Past Seminars and Events

May 8
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Interactions and Disorder in Topological Quantum Systems

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Presented by Professor Stephan Haas, USC

Online only

May 1
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Electronically Throttleable Thrusters and Solid Rocket Motors Using Transient Plasma Discharge

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Presented by Professor Stephen Cronin, USC

Online only

Apr 24
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Role of Advanced Packaging in Shaping the Semiconductor Industry

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Presented by Dr. Ravi Mahajan, Intel Fellow

Online only

Apr 23
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

A Unified Perspective of Surrogates for Decision Focused Learning

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Presented by Vishal Gupta, USC

Online only

Apr 17
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Technical On-Shore Capabilities for Wafer-Level Packaging, 3D Heterogeneous Integration, Assembly, and Test

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Presented by Dr. John M. Lannon Jr., General Manager, Micross Advanced Interconnect Technology

Online only

Apr 10
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Sustainable, Scalable and Reliable Architectures for Massive MIMO and mmWave Connectivity and Sensing

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Presented by Professor Dinesh Bharadia, UCSD

Online only

Apr 9
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Emergent Morpho-phonological Representations in Models of Spoken Word Recognition

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Presented by Canaan Breiss, USC

ISI MDR #1135

Apr 7
ISI Natural Language Seminar

LLM-Powered Predictive Inference with Online Text Time Series

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Presented by Jinchi Lv

Conference Rm #1135-37

Apr 3
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Sandia’s Heterogeneously Integrated Photonics Platform

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Presented by Dr. Michael Gehl, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Sandia

Online only

Mar 31
ISI Natural Language Seminar

ATLAS: Adaptive Transfer Scaling Laws for Multilingual Pretraining, Finetuning, and Decoding the Curse of Multilinguality

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Presented by Shayne Longpre, MIT

Online only

Mar 27
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Lighting Up the Frontiers of Computing

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Presented by Dr. Bassem Tossoun, Principal Research Scientist, Hewlett Packard Labs

Online only

Mar 20
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

AI-Driven Hardware Verification: From Automation to Autonomy

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Presented by Dr. Hamid Shojaei, Distinguished Engineer, Cadence

Online only

Mar 13
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Active Photonics for Information Processing, Computing, and Quantum Networking

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Presented by Professor Liang Feng, University of Pennsylvania

Online only

Mar 12

Seminar with Ramez Naam- Founder and Managing Partner of Planetary VC

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Presented by Ramez Naam, Founder and Managing Partner of Planetary VC

Conference Rm #1014 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via the zoom link.

Mar 10
ISI Natural Language Seminar

Scaling Coding and ML Research Agents

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Presented by Antonis Antoniades, UCSB

Conference Rm #1135-37

Mar 6
ISI Natural Language Seminar

Collective Artificial Intelligence (CAI): From Independent Models to Autonomous Cooperative Learning Systems

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Presented by Alfonso Amayuelas, UCSB

Conference Rm #1135-37

Mar 6
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Solid-State Qubits for Quantum Sensing and Communication

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Presented by Professor Susumu Takahashi, USC

Online only

Feb 27
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Reengineering Chip Engineering with AI

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Presented by Anand Thiruvengadam, Senior Director of Product Management, Synopsys

Online only

Feb 24
ISI Natural Language Seminar

Embodied Web Agents: Bridging Physical-Digital Realms for Integrated Agent Intelligence

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Presented by Rui Sun, UCLA

Conference Rm #1135-37

Feb 13
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

IBM Advanced Semiconductor Packaging and Test Perspective

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Presented by Alexander Janta-Polczynski, Senior Advisory Engineer and Business Development Executive, IBM

Online only

Feb 10
ISI Natural Language Seminar

VISCO: Benchmarking Fine-Grained Critique and Correction Towards Self-Improvement in Visual Reasoning

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Presented by Xueqing Wu, UCLA

Conference Rm #1135-37

Feb 6
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Introduction to AIM Photonics and NY Creates PICs and Packaging Capabilities

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Presented by David Harame, COO of AIM Photonics

Online only

Feb 6
Scientific Computing at Large

Scientific Computing Seminar: Challenges and opportunities for Hybrid Quantum-Classical Systems

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Presented by Vincenzo De Maio, University of Leicester

Conference Rm #1014 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via the zoom registration link.

Jan 30
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Addressing the Data Access and Movement Problem in Computing Hardware

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Presented by Professor Sudhakar Pamarti, UCLA

Online only

Jan 27
ISI Natural Language Seminar

Domain-Adaptive Programming: Expanding the Boundaries of What LLMs Can Solve

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Presented by Wang Bill Zhu, USC

Conference Rm #1135-37

Jan 23
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Using deterministic control to enhance quantum sensing beyond decoherence limits

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Presented by Eli Levenson-Falk, USC

Online only

Jan 16
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Distributed and Integrated Sensing and Communication: Beamforming, Estimation, Learning and More

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Presented by Professor Nuria Gonzalez Prelcic, UCSD

Online only

Jan 15
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Artificial Intelligence, Innovation Governance, and Organizational Change

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Presented by Bowen Lou, USC

Webinar

Jan 9
CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Teledyne GaN-on-SiC Device Library for Advanced RF and Power Conversion Applications

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Presented by Dr. Keisuke Shinohara, Principal Scientist, Teledyne

Online only

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