RSVP on Suitable to attend!

Lunch will be provided at 12:30pm in the JMHP office lounge, and then we will be leaving at 1:00pm from West Village via carpool. We will be back on campus by 5:00pm.

Please Note: Closed-toe closed-heel shoes are required. Volunteers must be able to stand for extended periods of time. Some individuals may be asked to lift boxes up to 40 pounds.

YOU MUST RSVP IN SUITABLE AND REGISTER THROUGH THE ACFB WEBSITE IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE. JMHP students can find both sign-up links here: https://app.suitable.co/institution/4673/activities/771405 

Faculty and staff are also welcome to learn how they can support students and get involved as reviewers!

Whether you're new to campus, new to Atlanta, or just looking for a break from problem sets, come through. No experience needed, no cost to attend, and no pressure. Just a good evening with good people.

When: Thursday, October 29th, 2026, 7:00 –9:30 PM
Where: Tech Rec, John Lewis Student Center

Cost: Free - food and lanes are on us

All Georgia Tech students are welcome regardless of background or affiliation. Bring a friend!

Theme: The Future of HVAC and Building Systems: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice

What to expect
Educational sessions and panels in two tracks: HVAC in Practice (Designing the Built Environment) and Research and Innovation (Shaping What's Next)
An industry career fair with employers from across the region, including Automated Logic, Cullum Mechanical, Mingledorff's, Lincoln Associates, Knauf, Whole Building Systems, JMP Engineered Building Solutions, Holder Construction, Shultz Engineering Group, Triad Mechanical Contractors, Setty, Carrier and Moseley, with more to be announced
Keynote presentations over breakfast, lunch and dinner
A student research competition with final presentations on Saturday, with funding awarded to the winners for research in sustainability and building technologies
Networking with students from neighboring universities and with local design and industry partners

Friday, October 16, Georgia Tech Global Learning Center
9:00 AM to 10:00 AM: Registration and breakfast
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM: Welcome and keynote, The Future of HVAC and Building Systems: Bridging Research and Practice
11:15 AM to 12:15 PM: Concurrent sessions. Track A: Building Mechanical System Design. Track B: Building Systems Optimization
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM: Lunch and Learn, Resume, Interviews and Etiquette
2:15 PM to 3:15 PM: Concurrent sessions. Track A: Owner Challenges and Code Minimum Design. Track B: Integrated Systems Case Study
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM: Industry Career Fair
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM: Dinner and Learn, Professional Society Involvement, at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center

Saturday, October 17, Georgia Tech Global Learning Center
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM: Breakfast
8:30 AM to 9:30 AM: Session 3, Technology, Built Environment and Wellbeing
9:45 AM to 12:15 PM: Student Competition Final Presentations
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM: Lunch and Learn, The Various Roles of the Engineering Community
2:15 PM to 3:15 PM: Session 4, From Academic Research to Industry: A Real-World Startup Case Study
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM: Conference wrap-up and award announcements

Who should attend
The summit is open to all Georgia Tech students and to students from universities across ASHRAE Region IV. Students in mechanical engineering, building construction, architecture, civil and environmental engineering, and related fields will find the sessions most directly relevant, but all majors are welcome and no prior experience with ASHRAE is needed.

Registration
Registration is required for all attendees through the ASHRAE Atlanta Chapter: https://www.ashraeatlanta.org/event-6749666

Georgia Tech students: select the Local Atlanta Student Registration ticket. There is no fee for local Atlanta students who do not need a hotel room on Friday night.

Students traveling from other Region IV schools: select the Non Local Student Registration ticket, which carries a $50.00 non-refundable registration fee. Scholarships are available for 80 traveling students and cover a one-night stay at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center on Friday, October 16 plus a one-year ASHRAE student membership, a combined value of $300. Priority goes to full-time students who are active members of their ASHRAE student branch.

Georgia Tech students are especially encouraged to attend the Industry Career Fair on Friday from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM. Bring copies of your resume.

Hosted by the ASHRAE Georgia Tech Student Branch with support from the ASHRAE Atlanta Chapter and our summit sponsors. Questions can be directed to the ASHRAE Georgia Tech Student Branch at gatech.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/ashrae.

All Georgia Tech students are welcome—regardless of major or background. Come meet other students, ask questions, and learn how you can get involved!

FPF maintains and develops SecureDrop, a free whistleblower submission system licensed under the GPLv3. SecureDrop runs on the Tor network and lets sources securely and anonymously share documents with journalists - and it's not a toy project. It's deployed by major news organizations around the world, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and ProPublica. Originally developed by the late transparency activist Aaron Swartz, SecureDrop has been maintained by FPF since 2013 and has helped break some of the biggest stories of the past decade.

Dr. Helsby oversees FPF's engineering teams and previously led development of SecureDrop itself. She holds a doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Chicago, was a founding engineer at Penumbra Labs working on privacy-preserving payments, and co-founded the Chicago-based civil liberties group Lucy Parsons Labs. She's an engineer, researcher, and self-described cypherpunk - and she's here to talk about it!

This is a rare chance to learn how you can get involved in SecureDrop and contribute to copyleft code that real people depend on in real life - software where privacy, security, and press freedom aren't afterthoughts but the whole point. Whether you're into security, Python, systems engineering, documentation, design, or translation, there's a place for you in the project.

Open to everyone, regardless of background - no CS experience needed. Just bring questions

Each seminar will feature three speakers who will be given 10-15 minutes to present their current research in an accessible manner for broad audiences, there will then be a 10-minute questions from the audience and feedback from the CoS Young Alumni Board Panel.

All Georgia Tech students are welcome to attend. 

Event Details:

Making Science Accessible + CoS Young Alumni Board Networking

Oct 21st, 2026: 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm Talks, 2:15 -3:00 pm Refreshments and Networking
MoSE 3201A, 901 Atlantic Dr. N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30332

 

Abstracts due October 9th:

Submit here 

Please RSVP if you wish to attend.

About our organization: SKY

SKY Campus Happiness is a comprehensive well-being and resilience program designed to help students, faculty and staff achieve their fullest potential. In this 40 minutes live interactive session we will share:

• how to overcome from mind wandering
• a powerful breathing technique
• a guided meditation

We would love to see you in this workshop and grow on the self care journey together! If you have any questions please write to us at yesplusgt@gmail.com.

Our inspiration

We are an open space to drop in and find calm. Knowing the benefits of breath-work and meditation, we love to share these tools with more people.

A 2020 study at Yale that explored mental wellness interventions with surprising results. Discover how SKY Breath Meditation/ SKY Happiness Retreat created significant improvements in stress, anxiety, depression, mental health, social connectedness, mindfulness, and positive emotions for Yale students.

Yale press release

About our organization: SKY

SKY Campus Happiness is a comprehensive well-being and resilience program designed to help students, faculty and staff achieve their fullest potential. In this 40 minutes live interactive session we will share:

• how to overcome from mind wandering
• a powerful breathing technique
• a guided meditation

We would love to see you in this workshop and grow on the self care journey together! If you have any questions please write to us at yesplusgt@gmail.com.

Our inspiration

We are an open space to drop in and find calm. Knowing the benefits of breath-work and meditation, we love to share these tools with more people.

A 2020 study at Yale that explored mental wellness interventions with surprising results. Discover how SKY Breath Meditation/ SKY Happiness Retreat created significant improvements in stress, anxiety, depression, mental health, social connectedness, mindfulness, and positive emotions for Yale students.

Yale press release

• Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
• Emory University
• Florida State University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Georgia State University
• Medical University of South Carolina
• Mercer University
• Morehouse School of Medicine
• University of Alabama at Birmingham
• University of Florida
• University of Georgia
• University of Miami
  
   

In January 2014, Georgia Tech launched an online Master of Science in Computer Science for under $7,000 — a fraction of the $40,000 charged by comparable public universities and $70,000 at private institutions. What began with 5 courses and 380 students has become, by every measure, the largest academic degree program in the world in any subject: 52 courses, 19,000 enrolled students, and 16,500 graduates — more than 7,000 in the last three years alone. Applications doubled in the last 4 years to over 11,000 and are still climbing after more than a decade.

