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  • February 2019

  • Thursday Feb 21

    ESE Seminar: “Physics-Driven Sensing and Processing: From Computational Periscopy to Particle Beam Microscopy”

    February 21, 2019 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    In many areas of science and engineering, novel signal acquisition methods allow unprecedented access to physical measurements. From digital cameras to microscopes and nano-scale biosensors, the data generated are shaped […]

    Thursday Feb 21

    CIS Seminar: “Cataloging the Visible Universe through Bayesian Inference at Petascale”

    February 21, 2019 @ 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract: A key task in astronomy is to locate astronomical objects in images and to characterize them according to physical parameters such as brightness, color, and morphology. This task, known […]

    Friday Feb 22

    CIS Seminar: “Towards Generalization and Efficiency in Reinforcement Learning”

    February 22, 2019 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract: In classic supervised machine learning, a learning agent behaves as a passive observer: it receives examples from some external environment which it has no control over and then makes […]

    Friday Feb 22

    PRiML Seminar: “Optimizing probability distributions for learning: sampling meets optimization”

    February 22, 2019 @ 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM /
    Room 401B, 3401 Walnut 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Optimization and sampling are both of central importance in large-scale machine learning problems, but they are typically viewed as very different problems. This talk presents recent results that exploit the interplay between them. […]

    Tuesday Feb 26

    MEAM Seminar: “Interfacial Soft Matter”

    February 26, 2019 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Surface tension plays a critical role in a wide range of biological, environmental, technological and geophysical settings. In this talk, I will present three different problems dealing with interfacial soft […]

    Tuesday Feb 26

    ESE Seminar: “New Designer Materials: Sculpting Electromagnetic Fields on the Atomic Scale”

    February 26, 2019 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    New optical nanomaterials hold the potential for breakthroughs in a wide range of areas from ultrafast optoelectronics such as modulators, light sources and hyperspectral detectors, to efficient upconversion for energy […]

    Tuesday Feb 26

    CIS Seminar: “Perceiving Humans in the 3D World”

    February 26, 2019 @ 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Since the dawn of civilization, we have functioned in a social environment where we spend our days interacting with other humans. As we approach a society where intelligent systems and […]

    Wednesday Feb 27

    CBE Seminar: “Mechanisms of Cellulose Activation and Implications for Bioenergy”

    February 27, 2019 @ 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
    Thursday Feb 28

    ESE Seminar: “Towards Socially-Aware Autonomy for Mobility-Efficient Smart Cities”

    February 28, 2019 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    As cities grow everywhere, and urban roadways become overburdened, efficient strategies are required for improving mobility. With the prevalence of smart sensing and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as […]

    Thursday Feb 28

    ODI Seminar: Christopher Hart, Former NTSB Chairman, on the Future of Autonomous Vehicles

    February 28, 2019 @ 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM /
    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Join the Office of Diversity and Inclusion for an afternoon with Christopher Hart, who will discuss the state and future of autonomous vehicles. The talk will be followed by a […]

    Thursday Feb 28

    CIS Seminar: ” Rethinking the hardware-software contract: Enabling practical and general cross-layer optimizations”

    February 28, 2019 @ 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Layered abstractions in the computing stack are critical to building complex systems, but the existing *interfaces* between layers restrict what can be done at each level. Enhancing cross-layer interfaces--specifically, the […]

  • March 2019

  • Friday Mar 1

    ESE Seminar: “Quantum Nanophotonics: Engineering Atom-Photon Interactions on a Chip”

    March 1, 2019 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Berger Auditorium (Room 13), Skirkanich Hall 210 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract: The ability to engineer controllable atom-photon interactions is at the heart of quantum optics and quantum information processing. In this talk, I will introduce a nanophotonic platform for engineering […]

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