<![CDATA[OneIT Training & Ice Cream Social]]>36236 Join the Georgia Tech OneIT Committee for a day of learning, collaboration, and the chance to connect with the campus community.
Location: Groseclose Building (ISyE), Room 119 (1st floor), 765 Ferst Drive, NW, Suite 228, Atlanta, GA 30332
IT 101: 9 – 11 a.m.
This introductory training session will explore Georgia Tech’s systems and available resources. This session will be held in-person and online.
Ice Cream Social: noon – 1:30 p.m.
Join us for a sweet treat and the opportunity to socialize with the campus community.
ITAC: 1:30 – 3 p.m.
Each month, our team meets to share important news, updates, and announcements from the IT community. This hybrid session is available in-person and online.
Parking is available at the student center or W10 parking lot.
]]> adurandean3117839474072026-07-13 12:56:4717840330202026-07-14 12:43:4000eventThis event includes Georgia Tech systems training, an ice cream social, and the opportunity to hear news and updates from the IT community.]]>2026-07-16T09:00:00-04:002026-07-16T15:00:00-04:002026-07-16T15:00:00-04:002026-07-16 13:00:002026-07-16 19:00:002026-07-16 19:00:002026-07-16T09:00:00-04:002026-07-16T15:00:00-04:00America/New_YorkAmerica/New_Yorkdatetime2026-07-16 09:00:002026-07-16 03:00:00America/New_YorkAmerica/New_Yorkdatetime<![CDATA[]]>Jimmy Pearson Appl. Support Analyst Sr. - OIT jpearson61@gatech.edu]]><![CDATA[IT 101 Teams Meeting Link]]><![CDATA[ITAC Teams Meeting Link]]><![CDATA[RCR Workshop: July 16, 2026]]>36900 This one-day Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) workshop consists of one individual in-person / classroom session hosted by Yolande Berta. This session satisfies one hour of the in-person/discussion-based RCR compliance training requirement for trainees funded by covered NSF or NIH projects.
Attendees should register through the Genius LMS, using the "GT Login" button. Click on "View Course Catalog", then enter "RCR" in the search bar to view the current RCR workshop sessions. You can view information about each class (including class times) by clicking on "more info". To register for a class, click on "Register", then "Proceed to Checkout" (there is no cost for the sessions). Then click on "Confirm". You will receive a confirmation email with a calendar file. You will need to follow instructions given to you during the session in order to receive RCR in-person contact hour credit for attending.
Research Misconduct 📅 Thursday, July 16 🕚 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM 📍 Molecular Science and Engineering Building, Room 1224
]]> italeb3117837126572026-07-10 19:44:1717837135662026-07-10 19:59:2600eventThis workshop on July 16 consists of one individual in-person/classroom session, which satisfies one hour of the discussion-based RCR compliance training requirement for trainees funded by applicable NSF or NIH awards. Topic on this date: Research Misconduct.]]>2026-07-16T11:00:00-04:002026-07-16T12:00:00-04:002026-07-16T12:00:00-04:002026-07-16 15:00:002026-07-16 16:00:002026-07-16 16:00:002026-07-16T11:00:00-04:002026-07-16T12:00:00-04:00America/New_YorkAmerica/New_Yorkdatetime2026-07-16 11:00:002026-07-16 12:00:00America/New_YorkAmerica/New_Yorkdatetime<![CDATA[Molecular Science & Engineering (MoSE)]]>The RCR Program https://rcr.gatech.edu/contact]]><![CDATA[GT RCR - Topic Areas]]><![CDATA[RCR Compliance Policy Information]]><![CDATA[RCR Compliance Training Matrix]]><![CDATA[GT Responsible Conduct of Research]]><![CDATA[RCR Training Status]]><![CDATA[Ph.D. Dissertation Defense - Ziyi Zhou]]>28475Title: Structure-Aware Task and Motion Planning for Contact-Rich Locomotion and Manipulation
Committee:
Dr. Ye Zhao, ME, Chair, Advisor
Dr. Seth Hutchinson, ECE
Dr. Patricio Vela, ECE
Dr. Samuel Coogan, ECE
Dr. Patrick Wensing, Notre Dame
]]> Daniela Staiculescu117836203002026-07-09 18:05:0017836203402026-07-09 18:05:4000eventRobots operating in the real world — quadrupeds on unstructured terrain, manipulators pressing on compliant substrates, multi-robot teams transporting shared payloads — must simultaneously plan complex motions and reason about contact. This dissertation develops a unified planning-and-control framework organized around one technical motif: every problem admits a structure-aware decomposition solved through alternating coordination between subproblems, jointly targeting efficiency, agility, safety, and scalability. Inside the motion layer, three decompositions are developed: a temporal decomposition for contact-rich trajectory optimization of legged locomotion and force-modulated manipulation; a spatial decomposition yielding a distributed MPC for multi-robot collaborative loco-manipulation with team-size-independent replanning; and a system-level decomposition with inertia-aware centroidal / whole-body coupling that generates and tracks momentum-rich agile motions. Across the task–motion interface, a cross-layer decomposition unifies LTL-based reactive synthesis with mixed-integer convex programming for terrain-adaptive locomotion. Together, the four patterns advance contact-rich robot autonomy and provide a methodological lens for future work bridging model-based optimization and learning-based control.]]>2026-07-16T10:00:00-04:002026-07-16T12:00:00-04:002026-07-16T12:00:00-04:002026-07-16 14:00:002026-07-16 16:00:002026-07-16 16:00:002026-07-16T10:00:00-04:002026-07-16T12:00:00-04:00America/New_YorkAmerica/New_Yorkdatetime2026-07-16 10:00:002026-07-16 12:00:00America/New_YorkAmerica/New_Yorkdatetime<![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[Zoom link]]><![CDATA[Ph.D. Dissertation Defense - Samuel Talkington]]>36804Title: Randomness as a Resource for Electric Power Systems
