No prior H5P experience needed!

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Understand the H5P Platform: Identify the key features and content types available in H5P and explain how it supports interactive MicroLearning design.
2. Apply MicroLearning Principles: Apply best practices for designing short, focused, and learner-centered micro content that reduces cognitive load and boosts retention.
3. Create Interactive Content: Build a variety of H5P content types, including quizzes, interactive videos, drag-and-drop activities, and branching scenarios.

Date: Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 9AM EST

Register for H5P's Webinar

The Digital Learning Team is excited to offer virtual and monthly open office hours for drop-in assistance. Georgia Tech faculty, staff, and TAs are welcome to drop in to ask questions about Canvas features and functionalities, learn about available digital learning tools integrated with Canvas, and brainstorm creative ways to use Canvas in your class. Please grab your coffee, tea, or favorite beverage, and join us for Canvas Office Hours!  

The Digital Learning Team is excited to offer virtual and monthly open office hours for drop-in assistance. Georgia Tech faculty, staff, and TAs are welcome to drop in to ask questions about Canvas features and functionalities, learn about available digital learning tools integrated with Canvas, and brainstorm creative ways to use Canvas in your class. Please grab your coffee, tea, or favorite beverage, and join us for Canvas Office Hours!  

The Digital Learning Team is excited to offer virtual and monthly open office hours for drop-in assistance. Georgia Tech faculty, staff, and TAs are welcome to drop in to ask questions about Canvas features and functionalities, learn about available digital learning tools integrated with Canvas, and brainstorm creative ways to use Canvas in your class. Please grab your coffee, tea, or favorite beverage, and join us for Canvas Office Hours!  

The Digital Learning Team is excited to offer virtual and monthly open office hours for drop-in assistance. Georgia Tech faculty, staff, and TAs are welcome to drop in to ask questions about Canvas features and functionalities, learn about available digital learning tools integrated with Canvas, and brainstorm creative ways to use Canvas in your class. Please grab your coffee, tea, or favorite beverage, and join us for Canvas Office Hours!  

Tuesday, October 27 at 1:00PM EST - Register for VoiceThread's Webinar

Wednesday, October 28 at 12PM EST - Register for Chunking Canvas Content

Told almost entirely through still photographs, Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962) is a haunting 28-minute journey through time, memory, and a world after catastrophe. More than sixty years later, it still shapes how filmmakers imagine the future. Four scholars will look at Marker’s short film from several angles: experimental and science-fictional modes of filmmaking, the relationship between cinema and the photographic image, and the ways the creative arts can take up science-fiction storytelling. The panel ends with an open Q&A, so bring your questions.

Featuring:

• Stéphanie Boulard, Professor of French Literature and Visual Arts
• Kristi McKim, Associate Professor of Film
• Lisa Yaszek, Regents’ Professor of Science Fiction Studies
• Ida Yoshinaga, Assistant Professor of Film

3:15 – 4:15 p.m. | Creative Art Workshop

Now it’s your turn to create. Inspired by Marker’s work, this hands-on workshop invites you to explore artistic expression, collaboration, and the creative process. Whether your interest is film, photography, or simply creative thinking, you’ll leave with new ways of seeing and making.

Featuring:

• Jillann Hertel, Creative Director and Faculty
• Rachel Parish, AECT

Refreshments will be served.

Organized by the Center of Excellence for French and Francophone Studies. Sponsored by the School of Modern Languages and the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. 

Told almost entirely through still photographs, Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962) is a haunting 28-minute journey through time, memory, and a world after catastrophe. More than sixty years later, it still shapes how filmmakers imagine the future. Four scholars will look at Marker’s short film from several angles: experimental and science-fictional modes of filmmaking, the relationship between cinema and the photographic image, and the ways the creative arts can take up science-fiction storytelling. The panel ends with an open Q&A, so bring your questions.

Featuring:

• Stéphanie Boulard, Professor of French Literature and Visual Arts
• Kristi McKim, Associate Professor of Film
• Lisa Yaszek, Regents’ Professor of Science Fiction Studies
• Ida Yoshinaga, Assistant Professor of Film

3:15 – 4:15 p.m. | Creative Art Workshop

Now it’s your turn to create. Inspired by Marker’s work, this hands-on workshop invites you to explore artistic expression, collaboration, and the creative process. Whether your interest is film, photography, or simply creative thinking, you’ll leave with new ways of seeing and making.

Featuring:

• Jillann Hertel, Creative Director and Faculty
• Rachel Parish, AECT

Refreshments will be served.

Organized by the Center of Excellence for French and Francophone Studies. Sponsored by the School of Modern Languages and the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. 

Come try Singaporean dishes like Hainanese chicken rice, curry chicken with rice, and beef rendang with noodles at our food stalls. Beyond the food, we'll have traditional games like mahjong, chapteh, and Dai Di, along with communal seating and a Singapore-themed photo area.

Whether you're from Singapore, curious about Southeast Asian culture, or just looking to try something new, we'd love to see you there. The event is completely free and open to all Georgia Tech students. Food will be available while supplies last.

Enjoy empanadas, drinks, and games on Tuesday, October 27, from 7 to 9 PM in Home Park on the 2nd floor of the Exhibition Hall. No experience needed, and all Georgia Tech students are welcome. Come for the trivia, stay for the food, and bring your friends.

Location and Time: 6:30 to 8:00 PM in Klaus 2456

We’ll cover how to prepare, from the pitch deck and financial model to the data room investors will ask to see, and how to build a target list of investors that fit your stage and sector. Then we’ll follow a raise through first meetings, follow-up diligence, and partner meetings, and finish with the term sheet and closing, including the key terms worth negotiating and what happens between signing and the money arriving. We’ll even walk through the timeline of a real raise.

Whether you’re building a startup or want to see how a raise looks from both sides of the table, come with questions. All are welcome!

The Center for Student Engagement and Parking & Transportation Services invite Georgia Tech students, faculty, and staff to participate in Food for Fines, a campus initiative that allows eligible parking citations to be resolved through donations of canned or boxed food items. All donations will support Klemis Kitchen and help address food insecurity among Georgia Tech students.  

Register Here

Student Data 101:

9:20-10:20 a.m.

Bill Moore Success Center - President A

This session introduces the student data landscape at Georgia Tech, including key concepts related to FERPA, student records, registration, retention, and graduation. Participants will learn how to interpret and utilize student data effectively to enhance student services and inform decision-making.

IRP 101:

9:20 -10:20 a.m.

Bill Moore Success Center - President C

This session provides an inside look at the Office of Institutional Research and Planning (IRP) and the data services that support decision-making, accreditation, and institutional initiatives. Participants will discover how Georgia Tech’s data flows through the institution to serve both internal stakeholders and external organizations.

Financial Aid Data 101:

10:30 - 11:30 a.m. 

Bill Moore Success Center - President A

Requests for financial aid data are often met with the answer “no,” and for good reason. Regulatory requirements and the responsibility to protect our students limit what can be shared. This session will explain why financial aid data must be safeguarded, outline the differences between FAFSA data, FTI data, and shareable data, and highlight situations where requests can be approved.

Enterprise and Data Services 101:

10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

Bill Moore Success Center - President C

This session explores the data services that support Georgia Tech’s operations, focusing on integration, delivery, and analytics enablement across campus systems.

Documenting Your Data Project:

10:30 -11:30 a.m.

Bill Moore Success Center - President D

Good data work involves more than producing accurate results. It also requires documenting the decisions, methods, assumptions, and context behind the work. This session introduces practical approaches for creating work notes that help others understand not only what was done, but how and why decisions were made. Participants will explore what information is useful to capture throughout a data project and how thoughtful documentation can support transparency, consistency, knowledge sharing, and future use of their work.

Advising Data 101/ Navigate360:

11:40 a.m. - 12:40 p.m.

Bill Moore Success Center - President A

This session provides an overview of Navigate360, Georgia Tech’s primary student success system. Presenters will demonstrate how advisors and student-support units use the platform to make data-driven decisions to connect students with the right services at the right time. 

Space and Facilities Data 101:

11:40 a.m.  - 12:40 p.m.

Bill Moore Success Center - President C

In this session, participants will gain insight into the data that supports facilities operations and planning. Presenters will explain how data collection, analysis, and visualization are used to improve efficiency, maintenance, and sustainability.

HR Data 101:

11:40 a.m. - 12:40 p.m.

Bill Moore Success Center - President D

This session introduces the fundamentals of HR data and its importance in supporting organizational insight and decision-making. Presenters will also highlight the next generation of Human Capital Management (HCM) tools and preview the upcoming Unified ERP project.

Register Here

Graduate Admissions Data 101:

9:20-10:20 a.m.

Bill Moore Success Center - President A

This session provides a high-level overview of Georgia Tech’s Graduate Admissions data and how it supports recruitment, outreach, enrollment forecasting, and decision-making across the Institute. The presentation will explore the graduate admissions data ecosystem, including how data from Slate and LITE provide operational and institutional perspectives on the applicant lifecycle. Attendees will learn where Graduate Admissions data can be accessed, how it is used for purposes such as early-cycle forecasting, yield analysis, and enrollment planning, and key considerations for interpreting and using the data responsibly. The session will also address data governance, including data definitions, validation, appropriate use, and emerging considerations for the use of AI with Graduate Admissions data. 

Finance Data 101:

9:20-10:20 a.m.

Bill Moore Success Center - President C

This session introduces participants to finance-related data at Georgia Tech, covering topics such as accounting, expenditure tracking, and financial reporting. Participants will learn about financial data sources and how to navigate financial data systems and use this information to support decision making.

Research Data 101

9:20-10:20 a.m.

Bill Moore Success Center - President D

In this session, participants will learn about Georgia Tech’s research data domain, including proposal, award, and expenditure data. Presenters will also discuss sponsored research accounting metrics and demonstrate how reporting tools and robotic process automation support the Institute’s most critical tasks.

Library Data 101:

10:30 -11:30 a.m.

Bill Moore Success Center - President C

The Georgia Tech Library is the scholarly heart of Georgia Tech and serves as an academic and research support organization, advancing teaching, learning, scholarship, innovation, and student success. It encompasses over 70 services and supports teaching, learning, and research through research assistance, collections management, archives, records management, digital curation, instructional services, public programming, and collaborative learning environments for students, faculty, and researchers. Together, the Library and Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons (Clough or CULC), which the library manages, serve as key components of Georgia Tech’s academic ecosystem, supporting student achievement, faculty scholarship, innovative teaching, and collaborative research across the Institute. The Georgia Tech Library utilizes a robust portfolio and project management process with a commitment to continuous improvement to manage and deliver its services and provide the strongest support to the Georgia Tech community. The collection and use of data is essential to its excellence in service delivery and fulfilling its mission. In this session, library faculty will discuss the types of data we collect; how we use data to support our teaching, learning, and research, tell our stories, demonstrate our impacts on student and faculty success, assess our work, and make decisions; and develop and manage a collection that is relevant, accessible, and affordable to our community.

Budget Data 101:

10:30 -11:30 a.m.

Bill Moore Success Center - President A

This session provides an overview of how Georgia Tech uses data to power its budget. Participants will explore data sources behind revenue estimates, allocations through the Hybrid Allocation Model (HAM), and tracking of funds in OneBudget, OneUSG Connect, and Workday.

Faculty Data 101:

10:30 -11:30 a.m.

Bill Moore Success Center - President D

This session provides an overview of the key types of Georgia Tech faculty data used across the faculty lifecycle. Participants will explore core faculty data elements such as academic degrees and credentials, faculty rank, tenure status, appointment types, faculty tracks, workload assignments, and promotion and tenure information. The session will also examine how faculty data supports institutional decision-making, reporting, compliance, workforce planning, accreditation, and faculty affairs operations, helping attendees better understand the unique complexities and uses of faculty data within higher education.

Alumni Data 101:

11:40 a.m. - 12:40 p.m.

Bill Moore Success Center

President D

This session explores how alumni data supports lifelong engagement, philanthropy, and institutional advancement. Presenters will discuss the systems used to manage alumni records and demonstrate how analytics drive outreach and strengthen relationships across the Tech community.

Join Georgia Tech's Marilyn Brown, Valerie Thomas, and Susan Graff as they celebrate two new Springer Nature books — Energy Technology and Policy Innovation and Sustainability Leaders: A Guide to Transforming Organizations — and explore competing visions for change. Drawing on research and real-world experience, this lively conversation will challenge assumptions, examine trade-offs, and ask who should lead, who should pay, and how to turn promising ideas into lasting progress.

This program would not be possible without the generous support provided by Deloitte and the Colleen O. Nunn Professorship in Global Strategic Intelligence.

About the Speakers

Adm. Sandy Winnefeld graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in aerospace engineering and served for 37 years in the United States Navy. He flew the F-14 Tomcat, instructed at the Navy Fighter Weapons School, also known as Topgun, and served as senior aide-de-camp to General Colin L. Powell. He subsequently commanded a fighter squadron, the amphibious ship USS CLEVELAND, the aircraft carrier USS ENTERPRISE, and the THEODORE ROOSEVELT Carrier Strike Group. He subsequently commanded NATO Joint Command Lisbon, Striking and Support Forces NATO, the United States SIXTH Fleet, United States NORTHERN Command, and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, also known as NORAD. He retired in 2015 after four years as the ninth Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the nation’s number two ranking military officer. 

