LIDS Seminar Series

The LIDS seminar series serves as a focal point in the intellectual life of the lab. Seminar videos, when available, can be found on the LIDS YouTube channel.

March 9, 2026

AI4 Society Seminar: Emre Kiciman

Emre Kiciman (Microsoft)

"Advances in Causal Reasoning with LLMs" Correct causal reasoning requires domain knowledge beyond observed data. Framing cause-and-effect questions in medicine, science, law, and engineering depends on eliciting expert assumptions about system...

March 10, 2026

LIDS Seminar: Elad Hazan

Elad Hazan (Princeton University)

"Provably Efficient Learning in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems via Spectral Transformers" Learning in dynamical systems is a fundamental challenge underlying modern sequence modeling. Despite extensive study, efficient algorithms with formal guarantees...

March 16, 2026

Computing and Sustainability Seminar: Manil Maskey

Manil Maskey (NASA)

"Artificial Intelligence for Science at NASA: Accelerating Discovery" Artificial Intelligence (AI) is significantly transforming the process of scientific discovery. This talk will describe how AI grounded in science rigor is enabling NASA science...

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