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X-WR-CALNAME:Pittsburgh · education · Friday · CalDiscovery BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Saturday Afternoon Intro to Ceramics DTSTART:20260912T180000Z DTEND:20261010T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260824T000036Z UID:10001487-1789221600-1791651600@unionproject.org CATEGORIES:arts,education DESCRIPTION:5 Saturdays\, September 12 – October 10 \nAge Level: 16 and up\nExperience Level: Beginner \nRoll up your sleeves and get ready to p lay on the potter’s wheel. This class will introduce you to the throwing process and the basic steps for creating vessels. You’ll learn the fund amentals and practice new skills\, all while making your own cups\, bowls\ , and cylinders.   \nYou will receive an email when your work is ready f or pickup\, a few weeks after the last class. \nPlease read our Studio Pol icies. If a class or workshop is sold out\, you may request to be added t o the waitlist.  \nUnion Project is committed to being accessible to all. The building is wheelchair accessible via the side door on Stanton Avenue \, and an accessible parking spot is located just outside that door. Servi ce animals are always welcome\, and ASL interpretation can be provided on request. Please let us know what accommodations we can make to ensure your experience is positive. Contact Alex at 412-363-4550×214 or alex@unionpr oject.org if you have specific accommodations or needs. ⁠ LAST-MODIFIED:20260824T000036Z URL:https://unionproject.org/event/saturday-afternoon-intro-to-ceramics/?u tm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:Union Project X-SOURCE-URL:https://unionproject.org/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Civic Action Week DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260918 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260919 DTSTAMP:20260827T182902Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53816406451500 CATEGORIES:community,education DESCRIPTION:University of Pittsburgh's Fall tradition of Civic Action Week includes educational workshops and experiences for all of the Pitt Commun ity to attend and learn how to be involved in the Greater Pittsburgh Commu nity. Learn skills on how to get involved in broader community. The Week c oncludes with a Volunteer Day on Saturday\, September 19th. LAST-MODIFIED:20260827T182902Z URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/civic-action-week?utm_source=caldiscov ery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:On-Demand Lunch and Learn: Movement Motivation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260918 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260919 DTSTAMP:20260916T063405Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53684025171725 CATEGORIES:education,wellness DESCRIPTION:Earn up to 10 points on your UPMC Consumer Advantage card.\n\n To Access: Log into your my.pitt.edu > Health Plan Access > Wellness (top bar menu) > Take a Healthy Step (first time users: answer user profile set up questions) > Home Tab > Click here to get started > Scroll down and fi nd “Stay Active\, Stay Strong” dropdown\n\n \n\nOn average\, modern jo bs require us to sit more and move less. We’ll talk about why prioritizi ng physical activity is important for good health\, offer ideas on how to change sedentary behaviors\, and discuss ways you can make your workday mo re productive and enjoyable by getting out of your chair. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T063405Z URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/on-demand-lunch-and-learn-movement-mot ivation?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Full Day Youth Art Workshop: French Moderns DTSTART:20260918T123000Z DTEND:20260918T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260911T001739Z UID:10024855-1789720200-1789750800@www.kidsburgh.org CATEGORIES:education,family DESCRIPTION:In these full-day hands-on workshops\, students in grades 2-5 will explore art and history through the Frick’s collections while devel oping their art skills across creative mediums with teaching artists. \nSc heduled during PPS in-service days\, these workshops inspire curiosity and give students a safe place to connect\, discover\, and create. Participan ts can expect to leave with between two to five finished works of art depe nding on the workshop and pace of the artist. \nGet inspired by French Mo derns: Matisse / Renoir / Degas! Students will create artwork in response to the art movements included in French Moderns\, an exhibition spanning 100 years of creativity that includes art movements such as impressionism\ , Fauvism\, and surrealism. \nAdvance registration is required. \nA limite d number of scholarships are available\; please reach out to smcsorley@th efrickpittsburgh.org to learn more and start your application. Completed applications are due no later than three weeks before the workshop. \nDrop -off is between 8:30 am – 9:00 am in the Education Center courtyard\, lo cated across from The Grable Visitor Center. All students must be picked up by an adult between 4:30 pm– 5:00 pm in the same location. LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T001739Z LOCATION:The Frick Pittsburgh\, 7227 Reynolds Street\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 1 5208\, United States URL:https://www.kidsburgh.org/ec/full-day-youth-art-workshop-french-modern s/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:Kidsburgh X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.kidsburgh.org/your-pittsburgh-weekend-family-fun- guide-feb-20-22-is-filled-with-theater-art-hiking-and-more END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:13th International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable Conference DTSTART:20260918T130000Z DTEND:20260918T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260814T182938Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51968272215026 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:13th International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable Conferenc e\n\nSeptember 14 - September 18\n\nPlease join us for the 2026 Internatio nal Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable Conference\, which will be held virt ually September 14-18\, 2026\, and hosted by the University of Pittsburgh. \n\nOrganized by Institute core faculty as well as members of the Departme nt of History and Philosophy of Science\, this year's conference will feat ure more than 15 sessions exploring topics at the intersection of philosop hy and medicine\, including diagnosis\, uncertainty\, artificial intellige nce\, policy\, measurement\, extrapolation\, and testimony.\n\n \n\n13th I nternational Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable Conference\n\nConference Da tes\n\nSeptember 14: Pre-conference workshop on the philosophy of diagnosi s\n\nSeptember 14: Keynote talks\n\nSeptember 15-18: Selected Talks\n\n \n \nVenue\n\nThe 13th International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable will b e held online\, hosted by the Department of History and Philosophy of Scie nce\, the Center for Philosophy of Science\, and the Institute for Bioethi cs at the University of Pittsburgh.