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SUMMARY:MSE Thesis Defense: "Ultra-High-Resolution Patterning and Pattern Transfer via Nanocrystal Colloidal Lithography"
DESCRIPTION:The ability to design\, pattern\, and process materials at the nanoscale has enabled vast research opportunities ranging from fundamental science to technological applications and device integration. The continued development of nanoscience and nanotechnology relies upon pushing the limits of nanoscale fabrication capabilities. After decades of development\, this frontier has moved to the sub-10 nm length scale to explore novel physical properties and functionalities for next-generation technology. However\, conventional “top-down” strategies that have carried nanofabrication to this point have severe limitations for practically improving the resolution capabilities of deep nanoscale fabrication. In this dissertation\, we demonstrate ultra-high-resolution patterning and pattern transfer using nanocrystal (NC) colloidal lithography. This innovative nanofabrication platform integrates bottom-up methods\, that combine NC synthesis and self-assembly approaches\, with well-established top-down techniques such as dry etching and thin film deposition. \nWe employ monodisperse NC building blocks with self-assembly methods to establish high-density\, well-ordered patterns\, where the inorganic core of each NC serves as a discrete hard mask used for high-fidelity pattern transfer into a desired substrate material. We demonstrate the use of isotropic NCs to establish various sub-10 nm pattern morphologies and examine the stability of the NC pattern upon dry etching\, comparing NC monolayers and bilayers. We extend the NC colloidal lithography scheme using anisotropic NCs to demonstrate high-density\, anisotropic pattern transfer into various substrate materials down to the sub-5 nm regime. The presented fabrication strategy offers further opportunities to leverage various combinations of NC morphologies and materials afforded by the extensive NC library for more complex pattern design. Additionally\, this approach can be extended to process various substrate material classes at the deep nanoscale. The NC colloidal lithography platform enables broader access to single-digit nanoscale fabrication for the scientific community worldwide\, which could impact various research sectors ranging from integrated circuits to memory devices\, optoelectronics\, metasurfaces\, quantum devices and more.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/mse-thesis-defense-ultra-high-resolution-patterning-and-pattern-transfer-via-nanocrystal-colloidal-lithography/
LOCATION:https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96715197752
ORGANIZER;CN="Materials Science and Engineering":MAILTO:johnruss@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T163000
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SUMMARY:BE Seminar: "Ionic Liquid-based Therapeutics" (Samir Mitragotri)
DESCRIPTION:This seminar will be held virtually on zoom – check your email for the link or contact ksas@seas.upenn.edu. \nIonic liquids\, the liquid salts comprising organic anions and cations\, offer exciting opportunities for several therapeutic applications. Their tunable properties offer control over their design and function. Starting with biocompatible ions\, we synthesized a library of ionic liquids and explored them for various drug delivery applications. Ionic liquids provided unique advantages including overcoming the biological transport barriers of skin\, buccal mucosa and the intestinal epithelium. At the same time\, they also stabilized proteins and nucleic acids and enabled the delivery of biologics across these barriers. Ionic liquids also provided unique biological functions including adjuvancy towards vaccines and antimicrobial function. I will present an overview of the design features of ionic liquids and novel biomedical applications enabled by these unique materials.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/be-seminar-samir-mitragotri/
LOCATION:https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96715197752
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:be@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T133000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211112T212550Z
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SUMMARY:ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: "Graph Convolutions for Teams of Robots"
DESCRIPTION:In many applications in robotics\, there exist teams of robots operating in dynamic environments requiring the design of complex communication and control schemes. The problem is made easier if one assumes the presence of an oracle that has instantaneous access to states of all entities in the environment and can communicate simultaneously without any loss. However\, such an assumption is unrealistic especially when there exist a large number of robots. More specifically\, we are interested in decentralized control policies for teams of robots using only local communication and sensory information to achieve high-level team objectives. We first make the case for using distributed reinforcement learning to learn local behaviors by optimizing for a sparse team-wide reward as opposed to existing model-based methods. A central caveat of learning policies using model-free reinforcement learning is the lack of scalability. To achieve large-scale scalable results\, we introduce a novel paradigm where the policies are parametrized by graph convolutions. Additionally\, we also develop new methodologies to train these policies and derive technical insights into their behaviors. Building upon these\, we design perception-action loops for teams of robots that rely only on noisy visual sensors\, a learned history state\, and local information from nearby robots to achieve complex team wide-objectives. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our methods on several large-scale multi-robot tasks.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/ese-ph-d-thesis-defense-graph-convolutions-for-teams-of-robots/
