Foundation Endowed Professor until Jan. 2018. Dr. Alù is a Fellow of NAI\, IEEE\, AAAS\, OSA\, SPIE and APS\, and has received several scientific awards\, including the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award\, the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship from DoD\, the ICO Prize in Optics\, the NSF Alan T. Waterman award\, the OSA Adolph Lomb Medal\, and the URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal. \nDownload Flyer (pdf) \n \n 
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/engineers-week-presentation-andrea-alu/
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SUMMARY:MathWorks-Northeastern Symposium on Robotics
DESCRIPTION:Topics of Discussion\n\nExperiential Robotics for Accelerating Future of Work Speaker: Taskin Padir\, ECE Dept\, Northeastern University\nAerial locomotion in confined spaces: Motivations and Challenges Speaker: Alireza Ramezani\, ECE Dept\, Northeastern University\nWhat’s new for Robots & UAVs in MATLAB? Speaker: Remo Pillat\, MathWorkss\n\nRSVP for Meeting Link
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/mathworks-northeastern-symposium-on-robotics/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210302T170000
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SUMMARY:Dialogue of Civilization in Turkey (Summer-I 2021): Info Session
DESCRIPTION:If you are interested in experiencing a Dialogue of Civilization this summer in Turkey\, please join the Zoom Info Session on Tuesday\, March 2nd at 5:00 pm. By participating in this program\, you will gain international experience and develop your technical skills. This program will take place in summer 2021 and will be hosted in 3 high-ranked Turkish universities. Two courses are offered under this program: \n1- IE 4512: Engineering Economy: Covers topics such as Time Value of Money\, Financial Investment and Long-term Returns\, Risk Analysis (i.e.\, Break-even analysis\, simulation modeling\, etc.)\, and Decision-Making Models. This course will be taught by Prof. Dehghani. \n2- IE 4699: ST in Industrial Engineering: Explores Turkish Cultural Values and Engineering Advancements. This course includes multiple engineering field trips\, cultural and historical tours\, workshops (artworks\, cooking\, folklore dance)\, and day trips. Engineering topics such as Entrepreneurship\, Artificial Intelligence\, Manufacturing\, Supply chain\, and Healthcare will be discussed. More than 20 Turkish professors\, entrepreneurs\, and industry experts are invited to give lectures in this course. \nPlease check the attached file for more information or visit the program website. \nMeeting Info:\nDate: Tuesday\, March 2\, 2021\nTime: 5:00 -5:30 pm\nJoin Zoom Meeting: https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/92120726355?pwd=UTZQU3NmZnNSOFNwcC9mZWQ0VExGZz09
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/dialogue-of-civilization-in-turkey-summer-i-2021-info-session/
ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical & Industrial Engineering":MAILTO:mie-web@coe.neu.edu
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SUMMARY:ChE Seminar Series Presents: Julianne L. Holloway
DESCRIPTION:ChE Seminar Series Presents:   \nJulianne L. Holloway\, Ph.D\nAssistant Professor in Chemical Engineering\nSchool for Engineering of Matter\, Transport and Energy\nArizona State University \nAbstract:  \nAdvances in materials science\, biomolecule delivery\, and cell biology has enabled significant innovations within the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine over the past few decades. Nonetheless\, minimal translation of tissue engineering-based therapeutics to the clinic has occurred. \nA significant challenge within tissue engineering is the difficulty in regenerating complex tissues with a heterogeneous structure and multiple cell types. To address this challenge\, my research group is developing innovative polymeric biomaterials that can mimic the complex microenvironment of musculoskeletal tissues. \nSpecifically\, I will discuss our recent efforts in the following areas: 1) using magnetic fields to spatially control electrospun fiber alignment in order to create materials with gradients in fiber alignment that mimic the structure of musculoskeletal interfacial tissues; 2) using reversible DNA handles to temporally control peptide presentation to improve our understanding of cell- material interactions; and 3) combining these techniques for independent spatial control over chemical and structural signals towards simultaneous regeneration of multiple tissue types. \nBio:  \nJulianne Holloway is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU) and an associate faculty member within the Biodesign Institute’s Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics. \nPrior to ASU\, Julianne completed her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Drexel University and her postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania. \nJulianne’s research group integrates biomaterial design with innovative manufacturing to control and direct stem cell behavior for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications. \nJulianne is also committed to service\, including recent election to the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Board of Directors\, serving on the Editorial Board of Regenerative Biomaterials\, and as a past Associate Scientific Advisor for Science Translational Medicine. Her contributions have been recognized through several awards\, including: AIChE’s 35 Under 35 Award\, AIChE’s John C. Chen Leadership Award\, Mayo Clinic-ASU Alliance Faculty Summer Fellow\, National Institutes of Health NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship\, and others. \nPlease email Alyssa Ramsey at a.ramsey@northeastern.edu for the link to the seminar.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/che-seminar-series-presents-julianne-l-holloway/
