The Westwood Lecture Series is a part of President Mung Chiang’s efforts aimed at enhancing the intellectual vibrancy of the Purdue West Lafayette campus.
Each lecture will take place 4:30-5:30 p.m. at Westwood, the Purdue president’s residence. Space is limited to the first 50 faculty who register. Additional information and a registration link will be available beginning two weeks prior to each lecture.
Dec. 5, 2024
Mohit Tawarmalani
Executive associate dean of faculty and the Allison and Nancy Schleicher Chair in Management, Mitch Daniels School of Business on optimization beyond convexity: applications in process design, networking and pricing.
Dec. 13, 2023
Preeti Sivasankar
Professor and Department Head, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences; Assistant Vice President for Strategic Health Research, Office of Research; Adjunct Faculty, IU School of Medicine-West Lafayette. “Can You Protect Your Voice? Physiological Investigations from Rats to Humans.”
Nov. 16, 2023
Edward Delp
Charles William Harrison Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, professor of biomedical engineering, professor of computer science (courtesy) and professor of psychological sciences (courtesy). “Deepfakes and Other Types of Generated and Manipulated Media: It Is Real and Coming for Our Society!”
Sept. 21, 2023
Deborah Knapp
Deborah Knapp, distinguished professor of comparative oncology, the Dolores L. McCall Professor of Comparative Oncology and director of the Evan and Sue Ann Werling Comparative Oncology Research Center, on “A New Era in Comparative Medical Research and Opportunities to Position Purdue as a World Leader.”
