NVIDIA is Coming to Campus

Join NVIDIA engineers and researchers MIT (Kiva Seminar Room (32-G449) in the Stata Center, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139) on Wednesday, August 19 for a day focused on Physical AI — with a morning of technical workshops and labs on world models, foundation policies, simulation and deployment, and an afternoon of MIT faculty talks and a research seminar with Prof. Dr. Song Han after a kickoff from CSAIL Director Dr. Daniela Rus.

Come for a session or stay for the day for a chance to win a Jetson Thor for your research!

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Accelerating Robotics Research

Open to graduate students, postdocs, research staff, and faculty. Beyond the talks, the day is built for direct exchange: office hours throughout the day to get technical feedback on your work, a hands-on lab covering Newton, a GPU-accelerated physics engine for accelerating robotics workflows, and an overview of NVIDIA's research support programs — including compute and ecosystem resources for academic labs. Lunch is provided by our partner, Cambridge Computing.

NVIDIA Speakers

Song Han

Song Han

NVIDIA Distinguished Scientist, MIT Associate Professor

MIT + NVIDIA

Zhenzhen Li

Zhenzhen Li

Robotics Solutions Architect

NVIDIA

Mohammad Mohajerani

Mohammad Mohajerani

Sr. Product Manager, Newton

NVIDIA

Michael Benedict

Michael Benedict

Robotics Developer Relations

NVIDIA

Hatice Ozen

Hatice Ozen

Developer Relations Lead, Middle East & Türkiye, Higher Education & Research

NVIDIA

Anna Rosenzweig

Anna Rosenzweig

Research Account Manager

NVIDIA

Mitri Abou-Rizk

Mitri Abou-Rizk

Omniverse Solution Architect

NVIDIA

Juan Alverez

Juan Alverez

Robotics Solution Architect

NVIDIA

Agenda

9:00 a.m.
Welcome & Introductions

Anna Rosenzweig, Michael Benedict, Hatice Ozen

9:15 a.m.
World Models and Foundation Policies for Physical AI: Scaling Robot Learning with NVIDIA Cosmos and GR00T

Zhenzhen Li

10:00 a.m.
Developing, Simulating, and Deploy Physical AI: Isaac & Newton

Juan Alvarez

11:00 a.m.
Newton Hands-On Lab / Office Hours (+10 minute break @ 12 PM to grab lunch sponsored by Cambridge Computer)

Juan Alvarez, Mohammad Mohajerani, Michael Benedict, Hatice Ozen

12:30 p.m.
Afternoon Kickoff with Daniela Rus
12:40 p.m.
MIT Faculty Talks (Prof. Saman Amarasinghe, Postdoc Jungseok Hong, Prof. Andreea Bobu)
2:30 p.m.
Seminar by Song Han
3:30 p.m.
Overview of NVIDIA’s Inception for Startups Program and ecosystem for researcher support
4:00 p.m.
Closing & Raffle

Attendees will be entered into a drawing for an NVIDIA Jetson Thor™ Developer Kit at the conclusion of the event.

Event Details

August 19th / Kiva Seminar Room (32-G449) in the Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139

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Venue

Kiva Seminar Room (32-G449)

in the Stata Center, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139