About the Seminar In this talk AI-based methods have tremendous potential for impacting the performance of autonomous aerospace and robotic systems. Such systems include drones, ground- and water-based vehicles, and limbed robots for instance. A barrier to the wide deployment of AI-powered methods in such applications is the risk or unpredictability of algorithm performance. In […]

 About the Seminar In this talk, we illustrate how linear algebra and optimization, with continuous or binary variables, is useful for power industry, for example for improving maintenance of power plants or for energy management. Optimization under constraints is a key approach for energy management where we aim at minimizing costs of production while respecting […]

Seminar Title: The Human Brain as viewed through the lenses of Mathematics Speaker: Dr. Duy Duong-Tran – Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, The United States Naval Academy Time: Wednesday, August 16, 2023 | 4 – 5 PM Venue: C202 & Zoom About the Seminar Network science is the research area that applies graph theory to […]

Seminar Title: Principled Frameworks for Designing Deep Learning Models: Efficiency, Robustness, and Expressivity Speaker: Dr. Tan Nguyen – Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Time: Wednesday, July 12, 2023 | 3:00 – 4:00 PM Venue: C204, VinUniversity   About the Seminar Designing deep learning models for practical applications, including those […]

Seminar Title: ICT for disaster risk communication in a climate change context Speaker: Caroline Rizza – Assoc. Prof. in Information and Communication Sciences; President of the ISCRAM Time: Wednesday, July 12, 2023 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM Venue: C202, VinUniversity & Zoom  About the Seminar The occurrence of extreme weather events and natural disasters including […]

Seminar Title: High-speed Atomic Force Microscopy: Development and Application to Explore Nano World for Life Sciences Speaker: Dr. Ngô Xuân Kiên – WPI Nano Life Science Institute, Kanazawa University Time: Thursday, June 8, 2023 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM Venue: Peace Room I201, VinUniversity  About the Seminar In this seminar, I will briefly cover the […]

Seminar Title: Rasch measurement to improve fairness in tests Speakers: Daniel Ruelle Director: Teaching and Learning Excellence Center Senior Lecturer: College of Arts & Sciences Time: Wednesday, June 7, 2023 | 3:30 – 4:30 PM Venue: C202 Lecture Hall, VinUniversity Scenario 1: Student A gets 14/20 on a final exam. Student B does a re-sit with […]

Seminar Title: Immersive Technology and Consumer Experience: Benefits and Perils Speakers: Helen Chun – Associate Professor of Service Marketing, Cornell University Time: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 | 2:30 – 4:30 PM Venue: I201 – Peace Room, VinUniversity About the Seminar This project aims to examine the benefits and perils of immersive technologies such as virtual […]

Seminar Title: Optimization Problems for Clean Energy Transition and Management of Power Systems Speaker: Dr. Riadh ZORGATI, Research Engineer,  Research & Development Division, Electricité de France Time: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM Venue: C202, VinUniversity About the Seminar EDF, the main French electricity utility, is one of the European leaders in […]

Seminar Title: What is Creativity? Unpacking Myths, Research, and Definitions Speaker: Dr. Myles Lynch, Faculty of College of Arts and Sciences, VinUniversity Time: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 | 4 – 5 PM Venue: C204, VinUniversity Introduction This is an active learning seminar (bring a pen!). As part of this workshop, participants will take divergent thinking tasks, […]

The seminar seeks to unpack Wang Yang Ming’s elusive claim that knowledge is action, and bring this claim into contact with contemporary debates in social epistemology - debates about such crucial topics as disagreement, learning from others, and ‘fake news’.

Seminar Title:       The Architect: The Rise of the Revolutionary Lê Đức Thọ Speaker:                  Dr. Jason Picard Time:                        Wednesday, January 11, 2023 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM Venue:                     C204, VinUniversity Introduction In the West, Lê Đức Thọ is recalled as Henry Kissinger’s arch-nemisis at the Paris Peace Talks and the only person to have ever refused […]