#AcademicRunPlaylist - 11/4/24

Another chilly one in Boston, but that helped me stay cool during my run while I listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a great panel on the last 15 years of Indian competition law at the GW Competition & Innovation Lab with Shilpi Bhattacharya, Augustine Peter, Divya Swamy, Manveen Singh, Payal Malik, and Anshuman Sakle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDVIAqX1QXw

Next was an excellent talk by Jonathan Schulz on using surnames, geographic data, and patents to investigate how diversity drives innovation at the Santa Fe Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpTBGgrG5aE

Next was engaging panel on the DMA's Brussels Effect across Turkey, Brazil, India, and beyond at the GW Competition & Innovation Lab with Dario da Silva Oliveira Neto, Lilla Nóra Kiss, Hanna Stakheyeva, Aurelien Portuese, and Pritika Marguerite Magima https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDz_wcxqpus

Next was an incredible talk by Marc Miskin on microscopic robots that sense, think, act, and compute at Northwestern University. Fabricating millions of unique microscopic robots using standard equipment? Microrobots that can freaking GROW METAL APPENDAGES when they want? Microbots that WALK ON AXONS AND PULL SEVERED NERVES TOGETHER?!?!? Unbelievably sci-fi stuff, some of the coolest things happening in robotics right now IMO. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv-ieJXnjnI

Next was an important talk by Sidra Kamran on femininity and class flux in Pakistan's service economy at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs https://youtube.com/watch?v=PvaYzWaMOJw

Next was a thought-provoking conversation with Chester Spatt on the purpose of proxy advisory firms and how funds tend to use their guidance at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvT7lv4lm4c

Next was an intriguing talk by Zheyang Xiong on in-context learning in LLMs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znbFjd7pfMc

Next was a fascinating talk by Timothy Barfoot on robot navigation in challenging environmental conditions at MIT Robotics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oelXylttvS4

Next was a wonderful talk by Anne Whiston Spirn on designing spaces and cities with nature (focusing on my two main haunts of Philadelphia and Boston) at EPFL Architecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoKLwInLF30

Next was a nice talk by Harsh Trivedi on evaluating interactive agents at Ai2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCIsMCSV8s8

Last was a compelling talk by Mohamed Seif on differentially private community detection over stochastic block models at Stanford University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W02lBDpv2wc