<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>When:</b>     Friday, June 7th. Refreshments at noon. Talk begins at 12:20pm. <br></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Where:</b>    </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">TTIC</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Who: </b>      </font>Aly Khan, TTIC</p><table cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;margin-top:0px;width:auto;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.875rem;letter-spacing:0.2px;display:block"></table></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Title: </b>      </font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">New Computational Approaches to Understand Immune Function</span></div><div><span style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Abstract: </b></font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I will present a few short vignettes on harnessing computation to model, study, and predict immune function. Recent unprecedented progress in immunology and medicine has enabled clinical adoption of new transformative immune-based therapies, but also reveled new technical challenges to further progress. I will discuss the computational and deep learning work I am doing to approach these challenges. The talk will include the necessary background needed for understanding the immunology topics presented.</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;line-height:normal"><b style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">******************************************************************************************************</font></b><br></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px;margin:0px;line-height:normal"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Research at TTIC Seminar Series</font></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">TTIC is hosting a weekly seminar series presenting the research currently underway at the Institute. Every week a different TTIC faculty member will present their research.  The lectures are intended both for students seeking research topics and adviser, and for the general TTIC and University of Chicago communities interested in hearing what their colleagues are up to.   </font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">To receive announcements about the seminar series, please subscribe to the mailing list: <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/ttic.edu/group/talks/subscribe" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/a/ttic.edu/group/talks/subscribe</a></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Speaker details can be found at: <a href="http://www.ttic.edu/tticseminar.php" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">http://www.ttic.edu/tticseminar.php</a>.</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For additional questions, please contact Nathan Srebro at <a href="mailto:mcallester@ttic.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">nati@ttic.edu</a>.</font></div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_4493984439166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