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SUMMARY:CIS Seminar: "Prioritizing Computation and Analyst Resources in Large-scale Data Analytics"
DESCRIPTION:Data volumes are growing exponentially\, fueled by an increased number of automated processes such as sensors and devices. Meanwhile\, the computational power available for processing this data – as well as analysts’ ability to interpret it – remain limited. As a result\, database systems must evolve to address these new bottlenecks in analytics. In my work\, I ask: how can we adapt classic ideas from database query processing to modern compute- and analyst-limited data analytics? \nIn this talk\, I will discuss the potential for this kind of systems development through the lens of several practical systems I have developed. By drawing insights from database query optimization\, such as pushing workload- and domain-specific filtering\, aggregation\, and sampling into core analytics workflows\, we can dramatically improve the efficiency of analytics at scale. I will illustrate these ideas by focusing on two systems — one designed to optimize visualizations for streaming infrastructure and application telemetry and one designed for high-volume seismic waveform analysis — both of which have been field-tested at scale. I will also discuss lessons from production deployments at companies including Datadog\, Microsoft\, Google and Facebook.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cis-seminar-prioritizing-computation-and-analyst-resources-in-large-scale-data-analytics/
LOCATION:Zoom – Email CIS for link\, cherylh@cis.upenn.edu
ORGANIZER;CN="Computer and Information Science":MAILTO:cherylh@cis.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T133000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210209T155108Z
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SUMMARY:ODEI Spotlight: Sustaining Women's Progress in STEM
DESCRIPTION:Following Dean Kumar’s presentation\, participants will break off into small groups to reflect on this topic and share their experiences as part of the overall discourse. \n\nThe symposium finale will include a virtual tour of the Penn Innovation Center spotlighting female entrepreneurs at Penn.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/sustaining-womens-progress-in-stem/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T120000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
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SUMMARY:MEAM Seminar: "Exploring the Structure of Sediment-Laden Turbidity Currents"
DESCRIPTION:Turbidity currents are sediment-laden turbulent shear flows that run over a sloping bed\, submerged beneath a deep layer of quiescent ambient fluid\, driven by the excess hydrostatic pressure. As the current travels downslope\, the flow interacts with the ambient fluid layer above through entrainment at the interface. In this process\, the ambient fluid is continuously incorporated into the current and the thickness of the current increases. Simultaneously\, the current also interacts with the bottom bed both depositing and resuspending sediment. As a result\, turbidity currents are responsible for massive emplacement of sediment as turbidites\, which with their large amounts of organic-matter deposits now form the richest oil and gas reserves. \nDue to extreme paucity of direct field observations and measurements\, the structure and dynamics of real turbidity currents remain poorly understood. There are many elementary questions pertaining to the global behavior of the currents that are of substantial consequence to erosion and deposition of sediment. Some important aspects of turbidity currents have puzzled scientists: (i) It has been observed that turbidity currents travel hundreds of kilometers confined within submarine canyons. How is this possible\, if the turbidity current is turbulent and mixes with the surrounding? (ii) After traveling for hundreds of kilometers\, they suddenly drop a significant portion of the suspended sediment to form massive deposits. What triggers such catastrophic events? (iii) What is the effect of sediment size on ambient fluid entrainment and basal drag? (iv) What generates large-scale bedforms like cyclic steps? \nWe try to answer these questions with high-fidelity direct and large eddy multiphase flow simulations of turbidity currents. The delicate interplay between wall-turbulence\, turbulence in the shear-layer\, sediment transport and the back effect of sediment on turbulence through stratification presents a fascinating contrast between supercritical and subcritical currents. First\, we find that long running currents in the subcritical regime present a near-wall region that behaves like a turbulent channel flow with a lutocline acting as a lid. Furthermore\, we observe supercritical currents to form three families of interacting coherent hairpin vortex structures that control transport of turbulence. We elucidate on the effect of sediment size on ambient fluid entrainment and basal drag. Finally\, we explore a transcritical current and its possible connection to cyclic steps and sediment waves. While the current slowly evolves in the subcritical and supercritical regimes in a near self-similar manner\, the transcritical current with its unique cyclical evolution exhibits a limit-cycle like behavior.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-seminar-exploring-the-structure-of-sediment-laden-turbidity-currents/
LOCATION:Zoom – Email MEAM for Link\, peterlit@seas.upenn.edu
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210322T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210322T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210316T142105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210316T142105Z
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SUMMARY:ODEI Spotlight: Underrepresented Identities and the Job Search: DEI Leaders Share Their Wisdom