\n\n \n\nKeynote Speakers\n\nLisa Sande rs (Yale School of Medicine)\n\nGurpreet Dhaliwal (University of Californi a\, San Francisco School of Medicine)\n\n \n\nContacts\n\nQuestions regard ing submissions or the Roundtable conference generally should be directed to pmr2026@pitt.edu.\n\n \n\nLocal Organizers\n\nJonathan Fuller\, Raphael Scholl\, Laura Matthews\, Sloane Wesloh\, Rose Gatfield-Jeffries (Univers ity of Pittsburgh\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science)\n\n \ n\nScientific Committee\n\nAtocha Aliseda\, Rachel Ankeny\, Robyn Bluhm\, Giovanni Boniolo\, Kirstin Borgerson (Chair)\, Raffalla Campaner\, Jonatha n Fuller\, Elselijn Kingma\, Maël Lemoine\, Benjamin Smart (Secretary) LAST-MODIFIED:20260814T182938Z URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/13th-international-philosophy-of-medic ine-roundtable-conference?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campa ign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Shiao-Hung Chiang Distinguished Seminar Featuring Dr. Markus J. Bu ehler\, MIT DTSTART:20260918T133000Z DTEND:20260918T143000Z DTSTAMP:20260911T183316Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53452459232163 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:Superintelligence for Scientific Discovery\n\nAbstract: : Art ificial intelligence is rapidly evolving from a passive analytical tool in to an active partner in scientific discovery. In the material world\, this transition requires systems that do more than recognize patterns: they mu st reason across scales\, formulate hypotheses\, design and execute invest igations\, learn from failure\, and revise their own representations in re sponse to evidence. This talk presents emerging approaches toward “super intelligent” discovery engines that integrate reinforcement learning\, g raph-based reasoning\, physics-informed neural architectures\, generative models\, and autonomous tools for simulation\, experimentation\, design\, and manufacturing. Particular emphasis will be placed on multi-agent syste ms inspired by collective intelligence in nature\, in which specialized ag ents collaborate\, critique one another\, and continuously improve their s trategies as they solve complex scientific problems. Case studies from mat erials science\, engineering\, and biology will illustrate how these syste ms can uncover hidden structure-property relationships\, generate and eval uate novel material and molecular designs\, connect knowledge across disci plinary boundaries\, and transform scientific failures into new hypotheses and executable knowledge. These advances point toward a new form of artif icial intelligence that actively expands the boundaries of human knowledge .\n\nShort Bio Sketch: Markus J. Buehler is the McAfee Professor of Engine ering at MIT\, a pioneer in AI-driven knowledge discovery and materials sc ience. He created graph-aware\, multi-agent AI platforms that turn heterog eneous data into science-grounded\, actionable insight\, powering breakthr oughs in materials science\, biology\, and healthcare. Buehler is among th e world's most-cited materials scientists and the recipient of numerous ho nors\, including the Feynman Prize\, ASME Drucker Medal\, J. R. Rice Medal \, and the Washington Award. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy o f Engineering\, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry\, and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). For more than a decade he has also taught executive and technical professi onals at MIT\, shaping the next generation of leaders in engineering\, kno wledge discovery\, and artificial intelligence.\n\nHost: Dr. John Keith LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T183316Z LOCATION:Benedum Hall\, 102 URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/shiao-hung-chiang-distinguished-semina r-featuring-dr-markus-j-buehler?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm _campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Examining Experience Through the Trauma Lenses - September 2026 DTSTART:20260918T140000Z DTEND:20260918T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260911T183316Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53478973042515 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:This training will demonstrate how to examine specific case in formation through the trauma lenses discussed in “Basic Training in Chil d Trauma”. Utilizing real case information\, we walk through the process of analyzing developmental history\, trauma\, and relationship informatio n from the client to better understand the impact of early traumatic exper iences on their current psychological functioning. The analysis includes i nsights derived from viewing children’s behavior as a non-verbal form of communication. We then consider how this information can inform treatment approaches tailored to each provider’s own setting. Participants will a lso receive information regarding secondary traumatic stress and supports using reflective supervision.\n\n\n\nClick on these logos for details of a vailable continuing education credits. LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T183316Z URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/examining-experience-through-the-traum a-lenses-Oct-2026?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pitt sburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Robotics Ph.D. Thesis Defense - Ingrid Navarro Anaya DTSTART:20260918T140000Z DTEND:20260918T153000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T031252Z UID:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/208200657 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:Autonomous robots are increasingly expected to operate in dyna mic\, human-centered environments. To do so safely and efficiently\, they must reason about how people move and interact. In domains like driving\, social navigation\, and aviation\, a common approach is to learn models of human motion directly from recorded data and use the resulting priors to inform downstream systems like simulators and planning stacks.\n\nDespite the growing availability of datasets\, benchmarks\, and modeling technique s\, state-of-the-art methods remain unreliable for real-world deployment\, often generalizing poorly to novel environments and rare events. Much of this stems from recorded datasets covering few environments and few safety -relevant events relative to what a deployed system will ultimately encoun ter. Broadly\, the field has addressed this in four main ways: validating autonomy stacks on the road\, collecting more data\, synthesizing relevant scenarios\, and adapting at test time. These are all valuable and necessa ry strategies\, but each is bounded by risk\, cost\, the sim-to-real gap\, or the difficulty of reliably detecting and adapting to a shift\, respect ively.