CEMSE Weekly Updates - September 22, 2026 Tue, Sep 22 2026 Newsletter Upcoming Events Stay informed about the upcoming events and the latest news from CEMSE. From Circuits to Startups The Unexpected Journy of an Engineer Talal Al Attar, Instructional Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Sep 27, 00:00 - 01:00 B9 R2325 Professional Development engineering electronic circuits Simulations Technology Transfer innovation This talk presents a real-world story of an engineer’s unexpected journey from designing circuits to building technology startups—sharing the challenges, turning points, successes, failures, and lessons learned far beyond the classroom. Differentially Private Training in the LLM Era Di Wang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Sep 28, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 R2325 privacy-preserving AI LLM LLM training systems stochastic gradient descent optimization This seminar explores how to make differentially private training practical and scalable for large language models and new methods that enable stronger privacy guarantees without sacrificing performance. Finite Element Approximation of Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems Fabio Credali, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Oct 1, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 R2325 finite element method approximation fluid dynamics Computer simulations We review the main strategies for the finite element approximation of fluid-structure interaction problems and then focus on one of them, the fictitious domain method, analyzing its formulation and convergence properties.