LOCATION:Room 452 C\, 3401 Walnut\, 3401 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211117T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211117T173000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211101T145003Z
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SUMMARY:ODEI and SHPE Celebrate Hispanic and Native American Heritage
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday November 17 at 4pm\, Penn Engineering will celebrate the Hispanic/Native American Heritage. This celebration of our students\, faculty and staff of Hispanic/Latinx\, and Native American background is in support of our commitment to diversity and inclusion in the School.  Dean Vijay Kumar will give welcome and opening remarks\, followed by student and faculty speakers and cultural presentations by Penn Engineering Students. Food and refreshments will be served. This event is sponsored by ODEI\, Grad. RAS\, and SHPE.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/odei-and-shpe-celebrate-hispanic-and-native-american-heritage/
LOCATION:Quain Courtyard
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211117T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211117T120000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20210903T163150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210903T163150Z
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SUMMARY:CEMB Future Leaders Seminar: "A microviscosimetry toolbox for plant cells + tissue based on molecular rotors"
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-seminar-a-microviscosimetry-toolbox-for-plant-cells-tissue-based-on-molecular-rotors/
LOCATION:https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96715197752
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="Center for Engineering MechanoBiology (CEMB)":MAILTO:annjeong@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211116T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211116T161500
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211108T143508Z
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SUMMARY:ESE 2021 Jack Keil Wolf Lecture - "MEMS:  the Transition from “Four-Letter-Word” to “Trendy”"
DESCRIPTION:Thirty years ago\, semiconductor manufacturers (wafer fabs) rolled their eyes and muttered under their breath when they heard the word MEMS.  Micro-Electromechanical Mechanical Systems are minute mechanical devices built on silicon integrated circuit wafers.  They are the microphones\, gravity sensors\, oscillators\, motion sensors\, electronic filters in your cell-phone – and more.  MEMS processes were “weird”.   They required unusual and immature special processing tools and etch chemicals.  MEMS wafers often broke inside traditional semiconductor processing tools\, creating logistical nightmares for the wafer fabs.  Packaging was a terrifying ordeal\, protecting the miniscule mechanical structures from damage.  Even as recently as 15 years ago\, MEMS was considered a four letter word at the larger wafer fabs\, or foundries.  Today\, that has all changed.  Today\, the largest foundries ALL manufacture MEMS devices and they scramble to be the supplier of the latest\, newest MEMS invention.  Today\, MEMS special processing tools are all high precision\, high-throughput\, state-of-the-art equipment.  Today\, many options exist for packaging these bizarre\, but powerful chips.  Today\, everyone wants to manufacture MEMS chips.  Today\, MEMS is “trendy”. \nHow did this happen?  How did MEMS transition from an ugly\, shunned\, four letter status to being fashionable?   My presentation will walk through this astonishing historical transformation\, focusing on the revolutionary devices which are made possible by MEMS technology and how they have radically altered and augmented the way we interact with electronic systems.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/ese-2021-jack-keil-wolf-lecture-mems-the-transition-from-four-letter-word-to-trendy/
LOCATION:Glandt Forum\, Singh Center for Nanotechnology\, 3205 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211116T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211112T181029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211112T181029Z
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SUMMARY:PICS Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Xuran Wang\, Postdoctoral Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/pics-alumni-spotlight-dr-xuran-wang-postdoctoral-researcher-at-carnegie-mellon-university/
LOCATION:Zoom – email kathom@seas.upenn.edu
CATEGORIES:Alumni
ORGANIZER;CN="Penn Institute for Computational Science (PICS)":MAILTO:dkparks@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211116T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211116T110000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211105T200314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211105T200314Z
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SUMMARY:MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: "Flying Modular Robots: From Self-Assembling Structures in Midair to Embedding Grasping Capabilities"
