BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Penn Engineering Events - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220408T195819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220408T195819Z UID:10007157-1649862000-1649865600@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:Spring 2022 GRASP SFI: Georgios Georgakis\, University of Pennsylvania\, “Cross-modal Map Learning for Vision and Language Navigation” DESCRIPTION:*This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Levine 512 and Virtual attendance via Zoom \nWe consider the problem of Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) in previously unseen realistic indoor environments. Arguably\, the biggest challenge in VLN is grounding the natural language to the visual input. The majority of current methods for VLN are trained end-to-end using either unstructured memory such as LSTM\, or using cross-modal attention over the egocentric RGB-D observations of the agent. We are motivated by studies on navigation of biological systems that suggest humans build cognitive maps during such tasks. In contrast to other works\, we argue that an egocentric map offers a more natural representation for this task. In this talk\, we will explore a novel navigation system for the VLN task in continuous environments that learns a language-informed representation for both map and trajectory prediction. This approach semantically grounds the language through an egocentric map prediction task that learns to hallucinate information outside the field-of-view of the agent. This is followed by spatial grounding of the instruction by path prediction on the egocentric map. We experimentally test the basic hypothesis that language-driven navigation can be solved given a map\, and then show competitive results on the full VLN-CE benchmark. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/spring-2022-grasp-sfi-georgios-georgakis-university-of-pennsylvania-cross-modal-map-learning-for-vision-and-language-navigation/ LOCATION:Levine 512 ORGANIZER;CN="General Robotics%2C Automation%2C Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab":MAILTO:grasplab@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T163000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220115T004856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220115T004856Z UID:10007019-1649863800-1649867400@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:CBE Seminar: John A. Quinn Distinguished Lecture - "Molecular and Colloidal Interactions in Water” DESCRIPTION:Abstract \nLife occurs in water\, and water-mediated interactions are central to biomolecular assembly processes.  Synthetic materials as common as soap and shampoo also rely on water-mediated interactions.  This presentation will describe experiments that highlight our lack of understanding of interactions in water.  The opportunity to formulate a refined set of design rules for self-assembly of functional materials in water will be discussed. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cbe-seminar-john-a-quinn-distinguished-lecture-molecular-and-colloidal-interactions-in-water/ LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminar,Distinguished Lecture ORGANIZER;CN="Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering":MAILTO:cbemail@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220414T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220414T113000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220322T165141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220322T165141Z UID:10007126-1649932200-1649935800@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:MSE Seminar: "Role of Solvation and Dynamics on Ion Transport in Polymer Electrolytes" DESCRIPTION:Polymer electrolytes are an important class of ion conducting materials critical to enabling various electrochemical systems. Fundamentally\, ion-polymer coordination\, inter-connectivity of solvation sites\, and corresponding ion-solvating polymer dynamics are critical in understanding the limits of ionic conductivity. Here\, the importance of these effects is highlighted in a series of combined experimental and computational studies on model lithium-ion conducting polymer electrolytes. First\, we focus on graft polymer architectures of poly[(oligo ethylene oxide) methyl ether methacrylate] (POEM) varying oligo side-chain lengths. With addition of lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI)\, the observed differences in ionic conductivity between the POEM derivatives and linear poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) cannot be adequately explained by differences in Tg. Instead\, graft architecture of POEM leads to nonuniform\, position-dependent relaxation and ion solvation behaviors along the side chain. Importantly\, the limits of ionic conductivity are dictated by the segmental mobility of the ethylene oxide units that form effective solvation sites\, rather than system-wide dynamics. Lastly\, the talk will end with results from ongoing work focusing on solvation site formation and ion transport mechanisms in mixed polarity copolymers based on POEM and poly(glycerol carbonate methacrylate) (PGCMA). URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/mse-seminar-role-of-solvation-and-dynamics-on-ion-transport-in-polymer-electrolytes/ LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Materials Science and Engineering":MAILTO:johnruss@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220414T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220414T113000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220406T160521Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220406T160521Z UID:10007154-1649932200-1649935800@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:GRASP Special Seminar: Steven Ceron\, Cornell University\, “Swarms Across Length Scales with Local-to-Global Behaviors” DESCRIPTION:*This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Towne 337 and Virtual attendance via Zoom \nCollectives in nature demonstrate behaviors that extend far beyond the capabilities of any single agent. Social slime