Talk Title: NeuroAIAbstract: NeuroAI creates synergies between the study of brains and AI based on neural architectures with massively parallel processing units highly connected by weights and trained by learning algorithms. ChatGPT was an overnight success that took 40 years to achieve. Insights from AI may help us better understand cognitive processing in brains.Bio: Sejnowski is the Francis Crick Chair at the Salk Institute and a Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology at UC San Diego. He is a leader in NeuroAI, the recent convergence between neuroscience and AI. He is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, and Inventors. He was awarded the Brain Prize in 2024 and was elected a Fellow the Royal Society in 2025.https://www.hhmi.org/scientists/terrence-j-sejnowskiFollowed by a reception with food and drink in 3rd floor atrium

Title: “Exploring synthetic mechanochemistry”Website: https://www.icredd.hokudai.ac.jp/kubota-koji

Speaker: Tom Bohman (Carnegie Mellon University)Title: Two point concentration of the domination number of the random graphAbstract:We show that the domination number of the binomial random graph G_{n,p} with edge probability p =n^{-\gamma} is concentrated on two values for \gamma < 2/3 and not concentrated on two values for \gamma > 2/3.The main ingredient in the proof is a Poisson type approximation for the probability that a random bipartite graph has no isolated vertices in a regime where standard tools are not available.Joint work with Lutz Warnke and Emily Zhu.

Matias Cattaneo (Princeton University)

Ayca Kaya University of Miami (joint with Aniko Oery and Anne-Katrine Roesler)

A series of talks on OR-related topics. For more information see: https://orc.mit.edu/seminars-events/