DESCRIPTION:Flying modular robots offer a suitable autonomous platform for multiple applications such as: search and rescue\, cargo lifting\, and object transportation. In addition\, modular robots in a swarm can use their own bodies as building units to assemble large structures. This thesis introduces ModQuad\, the self-assembly structure that can cooperatively fly based on autonomous modules. With these modules it is possible to assemble structures with rigid connections in multiple configurations. In contrast to related work\, instead of assembling on the ground or on water\, a midair approach to assemble structures is proposed. Docking modules in midair offer relevant advantages by the cost of the complexity to adapt the conglomerate controller at each docking step. Assembling structures in midair usually requires a relative localization system in between modules. A vision-based self-assembly method is proposed with structures composed of two modules. Scaling these flying modular robotic structures is a challenging problem usually limiting the benefits of modularity. A novel yaw actuation for quadrotor-based modules using individuals rolling angles by a one degree of freedom cage design is proposed for a more effective controllability around the structure z-axis. The resulting implementation enlarges the configuration space in a line configuration. Expanding the one degree of freedom cage design to arbitrary configurations allowed the development of algorithms capable of generating optimal and near-optimal configurations through a computational efficient search that first classifies and groups modules within the structure. Lastly\, structures composed of non-rigid connections are explored leading the whole conglomerate to change its shape dynamically in-flight. Instead of adding extra components and mechanisms\, versatility of modularity is utilized to embed grasping capabilities through a shape change addressed to a four-bar linkage configuration.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-ph-d-thesis-defense-flying-modular-robots-from-self-assembling-structures-in-midair-to-embedding-grasping-capabilities/
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211115T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20210913T141548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210913T141548Z
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SUMMARY:PSOC@Penn Seminar: "Cell Learning" (Jeremy Gunawardena)
DESCRIPTION:Room: Towne 225/Raisler Lounge \nFor zoom link\, contact manu@seas.upenn.edu.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/psocpenn-seminar-jeremy-gunawardena/
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211112T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211112T150000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20210920T134714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210920T134714Z
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SUMMARY:PICS Colloquium: "Molecular organization in biology: What can computer simulations teach us?"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The formation of membraneless organelles (MLOs) via phase separation of proteins and nucleic acids has emerged as an essential process with which cells can maintain spatiotemporal control. Despite enormous progress in understanding the role of MLOs in biological function in the last ten years or so\, the molecular details of the underlying phenomena are only beginning to emerge recently. We use computer simulations of coarse-grained and all-atom models to complement experimental studies to achieve insights into the molecular driving forces underlying biomolecular phase separation. In this talk\, I’ll highlight results that demonstrate our approach’s usefulness for identifying general principles and system-specific insights into biomolecular structure and function. These results also open up new avenues for the design of biomaterials with tunable properties.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/pics-colloquium-molecular-organization-in-biology-what-can-computer-simulations-teach-us/
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211112T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211112T114500
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211029T173901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211029T173901Z
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SUMMARY:GRASP on Robotics: “Approaches to Grounded Language Acquisition from Human Interaction”
DESCRIPTION:*This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance for Dr. Matuszek’s in-person talk in Wu & Chen Auditorium and Virtual attendance via Zoom Webinar here.  \nAs robots move from labs and factories into human-centric spaces\, it becomes progressively harder to predetermine the environments and interactions they will need to be able to handle. Letting robots learn from end users via natural language is an intuitive\, versatile approach to handling novel situations robustly. Grounded language acquisition is concerned with learning to understand language in the context of the physical world. In this presentation\, I will give an overview of our work on using joint statistical models to learn the grounded semantics of natural language describing an agent’s environment\, and will describe work on applying those models in a sim-to-real language learning environment. I will also discuss the role of speech understanding in grounded language learning\, including introducing a new dataset and results on learning directly from that speech.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/grasp-on-robotics-approaches-to-grounded-language-acquisition-from-human-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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211111T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211111T150000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211101T140052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211101T140052Z
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SUMMARY:Snack Break with ODEI and EngiQueers
DESCRIPTION:Levine Lobby 11/11 from 1pm-3pm \nODEI and EngiQueers are collaborating to host a grab and go snack break\, that showcases prominent LGBTQ+ individuals in STEM throughout history. Come grab a snack\, and get a fact about a queer individual who played an integral role in the advancement of the STEM field and industry. While learning about queer folks who are making significant contributions to engineering\, learn more about the LGBTQ+ resources that are available for Penn students. Representatives from ODEI\, oSTEM\, and EngiQueers would love to see you!