mold\, for example\, has thousands of cells that aggregate and form mobile and immobile nutrient-searching structures as a function of chemical signals. This species embodies many features that swarm roboticists wish to incorporate in scalable\, self-reconfigurable robot collectives: local-to-global behaviors\, low-level communication\, plasticity\, and simple constituents. I argue that regardless of the length scale\, we can implement some of the same principles and features to exploit robot morphology\, physical interactions among agents\, and low-level coordination mechanisms to enable diverse collective behaviors for useful functions in many fields. I present novel emergent collective behaviors at the macro-scale and micron scale and explain how each behavior arises as a function of agents interacting with other agents\, agents reacting to their environment\, and agents exploiting their environment to affect other agents. Specifically\, I show cell-inspired\, macro-scale soft robot collectives for distributed systems with coupled sensing and actuation\, magnetic microrobot collectives with reconfigurable behaviors and functions for biomedical applications\, and cross-scale coordination mechanisms through virtual swarming coupled oscillators for macro- and micro-scale collective control applications. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/grasp-special-seminar-steven-ceron-cornell-university-swarms-across-length-scales-with-local-to-global-behaviors/ LOCATION:Room 337\, Towne Building\, 220 South 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="General Robotics%2C Automation%2C Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab":MAILTO:grasplab@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220414T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220414T143000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220401T143714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220401T143714Z UID:10007145-1649943000-1649946600@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:MEAM Seminar: "Exploiting Environmental Fields for Orienteering and Planning Problems" DESCRIPTION:Robots are increasingly being used to complete tasks in complex environments. To complete these tasks\, two of the most fundamental choices that the robot must make are (1) task planning: which tasks to complete and in what order\, and (2) path planning: what path to take when navigating between those tasks. In this seminar\, I will consider robots operating in environments where the vehicle dynamics are impacted by the dynamics of the environment (environments with flows) while they complete these tasks. I begin by exploring several limitations of existing strategies that tackle task and path planning in environments with flows as separate problems. First\, I examine a problem that focuses on the high level problem of task planning\, but abstracts away the environment and assumes that the low-level path planning work is solved independently. This helps simplify the problem\, but neglects to include environmental information in the problem. In order to address this limitation\, I consider a path planning algorithm in an environment where the flow field can be designed. In particular\, I consider a scenario where a magnetic force field is used to manipulate the flow field. In this case\, I show how a topological approach can be used to take advantage of the structures in the field. Finally\, I examine a scenario where the flow field is determined by ocean currents and therefore cannot be controlled. I will present an integrated solution approach to task and path planning that unifies the two problems in the presence of ocean currents. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-seminar-exploiting-environmental-fields-for-orienteering-and-planning-problems/ LOCATION:Zoom – Email MEAM for Link\, peterlit@seas.upenn.edu CATEGORIES:Seminar,Doctoral ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220415T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220415T114500 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220328T200141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T200141Z UID:10007135-1650018600-1650023100@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:GRASP on Robotics: Vincent Sitzmann\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, “Self-supervised Scene Representation Learning for Robotics” DESCRIPTION:Given only a single picture\, people are capable of inferring a mental representation that encodes rich information about the underlying 3D scene. We acquire this skill not through massive labeled datasets of 3D scenes\, but through self-supervised observation and interaction. Building machines that can infer similarly rich neural scene representations is critical if they are to one day parallel people’s ability to understand\, navigate\, and interact with their surroundings. In this talk\, I will demonstrate how we can equip neural networks with inductive biases that enable them to learn 3D geometry\, appearance\, and even semantic information\, self-supervised only from posed images. I will show how this approach unlocks the learning of priors\, enabling 3D reconstruction from only a single posed 2D image. I will then talk about a recent application of self-supervised scene representation learning in robotic manipulation\, where it enables us to learn to manipulate classes of objects in unseen poses from only a handful of human demonstrations\, as well as the application of neural rendering to learn latent spaces amenable to control. I will then discuss recent work on learning the neural rendering operator to make rendering and training fast\, and how this speed-up enables us to learn object-centric neural scene representations\, learning to decompose 3D scenes into objects\, given only images. Finally\, I will discuss how neural scene representations may offer a new angle to tackle challenges in robotics. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/grasp-on-robotics-vincent-sitzmann-massachusetts-institute-of-technology-self-supervised-scene-representation-learning-for-robotics/ LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="General Robotics%2C Automation%2C Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab":MAILTO:grasplab@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220415T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220415T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220328T150441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T150441Z UID:10007134-1650020400-1650027600@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: "Leveraging Macrophage Immune Checkpoint Blockade to Link Innate and Adaptive Immunity Against Solid Tumors" (Jason Andrechak) DESCRIPTION:The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Dennis Discher are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Jason Andrechak.\n \nTitle: Leveraging Macrophage Immune Checkpoint Blockade to Link Innate and Adaptive Immunity Against Solid Tumors\n\n\nDate/time: Friday\, 4/15 at 11am\nLocation: Glandt Forum\nSingh Center for Nanotechnology\n3205 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA 19104\n\nIt will be hybrid:\nZoom link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96831196783?pwd=bExOUWFFbTRLYWM1Sy9JMzdNTldoQT09\n\nPassword: macrophage\n\n\n\n\nThe public is welcome to attend. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/be-doctoral-dissertation-defense-leveraging-macrophage-immune-checkpoint-blockade-to-link-innate-and-adaptive-immunity-against-solid-tumors-jason-andrechak/ LOCATION:Glandt Forum\, Singh Center for Nanotechnology\, 3205 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Doctoral,Graduate,Student,Dissertation or Thesis Defense END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220415T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220415T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220301T140452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220301T140452Z UID:10007105-1650031200-1650034800@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:PICS Colloquium: "Transforming Healthcare from the Outside: the OBSERVER project" DESCRIPTION:We live with a health care system that has evolved into an increasingly fragmented\, primarily treatment-oriented\, and now heavily burdened environment.  More importantly\, issues related to privacy\, space\, and disease transmissibility have limited access to non-medical personnel who might offer creative\, evidence-based\, radical change to the health care system\, as proposed years ago by the National Research Council.  One way to reimagine that access is through the use of multimodal digital data that summarize patient encounters and make them amenable to outside observers. This talk with summarize the rationale for this project and offer a framework for thinking through how the OBSERVER project could be realized. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/pics-colloquium-transforming-healthcare-from-the-outside-the-observer-project/ LOCATION:PICS Conference Room 534 – A Wing \, 5th Floor\, 3401 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ORGANIZER;CN="Penn Institute for Computational Science (PICS)":MAILTO:dkparks@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220418T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220418T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220207T143857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220207T143857Z UID:10007070-1650283200-1650286800@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:PSOC@Penn Seminar DESCRIPTION:Physical Sciences in Oncology Center PSOC@Penn \nSpring 2022 Hybrid-Seminar Series \nTowne 225 / Raisler Lounge @ Noon (EST) \nFor Zoom link \, please contact manu@seas.upenn.edu URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/psocpenn-seminar/ LOCATION:Raisler Lounge (Room 225)\, Towne Building\, 220 South 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="PSOC":MAILTO:manu@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220419T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220419T113000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220407T180040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220407T180040Z UID:10007155-1650362400-1650367800@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:Tedori-Callinan Distinguished Lecture: "Multiscale Hierarchical Modeling and Thermal Management of Electrification Technologies" DESCRIPTION:Core electrification technologies require developments in battery packs\, chargers\, electric motors\, and thermal management strategies to improve their performance\, longevity\, reliability and safety. The next battery technology leap relies on novel thermal management strategies and packaging architectures\, realized as intelligent battery thermal management systems (BTMS)\, which can optimally control the thermo-electrochemical phenomena occurring inside the batteries to maximize performance\, minimize degradation\, enable fast-charging protocols\, and accelerate a seamless transition of degraded electric vehicle (EV) batteries into less-demanding second-life stationary systems. This Lecture will present current engineering challenges and opportunities on EV thermal management\, with a focus on our research on multiscale hierarchical design\, modelling\, and optimization approaches to overcome cooling and heating challenges across multiple physical domains and length scales\, from battery electrodes\, to battery cells\, battery packs\, to EV thermal management systems. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/tedori-callinan-distinguished-lecture-multiscale-hierarchical-modeling-and-thermal-management-of-electrification-technologies/ LOCATION:Zoom – Email MEAM for Link\, peterlit@seas.upenn.edu CATEGORIES:Distinguished Lecture ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220419T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220419T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220414T180629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T180629Z UID:10007160-1650362400-1650376800@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:SEAS Green Team Book Swap & E-Waste Collection DESCRIPTION: URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/seas-green-team-book-swap-e-waste-collection/ LOCATION:Lobby and Mezzanine\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2022-Book-Swap-Drop-Bin-scaled-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="SEAS Green Team":MAILTO:dianepa@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220419T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220419T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220412T192214Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220412T192214Z UID:10007159-1650380400-1650387600@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: "Extracting Generalizable Hierarchical Patterns of Functional Connectivity in the Brain" DESCRIPTION:The study of the functional organization of the human brain using resting-state functional MRI (rsfMRI) has been of significant interest in cognitive neuroscience for over two decades. The functional organization is characterized by patterns that are believed to be hierarchical in nature. From a clinical context\, studying these patterns has become important for understanding various disorders such as Major Depressive Disorder\, Autism\, Schizophrenia\, etc. However\, extraction of these interpretable patterns might face challenges in multi-site rsfMRI studies due to variability introduced due to confounding variability introduced by different sites and scanners. This can reduce the predictive power and reproducibility of the patterns\, affecting the confidence in using these patterns as biomarkers for assessing and predicting disease. In this thesis\, we focus on the problem of robustly extracting hierarchical patterns that can be used as biomarkers for diseases. \nWe propose a matrix factorization based method to extract interpretable hierarchical decomposition of the rsfRMI data. We couple the method with adversarial learning to improve inter-site robustness in multi-site studies\, removing non-biological variability that can result in less interpretable and discriminative biomarkers. Finally\, a generative-discriminative model is built on top of the proposed framework to extract robust patterns/biomarkers characterizing Major Depressive Disorder. \nResults on large multi-site rsfMRI studies show the effectiveness of our method in uncovering reproducible connectivity patterns across individuals with high predictive power while maintaining clinical interpretability. Our framework robustly identifies brain patterns characterizing MDD and provides an understanding of the manifestation of the disorder from a functional networks perspective which can be crucial for effective diagnosis\, treatment and prevention. The results demonstrate the method’s utility and facilitate a broader understanding of the human brain from a functional perspective. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/ese-ph-d-thesis-defense-extracting-generalizable-hierarchical-patterns-of-functional-connectivity-in-the-brain/ LOCATION:Levine 307\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Dissertation or Thesis Defense ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T120000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220110T152828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220110T152828Z UID:10007003-1650452400-1650456000@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:CEMB Future Leaders: "Plant homologs of PIEZO mechanosensitive ion channels localize to the tonoplast and affect vacuolar morphology" DESCRIPTION: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 valuable series for early-stage researchers and the mechanobiology community as a whole. \nRegister HERE for access to the Zoom link and visit the CEMB website for more information. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cemb-future-leaders-plant-homologs-of-piezo-mechanosensitive-ion-channels-localize-to-the-tonoplast-and-affect-vacuolar-morphology/ LOCATION:https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96715197752 ORGANIZER;CN="Center for Engineering MechanoBiology (CEMB)":MAILTO:annjeong@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220414T182100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T182100Z UID:10007161-1650459600-1650463200@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:Cobb's Creek Tour DESCRIPTION:Please use the link below to find more information and sign up for the tour! \nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-OxodC7fsVFL7AMX_gK4gblHO8zPw5IaZRE-15wUXTUnVRg/viewform URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cobbs-creek-tour/ LOCATION:700 Cobbs Creek Parkway\, Philadelphia\, PA 19134\, 700 Cobbs Creek Parkway\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19134\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/CCCECTour-copy1-scaled-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="SEAS Green Team":MAILTO:dianepa@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220404T181409Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T181409Z UID:10007150-1650459600-1650466800@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: "Biglycan regulation of regional tendon development via the pericellular matrix" (Ryan Leiphart) DESCRIPTION:The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Louis Soslowsky are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Ryan Leiphart\n\nTitle: Biglycan regulation of regional tendon development via the pericellular matrix\n\nDate: Wednesday\, April 20th\nTime: 1PM\nLocation: JMB Reunion Auditorium\nJohn Morgan Building\n3620 Hamilton Walk\nPhiladelphia\, PA 19104\n \nZoom Link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/94685018569?pwd=WnNRMmYrUzZtcm1Wd1JoVVF1TENBUT09\nPassword: embiid\n\nThe public is welcome to attend. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/be-doctoral-dissertation-defense-biglycan-regulation-of-regional-tendon-development-via-the-pericellular-matrix-ryan-leiphart/ LOCATION:JMB Reunion Auditorium\, 3620 Hamilton Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Doctoral,Graduate,Student,Dissertation or Thesis Defense ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:be@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220405T133516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220405T133516Z UID:10007151-1650466800-1650470400@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:Spring 2022 GRASP SFI: Stefanie Tellex\, Brown University\, “Towards Complex Language in Partially Observed Environments” DESCRIPTION:*This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Levine 512 and Virtual attendance via Zoom \nRobots can act as a force multiplier for people\, whether a robot assisting an astronaut with a repair on the International Space station\, a UAV taking flight over our cities\, or an autonomous vehicle driving through our streets. Existing approaches use action-based representations that do not capture the goal-based meaning of a language expression and do not generalize to partially observed environments. The aim of my research program is to create autonomous robots that can understand complex goal-based commands and execute those commands in partially observed\, dynamic environments. I will describe demonstrations of object-search in a POMDP setting with information about object locations provided by language\, and mapping between English and Linear Temporal Logic\, enabling a robot to understand complex natural language commands in city-scale environments. These advances represent steps towards robots that interpret complex natural language commands in partially observed environments using a decision theoretic framework. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/spring-2022-grasp-sfi-stefanie-tellex-brown-university-towards-complex-language-in-partially-observed-environments/ LOCATION:Levine 512 ORGANIZER;CN="General Robotics%2C Automation%2C Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab":MAILTO:grasplab@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T163000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220115T005720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220115T005720Z UID:10007020-1650468600-1650472200@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:CBE Seminar: "Design of Advanced Functional Surfaces Using Oxygen-Tolerant Photopolymerization” DESCRIPTION:Abstract \nThe covalent attachment of polymers has emerged as a powerful strategy for the preparation of multi-functional surfaces. Patterned\, surface-grafted polymer brushes provide spatial control over a variety of physical properties and allow for fabrication of ‘intelligent’ substrates which selectively adapt to their environment. This presentation describes recent advances in our group in using photolithography to produce topographically and chemically-patterned polymer brush surfaces via surface-initiated (SI) photoinduced electron/energy transfer (PET) reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. Using this oxygen tolerant approach\, organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs)\, anti-microbial surfaces\, and anti-fogging coatings are engineered to highlight facile pathways towards advanced functional surfaces. Oxygen tolerance\, mild reaction conditions\, and the use of visible light make this approach user-friendly in its application for the design of patterned and functional organic thin films. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cbe-seminar-design-of-advanced-functional-surfaces-using-oxygen-tolerant-photopolymerization/ 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:20220421T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T113000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220322T165431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220322T165431Z UID:10007127-1650537000-1650540600@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:MSE Seminar: "Multiphoton Microscopy for Imaging Deeper\, Wider\, and Faster" DESCRIPTION:Multiphoton microscopy has changed how we visualize neurons by providing high-resolution\, non-invasive imaging capability deep within intact brain tissue. Multiphoton imaging will likely play a major role in understanding how the brain works at the level of neural circuits. In this talk\, in vivo structural and functional imaging of mouse brain using long wavelength excitation and three-photon microscopy will be presented. By quantitative comparison to two-photon microscopy\, the application space where 3-photon microscopy outperforms conventional 2-photon microscopy will be defined. In addition\, a number of interesting directions\, including new laser sources\, new spectral windows\, optimum illumination schemes\, etc.\, will be presented\, and their impact on further improving the imaging depth\, volume\, or speed in biological tissues will be discussed. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/mse-seminar-multiphoton-microscopy-for-imaging-deeper-wider-and-faster/ LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Materials Science and Engineering":MAILTO:johnruss@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220415T191656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220415T191656Z UID:10007165-1650546000-1650549600@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: "Some Investigations of Phase Transitions in Rod-like Macro-molecules and Fibrous Gels" DESCRIPTION:Two problems pertaining to solid-solid phase transitions are presented here. \nFirst\, we conduct Langevin dynamics calculations on a chain of masses and bistable springs in a viscous fluid\, and extract a temperature dependent kinetic relation by observing that the dissipation at a phase boundary can be estimated by performing an energy balance. Using this kinetic relation we solve boundary value problems for a bistable bar immersed in a constant temperature bath and show that the resultant force-extension relation matches very well with the Langevin dynamics results. We estimate the force fluctuations at the pulled end of the bar due to thermal kicks from the bath by using a partition function. We also show rate dependence of hysteresis in cyclic loading of the bar arising from the stick-slip kinetics. we also extract equilibrium and non-equilibrium information from an over-damped Langevin system using fluctuation theorems. \nSecond\, we use a double-well stored energy function in a chemo-elastic model of gels to capture the existence of two phases of the network. We model cyclic compression/decompression experiments on fibrous gels and show that they exhibit propagating interfaces and hysteretic stress-strain curves that have been observed in experiments. We can capture features in the rate-dependent response of these fibrous gels without recourse to finite element calculations. We also use the model to study the rheological behavior of fibrous gels. We obtain the storage and loss modulus of fibrous gels by performing small amplitude oscillatory compression around various levels of deformation. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-ph-d-thesis-defense-some-investigations-of-phase-transitions-in-rod-like-macro-molecules-and-fibrous-gels/ LOCATION:Zoom – Email MEAM for Link\, peterlit@seas.upenn.edu CATEGORIES:Doctoral,Dissertation or Thesis Defense ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220330T155900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220330T155900Z UID:10007141-1650546000-1650553200@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: "Engineering injectable\, radiopaque hydrogels for X-ray imaging and therapeutic delivery for cancer treatments" (Clara Dong) DESCRIPTION:The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. David Cormode are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Clara Dong.\n\nTitle: Engineering injectable\, radiopaque hydrogels for X-ray imaging and therapeutic delivery for cancer treatments\nDate: 4/21 1pm\nLocation: Zoom\nhttps://upenn.zoom.us/j/91096994943?pwd=TVh5UFltSlBHTXJ6blp4VFlRbTNUdz09  \n\n\nThe public is welcome to attend. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/be-doctoral-dissertation-defense-engineering-injectable-radiopaque-hydrogels-for-x-ray-imaging-and-therapeutic-delivery-for-cancer-treatments-clara-dong/ LOCATION:https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96715197752 CATEGORIES:Doctoral,Graduate,Student,Dissertation or Thesis Defense ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:be@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T114500 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220124T212535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220124T212535Z UID:10007035-1650623400-1650627900@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:GRASP on Robotics: Katherine Kuchenbecker\, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems\, “Haptics and Physical Human-Robot Interaction” DESCRIPTION:A haptic interface is a mechatronic system that modulates the physical interaction between a human and their tangible surroundings. Such systems typically take the form of grounded kinesthetic devices\, ungrounded wearable devices\, or surface devices\, and they enable the user to act on and feel a remote or virtual environment. I will elucidate key approaches to creating effective haptic interfaces by showcasing several systems my team created and evaluated over the years. I will go into more detail about Haptipedia\, our online database of grounded force-feedback devices\, and Haptify\, the system we recently created to quantitatively benchmark the performance of such interfaces. The talk will then transition to physical human-robot interaction (pHRI)\, where the engineered system acts as a social agent rather than a tool. In addition to inventing tactile sensors\, we have created a robot that plays exercise games with its human partner and have developed methods for learning dynamic physical interactions from demonstrations\, both with applications to rehabilitation. Finally\, I will present HuggieBot\, a custom robot that uses visual and haptic sensing to give good interactive hugs. The presented research stems from collaborations with Hasti Seifi\, Karon MacLean\, Farimah Fazlollahi\, Naomi Fitter\, Mayumi Mohan\, Michelle Johnson\, Siyao “Nick” Hu\, Alexis Block\, and many others from Penn\, MPI-IS\, and elsewhere. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/grasp-on-robotics-katherine-kuchenbecker-max-planck-institute-for-intelligent-systems-haptics-and-physical-human-robot-interaction/ LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="General Robotics%2C Automation%2C Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab":MAILTO:grasplab@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20211103T153556Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211103T153556Z UID:10006956-1650631500-1650650400@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:Bioengineering Graduate Research Symposium DESCRIPTION:2022 Bioengineering Grad Symposium\nApril 22\, 2022\nSingh Center for Nanotechnology\n\n\n\nRegister to Attend\nDeadline: April 15\,  2022\nWe are excited to announce that the 2022 Bioengineering Graduate Symposium has been rescheduled and will be held in person on April 22\, 2022\, 12:45 pm – 6 pm at Singh Center.  Food\, drinks\, and free swag will be available throughout the session (subject to the University events policies). Please save the date and RSVP here!\n\nRegister for Poster \n\n\nGood News! We are having limited spots for poster presenters. If you are interested in presenting a poster please do respond here today! The slots will be covered first-come\, first-served.\n\nShould you have any questions and concerns\, please contact GABE Symposium Co-Chairs  Ludwig Zhao and Vasiliki Tassopoulou .