Harvard researchers concluded that OMSCS is the first rigorous evidence that an online degree program can increase educational attainment, projecting it will raise the number of annual MS CS graduates in the United States by at least 7%. The program has catalyzed more than 50 similar programs at over 30 universities worldwide. In November 2023, Forbes called it the best degree program ever.

This talk describes how OMSCS came about, what Georgia Tech has learned from twelve years of running it, and what it reveals about the future of higher education — a future in which online learning plays a far larger and more consequential role than most institutions have yet imagined.

Join us for MOVE's 17th annual Into the Streets on October 17th! Interested in signing up, spots are limited to 15 volunteers per event, use the link below to sign up before October 13th 11:59PM!

https://gatech.campuslabs.com/engage/submitter/form/start/738566

Here is some more details: 

Trees Atlanta

What you’ll do: Volunteers will work with Trees Atlanta on a community tree-planting project in East Atlanta. Volunteers will help plant and care for trees, which may include digging, planting, mulching, and cleaning up the planting area.

Time: 9 AM–12 PM

Location: Off Campus

LOV

What you’ll do: Volunteers will participate in a service project with LOV on the Georgia Tech campus. The specific service activities will be led by the LOV team and will focus on supporting the organization’s community service efforts.

Time: 9 AM–12 PM

Location: Georgia Tech

Free Bikes 4 Kidz

What you’ll do: Volunteers will support Free Bikes 4 Kidz by helping prepare and organize bicycles that will be provided to children in the community. Depending on the assigned role, volunteers may help inspect bikes, clean them, organize equipment, or assist with other event tasks.

Time: 9 AM–12 PM
Location: Off Campus

LifeLine Healthy Pets

What you’ll do: Volunteers will support LifeLine Animal Project’s Healthy Pets program, which provides accessible veterinary services and resources to help community members keep their pets healthy. Volunteers may assist with event setup, registration, directing attendees, organizing materials, and other activities that help the clinic run smoothly.

Time: 8:30 AM–11 AM

Location: Off Campus

Come join us for an afternoon of music, community, and good food!

Players of all experience levels are welcome!

Come out to our GBM to hear what's coming up this semester! We'll go over upcoming events, share important updates, and talk about ways you can get involved with the club.

Whether you're a longtime member or brand new, everyone is welcome. Bring your questions and ideas, and come hang out with us.

We hope to see you there!

All Georgia Tech students are welcome to attend. 

This seminar series will feature graduate students from the CoS community presenting their research in plain language

and provide opportunity for students to interact with their peers outside of their department and field! 

Each seminar will feature three speakers who will be given 10-15 minutes to present their current research in an accessible

manner for broad audiences, there will then be a 10-minute questions from the audience and feedback from the CoS Young Alumni Board Panel.

Event Details:

Making Science Accessible + CoS Young Alumni Board Networking

Nov 18th, 2026: 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm Talks, 2:15 -3:00 pm Refreshments and Networking
MoSE 3201A, 901 Atlantic Dr. N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30332

 

Abstracts due October 9th:

Submit here 

Please RSVP if you wish to attend.

ABOUT THE ACADEMY:
This eight-week proposal development academy will orient researchers to NIH and its most frequently used award mechanisms – the R01. This program will review the core components of R01 applications, provide suggestions for structuring your proposal, and demystify the review process.

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE? 
This academy is best suited for early-career faculty members and others who have not yet secured an R01 or equivalent award. Applicants at any stage of readiness are welcome, and those committed to applying within the next six to 12 months are particularly encouraged to join.

WHEN & WHERE?
Courses will take place via Zoom on Mondays from 12 - 1 p.m., Sept. 28 - Nov. 16.

ABOUT THE ACADEMY:
This eight-week proposal development academy will orient researchers to NIH and its most frequently used award mechanisms – the R01. This program will review the core components of R01 applications, provide suggestions for structuring your proposal, and demystify the review process.

