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    • Keeping Up the Good Work: Honoring 40 Years of Excellence in Diversity

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    Heilmeier Hall (Room 100), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This year marks the 40th anniversary of Penn Engineering's diversity efforts and we invite you to join us on Friday, December 3, at 3:00 p.m. EST to celebrate Penn Engineering’s new Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI), formerly known as the Office of Minority Programs. We plan to meet in Heilmeier Hall (Towne 100) […]

    MEAM Seminar: “Continuum Mechanics of Non-equilibrium Phenomena: A Journey Through Space and Time Scales”

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    Zoom - Email MEAM for Link peterlit@seas.upenn.edu

    The fascinating diversity of material behavior at the macroscopic scale, including plasticity, phase transformations, viscoelasticity or diffusion, can only emerge from the underlying atomistic or particle behavior. Yet, the direct connection between these two scales for non-equilibrium phenomena remains an extremely challenging quest from both a theoretical and computational perspective. This knowledge gap currently hinders […]

    ESE Fall Colloquium Seminar – “Alpha-loss: A Tunable Class of Loss Functions for Robust Learning”

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    Zoom - Meeting ID 916 0331 6605

    Machine learning has dramatically enhanced the role of automated decision making across a variety of domains. There are three ingredients that are at the heart of designing of sound ML algorithms: data, learning architectures, and loss functions. In this talk, we focus on loss functions and the role of information theory in understanding the choice […]

    CIS Seminar: “Synthetic Data: Anonymisation Groundhog Day”

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    Zoom - Email CIS for link cherylh@cis.upenn.edu

    Synthetic data has been advertised as a silver-bullet solution to privacy-preserving data publishing that addresses the shortcomings of traditional anonymisation techniques. The promise is that synthetic data drawn from generative models preserves the statistical properties of the original dataset but, at the same time, provides perfect protection against privacy attacks. In this work, we present the first […]

    ESE Fall Colloquium Seminar – “Data Compression: From Classical to Modern”

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    Zoom - Meeting ID 968 2448 5695

    Lossy data compression is a vital, if hidden, enabling technology. This virtual seminar would be impossible without data compression!  Existing compression standards for images and audio rely on a "classical" theory of compression that models sources as stationary Gaussian processes. This theory is quite mature, and it provides remarkable insights into how to compress Gaussian […]

    MSE Seminar: “Topological Quantum Phases, Novel Superconductors, and Ultra-Thin Films Beyond Graphene”

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

    Dr. Bansil will discuss some of his recent work aimed at understanding the electronic structure and spectroscopy of novel superconductors, topological materials, and atomically thin 2D films and battery materials. Illustrative examples will include: (i) How by exploiting electronic structure techniques we have been able to successfully predict and understand the characteristics of many new […]

    BE Seminar: “Tissue-Inspired Synthetic Biomaterials” (Shelly Peyton)

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    Moore 216 200 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This seminar will be held live and broadcast on zoom - check your email for the zoom link or contact ksas@seas.upenn.edu. Improved experimental model systems are critically needed to better understand cancer progression and bridge the gap between lab bench proof-of-concept studies, validation in animal models, and eventual clinical application. Many methods exist to create […]

    BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Single-component optogenetic tools for cytoskeletal rearrangements” (Erin Berlew)

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    Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Brian Chow are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Erin Berlew. Title: "Single-component optogenetic tools for cytoskeletal rearrangements" Date: Friday, December 10, 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Towne 337 and Zoom Zoom information: ERIN BERLEW is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom […]

    MEAM Seminar: “Architected Nanoscale Plates for Thermionic Energy Conversion and Relativistic Interstellar Travel”

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    Zoom - Email MEAM for Link peterlit@seas.upenn.edu

    Architected plates feature geometrical patterns that provide advantageous mechanical properties, such as an enhanced bending stiffness or a reduced tendency to tear. In this talk I will introduce our research group’s multiscale hexagonally patterned corrugated plates, which have nano-scale film thicknesses, micron-scale total heights, and square-centimeter-scale lateral area dimensions. I will first explain how we […]

    ESE Fall Colloquium – “Processing in Memory: Past, Present, and Future”

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    Zoom - Meeting ID 996 4057 1041

    Applications are increasingly data-intensive and bound by the performance of the memory and/or storage system. This “memory wall” arises from several factors: the volume of data is increasing exponentially, outstripping cache capacities; many applications extensively use streaming data with little or no temporal reuse; as algorithms become more sophisticated, access patterns are often unfriendly to […]

    CBE PhD Dissertation Defense | “Selective Catalytic Reactions for Taking Furan-Based Compounds to Useful Chemicals”

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    Zoom - Email CBE for link

    Abstract:  "Efforts have been devoted to understanding the upgrading of plant-based biomass waste into useful chemicals to replace the current petrochemical production. An extensive amount of work has been accomplished in the past few decades but there are still many uncertainties. The transformation of furanic compounds, which present a major fraction in lignocellulosic biomass, is […]

    CEMB Future Leaders: “Immuno-stromal axes in pulmonary and biomaterial-mediate fibrosis”

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

    Launched in May 2021, the Future Leaders in Mechanobiology is a monthly seminar series featuring up-and-coming leaders in mechanobiology–PhD students and postdocs from a wide range of fields, backgrounds, and institutions. By providing an international stage to share one’s work and opportunities to interact with researchers at all career stages, we aim to create an inclusive and […]