IPaT: GVU Lunch Lecture Series
The lecture series is free and features guest speakers presenting on topics related to people-centered technologies and their impact on society. Lunch is provided at 12:00 p.m. (while supplies last) and the talks begin at 12:30 p.m. Join us weekly or watch video replays.
Fall 2026 lectures will mostly be held in the Tech Square Clubhouse, located street level behind the Centergy One building in Technology Square.
Lectures are coordinated by Priscilla Gaona. To get notified about future lunch lectures sign up here.
Speaker Calendar for Fall 2026
Talk titles and abstracts will be linked from this page before each talk. Lunch starts at 12:00 pm (while supplies last) and the talks start at 12:30 pm and end at 1:30 pm. Please be advised that by attending these events, you may be filmed or photographed. Georgia Tech may use your image online or in other promotional material. This calendar will be populated as speakers confirm attendance. Spring 2026 Lectures are held in the Hodges Room, located on the 3rd floor in the Centergy One building in Technology Square. However, there will be a few lectures held in the Tuff Suite located on the 10th floor of the Centergy bldg.
| DATE | SPEAKER | TOPIC (when provided) / ORGANIZATION | LOCATION |
| Sept 1 | Arthur Huang | Your Trash Is a National Asset. The Engineering Challenge Hiding in Every Waste Stream Arthur C. Huang, CEO and Co-founder of Miniwiz | TSQ Clubhouse |
| Sept 8 | -- | Cancelled. | TSQ Clubhouse |
| Sept 15 | Gregory Abowd | Looking Backwards to Surge Forwards: What 40 years as a researcher has taught me Former Dean of the College of Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University | TSQ Clubhouse |
| Sept 22 | Na Du | Beyond Words: Building Shared Understanding through Bidirectional Human-Robot Communication Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics and Networked Systems, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh | TSQ Clubhouse |
| Sept 29 | Heidi Boisvert | Culture Changes Us: How Stories Work on Hearts, Minds & Bodies Chair, School of Arts, Entertainment & Creative Technologies, Georgia Tech | TSQ Clubhouse |
| Oct 6 | -- | Fall break | TSQ Clubhouse |
| Oct 13 | HyunJoo Oh | Keeping Ideas in Motion: Computation, Craft, and Creative Agency Director of the CoDe Craft group and assistant professor with joint appointments in the School of Industrial Design and the School of Interactive Computing. | TSQ Clubhouse |
| Oct 20 | Dominic Kao | Virtual Futures: How Virtual Worlds Shape the People Who Use Them Dominic Kao is an Assistant Professor in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | TSQ Clubhouse |
| Oct 27 | IPaT Lightning Talk - IPaT 15th Anniversary | TSQ Clubhouse | |
| Nov 3 | Chris Coward | Beyond Detection: Designing for Epistemic Agency in Complex Information Environments Chris Coward is a Senior Principal Research Scientist and Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington Information School | TSQ Clubhouse |
| Nov 10 | Abby Stangl | Georgia Tech | TSQ Clubhouse |
| Nov 17 | Jonas Coersmeier | Pratt Institute School of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design | TSQ Clubhouse |
| Nov 24 | No lecture - week of Thanksgiving | TSQ Clubhouse | |
| Dec 1 | Jesse Thomason | Georgia Tech | TSQ Clubhouse |
| Dec 8 | Mona Sloane | University of Virginia | TSQ Clubhouse |
Fall 2026 Speaker Talk Abstracts and Bios
The speaker dates are listed below. This semester's speaker lecture information can be found here. Information includes talk abstracts, biographies, and recorded lectures (if available). Please be advised that by attending this event, you may be filmed or photographed. Georgia Tech may use your image online or in other promotional material.
Live Broadcasts
Live lecture broadcasts shown below <day of talk only>
The seminars start at 12:30pm on Thursdays! When available, a livestream of the talk occurring that day will be livestreamed below (click play to initiate livestream). Some talks are only presented in-person.
Previous Lunch Lectures
Check out the archive of our previous lunch lecture series.
Location of the Tech Square Clubhouse
If you are facing the front of the Centergy One building, there is a staircase on the left side of the building that will descend towards the street (lower level) behind the bldg. On your right across the street, you will see the Tech Square Clubhouse doors.