Essentials of Negotiations and Stakeholder Influence level-sets the participants' understanding of negotiation influence and strengthens preparation, planning and execution activities involved with both simple and complex negotiations. The program includes industry techniques and tools for traditional supplier negotiations, as well as tips for internal cross-functional leadership. Participants walk away with a standard industry and customized individual experience which includes their personal Negotiation Style “DNA” to help them embrace their own natural tendencies and strengths. The program includes mock negotiations to reinforce techniques and tactics immediately in a “no judgement zone” environment.

Who Should Attend

This course is ideal for sourcing initiative leaders, project leaders, business unit leaders, operations managers, sales leaders and procurement & supply management-related professionals who are involved with supplier selection, contract development and supplier performance management.

How You Will Benefit

• Increase emphasis negotiation conditioning and philosophy setting before and throughout the entire sourcing engagement process
• Enhance your toolbox of industry standard negotiation prep tools like the SWOT and BATNA
• Better prepare for negotiations by leveraging knowledge of key negotiation terms and counter-offer tactics
• Improve negotiation table techniques and soft skills to direct and redirect negotiation momentum
• Heighten ability to successfully utilize your traditional "comfort zone" approach in combination with your negotiation team’s strengths by leveraging Personal Negotiation Styles

What Is Covered

• Negotiation Conditioning Overview
• Negotiation Preparation Tools
• Negotiation Execution Techniques
• Stakeholder Engagement & Team Leadership
• Live Negotiations Simulation & Feedback

Contracting and Legal Oversight provides participants with a holistic and integrated understanding of contract law, contract types, key industry standard contract terms, and contract structure to improve their confidence when creating or modifying contract documents. The program is geared to reinforce standards of excellence for professionals who are responsible for delivering contractual agreements and mitigating financial risk for their organization.

The online version of the course is comprised of (3) instructor-led LIVE group webinars, homework, and pre-work (e.g. installing and testing software on your computer, testing connectivity with Canvas LMS and BlueJeans meeting software, etc.) to be completed before the first day of the course.

Who Should Attend

This course is ideal for contract managers, procurement professionals, sourcing initiative leaders, project managers and all procurement & supply management-related professionals involved with bid contract development, contract execution or supplier performance management.

How You Will Benefit

• Increase knowledge base in law of agency concepts to gain more confidence with contracting.
• Enhance understanding of industry standard contract types and contract terms for more robust contract agreements.
• Better leverage sourcing category knowledge to modify existing contract elements for more holistic contract agreements.
• Improve internal contract execution communication for better results.
• Heighten sense of executive financial impact and risk needs to gain leadership early support.

What Is Covered

• Law of Agency Overview
• Contract Agreement Types
• Defining Key Terms
• Contract Structure & Drafting
• Risk Mitigation & Communication

Category Management and Sourcing Leadership is designed to deepen participants' knowledge base of core activities in the procurement & supply management function. The program covers the sourcing process, specifications gathering, common bid package alternatives, cross-functional collaboration and supplier evaluation & selection. Participants will walk away ready to develop bid packages more thoroughly to help drive sourcing decisions for their organizations. This "hands on" delivery focuses on the professional serving as the main liaison between the buying organization and the selling organization in the company sourcing process.

Who Should Attend

This course is ideal for sourcing initiative leaders, procurement professionals, project managers, finance analyst, contract managers and all procurement & supply management-related professionals involved with bid package development, bid package analysis, negotiations preparation, contracting and supplier selection activity.

How You Will Benefit

• Increase knowledge base of solicitation options (i.e. RFI, RFP, RFQ) and which solicitation approach to apply based on your organization's needs
• Enhance understanding of sourcing process and critical steps in the Bid Package development and delivery activities
• Better leverage and utilization of solicitation tools to drive successful development of bid packages
• Improve set up and execution of supplier selection scorecards to aid in identifying best Total Cost of Ownership alternatives
• Heighten understanding of executive communication to leverage leadership support throughout the organization

What Is Covered

• Bid Package Development Overview
• Sourcing Initiative Process Roadmap
• Marketplace Analysis Tools
• Bid Package Alternatives & Design
• Supplier Selection & Communication

To address these challenges, this lecture presents a framework for contact-rich robotic assembly in construction that integrates perception, planning, and control. Within this framework, three complementary approaches are examined: adaptive control to compensate for model mismatch and disturbances; learned sensorimotor policies to handle complex, tight-tolerance interactions for which effective control strategies are difficult to formulate analytically; and a hybrid approach that combines learned policies with adaptive control to improve robustness and enable zero-shot sim-to-real transfer without real-world demonstrations for policy training. Through construction-scale case studies, the lecture highlights key methods, experimental findings, and current limitations of these approaches. It concludes by discussing open challenges and future directions for generalizing across material systems and component geometries, transferring skills between tasks, and extending these methods to longer assembly sequences in construction.

