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BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Penn Engineering Events - ECPv6.18.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Penn Engineering Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Penn Engineering Events REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190131T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190131T160000 DTSTAMP:20190115T155641Z CREATED:20190115T155641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190115T155641Z UID:10006138-1548946800-1548950400@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:SEAS Lecturers' Seminar on Teaching and Learning: "The Process of Becoming: Identity in Engineering Education" DESCRIPTION:Identity is an enduring and continuous sense of who one is and is often thought of as the answer to the questions\, “Who am I\, Who can I be\, and Where do I belong?” Research shows that developing a robust engineering identity is important for academic and personal development\, integration into engineering\, and retention within engineering programs. Identity plays animportant role in the ways students see themselves and are recognized or positioned by others as the kind of people who can or cannot become an engineer. This positioning can exclude women\, minorities\, and first-generation college students who may have more difficulty adopting engineering identities in a culture that often does not position them as engineers. This talk will explore the current research on engineering identity and provide actionable ways for faculty to support students’ processes of becoming engineers. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/seas-lecturers-seminar-on-teaching-and-learning-the-process-of-becoming-identity-in-engineering-education/ LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190129T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190129T160000 DTSTAMP:20190110T181740Z CREATED:20190110T181740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190110T181740Z UID:10006120-1548774000-1548777600@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:CIS Seminar: "Made to Order: Verifying Correctness and Security of Hardware through Event Orderings" DESCRIPTION:Correctness and security problems in modern computer systems can result from problematic hardware event orderings and interleavings during an application’s execution. Since hardware designs are complex and since a single user-facing instruction can exhibit a variety of different hardware execution sequences\, analyzing and verifying systems for correct event orderings is challenging. My work addresses these challenges by combining hardware architecture and systems approaches with formal methods to support the specification\, analysis\, and verification of implementation-aware event ordering scenarios\, with the specific goal of automatically synthesizing implementation-aware programs capable of violating correctness or security guarantees. In this talk\, I will present two formal\, early-stage verification tools and techniques rooted in this approach. TriCheck conducts axiomatic full-stack memory consistency model (MCM) verification (from high-level programming languages down through hardware implementations). Using rigorous and efficient formal approaches\, TriCheck identified flaws in RISC-V’s draft MCM specification and two counterexamples to a previously proven-correct compiler mapping scheme from C11 to IBM Power and ARMv7. Noting that MCM and security analysis are amenable to similar approaches\, CheckMate uses related axiomatic techniques to evaluate susceptibility of a hardware design and its related system support to formally-specified classes of security exploits; in response\, it synthesizes proof-of-concept exploit code when a design is susceptible. CheckMate automatically synthesized programs representative of Meltdown and Spectre attacks as well as new exploits\, MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime\, that I have demonstrated on Intel hardware. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cis-seminar-made-to-order-verifying-correctness-and-security-of-hardware-through-event-orderings/ LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="Computer and Information Science":MAILTO:cherylh@cis.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190129T104500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190129T114500 DTSTAMP:20190108T213705Z CREATED:20190108T213705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190108T213705Z UID:10006118-1548758700-1548762300@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:MEAM Seminar: "Elastomeric Materials for Autonomic Force Transmission\, Optoelectric Sensing\, and 3D Printing Soft Robots" DESCRIPTION:This talk will present multidisciplinary work from material composites and robotics. We have created new types of actuators\, sensors\, displays\, and additive manufacturing techniques for soft robots and haptic interfaces. For example\, we now use stretchable optical waveguides as sensors for high accuracy\, repeatability\, and material compatibility with soft actuators. For displaying information\, we have created stretchable\, elastomeric light emitting displays as well as texture morphing skins for soft robots. We have created a new type of soft actuator based on molding of foams\, and stereolithography printing of elastomer based soft robots\, and implemented deep learning in stretchable membranes for interpreting touch. All of these technologies depend on the iterative and complex feedback between material and mechanical design. I will describe this process\, what is the present state of the art\, and future opportunities for science in the space of additive manufacturing of elastomeric robots. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-seminar-elastomeric-materials-for-autonomic-force-transmission-optoelectric-sensing-and-3d-printing-soft-robots/ LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190125T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190125T120000 DTSTAMP:20190123T203842Z CREATED:20190123T203842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190123T203842Z UID:10006141-1548414000-1548417600@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:ESE Seminar: "Hardware Acceleration in the World of Emerging Applications" DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Semiconductor technology scaling coming to a screeching halt\, coupled with the explosion of data in almost every facet of our lives\, makes processing large volumes of data efficiently a critical problem to solve. In this talk\, I will highlight three main challenges in designing accelerators and demonstrate that domain-specific hardware acceleration and specialization can provide orders of magnitude in compute efficiency for emerging applications. I will introduce the concept of datatype acceleration\, where hardware primitives are designed to directly operate on already-defined software data structures and data containers\, and show that specializing both the compute and memory subsystem provides orders of magnitude improvements in performance and energy efficiencies. Creating specialized encapsulated data accesses and datapaths allows us to mitigate unnecessary data movement\, take advantage of traditional optimization techniques such as data and pipeline parallelism\, and consequently provide substantial energy savings while obtaining significant performance gains. As case studies for three emerging application domains\, I will briefly touch on accelerating database and graph analytics while offering in-depth examples in accelerating genomic analytics on the AWS EC2 F1 instances. As a vision for future hardware acceleration research\, I will demonstrate how to create an ecosystem that makes designing\, deploying\, and using custom hardware almost as easy as writing and using software. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/hardware-acceleration-in-the-world-of-emerging-applications/ LOCATION:Berger Auditorium (Room 13)\, Skirkanich Hall\, 210 South 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190125T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190125T120000 DTSTAMP:20190110T183238Z CREATED:20190110T183238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190110T183238Z UID:10006122-1548414000-1548417600@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:MEAM/GRASP Seminar: "Geometric Biologically Inspired Robots that Span Industries from Medical to Manufacturing" DESCRIPTION:The animal kingdom is full of both human and non-human animals worthy of investigation\, emulation and re-creation. As such\, my research group has created a comprehensive research program focusing on biologically-inspired robots\, and has applied them to search and rescue\, minimally invasive surgery\, and manufacturing. These robots inspire great scientific challenges in mechanism design\, control\, planning and estimation theory. These research topics are important because once the robot is built (design)\, it must decide where to go (path planning)\, determine how to get there (control)\, and use feedback to close the loop (estimation). A common theme to these research foci is devising ways by which we can reduce multi-dimensional problems to low dimensional ones for planning\, analysis\, and optimization. In this talk\, I will discuss our results in geometric mechanics\, Bayesian filtering\, and scalable multi-agent planning to support these reductions. This talk will also cover how my students and I commercialized these technologies by founding three companies: Medrobotics\, Hebi Robotics\, and Bito Robotics. In 2015\, the surgical snake robot from Medrobotics cleared the FDA and has begun to democratize the delivery of medical care in the US and Europe If time permits\, I will also discuss my educational activities\, especially at the undergraduate level\, with a course using LEGO robots\, and the role of entrepreneurism in University education. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-grasp-seminar-geometric-biologically-inspired-robots-that-span-industries-from-medical-to-manufacturing/ LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190124T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190124T163000 DTSTAMP:20190108T213146Z CREATED:20190108T213146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190108T213146Z UID:10006117-1548342000-1548347400@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:The Jack Keil Wolf Lecture in Electrical and Systems Engineering: "The Invention of High Efficient Blue LEDs and Future Solid State Lighting" DESCRIPTION: URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/the-jack-keil-wolf-lecture-in-electrical-and-systems-engineering-the-invention-of-high-efficient-blue-leds-and-future-solid-state-lighting/ LOCATION:Glandt Forum\, Singh Center for Nanotechnology\, 3205 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Distinguished Lecture ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190124T104500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190124T114500 DTSTAMP:20190104T211215Z CREATED:20190104T211215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190104T211215Z UID:10006114-1548326700-1548330300@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:MSE Faculty Candidate Seminar: "Shedding Light on Pain Therapeutics: From Externally-Triggerable Drug Delivery Systems to Bioelectronics" DESCRIPTION: URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/mse-faculty-candidate-seminar-shedding-light-on-pain-therapeutics-from-externally-triggerable-drug-delivery-systems-to-bioelectronics/ LOCATION:Auditorium\, LRSM Building\, 3231 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminar,Faculty ORGANIZER;CN="Materials Science and Engineering":MAILTO:johnruss@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190123T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190123T160000 DTSTAMP:20190104T210646Z CREATED:20190104T210646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190104T210646Z UID:10006113-1548255600-1548259200@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:CBE Seminar: "Understanding and Characterizing How Nanostructured Surfaces Perturb Water Structure: Applications to the Prediction of Protein Interactions and the Design of Soft Materials" DESCRIPTION: URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cbe-seminar-understanding-and-characterizing-how-nanostructured-surfaces-perturb-water-structure-applications-to-the-prediction-of-protein-interactions-and-the-design-of-soft-materials/ LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering":MAILTO:cbemail@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190122T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190122T120000 DTSTAMP:20190110T182559Z CREATED:20190110T182559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190110T182559Z UID:10006121-1548154800-1548158400@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:ESE Seminar: "Efficient Mid-Infrared Photodetection Using Graphene Plasmons at Room Temperature" DESCRIPTION:In the history of materials development\, many classic materials (Si\, III-Vs\, organics\, etc.) which can be produced reliably at large scale eventually have found critical applications after decades of intensive research\, leveraging their distinctive properties. For example\, silicon dominates the field-effect-transistor technology because perfect dielectric-silicon interface can be readily realized. Organic materials are currently widely used in flat-panel displays\, because of their great light emitting properties and the availability of cost-effective production techniques. In this talk\, I will first discuss the unique properties of graphene\, the first two-dimensional material isolated about 15 years ago\, including ultralow heat capacity\, high mobility\, and weak electron-phonon coupling strength. Leveraging these unique properties\, I will then present an efficient mid-infrared photodetector based on graphene plasmons operational at room temperature. Since high-quality wafer-scale graphene can already be produced routinely\, such efficient mid-infrared photodetectors may find applications in high-speed thermal imaging and free-space communications. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/ese-seminar-efficient-mid-infrared-photodetection-using-graphene-plasmons-at-room-temperature/ LOCATION:Room 337\, Towne Building\, 220 South 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190122T104500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190122T114500 DTSTAMP:20190117T134204Z CREATED:20190117T134204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190117T134204Z UID:10006140-1548153900-1548157500@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:MSE Faculty Candidate Seminar: "Advanced methods and alternative materials to drive next-generation energy storage" DESCRIPTION: URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/mse-faculty-candidate-seminar-advanced-methods-and-alternative-materials-to-drive-next-generation-energy-storage/ LOCATION:Glandt Forum\, Singh Center for Nanotechnology\, 3205 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminar,Faculty ORGANIZER;CN="Materials Science and Engineering":MAILTO:johnruss@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190122T104500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190122T114500 DTSTAMP:20190108T212551Z CREATED:20190108T212551Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190108T212551Z UID:10006116-1548153900-1548157500@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:MEAM Seminar: "Viewing Earth's Surface as a Soft Matter Landscape" DESCRIPTION:The Earth’s surface is composed of a staggering diversity of particulate-fluid mixtures: dry to wet\, dilute to dense\, colloidal to granular\, attractive to repulsive particles\, laminar to turbulent flows\, and steady to highly-unsteady forcing. This material variety is matched by the range of relevant stresses and strain rates\, from rapid and catastrophic landslides to the slow relaxation of soil over geologic timescales. In this talk I illustrate the commonalities and challenges in understanding geophysical flows by highlighting two problems: gravity-driven downslope soil movement\, and fluid-driven particle transport in rivers. \nSoil on hillslopes slowly and imperceptibly creeps downhill\, but suddenly liquefies to produce landslides. The transition between creeping and flowing is a yield condition\, often defined in terms of the shear stress\, that depends on the characteristics of the soil and the geologic environment. We show that the nature of this transition\, however\, is general. Creep is the localized and erratic motion of soil grains below yield; because this kind of fragility is a generic consequence of disorder\, soil creep should be similar to amorphous glass. Indeed\, we find that the transition from creeping to landsliding is a continuous phase transition that follows predictions from glass transition models. The generality of this transition suggests that the onset of sediment transport in rivers should behave in a similar manner\, and we demonstrate that this is the case using laboratory experiments and simulations. Because the sediment transport rate rapidly increases for stresses above yield\, many landscapes such as rivers organize to be close to the yield point. In essence\, landscapes flicker back and forth across the glass transition. We explore several consequences of these dynamics for the sculpting of landscapes. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-seminar-viewing-earths-surface-as-a-soft-matter-landscape/ LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190117T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190117T160000 DTSTAMP:20190110T181429Z CREATED:20190110T181429Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190110T181429Z UID:10006119-1547737200-1547740800@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:CIS Seminar: "What Should We Do With Persistent Main Memory?" DESCRIPTION:Memory systems are on the verge of a renaissance: Scalable\, persistent main memories (e.g.\, Intel’s 3DXPoint) are the first new technology to enter the upper layers of the memory hierarchy in 50 years. They bring a fundamentally new capability (i.e.\, persistence)\, a dramatic increase in capacity\, and an array of complications (e.g.