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SUMMARY:AIX SEMINAR SERIES
DESCRIPTION:We cordially invite you to join the AIX SEMINAR \nZoom Link: https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/96209636039 \n__________________________________________________________________________________ \nLearning Strong Inference Models in Small Data Domains: Enabling AI in Data Extreme ML\nDr. Sarah Ostadabbas  | Assistant Professor\, Northeastern University \nHuman Factors in Artificial Decision Making: Understanding Humans and Helping Humans Understand Learning Agents\nDr. Pedro Sequeira | Advanced Computer Scientist\, SRI International \n__________________________________________________________________________________ \nLearning Strong Inference Models in Small Data Domains: Enabling AI in Data Extreme ML\nSarah Ostadabbas | Assistant Professor\, Electrical and Computer Engineering\, Northeastern University \nAbstract:Recent efforts in machine learning (especially with the new waves of deep learning introduced in the last decade) have obliterated records for regression and classification tasks that have previously seen only incremental accuracy improvements. There are many other fields that would significantly benefit from machine learning (ML)-based inferences where data collection or labeling is expensive. In these domains (i.e. Small Data domains)\, the challenge we now face is how to learn efficiently with the same performance with less data. Many applications will benefit from a strong inference framework with deep structure that will: (i) work with limited labeled training samples; (ii) integrate explicit (structural or data-driven) domain knowledge into the inference model as editable priors to constrain search space; and (iii) maximize the generalization of learning across domains. My research aims to explore a generalized ML approach to solve the small data problem that leverages existing research and fills in key gaps with original work. There are two basic approaches to reduce data needs during model training: (1) decrease inference model learning complexity via data-efficient machine learning\, and (2) incorporate domain knowledge in the learning pipeline through the use of data-driven or simulation-based generative models. In this talk\, I present my recent work on merging the benefits of these two approaches to enable the training of robust and accurate (i.e. strong) inference models that can be applied on real-world problems dealing with data limitation. My plan to achieve this aim is structured in four research thrusts: (i) introduction of physics- and/or data-driven computational models here referred to as weak generator to synthesize enough labeled data in an adjacent domain; (ii) design and analysis of unsupervised domain adaptation techniques to close the gap between the domain adjacent and domain specific data distributions; (iii) combined use of the weak generator\, a weak inference model and an adversarial framework to refine the domain adjacent dataset by employing a set of unlabeled domain specific dataset; and (iv) development and analysis of co-labeling/active learning techniques to select the most informative datasets to refine and adapt the weak inference model into a strong inference model in the target application. \nBio: Professor Ostadabbas is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Northeastern University (NEU)\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, USA. Professor Ostadabbas joined NEU in 2016 from Georgia Tech\, where she was a post-doctoral researcher following completion of her PhD at the University of Texas at Dallas in 2014. At NEU\, Professor Ostadabbas is the director of the Augmented Cognition Laboratory (ACLab) with the goal of enhancing human information-processing capabilities through the design of adaptive interfaces via physical\, physiological\, and cognitive state estimation. These interfaces are based on rigorous models adaptively parameterized using machine learning and computer vision algorithms. In particular\, she has been integrating domain knowledge with machine learning by using physics-based simulation as generative models for bootstrapping deep learning recognizers. Professor Ostadabbas is the co-author of more than 70 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles and her research has been awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)\, Mathworks\, Amazon AWS\, Biogen\, and NVIDIA. ​She co-organized the Multimodal Data Fusion (MMDF2018) workshop\, an NSF PI mini-workshop on Deep Learning in Small Data\, the CVPR workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures from 2019 and she was the program chair of the Machine Learning in Signal Processing (MLSP2019). Prof. Ostadabbas is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems\, on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Sensors Letters and Digital Biomarkers Journal\, and has been serving in several signal processing and machine learning conferences as a technical chair or session chair. She is a member of IEEE\, IEEE Computer Society\, IEEE Women in Engineering\, IEEE Signal Processing Society\, IEEE EMBS\, IEEE Young Professionals\, International Society for Virtual Rehabilitation (ISVR)\, and ACM SIGCHI​. \n__________________________________________________________________________________ \n  \nHuman Factors in Artificial Decision Making: Understanding Humans and