Distinguished Lectures

ISTeC Distinguished Lectures Spring 2026 Poster

ISTeC Distinguished Lecturers give two presentations at CSU:

  1. The ISTeC Distinguished Lectures are talks suitable for a general audience interested in information science and technology.
    • All Distinguished Lectures will be held from 11 a.m. to 12 noon, with a pre-lecture reception from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
  2. The departmental research seminar is suitable for an audience in the speaker's particular field of information science and technology.

In addition, the ISTeC Distinguished Lecturer may spend up to a week at CSU to interact with our faculty and students.

Guidelines for Proposing and Hosting an ISTeC Distinguished Lecturer

Upcoming Lectures

4 Events.
DateCategoryTitlePresentersHostsLocation
Apr 13, 2026
(Monday)
10:30 a.m. - 12 noon 		Distinguished Lecture From Targets to Implementation: Aligning Decarbonization Policy with Grid Operations Prof. C. Lindsay Anderson,<br>Chair, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering<br>Cornell University, Senior Fellow, Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, and<br>House Professor and Dean, William Keeton House Prof. Tim HansenProf. Zongjie Wang
Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering 		Computer Science Building 130
Apr 13, 2026
(Monday)
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. 		Second Lecture: ISTeC / Energy Institute / CS / ECE Seminar Spectral Clustering to Enable Distributed Control in Low-Inertia Power Grids Prof. C. Lindsay Anderson,<br>Chair, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering<br>Cornell University, Senior Fellow, Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, and<br>House Professor and Dean, William Keeton House Prof. Tim HansenProf. Zongjie Wang
Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering 		Powerhouse Energy Campus (1st Floor Classroom)
Apr 29, 2026
(Wednesday)
10:30 a.m. - 12 noon 		Distinguished Lecture Machining the Ghost: Ideating in the Age of Age Dr. Daniel Rockmore<br>Professor of Math and Computer Science<br>Director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science<br>William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science<br>Dartmouth College
LSC University Ballroom
Apr 30, 2026
(Thursday)
TBD 		Second Lecture: ISTeC / CS / ECE / MATH / STAT Seminar TBD Dr. Daniel Rockmore<br>Professor of Math and Computer Science<br>Director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science<br>William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science<br>Dartmouth College
TBD

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