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE? 
This academy is best suited for early-career faculty members and others who have not yet secured an R01 or equivalent award. Applicants at any stage of readiness are welcome, and those committed to applying within the next six to 12 months are particularly encouraged to join.

WHEN & WHERE?
Courses will take place via Zoom on Mondays from 12 - 1 p.m., Sept. 28 - Nov. 16.

ABOUT THE ACADEMY:
This eight-week proposal development academy will orient researchers to NIH and its most frequently used award mechanisms – the R01. This program will review the core components of R01 applications, provide suggestions for structuring your proposal, and demystify the review process.

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE? 
This academy is best suited for early-career faculty members and others who have not yet secured an R01 or equivalent award. Applicants at any stage of readiness are welcome, and those committed to applying within the next six to 12 months are particularly encouraged to join.

WHEN & WHERE?
Courses will take place via Zoom on Mondays from 12 - 1 p.m., Sept. 28 - Nov. 16.

ABOUT THE ACADEMY:
This eight-week proposal development academy will orient researchers to NIH and its most frequently used award mechanisms – the R01. This program will review the core components of R01 applications, provide suggestions for structuring your proposal, and demystify the review process.

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE? 
This academy is best suited for early-career faculty members and others who have not yet secured an R01 or equivalent award. Applicants at any stage of readiness are welcome, and those committed to applying within the next six to 12 months are particularly encouraged to join.

WHEN & WHERE?
Courses will take place via Zoom on Mondays from 12 - 1 p.m., Sept. 28 - Nov. 16.

ABOUT THE ACADEMY:
This eight-week proposal development academy will orient researchers to NIH and its most frequently used award mechanisms – the R01. This program will review the core components of R01 applications, provide suggestions for structuring your proposal, and demystify the review process.

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE? 
This academy is best suited for early-career faculty members and others who have not yet secured an R01 or equivalent award. Applicants at any stage of readiness are welcome, and those committed to applying within the next six to 12 months are particularly encouraged to join.

WHEN & WHERE?
Courses will take place via Zoom on Mondays from 12 - 1 p.m., Sept. 28 - Nov. 16.

ABOUT THE ACADEMY:
This eight-week proposal development academy will orient researchers to NIH and its most frequently used award mechanisms – the R01. This program will review the core components of R01 applications, provide suggestions for structuring your proposal, and demystify the review process.

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE? 
This academy is best suited for early-career faculty members and others who have not yet secured an R01 or equivalent award. Applicants at any stage of readiness are welcome, and those committed to applying within the next six to 12 months are particularly encouraged to join.

WHEN & WHERE?
Courses will take place via Zoom on Mondays from 12 - 1 p.m., Sept. 28 - Nov. 16.

ABOUT THE ACADEMY:
This eight-week proposal development academy will orient researchers to NIH and its most frequently used award mechanisms – the R01. This program will review the core components of R01 applications, provide suggestions for structuring your proposal, and demystify the review process.

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE? 
This academy is best suited for early-career faculty members and others who have not yet secured an R01 or equivalent award. Applicants at any stage of readiness are welcome, and those committed to applying within the next six to 12 months are particularly encouraged to join.

WHEN & WHERE?
Courses will take place via Zoom on Mondays from 12 - 1 p.m., Sept. 28 - Nov. 16.

We will go over different types of cabling needles, a standard LC/RC, and reading cabling charts!

Members/visitors are also welcome to come to the meeting and continue working on their existing projects.

Curious about joining the competition team? Come find out what it's all about! We'll walk through a set of slides covering what the team does, what to expect, and how you can get involved.

No experience needed. Whether you're a seasoned competitor or just thinking about trying it out, everyone is welcome. Come hang out, ask questions, and meet the team.

We hope to see you there!

All are welcome!

Food and drinks will be provided - come hang out with us in IC 105 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM for a relaxed movie night.

All students are welcome!

Make sure to dress appropriately, wear sunscreen, and bring water as we'll be doing lots of work every week. You can also bring a bag if you'd like to bring vegetables home with you. Gloves are provided!

The Community Garden is located on the IC lawn adjacent to the Exhibition Hall.

