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    • CBE Seminar: “From Trash to Treasure: Advancing the Heterogeneous Catalytic Deconstruction and Upcycling of Waste Polyolefins”

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    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract The rapid global consumption of single-use plastics has caused an unsustainable accumulation of plastic waste in landfills and the environment. Unfortunately, current mechanical recycling methods are expensive and produce lower-quality products. New strategies in targeted chemical upcycling of waste plastics offer unique opportunities for selective depolymerization of polyolefins to higher value chemicals under milder […]

    MSE Seminar: “Thermodynamic contributions to glass fragility”

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    https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96715197752

    Liquid fragility characterizes the rate of drop off in viscosity of a glass-forming liquid as its temperature increases above the glass transition. This property is fundamental to glass physics and of critical importance for engineering applications, yet its origin is unclear. Competing theories suggest that vibrational properties may play a role in fragility by contributing […]

    BE Seminar: “From Bench to Pet-Side: Intratumoral Immunotherapy Principles and Practice” (Noor Momin)

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    216 Moore Building

    Immunotherapies harness the body’s immune system to fight disease. Such therapies can help unleash an immune attack against diseased tissues but can inadvertently instigate an attack on healthy tissues. As a result, many promising immunotherapies face major toxicities, limiting their clinical use. By employing an iterative process that entails measuring, making, and modeling to manipulate […]

    CIS Seminar: “Sublinear Algorithms for Massive Datasets”

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    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This talk will be on zoom as well: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/92928358554?pwd=MWdDU0lJRmE3U0hDWUdmU284UmNGZz09
    Meeting ID: 929 2835 8554
    Passcode: 488035

    BE Seminar: “Intratumoral Immunotherapy Principles and Practice” (Noor Momin)

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    Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This seminar will be held live and broadcast on zoom – check email for zoom link or contact ksas@seas.upenn.edu. Immunotherapies harness the body’s immune system to fight disease. Such therapies can help unleash an immune attack against diseased tissues but can inadvertently instigate an attack on healthy tissues. As a result, many promising immunotherapies face […]

    GRASP on Robotics: Stefanos Nikolaidis, University of Southern California, “Towards Robust Human-Robot Interaction: A Quality Diversity Approach”

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    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    The growth of scale and complexity of interactions between humans and robots highlights the need for new computational methods to automatically evaluate novel algorithms and applications. Exploring the diverse scenarios of interaction between humans and robots in simulation can improve understanding of complex human-robot interaction systems and avoid potentially costly failures in real-world settings. In […]

    CIS Seminar: “Learned Query Optimization”

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    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This talk will be on zoom as well: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/92928358554?pwd=MWdDU0lJRmE3U0hDWUdmU284UmNGZz09
    Meeting ID: 929 2835 8554
    Passcode: 488035

    MEAM Seminar: “Uncovering the Rules of Crumpling with a Data-Driven Approach”

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    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    When a sheet of paper is crumpled, it spontaneously develops a network of creases. Despite the apparent disorder of this process, statistical properties of crumpled sheets exhibit striking reproducibility. Recent experiments have shown that when a sheet is repeatedly crumpled, the total crease length grows logarithmically . This talk will offer insight into this surprising […]

    BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Complex systems engineering: designing advanced functions in dynamical and mechanical systems” (Jason Kim)

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    https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96715197752

    The Department of Bioengineering and Dr. Dani Bassett are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Jason Kim. Date:  February 9, 2022 Time: 10:00am Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4299926075?pwd=VmJmTkZMdmhFQSt0MVcwUFZ6aCtsQT09 Title: Complex systems engineering: designing advanced functions in dynamical and mechanical systems. Abstract: From computation in neural networks to allostery in proteins, numerous natural and artificial systems are […]

    Women in Data Science (WiDS) Philadelphia @ Penn

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    Join us for the third annual WiDS @ Penn Conference, hosted by @Penn, on Feb. 9-10. This event features speakers from across the #datascience landscape and aims to celebrate the diversity within the field. All genders are welcome! #WiDS2022

    Learn more:
    https://whr.tn/wids2022

    Spring 2022 GRASP SFI: Nikos Kolotouros, University of Pennsylvania, “Reconstructing 3D Humans from Images”

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    Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    The past decade we have seen remarkable progress in Computer Vision, mainly fueled by the recent advances in Deep Learning. Unsurprisingly, human perception has been the center of attention. We now have access to systems that can work remarkably well for traditional 2D tasks like segmentation or pose estimation. However, scaling this to 3D remains […]