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Responsive Materials Meet Intelligence
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Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology
3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Fold It. Stretch It. Build it. Shape it. Responsive Materials Meet Intelligence. Keynote Speakers: H. Jerry Qi Woodruff Endowed Professor George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Talk title: “Photocuring: grayscale digital light processing printing for pixel-level property manipulations” Jenny Sabin Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Professor in Architecture Chair, Department […]
LAMP Seminar: “Mechanics of Contact, Friction, and Fracture (by design) – Towards the Interaction between the Natural and Built Environment”
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LRSM Reading Room
3231 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA, United States
Contact, friction, and fracture are fundamental processes governing the emergent (mechanical) behaviors of various complex (material) systems, from as large as tectonic slip to as small as third-body wear. In this talk, we briefly discuss (1) challenges in understanding the (nonlinear) mechanics of these processes, specifically focusing on those designed into metamaterials, and (2) novel […]
MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Real Time Local Wind Inference for Robust Autonomous Navigation”
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Room 337, Towne Building
220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Urban air mobility and autonomous package delivery represent promising avenues for integrating aerial robots into everyday life. However, operating these systems safely and efficiently in windy urban environments remains a major challenge due to the complexity of urban wind flow fields. Existing methods for predicting and navigating wind fields rely on precise environmental knowledge, distributed […]
ASSET Seminar: “Reality Checks”
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Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414
3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States
Despite its success, leaderboard chasing has become something researchers dread and mock. When implemented properly and executed faithfully, leaderboard chasing can lead to both faster and easily reproducible progress in science, as evident from the amazing progress we have seen with machine learning, or more broadly artificial intelligence, in recent decades. It does not however […]
Fall 2025 Robotics MSE Thesis Lightning Talks and Poster Session
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Levine 307
3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
This is an in-person event with in-person attendance in Levine 307. 10:00am – Lightning Talks and Poster Session Welcome Remarks Dr. Ani Hsieh – ROBO Program Chair Kashish Garg Advised By: Dr. Vijay Kumar Aero-Simian: A Bio-Inspired, Brachiating-Flying Robot JiYoon Kang Advised By: Dr. Mark Yim Birddy: A Multimodal, […]
Doctoral Dissertation Defense – Spencer Averbeck “Advancing neural interface technologies for high-fidelity cortical recording and stimulation”
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Class of 62 Auditorium, John Morgan Building
3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA
ASSET Seminar: “Formal Methods for Language Model Systems”
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Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414
3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States
Formal methods are often dismissed as too rigid, complex, or unscalable for frontier language model systems (e.g., LLMs, VLMs, agentic systems). In this talk, I will challenge this assumption with both theoretical insights and empirical evidence across various domains, including chatbots, autonomous driving, mathematical reasoning, code generation, and agentic AI. I will present a new set of efficient formal frameworks for […]
MSE Seminar: “Polymer Chain-End Chemistry: Unlocking Next-Generation Functional Materials”
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Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall
3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
End-group functionalization has become a powerful and versatile strategy in polymer science, enabling precise control over physical properties, nanoscale self-assembly, and interfacial functionality without modifying the polymer backbone. In our group’s research, we have investigated (1) how tailored end groups affect intrinsic polymer characteristics such as thermal transitions, solubility, and crystallization behavior, and (2) how […]