\n\n                               URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/bioengineering-graduate-research-symposium/ LOCATION:Singh Center for Nanotechnology\, 3205 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Doctoral,Graduate,Student,Master's,Symposium ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:be@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220423 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220424 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220414T183055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220414T183055Z UID:10007162-1650672000-1650758399@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:Earth Week Cleanup DESCRIPTION:Please use the below link to find more information and signup! \nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ntEeVQmO4mBXk7PGNi5GaXLRnrdaQ30fmhoflKIvMpQ/viewform?edit_requested=true URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/earth-week-cleanup/ ORGANIZER;CN="SEAS Green Team":MAILTO:dianepa@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220330T154943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220330T154943Z UID:10007140-1650884400-1650891600@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: "Remote Field Guided Assembly of Complex Orthopaedic Tissues" (Hannah Zlotnick) DESCRIPTION:The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Robert Mauck are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Hannah Zlotnick.\n\nTitle: Remote field guided assembly of complex orthopaedic tissues\n\nDate: Monday April 25th \nTime: 11 am \n\nLocation: JMB Class of ’62 Auditorium\nJohn Morgan Building\n3620 Hamilton Walk\nPhiladelphia\, PA 19104\n\nThe public is welcome to attend. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/be-doctoral-dissertation-defense-remote-field-guided-assembly-of-complex-orthopaedic-tissues-hannah-zlotnick/ LOCATION:Class of 62 Auditorium\, John Morgan Building\, 3620 Hamilton Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104 CATEGORIES:Doctoral,Graduate,Student,Dissertation or Thesis Defense ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:be@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220131T131955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T131955Z UID:10007050-1650888000-1650891600@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:PSOC@Penn Seminar: " "Bottom-up synthetic embryology for understanding early human development" (Jianping Fu\, PhD) DESCRIPTION:Physical Sciences in Oncology Center PSOC@Penn \nSpring 2022 Hybrid-Seminar Series \nTowne 225 / Raisler Lounge @ Noon (EST) \nFor Zoom link \, please contact manu@seas.upenn.edu URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/psocpenn-seminar-jianping-fu-phd/ LOCATION:Raisler Lounge (Room 225)\, Towne Building\, 220 South 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="PSOC":MAILTO:manu@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220425T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220418T132312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220418T132312Z UID:10007166-1650895200-1650902400@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: "Human tissue-engineered nigrostriatal pathway encased in hyaluronic acid for axon tract reconstruction in Parkinson’s disease" (Wisberty Gordián Vélez) DESCRIPTION:The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. D. Kacy Cullen are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Wisberty Gordián Vélez.\n\nTitle: Human tissue-engineered nigrostriatal pathway encased in hyaluronic acid for axon tract reconstruction in Parkinson’s disease\n\nDate: Monday\, April 25th\nTime: 2:00 pm\nLocation: JMB Reunion Auditorium\nJohn Morgan Building\n3620 Hamilton Walk\nPhiladelphia\, PA 19104\n\nThe public is invited to attend in person or virtually at the link below:\nZoom Link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/3047758004?pwd=SGwwRXZkNGtQdW1NOEZwanFGMG0yQT09\n\nMeeting ID: 304 775 8004\nPasscode: TENSP22 URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/be-doctoral-dissertation-defense-human-tissue-engineered-nigrostriatal-pathway-encased-in-hyaluronic-acid-for-axon-tract-reconstruction-in-parkinsons-disease-wisberty-gordian-velez/ LOCATION:JMB Reunion Auditorium\, 3620 Hamilton Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Doctoral,Graduate,Student,Dissertation or Thesis Defense ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:be@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220426T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220426T233000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220420T134702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220420T134702Z UID:10007168-1650967200-1651015800@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:MEAM Seminar: "Towards Personalized Predictive Human Models" DESCRIPTION:Numerical simulation of physical phenomena is a powerful tool embraced by scientists and engineers for decades. Using simulation tools to predict human movements is particularly critical for training AI-enabled robots interacting with humans\, providing testbeds for wearable device design\, and generating a wealth of labeled\, high-fidelity human motion data. However\, existing physics simulators and motor control algorithms for modeling human movements were developed with a fictitious “average human” in mind\, while in reality we are often more interested in predicting the motion of a particular real person. Pursuing the quest towards building personalized predictive human models\, we develop a learnable and differentiable physics simulator to harness the power of data\, and a data acquisition pipeline to provide large-scale biomechanical motion data for the learnable simulator to consume. These computational tools can potentially simulate a wide range of scenarios\, but also provide the option to be personalized to specific individuals using only a moderate amount of data. While we focus on the application domains related to human movements\, these tools are general and applicable to other robotic research problems on optimal control and parameter estimation. In this talk\, I will describe our overall vision on perusing personalized predictive human models\, as well as a collection of projects that advanced the state of the art toward this vision. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-seminar-towards-personalized-predictive-human-models/ LOCATION:Zoom – Email MEAM for Link\, peterlit@seas.upenn.edu CATEGORIES:Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220427T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220427T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220425T141135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220425T141135Z UID:10007170-1651071600-1651075200@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:Spring 2022 GRASP SFI: Youngwoon Lee\, University of Southern California\, “Scaling Robot Learning with Skills: Towards Furniture Assembly and Beyond” DESCRIPTION:Despite the recent progress in robot learning\, robotics research and benchmarks today are typically confined to simple short-horizon tasks. However\, tasks in our daily lives are much more complicated — consisting of multiple sub-tasks and requiring high dexterity skills — and the typical “learning from scratch” scheme is hardly scale to such complex long-horizon tasks. \nIn this talk\, I propose to extend the range of tasks that robots can learn by acquiring a useful skillset and efficiently harnessing these skills. As a first step\, I will introduce a novel benchmark for complex long-horizon manipulation tasks\, IKEA furniture assembly environment. Then\, I will present skill chaining approaches that enable sequential skill composition to perform long-horizon tasks. Finally\, I will talk about how to learn a long-horizon task efficiently using skills and skill priors extracted from diverse data. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/spring-2022-grasp-sfi-youngwoon-lee-university-of-southern-california-scaling-robot-learning-with-skills-towards-furniture-assembly-and-beyond/ LOCATION:Levine 512 ORGANIZER;CN="General Robotics%2C Automation%2C Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab":MAILTO:grasplab@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220429T073000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220429T083000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220415T134834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220415T134834Z UID:10007163-1651217400-1651221000@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: "Social Robot Augmented Telepresence for Remote Assessment and Rehabilitation of Patients with Upper Extremity Impairment" DESCRIPTION:With the shortage of rehabilitation clinicians in rural areas and elsewhere\, remote rehabilitation (telerehab) fills an important gap in access to rehabilitation. We have developed a first of its kind social robot augmented telepresence (SRAT) system — Flo — which consists of a humanoid robot mounted onto a mobile telepresence base\, with the goal of improving the quality of telerehab. The humanoid has arms\, a torso\, and a face to play games with and guide patients under the supervision of a remote clinician. \nTo understand the usability of this system\, we conducted a survey of hundreds of rehab clinicians. We found that therapists in the United States believe Flo would improve communication\, patient motivation\, and patient compliance\, compared to traditional telepresence for rehab. Therapists highlighted the importance of high-quality video to enable telerehab with their patients and were positive about the usefulness of features which make up the Flo system for enabling telerehab. \nTo compare telepresence interactions with vs without the social robot\, we conducted controlled studies\, the first to rigorously compare SRAT to classical telepresence (CT). We found that for many SRAT is more enjoyable than and preferred over CT. The results varied by age\, motor function\, and cognitive function\, a novel result. \nTo understand how therapists and patients respond to and use SRAT in the wild over long-term use\, we deployed Flo at an elder care facility. Therapists used Flo with their own patients however they deemed best. They developed new ways to use the system and highlighted challenges they faced. \nTo ease the load of performing assessments via telepresence\, I constructed a pipeline to predict the motor function of patients using RGBD video of them doing activities via telepresence. The pipeline extracts poses from the video\, calculates kinematic features and reachable workspace\, and predicts level of impairment using a random forest of decision trees.\nFinally\, I have aggregated our findings over all these studies and provide a path forward to continue the evolution of SRAT. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-ph-d-thesis-defense-social-robot-augmented-telepresence-for-remote-assessment-and-rehabilitation-of-patients-with-upper-extremity-impairment/ LOCATION:Zoom – Email MEAM for Link\, peterlit@seas.upenn.edu CATEGORIES:Doctoral,Dissertation or Thesis Defense END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220502T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220502T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T053042 CREATED:20220415T135307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220415T135307Z UID:10007164-1651492800-1651496400@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:Bioengineering/Biology Seminar: "New tools for multi-modal precision measurement of single cells" (Aaron Streets) DESCRIPTION:This hybrid seminar is co-hosted by the Departments of Bioengineering and Biology. Check email for the zoom link or contact ksas@seas.upenn.edu. \nThe study of biology at the single-cell level has relied on the development of precision measurement tools. Our research is focused on developing new technology for multimodal\, precision measurement of single cells to move beyond cataloging cell types and push towards gaining a mechanistic understanding of the relationship between the molecules that define and maintain cell state. We build both hardware and software tools for measuring epigenetic regulation\, gene expression\, protein composition\, and morphological phenotype at the single-cell level. This talk will focus on recent work applying single-cell genomic analysis to study T cell development and adipocyte development in model systems. Additionally\, I will present a new method for measuring protein-DNA interactions and DNA methylation with long-read sequencing. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/bioengineering-biology-seminar-new-tools-for-multi-modal-precision-measurement-of-single-cells-aaron-streets/ LOCATION:Raisler Lounge (Room 225)\, Towne Building\, 220 South 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:be@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR