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    • MEAM Seminar: “Exploring Jet-Propelled Soft Robots: Design, Experiments, and Theory”

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    Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Understanding how marine animals migrate is critical for assessing the impacts of climate change on ocean ecosystems—and yet current Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), with their noisy propellers and rigid hulls, are ill-suited to operate alongside sensitive species. Bio-inspired robots offer a promising alternative by emulating the natural locomotion strategies of fish, cephalopods, and other marine […]

    ESE Guest Seminar: “On-Device Probabilistic AI: From Gaussian Transistors to Light-Driven Spike Encoding”

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    Room 221, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Emerging edge AI systems call for device-level approaches that are inherently low-power, secure, and capable of managing uncertainty. In this talk, I will share our recent exploratory efforts toward realizing on-device probabilistic intelligence using custom-designed semiconductor devices. I will introduce Gaussian transistors that support analog Gaussian activation and probabilistic inference by harnessing device-level variability. These […]

    ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Novel van der Waals Chalcogenides for Sustainable Light Harvesting”

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    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    The global climate crisis demands a shift to renewable energy sources. Solar photovoltaics (PVs) are widely considered the most feasible renewable technology to meet global energy demands, and solar photo-electrocatalysis is a promising approach to decarbonize industrial chemical production. However, scaling solar energy harvesting technologies to meet energy demands must be done economically and sustainably, […]

    • MEAM Seminar: “Leveraging Robot-Based Haptic Dyads to Improve Community-Based Stroke Rehabilitation”

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    Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Disabilities related to aging and stroke impact functional independence and quality of life for millions of older adults, creating a growing need for scalable, accessible rehabilitation solutions. Community-based robotic therapy that leverages social interaction and haptic feedback offers a promising approach, particularly for individuals with motor and cognitive impairments. This seminar presents work exploring how […]

    [VIRTUAL SPEAKER]: Summer 2025 GRASP Seminar: Michal Gregor, Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies, “Low-Resource NLP: Not Just Throwing Data at a Model and Hoping for the Best”

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    Virtual via Zoom

    This is a virtual event ONLY with attendance via Zoom.  ABSTRACT The talk will introduce several topics in low-resource and multilingual NLP – in the domain of disinformation combatting, through works done at the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies in Bratislava – and also in the more general context of efficiently adapting large language models […]

    CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Quantitative Transcriptional Regulation through Protein–DNA Interactions in Developing Systems” (Gaochen Jin)

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    Towne 225

    Abstract: Precise regulation of gene expression is essential for controlling developmental programs, maintaining cellular identity, and ensuring proper tissue function. Dynamic interactions between proteins and cis-regulatory elements integrate molecular mechanisms and extracellular signaling to achieve precise control of transcriptional activity. In this thesis, I investigate protein-DNA-mediated transcriptional regulation across two distinct developmental systems: mouse embryonic […]

    MEAM Seminar: “Predicting Infant Center of Pressure through Physics and Data Driven Modeling”

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    Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Affecting roughly 2 in 1000 infants in the USA, Cerebral Palsy (CP) is the most common cause of motor impairment in children. CP has no cure, but motor therapy is an effective tool for providing rehabilitation. Although therapy is most effective before the age of 2, early CP detection is difficult and labor-intensive, making the […]

    MEAM Seminar: “Temperature Dependent Offset for Spin Lattice Dynamics Modeling”

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    Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Spin lattice dynamics (SLD) modeling is an approach to modeling magnetic interactions at the nanoscale. Current spin lattice dynamics models do not model magnetoelastic effects well, giving non-physical lattice parameters and poorly modeling behavior like forced volume magnetostriction. A new model, based on a temperature dependent offset that subtracts out the part of the magnetic […]

    AI + Science Seminar

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    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

    Extracting Knowledge Priors from Scientific Texts for De Novo Molecular Design This talk will explore a large-scale effort to exploit the natural-language understanding capabilities of large language models in order to unlock information about the structure, function, and biological activity for proteins, small molecules, genetic variants, and other biological entities of interest. Register Now

    ASSET Seminar: “AIRFoundry: AI for RNA Discovery and Synthesis”

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    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

    Virtually everyone today is aware of the mRNA vaccine for COVID, which saved many lives and earned the Nobel Prize for Drs. Drew Weissman and Katalin Kariko. The vaccine consisted not only of mRNA that coded for the COVID spike protein, but a protective lipid nanoparticle envelope that carried the RNA to cells in the […]

    2025 Venture Lab Expo

    Entrepreneurship Expo 2025

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    On Wednesday, August 27, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM ET, Venture Lab is hosting the 2025 Entrepreneurship Expo, a one-stop experience for students to explore co-curricular programs, discover entrepreneurship clubs, and learn how to take the next step in their entrepreneurial journey. From students who are curious about innovation to those actively launching ventures, […]

    CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Silica Nanoparticle-Based Platform for Rare Earth Element Recovery and Separation” (Ivy Dai)

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    Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology, Room 121 231 S 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract: Rare earth elements (REEs) are essential for clean energy technologies including batteries for electrical vehicles, wind turbines and LED screens due to their unique magnetic, optical, and electronic properties. Efficient methods for their recovery and separation are urgently needed to meet the growing demands of a rapidly evolving green economy worldwide. However, current separation […]