Seminars & Events

We offer two distinct but complimentary seminar series in CSE: the monthly Distinguished Series and the weekly Community Series. Both attract enthusiastic groups of graduate students, researchers and faculty, sparking heightened interest in CSE research dissemination and discussions, effectively blending rigorous academic exchanges with community building.

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CSE Special Seminar | Michael Herbst

Presenter's Title Assistant Professor at EPFL, Institute of Mathematics and Institute of Materials Talk Title Algorithmic differentiation (AD) in plane-wave DFT
Date Thursday, October 16, 2025 Time 1:00–2:00 PM

Location 45-432

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CSE Community Seminar | October 10, 2025

Presenter Daniel Sharp, PhD Student, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT

Talk Title Learning a quadrature rule by quantizing the measure: using data-driven gradient flows for MMD minimization

Presenter Mohamed Elrefaie, PhD Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT

Talk Title DrivAerNet++: Toward Scalable Datasets for Engineering Design—Challenges, Infrastructure, and Future Directions​ ​
Time 12:00–1:00 PM

Location 45-432

CSE Special Seminar | Michael Herbst

Presenter's Title Assistant Professor at EPFL, Institute of Mathematics and Institute of Materials Talk Title Algorithmic differentiation (AD) in plane-wave DFT
Date Thursday, October 16, 2025 Time 1:00–2:00 PM

Location 45-432

CSE Community Seminar | October 17, 2025

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Maurice Fabien, MLK Visiting Professor, MIT; Assistant professor of mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Time 12:00–1:00 PM

Location 45-432

CSE Community Seminar | October 24, 2025

Presenter Lijing Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Connecticut

Talk Title Neural density estimators for parameter estimation in watershed simulators: application to groundwater-surface water interactions in the Rocky Mountains
Time 12:00–1:00 PM

Location 45-432