Supported by the Office of the Provost, the Interdisciplinary Colloquium (IDC) is a series of events designed to foster the STEM research environment at NYU Shanghai and interdisciplinary collaboration within and cross-institutions. For each event, we invite a distinguished guest speaker to talk about cutting edge science not only for people in their specialty area but also people in other research areas. The speaker meets with our faculty, PhD students, and postdocs, and gives a one-hour lecture open to all.
Upcoming Events
The next IDC series is expected to take place in Fall 2025. Stay tuned for further updates.
Previous Events
2025
May 9 From Individuals to Populations: Modeling Strategic Behavior at Scale, Mathieu Laurière
Apr 11 The Big Deal about the James Webb Space Telescope, Jun Zhang
Mar 21 Using Math to Understand the Brain, Zhuo-Cheng Xiao
Mar 7 Improving Vision Testing with Artificial Intelligence, Zhong-Lin Lu
2024
Nov 15 Behavioral Decision Research for a Sustainable Future, Claudia F Nisa and Yanran Yang
May 23 The Role of Lipid Droplets in the Regulation of Stress Responses, Bertrand Mollereau
May 6 The Physics of the Fragmentation of Solids, Nicolas Vandenberghe
Apr 1 Skeletal Muscle is Essential for Healthy Life, Li Li Ji
Mar 4 The Flow of Water and Sugar in Trees and their Leaves - the Art of Controlling Huge Pressure Differences, Tomas Bohr
2023
Dec 11 Dark Matter, Black Holes and Recent Exciting Developments in Astrophysics, Glennys R. Farrar
Nov 13 Reinforcement Learning and Large Language Models: Long Story Short, Olivier Pietquin
Oct 30 Exploring Large Language Models for Graph Data Analysis, Qiaoyu Tan
May 12 Using Deep Learning to Predict Ocular Tracking Abilities and Brain Maturation in Children Based on Genetic and Epigenetic Variations, Li Li
Apr 28 From Espaloma to SAKE: To brew, distill, and mix force fields with balanced briskness, smoothness, and intricacy, Yuanqing Wang
Apr 14 Expanding Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets for Neurodegenerative Disease, Aaron D. Gitler
Mar 31 Personalization for Social Good: Curses and Blessings of Personal Data, Hongyi Wen
2022
Dec 2 Newton’s Second Law for Interacting Particles: from Natural Sciences to Social Science, Optimization and Machine Learning, Shi Jin
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