Helping Humans Understand Learning Agents\nDr. Pedro Sequeira | Advanced Computer Scientist\, SRI International\, Artificial Intelligence Center \nAbstract: In this talk I will overview some of my research in the broad topic of human factors in artificial decision-making. I will start by showing how reinforcement learning (RL) agents\, equipped with intrinsic motivation provided by emotion appraisal-like rewards\, can learn more efficiently and overcome perceptual limitations. In the second part of the talk\, I will present a program synthesis approach for automated cognitive behavior analysis (ACBA)\, where genetic programming (GP) is used to search for programs that are able to reproduce observed human decisions and thereby help understand their underlying strategies and goals. I will show the results of an experiment where we used ACBA-GP to analyze human negotiation behavior\, which generated programs resulting in strategies consistent with the way people with different personality traits address negotiation tasks. Finally\, I will overview our work in the area of explainable RL (XRL)\, where a framework based on interestingness elements identifies relevant decision points given an RL policy that can help understand an agent’s behaviors in a task. I will show the results of a user study where we presented people short video clips of RL agents\, selected using our XRL framework\, allowing the subjects to correctly identify the capabilities and limitations of different agents in a task. \nBio: Dr. Pedro Sequeira is an advanced computer scientist at SRI International in the Artificial Intelligence Center (AIC). His research interests are mainly in the field of Machine Learning (ML) and involve the creation of autonomous and adaptive systems that learn and reason under uncertainty. His approach is based on creating ML mechanisms inspired by human learning and decision-making and use ML to better understand how humans learn and make decisions in complex tasks. Prior to joining SRI\, Dr. Sequeira was an associate research scientist at Northeastern University (NU) working in the Cognitive Embodied Social Agents Research (CESAR) lab\, led by Prof. Stacy Marsella\, on the topics of modeling human decision-making from observation and multiagent systems in the context of pharmaceutical supply-chains. Dr. Sequeira completed the Ph.D. Program in Information Systems and Computer Engineering in 2013 at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)\, Universidade de Lisboa in Portugal\, under the supervision of Prof. Ana Paiva and Prof. Francisco S. Melo. His thesis focused on building more flexible and robust reward mechanisms for intrinsically-motivated reinforcement learning agents\, based on appraisal theories of emotions. \n_________________________________________ \nTo Receive Further AIX Seminar Notifications \nSign up to receive further AIX seminar notifications \nPresented by the Institute for Experiential Robotics at Northeastern University \n 
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/aix-seminar-series-2/
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SUMMARY:Info Session: Dialogue of Civilization at Silicon Valley - Summer 2021
DESCRIPTION:The dialogue program\, “Technical Innovation and Product Prototyping” at Silicon Valley prepares students to deal with future innovative challenges involving customer-driven Technical Innovation\, product prototyping\, and entrepreneurship. \nThis program has the initial approval for onsite activities\, that is\, it will be held in Silicon Valley in 2021. \nWe will have a special Dialogue of Civilization information sessions for this program on: \nThursday\, March 4\, 5-6 pm via Zoom \nJoin Zoom Meeting\, click on: \nProf. Maheswaran Virtual Classroom \nFor more info please visit: Technical Innovation and Product Prototyping
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/info-session-dialogue-of-civilization-at-silicon-valley-summer-2021/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210304T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210304T200000
DTSTAMP:20260525T055839
CREATED:20210223T191801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210223T191801Z
UID:24533-1614884400-1614888000@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:Connect to Tech: Find Your Grad Program at Northeastern in Seattle
DESCRIPTION:Connect with Stephanie Curtiss (Seattle Campus Recruiter)\, Carsen McBride (Graduate School of Engineering Recruiting Specialist)\, and Ujwala Ramakrishna (Khoury College of Computer Sciences Graduate Admissions Counselor) on ​tech programs offered at Northeastern Seattle.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/connect-to-tech-find-your-grad-program-at-northeastern-in-seattle/
ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate School of Engineering":MAILTO:coe-gradadmissions@northeastern.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210305T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210305T133000
DTSTAMP:20260525T055839
CREATED:20210212T215420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210212T215420Z
UID:24328-1614945600-1614951000@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:NU ITE: Transportation Planning in the City of Boston w/ the BPDA
DESCRIPTION:Join NU ITE for a presentation and Q&A with Nick Schmidt\, AICP and Joe Blankenship\, two Senior Transportation Planners at the Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA)\, the city agency responsible for neighborhood & transportation planning and approving all large developments in the city. Nick and Joe oversee major transportation plans and projects throughout the city\, and are involved in permitting new developments\, ensuring they align with the city transportation vision. Please pre-register at: https://northeastern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIocuqtqD0sGtSEkwQL6rXf5KIWe7obDRsR