\n\nThese strategies share the premise that the data we hold is insu fficient. This dissertation argues that such data is also underexploited a nd thus pursues a complementary direction\, asking how much actionable sig nal existing datasets already contain but current practice overlooks. We d o so through a recurring paradigm we call scenario characterization: descr ibing a scenario in terms of a property of interest and acting on that des cription downstream. We use this paradigm in three ways. The first is for guidance and abstraction\, shaping what a model trains or optimizes. The s econd is for mining and benchmarking\, determining what a model trains on and what is withheld to test it. The third is for analysis\, fixing the ba sis on which results are studied. We apply these uses across two settings: in-distribution generalization\, which draws mainly on guidance and abstr action\, and generalization under distribution shift\, which draws on all three and is where the main contributions concentrate.\n\nWe further argue that evidence for generalization is typically gathered only within a sing le domain\, so a claim that holds there is rarely challenged elsewhere. Th is is largely because\, outside autonomous driving\, no motion domain offe rs comparable infrastructure and scale. This dissertation therefore contri butes aviation as a testbed\, introducing a large-scale framework and data set for airport surface movement forecasting. \n\nThrough this framework a nd our experimental settings\, we expose generalization failures that woul d otherwise have remained hidden in aggregate metrics. We also enable read ing aviation and driving on a common basis\, hinting at what transfers and what does not. Finally\, we also provide early evidence that the signal r ecovered through our framework may help systems gain the risk awareness ne eded to handle real-world critical events.\n\nThesis Committee\nJean Oh (C o-chair)\nJonathan Francis (Co-chair)\nSebastian Scherer\nAndrea Bajcsy \n Alexandre Alahi (EPFL)\n\nIn Person and Zoom: \nhttps://cmu.zoom.us/j/9692 5451303?pwd=aMhFi3znp3uW88q68RJ0OEzLbb6Tde.1&jst=2 Participation. See anno uncement. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T031252Z LOCATION:Newell-Simon 4305 and Zoom URL:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D 208200657&utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-p a X-SOURCE-NAME:CMU School of Computer Science Events X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.cs.cmu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:AAPI Flourishing Symposium: Breaking the Silence & Building Suppor t DTSTART:20260918T140000Z DTEND:20260918T183000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T063405Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53736730568830 CATEGORIES:community,education DESCRIPTION:AAPI Flourishing Symposium: Breaking the Silence & Building Su pport\nFriday\, September 18\, 2026 | Cathedral of Learning\, Room 2017 & Zoom (Hybrid)\n\nJoin us for the 2026 AAPI Flourishing Symposium\, bringin g together researchers\, clinicians\, students\, and community partners to advance AAPI mental health and well-being. The program will feature keyno te presentations\, emerging research\, student presentations\, interdiscip linary panel discussions\, and community resource booths.\n\nSpeakers and collaborators from organizations including Stanford University\, the Unive rsity of Georgia\, the University Counseling Center\, Duquesne Light\, and other academic and community organizations will join us throughout the da y.\n\nAdvance registration is required for all attendees.\n\nRegister here . LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T063405Z LOCATION:Cathedral of Learning\, 2017 URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/aapi-flourishing-symposium-breaking-th e-silence-building-support?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_camp aign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dissertation Defense: Sharon Zhang DTSTART:20260918T140000Z DTEND:20260918T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T063405Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53728750151981 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:Join the History Department in support of Sharon Zhang\, who w ill defend her dissertation\, "From Travelers to Envoys: Gift Diplomacy an d the Making of Imperial Order in Mongol-Yuan China" on Friday\, September 18 from 10AM-12PM. \n\nChair: Ruth Mostern\n\nCommittee: James Pickett\, Raja Adal\, and Cuilan Liu (Religious Studies) LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T063405Z LOCATION:Wesley W. Posvar Hall\, 3703 URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/dissertation-defense-sharon-zhang?utm_ source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence Seminar - Vidya Muthuku mar DTSTART:20260918T140000Z DTEND:20260918T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260917T180843Z UID:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/208965643 CATEGORIES:education,tech DESCRIPTION:Distribution shift\, i.e. a change in the distribution of inpu t/output data between training and test time\, remains an enduring challen ge in modern ML. In practice\, methods to improve robustness of ML models to distribution shift are frequently heuristic and require considerable si de information about the shifted (target) test distribution to be effectiv e. In theory\, fundamental questions like why ML models are initially brit tle to distribution shifts\, how to best mitigate this brittleness\, and h ow much target data is required for this mitigation remain open.\n\nIn thi s talk\, we put distributional robustness under the microscope by studying the “group robustness” setting - where data is comprised of majority and minority groups whose relative proportions shift between training and test time. We present two case studies:\n\n - On the empirical side\, we s how that simply retraining the last layer of state-of-the-art neural netwo rks on a class-balanced held-out set is surprisingly effective - even if t he held-out set remains sizably group-imbalanced - on well-established gro up robustness benchmarks. We also present a data-driven\, active learning- inspired methodology to select and upweight minority group examples which achieves comparable group robustness on these same benchmarks to state-of- the-art methods that do require group labels. \n - On the theoretical side \, we provide the first end-to-end analysis showing that shallow neural ne tworks learn a simpler spurious correlation and suppress the true (core) p redictor. We consider the core predictor to be the nonlinear XOR function while the spurious correlation is linear. Our analysis and techniques reve al a striking phase transition between the situations of “extreme” cor relation and “moderate” correlation\, and could explain the success of existing robustness-advancing methods as well as inspire new ones.\nThis is joint work with Tyler LaBonte\, John C. Hill\, Xinchen Zhang and Abhish ek Kumar.