Bio: Dr. Arash Adel is an Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture, a Core Faculty of Princeton Robotics, and an Associated Faculty of the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. He is the founder and director of Adel Research Group (ARG). ARG conducts interdisciplinary research at the intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence, and computational design; the research contributes to resilient, sustainable, and low-carbon construction outlooks and achievements. At the core of ARG’s comprehensive research is investigating human–robot collaborative processes, which tackle fundamental questions related to the future of the design and construction industries and their potential to have a broader impact on inclusive and equitable building culture. Prior to joining Princeton University in 2023, Adel was an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Adel received his Doctorate in Architecture from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and his Master’s in Architecture from Harvard University.

Title: Rethinking Memory: From Long-Horizon Video to Interactive World Models

Abstract: Video generation has made remarkable progress in visual quality, yet turning short clips into continuously evolving, controllable experiences remains a fundamental challenge. A model must preserve what matters from the past while allowing new events to unfold, respond to user input, and remain computationally efficient as generation unfolds. In this talk, I will explore these challenges through a central question: What should a video model remember, and how should it use that memory?

I will present three complementary approaches to rethinking memory in autoregressive video generation. First, Infinity-RoPE (CVPR’26) revisits how temporal context is organized, enabling longer video generation and more responsive control through inference-time interventions. Next, AdaState (NeurIPS’26) replaces a frozen anchor frame with an evolving latent state, balancing temporal consistency with dynamic scene progression. Finally, VideoMLA (NeurIPS’26) rethinks how video models store and access past context, substantially compressing their memory while preserving generation quality.

I will close with broader directions toward controllable world models (SPAWN, NeurIPS’26), physically grounded (HiPhy, NeurIPS’26) and diverse (DPP-GRPO, CVPR’26) video generation models. This research advances a broader vision for generative cinematography, supported by an NSF CAREER’26 award, toward generative worlds that remember the past, respond to our choices, and evolve as we interact with them.

Bio: Pinar Yanardag is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, where she leads GEMLAB (Generative Modeling Lab). Her research focuses on controllable and personalized generative AI, with an emphasis on video generation and interactive world models. Her goal is to build systems that give people greater creative control over generated content and experiences. Since joining Virginia Tech in Fall 2023, her lab has produced over 25 publications at venues including CVPR, ICCV, and NeurIPS. She completed her PhD at Purdue as a Fulbright Fellow and was a postdoctoral researcher at the MIT Media Lab, where her generative AI projects attracted over one million participants and coverage from TIME, The Washington Post, and CNN. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award for her research on generative cinematography, and her research has received support from industry partners including Google, Adobe, and Snap.

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Come hang out, meet other Singaporeans and friends of the community, and grab dinner together. It’s a casual way to meet new people, catch up, and explore food around Atlanta.

Everyone is welcome. Feel free to come by yourself or bring friends!

Open to undergraduate and graduate students | Lunch provided

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Hosted by the Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society (INNS).

About The Transmitter

The Transmitter is an essential resource for the neuroscience community, dedicated to helping scientists at all career stages stay current and build connections. The publication aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. As part of that mission, The Transmitter offers a steady stream of up-to-date news and analysis of the field, written by journalists and scientists, and practical tools, including trackers for upcoming courses and events as well as resources specifically geared toward early-career researchers.

About Paige Miranda

Paige Miranda is the partnerships manager at The Transmitter, where she focuses on expanding audience engagement, as well as designing and building new tools for the neuroscience community.

Prior to joining the team, Paige was a freelance podcast producer and science journalist. She also trained as a neuroscientist, studying the molecules that orchestrate long-term memories during her Ph.D. at NYU.

Join Paige Miranda, Partnerships Manager at The Transmitter, to learn more about the publication and the resources and opportunities it offers the neuroscience community. Paige will introduce The Transmitter's approach to neuroscience news and storytelling, share opportunities for researchers to contribute their expertise through writing, and discuss what the team looks for in potential pitches and contributors.

Come learn more about The Transmitter, explore ways to get involved, and bring your questions for an open conversation.