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/snack-break-with-odei-and-engiqueers/
LOCATION:Lobby and Mezzanine\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Office of Diversity%2C Equity and Inclusion":MAILTO:odei@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211111T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211111T133000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211101T151215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211101T151215Z
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SUMMARY:MSE Seminar: "Local to Meso-scale Order in Electronic Ceramics Characterized by Aberration -Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy"
DESCRIPTION:The ability to design the composition and microstructure of electronic ceramics for emerging technological applications requires sophisticated characterization techniques that can provide quantitative information about local structure and chemistry. Such structure quantification is particularly important to the fundamental understanding of properties in many important non-linear dielectrics\, where chemical heterogeneities associated with dopants or intrinsic lattice defects give rise to local inhomogeneities in charge\, strain and polarization. Such local deviations from the global average structure and symmetry are linked to enhancements in macroscopic dielectric and electromechanical properties. This seminar discusses the use of aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) to quantify short- and medium-range lattice disorder in electronic oxides\, including ferroelectrics and relaxor ferroelectrics. The ability to quantify local structure on a sublattice basis and in real space provides unique insight into the structural complexities of these materials.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/mse-seminar-local-to-meso-scale-order-in-electronic-ceramics-characterized-by-aberration-corrected-scanning-transmission-electron-microscopy/
LOCATION:Auditorium\, LRSM Building\, 3231 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Materials Science and Engineering":MAILTO:johnruss@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211111T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211111T120000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211101T152440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211101T152440Z
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SUMMARY:ESE Fall Colloquium Seminar - " Beyond Curve-Fitting: What’s next for deep learning in biomedical imaging?"
DESCRIPTION:Over the last 5-10 years\, deep learning has transformed biomedical imaging\, from enhancing acquisition to maximizing downstream utility of scans. My research group has been at the forefront of this revolution\, developing novel methods that have laid the foundation for next-generation tools. As I will describe in my talk\, much of this progress relies on predictive models and thus can be viewed as “curve-fitting” with general-purpose models. I will then show a few examples of recent work from my group\, where we move beyond the curve-fitting paradigm and custom build models in ways that allow us to gain novel insights\, understand how the output was computed\, or empower the end-user to choose the solution best suited for their needs. These examples will be from a range of applications\, including MRI reconstruction\, image registration\, and neural encoding with fMRI data.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/ese-fall-colloquium-seminar-beyond-curve-fitting-whats-next-for-deep-learning-in-biomedical-imaging/
LOCATION:Glandt Forum\, Singh Center for Nanotechnology\, 3205 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211110T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211110T160000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211105T205257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211105T205257Z
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SUMMARY:Fall 2021 GRASP SFI: "Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Engineered-Systems Design"
DESCRIPTION:*This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and Virtual attendance via Zoom here… \nOur research employs artificial intelligence techniques that seek to automate the main time/cost drivers of engineered-systems design. The features of a system inform the form\, function and behavior of the resulting concept that can be subsequently created using traditional manufacturing/additive manufacturing methods. While there exists a wide range of computer aided design tools that seek to generate 3D design concepts\, they are primarily parametric in nature and rely extensively on domain expertise\, which may not always be readily available. Grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have enabled our research team to explore the use of Deep Generative Design methods such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to generate 3D representations of design concepts. However\, there is more to a design than simply its 3D form\, as the design must perform a function and operate in an environment where its behavior may/may not perform as intended. Towards this end\, our research group has proposed liking the AI-generation of a design\, with the automatic evaluation of its function and behavior using physics-based simulation engines. The end result is a physics-informed design that has the potential to be realized through techniques such as additive manufacturing.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/fall-2021-grasp-sfi-artificial-intelligence-and-its-impact-on-engineered-systems-design/
LOCATION:Levine 307\, 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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211109T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211109T181500
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211102T184928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T184928Z
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SUMMARY:CIS 189 Guest Lecture: "Optimization in Practice"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nDiscrete optimization plays a critical role in solving various resource allocation problems within the industry. \nIn this talk\, we study problems from the two extremes of the optimization landscape; operational decision-making in real-time and resource provisioning for future considerations. Motivated by real-world business requirements ranging from load balancing in heterogeneous environments to privacy concerns and various service-level agreements\, we demonstrate how constraint reasoning delivers effective solutions in both cases. \nWhile solving large-scale problems is of great practical importance\, we emphasize the need for solutions that are not only efficient but also flexible\, easy to update and maintain. We show how Constraint Programming neatly suits the needs of such dynamic environments with continually changing requirements. \n\nTowne 307 + Zoom\n(Meeting ID: 945 8230 3285\nPasscode: 369654) \n 
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cis-189-guest-lecture-optimization-in-practice/
LOCATION:Towne 307\, 220 S. 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Student
ORGANIZER;CN="Computer and Information Science":MAILTO:cherylh@cis.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211109T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211109T120000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211026T133846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T133846Z
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SUMMARY:ESE Fall Colloquium Seminar - "2D Materials\, from Academia to Industry"
DESCRIPTION:Semiconductor sales will reach over $500 billion worldwide in 2021\, a gigantic industry that keeps on growing with increasing demand for faster\, more powerful\, and smaller chips. However\, as we keep scaling\, the silicon (Si) transistor will soon reach its physical limit\, and there is a pressing need to find an alternative post-Si material to enable the continuation of Moore’s Law. \nIn the early 2000s\, scientists discovered that graphite could be exfoliated down into an atomic form\, going from a 3D bulk material down to a 2D stable honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms called graphene. Scientists marveled at graphene’s astonishing electrical and mechanical properties\, however\, for all that graphene has to offer\, it lacks a band gap that is essential for logic devices. This created a surge in research on materials beyond graphene\, scientists searching for an elusive 2D material that would possess a bandgap to satisfy the need of the semiconducting industry. Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) possess the bandgap that graphene lacks\, and with the vast variety of TMDs available\, coupled with its encouraging electrical properties\, make TMDs a promising candidate. \nIn this talk\, I will present my years of research on 2D materials focusing on TMDs\, from synthesis and characterization to innovative applications. I will demonstrate a scalable method for monolayer TMD growth and integration\, its applications (e.g. opioid biosensor and flexible electronics)\, the first report of monolayer growth and electrical characterization of the topological 1T’-TMDs\, and in-plane monolayer TMD heterostructures with different metal atoms or atomic phases. I will also discuss some of Intel’s industrial research to date on 2D materials\, how TMDs and other 2D materials are finding their way into production and potentially into everyone’s day to day life.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/ese-fall-colloquium-seminar-2d-materials-from-academia-to-industry/
LOCATION:Raisler Lounge (Room 225)\, Towne Building\, 220 South 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211109T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211109T113000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20210901T144335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210901T144335Z
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SUMMARY:MEAM Seminar: "Time and Rate Dependent Fracture of Polymer Gels and Interfaces"
DESCRIPTION:Fracture of materials and interfaces is often time and rate dependent. The underlying mechanisms for the time and rate dependent fracture may include local molecular processes\, viscoelasticity\, and poroelasticity (solvent diffusion coupled with deformation). In this talk\, I will present our recent works on two different mechanisms. First\, the effects of poroelasticity on fracture of polymer gels will be discussed. A path-independent\, modified J-integral approach is adopted to define the crack-tip energy release rate as the energetic driving force for crack growth in gels\, taking into account the energy dissipation by solvent diffusion. For a stationary crack\, the energy release rate is time dependent\, with which delayed fracture can be predicted based on a Griffith-like fracture criterion. For steady-state crack growth in a