\, asymmetric read and write performance\, power limitations\, and wear out). This combination of characteristics raises a deceptively simple but fundamental question: What should we do with persistent main memory? In this talk\, I will describe several potential answers and the systems my group has built to help understand how different answers affect performance\, programmability\, and other aspects of system design. I’ll also highlight the central challenges that these memories present and try to summarize what we have learned about them. Finally\, I’ll describe what I see as the most interesting avenues for future work. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cis-seminar-what-should-we-do-with-persistent-main-memory/ LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="Computer and Information Science":MAILTO:cherylh@cis.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190117T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190117T120000 DTSTAMP:20190108T212232Z CREATED:20190108T212232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190108T212232Z UID:10006115-1547722800-1547726400@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:ESE Seminar: "Towards a Seamless Integration of Drones in Smart Cities: Communications and Security" DESCRIPTION:The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)\, popularly known as drones\, will be an integral component of emerging smart city applications ranging from delivery of goods to flying taxis. However\, a seamless deployment of such drone-based applications requires addressing technical challenges across communications\, security\, autonomy\, and control. In this talk\, we focus on the wireless communications and security challenges of drone-based systems. From a communications perspective\, UAVs can assume two roles: aerial base stations that enhance the coverage and capacity of wireless networks and flying users that require wireless cellular connectivity for enabling applications such as real-time streaming and item delivery. With this in mind\, we introduce a foundational framework for designing three-dimensional (3D) wireless cellular networks that incorporate both drone base stations and cellular-connected drone users. For this novel 3D model\, we study a number of key problems including drone deployment\, network planning\, and cell association. Then\, we turn our attention to the cyber-physical security challenges brought forward by the deployment of drones. In this area\, we present a holistic framework\, with foundations in behavioral game theory\, for addressing fundamental cyber-physical security problems pertaining to drone-based systems. In particular\, we show how notions of risk\, bounded rationality\, and uncertainty can influence the security of drone-based systems and we develop new game-theoretic solutions that explicitly account for such factors in security analyses. We conclude by an overview on our ongoing research activities that cut across the areas of cyber-physical systems\, wireless networks\, game theory\, machine learning\, security\, and control. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/ese-seminar-towards-a-seamless-integration-of-drones-in-smart-cities-communications-and-security/ LOCATION:Room 337\, Towne Building\, 220 South 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190117T104500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190117T114500 DTSTAMP:20190104T205657Z CREATED:20190104T205657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190104T205657Z UID:10006111-1547721900-1547725500@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:MSE Seminar: "Respectful Workplaces + Implicit Bias" DESCRIPTION: URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/mse-seminar-respectful-workplaces-implicit-bias/ LOCATION:Auditorium\, LRSM Building\, 3231 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="Materials Science and Engineering":MAILTO:johnruss@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190115T104500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190115T114500 DTSTAMP:20190104T210307Z CREATED:20190104T210307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190104T210307Z UID:10006112-1547549100-1547552700@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:MEAM Seminar: "Stretching the Boundaries of Medical Robotics" DESCRIPTION:Abstract: My lab creates medical robots not only for minimally invasive surgery\, but also for targeted drug delivery and for tissue regeneration. This talk will describe three of our technologies. The first consists of tetherless robots that are powered\, controlled and imaged using an MRI scanner. These devices vary from patient-mounted needle-driving robots to capsules that can move inside fluid-filled body lumens. The second technology consists of a class of robot implants designed to apply traction forces over a period of weeks inside the body so as to induce the regeneration of soft tissues. Applications include lengthening the esophagus and bowel for the treatment of congenital defects and disease. The third is a type of continuum robot that is based on concentrically combining pre-curved superelastic tubes. We are using this technology to create multi-armed systems for intracranial endoscopic surgery. We are also developing endoscopically-guided catheters that can navigate autonomously inside the blood-filled beating heart. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-seminar-stretching-the-boundaries-of-medical-robotics/ LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190114T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190114T153000 DTSTAMP:20190104T155108Z CREATED:20190104T155108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190104T155108Z UID:10006105-1547465400-1547479800@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:REACT@Penn 2019: Policy\, Technology and Science for Global Challenges DESCRIPTION:This REACT@Penn meeting will be at the Perry World House and will bring together policy experts and researchers around the global challenges of water\, energy and health. Registration is free\, but please register in advance. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/reactpenn-2019-policy-technology-and-science-for-global-challenges/ LOCATION:Perry World House\, 3803 Locust Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Meeting ORGANIZER;CN="Materials Science and Engineering":MAILTO:johnruss@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR