Carnegie Mellon University

Seminar Series 2025-2026

Location: 125 Frick Fine Arts Building *Students registered for this course are REQUIRED to attend the seminars being hosted IN PERSON. Attendance will be taken at the beginning of each class.

  • Time: 11:30am
    *Out of respect for the speakers, please be on time and in your seat by 11:25am
  • In order to receive a passing grade, students registered for this course are only permitted 2 unexcused absences per semester. Please email cpcb.seminar@gmail.com if you need to be excused from attending.
  • The use of Laptops and any other electronic devices during the talks, are prohibited. Please be courteous of the speakers.
If you are NOT taking this course for credit, you may sign in to view these talks over Zoom:

Zoom link: In email invite
 

Date

Speaker

Host

Title

September 5, 2025
September 12, 2025 James Zou
Stanford University

 

September 19, 2025
September 26, 2025  
October 3, 2025
Benedict Paten
UC Santa Cruz
Andreas Pfenning (CMU)
October 10, 2025
NO SEMINAR
October 17, 2025
NO SEMINAR
October 24, 2025
Hakhamanesh Mostafavi
New York University
Richard Border (CMU)
October 31, 2025

 

November 7, 2025
Katharina V. Koelle
Emory University
John Barton (PITT)
November 14, 2025
Noelle Noyes
University of Minnesota

William Yu (CMU)

November 21, 2025
November 28, 2025 NO SEMINAR
December 5, 2025
NO SEMINAR

 

WINTER BREAK

January 16, 2026
January 23, 2026

 

January 30, 2026

Melissa Gymrek
UC San Diego

Jian Ma (CMU)

February 6, 2026

Michael Elowitz
Caltech

Rachel Gottschalk (PITT)
February 13, 2026

February 20, 2026
HOLD
February 27, 2026
NO SEMINAR
March 6, 2026
NO SEMINAR
March 13, 2026

NO SEMINAR

March 20, 2026

Alex K. Shalek
MIT

CPCB Student Invited Speaker
March 27, 2026
April 3, 2026

 

April 10, 2026
NO SEMINAR
April 17, 2026