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  • June 2025

  • Tuesday Jun 17

    MEAM Seminar: “Mechanical Interfaces for Health: From Mechanobiology to Tactile Perception”

    June 17, 2025 @ 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM /
    Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Our lab combines adhesion and tribology with modern polymers and surface coatings to understand soft interfaces in biology towards improving human health and accessibility. On the scale of cells, mechanical […]

    Tuesday Jun 17

    Summer 2025 GRASP Seminar: Antonino Furnari, University of Catania, “Towards an Embodied Understanding of Human Behaviour with Egocentric Vision”

    June 17, 2025 @ 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM /
    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 306 3317 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in AGH 306 and virtual attendance via Zoom. ABSTRACT The last few years are witnessing a major shift in the way we […]

    Wednesday Jun 18

    ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Statistical Limits and Efficient Algorithms for Learning-Enabled Control”

    June 18, 2025 @ 9:00 AM /
    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

    As the adoption of large-scale learning for control continues to grow, developing sample-efficient algorithms has become critical. Yet, even in simple settings, algorithms achieving optimal sample complexity for specific problem […]

    Wednesday Jun 18

    AI Across the Care Spectrum: From Bench to Bed (Webinar)

    June 18, 2025 @ 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM /

    Join Penn AI on June 18 @ 2PM for an exciting webinar exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming every corner of healthcare—from dental exams to home care, medical imaging to […]

    Friday Jun 20

    MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Elastomeric Strain Limitation for Design of Soft Pneumatic Actuators”

    June 20, 2025 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM /
    Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Modern robots embody power and precision control, yet as robots undertake tasks that apply forces on humans this power brings risk of injury. Soft robotic actuators use deformation to produce […]

    Wednesday Jun 25

    MSE Ph.D. Defense: “Wet Spinning Responsive Filaments: Assembly and Processing with Anisotropic Building Blocks”

    June 25, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 2:30 PM /
    Auditorium, LRSM Building 3231 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Fibers are among the most versatile material forms in contemporary applications, including textiles, biomedicine, and aerospace. Wet spinning, the process of coagulating a polymer solution into tangible fibers, remains one […]

    Wednesday Jun 25

    CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Reconfigurable Metasurfaces Based on Multistable Elastic Pixels” (Jed-Joan S. Edziah)

    June 25, 2025 @ 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM /
    Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract: Metamaterials are engineered materials designed to manipulate and tailor electromagnetic (EM) waves. Metasurfaces are planar metamaterials that rely on inclusions whose optical properties and spatial arrangements are designed to […]

  • July 2025

  • Wednesday Jul 2

    MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Mechanical Robust Biocompatible Polymeric Networks for Repetitive Loading”

    July 2, 2025 @ 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM /
    Towne 319 220 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, United States

    Crosslinked biocompatible polymer networks offer unique potential for biomedical applications that demand high resilience under repetitive load-bearing conditions. However, conventional hydrogels often exhibit poor mechanical strength and irreversible damage under […]

    Thursday Jul 3

    CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Computational Strategies for Efficiently Sampling Conformational Changes in Solvated Macromolecules” (Akash Pallath)

    July 3, 2025 @ 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM /
    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

    Abstract: Solvated macromolecules such as proteins and polymers undergo conformational changes in response to stimuli such as pressure, temperature, pH, ligand binding, and post-translational modification. These transitions are fundamental to […]

    Thursday Jul 3

    CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Computational Analysis of Colloidal Self-Assembly with Interaction Heterogeneity” (Po-Ting Wu)

    July 3, 2025 @ 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM /
    PICS Conference Room 534 - A Wing , 5th Floor 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract: Micron-scale colloidal particles with short-ranged attractions, e.g., colloids functionalized with single-stranded DNA oligomers, have emerged as a powerful platform for studying colloidal self-assembly phenomena with the long-term goal of […]

    Tuesday Jul 8

    ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Towards General Microscopic Robots”

    July 8, 2025 @ 3:00 PM /
    Towne 337

    This defense presents my contributions towards general robotics at the microscopic scale. Namely, through the introduction of fully programmable, autonomous microscopic robots free to explore the microscopic world. The robots […]

    Friday Jul 11

    ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Energy-efficient Wavelength-Division-Multiplexing Systems for the Next Generation of Optical Transceivers”

    July 11, 2025 @ 9:00 AM /
    Towne 337

    The rapid growth of data traffic in data centers and AI applications demands faster, more energy-efficient communication solutions to scale up parallel computing capabilities. This dissertation explores integrated photonic-electronic systems […]

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