Winnefeld is a frequently published author and a director or advisory board member for several companies operating in a broad spectrum of business sectors. He currently serves as Distinguished Professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech, where he is also a member of the Engineering Hall of Fame. He is also a senior non-resident fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

The Honorable Stacey A. Dixon built a distinguished career at the intersection of national security, intelligence, and advanced technology. From her early days as a Central Intelligence Agency engineer supporting the National Reconnaissance Office, to becoming the 6th Senate-confirmed Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Dixon has been a driving force in intelligence integration, cutting-edge research, and strategic leadership. 

She also served as the 8th Deputy Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Deputy Director and Director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, and as a Professional Staff Member on the U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. 

Robert Gray, vice president and head of enterprise security at Cox Enterprises, brings nearly three decades of experience spanning corporate security, crisis management, executive protection, investigations, and federal law enforcement. Before joining Cox Enterprises, Gray served as director of global security at Novelis and held senior international security positions at Western Union and First Data Corporation. Earlier in his career, he spent nearly nine years as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service. His assignments included complex financial and organized-crime investigations, protective intelligence and operations, and work with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. In the aftermath of September 11, he also worked on terrorism investigations and helped identify terrorist-financing activity while serving as a liaison with the U.S. Intelligence Community.

Gray has also served since 2007 as an adjunct professor at Bellevue University, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in security management as well as courses in its Master of Public Administration program.

Abstract: Curious about IPaT's current research? Join us for a fast-paced Lunch Lecture featuring lightning talks from a diverse group of IPaT faculty. In just a few minutes each, speakers will share exciting snapshots of current and recent projects, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the ideas, technologies, and collaborations shaping the future. From Animal-Computer Interaction and Coastal Ecology to Health Technologies, Design Innovation, Mixed and Augmented Reality, AI, and more, this session will highlight some of the remarkable breadth of research happening across IPaT. Whether you're looking to discover new research areas, find potential collaborators, explore emerging technologies, or just learn a bit about what we do in IPaT, you'll leave with a deeper appreciation for the creative and interdisciplinary work taking place throughout our community.

The Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) is an Interdisciplinary Research Institute at Georgia Tech offering a unique people-first approach to research and innovation. IPaT assembles academics, industry, government, civil society, and other partners to create people-centered solutions to some of society’s thorniest challenges. Created in 2011, IPaT’s community of researchers has spearheaded breakthroughs in health, aging, usability, sustainability, smart cities, and more. IPaT focuses on real-world impact, translating research out of the lab and into people’s lives in the form of real products, applications, and community education and programming. It accomplishes this through the efforts of over twenty research faculty, more than 100 affiliated faculty, significant research infrastructure and systems, well regarded events and programming, and an incredible staff. 
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IPaT: GVU Lunch Lecture Series

​Wildy will be talking about AI in the industry, how school prepared him for his career, and good design intuition.

​Free + open to Georgia Tech students and faculty.

​We’ll spend the session making, experimenting, and working through a design challenge together, with plenty of room to explore new ideas and Figma skills along the way.

​Come ready to design, collaborate, and try something new.

​Free + open to Georgia Tech students and faculty.

​*this session is not one of our design sprints, just a space to work—check back in later to see when our next one is*

​If you have any questions, feel free to shoot us an email.

Open to any Georgia Tech students + faculty!

Fill out the RSVP form for more detailed directions to the event site.

This event has been postponed.

We are working to reschedule the session and will share the new date as soon as it is confirmed.

Join the Georgia Tech Library in the Scholars Event Theater, located on the first floor of Price Gilbert (Room 1280), on Nov. 10 from 4 to 6 p.m. for TechScape: Exploring Extended Reality Showcase Day.

Stop by the Kendeda Building and dig through free costume pieces, clothing, and accessories to create a look that's all your own.

Then build your own festive trail mix for a snack while you put it all together.

Whether you're an engineer, artist, business strategist, scientist, or anything in between, this competition is for ALL MAJORS. If you’re passionate about solving problems and making an impact, we want YOU!

Join us for an info session to learn more about the competition, connect with fellow innovators, and start building your team. Whether you already have an idea or are just curious, everyone is welcome!

Looking for a co-founder or teammate? This is a great opportunity to meet other students who might have the skills, perspective, or big idea you’ve been looking for.

On the experimental side, testing theories at the world's largest experiments, such as the Large Hadron Collider, is yet another computational challenge. High-dimensional data arrive at 40 MHz (~40 TB/s), and decisions must be made rapidly. I will discuss recent advancements in robust neural inference techniques with reliable uncertainty quantification that let us exploit the full high-dimensional data in hypothesis tests. Additional machine learning methods make these genAI predictions trustworthy, enabling tests that outperform likelihood-ratio-based statistical tests.

Bio: Aishik Ghosh is an assistant professor in the School of Physics at Georgia Tech with a focus on developing AI methods to accelerate fundamental physics and astrophysics. His group works on theoretical physics, statistical methods, and experiment design. For robust scientific applications, Dr. Ghosh focuses on uncertainty quantification, interpretability, and verifiability of AI algorithms, targeting publications in physics journals and ML conferences. He has also published policy documents with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and took a leading role in a book on AI and the Future of Science. He received his PhD in particle physics from Paris-Saclay University for introducing digital twins and neural inference techniques to a Large Hadron Collider experiment and was a postdoc at UC Irvine and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Website: https://profaishikghosh.github.io/

For CODA guest access, please contact shatcher8@gatech.edu at least 2 business days prior to the event.

Join Via Zoom: https://gatech.zoom.us/j/97583133407?pwd=arlGKeB48JGRzqOQt3mPELCH1sfL5J.1 

Meeting ID: 975 8313 3407 

Passcode: 799040

So come get in the spooky spirit, pick up some discounted seasonal ceramics, and get crafting! 

📅 October 30 ⏰ 5–7 PM 📍 Paper & Clay

Register here.

When registering, please use your USG email address (.edu) to ensure access. 

About Workday Wednesdays
Workday Wednesdays is a monthly series designed to build early familiarity and confidence with Workday across the University System of Georgia. Held on the last Wednesday of each month, these short, easy-to-digest sessions provide a practical look at key Workday features and processes through guided demonstrations led by program experts.

Open to all faculty, staff, and leadership, each session focuses on a single topic and requires no prior knowledge. Recordings and presentation materials are archived to support on-demand learning and keep the USG community informed and engaged as we move toward the July 2028 go-live date for Unified ERP.

Abstract: Despite the ubiquity of continuous physiological monitoring in critically ill patients, clinicians lack tools to use high-resolution electrocardiogram (ECG) and photoplethysmography (PPG) signals in clinical care, especially combined with the context of patient characteristics, treatments, and evolving clinical state. As a result, current patient ECG and PPG data remain largely under-utilized in clinical practice. Artificial intelligence (AI) methods for ECG and PPG signals could address this gap, but current approaches are often task-specific, of a short-window nature, and insufficiently contextualized for critical care. As a result, they typically do not model long-timescale physiologic dynamics or account for how comorbidities, treatments, and evolving illness shape observed signals and outcomes. To address these methodological gaps, we are developing the UNIPHY framework, which combines a pretrained physiologic foundation model (physioFM) for local signal representation with an efficient state-space model (SSM) for long-range temporal integration and contextualized patient modeling. In this talk, I will share our most recent progress and lessons learned in training and testing UNIPHY on multiple use cases in various inpatient care settings, and example ambulatory monitoring applications.
 

Bio: Dr. Xiao Hu is a Professor at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, an associated professor at department of Computer Sciences at College of Arts and Sciences and a program faculty member of the joint GA Tech and Emory Biomedical Engineering department. Dr. Hu is also the Associate Director of the Center for Data Science. Dr. Hu earned bachelor’s and master’s of science degrees in biomedical engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology in Chengdu, China. He then studied at UCLA, receiving a PhD in biomedical engineering in 2004. Before joining Emory, he held faculty positions at UCLA, UCSF, and Duke University.

Hu conducts research at the intersection of computational and health sciences where he develops signal processing, mathematical modeling, machine learning, and deep learning algorithms to transform physiological and clinical data into actionable information for improving patient care. Through his research, Hu has created knowledge advancing the relationship among clinicians, scientists, engineers, innovators, policy makers, and healthcare administrators.

Abstract: Missing data are pervasive in modern data systems and are frequently not missing at random. For example, in service settings, a customer's decision to submit a rating may depend on the rating they would have provided. Similarly, clinical notes, reviews, and other unstructured data are often selectively available, influenced by latent patient conditions or user preferences. 

This talk considers how AI-generated measurements can improve identification and inference under nonrandomly missing outcomes. Large language models can convert auxiliary unstructured data, such as customer interaction histories, into measurements that inform about missing outcomes. We treat these AI-generated measurements as weak shadow variables that are conditionally independent of missingness given the true outcome and observed covariates. We then introduce two linear programs that provide sharp bounds on key population quantities, such as mean ratings, with the AI-generated measurements tightening these bounds by serving as additional constraints on the observed-data distribution. I will also discuss extensions to nonrandomly missing unstructured covariates, particularly in healthcare and digital platforms, and present methods that integrate observed content and availability patterns to learn latent state representations for improving prediction and sequential decision-making.
 