For workday updates (including cancellations and postponements due to weather), join our GroupMe here: https://groupme.com/join_group/92658464/LPZ4oucJ

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Make sure to dress appropriately, wear sunscreen, and bring water as we'll be doing lots of work every week. You can also bring a bag if you'd like to bring vegetables home with you. Gloves are provided!

The Community Garden is located on the IC lawn adjacent to the Exhibition Hall.

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Make sure to dress appropriately, wear sunscreen, and bring water as we'll be doing lots of work every week. You can also bring a bag if you'd like to bring vegetables home with you. Gloves are provided!

The Community Garden is located on the IC lawn adjacent to the Exhibition Hall.

For workday updates (including cancellations and postponements due to weather), join our GroupMe here: https://groupme.com/join_group/92658464/LPZ4oucJ

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Make sure to dress appropriately, wear sunscreen, and bring water as we'll be doing lots of work every week. You can also bring a bag if you'd like to bring vegetables home with you. Gloves are provided!

The Community Garden is located on the IC lawn adjacent to the Exhibition Hall.

For workday updates (including cancellations and postponements due to weather), join our GroupMe here: https://groupme.com/join_group/92658464/LPZ4oucJ

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Make sure to dress appropriately, wear sunscreen, and bring water as we'll be doing lots of work every week. You can also bring a bag if you'd like to bring vegetables home with you. Gloves are provided!

The Community Garden is located on the IC lawn adjacent to the Exhibition Hall.

For workday updates (including cancellations and postponements due to weather), join our GroupMe here: https://groupme.com/join_group/92658464/LPZ4oucJ

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Make sure to dress appropriately, wear sunscreen, and bring water as we'll be doing lots of work every week. You can also bring a bag if you'd like to bring vegetables home with you. Gloves are provided!

The Community Garden is located on the IC lawn adjacent to the Exhibition Hall.

For workday updates (including cancellations and postponements due to weather), join our GroupMe here: https://groupme.com/join_group/92658464/LPZ4oucJ

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Make sure to dress appropriately, wear sunscreen, and bring water as we'll be doing lots of work every week. You can also bring a bag if you'd like to bring vegetables home with you. Gloves are provided!

The Community Garden is located on the IC lawn adjacent to the Exhibition Hall.

For workday updates (including cancellations and postponements due to weather), join our GroupMe here: https://groupme.com/join_group/92658464/LPZ4oucJ

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Make sure to dress appropriately, wear sunscreen, and bring water as we'll be doing lots of work every week. You can also bring a bag if you'd like to bring vegetables home with you. Gloves are provided!

The Community Garden is located on the IC lawn adjacent to the Exhibition Hall.

For workday updates (including cancellations and postponements due to weather), join our GroupMe here: https://groupme.com/join_group/92658464/LPZ4oucJ

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Make sure to dress appropriately, wear sunscreen, and bring water as we'll be doing lots of work every week. You can also bring a bag if you'd like to bring vegetables home with you. Gloves are provided!

The Community Garden is located on the IC lawn adjacent to the Exhibition Hall.

For workday updates (including cancellations and postponements due to weather), join our GroupMe here: https://groupme.com/join_group/92658464/LPZ4oucJ

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Make sure to dress appropriately, wear sunscreen, and bring water as we'll be doing lots of work every week. You can also bring a bag if you'd like to bring vegetables home with you. Gloves are provided!

The Community Garden is located on the IC lawn adjacent to the Exhibition Hall.

For workday updates (including cancellations and postponements due to weather), join our GroupMe here: https://groupme.com/join_group/92658464/LPZ4oucJ

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Host: Yao Wang 

Title: Exploring many-body excitons with resonant inelastic X‑ray scattering

Abstract: Excitons—correlated electron–hole pairs—play a central role in the optical and electronic properties of solids. In quantum materials, strong electronic correlations and exchange interactions can produce unconventional many-body excitons whose momentum dependence, symmetry, and coupling to magnetism remain poorly understood. In this talk, I will show how resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) [1], with its combined sensitivity to energy, momentum, and excitation symmetry, provides a powerful view of these states. I will discuss magnetically propagating Hund’s excitons in NiPS3 [2], dispersive dark excitons in CrI3 [3], and anisotropic excitonic states in CrSBr [4]. Together, these results illustrate how excitons can encode and transmit the intertwined spin, orbital, and charge character of quantum materials. I will conclude with an outlook on using ultrafast pump–probe RIXS to create and track such states away from equilibrium.