\n\n—\n\nVidya Muthukumar: \nhttps://vmuthukumar.ece.gatech.edu / is the Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Early Career Professor and Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and H. Mil ton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Instit ute of Technology. Her broad interests are in game theory\, online and sta tistical learning. She is particularly interested in designing learning al gorithms that provably adapt in strategic environments\, fundamental prope rties of overparameterized ML models\, and the foundations of multi-agent decision-making. Before joining Georgia Tech\, she spent a semester at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing as a research fellow for the program “Theory of Reinforcement Learning.” She is the recipient of a n NSF CAREER Award\, Amazon Research Award\, Adobe Data Science Research A ward and Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship.\n\nFaculty Host: Nihar Shah\ n\nThe AI-ML Seminar is generously sponsored by the MBZUAI/CMU Institute o f Virtual and Programmable Cell LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T180843Z LOCATION:Newell-Simon 3305 URL:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D 208965643&utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-p a X-SOURCE-NAME:CMU School of Computer Science Events X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.cs.cmu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Info Session: LCJS Undergraduate Majors and Minors (current and pr ospective) DTSTART:20260918T150000Z DTEND:20260918T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260910T122533Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53868470483633 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:This information session is designed for current and prospecti ve majors and minors in Law\, Criminal Justice\, and Society (LCJS)\, offe red through the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the College of Ge neral Studies.\n\nThe session will provide information about the program\, coursework and opportunities available to LCJS students. This event is fo r undergraduate students.\n\nPre-registration is required. LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T122533Z URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/info-session-lcjs-undergraduate-majors -and-minors-current-and-prospective?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics &utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Talking With Kids About Art DTSTART:20260918T153000Z DTEND:20260918T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260810T000249Z UID:50815@pghevents.net CATEGORIES:arts,education,family DESCRIPTION:During this tour\, museum educators facilitate a playful and t houghtful relationship with art for children ages 3 through 10 and their f amilies with hands-on activities and interactive conversations. LAST-MODIFIED:20260810T000249Z LOCATION:Carnegie Museum Of Art\, 4400 Forbes Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 1 5213\, United States URL:http://pghevents.net/events/talking-with-kids-about-art-2-2026-09-18/? utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:Millennium Dance Complex Pittsburgh X-SOURCE-URL:http://pghevents.net/locations/millennium-dance-complex-pitts burgh END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Vision and Autonomous Systems Seminar - Yoav Schechner DTSTART:20260918T153000Z DTEND:20260918T163000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T031252Z UID:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/208868208 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:We devise multiview tomography from space. This talk will show the First Light of CloudCT\, the very first image taken since we launched our first satellite. This opens opportunities for scientific observations and technologies\, can transform climate research and potentially even a ffect medical X-ray CT. Tasks and solutions involve both novel imaging ha rdware and computational algorithms\, based on machine learning and differ ential rendering. The key idea is that advanced computing enable computed tomography of volumetric scenes\, based scattered radiation. CloudCT\, fu nded by the ERC\, involves 10 nano-satellites to fly in an unprecedented f ormation\, to capture the same scene (cloud fields) from multiple views si multaneously. We encounter challenges of polarimetric self-calibration in orbit\, and estimation of 3D volumetric distribution of microphysical pro perties.\n\n—\n\nProf. Yoav Schechner: \nhttps://www.webee.technion.ac.i l/people/yoav/\, heads the Asher Space Research Inst. and is a faculty mem ber at the Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, Techn ion. He is a Principal Investigator and Coordinator of the ERC CloudCT spa ce project\, and is on the science team of two additional space-imaging pr ojects\, C3IEL (by ISA/CNES) and MAIA (by NASA/ASI). He was a Research Sci entist at Columbia U.\, and a Visiting Associate in Caltech\, the Jet Prop ulsion Laboratory (JPL) and MIT. His main interests are diverse forms of computational imaging. We won the Best Paper Award\, ICCP 2013+2018\, Bes t Student Paper Award\, CVPR 2017\, Distinguished Teaching Awards\, Techni on\, Fumio Okano Best 3D Paper Award\, and others. He trained in physics ( BA+MSc) and EE (PhD). He is the Mark and Diane Seiden Chair in Science and a Landau Fellow - supported by the Taub Foundation.\n\nThe VASC Seminar i s generously sponsored by HeyGen: https://www.heygen.com LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T031252Z LOCATION:Newell-Simon 4305 URL:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D 208868208&utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-p a X-SOURCE-NAME:CMU School of Computer Science Events X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.cs.cmu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology Seminar - Le ah Greenspan DTSTART:20260918T153000Z DTEND:20260918T165000Z DTSTAMP:20260918T000820Z UID:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/209063450 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:Chronic\, non-healing wounds affect 2% of the U.S. population\ , with impaired vascular reperfusion contributing to defective closure\, p articularly in aging and diabetic individuals. Yet\, the cellular and mole cular mechanisms underlying endothelial responses during vascular regenera tion remain poorly defined. Zebrafish uniquely combine conserved regenerat ive mechanisms with extensive transgenic resources and long-term live imag ing capabilities\, enabling dynamic analysis of repair in vivo. We establi shed an adult zebrafish cutaneous wound model that pairs rotary tool injur ies with cellular-resolution longitudinal imaging to define vascular repai r dynamics. Live imaging revealed a temporal sequence of wound healing\, w ith neutrophil recruitment initiating within hours and peaking by one day\ , macrophage activity and vessel regrowth increasing between 1-4 days\, an d vascular remodeling continuing over months. Aging disrupts this response \, with aged fish exhibiting accelerated neutrophil recruitment but delaye d vascular regrowth.