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we engage a panel of Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion leaders on how BIPOC and other marginalized students can effectively navigate the job search to find their career fit in a workplace where they can flourish.   Panelists will also discuss DEI efforts at their companies. Please register on Handshake and you will receive a Zoom link before the event.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/odei-spotlight-underrepresented-identities-and-the-job-search-dei-leaders-share-their-wisdom/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210322T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210322T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210120T165343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210120T165343Z
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SUMMARY:PSOC Webinar: Robert T. Tranquillo
DESCRIPTION:Physical Sciences in Oncology Center PSOC@Penn \nSpring 2021 Webinar Series Mondays at 12:00 noon (EST) \nFor webinar links\, please contact manu@seas.upenn.edu.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/psoc-webinar-robert-t-tranquillo/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="PSOC":MAILTO:manu@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210322T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210322T120000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210309T192203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210309T192203Z
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SUMMARY:Technology\, Business and Government Lecture: "STEM and the Future of Work- A Conversation with Rep. Chrissy Houlahan"
DESCRIPTION:Representative Houlahan will speak about how her experiences as a former teacher and engineer have shaped her priorities and work in Congress\, and about the importance of STEM work/jobs across all sectors of society. \nZoom Webinar Link\nPasscode: 130891
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/technology-business-and-government-lecture-stem-and-the-future-of-work-a-conversation-with-rep-chrissy-houlahan/
LOCATION:https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96715197752
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210320T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210320T163000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210315T182523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210315T182523Z
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SUMMARY:ODEI Spotlight: PAACH  Restorative Practice Circle for Penn Undergraduate Students
DESCRIPTION:This event will be on Zoom. \nPlease click the link below to join the meeting: \nhttps://upenn.zoom.us/j/95250449284
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/odei-spotlight-paach-restorative-practice-circle-for-penn-undergraduate-students/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210319T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210319T123000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210312T200427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210312T200427Z
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SUMMARY:GRASP On Robotics: “One Robot for Every Task”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The digitization of practically everything coupled with advances in machine learning\, the automation of knowledge work\, and advanced robotics promises a future with democratized use of machines and wide-spread use of AI\, robots and customization. While the last 60 years have defined the field of industrial robots\, and empowered hard bodied robots to execute complex assembly tasks in constrained industrial settings\, the next 60 years could be ushering in our time with Pervasive robots that come in a diversity of forms and materials\, helping people with physical and cognitive tasks. However\, the pervasive use of machines remains a hard problem.   How can we accelerate the creation of machines customized to specific tasks? Where are the gaps that we need to address in order to advance the bodies and brains of machines? How can we develop scalable and  trustworthy reasoning engines? \nIn this talk I will discuss recent developments in machine learning and robotics\, focusing on about how computation can play a role in (1) developing Neural Circuit Policies\, an efficient approach to more interpretable machine learning engines\, (2) making machines more capable of reasoning in the world\, (3) making custom robots\, and (4) making more intuitive interfaces between robots and people. \nClick here to join the Zoom Webinar
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/grasp-on-robotics-one-robot-for-every-task/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="General Robotics%2C Automation%2C Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab":MAILTO:grasplab@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210304T141711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210304T141711Z
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SUMMARY:ODEI Spotlight:  Virtual Mental Wellness & Anti-Racism Workshop - Turning off the Gaslights and Illuminating Brave Spaces
DESCRIPTION:To register and/or find out more about this event click here.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/odei-spotlight-virtual-mental-wellness-anti-racism-workshop-turning-off-the-gaslights-and-illuminating-brave-spaces/
LOCATION:PA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210315T200719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210315T200719Z
