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X-WR-CALNAME:Pittsburgh · tech · today · CalDiscovery BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:StartUP PGH: Forging the Future DTSTART:20260914T150000Z DTEND:20260918T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T031252Z UID:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/205027551 CATEGORIES:tech DESCRIPTION:Pittsburgh is becoming one of the nation's frontier technology hubs\, where world-leading research moves into companies\, capital and jo bs. This September\, the region's innovation community is coming together to make that momentum impossible to miss.\n\nThe Swartz Center for Entrepr eneurship at Carnegie Mellon University is proud to announce StartUP PGH: \nhttps://t.e2ma.net/click/hoy25j/1v5ktr/999ncqb\, a region-wide week runn ing September 14-18\, 2026\, celebrating Pittsburgh's strength in AI\, rob otics and life sciences.\n\nProgramming will feature events\, conversation s\, experiences\, and activations across the Pittsburgh region designed to connect innovators across industries and communities.\n - Startup Showcas es\n - Founder & Investor Networking\n - Workshops & Panels\n - University Research & Commercialization\n - Product Launches\n - Community Experienc es\n - Talent & Workshop Development\nFrom the Pittsburgh Robotics Network 's Discovery Day to the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Alliance's Health Innovat ion Symposium to Innovation Works' Venture Expo\, the week brings the regi on's founders\, investors\, students and corporate partners into one share d moment.\n\nCarnegie Mellon will host four signature events during the we ek\, including Lab to Market\, AI Robotics Venture Day in partnership with Innovation Works\, the SPARK Startup Job Fair\, and the Swartz Student St artup Showcase.\n\nWe are grateful to our partners across the region\, and to Mayor Corey O'Connor and Allegheny County Chief Executive Sara Innamor ato for standing behind the founders and researchers building Pittsburgh's future.\n\nLearn More: https://startuppgh.com/ | REGISTER: https://startu ppgh.com/ LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T031252Z URL:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D 205027551&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:AI Horizons 2026 DTSTART:20260917T120000Z DTEND:20260918T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T031252Z UID:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/204180066 CATEGORIES:tech DESCRIPTION:The race for AI adoption\, commercialization\, and market lead ership is on. Join the world’s leading researchers\, innovators\, and ad opters as we explore how AI is transforming healthcare\, manufacturing\, d efense\, finance\, robotics\, and beyond.\n\nLearn more: https://aihorizon spgh.com/ | Watch for all updates. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T031252Z LOCATION:Bakery Square\, Pittsburgh URL:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D 204180066&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:StartUP PGH DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260918 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260919 DTSTAMP:20260918T063959Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53825717245629 CATEGORIES:tech DESCRIPTION:STARTUP PGH is a week dedicated to the builders\, creators\, e ntrepreneurs\, investors\, technologists\, artists\, researchers\, and com munity leaders shaping what’s next for the region.\n\nPittsburgh becomes a living workshop of ideas\, where startups connect with capital\, art in tersects with technology\, industries collide\, and bold visions become ta ngible opportunities.\n\nFrom AI and robotics to creative technology\, bio + health tech\, energy technologies\, innovation\, advanced manufacturing \, entrepreneurship\, and culture-driven collaboration\, StartUP PGH celeb rates the people and ideas transforming Pittsburgh into one of America’s most dynamic\, exciting innovation ecosystems.\n\nStartUP PGH is Pittsbur gh’s citywide startup and innovation week\, bringing together the founde rs\, investors\, artists\, technologists\, researchers\, and business lead ers shaping what comes next.\n\nStartUP PGH brings Pittsburgh’s innovati on community together — with events hosted and supported by organization s across the region\, including universities\, startups\, investors and en trepreneurial support organizations. LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T063959Z URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/startup-pgh?utm_source=caldiscovery&ut m_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:Welcome FUJITSU DTSTART:20260918T123000Z DTEND:20260918T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T031252Z UID:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/206659815 CATEGORIES:tech DESCRIPTION:Meetings and participation by invitation only. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T031252Z LOCATION:By Invitation Only URL:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D 206659815&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:SCS Let's Talk (Again)! V.F26 DTSTART:20260918T140000Z DTEND:20260918T193000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T031252Z UID:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/204323156 CATEGORIES:tech DESCRIPTION:SCS and companies/organizations connect through the computer a nd the critical engineering sciences involved. We approach the machine and the sciences of computing and hardware from our various and unique perspe ctives and needs. But our faculty and students work and study across divis ions\, as computing has no singular master. Our best ideas and projects co me from working together and with those beyond our campus.\n\nWe invite ou r corporate and professional liaisons to join us again: to meet our studen ts where we can share our experiences into meaningful outcomes. We would l ike to introduce you to our SCS undergraduates\, to help you understand mo re about their backgrounds\, research interests\, and how they evolving in to scientists\, professionals and individuals - in a casual\, relaxed and more conversational way. SCS offers undergraduate degrees in Artificial In telligence\, Computer Science\, Computational Biology\, Human-Computer Int eraction and Robotics. They all welcome discussion and your insights!\n\nT here is no fee to participate! \nThe event is intentionally very informal. \n\nInterested? Would you like to participate?\nReach out to us at lets-ta lk@cs.cmu.edu\n\n⇒ Please include: the names\, titles and email address of those who will be attending.\n⇒ If any registrant is an alum of CMU\, this is great to know and can be included in your email.\n⇒ Recommended "team" size is 1 to 3 guests per company (based on your needs).\n⇒ We will provide refreshments and casual lunch.\n⇒ Set-up begins at 9:00 am \n\nNeed to pre-ship any materials?\n\nAddress - UPS/Fedex (this comes to our building)\n - School of Computer Science\n - Attn (Let's Talk - Your C ompany Name)\n - Carnegie Mellon University\n - SCS Receiving / WEAN Hall 3613\n - 311 Hamerschlag Drive\n - Pittsburgh PA 15213\nAddress - USPS\n - Same Address as above\, but allow 4-5 extra days for delivery.\n - The pa ckage will be delivered\, but may be routed through our Campus Post Office and more difficult to retrieve.\nMore questions? 412.268.8525\nCampus Map s: \nhttps://www.cmu.edu/visit//visitor-information | Printable Map: \nh ttps://www.cmu.edu/sites/default/files/cmu-visit-site-files/2025-08/campus -map.pdf\nNote: Parking on Campus is very limited. Please plan accordingl y. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T031252Z LOCATION:6th Floor\, Gates Hillman URL:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D 204323156&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: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:CMU S4: Swartz Student Startup Showcase DTSTART:20260918T160000Z DTEND:20260918T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T020422Z UID:0pn7955hg0jcm1s8anhn6p1h71@google.com CATEGORIES:tech DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship for an int eractive exhibition event showcasing what's coming next from CMU student f ounded startups. You will have the opportunity to engage directly with the founders and learn about the incredible innovations they are building and critical problems that they are solving.​Over two dozen different compa nies will be presenting at this event including companies funded through t he Bruce S. Gebhardt Sandbox Fund\, Beyond 2% Fund\, and the Project Ol ympus Spark Grants.​Snacks and Drinks will be provided for attendees!​ Open to everyone!https://luma.com/bzrusqnx LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T020422Z LOCATION:Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship X-SOURCE-NAME:Entrepreneurship Events & Opportunities X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.cmu.edu/swartz-center-for-entrepreneurship/educat ion-and-resources/makerspaces/index.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:BNY Fab Lab – 3D Printing 101 DTSTART:20260918T210000Z DTEND:20260918T223000Z DTSTAMP:20260918T063905Z UID:10011861-1789750800-1789756200@kaminsciencecenter.org CATEGORIES:education,tech LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T063905Z URL:https://kaminsciencecenter.org/calendar/bny-fab-lab-workshops-3d-print ing-101/2026-09-18/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pi ttsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:Kamin Science Center X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.carnegiesciencecenter.org/rangos-giant-cinema/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Ship-Its\, a Sigma Eta Pi initiative DTSTART:20260918T213000Z DTEND:20260918T233000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T020422Z UID:0c0f9m9a26jj1hdta63rfufrh1@google.com CATEGORIES:tech DESCRIPTION:​Click to join the SlackClick to learn more about SEP​This event is part of CMU Startup Week 2026.​What is Ship-Its?Ship-Its is an open-invite work session / hangout spot for builders\, founders\, designe rs\, and anyone working on cool stuff. This is a place where you can drop in to work on a side project\, meet your future cofounder\, or find someon e else interested in your niche passion.​Join us for a night of demos\, socializing\, and pomodoro work sessions--every Friday evening\, in the Sw artz Center​Who should come?There is no one answer. You should conside r stopping by if you:​would categorize yourself as a creative\, engineer \, or founder (no matter your age\, field of study\, or if you actively ha ve an idea)​want to meet\, and potentially join\, people who are also pa ving their own path (especially if you want to join a startup!)​want a s ounding board for your project or startup idea​are considering rushing S EP​How is it run?We typically start with an open mixer space at the begi nning\, followed by demos\, and then a work session. On days when we don't have a guest sponsor\, we provide snacks\, but its also BYOS (bring your own snacks!) We also have cool games and public brainstorming boards where you can write your interests\, introduce an idea\, or describe a type of person you want to meet.https://luma.com/uwbv5i8a LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T020422Z LOCATION:Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship X-SOURCE-NAME:Entrepreneurship Events & Opportunities X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.cmu.edu/swartz-center-for-entrepreneurship/educat ion-and-resources/makerspaces/index.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Women@SCS LeetCode Night DTSTART:20260918T220000Z DTEND:20260918T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T031252Z UID:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/207075468 CATEGORIES:tech DESCRIPTION:Join Women@SCS for an evening of coding\, problem-solving\, an d community! Work through LeetCode questions with friends\, grab some refr eshments\, and sharpen your skills for interviews and careers in tech. \nW hether you’re prepping for the next big internship or just want to pract ice in a supportive environment\, feel free to drop by.\n\nAll are welcome to attend. \n\nRSVP: \nhttps://forms.gle/vMhr5avj6hZVtmci6 LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T031252Z LOCATION:Reddy Conference Room\, Gates Hillman 4405 URL:https://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D 207075468&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 END:VCALENDAR