References

[1] M. Mitrano, S. Johnston, Y.-J. Kim, and M. P. M. Dean, Exploring Quantum Materials with Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering, Phys. Rev. 
X 14, 40501 (2024).

[2] W. He, Y. Shen, K. Wohlfeld, J. Sears, J. Li, J. Pelliciari, M. Walicki, S. Johnston, E. Baldini, V. Bisogni, M. Mitrano, and M. P. M. Dean, 
Magnetically propagating Hund's exciton in van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS3
, Nature Communications 15, 3496 (2024).

[3] W. He, J. Sears, F. Barantani, T. Kim, J. W. Villanova, T. Berlijn, M. Lajer, M. A. McGuire, J. Pelliciari, V. Bisogni, S. Johnston, E. Baldini, M. 
Mitrano, and M. P. M. Dean, Dispersive Dark Excitons in van der Waals Ferromagnet CrI3
, Phys. Rev. X 15, 11042 (2025).

[4] J. Sears, B. Zager, W. He, C. A. Occhialini, Y. Shen, M. Lajer, J. W. Villanova, T. Berlijn, F. Yakhou-Harris, N. B. Brookes, D. G. Chica, X. Roy, 
E. Baldini, J. Pelliciari, V. Bisogni, S. Johnston, M. Mitrano, and M. P. M. Dean, Observation of Anisotropic Dispersive Dark-Exciton 
Dynamics in CrSBr, Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 146503 (2025).

Bio: I am the X-ray Scattering Group Leader at Brookhaven and run a research program that focuses on resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) of quantum materials. My research interests include complex oxides, strongly spin–orbit-coupled materials, quantum heterostructures, non-equilibrium states, and topology in crystalline materials. I earned my PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2010. My work has been recognized with a Department of Energy Early Career Award in 2014 and the Distinction of Tenure from Brookhaven in 2022, and I currently serve on the editorial board of Physical Review X.

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All students are welcome.

You can find the list of papers we’ve discussed at the link below:

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Transfer students will share what starting at Tech was like for them: what surprised them, what helped, and what they wish they had known sooner. Every student is welcome to join that conversation. If you came to Tech as a first-year, this is a chance to meet transfer classmates, hear a different side of campus life, and learn how to support friends, roommates, and project partners who are new here.

You will also leave knowing more about the academic and campus resources Tech offers. Most of these offices serve all students, not just transfers, and the panelists can point you to the right contact for whatever you need.

Come with questions. Stay for the small-group conversations. Open to all Georgia Tech students.

Every Georgia Tech student is welcome. Lanes and tables are open to whoever shows up, and groups get mixed as people arrive, so you will play alongside students you would not meet in class. Along the way you can learn what the Bridge Program is, how it connects Atlanta Metropolitan State College and Georgia Tech, and what the transfer path looks like from the inside.

Come solo or bring friends, and stay for as long as you like. Open to all Georgia Tech students.

Date: Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026
Time: 1:30–4:45 p.m.
Location: Marcus Nanotechnology Building, Conference Rooms 1116–1118
Format: In person and online