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SUMMARY:ODEI Spotlight:  USABE x Career Services Info Session and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:AWE x USABE x Career Services:\nJob Search Workshop and Q&A \nDate: Thursday\, March 18th \nTime: 6:00 – 7:00 PM EST\n(moved from Friday\, March 19th at 3PM)Are you eager to land exciting jobs and internships at companies you love? Just starting out with the job search or feeling a little overwhelmed about the entire process? Whatever situation you’re in\, we’ve got you covered! AWE\, in association with USABE and Penn Career Services\, is proud to present to you the ‘Job Search Workshop and Q&A’. \nJamie Grant\, Senior Associate Director of Penn Career Services for SEAS\, will be here to answer all your questions\, right from resumé-writing to interviewing! We will also have fellow students sharing their experience through all these stages\, leading to their job offers! You can ask your queries live or submit them in advance during registration. \n\nRegister/submit questions: https://tinyurl.com/careerservicesquestions\nZoom link: https://tinyurl.com/careerservicejobsearch\nZoom details: Meeting ID: 949 0033 2668\, passcode: 403638
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/odei-spotlight-usabe-x-career-services-info-session-and-qa/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T183000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210309T150207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210309T150207Z
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SUMMARY:ODEI Spotlight: PAVE x SWE Workshop: Being an Active Bystander
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/odei-spotlight-pave-x-swe-workshop-being-an-active-bystander/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T160000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210224T191141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210224T191141Z
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SUMMARY:CIS Seminar: "Bias and Representation in Sociotechnical Systems"
DESCRIPTION:Algorithms play a central role in our lives today\, mediating our access to civic engagement\, social connections\, employment opportunities\, news media and more. While the sociotechnical systems deploying these algorithms—search engines\, social networking sites\, and others—have the potential to dramatically improve human life\, they also run the risk of reproducing or intensifying social inequities and tensions. In my research\, I ask whether and how these systems are biased and how those biases impact users\, towards the aim of building better sociotechnical systems. \nUnderstanding sociotechnical systems and their effects requires a combination of computational and social techniques. In this talk\, I will describe my work conducting algorithm audits and randomized controlled user experiments to study representation and bias\, in particular my recent study of gender and racial bias in image search. By auditing gender and race in image search results for common U.S. occupations and comparing to baselines in the U.S. workforce we find that marginalized people are underrepresented relative to their workforce participation rates. When measuring people’s responses to synthetic search results in which the gender and racial composition are manipulated\, however\, we see that the effect of diverse image search results is complex and mediated by the user’s own identity. I will also touch on extensions of this strategy in other domains\, such as my algorithm audit of partisan political media in web search results\, whose results dispute allegations of partisan bias in search. I will conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for building sociotechnical systems\, and directions for future research studying algorithmic bias.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cis-seminar-bias-and-representation-in-sociotechnical-systems/
LOCATION:Zoom – Email CIS for link\, cherylh@cis.upenn.edu
ORGANIZER;CN="Computer and Information Science":MAILTO:cherylh@cis.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T160000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20201207T170445Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201207T170445Z
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SUMMARY:BE/Biochem/Biophys Seminar: "The Coming of Age of De Novo Protein Design" David Baker
DESCRIPTION:This seminar will be held virtually on Zoom (check email or contact ksas@seas.upenn.edu). \nThis seminar is jointly hosted by the Department of Bioengineering and the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics. \nProteins mediate the critical processes of life and beautifully solve the challenges faced during the evolution of modern organisms. Our goal is to design a new generation of proteins that address current day problems not faced during evolution. In contrast to traditional protein engineering efforts\, which have focused on modifying naturally occurring proteins\, we design new proteins from scratch based on Anfinsen’s principle that proteins fold to their global free energy minimum. We compute amino acid sequences predicted to fold into proteins with new structures and functions\, produce synthetic genes encoding these sequences\, and characterize them experimentally. I will describe the de novo design of fluorescent proteins\, membrane penetrating macrocycles\, transmembrane protein channels\, allosteric proteins that carry out logic operations\, and self-assembling nanomaterials and polyhedra.  I will also discuss the application of these methods to COVID-19 challenges.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/be-seminar-david-baker/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:be@seas.upenn.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T153000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210315T182324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210315T182324Z
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SUMMARY:ODEI Spotlight: PAACH Restorative Practice Circle for Penn Staff
DESCRIPTION:This event will be on Zoom. \nPlease click the link below to join the meeting: \nhttps://upenn.zoom.us/j/92797952475
