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• Feb

  23

  Decoding Bias: A Conversation with Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya

  McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

  7:30 PM

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  Coded Bias, by filmmaker Shalini Kantayya, is a 90-minute documentary that explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the US to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all. It premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

  Join us for a discussion with Kantayya about the film and the ramifications of its findings.

  Please view the film before attending this event. The link to the film will be included in your registration confirmation, and can be viewed at your convenience February 16 -23. After you register, you will be invited to submit questions that will be answered at this live Q&A discussion.

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  TIME Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

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  CONTACT Northwestern Engineering Events    northwestern-engineering-events@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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• Jun

  4

  Appl Math: Neil Ribe on "Thin-Shell Dynamics of Geophysical Subduction"

  McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ESAM)

  11:15 AM M416, Technological Institute

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  Title: Thin-Shell Dynamics of Geophysical Subduction

  Speaker: Neil Ribe, Université Paris-Saclay

  Abstract: Subduction on Earth is the process whereby the planet’s stiff and dense outer shell (the lithosphere) sinks into the mantle below while deforming in complex ways over periods of millions of years. Because the typical Reynolds number of subduction-related flow is 10^(-20). understanding the process requires
  the theory of low Reynolds number hydrodynamics. Using a variety of idealized models of subduction in both Cartesian and spherical geometries, we obtain numerical flow solutions using the boundary-element method and interpret
  these using the theory of thin viscous shells. Aspects to be emphasized
  in this talk include the key lengthscales and dimensionless numbers that
  control subduction; the physical factors that determine which of several
  modes or styles of subduction is selected under given conditions; the
  complex state of stress in doubly-curved subducted shells; and the
  potential role of buckling instabilities during subduction.

  Bio: Neil M. Ribe received his PhD in Geophysical Sciences from the University
  of Chicago in 1981. After postdoctoral work at Columbia Unversity, he
  joined the faculty of the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale
  University. In 2000 he moved to France to take up a position with the
  CNRS, first at the Paris Geophysical Institute (IPGP) and then (since 2009)
  at the FAST laboratory in Orsay. He is a specialist in low Reynolds number
  hydrodynamics, applied both to the dynamics of the Earth’s interior and
  to a variety of problems in fundamental fluid mechanics and soft matter
  physics.

  Zoom: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/96111431914

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  TIME Thursday, June 4, 2026 at 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

  LOCATION M416, Technological Institute    map it

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  CONTACT Noor Kaur    noor.kaur@northwestern.edu EMAIL

  CALENDAR McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ESAM)

• Jun

  14

  Spring 2026 Commencement

  University Academic Calendar

  All Day

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  Spring 2026 Commencement

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  TIME Sunday, June 14, 2026

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  CONTACT Office of the Registrar    nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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• Jun

  15

  Northwestern Engineering PhD Hooding and Master's Degree Recognition Ceremony

  McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

  9:00 AM

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  McCormick School of Engineering PhD Hooding and Master's Degree Recognition Ceremony. The most up to date information can be found on our graduation webpage.

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  TIME Monday, June 15, 2026 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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  CONTACT Andi Joppie    andi.joppie@northwestern.edu EMAIL

  CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

• Jun

  15

  Northwestern Engineering Undergraduate Convocation

  McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

  2:00 PM

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  McCormick School of Engineering Undergraduate Convocation. The most up to date information can be found on our graduation webpage.

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  TIME Monday, June 15, 2026 at 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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  CONTACT Andi Joppie    andi.joppie@northwestern.edu EMAIL

  CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

• Jun

  19

  Juneteenth - University Closed

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  Juneteenth - University Closed

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  TIME Friday, June 19, 2026

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• Jul

  3

  Independence Day (observed) - University Closed

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  Independence Day (observed) - University Closed

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  TIME Friday, July 3, 2026

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• Sep

  23

  Fall 2026 Classes Begin

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  Fall 2026 Classes Begin

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  TIME Wednesday, September 23, 2026

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