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    • MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “An Aquatic Underactuated Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robotic System for Information-Limited Navigation in Gyre-Like Flows”

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

    Aquatic modular self-reconfigurable robotic systems (MSRRs) have incredible potential for bringing practical, flexible, and adaptable robotic tools to challenging environments. They could build mobile ocean platforms or bridges for larger vehicles, act as ocean-going manipulators to perform repairs on infrastructure, or function as oceanographic research platforms, using reconfiguration to achieve precise spatial resolution when sensing […]

    Grace Hopper Distinguished Lecture: “How Memory Guides Value-Based Decisions” (Daphna Shohamy, Columbia University)

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    Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This distinguished lecture will be a hybrid event held in the Glandt Forum (Singh Center) and via Zoom. A light reception will follow the live lecture. Zoom link Passcode: 704696 "How Memory Guides Value-Based Decisions" From robots to humans, the ability to learn from experience turns a rigid response system into a flexible, adaptive one. […]

    CIS Seminar: ” Exploring the role of scientific machine learning in electric power system decarbonization”

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

    Electric power systems lie at the heart of efforts to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change.  Mitigation requires shifting electricity generation away from carbon-emitting technologies toward zero carbon sources such as wind and solar generation, and converting energy end uses like transportation and space conditioning to use that electricity.  Adaptation requires designing […]

    Fall 2022 GRASP on Robotics: David Fouhey, University of Michigan, “Understanding the Physical World from Images”

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

    This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance via Zoom.   ABSTRACT If I show you a photo of a place you have never been to, you can easily imagine what you could do in that picture. Your understanding goes from the surfaces you see to the ones […]

    PICS Colloquium: “From Molecular Vibrations to Solvation, Protein Dynamics and Models of the Cytoplasm”

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    PICS Conference Room 534 - A Wing , 5th Floor 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract: Vibrational spectroscopies at mid-infrared frequencies provide excellent probes to characterize functional groups and their immediate chemical environment. However, from a thermodynamic and dynamic point of view, only the ground state of these vibrations is significantly populated. Most of the “jiggling and wiggling” of atoms and molecules (referred to in the famous quote by Feynman) […]

    Fall 2022 MEAM 5200: Block Stacking Challenge!

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

    This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance via Zoom.   ABSTRACT Teams of 3-4 students will compete head-to-head in a block stacking challenge as their class final project for MEAM 5200: Introduction to Robotics. Each team controls one 7 DOF Franka-Emika Panda manipulator arm using their modeling/planning […]

    Fall 2022 GRASP Seminar: Nare Karapetyan, University of Maryland, “Area Coverage Path Planning: From Graphs to Field Deployments”

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

    This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance via Zoom.   ABSTRACT Area coverage path planning is the problem of finding an efficient path that traverses the region of interest while avoiding existing obstacles. When dealing with real systems, the dynamic changes and uncertainties of the environments increase the […]

    ASSET Seminar: ML for Causal Inference, Konrad Kording, University of Pennsylvania

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

    ABSTRACT Machine learning traditionally does not get at causality and causality research traditionally treats machine learning as a dangerous set of highly biased estimators. In my talk I will talk about our lab’s efforts to use machine learning as a component of more traditional quasi-experimental techniques. I will also discuss meta-learning approaches to causal inference, […]

    ESE Fall Colloquium: “Electronics 5.0: New Materials and Devices for Edge Intelligence”

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

    The end of traditional transistor scaling brings unprecedented new opportunities to semiconductor devices and electronics. We are at the onset of a new technology revolution, which will focus on distributed intelligence and will be pushing the limits of sensing and computing at the edge of the cloud. This seminar will describe some of our work […]

    ESE Fall Colloquium – “From Brains to Bandgaps: How Novel Materials Synthesis can provide New Semiconductor Platforms for Optoelectronics, Acoustics, Electronics and Neuromorphic Computation”

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    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Since the first discovery of semiconductors, materials synthesis has been the driving force for new devices, new applications, and new markets. In this presentation, Professor Doolittle will provide two examples of “counterculture synthesis methods”, methods that buck literature tradition, that enable new devices, applications, and potentially vast new markets. Emphasis will be given to non-standard […]

    BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Christopher Olm: “In vivo MRI perfusion and structural correlates of pathology in frontotemporal lobar degeneration”

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    The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Drs. Murray Grossman and Jim Gee are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Christopher Olm. Title: In vivo MRI perfusion and structural correlates of pathology in frontotemporal lobar degeneration Date: December 16, 2022 Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Location: TBD Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/7372154022 The public is […]