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/odei-spotlight-paach-restorative-practice-circle-for-penn-staff/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T150000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210309T152402Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210309T152402Z
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SUMMARY:ODEI Spotlight: Navigating Sizeism and Fatphobia in Academia
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, we’ll learn how to identify\, cope with\, and combat sizeism and fatphobia in academic and professional settings. This session is for those interested in learning how to better navigate discussions surrounding body image\, fatphobia\, and diet culture in the classroom and beyond. \nLearn more and register at: https://gsc.upenn.edu/events
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/odei-spotlight-navigating-sizeism-and-fatphobia-in-academia/
LOCATION:PA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T120000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210219T173349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210219T173349Z
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SUMMARY:ESE Seminar: "Synthetic dimensions: harnessing light’s internal degrees of freedom for quantum\, nonlinear and topological photonics"
DESCRIPTION:Scaling up next-generation photonic systems in a resource-efficient manner is a ubiquitous challenge for quantum technologies such as quantum networks\, quantum simulation and computation\, and for classical technologies such as photonic neural networks\, LiDAR and communications. From a fundamental perspective\, high-dimensional lattices hold promise for realizing and manipulating exotic states of light and matter\, complementing the recent surge in studying low-dimensional physics using 2D materials\, quantum materials and cold atoms. \nI will show how we can endow photons with “synthetic dimensions” to overcome these challenges of scalability\, resource efficiency and dimensionality. The concept of synthetic dimensions replaces one or more spatial dimensions with intrinsic properties of photons such as frequency\, spin or temporal modes. I will introduce a novel synthetic-dimension spectroscopy technique to directly read out band structures from a time-resolved transmission. Using this technique\, we probed 2D quantum Hall physics in a single modulated cavity by simultaneously harnessing two synthetic dimensions of frequency and spin\, thus elucidating how higher-dimensional physics can be implemented in simpler\, experimentally feasible lower-dimensional structures. In such a cavity\, neutral photons experience an artificial magnetic field\, allowing us to observe a wide variety of condensed matter phenomena such as spin-orbit coupling\, spin-momentum locking\, chiral edge currents and a Meissner-to-vortex phase transition\, completely in synthetic dimensions. Examples of the extreme tunability of synthetic-space photonic circuits to realize flexibly reprogrammable long-range complex coupling and reconfigurable lattice Hamiltonians will also be provided\, in a manner that is unmatched in real-space architectures. \nQuantum technologies not only require reprogrammable photonic circuits\, but also need quantum sources to excite these circuits. In the second part of my talk\, I will discuss the first nanophotonic quantum squeezed-light source\, built by harnessing the ultralow-loss and strong nonlinearity of the silicon nitride microresonator platform. I will also explain how we generated broadband low-noise frequency combs on the same platform\, and performed ultrafast real-time spectroscopy of molecules using these combs. The talk will conclude with an outlook for combining quantum and nonlinear optics with coherent synthetic-space circuits in high dimensions to enable scalable\, reconfigurable nanophotonic systems for emerging applications.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/ese-seminar-synthetic-dimensions-harnessing-lights-internal-degrees-of-freedom-for-quantum-nonlinear-and-topological-photonics/
LOCATION:Zoom – Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.edu
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Faculty,Colloquium,Student
ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T104500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T114500
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210305T182433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210305T182433Z
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SUMMARY:MSE Seminar: "When ions meet electrons --- Modeling the interfaces in Solid-State Batteries"
DESCRIPTION:With the rapid development of fast Li-ion conductors\, the major bottleneck for all-solid-state Li-ion batteries lies at the high interfacial resistance and Li dendrite growth. These problems require a fundamental understanding of the interfaces\, where charge transfer reactions occur and electrochemistry\, physics\, and solid mechanics are coupled. This talk will focus on the new mechanistic understanding obtained by the recently developed multi-scale modeling approaches. \nOne challenge for solid-state batteries is the high interfacial resistance\, due to two main factors: physical contact and chemical effect. The chemical effect was captured by a density functional theory (DFT)-informed theoretical model\, which predicts the potential map inside a solid-state battery and determines the potential drop\, electrostatic dipole\, and space-charge layer at the electrode/solid-electrolyte interface. This new physics insight unified the seemingly contradictory experimental observations and led to new device design rules to promote interfacial ion transport in future solid-state batteries. The physical contact was described by combining contact mechanics and the 1D Newman battery model. The model suggested how much pressure should be applied to recover the capacity drop due to contact area loss.\nAnother challenge for high energy density solid-state barriers using Li-metal electrodes is the soft Li dendrite growth inside the hard solid electrolytes. A DFT-informed phase-field method was developed and successfully explained the experimentally observed dendrite intergranular growth and revealed that the trapped electrons at grain boundaries and surfaces may be the main reason to reduce Li-ion and nucleate metallic Li. A new dendrite resistant criterion is therefore proposed. \nThese modeling advancements will be integrated into a new framework to guide the development of all-solid-state Li-ion batteries.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/mse-seminar-when-ions-meet-electrons-modeling-the-interfaces-in-solid-state-batteries/
