Events

Filters

View as

Event Views Navigation

Today

    • MEAM Seminar: “Designing Robotic Systems with Collective Embodied Intelligence”

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

    Natural swarms exhibit sophisticated colony-level behaviors with remarkable scalability and error tolerance. Their evolutionary success stems from more than just intelligent individuals, it hinges on their morphology, their physical interactions, and the way they shape and leverage their environment. Mound-building termites, for instance, are believed to use their own body as a template for construction; […]

    ESE Grace Hopper Lecture – “A Communications Perspective on Digital Privacy”

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

    Many of the activities in cyberspace, from social networking to the use of mobile apps, leave digital footprints compromising the users’ privacy.  As digital tracking technologies become more sophisticated and pervasive, there is a need to understand and quantify the users’ privacy risk, that is, what is the likelihood that users in cyberspace can be […]

    CIS Seminar: “Sketching Algorithms”

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

    Abstract: A "sketch" is a data structure supporting some pre-specified set of queries and updates to a database while consuming space substantially (often exponentially) less than the information theoretic minimum required to store everything seen, and thus can also be seen as some form of functional compression. A "streaming algorithm" is simply a data structure […]

    ODEI Spotlight: Trauma Informed Care and LGBT Health

    /
    LGBT Center - 3907 Spruce Street 3907 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, United States

    Stephanie Tillman, CNM -- the Feminist Midwife -- will discuss LGBT health through the lens of trauma informed care. Registration required, more info TBA. Find full details on the event page here.

    Fall 2021 GRASP SFI: “Studying Bias and Representation in Sociotechnical Systems”

    /

    *This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and Virtual attendance via Zoom here… 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 […]

    Homecoming 2021: Penn Engineering Update and “Engineering living biology with nanomachines”

    /

    This special event is part of the virtual programming for Penn Homecoming 2021 and is open to all alumni, parents, and friends. Nemirovsky Family Dean and Professor Vijay Kumar will give a State of the School Update including an overview of the newly established Center for Precision Engineering for Health, which will bring together researchers […]

    MSE Seminar: “Lansdcapes of Glass”

    /
    Auditorium, LRSM Building 3231 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    If cooled sufficiently quickly, the disorder of a liquid can be "quenched" or locked in place; the resulting amorphous solid is glass. Although it appears to be solid on human timescales, glass continues to creep due to thermal vibrations at the molecular scale. Consider now a pile of sand; it too is a disordered system, […]

    ODEI Spotlight: Critical Race Theory and DEI: From Theory to Practice

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

    The African-American Resource Center & Office of Affirmative Action Presents: Critical Race Theory and DEI: From Theory to Practice Join us as we examine the language switch from Critical Race Theory to Diversity Equity and Inclusion, and what each term means and what DEI means and looks like at Penn.   Zoom Link: http://upenn.zoom.us/j/7443577924   […]

    GRASP on Robotics: “Event-based Neuromorphic Perception and Computation: The Future of Sensing and AI”

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

    *This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Wu & Chen Auditorium and Virtual attendance via Zoom Webinar here. There has been significant research over the past two decades in developing new systems for spiking neural computation. The impact of neuromorphic concepts on recent developments in optical sensing, display and artificial vision is […]

    PICS Colloquium: “From atoms to emergent mechanisms with information bottleneck and diffusion probabilistic models”

    /
    Zoom - email kathom@seas.upenn.edu

    Abstract: The ability to rapidly learn from high-dimensional data to make reliable predictions about the future is crucial in many contexts. This could be a fly avoiding predators, or the retina processing terabytes of data guiding complex human actions. Modern day artificial intelligence (AI) aims to mimic this fidelity and has been successful in many domains […]

    BE Dissertation Defense: “Versican/Collagen Interactions in Tissue Structure and Mechanics” (Dongning Chen)

    /
    BRB 253

    The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Rebecca Wells are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Dongning Chen. Title: Versican/Collagen Interactions in Tissue Structure and Mechanics Date: Nov. 8, 2021 Time: 12pm    The public is welcome to attend in person at BRB 253 and via zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/6088045110