Committee:
Dr. Daniel K. Molzahn, ECE, Georgia Tech, Advisor
Dr. Saman Zonouz, SCP/ECE, Georgia Tech
Dr. Dmitrii Ostrovskii, Math/ISyE, Georgia Tech
Dr. Justin Romberg, ECE, Georgia Tech
Dr. Le Xie, SEAS, Harvard University
]]> jjones779117824970132026-06-26 18:03:3317825045532026-06-26 20:09:1300eventIn electric power engineering, randomness has generally been understood as exogenous uncertainty that purely hinders operation, planning, and communication goals. This dissertation, in contrast, presents new methods and principles for power engineering that leverage such uncertainty to improve the underlying mathematical and computational tools used to achieve these goals. Two complementary directions organize these chapters. The first argues that the randomness already induced by the challenges of today's power systems can be controlled and understood, asking what worst-case guarantees and what model information can be yielded from such randomness. This includes a suite of concentration inequalities, comprising statistical tools for bounding the fluctuation of electrical quantities of fundamental interest to power engineers. With these tools in hand, we then turn randomness into a controllable probe that reveals which meters to query, how to best predict the behavior of a network model, and how to select control laws behind aggregate electrical load. Inverting this paradigm by intentionally injecting randomness is the second direction. This starts with a vignette showing that dithered, quantized measurements can make a power network topology recoverable from coarse data, yielding a controllable error bound. Then, similar parametric uncertainty is shown to generalize to a much broader range of tasks, culminating in a unification of randomized rounding and differentiable optimization for efficiently solving graph-structured combinatorial optimization problems. A collection of power network topology control problems is then made tractable in the chapters that follow.]]>2026-07-16T10:00:00-04:002026-07-16T12:00:00-04:002026-07-16T12:00:00-04:002026-07-16 14:00:002026-07-16 16:00:002026-07-16 16:00:002026-07-16T10:00:00-04:002026-07-16T12:00:00-04:00America/New_YorkAmerica/New_Yorkdatetime2026-07-16 10:00:002026-07-16 12:00:00America/New_YorkAmerica/New_Yorkdatetime<![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[Zoom Link]]><![CDATA[Unified ERP: Inside the Build]]>36461
Georgia Tech’s Unified ERP team will begin hosting monthly office hours – “Inside the Build” – to help answer questions and provide insights on this transformative project. These virtual Teams sessions will be conducted on the third Thursday of every month from 11 a.m. to noon, with the first session planned for Thursday, July 16.
]]> imaul3117821418672026-06-22 15:24:2717821523052026-06-22 18:18:2500eventGeorgia Tech’s Unified ERP team will begin hosting monthly office hours – “Inside the Build” – to help answer questions and provide insights on this transformative project. ]]>2026-07-16T11:00:00-04:002026-07-16T12:00:00-04:002026-07-16T12:00:00-04:002026-07-16 15:00:002026-07-16 16:00:002026-07-16 16:00:002026-07-16T11:00:00-04:002026-07-16T12:00:00-04:00America/New_YorkAmerica/New_Yorkdatetime2026-07-16 11:00:002026-07-16 12:00:00America/New_YorkAmerica/New_Yorkdatetime<![CDATA[]]><![CDATA[Techmasters (GT Chapter of Toastmasters) Meeting]]>36418 Techmasters Club' is a local chapter of Toastmasters International at Georgia Tech. Our club was formed in 1987 and frequently achieves the annual Toastmasters International designation of 'President's Distinguished.'
In a very friendly manner, our members help each other to improve their communication skills and leadership abilities through a self-paced program and constructive evaluations
Our club is open to the Georgia Tech community and others (no Georgia Tech affiliation is required). If the campus is closed, we do not meet, otherwise, we are meeting in a hybrid format every week!]]> sgagliano3117821414552026-06-22 15:17:3517821414692026-06-22 15:17:4900eventJoin us every Thursday morning to work on your public speaking and leadership skills. Since 1924, Toastmasters International has helped hundreds of thousands of people to communicate more effectively. Our structured, fun and warm environment provide gentle support and feedback. We are all on the same path, participating in self-improvement, one speech at a time!
The PACE Research Facilitation Team offers consulting sessions to all PACE users.
These sessions provide an opportunity for researchers to receive guidance with their research computing objectives and get help resolving problems and/or improving scientific pipelines. We strongly encourage our users to take advantage of these sessions, and we welcome any questions ranging from the initial phase of getting the research initiated on PACE resources to more specific questions related to harnessing PACE computing.
Assistance is also available for ACCESS, a national network of NSF supercomputers.
The PACE Research Facilitation Team offers consulting sessions to all PACE users.
These sessions provide an opportunity for researchers to receive guidance with their research computing objectives and get help resolving problems and/or improving scientific pipelines. We strongly encourage our users to take advantage of these sessions, and we welcome any questions ranging from the initial phase of getting the research initiated on PACE resources to more specific questions related to harnessing PACE computing.
Assistance is also available for ACCESS, a national network of NSF supercomputers.