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  • January 2026

  • Tuesday Jan 20

    MEAM Seminar: “Nonlinear Modeling, Synthesis, and Design-for-Additive Manufacturing of Smart Compliant Mechanisms”

    January 20 @ 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Compliant mechanisms have been the subject of intense research in recent decades. Making compliant mechanisms “smart” to form flexible, adaptive structures is the focus of my research group, with applications […]

    Monday Jan 26

    ESE 2026 Jack Keil Wolf Lecture – “Convex Optimization”

    January 26 @ 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM /
    Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Convex optimization has emerged as useful tool for applications that include data analysis and model fitting, machine learning and statistics, resource allocation, engineering design, network design and optimization, finance, and […]

    Tuesday Jan 27

    MEAM Seminar: “Constitutive Modeling of Rubbery Networks: From Microscale Physics to Macroscopic Behavior”

    January 27 @ 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Rubbery polymer networks, including elastomers and hydrogels, are increasingly employed in advanced applications such as biomedical implants, drug delivery systems, and smart sensors and actuators. Their macroscopic mechanical properties, such […]

    Friday Jan 30

    Spring 2026 GRASP on Robotics: Ming C. Lin, University of Maryland, College Park, “Learning the Dynamic World “

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

    This event will be in-person ONLY in Wu and Chen Auditorium. ABSTRACT With increasing availability of data in various forms from images, audio, video, 3D models, motion capture, simulation results, […]

  • February 2026

  • Monday Feb 2

    Joseph Bordogna Forum: 2026 Lecture

    February 2 @ 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Engineering Leadership in a World of Accelerating Change Engineering bridges science and technology, driving innovation for the benefit of people and society. Today we live in an increasingly technology-dependent world […]

    Friday Feb 6

    Spring 2026 GRASP on Robotics: Roni Sengupta, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “From Pixels to Physics: Understanding and Manipulating Physics from Images”

    February 6 @ 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This event will be in-person ONLY in Wu and Chen Auditorium. ABSTRACT A hallmark of human vision is the ability to reason about the physics of the world: we can […]

    Friday Feb 6

    PICS Colloquium: “Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion-Dynamics Modeling of whole systems: application to fibrin clot contraction and fibrin clot rupture” with Valeri Barsegov

    February 6 @ 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM /
    PICS Conference Room 534 - A Wing , 5th Floor 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract: Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion-Dynamics Model (SRDDM) for particle-based simulations of mechanochemical processes for thermodynamically large systems with high spatial and temporal resolution will be presented. The SRDDM couples the spatially inhomogeneous […]

    Friday Feb 6

    PICS Colloquium: “Learning parsimonious models by covariance balancing” with Clarence Rowley

    February 6 @ 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM /

    Abstract: Data-driven reduced-order models often struggle with high-dimensional nonlinear systems sensitive to low-variance coordinates, which are typically truncated. To address this, we use ideas from balanced truncation and active subspaces […]

    Wednesday Feb 11

    Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science: “Toward Intelligent Metamaterial Machines,” Katia Bertoldi – Harvard University

    February 11 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Flexible mechanical metamaterials are engineered structures whose unique geometries allow them to display remarkable behaviors, especially in the nonlinear regime. These systems hold promise for enabling the next generation of […]

    Wednesday Feb 11

    ASSET Seminar: “Title TBD”

    February 11 @ 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM /
    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

    Abstract TBD   Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/93936800903

    Friday Feb 13

    Spring 2026 GRASP on Robotics: George Konidaris, Brown University, “Unifying the Stack: A Principled Structuralist Approach to Intelligent Robot Control”

    February 13 @ 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This event will be in-person ONLY in Wu and Chen Auditorium. ABSTRACT There are two dominant approaches to designing intelligent robots. One, typified by language behavior models, leverages unstructured deep […]

    Wednesday Feb 18

    ASSET Seminar: “Title TBD”

    February 18 @ 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM /
    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

    Abstract TBD   Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95008740148

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