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Microplastics Exhibit at Context Collective in Troy

Date: Friday, October 23, 2026 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Artist Nicole Chockrek has been collecting plastic from the environment since 2022. This installation brings together over 30,000 pieces of plastic collected through Microplastic recycling bins. Over 50 RPI faculty and students have contributed to this installation by making a microplastic mosaic. Come find your contribution, or contribute yourself! Multidisciplinary collaborative effort between Prof. Sarah Cadieux (Earth and Environmental Sciences), Prof. Kathy High (Arts), and NATURE Lab.

International Fest

Date: Friday, October 23, 2026 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM - Come to the McNeil Room on October 23rd to enjoy activities and food in the Rensselaer Union for the International Festival held by the Multicultural Leadership Council. For any further information or questions, reach out to tourem@rpi.edu.

Deep Learning for Process-Structure-Property Relationship in Advanced Manufacturing

Understanding and controlling the process–structure–property relationship is central to advancing manufacturing. This talk presents AI/ML methods that study manufacturing processes and material properties through physically meaningful intermediate representations. We begin with droplet evolution modeling in inkjet printing, where diffusion-corrected neural operator learning characterizes process-level dynamics that govern material deposition and initial geometric fidelity.

Computer Science Defense - Yanna Ding - Inferring Dynamical Systems through Surrogates from Partial Observations

Date: Friday, October 23, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Many systems in science, engineering, and machine learning evolve according to underlying laws that are only partially known and observed. Understanding their behavior therefore requires inferring these laws from incomplete data. This thesis investigates this inverse problem across three settings, including networked dynamical systems, neural network training, and in-context learning with Markov chains.
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