Date: Thursday, September 3, 2026 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM - Join CCPD & SWE for a combined event in the Shelnutt Gallery from 6pm - 7pm. For more information, please contact kerrz@rpi.edu.

Date: Thursday, September 3, 2026 6:00 PM - TOPOS Music Festival 2026 welcomes filmmaker, writer, broadcaster, and musician Edward George to EMPAC for a live version of his acclaimed podcast The Strangeness of Jazz. Join us and listen in as George turns his attention to the generative possibilities of the slip—the mistake, stutter, or rhythmic deviation that opens new musical futures. At the center of the program is the work of Jamaican drummer Sly Dunbar. Included with festival pass.

Thursday / September 3, 2026 at 6:00 pm TOPOS 2026 welcomes filmmaker, writer, broadcaster, and musician Edward George to EMPAC for a live version of his acclaimed podcast The Strangeness of Jazz. Performance Edward George

Information Security would like to say Congratulations to the winners of the August Report Phishing Contest, Pam McCumber, and Professor John Wen!

Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2026 7:00 PM - Filmmaker Edward George is in Troy for the American premiere of Black Atlas, with author Fred Moten joining for the post-screening talk. Drawing from an archive of 3,000 images held by The Warburg Institute in London, George creates a new film that reanimates historical imagery through narration, sound, and montage. Followed by a conversation between George and scholar, NYU professor, Fred Moten. Part of TOPOS 2026. This one-night-only screening takes place at The Sanctuary.

Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2026 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM - Join SWE in the Shelnutt Gallery at 5pm to gain more information on the club and what they do! For further information, please contact kerrz@rpi.edu.

Wednesday / September 2, 2026 at 5:00 pm Filmmaker Edward George is in Troy for the American premiere of Black Atlas, with author Fred Moten joining for the post-screening talk. A TOPOS festival add-on at The Sanctuary, with iEAR Presents. EMPAC / Sanctuary for Independent Media Workshop Edward George

Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2026 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Join Chabad on Campus for their Hike & Harvest Fest from 3pm - 5pm. For further information or questions, please reach out to Shira Lichter at Lichts2@rpi.edu.

In this talk Dr. Sabrina Kirrane of the Vienna University of Economics and Business will explore how hybrid NLP techniques tailored for the legal domain are used to automatically extract norms from legal text; and how knowledge graphs and machine actionable policies can be used to encode policies and norms in a manner that facilitates automated compliance and governance. In both cases, she'll compare and contrast various techniques and highlight open research challenges and opportunities.

Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2026 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM - Recharge Midweek with Wellness Wednesdays! Stop by for rotating wellness activities like meditation, free snacks, creative crafts, and more. Open to all—take a break and prioritize you!