LOCATION:PA
ORGANIZER;CN="Materials Science and Engineering":MAILTO:johnruss@seas.upenn.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T160000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210312T200831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210312T200831Z
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SUMMARY:Spring 2021 GRASP SFI: “Considerations for Human-Robot Collaboration”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The field of robotics has evolved over the past few decades. We’ve seen robots progress from the automation of repetitive tasks in manufacturing to the autonomy of mobilizing in unstructured environments to the cooperation of swarm robots that are centralized or decentralized. These abilities have required advances in robotic hardware\, modeling\, and artificial intelligence. The next frontier is robots collaborating in complex tasks with human teammates\, in environments traditionally configured for humans. While solutions to this challenge must utilize all the advances of robotics\, the human element adds a unique aspect that must be addressed. Collaborating with a human teammate means that the robot must have a contextual understanding of the task as well as all participant’s roles. We will discuss what constitutes an effective teammate and how we can capture this behavior in a robotic collaborator. \nClick here to join the Zoom meeting
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/spring-2021-grasp-sfi-considerations-for-human-robot-collaboration/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="General Robotics%2C Automation%2C Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab":MAILTO:grasplab@seas.upenn.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T133000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210315T181917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210315T181917Z
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SUMMARY:ODEI Spotlight: PAACH  Restorative Practice Circle for Penn Faculty
DESCRIPTION:This event will be on Zoom. \nPlease click the link below to join the meeting: \nhttps://upenn.zoom.us/j/95642827861 \n 
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/odei-spotlight-paach-restorative-practice-circle-for-penn-faculty/
LOCATION:PA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210310T133921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210310T133921Z
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SUMMARY:PICS Alumni Spotlight: "Xiaoguai Li\, Quantitative Modeler/Data Scientist at JPMorgan Chase & Co."
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, March 17 at 12:00 PICS will host an alumni spotlight featuring Xiaoguai Li\, an alumni of Celia Reina’s group. Xiaoguai is currently employed as a Quantitative Modeler/Data Scientist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Xiaoguai will share what she has learned since graduation and what advice she can offer to current students.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/pics-alumni-spotlight-xiaoguai-li-quantitative-modeler-data-scientist-at-jpmorgan-chase-co/
LOCATION:Zoom – email kathom@seas.upenn.edu
CATEGORIES:Alumni
ORGANIZER;CN="Penn Institute for Computational Science (PICS)":MAILTO:dkparks@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210315T181704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210315T181704Z
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SUMMARY:ODEI Spotlight: PAACH Restorative Practice Circle for Penn Alumni
DESCRIPTION:This event will be on Zoom. \nPlease click the link below to join the meeting: \nhttps://upenn.zoom.us/j/98788759011 \n 
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/odei-spotlight-paach-restorative-practice-circle-for-penn-alumni/
LOCATION:PA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T170000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210315T181535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210315T181535Z
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SUMMARY:ODEI Spotlight: PAACH Restorative Practice Circle for Penn Post-Docs
DESCRIPTION:This event will be on Zoom. \nPlease click the link below to join the meeting: \nhttps://upenn.zoom.us/j/93637094346
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/odei-spotlight-paach-restorative-practice-circle-for-penn-post-docs/
LOCATION:PA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T160000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210216T182340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210216T182340Z
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SUMMARY:CIS Seminar: "Human-AI Systems for Making Video Useful"
