UW Events Archive

Nathan Lane; University of Oxford with graduate Student Discussant: Brian Leung, UW.

An overview of the theory of Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport, including some recently discovered connections with score function estimation and transformers

Explore decolonial approaches in book history and the digital humanities through projects mapping South Asia’s Adivasi communities.

Explore how Palestinian identity is strengthened by the absence of a defined home nation and how a coalition rooted in exile continues to resist and advocate for a homeland.

Sacred Breath features Indigenous writers and storytellers sharing their craft at the beautiful wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House on the UW Seattle campus.

The annual Spring Colloquium, to celebrate the end of a busy academic year, will feature research presentations from graduating M.A. and Ph.D. students and visiting scholars.

As a member of the Kenyan judiciary Judge Ngugi will talk about some of the most pressing political questions of our time in both his country and the USA, including how we ensure an equitable, independent and wise judiciary; as well as how we can imagine justice beyond narrow legal frameworks.
Link to Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/nW6Iv2qOC7U?si=2ZIjZ2bTkLbqjfKH

Explore how to draw reliable inferences from experiments in the presence of network interference, and how to optimally design such experiments.

Study the means for the effects of person-centeredness, the processes that emerge between support seekers and providers, and collective support practices that occur on social media

Ian Stewart surveys the landscape of modern multimodal foundation models, then discusses two recent projects meant to empower models.