Conference & Symposium
On June 10, NYU Shanghai hosted the 41st Future Lecture Series, bringing AI industry professionals, medical researchers, computer scientists and medical researchers together to discuss the cutting-edge science of brain-computer interface and how artificial intelligence and big data might facilitate cancer immunotherapy.
On June 9, NYU Shanghai’s inaugural forum on Knowledge Sharing and the Ideas Industry hosted pundits, academics, and leading entrepreneurs who analyzed the explosive growth of online knowledge sharing in China and its transformative relationship with the business sector.
With global ransomware attacks on the rise, computer security has once again become a recent center of controversy, as well as the theme of the 29th Future Forum Lecture organized by Future Forum, NYU Shanghai and KPMG China, held on campus on July 8th.
Hundreds of science enthusiasts gathered at the Pudong campus for a lecture and panel discussion over the future of AI and Security, and whether the key to stronger, more reliable security exists within the “super brain” of rapidly developing AI technologies.
Over three days this week, NYU Shanghai hosted a stream of high profile speaking events featuring prominent intellectuals from neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI), offering hundreds of science enthusiasts an opportunity to embrace advancing future technologies.
Nobel Prize laureate, NYU Professor of Finance Robert Engle returned to Shanghai in mid-November, joining students, researchers and business practitioners in an academic fest that offered cutting-edge insight on the volatility of China’s capital markets.
Hundreds of science enthusiasts had a blast on Saturday at NYU Shanghai by envisioning the future world with leading researchers from the most cutting-edge frontiers of life science and artificial intelligence.
Organized by the Future Forum and NYU Shanghai, the 20th Future Science Lecture saw almost five hours of thought-provoking keynote addresses and panels among scientists, entrepreneurs and the audience. It was the first time that the forum moved to Shanghai following 19 successful sessions in Beijing.
From June 8-10, 2015, NYU Shanghai hosted the International Conference on Mathematics of Nonlinearity in Neural and Physical Science, bringing together some of the world’s top researchers to discuss and understand the role of nonlinearity in neural and physical science. The gathering was the first to be co-sponsored by two NYU-ECNU Research Institutes at NYU Shanghai: the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science.
On January 29, prominent NYU neuroscientist Paul Glimcher lectured on how incorporating neurobiological constraints can rationalize human choice behavior. Presented to a full house of faculty and students from NYU Shanghai, Peking University, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, East China Normal University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Zhejiang University, his lecture kicked off the monthly Shanghai Colloquium in Neuroeconomics hosted at NYU Shanghai.