DESCRIPTION:Video is becoming a core medium for communicating a wide range of content\, including educational lectures\, vlogs\, and how-to tutorials. While videos are engaging and informative\, they lack the familiar and useful affordances of text for browsing\, skimming\, and flexibly transforming information. This severely limits who can interact with video content and how they can interact with it\, makes editing a laborious process\, and means that much of the information in videos is not accessible to everyone. \nBut\, what are the future systems will make videos useful for all users? \nIn this talk\, I’ll share my work creating interactive Human-AI systems that leverage multiple mediums of communication (e.g.\, text\, video\, and audio) across two main research areas: 1) helping domain-experts surface content of interest through interactive video abstractions\, and 2) making videos non-visually accessible through interactions for video accessibility. First I will share core challenges of seeking information in videos from interviews with domain experts. Then\, I will share new interactive systems that leverage AI\, and evaluations that demonstrate system efficacy. I will conclude with how hybrid HCI-AI breakthroughs will make digital communication more effective and accessible in the future\, and how new interactions can help us to realize the full potential of recent AI/ML advances.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cis-seminar-human-ai-systems-for-making-video-useful/
LOCATION:Zoom – Email CIS for link\, cherylh@cis.upenn.edu
ORGANIZER;CN="Computer and Information Science":MAILTO:cherylh@cis.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T120000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210224T184552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210224T184552Z
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SUMMARY:ESE Seminar: "Surpassing Fundamental Limits through Time Varying Electromagnetics"
DESCRIPTION:Surpassing the fundamental limits that govern all electromagnetic structures\, such as reciprocity and the delay-bandwidth-size limit\, will have a transformative impact on all applications based on electromagnetic circuits and systems. For instance\, violating principles of reciprocity enables non-reciprocal components such as isolators and circulators\, which find application in full-duplex wireless radios\, radar\, bio-medical imaging\, and quantum computing systems. Overcoming the delay-bandwidth-size limit enables ultra-broadband yet extremely-compact devices whose size is not fundamentally related to the wavelength at the operating frequency. \nThe focus of my talk will be on using time-variance as a new toolbox to overcome these fundamental limits and re-imagine circuit design. Specifically\, I will focus on CMOS-integrated time-varying circuits and systems that have enabled: (i) integrated non-reciprocal components operating across frequencies ranging from RF to millimeter waves with multi-watt power handling\, (ii) reconfigurable microwave passive components with 100-1000× form-factor reduction\, (iii) integrated full-duplex wireless radios with wideband self-interference cancellation\, and (iv) the first non-reciprocal Floquet electromagnetic topological insulator with an ultra-wide bandgap. Our prototypes achieve the stringent performance envelopes that are required by practical wireless applications\, thus bringing the fields of integrated non-reciprocity and synthetic topological insulators to real-world applications. \nLooking to the future\, I will briefly describe early-stage cross-disciplinary collaborative research projects that investigate the use of time-varying circuits in cryogenic quantum computing applications and simultaneous-transmit-and-receive MRI.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/ese-seminar-surpassing-fundamental-limits-through-time-varying-electromagnetics/
LOCATION:Zoom – Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.edu
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Faculty,Colloquium,Student
ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T120000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210111T220348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210111T220348Z
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SUMMARY:MEAM Seminar: "Control of Turbulent Wall Shear Flows and the Potential for 'Designer Turbulence'"
DESCRIPTION:The financial and environmental cost of turbulence is staggering: manage to quell turbulence in the thin boundary layers on the surface of a commercial airliner and you could almost halve the total aerodynamic drag\, dramatically cutting fuel burn\, emissions and cost of operation. Yet systems-level tools to model scale interactions or control turbulence remain relatively under-developed. Resolvent analysis for turbulent flow provides a simple\, but rigorous\, approach by which to deconstruct the full turbulence field into a linear combination of modes which interact through the nonlinear term. In this talk\, resolvent analysis is used to explore the influence of passive and active control techniques on turbulence structure. Model results obtained using desktop computing power are compared with direct numerical simulation and complex experiments\, highlighting the utility of resolvent analysis as a design tool for schemes to control wall turbulence\, and the dramatic reduction in complexity associated with sparsity and low-rank behavior in the resolvent. We close with a brief discussion of the potential to exploit these findings to create turbulence with specified\, or “designer” properties. \nThe support of the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research under grant FA 9550-16-1-0361 and the U.S. Office of Naval Research under grant N00014-17-1-2307 is gratefully acknowledged.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-seminar-control-of-turbulent-wall-shear-flows-and-the-potential-for-designer-turbulence/
LOCATION:Zoom – Email MEAM for Link\, peterlit@seas.upenn.edu
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210315T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210315T150000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210309T172311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210309T172311Z
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SUMMARY:ODEI Spotlight: Inclusive Technology\, Provocations for Research and Design
