Discover how A.I. and Machine Learning will advance science and society with Maya Burhanpurkar, third-year physics student and researcher at Harvard University. Tickets are $12
Part of the AI Shaping our Future series. Discover how A.I. and Machine Learning will advance science and society with Maya Burhanpurkar, third-year physics student and researcher at Harvard University. Expanding on her current and past research Maya will share inspiring projections and explore how her research may yield future insights into high temperature superconductors such as MRI, electric motors, generators, and more in a dynamic presentation designed to spark curiosity in students and adults with a wide range of interests.
Maya is currently working in the physics department on developing a novel technique for unsupervised machine learning topological quantum phases, which may one day yield insights into materials like high temperature superconductors. In parallel, she is working with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics on new algorithms for pulsar searching, which she hopes to apply to data from Canada’s new CHIME radio telescope to create a detailed galactic pulsar map. Prior to that, she was a member of the CHIME research team and contributed to its software design, which has led to the largest detection of extragalactic Fast Radio Bursts to date.
Cyberworks Robotics artificial intelligence demos to follow.
Tickets are $12.
Maya Burhanpurkar
Maya is a third-year student and researcher at Harvard University under the Chair of the Department of Physics. She has several peer reviewed scientific publications including two papers in the journal Nature. She has produced an award-winning documentary on climate change featuring Margaret Atwood and Chris Hadfield, is a two-time winner of the National Science Fair, and has represented Canada at the Intel and Google international science fairs. She is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Canada’s Top 20 Under 20 Award, the National Brescia Emerging Canadian Female Leader of the Year award, and the international Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes.
At Harvard, she received the prestigious John Harvard Award and Detur Book prize for academic excellence and received PRISE and Herschel Smith research fellowships.
In her spare time at Harvard she serves as the President of the Harvard Society of Physics Students, is a peer tutor, and participates in a competitive cultural dance team.
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