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/nu-ite-transportation-planning-in-the-city-of-boston-w-the-bpda/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210309T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210309T100000
DTSTAMP:20260525T055839
CREATED:20210225T221951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210225T221951Z
UID:24706-1615280400-1615284000@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:Explore Telecommunication Networks At Northeastern University
DESCRIPTION:Join the Graduate School of Engineering for an Information Session on the MS Telecommunication Networks program on March 9 at 9:00am EST. Learn more about the program and experiential opportunities from faculty\, staff\, and current students. \nRegister today: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82106500427
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/explore-telecommunication-networks-at-northeastern-university/
ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate School of Engineering":MAILTO:coe-gradadmissions@northeastern.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210309T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210309T173000
DTSTAMP:20260525T055839
CREATED:20210304T201737Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210304T201737Z
UID:24909-1615309200-1615311000@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:Fluid Mechanics DOC Program in Panama (Summer 1\, 2021) – Info Session
DESCRIPTION:If you are interested in learning fluid mechanics through relevant examples in an international setting in a Dialogue Of Civilization (DOC) program this summer in Panama\, please join the Zoom Info Session on Tuesday\, March 9th at 5:00 pm. By participating in this program\, you will gain an international perspective on the real-life applications of fluid mechanics technical concepts. This program will take place in Summer 1\, 2021 and will include travel to 3 relevant engineering projects (including the Panama Canal) in different locations in Panama. Two courses are offered under this program: \n\nME 3480 – International Applications of Fluid Mechanics (4SH; equivalent to ME 3475\, ME program core requirement)\nStudies fundamental principles in fluid mechanics in an international setting. Students have an opportunity to travel to a foreign locale to develop theoretical understanding while experiencing the issues that affect applications of fluids engineering in a culture and environment different from their own. Topics include hydrostatics (pressure distribution\, forces on submerged surfaces\, and buoyancy); Newton’s law of viscosity; dimensional analysis; integral forms of basic laws (conservation of mass\, momentum\, and energy); pipe flow analysis; differential formulation of basic laws including Navier-Stokes equations; and the concept of boundary layer and drag coefficient.\n\n\nME 4699 – Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering: Fluid Mechanics Engineering Analysis within the Socio-Cultural\, Political and Economic History of Panama (4SH)\nThis course is designed for college undergraduate students who are interested in addressing and analyzing fluid mechanics related engineering problems and solutions in the context of the traditions\, cultures\, and socioeconomic and political history of Panama\, seeking to obtain a solid grasp on the historical developments of the country and their effects on contemporary fluid mechanics engineering projects and issues.\n\nThe courses and program will be taught and run by Prof. Carlos Hidrovo Chavez. \nPlease visit the program website for more information. \nMeeting Info: \nDate: Tuesday\, March 9\, 2021 \nTime: 5:00 – 5:30 p.m. \nJoin Zoom Meeting
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/fluid-mechanics-doc-program-in-panama-summer-1-2021-info-session/
ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical & Industrial Engineering":MAILTO:mie-web@coe.neu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T130000
DTSTAMP:20260525T055839
CREATED:20210304T163856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210304T163856Z
UID:24904-1615377600-1615381200@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:ChE Seminar Series: Colloidal Crystals and Entropic Bondin
DESCRIPTION:ChE Seminar Series Presents:  \nSharon C. Glotzer\,  PhD\, NAS\, NAE \nAnthony C. Lembke Department Chair of Chemical Engineering\nJohn Werner Cahn Distinguished University Professor of Engineering\nStuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering \n  \nColloidal Crystals and Entropic Bonding \nBio: Sharon C. Glotzer is the John W. Cahn Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and the Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, and also holds faculty appointments in Physics\, Applied Physics\, and Macromolecular Science and Engineering. Since July 2017 she is the Anthony C. Lembke Department Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan. Her current research on computational assembly science and engineering aims toward predictive materials design of colloidal and soft matter. Using computation\, geometrical concepts\, and statistical mechanics\, her research group seeks to understand complex behavior emerging from simple rules and forces\, and use that knowledge to design new materials. Glotzer’s group also develops and disseminates powerful open-source software including the particle simulation toolkit\, HOOMD-blue\, which allows for fast molecular simulation of materials on graphics processors\, the signac framework for data and workflow management\, and several analysis and visualization tools. \nGlotzer received her Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from UCLA and her PhD in Physics from Boston University.  