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First Year Seminar Series 2026 (CME 300)

Tuesdays 1:30-2:45 PM - September 22nd to December 1st 2026
Autumn Quarter 2026

Event Details:

Tuesday, September 22, 2026 - Tuesday, December 1, 2026

Location

Stanford Campus
United States

This event is open to:

Students

Weekly presentations by Stanford faculty on their current research. Required for first-year ICME Ph.D. students; recommended for first-year ICME M.S. students interested in research.

If you have any questions, please contact Professor Alison Marsden amarsden@stanford.edu.

 

Schedule

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

  • 1:30pm - 2:45pm PDT

    Seminar Session 1

    Speaker 1 (1:30 PM – 2:45 PM) - Eric Darve, Director of Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME), Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

  • 1:30pm - 2:45pm PDT

    Seminar Session 2

    Speaker 1 (1:30 PM – 2:05 PM) - Mykel Kochenderfer, Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics

    Speaker 2 (2:10 PM – 2:45 PM) - Ruizhe Jia, Assistant Professor, Management Science and Engineering

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

  • 1:30pm - 2:45pm PDT

    Seminar Session 3

    Speaker 1 (1:30 PM – 2:05 PM) - Wei Li, Adjunct Professor, ICME

    Speaker 2 (2:10 PM – 2:45 PM) - Emmanuel Mignot, Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

  • 1:30pm - 2:45pm PDT

    Seminar Session 4

    Speaker 1 (1:30 PM – 2:05 PM) - Renyuan Xu, Assistant Professor, Management Science and Engineering

    Speaker 2 (2:10 PM – 2:45 PM) - Steven Niederer, Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

  • 1:30pm - 2:45pm PDT

    Seminar Session 5

    Speaker 1 (1:30 PM – 2:05 PM) - Markus Covert, Professor, Bioengineering

    Speaker 2 (2:10 PM – 2:45 PM) - Ilenia Battiato, Associate Professor, Energy Science and Engineering

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

  • 1:30pm - 2:45pm PDT

    Seminar Session 6

    Speaker 1 (1:30 PM – 2:05 PM) - Lei Xing, Professor of Medical Physics, Director of Medical Physics Division of Radiation Oncology Department

    Speaker 2 (2:10 PM – 2:45 PM) - Akshay Chaudhari, Associate Professor, Radiology and Biomedical Data Science

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

  • 1:30pm - 2:45pm PST

    No class - Democracy Day

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

  • 1:30pm - 2:45pm PST

    Seminar Session 7

    Speaker 1 (1:30 PM – 2:05 PM) - Ching-Yao Lai, Assistant Professor, Geophysics

    Speaker 2 (2:10 PM – 2:45 PM) - Simona Onori, Associate Professor, Energy Science and Engineering

Tuesday, November 17, 2026

  • 1:30pm - 2:45pm PST

    Seminar Session 8

    Speaker 1 (1:30 PM – 2:05 PM) - Evan Elder, Associate Director for Licensing and Strategic Alliances, Physical Sciences, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)

    Speaker 2 (2:10 PM – 2:45 PM) - Emily Fox, Professor, Statistics and Computer Science

Tuesday, November 24, 2026

  • 1:30pm - 2:45pm PST

    No class - Thanksgiving

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

  • 1:30pm - 2:45pm PST

    Seminar Session 9

    Speaker 1 (1:30 PM – 2:05 PM) - 

    Speaker 2 (2:10 PM – 2:45 PM) -

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