Bio: Ruoxuan Xiong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Data and Decision Sciences (DDS) at Emory University since Fall 2021, with courtesy appointments in Information Systems & Operations Management and Economics. Before joining Emory, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Stanford Graduate School of Business from 2020 to 2021. She received her Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University in 2020 and her B.S. degrees from Peking University in 2014. Her research lies at the intersection of causal machine learning, experimental design, and econometrics, with applications in healthcare, digital platforms, and finance. Her work has appeared in Management Science, the Journal of Econometrics, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, KDD, AAAI, ACL, and EMNLP.

Come share in crêpes and conversation while learning more about faculty research, Spring 2027 courses, and the French minor and major. Test your knowledge in a round of trivia for a chance to win prizes, then get creative during a collage workshop grounded in the Environmental Humanities. Croissants, macarons, and other snacks provided all day! 

• Crêpes and Conversation: 1 – 1:45 p.m. 
• Faculty Meet & Greet and Trivia: 2 – 3:15 p.m. 
• Collage Workshop: 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. 

Explore the Francophone histories of collage and the intersection of art and the environmental humanities during this hands-on workshop. All materials are provided, but we encourage you to bring any paper items headed for the recycling bin to customize your collage! 

Stay for all three sessions or come and go throughout the day!

All activities will take place in D. M. Smith, Room 306 (Policy Innovation Lab). 

This event is funded as part of the Nunn School’s Diplomats-in-Residence programming thanks to the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation.

About the Speakers

Jacob Isbosethsen is the head of the Greenland Representation to the United States and Canada. He previously served as Head of Representation at the Greenland Representation in China, based in Beijing, with official side-accreditation to Japan, Korea, and Singapore. Prior to that, he served as Head of Representation in Iceland (2018–2021), Acting Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs in Nuuk (2017), and Head of Department at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (2015–2017). He also served as Legal Advisor in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (2013–2015), Secretary to the Greenland Representation to the EU in Brussels (2011–2013), and as Head of Section at the Ministry for Fisheries, Hunting and Agriculture (2008–2011).

Born and raised in Nuuk, Greenland, Isbosethsen holds a Master of Laws (Cand.jur., LLM) from Aarhus University, completed in 2008. He has also undertaken advanced training in national and international security and defense at the Royal Danish Defense Academy and has completed specialized courses on UNCLOS and Continental Shelf procedures. Isbosethsen has spent his entire career serving the Government of Greenland (Naalakkersuisut).

Ambassador (ret.) Charles Shapiro is a Professor of Practice at the Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech, President Emeritus of the World Affairs Council of Atlanta, a senior advisor at the Pendleton Group, and co-founder of Art of Diplomacy Tours. 

During his 34-year career at the U.S. Department of State, Shapiro served as Ambassador to Venezuela, Acting Assistant Secretary for the Western Hemisphere, and Coordinator for Cuban Affairs and was posted to Denmark, El Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago, Chile and Venezuela. 

In 2011, Shapiro became the president of the Institute of the Americas, a think tank at the University of California San Diego. In 2014, he became president of the World Affairs Council of Atlanta. While at the Council, he taught international business at the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. 

Shapiro has published op-eds in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Toronto Star, the Atlanta Business Chronicle, the Miami Herald, the San Diego Union Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times, and is a regular commentator on Latin America for news broadcasts including BBC, CBS, Sky News, CNN, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Iqbal's research interests are in the area of international relations with a specific focus on the consequences of militarized conflict, issues related to political violence, and state failure. Her scholarship lies at the nexus of international conflict and comparative politics, combining aspects of domestic and international processes to assess the dynamics of global security and political instability. She is the author of War and the Health of Nations and State Failure in the Modern World.

Registration requested.

For more information and to register, please click here: https://manufacturing.gatech.edu/digital-transformation-manufacturing

I explore what this shift means in practice through my work co-designing misinformation escape rooms. These projects offer a concrete setting for examining how interventions can move beyond teaching people how to identify false information and instead support critical reflection, collective sensemaking, and more agentic participation in increasingly complex information environments.

Bio: Chris Coward is a Senior Principal Research Scientist and Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington Information School. His research examines media and information literacy (MIL) in complex information environments, with a particular focus on how individuals and communities develop the capacities and agency to navigate these environments. His recent work explores sociocultural approaches to MIL through the design and study of escape rooms and other play-based experiences. Chris works closely with communities around the world to co-design, implement, and study these interventions in culturally diverse contexts.

