Kempner Community Springs into Science
Kempner community members gathered at the Museum of Science to learn, collaborate and make connections… see the photo gallery of the event!
Kempner Graduate Student Fellow William Tong discusses his work at the poster presentation session at the Kempner Spring Into Science event on May 29, 2024.
Kempner Graduate Student Fellow Fenil Doshi delivers a talk at the Spring Into Science event on May 29, 2024.
More than 80 members of the Kempner community gathered in the Skyline Room at the Museum of Science for the morning programming.
Mary Letey, a PhD student in a Kempner-affiliated lab, gives a talk at the Spring Into Science event on May 29, 2024.
Dianna Hidalgo, a Kempner graduate student fellow, discusses her work during the afternoon poster session.
Kempner community members (from left) Brooks Musangu, Zaki Ajabi, and Giordano Ramos-Traslosher in the Skyline Room at the Museum of Science.
Kempner Co-Director Bernardo Sabatini (right), Assistant Director for Educational Programs Ella Batty, and Director of Engineering Max Shad at the afternoon poster session.
Kempner Executive Director Elise Porter (left) and Assistant Director for Educational Programs Ella Batty in the Skyline Room at the Spring Into Science event.
Kempner Co-Director Sham Kakade (left) speaks with Nikhil Vyas, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Kakade lab.
Kempner Graduate Fellow Ada Fang (left) discusses her research at the afternoon poster session.
Following the morning and afternoon programming, many Kempner community members ventured downstairs into the Museum of Science to explore the exhibits.
Boston, MA– The Kempner Institute community gathered at the Boston Museum of Science on May 29 for the institute’s inaugural Spring Into Science event, a day of community-building and scientific activities.
The day kicked off in the museum’s Skyline Room overlooking the city, with talks by PhD students Fenil Doshi and Mary Letey, followed by a longer talk entitled “Scaling and Beyond Scaling” from Kempner Co-Directors Bernardo Sabatini and Sham Kakade.
After hearing from the speakers, about 80 affiliated students, fellows, faculty, and faculty lab members participated in lively discussion groups followed by a poster presentation session highlighting recent work from Kempner-affiliated students and research fellows.
Towards the end of the day, as the formal events came to a close, Kempner community members headed into the museum to explore the exhibits. Amid crowds of school children, groups of Kempner community members could be seen meandering through the museum’s newest exhibit: “Exploring AI: Making the Invisible Visible.”
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The Kempner Institute seeks to understand the basis of intelligence in natural and artificial systems by recruiting and training future generations of researchers to study intelligence from biological, cognitive, engineering, and computational perspectives. Its bold premise is that the fields of natural and artificial intelligence are intimately interconnected; the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) will require the same principles that our brains use for fast, flexible natural reasoning, and understanding how our brains compute and reason can be elucidated by theories developed for AI. Join the Kempner mailing list to learn more, and to receive updates and news.
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