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 […]

35 years of optical remote sensing in Geography: from Spitsbergen to Vietnam, from melting glaciers to vector-borne diseases, from Small to Big Data... what a story! by Professor Dominique Laffly at the University of Toulouse.

Despite some empirical successes, natural language processing (NLP) technology remains limited when it comes to practical applications, due to a lack of reliability and robustness, and very high memory and computational footprints. We plan to develop a strong research activity at VinUni centered around NLP, with a focus on three thrusts: a) low-resource and robust […]