BIDMaP is happy to be jointly hosting this year's seminar series with colleagues in computational physical sciences, including collaborators from the departments of Physics and Astronomy, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Past Seminars

02
Mar
Kristin Persson

Mar. 2, 2023 - Kristin Persson: The Era of Data-Driven Materials Innovation and Design

Kristin Persson is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley and runs a lab at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The Persson group studies the physics and chemistry of materials using atomistic computational methods and high-performance computing technology, particularly...
23
Feb
Syrine Belakaria

Feb. 23, 2023 - Syrine Belakaria: Adaptive Experimental Design for Multi-Objective Optimization: An Output Space Entropy Search Framework

Syrine Belakaria is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Washington State University advised by Prof. Jana Doppa. Prior to her PhD, she received a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Idaho where she was advised by Professor Sameh Sorour and received...
15
Jan
Colin White

Jan. 15, 2023 - Colin White: Neural Architecture Search: The Next Frontier

Throughout the history of machine learning, we have seen more and more automation of tasks, such as using neural networks to replace the tedious process of manual feature design. One of the next major steps is to automatically design and tune neural networks themselves: neural...