She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences\, the National Academy of Engineering\, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society\, the American Association for the Advancement of Science\, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers\, the American Physical Society\, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Glotzer is the recipient of numerous awards and honors\, including the 2019 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics from the American Physical Society\, the 2018 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum and the 2016 Alpha Chi Sigma Awards both from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers\, and the 2017 Materials Communications Lecture Award and 2014 MRS Medal from the Materials Research Society. Glotzer is a leading advocate for simulation-based materials research\, including nanotechnology and high performance computing\, serving on boards and advisory committees of the National Science Foundation\, the U.S. Department of Energy\, and the National Academies. She is currently a member of the National Academies Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology. \nAbstract: Entropy is typically associated with disorder; yet\, the counterintuitive notion that particles with no interactions other than excluded volume might self-assemble from a fluid phase into an ordered crystal has been known since the mid-20th century. First predicted for rods\, and then spheres\, the thermodynamic ordering of hard shapes by nothing more than crowding is now well established. In recent years\, surprising discoveries of entropically ordered colloidal crystals of extraordinary structural complexity have been predicted by computer simulation and observed in the laboratory. Colloidal quasicrystals\, clathrate structures\, and structures with large and complex unit cells typically associated with metal alloys\, can all self-assemble from disordered phases of identical particles due solely to entropy maximization. In this talk\, we show how entropy alone can produce order and complexity beyond that previously imagined\, both in colloidal crystal structure as well as in the kinetic pathways connecting fluid and crystal phases\, and we show how methods used by the quantum community to predict atomic crystal structures can be used to predict entropic colloidal crystals. \nPlease email Alyssa Ramsey at a.ramsey@northeastern.edu for the link to the seminar.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/che-seminar-series-colloidal-crystals-and-entropic-bondin/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T190000
DTSTAMP:20260525T055839
CREATED:20210308T144002Z
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UID:24915-1615399200-1615402800@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:Wonder Women Bingo w/ GWiSE
DESCRIPTION:GWiSE holds monthly community-building events where we participate in a hands-on activity together. Through these activities\, we network\, develop relationships\, and discuss the unique obstacles women face to their retention and advancement in STEM fields\, as well as opportunities and strategies to overcome them. This month\, we will be playing a digital version of Wonder Women Bingo by Isabel Thomas and illustrated by Laura Bernard. This bingo game introduces a large array of inspirational women. One random participant will win a $5 GrubHub gift card. Players who first obtain traditional Bingo\, 4 Corners\, and X will each win a $15 GrubHub gift card. The player who covers them all first will win a $50 GrubHub gift card! Our community chair\, Kris Govertsen\, owns this board game and digitized it using MATLAB. She also created a Github repository so that anyone who wishes to make a 100% customizable MATLAB Bingo game at home can do so. \nWednesday March 10 @ 6 PM EST \nRegister on SAIL. A zoom link will be provided after registration.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/wonder-women-bingo-w-gwise/
ORGANIZER;CN="GWiSE%3A Graduate Women in Science and Engineering":MAILTO:gwise.neu@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210311T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210311T200000
DTSTAMP:20260525T055839
CREATED:20210225T151708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210225T151708Z
UID:24686-1615489200-1615492800@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:A Celebration of International Women's Day
DESCRIPTION:Northeastern’s Women Who Empower is hosting a celebration of International Women’s Day with Jeannine Sargent\, E’87\, Trustee Investor and Advisor to Private Equity and Venture Firms. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeannine Sargent is an experienced global CEO\, entrepreneur\, investor board member\, proven innovator\, and engineer who has repeatedly built and scaled multi-billion-dollar business at the forefront of technological developments in the U.S.\, Asia\, and Europe. She is an intuitive and creative appraiser of markets\, technologies\, and products\, with a three-decade track record of executive leadership building sustainably profitable businesses in emerging\, high-tech industries. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is complimentary but registration is required.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/a-celebration-of-international-womens-day/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210314T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210314T100000