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IPaT: GVU Lunch Lecture Series

Abstract

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The event will also feature topics focusing on designing systems, models, and experiences that enable learning across a lifetime.

• Activating the Learning Lifecycle
  How institutions design systems that support learning across every stage of life.
• Actualizing Access Through Scale
  How we expand access to high-quality learning without sacrificing impact.
• Authoring the New Credentialing Landscape
  How credentialing evolves to support trust, mobility, and learner agency.

For more information and to register, please visit the Symposium's webpage.

Fred Wherry is the Townsend Marin, Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where he is also the Vice Dean for Faculty Development and Inclusion, and founder of the Debt Collection Lab.

Marie-Lou Laprise is a postgraduate research associate in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. A quantitative and computational sociologist, she studies collective intelligence and the social impact of AI. 

Over a quarter of Americans report that their household has been contacted by a debt collector in the past year, and for many, this is their primary encounter with the institutions that enforce private claims. Building on the concepts of predatory inclusion and legal estrangement, we argue that civil debt enforcement constitutes a distinct, stratified pathway to institutional distrust—one that parallels and compounds the criminal justice pathway. We introduce the concept of financial estrangement to theorize how the terms of households' inclusion in credit markets shape their relations with the institutions that enforce private claims. Our concept of financial estrangement brings together concerns from economic sociology, law and society, criminal justice, and race and inequality, and applies them to the context of the marketplace for consumer debt. Drawing on an original probabilistic survey of 2,115 U.S. adults, we show that debt-collection contact is pervasive, racially unequal, and not reducible to differences in household income or financial hardship. Americans overwhelmingly find widespread debt-collection practices unfair, particularly those who have experienced them. Careful analysis reveals that debt-collection contact is associated with perceiving courts as rarely or never fair, even after accounting for hardship levels, income, race/ethnicity, and arrest history. These findings suggest that civil legal processes tied to mass debt contribute to race- and class-stratified patterns of institutional trust.

Abstract: Monte carlo sampling algorithms have seen a resurgence in interest as a technique to efficiently generate good candidate solutions to non-linear optimization problems.
The Hamiltonian Markov chain Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm is a good fit for this task because it enjoys mixing rates that are by its design robust to factors that can confound other MCMC methods.
A key paradigm to view quantum computing for optimization also treats it as a sampler of good candidate solutions. Existing quantum methodology shows that classical Markov chain methods (on discrete state spaces) enjoy a speed up in their mixing times when quantized. We construct a quantization scheme for HMC that extends this result while preserving its classical robustness. We sketch early results on applying this technique to the convex body volume estimation problem.
 

Bio: Soumyadip Ghosh is a member of IBM Research in the Algorithms and Applications group at Yorktown Heights. His research focuses on stochastic optimization and decision making under uncertainty, with a recent focus on constructing efficient hybrid quantum classical algorithms with applications to optimization formulations that arise in finance, insurance and healthcare. He has worked previously on smarter grid and energy analytics, cloud infrastructure, and supply chain management. He is an associate editor of Stochastic Models and has served as a committee member for INFORMS / WSC.

This event will provide valuable information and resources for those who manage accounting and financial processes for the Institute.

Join virtually via Microsoft Teams.

During the symposium, we’ll converse with: 

• Our keynote speaker, Jonathan Powers, Ph.D., who will share how startup methodologies can be applied to teaching, learning, and course design;
• Inventive instructors who utilize educational and online technologies and have developed new techniques to wield their potential;
• Award-winning Online TAs and faculty from diverse backgrounds and disciplines; and
• Pedagogical specialists who work to bridge learning and technology together.

Please join us for a day full of inspiring presentations, important conversations, and innovative experiences as we work together to transform the landscape of distance teaching and learning. 

How is artificial intelligence changing the way knowledge is created? Examine AI's growing role in academic research, including how researchers use emerging tools to accelerate discovery, approach complex questions, and navigate the ethical and practical implications of AI-assisted scholarship.

Panelists

Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Assistant Professor, CeBIL, University of Copenhagen

Sebastian Porsdam Mann is an Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen’s Center for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law. With training spanning philosophy, neuroscience, applied ethics, and international human rights law, his research examines how emerging technologies can advance scientific progress while navigating ethical and regulatory challenges. His work has directly explored generative AI in academic writing and idea generation, as well as AI's potential role in the future of academic peer review, positioning him to address both the opportunities and risks AI creates throughout the research process. 