Program

• 1:30 p.m. | Electron Beam Lithography Fabricated Gratings for Space Applications | Fabien Grisé, Penn State University
  • Fabien Grisé will discuss the use of electron beam lithography to fabricate diffraction gratings for future space telescopes. The presentation will address nanoscale patterning, large-area writing, stitching control, resist and dose optimization, and fabrication considerations for X-ray, extreme-ultraviolet, and far-ultraviolet applications.
• 2:15 p.m. | Electron Beam Lithography from Elionix’s Perspective | Lukas Stampfer, STS-Elionix
  • Lukas Stampfer will provide a vendor’s perspective on the inner workings of electron beam lithography systems, the technical trade-offs involved in their development, and strategies for addressing equipment-related effects that can influence exposure results.
• 3 p.m. | Coffee Break
• 3:15 p.m. | Advanced Data Preparation and Techniques for Optimized Patterning | Kaustubh Vyas, GenISys GmbH
  • Kaustubh Vyas will examine the data preparation steps that help translate a design file into a successfully fabricated structure. Topics will include machine-specific fracturing, shot placement, writing order, field control, proximity-effect correction, simulation, and scanning electron microscopy-based metrology.
• 4 p.m. | Electron-Beam Lithography for Photonic Device Fabrication: Applications and Practical Considerations | Ashkan Zandi, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Ashkan Zandi will discuss the development and practical implementation of electron beam lithography processes for integrated optics, metaphotonic devices, and grayscale-fabricated three-dimensional structures. The presentation will highlight resist selection, exposure-dose optimization, proximity effects, pattern fidelity, development conditions, reproducibility, and fabrication yield.
• 4:45 p.m. | Adjourn

About the Speakers

Fabien Grisé is an associate research professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State University. His research focuses on diffraction-grating technology for future NASA space telescopes, including electron beam lithography fabrication for X-ray, extreme-ultraviolet, and far-ultraviolet gratings.

Lukas Stampfer has served as an application engineer for European and North American customers at STS-Elionix since 2021. He earned a doctorate in quantum transport from the University of Copenhagen and a master’s degree in condensed matter physics from the Technical University of Munich.

Kaustubh Vyas works across applications engineering, product improvement, and technical sales at GenISys. His background includes III-V and silicon photonics, and his current work focuses on lithography data preparation, predictive simulation, and process improvement.

Ashkan Zandi is a research faculty member in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research spans nanofabrication, integrated photonics, metaphotonics, biosensors, quantum sensing, and biomedical engineering.

Sponsors

This seminar is sponsored by STS-Elionix and GenISys GmbH.

Please join us for coffee and an informal discussion of this incident and what it implies about AI safety and security.  We will be joined by members of the AI Safety Initiative, who hosted an event about this incident last month.

Georgia Tech students, faculty, and staff are welcome. If you do not have access to Coda, near the beginning of the event we will have a staff member or student waiting by the reception desk near the elevators to escort people up.

This ceremony features the following students:

• Bachelor's
  • College of Engineering
    • BSBMED, BSCMPE, BSEE, BSIE
  • College of Sciences
    • BSAOS, BSAPHY, BSASTR, BSBCHM, BSBIO, BSCHEM, BSEAS, BSENVS, BSMTH, BSNEUR, BSPHYS, BSPSYC
  • Scheller College of Business
    • BSBA
• Master's
  • College of Engineering
    • MSAE, MSBMED, MSECE, MSHS, MSIE, MSOR, MSSCE
  • College of Sciences
    • MSBINF, MSBIO, MSCHEM, MSEAS, MSMTH, MSPHYS, MSPSY
  • Scheller College of Business
    • MBA, MBAGB, MBAMT, MS-MGT, MSQCF

All ceremonies will be live streamed and will also be available for viewing after the event.

General information can be found at commencement.gatech.edu.

This ceremony features the following students:

• Bachelor's
  • College of Design
    • BSARCH, BSCNSM, BSID, BSMT
  • College of Engineering
    • BSAE, BSCE, BSCHBE, BSENVE, BSME
• Master's
  • College of Design
    • MCRP, MID, MRED, MSARCH, MSBCFM, MSGIST, MSUA, MSUD
  • College of Engineering
    • MSANLT, MSBIOE, MSBMED-GT, MSCE, MSCHE, MSME, MSMP, MSROBO, MSSTAT

All ceremonies will be live streamed and will also be available for viewing after the event.

General information can be found at commencement.gatech.edu.

