No Millennium Café due to Thanksgiving Break.
No Millennium Café
Penn State’s AI Hub: Kind of Like the Millennium Café but Just for AI
As Pennsylvania’s land-grant (and sea-, sun-, and space-grant) institution, Penn State has always emphasized the "practical or theoretical aspects" of our work. Now that artificial intelligence (AI) is seemingly everywhere, our university is demonstrating what our historical land-grant status means in the AI space. Funded by Penn State’s Office of the Senior Vice President for Research via the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, the AI Hub is a forum for promoting these activities and inform multiple audiences. The hope is that someday the AI Hub will be able to make the same claim as the Millennium Café: That many collaborations have been catalyzed by the Hub due to a diverse audience and the fact that work is presented in a manner allowing many folks to take something away. (So far, we haven’t figured out how to replicate the good coffee.)
Speaker: David Hunter | Penn State AI Hub
Center for Immersive Experiences: Research with Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality
Technologies such as virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR, AR, and MR) are becoming more ubiquitous and accessible. However, how they can be implemented and utilized in universities and industries is still being explored. The Center for Immersive Experiences will be making available virtual and mixed-reality headsets, 360 cameras, and devices for capturing LIDAR data. So, you can get a hands-on experience with this new immersive frontier.
Speakers: Patrick Dudas & Jessica Menold | Center for Immersive Experiences
Getting Your Science Used by Policymakers: Building the Science of Scientific Impact
COVID, climate change, new technologies, systemic inequities. Are policymakers even listening?? Learn about the work of the Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative helping scientists here at Penn State and around the country get their science used by policymakers. Hear about how we can turn the methods we use in the lab towards fundamental problems of how to improve the policymaking of government officials. Learn about ongoing studies and available resources to make your science more impactful.
Presenter: Max Crowley | Human Development, Family Studies & Public Policy
MRI Seed Grant Opportunities to Accelerate Research Convergence and Global Reach
In this talk, we will discuss the multiple seed grant initiatives in the Materials Research Institute (MRI), that aim at seeding new and multi-unit collaborations. In particular, the special focus of these opportunities is to expand productive research collaborations across OSVPR, by promoting partnerships across the Institutes. A second focus is to advance Penn State’s strategic goal in stimulating and enhancing international research collaborations by seeding joint research opportunities with international partnering institutions. Finally, this year’s announcement also includes support for seed projects in Humanitarian Materials.
Immersive Networking and Computing: Enabling Collaborative Virtual/Augmented Reality
Virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR) influences the way people interact, communicate, and collaborate, and holds great potential to enhance learning and training, strengthen social connections, and improve our health. The critical step is to establish an immersive networking and computing platform that delivers unparalleled user experiences. In this presentation, I will introduce basic VR/AR concepts and various collaborative VR/AR applications. Moreover, I will discuss the main technical challenges that need to be addressed in collaborative VR/AR.
Speaker: Bin Li | Electrical Engineering