\n\nTo define the molecular programs underlying endoth elial responses during repair\, we utilized AngioTag transgenic fish for c ell-type-specific TRAP-RNAseq profiling of the endothelial translatome acr oss wound healing stages. Profiling revealed distinct temporal phases of v ascular repair\, including early inflammatory activation (0-2dpi)\, angiog enic migration and proliferation programs (2-4dpi)\, vascular remodeling a nd extracellular matrix interactions (4-7dpi)\, and matrix maturation and resolution-associated signatures (7-15dpi). Defining these transitions pro vides a framework for linking dynamic endothelial behaviors observed by li ve imaging to the underlying molecular programs that coordinate vascular r egeneration. Together\, these approaches establish a temporal atlas of end othelial regenerative states\, revealing how endothelial responses are dyn amically regulated during regeneration. This framework provides insight in to the molecular basis of impaired vascular repair with age and highights potential new avenues for therapeutic interventions.\n\nFaculty Host: Nate Lord (PITT)\n\nIn Person and Zoom: \nhttps://pitt.zoom.us/j/97970563600 P articipation. See announcement. LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T000820Z LOCATION:Frick Fine Arts Building Auditorium (Pitt Campus) URL:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D 209063450&utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-p a X-SOURCE-NAME:CMU School of Computer Science Events X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.cs.cmu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Staff Council Spotlight: Victoria Clavelli Lancaster\, Executive D irector\, AI Service Delivery DTSTART:20260918T160000Z DTEND:20260918T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260819T003102Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52894801691058 CATEGORIES:community,education DESCRIPTION:Staff Council welcomes Victoria Clavelli Lancaster\, Executive Director\, AI Service Delivery\, for an upcoming AI-focused Staff Council Spotlight. Victoria recently launched the Administrative AI Community of Practice\, a space for Pitt staff to learn together\, share what's working \, and build practices around the administrative use of AI.\n\nMore inform ation to come! LAST-MODIFIED:20260819T003102Z URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/staff-council-spotlight-victoria-clave lli-lancaster?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsbur gh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Savio L-Y Woo Lectureship DTSTART:20260918T160000Z DTEND:20260918T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260901T003037Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53850160424177 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:Join the Department of Bioengineering for the annual Savio L-Y Woo Lecture. Our guest speaker this year is Kam W. Leong\, PhD\, Samuel Y Sheng Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University. \n\nDr. Leong will present two lectures.\n\nThursday\, September 17 at 4PM in Ben edum Hall 157: Reimagining Cationic Biomaterials for Therapeutic Applicati ons\n\nFriday\, September 18 at Noon in Benedum Hall 102: A Scientific Car eer from Slide Rule to AI Tools\n\nDr. Leong is one of the pioneers in dev eloping multifunctional nanocarriers for delivery of drugs\, antigens\, pr oteins\, siRNA\, pDNA\, and mRNA. Dr. Leong's contributions have been reco gnized by his election to the USA National Academy of Engineering\, Nation al Academy of Medicine\, National Academy of Inventors\, and the Asian Ame rican Academy of Science and Engineering. Recent awards include the Societ y for Biomaterials' Founders Award (2022)\, the IEEE-EMBS Career Achieveme nt Award (2023)\, and the IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award (2024). Dr. Le ong has been serving as the Editor-in-Chief of Biomaterials for the past d ecade. LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T003037Z LOCATION:Benedum Hall\, 157 & 102 URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/savio-l-y-woo-lectureship?utm_source=c aldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:MCDB Noon Seminar Series DTSTART:20260918T160000Z DTEND:20260918T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260917T003246Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53752734522006 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:MCDB noon seminar will be presented by Audrey Smith from the A nne Carlson Lab and Julia Rose from the Laty Cahoon Lab. \n\nFriday\, Sept ember 18\, 2026\nA219B Langley Hall\n12:00PM EST\n\nSeminar title and abst ract:\n\nAudrey Smith\nTitle: Investigating the mechanistic and structural inhibition of TMEM16A by fenamate NSAIDs\nAbstract: Transmembrane protein 16 (TMEM16A) is a Ca2+-activated Cl- channel which enables the movement o f Cl- across cell membranes. TMEM16A is found in a variety of cell types\, including airway epithelia and vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs)\, whe re it functions in mucosal secretion or cell contraction\, depending on ce ll type and location. In VSMCs\, the efflux of Cl- through TMEM16A channel s leads to the contraction of arteries. TMEM16A has recently emerged as a molecular target of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)\, in the cardiovascular system. NSAIDs are known to induce an increase in blood pr essure through COX enzyme inhibition\, which can lead to secondary effects including heart attack or stroke. However\, the full picture of how NSAID s influence vascular health remains incomplete. By studying NSAID regulati on of TMEM16A\, we can better understand their cardiovascular effects. I a m focusing on the fenamate subclass of NSAIDs\, which share a parent struc ture and differ in their substituents. Here I examine niflumic acid (NFA)\ , a broadly studied fenamate with contested mechanisms of TMEM16A inhibiti on. To date\, I have collected data using excised inside-out patch-clampin g on Xenopus laevis oocytes\, a method enabling COX-independent investigat ion of NSAID regulation. I found that NFA inhibits TMEM16A with dose-depen dency and exhibits characteristics of a pore-blocking drug. I also want to define the structural components that drive fenamate inhibition of TMEM16 A and affect its potency. I found that another fenamate\, flufenamic acid (FFA)\, inhibits TMEM16A like NFA at equivalent concentrations\, but shift s the reversal potential by ~10 mV at 100 µM despite structural similarit y with NFA. Further characterization of these mechanistic and structural f eatures will provide physiologically relevant insights into how fenamate N SAIDs regulate TMEM16A and contribute to cardiovascular risks.