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Fall 2024 GRASP on Robotics: Damion Shelton, Agility Robotics, “What do we want from our machines?”
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Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall
3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT In 2022 I represented Agility Robotics at the first “Philadelphia Summit” […]

ESE 2024 Jack Keil Wolf Lecture – “Army of Ants: The Power of Working in Concert”
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Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology
3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Synchronized operation of a large number of similar entities can generate behavior that cannot be expected from single one. This principle combined with the physical concept of coherence in waves […]

Fall 2024 GRASP Seminar: Yunzhu Li, Columbia University, “Foundation Models for Robotic Manipulation: Opportunities and Challenges”
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Levine 307
3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
*This seminar will be held in-person in Levine 307 as well as virtually via Zoom. ABSTRACT Foundation models, such as GPT-4 Vision, have marked significant achievements in the fields of natural […]

ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Learning-based Model Predictive Control for Aerial Vehicles”
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Levine 307
3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Learning-based model predictive control (MPC) is an increasingly prominent control paradigm in recent years. One primary approach in learning-based MPC is to leverage machine or deep learning tools to construct […]

MEAM Seminar: “Can Materials From the 1930’s Really Revolutionize Battery Manufacturing?”
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Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall
3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Fluorinated polymers offer a plethora of unique and sometimes perplexing properties. One of the most interesting is the ability for specific types of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) to undergo room-temperature, sheer-induced, structural […]

ESE Fall Seminar – “Non-Parametric Analysis of Dynamical Systems: From Recurrent Sets to Generalized Lyapunov and Barrier Conditions”
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Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building
220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
This talk presents novel non-parametric methods for analyzing dynamical systems using solely trajectory data. Our critical insight is to replace the notion of invariance, a core concept in Lyapunov Theory, […]

CIS Seminar: ” Just Infrastructures”
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Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall
3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Sociotechnical systems enable large-scale connection and the dissemination of timely, engaging information. However, these systems are shaped by complex, often invisible governance structures—comprising rules, roles, and relationships—that significantly influence how […]

CIS Seminar: “Just Infrastructures”
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Wu & Chen Auditorium
Sociotechnical systems enable large-scale connection and the dissemination of timely, engaging information. However, these systems are shaped by complex, often invisible governance structures—comprising rules, roles, and relationships—that significantly influence how […]

ASSET Seminar: “Control with Coarse Measurements: Perception Contracts and Indistinguishable Sets”
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Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building
220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Abstract: Performance of control systems depend on the nature of available measurements. Perception of edges, keypoints, landmarks and other natural semantic features make certain coarse measurements available to control systems operating in […]

CIS Special Industry Colloquium: “Scaling Paradigms for Large Language Models”
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Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology
3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
In this talk I will tell you how scaling has been the engine of progress in AI for the past five years. In the first scaling paradigm, our field scaled large […]

GRASP Special Panel featuring the 2024 John Scott Award Recipients
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This is an in-person event only and is not open to the public. Event Registration and Penncards are required. A link to register for the event will be sent via […]