DTSTAMP:20260525T055839
CREATED:20210225T222057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210225T222057Z
UID:24714-1615712400-1615716000@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:Overview of the Graduate School of Engineering
DESCRIPTION:Bold\, interdisciplinary\, and experiential with a focus on innovating for society. Northeastern University’s Graduate School of Engineering encompasses top-ranked\, highly selective\, R1 research programs that combine rigorous academics with experiential learning and convergent research to prepare the next generation of engineering leaders to address the complex challenges of global society. Kelly Egorova\, Assistant Director for Graduate Admissions\, will discuss the parameters for success as you begin your application process. She will provide an overview of the 6 departments\, Co-op with the College’s 800 industry partners\, and opportunities for engagement with the graduate student ambassadors. Webinar details are below: \nRegister Today: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BQJh3XBsTkSOKHI37FK1-A
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/overview-of-the-graduate-school-of-engineering/
ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate School of Engineering":MAILTO:coe-gradadmissions@northeastern.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210314T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210314T170000
DTSTAMP:20260525T055839
CREATED:20210127T195635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210127T195635Z
UID:23980-1615726800-1615741200@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:Tau Beta Pi Chess Tournament
DESCRIPTION:In honor of Pi Day this year\, Tau Beta Pi is holding a virtual chess tournament for the engineering community on Sunday\, March 14th starting at 1 PM. To participate\, each player will need to pay a fee of $5 and all fundraising from the tournament will go to charity. \nIf you’re interested in playing\, please fill out this form: https://bit.ly/3o3wUyD \nThe event will be open to all engineers.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/tau-beta-pi-chess-tournament/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210422
DTSTAMP:20260525T055839
CREATED:20210318T134829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210318T134829Z
UID:25081-1615939200-1619049599@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:Study Recruitment: Ancient Techniques and Mental Health Today
DESCRIPTION:Northeastern Department of Philosophy & Religion  \nHave you been experiencing stress and anxiety? \nYou may be eligible to participate in our study! \nHelp us investigate the impact of mindfulness on various life outcomes! All components of this study will take place virtually; participants will be asked to attend two 30-minute Zoom sessions in addition to up to 5 weeks of short\, daily smartphone tasks. \nYou must be 18 years or older\, a Boston-based Northeastern undergraduate student\, and a native English speaker to be eligible to participate. \nParticipants will receive $80 in compensation. \nContact us at pwolstudy@gmail.com if you’re interested and to see if you are eligible! \nThis study has been reviewed and approved by the Northeastern University Institutional Review Board (#21-02-21).
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/study-recruitment-ancient-techniques-and-mental-health-today/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T130000
DTSTAMP:20260525T055839
CREATED:20210315T134305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210315T134305Z
UID:24971-1615982400-1615986000@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:Active colloidal fluids: a new paradigm in self-assembly
DESCRIPTION:ChE Seminar Series Presents:\n \nPetia M. Vlahovska\, PhD\nProfessor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (by courtesy)\nMechanical Engineering\, Northwestern University \nTitle: Active colloidal fluids: a new paradigm in self-assembly \nAbstract:  \nFlocks of birds and schools of fish are familiar examples of emergent collective behavior\, where interactions between self-propelled (active) individuals lead to coherent motion on a scale much larger than the isolated unit. Similar phenomena have been observed with active micro-particles such as bacteria and motile colloids.  Recently\, the Quincke instability (spontaneous spinning of a dielectric particle in an applied uniform DC field) has attracted great interest as a means of propelling colloids\, by simply letting the particles roll on a surface.   In this talk\, I will present our experiments showing how Quincke rollers\, previously studied mainly as active Brownian particles\, can be designed to perform Run-and-Tumble-like locomotion mimicking bacteria such as E. coli. Populations of the Quincke random walkers self-organize and exhibit behaviors reminiscent of bacterial suspensions such as dynamic clusters and mesoscale turbulent-like flows. When enclosed in a drop\, the Quincke rollers drive strong shape fluctuations and drop motility resembling amoeba crawling. I will also discuss some novel collective dynamics of Quincke rotors levitating in a bulk fluid: unlike the rollers\, the “hovers” form crystals\, chains and other dynamical assemblies. \nBio: \nPetia M. Vlahovska received a PhD in chemical engineering from Yale (2003) and MS in chemistry from Sofia University\, Bulgaria (1994). She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Membrane Biophysics Lab at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces and spent ten years on the faculty at Dartmouth College and Brown University\, before joining the faculty at Northwestern University in 2017. Her research is in fluid dynamics\, membrane biophysics\, and soft matter. Dr. Vlahovska is the recipient of David Crighton Fellowship (2005)\, NSF Career Award (2009) and a Humboldt Fellowship (2016). In 2019\, she was elected fellow of the American Physical Society. \nPlease email Alyssa Ramsey at a.ramsey@northeastern.edu for the link to the seminar.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/active-colloidal-fluids-a-new-paradigm-in-self-assembly/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T203000