This ceremony features the following students:

• Bachelor's
  • College of Computing
    • BSCM, BSCS
  • College of Engineering
    • BSMSE, BSNRE
  • Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
    • BSALIS, BSECON, BSEIA, BSGEML, BSHTS, BSIAML, BSINTA, BSLMC, BSPUBP
• Master's
  • College of Computing
    • MSCS, MSCSE, MSCSEC, MSHCI
  • College of Engineering
    • MSENVE, MSESM, MSMSE, MSNE
  • Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
    • MSCSEC, MSALIS, MSDM, MSECON, MSEEM, MSGLDV, MSGMC, MSHSTS, MSIAST, MSISEC, MSPUBP

All ceremonies will be live streamed and will also be available for viewing after the event.

General information can be found at commencement.gatech.edu.

This ceremony will feature the following students:

All ceremonies will be live streamed and will also be available for viewing after the event.

General information can be found at commencement.gatech.edu.

All ceremonies will be live streamed and will also be available for viewing after the event.

General information can be found at commencement.gatech.edu.

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Abstract: This talk describes the progress in analysis and optimization of Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and Partially Observable MDPs (POMDPs) with infinite state spaces and possibly noncompact action sets. We shall also discuss applications to inventory control and to controlled linear Gaussian systems. 
 

Bio: Eugene A. Feinberg received MS in Applied Mathematics and Computer Engineering from Moscow University of Transportation, Russia, in 1976 and Ph.D. in Probability and Statistics from Vilnius University, Lithuania, in 1979. Currently he is Distinguished Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics of Stony Brook University.

His research interests include stochastic models of operations research, probability theory, real analysis, Markov Decision Processes, and applications of operations research and statistics to engineering, biology, and medicine. He has published more than 100 papers and edited the Handbook on Markov Decision Processes. His research has been partially supported by the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, National Institute of Health, New York Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research, and private industry. He has served as a Council Member of the INFORMS Applied Probability Society and on several editorial boards. He is a fellow of INFORMS.

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

Renzhi Sun    

Advisor:  Dr. Chunhui Du, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology

Defect Spin Quantum Sensing of Magnetic Dynamics in Low-Dimensional Materials

Monday, October 12, 2026 

11:00 a.m.      

Howey W401

Committee Members:

Dr. Michael Chapman, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology 

Dr. Zhigang Jiang, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Hailong Wang, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology 

Sana Aminnaji

School of Biological Sciences

Prospective coding of task state in cerebellar Purkinje cell complex spikes

Wednesday, October 7, 2026, at 9:00 am

In Person Location: Cherry Emerson 204

Meeting Link

Open to the Community

Advisor:

Dr. Farzaneh Najafi (School of Biological Sciences)

Committee Members:

Dr. Timothy C. Cope (School of Biological Sciences)

Dr. Audrey Sederberg (School of Psychology, School of Physics)

Dr. Hannah Choi (School of Mathematics)

Dr. Dobromir Rahnev (School of Psychology)

Abstract:

The cerebellum is the brain's canonical learning machine. In the classical account, climbing fibers from the inferior olive deliver an error signal to Purkinje cells, evoking complex spikes that trigger plasticity and correct the next movement. This account is retrospective: the complex spike reports what has already gone wrong. My thesis asks whether these same signals also look forward — whether, before an expected event, Purkinje cell activity reflects what the animal expects and how confidently it expects it. I test this using two-photon calcium imaging of Purkinje cell dendrites in behaving mice, across two paradigms that share animals and imaging field while manipulating certainty by design.

First, I characterize how mice solve a timing task and how complex spikes relate to their internal estimate of its rule. Head-fixed mice produce a two-push joystick sequence whose required interval alternates unpredictably between short and long blocks, so the animal must infer which rule is in force. Mice adapt at trial, block and session timescales, and state-space modeling shows they switch among a small number of timing strategies rather than drifting continuously. In the same animals, complex spike responses separate into groups with distinct sensory, movement and reward profiles that reproduce the known microzonal organization of climbing fiber input. In the quiet interval between trials — containing no stimulus, no required movement and no reward — activity in the movement- and reward-related groups is lower before trials that will be rewarded than before trials that will not, in every animal and every task variant, and above a directly measured slow-drift baseline.