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  • September 2024

  • Tuesday Sep 17

    MEAM Seminar: “Natural Structural Materials: Lessons on Toughening Mechanisms, Weight Reduction, and Multifunctionality”

    September 17, 2024 @ 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Structural materials that are damage-tolerant, lightweight, multifunctional, and sustainable are highly desirable for many engineering applications. Such combinations of properties are often found in the biological world. Organisms from nature […]

    Tuesday Sep 17

    ESE Fall Seminar – “Big AI for Small Devices”

    September 17, 2024 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms industries, state-of-the-art models have exploded in size and capability. However, deploying these models on resource-constrained edge devices remains a significant challenge. Smartphones, wearables, and IoT […]

    Tuesday Sep 17

    CIS Seminar: “Recent Advances in Spatial Generative AI”

    September 17, 2024 @ 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Generative spatial AI offers unprecedented capabilities for photorealistic scene representation, generation, and novel-view synthesis, among other tasks. In this talk, we discuss recent advances in large-scale 3D scene representations, efficient […]

    Wednesday Sep 18

    ASSET Seminar: “Representation-based Learning and Control for Dynamical Systems”

    September 18, 2024 @ 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM /
    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract:  The explosive growth of machine learning and data-driven methodologies have revolutionized numerous fields. Yet, the translation of these successes to the domain of dynamical physical systems remains a significant […]

    Wednesday Sep 18

    BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Quantitative Informatics Approaches to Characterize and Predict Childhood Genetic Epilepsies” (Peter Galer)

    September 18, 2024 @ 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM /
    Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania along with Drs. Brian Litt and Ingo Helbig proudly announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Peter Galer. Title: Quantitative Informatics Approaches to […]

    Wednesday Sep 18

    Fall 2024 GRASP SFI: Dian Wang, Northeastern University, “Equivariant Learning for Robotic Manipulation”

    September 18, 2024 @ 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM /
    Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Despite recent advances in machine learning for robotics, current approaches often lack […]

    Wednesday Sep 18

    CBE Seminar: “Autonomous Soft and Colloidal Matter Fueled by Chemical Reactions” (Taylor Woehl, University of Maryland)

    September 18, 2024 @ 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract: Biological systems utilize networks of biochemical reactions to drive autonomous and dynamic processes. Examples include the dynamic polymerization of microtubules and the dynamic min protein system in E. Coli. […]

    Thursday Sep 19

    MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Contacts with Dynamically Tunable Adhesion and Friction via Active Materials with Thermally Modulated Stiffness”

    September 19, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM /
    Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Contact interactions, including adhesion and friction, are critical to the design of many engineered systems. Currently, most systems rely on materials with static mechanical properties, requiring careful selection of materials […]

    Thursday Sep 19

    MSE Seminar: “Materials, Mechanics, and Performance of Flexible Polymeric Actuators in Robotics” (Sameh Tawfick – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

    September 19, 2024 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    My group is developing a roadmap for soft actuating materials to replace bulky electric motors in miniature robots requiring large mechanical work output. First, I will describe the materials microstructure and […]

    Thursday Sep 19

    CIS Seminar: “Learning Controllers for multi-robot Teams”

    September 19, 2024 @ 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    We have recently demonstrated the possibility of learning controllers that are zero-shot transferable to groups of real quadrotors via large-scale, multi-agent, end-to-end reinforcement learning. We train policies parameterized by neural […]

    Friday Sep 20

    BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Extracting Insights From Electronic Health Records Using Optimized Large Language Models” (Kevin Xie)

    September 20, 2024 @ 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM /
    Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Brian Litt are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Kevin Xie. Title: Extracting Insights From Electronic Health […]

    Friday Sep 20

    GRASP Industry Talk: Amazon Robotics – Scanless Technologies, “Amazon Robotics Tech Talk”

    September 20, 2024 @ 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This will be an in-person event only with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen. This seminar will not be recorded or available on Zoom. Amazon Robotics Tech Talk & Networking […]

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