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Perceptions of digital technology have grown increasingly cynical over the last decade\, fueled by crises from the Snowden leaks to Cambridge Analytica to disinformation campaigns.  Critical thinking about who is accommodated and who is excluded by mainstream technology is crucial for living up to promises of technology as empowering\, but what do these reflections look like on a practical level?  This talk reviews feminist critiques of technology and describes how otherness has been imagined in research on human computing interaction. Thinking about how practitioners and researchers imagine their users\, particularly users on the margins\, we can see key gaps in thinking\, and opportunities for building more inclusive and equitable relationships to technology. \nLink: Zoom \nAdd to Google Calendar
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/odei-spotlight-inclusive-technology-provocations-for-research-and-design/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210315T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210309T182722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210309T182722Z
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SUMMARY:PSOC Webinar: "T Cell Circuits That Can Sense Antigen Density with an Ultrasensitive Threshold" (Rogello Hernandez-Lopez)
DESCRIPTION:Physical Sciences in Oncology Center (PSOC@Penn) Spring 2021 Webinar Series. For webinar link\, contact manu@seas.upenn.edu.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/psoc-webinar-t-cell-circuits-that-can-sense-antigen-density-with-an-ultrasensitive-threshold-rogello-hernandez-lopez/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Postdoctoral
ORGANIZER;CN="PSOC":MAILTO:manu@seas.upenn.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T120000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210215T192651Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210215T192651Z
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SUMMARY:ESE Seminar: "Demystifying (Deep) Reinforcement Learning: The Optimist\, The Pessimist\, and Their Provable Efficiency"
DESCRIPTION:Coupled with powerful function approximators such as deep neural networks\, reinforcement learning (RL) achieves tremendous empirical successes. However\, its theoretical understandings lag behind. In particular\, it remains unclear how to provably attain the optimal policy with a finite regret or sample complexity. In this talk\, we will present the two sides of the same coin\, which demonstrates an intriguing duality between pessimism and optimism. \n– In the online setting\, we aim to learn the optimal policy by actively interacting with an environment. To strike a balance between exploration and exploitation\, we propose an optimistic least-squares value iteration algorithm\, which achieves a \sqrt{T} regret in the presence of linear\, kernel\, and neural function approximators. \n– In the offline setting\, we aim to learn the optimal policy based on a dataset collected a priori. Due to a lack of active interactions with the environment\, we suffer from the insufficient coverage of the dataset. To maximally exploit the dataset\, we propose a pessimistic least-squares value iteration algorithm\, which achieves a minimax-optimal sample complexity.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/ese-seminar-demystifying-deep-reinforcement-learning-the-optimist-the-pessimist-and-their-provable-efficiency/
LOCATION:Zoom – Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.edu
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Faculty,Colloquium,Student
ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210311T104500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210311T114500
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210305T182131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210305T182131Z
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SUMMARY:MSE Seminar: "Tailoring materials properties by ultrafast laser driving of collective modes"
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/mse-seminar-tailoring-materials-properties-by-ultrafast-laser-driving-of-collective-modes/
LOCATION:PA
ORGANIZER;CN="Materials Science and Engineering":MAILTO:johnruss@seas.upenn.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210309T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210309T163000
DTSTAMP:20260407T192145
CREATED:20210304T171708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210304T171708Z
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SUMMARY:ODEI Spotlight: Truth Telling\, The Media\, and Social Equity
DESCRIPTION:Following Remarks by Penn President Amy Gutmann there will be a panel featuring: \nAndrea Mitchell – Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent NBC News \nJamil Smith – Emmy Award Winning Producer and Senior Writer Rolling Stone \nDavid Freedlander – Journalist and Author of The AOC Generation: How Millenials are Seizing Power and Rewriting the Rules of American Politics \nJohn Jackson – Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Richard Perry University Professor. \nKayla Padilla – Founder and Editor and Chief of The Sideline Post\, Current Wharton Student\, and Member of the Penn Women’s Basketball Team \nThe panel will be moderated by Monica Yant Kinney (Chief of Staff and Chief Communications Officer University Life Division and former Metropolitan Columnist with The Philadelphia Inquirer) \nHope to see you all there for what promises to be an informative and challenging conversation! And please feel free to share the flyer and info with others.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/odei-spotlight-truth-telling-the-media-and-social-equity/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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