DTSTAMP:20260525T055839
CREATED:20210315T135158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210315T135158Z
UID:24957-1616009400-1616013000@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:NUASCE Virtual Game Night
DESCRIPTION: Come join NUASCE for a virtual game night over Zoom. It will be Wednesday\, March 17th at 7:30 pm. Socialize with your fellow CIVE and ENVE classmates! \nZoom link
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/nuasce-virtual-game-night/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T133000
DTSTAMP:20260525T055839
CREATED:20210316T173855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210316T203641Z
UID:25016-1616070600-1616074200@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Seminar: Dr. Mathias Kläui
DESCRIPTION:IEEE Magnetics Society Seminar for 2021 \nDistinguished Lecture: Dr. Mathias Kläui \nJointly hosted by: Richmond Section Jt. Chapter\, Washington/Northern Virginia Jt Chapter\, and the Boston Section Chapter \n\nPlease join us online on Thursday\, March 18th\, at 12:30 pm for the first installment of out IEEE Distinguished Lecture Seminar Series.\nJoin with Google Meet: http://meet.google.com/xft-dvqw-pac\nJoin by phone: (US) +1 413-359-0778; PIN: 184921174#\n(US) +1 413-359-0778 PIN: 184 921 174# \n\nMathias Kläui is professor of physics at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz and adjunct professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He received his PhD at the University of Cambridge\, after which he joined the IBM Research Labs in Zürich. He was a junior group leader at the University of Konstanz and then became associate professor in a joint appointment between the EPFL and the PSI in Switzerland before moving to Mainz. His research focuses on nanomagnetism and spin dynamics on the nanoscale in new materials. His research covers from blue sky fundamental science to applied projects with major industrial partners. He has published more than 300 articles and given more than 200 invited talks. He is a Senior member of the IEEE and\, a Fellow of the IOP and has been awarded a number of prizes and scholarships. He is one of the 2020/2021 IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturers. Contact details and more information at www.klaeui-lab.de. \n\nAntiferromagnetic Insulatronics: Spintronics without Magnetic fields \nWhile known for a long time\, antiferromagnetically ordered\nsystems have previously been considered\, as expressed by Louis Néel in his Nobel Prize Lecture\, to be “interesting but useless”. However\, since antiferromagnets potentially promises faster operation\, enhanced stability with respect to interfering magnetic fields and higher integration due to the absence of dipolar coupling\, they could potentially become a game changer for new spintronic devices. The zero net moment makes manipulation using conventional magnetic fields challenging. However recently\, these materials have received renewed attention due to possible manipulation based on new approaches such as photons or spin-orbit torques. In this talk\, we will present an overview of the key features of antiferromagnets to potentially functionalize their unique properties. This includes writing\, reading and transporting information using antiferromagnetic. \nWe recently realized switching in the metallic antiferromagnet Mn2Au by intrinsic staggered spin-orbit torques and characterize the switching properties by direct imaging. While switching by staggered intrinsic spin-orbit torques in metallic AFMs requires special structural asymmetry\, interfacial non-staggered spin-orbit torques can switch multilayers of many insulating AFMs capped with heavy metal layers. We probe switching and spin transport in selected collinear insulating antiferromagnets\, such as NiO\, CoO and hematite. In NiO and CoO we find that there are multiple switching mechanisms that result in the reorientation of the Néel vector and additionally effects related to electromigration of the heavy metal layer can obscure the magnetic switching. For the spin transport\, spin currents are generated by heating as resulting from the spin Seebeck effect and by spin pumping measurements and we find in vertical transport short (few nm) spin diffusion lengths. For hematite\, however\, we find in a non-local geometry that spin transport of tens of micrometers is possible. We detect a first harmonic signal\, related to the spin conductance\, that exhibits a maximum at the spin-flop reorientation\, while the second harmonic signal\, related to the Spin Seebeck conductance\, is linear in the amplitude of the applied magnetic field. The first signal is dependent on the direction of the Néel vector and the second one depends on the induced magnetic moment due to the field. We identify the domain structure as the limiting factor for the spin transport. We recently also achieved transport in the easy plane phase\, which allows us to obtain long distance spin transport in hematite even at room temperature. From the power and distance dependence\, we unambiguously distinguish long-distance transport based on diffusion from predicted spin superfluidity that can potentially be used for logic. A number of excellent reviews are available for further information on recent developments in the field.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/ieee-magnetics-society-distinguished-seminar-dr-mathias-klaui/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210322T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210322T093000
