The Precision Convergence Webinar Series is co-hosted by The McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) at McGill University and The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, a joint computational research center between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.
Precision convergence (PC) expands upon precision medicine to the many facets of precision targeting embedded in modern society, be these targeting the person’s behavior, product/service design, professional practices, manufacturing processes, investment, system design, or policy. We propose precision convergence (PC) as an approach to science and action to tap into the power of human and machine intelligence, creativity and empathy for transformation at scale. The precision convergence series catalyzes unique synergy between novel partnerships across sciences, sectors and jurisdictions around targeted domains of real-world solutions and a next generation convergence of AI with advanced research computing and other data and digital architectures.
Past Webinars
Expertise Collaboration for Grand Challenges:
Insights from Management Sciences and Lessons from Healthcare
Samer Faraj
Canada Research Chair in Technology, Innovation & Organizing - McGill University
March 27, 2024 | 11 AM to 1 PM EST
Evolution of the Intelligent Digital Twin
Daniel R. Isaacs
CTO & GM: Digital Twin Consortium
With special briefing by pioneer Dr. Michael Grieves
December 14, 2023 | 11 AM to 1 PM EST
Challenges and Possibilities in Digital Financial Markets: Risk and Return
Patrick Augustin
Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University
November 1, 2023 | 2:00 pm EST
Intellectual humility in an uncertain and polarized world
Presented by Igor Grossmann
October 27, 2023
Do mandated financial disclosures help consumer make better choices?
Presented by Dilip Soman
October 17, 2023
Moving towards Interpretable Models of Functioning Brains For Adaptive Real-World Behavior and Sustainable Health
Presented by Raghu Machiraju
September 27, 2023
Science Gateways – Enabling Seamless Large-Scale Modeling and Data Processing on Supercomputers for Domain Sciences with the Neuroscience Gateway as a Case Study
Presented by Dr. Amit Majumdar
September 13, 2023
Computation May Be All You Need: Is Intelligence Convergent?
Presented by Mark Daley
May 31, 2023
Maybe We Can Access the Brain’s Hidden Repertoire Through Music...
Presented by Randy McIntosh
April 26, 2023
Sensation, Reward, and Gut-Brain Pathways
Presented by Ivan de Araujo
April 5, 2023
The State of Representing and Solving Games
Presented by Tuomas Sandholm
February 15, 2023
Quantifying Economy in Brain Networks
Presented by Dani Bassett
January 20, 2023
Clustering and generalization of abstract structures in reinforcement learning and musicality
Presented by Michael J. Frank
November 9, 2022
Scaling up experimental psychology: From experiments to algorithms
Presented by Tom Griffiths
October 26th, 2022
On the Understanding of Behaviour as a Guide to Understand the Brain: Advances in Multiscale Coordination Dynamic
Presented by Dr. Viktor Jirsa
September 20th, 2022
Distinctions Among Causation in Neuroscience and Biology: A Theoretical Framework to Support Smart Sciences for Real-World Transformation
Presented by Dr. Lauren N. Ross
June 23, 2022
Leveraging brain research to change scientific culture, education, and infrastructure
Presented by Dr. Satrajit Ghosh
May 24, 2022
Self Evidencing For Individual and Collective Agency
Presented by Dr. Karl Friston
May 4, 2022
Scalable Distributed Deep/Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities in Handling Societal Problems
Presented by Dr. Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda
April 7, 2022
The Homeostatic Model of Identity Protection
Presented by Dr. Constantine Sedikides
March 1, 2022
Contagion science over multiplex networks: The role of AI and computing
Presented by Dr. Madhav Marathe
February 16, 2022
Adaptive Constructive Processes in Memory, Imagination, and Creativity
Presented by Dr. Daniel L. Schacter
January 19, 2022
Understanding Complex Systems for Real-World Transformation: Multiscale Coordination Dynamics
Presented by Dr. Scott Kelso
December 14, 2021
Towards Sustainable Research Software
Presented by Dr. Daniel S. Katz
December 2, 2021
The Earth BioGenome Project: Convergence Science at the Nexus of the Global Biodiversity and Climate Crises
Presented by Dr. Harris Lewin
November 16, 2021
Convergence at scale among health care, data, and open science: Can secure, liquid, data drive precise decision-making and practice?
Presented by Dr. Jonathan Silverstein
October 27, 2021
How Do We Build Supply-Chain Resilience? The Case of COVID-19 Medical Supplies
Presented by Dr. Gary Gereffi
October 6, 2021
Shaping Education Priorities of the Future: A proposal based on Convergence and Complexity
Presented by Dr. Paul P. Maglio
September 22, 2021
Linking Brain to Society for Adaptive Real-World Behavior: The Self, Consciousness, and the Limits on Free Will
Presented by Dr. Roy Baumeister
August 24, 2021
A Model for Advanced Computing in Crisis Response
Presented by Dr. John Towns and Dr. Jim Brase
August 2, 2021
Inventing a Precision Science for a World Reset on Convergence Economy
Presented by series Co-Chairs Laurette Dubé and Shawn Brown
Professor Laurette Dubé is Founding Chair and Scientific Director of the McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health Economics (MCCHE), and Shawn Brown is Vice Chancellor for Research Computing and the Director of Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at the Carnegie Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh
June 7, 2021
