December 2: IEM-sponsored virtual event: Discussion: Spring Semester, What to Expect? 8:00 AM EST Join link: This event will be run via Unibuddy. Connect with our ambassadors + learn the platform here. Audience: All admits for Spring, 2021 including deferrals from a previous term.
PhD Dissertation Defense: Ceramic Magnetic Wires at Wireless Communication Frequencies Leili Hayati Location: Online Abstract: Ferrite magnetic devices play an important role in modern wireless telecommunication systems. They generally require permanent magnets in order to magnetically polarize the ferrite material component used in these devices. The permanent magnets are bulky and take up most of […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Topology Error Detection in Power System State Estimation Bilgehan Donmez Location: Teams Link Abstract: Growth of renewable energy, changes in weather patterns, and increases in cyber- and physical-attacks are examples of recent challenges in power system operation. To keep up with these rapid transformations, it is imperative to improve the tools used […]
Jessica Wagenseil, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Washington University, St. Louis MO “Elastin mechanobiology in aortic development” ABSTRACT: The extracellular matrix protein, elastin, provides reversible extensibility to the aorta that is critical for proper function of the cardiovascular system. Elastin is deposited during late embryonic and early postnatal growth, […]
MS Thesis Defense: Data-Efficient analysis of Human Behavior by Spatio-Temporal Pose Generation and Inference Kathan Vyas Location: Zoom Link Passcode: 474462 Abstract: Identifying human pose over time provides critical information towards understanding human behavior and their physical interaction with the environment surrounding them. In the past few decades, the human pose estimation topic has witnessed […]
The annual GWiSE 3 Minute Thesis Competition 2020 is finally here! The 3MT is an academic competition that challenges Ph.D. students to describe their research within three minutes. This is a great opportunity to practice pitching your research to a non-specialist audience and to improve your science communication. Northeastern GWiSE and the Northeastern University Library have […]
December 3: IEM-sponsored virtual event: OGS + Visa Compliance 8:00 AM EST Join link: This event will be run via Unibuddy. Connect with our ambassadors + learn the platform here. Audience: All admits for Spring, 2021 including deferrals from a previous term.
Join ADSE for a graduate student virtual trivia night on December 3rd from 6:00-8:00 pm and help us support a local Black-owned business as well as raise money for the Read in Color program from Little Free Library! Form a team of up to 4 members and answer a total of 30 questions on variable […]
MS Thesis Defense: Real-Time Object Detection on Mobile Devices via Compression-Compilation Co-Design Yuxuan Cai Location: Zoom Link Abstract: The rapid development and wide utilization of object detection techniques have aroused attention on both accuracy and speed of object detectors. However, the current state-of-the- art object detection works are either accuracy-oriented using a large model but […]
December 7: IEM-sponsored virtual event: About Hybrid NU-Flex 8:00 AM EST Join link: This event will be run via Unibuddy. Connect with our ambassadors + learn the platform here. Audience: All admits for Spring, 2021 including deferrals from a previous term.