Faculty, postdocs, Ph.D. students, and research scientists are welcome | Coffee and light snacks provided

RSVP required. Space is limited, so early registration is encouraged.

Hosted by the Institute for Neuroscience, Neurotechnology, and Society (INNS).

About The Transmitter

The Transmitter is an essential resource for the neuroscience community, dedicated to helping scientists at all career stages stay current and build connections. The publication aims to deliver useful information, insights and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research. As part of that mission, The Transmitter offers a steady stream of up-to-date news and analysis of the field, written by journalists and scientists, and practical tools, including trackers for upcoming courses and events as well as resources specifically geared toward early-career researchers.

About Paige Miranda

Paige Miranda is the partnerships manager at The Transmitter, where she focuses on expanding audience engagement, as well as designing and building new tools for the neuroscience community.

Prior to joining the team, Paige was a freelance podcast producer and science journalist. She also trained as a neuroscientist, studying the molecules that orchestrate long-term memories during her Ph.D. at NYU.

Join us for an industry panel from 5:00 - 6:30pm featuring senior corporate, startup, and talent leaders, followed by a catered open networking social from 6:30 - 8:00 PM in the lobby of Georgia Institute of Technology's new George Tower Scheller Tower. Whether you're a student mapping your path, a professional looking to pivot, or a company wanting to reach Georgia's next generation of cleantech and sustainability talent, this evening is for you.

Because of the partnership between TAG, GACIH, and GaTech, this event is free for students, startups, and Drawdown Georgia Business Compact Members. To register as a student, a startup, or a compact member, simply fill out the linked registration form.

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

Zoom link: https://gatech.zoom.us/j/94836147157

Meeting ID: 948 3614 7157

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

Zoom link: https://gatech.zoom.us/j/94836147157

Meeting ID: 948 3614 7157

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

Zoom link: https://gatech.zoom.us/j/92119710354

Meeting ID: 921 1971 0354

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

Zoom link: https://gatech.zoom.us/j/92119710354

Meeting ID: 921 1971 0354

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

Zoom link: https://gatech.zoom.us/j/92119710354

Meeting ID: 921 1971 0354

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

Zoom link: https://gatech.zoom.us/j/92119710354

Meeting ID: 921 1971 0354

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

Zoom link: https://gatech.zoom.us/j/94836147157

Meeting ID: 948 3614 7157

Abstract: Following Mathlib's success in building a shared foundation for formalized mathematics, CSLib is a community-oriented effort to build a similar infrastructure for computer science and software in the Lean theorem prover.

In this talk, I will present CSLib's current state, including its architecture, governance, organization, and how to contribute. Rather than giving only a high-level overview, I will use minimal working examples to illustrate the library's current API. I will showcase abstractions and definitions already available, ranging from computational paradigms to modeling and programming languages, logics, algorithms, and infrastructure to verify their properties.

I will also introduce the CSLib Initiative, supported by Renaissance Philanthropy, which aims to coordinate and accelerate the development of the library and its surrounding ecosystem. I will discuss the CSLib Initiative roadmap

Finally, I will show how CSLib is already being used beyond the library itself, through community projects, textbooks, courses, and large-scale verification efforts. These include Software Foundations in Lean, the Functional Algorithms Design and Computational Semantics with Lean, and the port of Amazon's s2n-bignum formal proofs to Lean.

Bio: Alexandre Rademaker is the Director of the CSLib Initiative at Renaissance Philanthropy. CSLib is a global open-source effort to build a library of formalized computer science in Lean. He also cooperates with NYU in DARPA's ExpMath program, which aims to accelerate mathematics research with AI.

Alexandre is also a professor at EMAp/FGV (Applied Mathematics School, Getulio Vargas Foundation), where he has been teaching for about 20 years. He worked at IBM Research for 12 years until April 2025, when he left to lead the Specification IDE project at Atlas Computing, part of the Formal Verification of Software initiative funded by Schmidt Sciences under their Science of Trustworthy AI program.

During his PhD, he held research fellowships at Microsoft Research, working with the Z3 SMT solver team, and at SRI International. He has published more than 100 papers and spent much of his career leading open-source research collaborations with international communities, working with computational linguistics and building language resources. He was publication chair of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) and has served on the boards of research associations in Brazil and internationally.

Alexandre received a PhD in Computer Science from PUC-Rio, where his thesis on proof theory for description logics was published by Springer, and is based in Rio de Janeiro.

Attendees will gain valuable insights into Québec’s unique economy, workplace culture, and higher education pathways.

Please note: This event will be conducted entirely in French.