\n\nJulia Ro se\nTitle: Shaping a chaperone: the co-occurrence of PrsA2 and the pore fo rming toxin LLO \nAbstract: Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) is a Gram-positive bacterium found within the environment as a saprophyte but maintains the ability to become a facultative intracellular pathogen\, deadly to vulnera ble populations. Infection occurs via secreted virulence factors which all ows the bacterium to invade host tissues. Lm encodes a secreted chaperone\ , PrsA2 that is critical for the activity of secreted virulence factors in cluding the cholesterol-dependent pore-forming toxin\, listeriolysin O (LL O). PrsA2 has been shown to directly associate with and protect LLO during infection conditions\, and PrsA2 is required for the full functionality o f LLO. While a relationship between PrsA2 and LLO has been established\, i t remains to be seen how PrsA2 clients and environmental conditions shape the chaperone. To answer this question\, we explored the evolution of both PrsA2 and LLO in annotated strains\, to determine whether genetic diversi ty can be used to gain insight into the molecular mechanisms used between PrsA2 and LLO. We generated bioinformatic data separating PrsA2 and LLO in to distinct clades based on their sequences and determined the percentage of interaction between each PrsA2 and LLO clade. To confirm these percenta ges and visualize how evolution made this interaction more favorable\, we used biophysical experiments and structural analysis. We hypothesize that by relying on the genetic diversity of both proteins\, we can further eluc idate the mechanism by which PrsA2 interacts with LLO and have a deeper un derstanding on if the chaperone is shaping the client or if the client is shaping the chaperone. LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T003246Z LOCATION:Langley Hall\, A219B URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/copy-of-mcdb-noon-seminar-series-8812? utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Pitt.INC Informational Webinar: Fall 2026 RFP DTSTART:20260918T160000Z DTEND:20260918T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T063405Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53577568344000 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn about the Fall 2026 Pitt.INC Request for Prop osals. We'll walk through eligibility\, key dates\, what reviewers look fo r\, and how to put together a strong application. There will be time for q uestions at the end\, so bring anything you're wondering about.\n\n📅 Th ursday\, Sep 18\, 2026 · 12:00 PM ET\n🔗 Join via Zoom: https://pitt.zo om.us/j/92215622600 LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T063405Z URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/pitt-inc-webinar-fall26?utm_source=cal discovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Foundations of Graduate Mentoring DTSTART:20260918T160000Z DTEND:20260918T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260917T003246Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53081797127340 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:Attendance at both session dates is required to receive full c redit for participation.\n\nOffered by the Center for Mentoring in partner ship with the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate StudiesThis program introduces graduate faculty to the principles and best practices of mentor ing graduate students\, one-on–one and within mentoring programs or netw orks. Topics include:\n\n1. Building student-centered mentoring relationsh ips2. Establishing clear communication\, expectations\, and goals3. Foster ing inclusivity and equity in mentoring4. Focusing on Individual Developme nt Plans (IDP)\, often required by federal agencies (NSF\, NIH)5. Practici ng ongoing self-reflection to strengthen mentoring\n\nFormat & Requirement s1. Pre-work: online module + reflective paragraph2. Two one-hour sessions (Sept. 11 & 18)3. Capstone: One-page mentoring plan\n\nConnection to Ment oring AcademyThis course covers the first of four competencies of Mentorin g Academy: Session One\, specifically focusing on graduate mentoring. Comp leting Foundations of Graduate Mentoring may substitute for Session One in the Mentoring Academy series.\n\nBy the end of this session\, participant s will be able to: \n1. Identify and describe the value of graduate mentor ing. \n2. Develop student-centered mentoring practices and relationships \ n3. Establish effective communication\, shared goals\, roles\, and expecta tions between mentors and the mentored. \n4. Identify the characteristics and value of inclusive mentoring and incorporate them into practice. \n5. Use individual development plans as a tool for establishing student goals and progress towards those goals. \n6. Initiate and sustain self-reflectio n to improve mentoring practices. \n7. Identify university mentoring polic ies\, procedures\, research\, and best practices at Pitt and other relevan t institutions. LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T003246Z URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/foundations-of-graduate-mentoring-9183 ?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Who's Hu? The Problem of Ethic Ascription in Northern Dynasties Ma terial Culture - Prof. Bonnie Cheng - Oberlin College DTSTART:20260918T170000Z DTEND:20260918T183000Z DTSTAMP:20260910T122533Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53931680540759 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Bonnie Cheng - Oberlin College - Art History an d East Asian Studies\n\nTalk: Thursday\, September 17 - 3:30 to 5:00 pm WP U Room 540 - Open to All\n\nGraduate Workshop: Friday\, September 18 - 1:0 0 to 2:30 pm - WWPH 4130 - A graduate workshop for brainstorming relevant topics. LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T122533Z LOCATION:William Pitt Union\, 540 URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/whos-hu-the-problem-of-ethic-ascriptio n-in-northern-dynasties-material-culture-prof-bonnie-cheng-oberlin-college ?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP (BCG) Info Session (Virtual) DTSTART:20260918T170000Z DTEND:20260918T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T031252Z UID:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/208764170 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:Current students are invited to join this session to learn mor e about BCG Platinion's work and teams\, as well as more about our summer 2027 internship opportunities and recruiting process! You will be introduc ed to BCG\, and answer 'What is Platinion?' before moving into live Q&A wi th several staff members as well as some previous summer interns who will be returning to us full-time next year.\n\n\nWe are excited to help you le arn more about Platinion: https://www.bcgplatinion.com/! \n\n - The summer 2027 internship application deadline is October 1 @ 11:59 PM ET.\n - This session will help prepare you to apply.\nPlease REGISTER: \nhttps://bcg.e ightfold.ai/events/candidate?plannedEventId=LjrBenjKL for this session ⇢ Zoom Webinar details will be shared by email before the event.\n\n\nAudie nce\n - This event is meant for current students interested in a summer 20 27 internship (graduating between December 2027 and July 2028). \n - While this event is open to anyone interested in Platinion\, please note they w ill will not be discussing full-time opportunities (no full time recruitin g straight out of campus).CS Car LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T031252Z URL:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D 208764170&utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-p a X-SOURCE-NAME:CMU School of Computer Science Events X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.cs.cmu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Friday Afternoon Text Study DTSTART:20260918T170000Z DTEND:20260918T174500Z DTSTAMP:20260916T032332Z UID:10004163-1789736400-1789739100@templeemanuelpgh.org CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:Have you ever wondered what comes after the Torah? The Hebrew Bible\, also known as the TaNaCh\, consists of Torah (Ta)\, Prophets (Na)\ , and Writings (Ch)\, telling the stories of the kings of Israel\, prophet s and judges. Jews are often experts in the “Ta” but not the “NaCh ” – until now! Join Rabbi Meyer for a 45-minute exploration of these “NaCh” texts on Zoom by clicking here. