Engineering Education Lunch & Learn: Problem-Solving Studio

Wilkinson Building, room 126

Our third education-focused Lunch & Learn will feature speakers Cameron Kim (BME) and Afsaneh Rahbar (ECE) sharing a teaching strategy for active learning called Problem-Solving Studio. All engineering faculty, as well as students interested in faculty careers, are warmly invited. RSVP requested: https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4MjX504ILUJwJp4 Next event in early 2024 - Ali Stocks and Dagan Trnka of […]

CEE Seminar – Infrastructure as a Driver of Human Behavior and Social Benefits: A New Cyber-Physical-Social System Frontier

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side A, room 1464

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) have radically transformed engineering solutions over the last decade and garnered considerable attention, improving infrastructure performance through the combination of sensing, computing, and control. CPSs have even expanded to include human-in-the-loop control, where humans serve as operators or supervisors. While these paradigms have been wildly successful for the design and operation of […]

Towards a Mathematical Theory of Development

French Family Science Center 4233

This talk introduces a mathematical theory of developmental biology, based on optimal transport. While, in principle, organisms are made of molecules whose motions are described by the Schrödinger equation, there are simply too many molecules for this to be useful. Optimal transport-a fascinating topic in its own right, at the intersection of probability, statistics and […]

CEE Seminar – Environmentally Responsible Manufacturing: Origins and Thoughts for the Future

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side A, room 1464

We are increasingly conscious of the environmental challenges we face: solid, liquid, and airborne waste streams; shortages of water, select materials, and energy resources; and climate change. Manufacturing produces and supplies the goods and services needed by society and is an engine of prosperity. However, like many other aspects of engineering, fundamental changes are needed […]

ECE Seminar: Fundamental Limits of Blockchain

Wilkinson Building, room 126

Blockchain technologies have revolutionized our understanding of consensus and decentralized trust. In this talk, I will explain the fundamental challenge of reaching consensus on a distributed ledger in the presence of adversaries and network delays. I will then use a pair of closed-form "finite-blocklength" achievability and converse theorems to answer the following questions about the […]

Single-Cell Genomics to Predict the Cellular Etiology of Autoimmune Risk Loci

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To fight and remember infections, B cells in our immune system must undergo maturation in the germinal centre reaction. Errors in this process can lead to either defective immune responses (immunodeficiency) or autoimmune diseases (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis). Many questions remain about the dynamic cellular states involved in both normal and disease-related GC […]

Koru Meditation & Mindfulness Course

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Train your brain! Koru Mindfulness is simple, but not easy. Join our 4-week mindfulness class and learn to experience less stress, less self-judgment, more mindfulness and better sleep. Sessions take place 8:30 to 9:45 am on Tuesdays, Nov. 28, and Dec. 5, 12, and 19. Register: https://bit.ly/KoruMindfulness23

Introduction to Canvas

Virtual

This workshop is recommended for anyone who has not used Canvas as an instructor before or those who would like a refresher on Canvas. Instruction is expected to last about 60 minutes, with the remaining time available for questions. This session will include some of the basic "getting started" and Canvas configuration information.

Invented at Duke 2023

Penn Pavilion

Come join the annual celebration and showcase of Duke inventors and inventions! This free event features inventor demos, featured innovation resources, gifts for Duke inventors, and free refreshments. Short remarks will start at 5:30PM, and will include President Price, head of OTC Robin Rasor, and IonQ co-founder and Duke ECE Professor Jungsang Kim. Register for […]