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  • September 2025

  • Friday Sep 26

    CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Mechanical Confinement as a Driver of Aneuploidy in Cancer” (Steven Phan)

    September 26, 2025 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract: Cell confinement and mechanical stress are common in solid tumors, but any impact on genetic changes remains unclear. Using chromosome reporters (ChReporters) that reveal heritable losses of chromosomes in […]

    Friday Sep 26

    MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Pneumatic Actuation in Soft Robotic System”

    September 26, 2025 @ 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM /
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    Soft robotic systems, constructed from compliant and adaptive materials, offer advantages such as safe interaction with humans, flexibility in motion, and the ability to conform to unstructured environments. These capabilities […]

    Monday Sep 29

    MSE PhD Defense: “Integrated Photonics for Intelligent Parameter Retrieval”

    September 29, 2025 @ 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM /
    Room 313, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Thesis Committee: Prof. Liang Feng (Chair) Prof. Firooz Aflatouni Prof. Ritesh Agarwal Prof. I-Wei Chen Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/2449152154

    Monday Sep 29

    CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Gas Encapsulating Microcapsules (GEMs)” (CK Yeh)

    September 29, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM /
    Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology, Room 121 231 S 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract: Microcapsules that can respond under hydrostatic pressure would open a new avenue of application in ultrasound- or impact-induced release of therapeutic agents. While microcapsules that are designed to release […]

    Monday Sep 29

    CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Engineering Multiphasic Processes to Enhance Droplet Microfluidics and Biofuel Conversion” (Owen Land)

    September 29, 2025 @ 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM /
    Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology, Room 121 231 S 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract: Multiphasic processes underpin nearly every aspect of modern life; from the food we eat and the clothes we wear to the medicines that sustain us and the energy systems […]

    Tuesday Sep 30

    MEAM Seminar: “Taking Advantage of Coherent Vortex Wakes: Formation Flight and High Density Tidal Energy Harvesting”

    September 30, 2025 @ 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Wake flows - the fluid mechanical "debris" shed behind an aerodynamic body - are often characterized by unsteady, turbulent, low-momentum fluid. Usually these wakes are to be avoided, but in […]

  • October 2025

  • Wednesday Oct 1

    ASSET Seminar: “Title TBD”

    October 1, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM /
    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

    Abstract TBD   Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/98963621993

    Wednesday Oct 1

    Fall 2025 GRASP SFI: Binghao Huang, Columbia University, “Scaling Touch: Flexible Tactile Skin for Dexterous Manipulation”

    October 1, 2025 @ 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM /
    Levine 307 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 Tactile and visual perception are crucial for fine-grained human interactions with the environment. […]

    Thursday Oct 2

    MSE Seminar: “Quantum Technologies with Atom-Light Interaction” Chuanwei Zhang – Washington University in St. Louis

    October 2, 2025 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    From knotted cords to contemporary computers, the revolution in information technologies has been a major driving force of human civilization. Since its emergence in the early 1900s, quantum mechanics has […]

    Thursday Oct 2

    FOLDS seminar: Theory and practice of LLM quantization

    October 2, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM /
    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 306 3317 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Zoom link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/98220304722   Modern LLMs process information by repeatedly applying a basic primitive of matrix multiplication. Estimates show that about 60-84% of the energy consumed by LLMs goes into […]

    Friday Oct 3

    Fall 2025 GRASP on Robotics: Jiatao Gu, University of Pennsylvania, “Towards Robust World Models”

    October 3, 2025 @ 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This event will be in-person ONLY in Wu and Chen Auditorium. ABSTRACT Autonomous agents need a world model that explains observations, predicts what comes next, and chooses actions over long […]

    Friday Oct 3

    ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Microscopic Surface Electrochemical Actuators for Voltage-Tunable Optical Elements”

    October 3, 2025 @ 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM /
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    Surface electrochemical actuators (SEAs) harness ion-induced surface stress changes to produce large bending deformations at the microscale. They have previously been applied in microrobot locomotion and microbattery validation, demonstrating their […]

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