Chad Pasha, Education at OpenAI

Sarah H. Salter, Director of the Writing Program & Professor of Pedagogy, Emory University

Sarah H. Salter is a Teaching Professor and Director of the Writing Program at Emory University whose research focuses on American literature, periodical studies, collaboration, and digital humanities. Her scholarship has included interdisciplinary work using machine-learning methods to analyze the visual structures of historical newspapers, combining literary study, library science, and computational approaches. Her perspective brings an important humanities dimension to the conversation about how computational tools and AI are changing research methods, scholarly interpretation, writing, and knowledge production. 

Allegra Smith, Assistant Professor of Technical Communication, S School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology

Allegra Smith is an Assistant Professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Literature, Media, and Communication whose research examines technical and professional communication, digital technologies, user experience, access, and equity. Her teaching and research include work involving generative AI, digital communication, and undergraduate research, alongside extensive scholarship on how people interact with technology. She brings a valuable perspective on how AI is affecting research, writing, communication, pedagogy, and the experiences of the people using these emerging tools. 

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The focus group will provide an opportunity to share your experiences and discuss GTMI's activities, services, and programs in relation to the five IRI impact areas:

• Catalyze Interdisciplinary Research Community
• Educate Key Stakeholders and Prepare the Future Workforce
• Cultivate Vision, Influence, and Recognition for Research
• Deliver Cutting-Edge Facilities, Expertise, Partnerships, Diverse Funding
• Accelerate Technology and Knowledge Transfer

Participation is completely voluntary, and all feedback will be used to help guide our efforts moving forward. Participants will be given $15 Tech Dining vouchers (to be used at retail dining or dining halls) to thank them for their participation.

Focus Group Details

Date: November 16, 2026

Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Location: Callaway Building, Room 114

If you are interested in participating, please contact Savannah White (savannah.white@gatech.edu) by October 30th.

We would appreciate hearing from individuals with a variety of experiences and perspectives. Your feedback is important, and we hope you will consider joining us.

We request only tenured/tenure-track and research faculty participate.

Join Dean Anuj Mehrotra for a conversation with Mark Rayfield, president and CEO of Saint-Gobain North America and CertainTeed, as they discuss leading innovation at scale, navigating growth and transformation, and advancing sustainable construction while building for the future. Drawing on nearly 25 years of leadership experience with Saint-Gobain, Mark will share perspectives on customer-centric innovation, strategic acquisitions, and the company's global commitment to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 through investments in clean energy and circular economy solutions.
 

Our Tech Talks Business audience consists of industry leaders, working professionals, faculty, staff, alumni, and students. Our student and alumni audience – from Scheller College and across the Institute – are among the most engaged. At the end of the session, the speaker will have the opportunity to engage directly with the audience during a brief Q&A.

View Mark Rayfield's Bio

Abstract 

Ambiguity is everywhere in human languages. Consider, for example, a sentence like “I saw the son of the doctor [who was playing the piano]”. This sentence is globally ambiguous, as the construction allows for the relative clause (RC) “[who was playing the piano]” to modify either the first noun (“son”) or the second (“doctor”).  

Notably, languages have been reported to vary with respect of whether their speakers prefer a low attachment interpretation (LA; RC modifies the second noun; e.g. English, Frazier 1996),  or show a high attachment preference (HA; RC modifies the first noun; e.g. Spanish, German, Cuetos & Mitchell 1988; Hemforth et al. 2015). Importantly, these patterns do not align neatly with typological categories — for instance, Romanian speakers reportedly prefer LA despite the structural similarities between Romanian and Spanish (Ehrlich 1999) — and languages seem to exhibit LA or HA preferences to different degrees (Carreiras & Clifton Jr 1993; Swets et al. 2008; Cotter & Ferreira 2024). Additionally, RC interpretation seems to be affected by a number of factors, like the length and position of the RC, semantic properties of the main verb, and individual differences between participants. 

While the resolution of attachment ambiguity in RC has been widely studied in psycholinguistics then, the nature of the mechanisms that drive their disambiguation is far from understood. In this talk, I report recent results from a series of experiments exploring factors affecting RC disambiguation in a number of languages (English, Italian, Korean, Mandarin Chinese). In doing so,  De Santo argues that these systematic cross-linguistic differences in disambiguation preferences make RC attachment an essential case study in investigating the trade-offs between universal sentence processing principles and language-specific properties.

Along with earning credit in four upper-level courses, the program includes personalized tutoring, group dinners, and corporate and cultural excursions. Come learn about housing, financial aid/scholarships, and how to apply before the Feb. 15 deadline!

Join our online CSP information session to learn more about this exciting program.

Zoom link: https://gatech.zoom.us/j/96482707080

Meeting ID: 964 8270 7080