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    • CIS Seminar: Generalizing Outside the Training Distribution through Compositional Generation”

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

    Generative AI has led to stunning successes in recent years but is fundamentally limited by the amount of data available.  This is especially limiting in the embodied setting – where an agent must solve new tasks in new environments. In this talk, I’ll introduce the idea of compositional generative modeling, which enables generalization beyond the […]

    Penn Bioengineering 50th Anniversary Lecture: “Synthetic Biology: Programmable Biology” (James J. Collins, MIT & Harvard)

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

    Celebrate 50 years and beyond of Penn Bioengineering! This distinguished lecture will be held in honor of the Department of Bioengineering's 50th Anniversary. Dr. Collins will deliver his talk in Glandt Forum at 3:30 pm, to be followed by a Q&A. A catered reception will follow in the Singh Center lobby at 4:30 pm.

    ASSET Seminar: “Bridging the Gap Between Deep Learning Theory and Practice” (Micah Goldblum, New York University)

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

    ABSTRACT:  Despite the widespread proliferation of neural networks, the mechanisms through which they operate so successfully are not well understood.  In this talk, we will first explore empirical and theoretical investigations into neural network training and generalization and what they can tell us about why deep learning works.  Then, we will examine a recent line […]

    Rigorous and Glamorous in 100 Words or Less: An Abstract Workshop

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    rsvp for zoom link

    It’s hard to write an abstract. It’s harder to write a glamorous one that tells your story without overselling your results. Community for Rigor is here to help! Join Professor Konrad Kording for a rigorous abstract writing workshop on March 20th, 2024. Together, let’s lovingly glam up abstracts from the Community and make the most of 100 […]

    BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Ionizable lipid nanoparticles for in utero gene editing of congenital disease” (Rohan Palanki)

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    Smilow Center Auditorium 3400 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Drs. Michael J. Mitchell and William H. Peranteau are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Rohan Palanki. Title: Ionizable lipid nanoparticles for in utero gene editing of congenital disease Date: March 20th, 2024 Time: (1PM-3 PM) Location: Law Auditorium, Smilow Center for Translational Research (5th Floor) The public is welcome […]

    BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Nanofluidic Isolation and Quantification of Specific Extracellular Vesicles and Machine Learning Analysis to Aid Clinical Decision-Making” (Hanfei Shen)

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    Towne 337

    The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. David Issadore are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Hanfei Shen. Title: Nanofluidic Isolation and Quantification of Specific Extracellular Vesicles and Machine Learning Analysis to Aid Clinical Decision-Making Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 Time: 1:30pm-3:30pm Location: Towne 337 The public is welcome to […]

    BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Tissue Engineered Cortical-Hippocampal Neural Networks for Pharmacological Investigations” (Victor Acero)

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    Class of 62 Auditorium, John Morgan Building 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA

    The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. D. Kacy Cullen are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Victor Acero. Title: Tissue Engineered Cortical-Hippocampal Neural Networks for Pharmacological Investigations Date: March 20, 2024 Time: 2:00 PM Location: John Morgan Building Class of 62 Auditorium Zoom option: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/5112542338 The public is welcome to attend.

    Spring 2024 GRASP SFI: Eugene Vinitsky, New York University and Apple, “Real-world reinforcement learning in multi-agent systems: deploying cooperative autonomy at scale”

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

    This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT The ever-increasing penetration of level-2 autonomous vehicles (AVs) offers an opportunity to reshape the energy efficiency and throughput of our highways. Even at current low penetration rates (1-5%), we have observed in small settings that adopting different […]

    This Seminar is currently Postponed. MSE Seminar: “Tuning Nanostructured Materials for Combustion Applications”

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    Metals powders like aluminum and boron are attractive potential fuel additives for pyrotechnics, propellants and explosives due to their high energy release upon oxidation. However, they tend to agglomerate, have lengthy ignition delays, and low combustion rates/efficiencies. This work aims to design metal powders with tuned surface, micro-structure, morphology, or chemistries to mitigate these challenges […]

    MEAM Seminar: “Surfactants, Colloids, and Electrolytes: Engineering Transport Phenomena for Energy and the Environment”

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

    Fluid flows and mass transport mediate countless natural and engineered processes, ranging from the spreading of pollutants to carbon capture and water cleaning. In this talk, I will share three examples of my research where fundamental ideas in transport phenomena are applied to inform technologies with direct impact on energy and the environment. First, I […]

    BE Seminar: “Synthetic and Chemical Biology Routes to Unveiling Host-Pathogen Dialogue” (Aerin Yang, Stanford)

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

    Disease processes within the human body are shaped by the dynamic interplay between invading pathogens and the host's defense mechanisms. The intricate molecular interaction involves continuous modifications of both host and pathogen proteins, driven by posttranslational modifications (PTMs) and coevolutionary mutations, to finely regulate their interactions with binding partners. In this talk, I will elucidate […]

    CIS Seminar: “Building Planetary-Scale Collaborative Intelligence”

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

    Today, access to high-quality data has become the key bottleneck to deploying Machine Learning (ML). Often, data that is most valuable is locked away in inaccessible silos due to unfavorable incentives and ethical-legal restrictions. This is starkly evident in healthcare, where such barriers have led to highly biased and underperforming tools. In my talk, we will […]