The Lux et Veritas Speaker Series are talks modeled after "College Teas" at Yale's 14 residential colleges. These are gatherings where an intimate group of students, alumni, and guests interact with visitors from academia, the arts, business, media, politics, and more. 

Event Time

Saturday, March 2, 2024

Registration

6:30 pm-7:00 pm

Presentation and Q&A

7:00 pm-9:00 pm

Location

Yale Center Beijing 
36th Floor Tower B of IFC Building 8 Jianguomenwai Avenue Chaoyang District, Beijing (Yong'anli Subway Station, Exit C) 

Registration and Fees

Registration
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Recommended for all parents, educators, and students in 6th grade or above

Ticket: Free for students and faculty (subject to approval); RMB 30 for regular admission.

*Please make sure to fill in the correct email address for your registration. The registration fee for the event is non-refundable. Unless due to a force majeure reason, Yale Center Beijing will not refund any part of the registration fee if a participant fails to attend the event.

Walk-ins will not be accepted.

The language of the event will be Chinese.. 

Note: Seats are available on a first-come-first-served basis.

The Event

With ChatGPT exploding onto the scene, our children's future employment prospects (and current educational experience, with ChatGPT-powered cheating) are in existential danger. Game theory, however, may help devise solutions in which problems solve themselves even through self-serving human behavior. Join renowned math professor, researcher, and educator Po-Shen Loh for a deep dive into his recent invention of a new scalable ecosystem to build relevant skills to survive this new era of Generative AI.

The talk will take a deep dive into ChatGPT, using the latest version of ChatGPT to solve ever-harder, ever-more-real-world example problems, followed by a discussion on strategies for maintaining human competitiveness over AI. Finally, the speaker will conclude by explaining his latest work, which uses game theory to solve a new kind of education at scale: teaching people how to invent their own ways to solve problems instead of following learned methods. Such intellectual creativity is now essential for survival. The heart of his new solution brings together math experts and professionally trained comedians and actresses, whereby the professional entertainers teach the mathematicians how to be brilliant communicators, while they practice by teaching students how to think.

The Speaker

Po-Shen Loh
Professor of Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University
IMO Foundation VP for Advancement
Founder, LIVE, by Po-Shen Loh

Po-Shen Loh is a social entrepreneur and inventor working across the spectrum of mathematics, education, and healthcare, all around the world. He is a math professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and the national coach of the USA International Mathematical Olympiad team. He holds math degrees from Caltech and Cambridge, and a PhD from Princeton. As an academic, Po-Shen has earned distinctions ranging from an International Mathematical Olympiad silver medal to the United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He was the coach of Carnegie Mellon University’s math team when it achieved its first-ever #1 rank among all North American universities, and the coach of the USA Math Olympiad team when it achieved its first-ever back-to-back #1-rank victories in 2015 and 2016, and then again in 2018 and 2019. His research and educational outreach takes him to cities across the world, reaching over 10,000 people each year through public lectures and events, and he has featured in or co-created videos totaling over 19 million YouTube views.

The Moderator

Jerry Gao ’28

A student at Beijing No. 80 High School and the co-founder/president of the school’s Sustainability Club, Jerry Gao will join Yale College as a member of the class of 2028 this fall. He is passionate about the natural sciences, environmental protection, and figure skating. During high school, Jerry conducted research involving microplastics and won first prize in 2023’s Environmental Beauty contest in Beijing.