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PICS Colloquium: Lipid Membrane Remodeling by Proteins and Peptides: Mechanistic insights from multi-scale analysis with Qiang Cui

PICS Large Conference Room – 534 3401 Walnut Street, 5A, Philadelphia

Speaker: Qiang Cui received his Ph. D. at Emory University with Professor Keiji Morokuma in 1997. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry, Harvard University with Professor Martin Karplus, and started his independent career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2001-2017). Since 2018, he has been a professor of Chemistry at Boston University […]

Innovative Approaches in Data-Driven Chemistry and Reaction Optimization with Andrew Zahrt

Penn Institute for Computational Science 3401 Walnut Street, 5th Floor, Philadelphia

Speaker: Andrew was born and raised in Fremont, MI, a small rural town in west Michigan. He graduated from Aquinas College (Grand Rapids, MI) in 2014 with degrees in Biology and Chemistry. Later that year, he began his PhD research with Prof. Scott Denmark at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a graduate student, […]

PICS Colloquium: Adaptive Experimentation with Bayesian Optimization: Recent Developments and Applications at Meta with Eytan Bakshy

Penn Institute for Computational Science 3401 Walnut Street, 5th Floor, Philadelphia

Speaker: I’m a director and research scientist at Meta, where I lead the Adaptive Experimentation team. We develop robust AI methods for sample-efficient optimization. We conduct applied and use-inspired basic research to solve real-world problems across the company, and scale these methods through the development of software frameworks. Our work is used broadly within Meta, […]