DTSTAMP:20260525T055839
CREATED:20210322T135019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210322T135019Z
UID:25100-1616401800-1616405400@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:Bioengineering Graduate Programs Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Please join faculty\, staff\, and current students to learn more about graduate programs in the Bioengineering Department on March 22 at 8:30 EST. \nRegistration may be found at:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KiuKTsiLRn2n-vmRlz2m6A \nA recording will be available for those who are unable to attend.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/bioengineering-graduate-programs-webinar/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210322T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210322T110000
DTSTAMP:20260525T055839
CREATED:20210226T185630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210315T140259Z
UID:24735-1616407200-1616410800@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:ECE MS Thesis Defense: Ibrahim Farah
DESCRIPTION:MS Thesis Defense: Multipath Beam Steering for OFDM Systems \nIbrahim Farah \nLocation: Zoom \nAbstract: OFDM systems prove effective in combatting the frequency-selective fading\, dispersive response of underwater acoustic channels. Coherent symbol detection requires estimation of this channel response at each receiving element\, typically done through tap-based models (Least Squares) or path-based models (Path Identification). This talk presents a spatial processing design which uses a multi-channel receiver to isolate individual multi-path returns\, both easing the channel estimation requirements and increasing the SNR for symbol detection. The beam steering algorithms are considered in both a coherent and differential OFDM system context and include narrowband and broadband beamforming to the principal\, stable path\, as well as narrowband and broadband null-steering. These spatial processing algorithms are then extended to an iterative implementation\, which approaches the theoretical performance for a beamformer with full multipath channel knowledge. The performance of these algorithms is compared to their single-channel equivalents using both the LS and PI algorithms for coherent detection.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/ms-thesis-defense-ibrahim-farah/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210322T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210322T110000
DTSTAMP:20260525T055839
CREATED:20210322T140831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210322T140831Z
UID:25104-1616407200-1616410800@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:Chemical Engineering Graduate Program Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Please join faculty\, staff\, and current students to learn more about graduate programs in the Chemical Engineering Department on March 22 at 10:00 AM EST. \nRegistration may be found at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dhul9DvaSamlRIyBYkJtoQ \nA recording will be available for those who are unable to attend.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/chemical-engineering-graduate-program-webinar/
ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate School of Engineering":MAILTO:coe-gradadmissions@northeastern.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T213000
DTSTAMP:20260525T055839
CREATED:20210322T140937Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210322T140937Z
UID:25106-1616488200-1616535000@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Graduate Program Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Please join faculty\, staff\, and current students to learn more about graduate programs in the Mechanical and Industrial Department on March 23 at 8:30 EST. \nRegistration may be found at:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_S6PynL9hS7mXCoey0EVVlg \nA recording will be available for those who are unable to attend.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/mechanical-and-industrial-engineering-graduate-program-webinar/
ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate School of Engineering":MAILTO:coe-gradadmissions@northeastern.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T110000
DTSTAMP:20260525T055839
CREATED:20210322T140734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210322T140734Z
UID:25108-1616493600-1616497200@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Program Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Please join faculty\, staff\, and current students to learn more about graduate programs in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department on March 23 at 10:00 EST. \nRegistration may be found at:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KiuKTsiLRn2n-vmRlz2m6A \nA recording will be available for those who are unable to attend.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/civil-and-environmental-engineering-graduate-program-webinar/
ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate School of Engineering":MAILTO:coe-gradadmissions@northeastern.edu
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