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T032332Z URL:https://templeemanuelpgh.org/event/friday-afternoon-torah-study-8/2026 -09-18/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:Temple Emanuel X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.templeemanuelpgh.org/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Theory Seminar - Jason Li DTSTART:20260918T170000Z DTEND:20260918T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260918T000820Z UID:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/209063580 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:Consider the single-source shortest paths problem on a directe d graph with real-valued (possibly negative) edge weights. We solve this p roblem in m1+o(1) time by refining the shortcutting approach introduced by Li\, Li\, Rao\, and Zhang (STOC 2026). LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T000820Z LOCATION:Reddy Conference Room\, Gates Hillman 4405 URL:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D 209063580&utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-p a X-SOURCE-NAME:CMU School of Computer Science Events X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.cs.cmu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:School of Nursing: Tour & BSN Info Session (In-Person) DTSTART:20260918T171500Z DTEND:20260918T181500Z DTSTAMP:20260911T183316Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53195393542680 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:Visit the School of Nursing for an in-person presentation and tour of the Victoria Building. Ask any questions during the Q&A following the tour of the facilities.\n\nEnter the building via the escalator entran ce at Lothrop/Victoria St or the elevator entrance located at Darragh/Vict oria St. Directional signs will be placed to guide visitors to room 123.\n \nRegister Here! LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T183316Z LOCATION:Victoria Building\, 123 URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/copy-of-school-of-nursing-tour-bsn-inf o-session-in-person-4170?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campai gn=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:STAtistical Methods for the Physical Sciences Research Center - Ke lly Moran DTSTART:20260918T173000Z DTEND:20260918T183000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T031252Z UID:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/208485822 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I will present three vignettes from collaborati ve work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The first uses Bayesian modelin g to characterize source temperature and emission profiles from inertial-c onfinement-fusion diagnostics. The second develops a statistical pipeline to turn measurements from a compact sensor flown on the International Spac e Station into meaningful ionospheric signal. The third builds statistical emulators to learn about the universe from computationally expensive cosm ological simulations. Across the examples\, I will focus on the interplay between scientific objectives\, statistical modeling\, uncertainty\, and c lose collaboration with domain experts.\n\n—\n\nKelly R. Moran: \nhttps: //scholar.google.com/citations?user=IJIkyUgAAAAJ&hl=en is a staff scientis t in the Statistics Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory\, where she de velops statistical methods for scientific problems ranging from space phys ics to public health. Her work focuses on using tools such as Gaussian pro cesses\, emulation and calibration\, and uncertainty quantification to lea rn from complex experiments\, noisy observations\, and large-scale simulat ions. She earned her Ph.D. in Statistical Science from Duke University as a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellow. During the 2 026-27 academic year\, she is a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon Univ ersity\, where she is particularly interested in building new collaboratio ns and working with and supporting students.\n\nIn Person and Zoom Partici pation. See announcement.\n⇢ See website: \nhttps://www.cmu.edu/dietric h/statistics-datascience/stamps/events/seminars/index.html for information on participating remotely. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T031252Z LOCATION:Baher Hall 232M and Zoom URL:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D 208485822&utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-p a X-SOURCE-NAME:CMU School of Computer Science Events X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.cs.cmu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Introduction to ArcGIS Pro DTSTART:20260918T180000Z DTEND:20260918T193000Z DTSTAMP:20260811T182815Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53674410834301 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:This workshop will familiarize you with some of the basic conc epts and features of ArcGIS and some fundamentals of GIS mapping and analy sis. ArcGIS Pro is the latest professional desktop GIS application from Es ri. With ArcGIS Pro\, you can explore\, visualize\, and analyze data\; cre ate maps\, and share your work. Non-Pitt participants must obtain a tempor ary ID at the Hillman Circulation desk to be able to use the computer stat ions.\n\nCan't make it to this workshop? You can always contact us with yo ur questions about this or other digital scholarship and publishing topics ! Read more about Digital Scholarship & Publishing support.\n\nLocation: T his event will take place in Hillman Library's Digital Scholarship Lab (ro om G30)\, located just past the main service desk on the ground floor of t he library. Look for the glass double-doors after entering through the gro und floor atrium entrance\; if you enter on the first floor\, take the ele vator down to the ground floor and turn right out of the elevator.