Past Events

Sep
14

Democratizing Robot Learning and Teaming

New advances in robotics and autonomy offer a promise of revitalizing final assembly manufacturing, assisting in personalized at-home healthcare, and even scaling the power of earth-bound scientists for robotic space exploration.

Sep
7

Shape Machine: From software to practice

What would it mean if we could select any part (shape) of a CAD model and use it to find (⌘F) all its geometrical instances in the model (or other CAD models for that matter) – same size, larger, smaller, rotated, reflected or transformed in some way?

Oct
12

Measure and Manage Trust in Human-AI Conversations

Artificial Intelligence (AI), with its increasing capability and connectivity, extends beyond limited and well-defined contexts and is integrated into broader societal domains.

Oct
5

Integrating Social Justice and Engineering: Transforming Engineering Education from Within

The Humanitarian Engineering (HE) program at the Colorado School of Mines (Mines) has been transforming what it means to be an engineer by, among other things, integrating social justice into the engineering curriculum, including its humanities/social sci

Sep
28

Edge and IoT-supported Augmented Reality: Promise, Challenges, and Solutions

Mobile augmented reality (AR), which integrates virtual objects with 3D real environments in real time, has been showing outstanding potential in many application areas including education, retail, and healthcare.

Aug
31

Reasoning with visual imagery: Research at the intersection of autism, AI, and visual thinking

Reasoning with visual imagery: Research at the intersection of autism, AI, and visual thinking

Aug
24

GVU Brown Bag: Considering IPaT: celebrating the past and inventing the future

Please join us as Mike Best, the new executive director of IPaT, kicks off the first GVU Brown Bag lecture for Fall 2023.

Aug
24

Considering People and Technology

Please register and join us for an Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) sponsored campus event focused on people and technology -- past and present.

Oct
19

Re-designing Capitalism

This is a talk about how to redesign capitalism, focusing on how startups are built, products are made, and customers are reached.

Nov
12

Fall 2023 Convergence Innovation Competition Submission Deadline

Deadline to submit projects for the Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC)

Nov
13

Fall 2023 Convergence Innovation Competition First Round Judging

A preliminary review of submission materials by domain expertise and judges with industry experience who will determine the CIC finalists.

Nov
28

Fall 2023 Convergence Innovation Competition Second Round Judging

CIC finalists demonstrate their projects and answer questions from a panel of judges with expertise in entrepreneurship and innovation.

Nov
30

Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC) Showcase

Previous competition finalists will discuss their experience participating in the competition and give an update on their projects.