Interdisciplinary Colloquium

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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IDC Organizing Committee

The IDC organizing committee is composed of faculty, staff and doctoral students from a variety of research fields/interests who volunteer to help plan and organize the IDC events. They are responsible for event planning, deciding event dates and speakers.

Current Committee

Chair:
Zhong-Lin Lu, Professor of Neuroscience

Members:
Congyi Lu, Assistant Director of the PhD Program
Hongyi Wen, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Jiajin Liu, PhD student in Computer Science
Jun Zhang, Professor of Physics and Mathematics
Mathieu Laurière, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science
Vince Sun, PhD student in Neural Science
Vivien Du, Manager of PhD & Research Fellowship Programs
Xiang Sun, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Members are for a term of approximately 12 months. We welcome faculty, staff, PhD students and postdocs from different STEM research fields to join the committee. If you want to be part of the committee, please fill out this form. Submissions will be reviewed by the current committee and the applicants will be contacted.

Nominate a speaker

To ensure successful and productive IDC series, we welcome you to nominate accomplished researchers who are also outstanding speakers from a diversity of STEM research backgrounds to be guest speakers. To nominate a speaker, please fill out this form. Submissions will be reviewed periodically and nominators will be contacted.

Contact us

Email: shanghai.idc@nyu.edu