\n\nSoft ware: The Digital Scholarship Lab computers have relevant software for thi s workshop available (unless we are using software that is otherwise avail able online). Non-Pitt participants must obtain a temporary ID at the Hill man circulation desk to access the computer workstations. Please check in with the workshop presenter or contact ULS-DigitalScholarshipServices@pitt .edu if you plan to bring your own personal laptop and have questions abou t downloading software prior to attending the event. LAST-MODIFIED:20260811T182815Z LOCATION:Hillman Library\, Digital Scholarship Lab\, G-30 URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/introduction-to-arcgis-pro-4144?utm_so urce=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Human-Computer Interaction Ph.D. Thesis Defense - Noor Hammad DTSTART:20260918T183000Z DTEND:20260918T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T031252Z UID:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/208396865 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:Digital media creators\, including video editors\, live stream ers\, and game developers\, rely on diverse creativity tools such as game engines\, video editing software\, and live streaming platforms to produce their work. These ecosystems are powerful\; however they often impose con straints on their users\, leading to rigid interfaces that fail to adapt t o how creators want to work. Existing tools can limit a creator’s abilit y to realize ambitious ideas\, offer inadequate mechanisms for communicati on between creators and their audiences\, and provide interfaces that do n ot align with how creators naturally express their preferences. The first half of this thesis explores these misalignments through the development o f data-driven tools\, resulting in three systems that expand the design po ssibilities in mobile augmented reality\, create novel mechanisms for stre amer-audience engagement on live streaming platforms\, and support video c reators in expressing musical preferences through a vibe-based creative as sistant. Taken together\, my work on these projects revealed that the cont ent creation process produces a wealth of valuable data\, yet this data is often leveraged ad hoc to power isolated features\, as opposed to being t reated as a foundational resource for designing creator-aligned systems.\n \nBuilding upon this realization\, I argue that the future of creativity t ools relies on the deliberate use of Creative Activity Traces as a primary design material. The term Creative Activity Traces refers to the process- related data generated by the creator during their practice\, including ev olving records of ideas\, intermediate artifacts\, and metadata yielded du ring creative work. These traces are often multi-modal\, distributed acros s tools\, and deeply personalized. To understand how the HCI community cur rently works with traces\, I conducted a systematic review of 133 creativi ty tools and developed a preliminary design framework for trace awareness. This review revealed that modern creativity tools either treat activity t races as atemporal raw material\, or utilize them only as needed as input to a specific feature\, thereby limiting both the temporal scope and desig n opportunities possible with traces. Rather than continuing to use traces in this way\, my thesis instead calls for traces to be treated as a desig n material to be engaged with at every stage of the research and developme nt process. This approach in turn leads to adaptive systems that stay alig ned with how creators work and how and their processes unfold\,\n\nThe fi nal phase of this research builds upon my theory of creative activity trac es and trace-aware tools through the study of video content creators' prac tices for creating\, maintaining\, and evolving a recognizable brand acros s video projects. Through a formative study with seven video creators\, I cataloged the traces their practice accumulates over time\, the behaviors associated with their accumulated traces across projects\, and the frictio ns they face as a result of their cross-project practices. This work showe d that traces share temporal characteristics but are not a uniform materia l a designer can treat the same way throughout\, so much as a single mater ial with differing grains and textures. As traces accumulate across projec ts\, they weave into a whole with a shape of its own\, and the individual traces that produced it can be difficult to disentangle into constituent p arts.\n\nThis thesis contributes to HCI and creativity tool research by fr aming creative practice as an inherently data-rich process that requires m ore intentional engagement from the HCI research community. I formalize th e definitions of creative activity traces and trace-aware tools\, and I of fer a design framework for trace-awareness. I show what it means to treat traces as a critical building block for designing creativity tools rather than as a byproduct of creative work. Taken together\, these contributions set forth a trace-aware agenda for the next generation of creativity tool s\, one that keeps creators and their evolving practices in view as digita l creative production grows more automated and uncertain.\n\nThesis Commit tee \nJessica Hammer (Co-chair)\nErik Harpstead (Co-chair)\nNikolas Martel aro\nBryan Wang (Adobe)\nMax Kreminski (Cornell University)\n\nAdditional Information: \nhttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1I3Hqr_AkDjIoCrPCRnx Jm1V6S6uDxyb3?usp=sharing\n\nIn Person and Zoom: \nhttps://cmu.zoom.us/j/9 9194878701?pwd=uYiUJ1r6CuSuslhxPBDtb7vrc7FSCQ.1&jst=2 Participation. See announcement. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T031252Z LOCATION:Traffic21 Classroom\, Gates Hillman 6121 and Zoom URL:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D 208396865&utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-p a X-SOURCE-NAME:CMU School of Computer Science Events X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.cs.cmu.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Anna Seghers: The Legacy of a German-Jewish Socialist and Antifasc ist Writer DTSTART:20260918T190000Z DTEND:20260918T203000Z DTSTAMP:20260901T003037Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53849939643585 CATEGORIES:education,literary DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the Socialist Studies Seminar. \n\nThis paper focuses on Anna Seghers\, one of the msot prominent German anti-fasc ist\, socialist writers of the twentieth century. Seghers helped found the Federation of Proletarian-Revolutionary Writers in the 1920s\, became a k ey anti-Nazi writer duringthe Hitler dictatorship\, and a founding mother of East German litertature after the war. A leading literary-cultural func tionary in the German Democratic Republic\, she was also the most importan t German socialist realist authro fo the twentieth century. What became of her legacy?\n\nCo-sponsored by the Carnegie Mellon University Department of History LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T003037Z LOCATION:Carnegie Mellon University\, Baker/Porter Hall\, 246A URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/anna-seghers-the-legacy-of-a-german-je wish-socialist-and-antifascist-writer?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=i cs&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:9/18 Bootcamp and Rounds DTSTART:20260918T202000Z DTEND:20260918T223000Z DTSTAMP:20260917T063543Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53945599449322 CATEGORIES:education DESCRIPTION:This is our weekly technique bootcamp that covers drills for a ll styles followed by rounds where we run all of our routines.\n\n Learn m ore at http://pointpark.presence.io/event/9-18-bootcamp-and-rounds LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T063543Z LOCATION:Lawrence Hall\, 616 URL:https://events.pointpark.edu/event/918-bootcamp-and-rounds?utm_source= caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:Point Park University Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://events.pointpark.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR