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The annual James Baldwin Lecture series was launched on March 29, 2006, aiming to celebrate the work of Princeton faculty and to provide an occasion for the intellectual community to reflect on the…
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October 11th, 2022 Speaker
Arvind Narayanan Department
African American Studies Location
East Pyne 010
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Recent advancements in machine learning have allowed for near-human or even superhuman performance in applications spanning chess-playing, protein folding, and natural language generation. Sudoku, a…
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April 27th, 2022 Speaker
Richard Zhu Department
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Psychedelics are now being shown by medical and scientific practices to be helpful as a mental health therapy across many common diagnostic categories, including depression, PTSD, and more.…
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April 27th, 2022 Speaker
Isla Dora Burrell Weber Department
Neuroscience
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With America divided as ever, people from state governments to households have asked themselves: "Why can’t we change their minds?" In FRS 193: Belief and Ideology, I researched why…
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April 27th, 2022 Speaker
Jeffery Chen Department
Psychology
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Underground rocks and soil have microscopic pores in them able to hold groundwater. Approximately 22% of groundwater in the U.S. is contaminated, while 50% of drinking water in the U.S. is sourced…
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April 27th, 2022 Speaker
Richard Huang, UG '23 Department
Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Proteins are known to have intrinsic fluorescence from aromatic amino acids. Recently however, a new visible intrinsic fluorescence has been identified in protein fibers. This fluorescence does not…
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April 27th, 2022 Speaker
Michelle Wang Department
Chemistry
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Accurately assessing the shape, size, and modality of features in rock samples is a longstanding problem in geology. Recent advances in machine learning have made it possible to improve upon point…
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April 27th, 2022 Speaker
Devdigvijay Singh Department
Geosciences
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The task of explorable super resolution (ESR) reconstructs multiple possible high resolution (HR) image variants for a given single low resolution (LR) image. However, due to the novelty and…
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April 27th, 2022 Speaker
Phillip Taylor Department
Computer Science
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Most systems have multiple objectives and constraints. For example, a company making a smartphone needs to increase the battery life, minimize the lag, and maximize the bandwidth. Solutions to these…
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April 27th, 2022 Speaker
Prerit Terway Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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This paper re-examines the mechanisms behind the development of the natural resource curse in French West Africa. The natural resource curse in the region is usually attributed to weak contemporary…
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April 27th, 2022 Speaker
Saran Touré Department
Politics
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Modern temperature control systems heat and cool rooms and buildings via convection (i.e., air conditioning); these methods are inefficient and are responsible for 40% of US greenhouse gas emissions.…
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April 27th, 2022 Speaker
Alexander Kim Department
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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When teaching a student, you sometimes have to come up with more than one way of explaining the same concept. The same ideas apply when teaching a machine how to interpret images. We have images from…
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April 27th, 2022 Speaker
Indu Panigrahi Department
Computer Science
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