long-strip specimen\, the energy release rate is a function of the crack speed\, with rate-dependent poroelastic toughening. With a poroelastic cohesive zone model\, solvent diffusion within the cohesive zone leads to significantly enhanced poroelastic toughening as the crack speed increases. Second\, for rate-dependent fracture of a polymer interface\, we propose a multiscale cohesive zone model\, considering the energetics of bond stretching\, the entropic effect of long molecular chains\, the kinetics of thermally activated chain scission\, and statistical distributions of the chain lengths. This model relates the macroscopically measurable interfacial properties (toughness\, strength\, and traction-separation relations) to molecular structures of the interface\, and the rate dependence results naturally from the kinetics of damage evolution as a thermally activated process. Finite element simulations with the cohesive zone model are directly compared to double cantilever beam experiments for rate-dependent fracture of a silicon/epoxy interface.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-seminar-time-and-rate-dependent-fracture-of-polymer-gels-and-interfaces/
LOCATION:Zoom – Email MEAM for Link\, peterlit@seas.upenn.edu
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211108T140000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211022T125742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211022T125742Z
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SUMMARY:BE Dissertation Defense: "Versican/Collagen Interactions in Tissue Structure and Mechanics" (Dongning Chen)
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Rebecca Wells are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Dongning Chen.\n\nTitle: Versican/Collagen Interactions in Tissue Structure and Mechanics\nDate: Nov. 8\, 2021\nTime: 12pm \n \nThe public is welcome to attend in person at BRB 253 and via zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/6088045110
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/be-dissertation-defense-versican-collagen-interactions-in-tissue-structure-and-mechanics-dongning-chen/
LOCATION:BRB 253
CATEGORIES:Doctoral,Graduate,Student,Dissertation or Thesis Defense
ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:be@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211108T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20210913T141138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210913T141138Z
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SUMMARY:PSOC@Penn Seminar: "High-throughput multi-dimensional T cell profiling enabled systems immunology" (Ning Jenny Jiang)
DESCRIPTION:Room: Towne 225/Raisler Lounge \nFor zoom link\, contact manu@seas.upenn.edu.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/psocpenn-seminar-ning-jenny-jiang/
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211105T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211105T150000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20210816T131455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210816T131455Z
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SUMMARY:PICS Colloquium: "From atoms to emergent mechanisms with information bottleneck and diffusion probabilistic models"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The ability to rapidly learn from high-dimensional data to make reliable predictions about the future is crucial in many contexts. This could be a fly avoiding predators\, or the retina processing terabytes of data guiding complex human actions. Modern day artificial intelligence (AI) aims to mimic this fidelity and has been successful in many domains of life. It is tempting to ask if AI could also be used to understand and predict the emergent mechanisms across timescales for complex molecules with millions of atoms. In this talk I will show that certain flavors of AI can indeed help us understand generic molecular structure and dynamics\, and also predict it even in situations with arbitrary long memories. However this requires close integration of AI with old and new ideas in statistical mechanics. I will talk about such methods developed by my group (1-3) using information bottleneck\, denoising probabilistic models and long short-term memory networks\, focusing on the first one or two frameworks in interest of time. I will demonstrate the methods on different problems\, where we predict mechanisms at timescales much longer than milliseconds while keeping all-atom/femtosecond resolution. These include ligand dissociation from flexible protein/RNA and crystal nucleation with competing polymorphs. \nReferences:  \n1. Wang\, Y.\, Ribeiro\, J.M.L. & Tiwary\, P. Past–future information bottleneck for sampling molecular reaction coordinate simultaneously with thermodynamics and kinetics. Nat. Commun. 10\, 3573 (2019).  \n2. Wang\, Y.\, & Tiwary\, P. Denoising diffusion probabilistic models for replica exchange. arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.07369 (2021). \n3. Tsai\, S.T\, Kuo\, E.J. & Tiwary\, P.  Learning Molecular Dynamics with Simple Language Model built upon Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network. Nat. Commun. 11\, 5115 (2020).
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/pics-colloquium-from-atoms-to-emergent-mechanisms-with-information-bottleneck-and-diffusion-probabilistic-models/
LOCATION:Zoom – email kathom@seas.upenn.edu
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Penn Institute for Computational Science (PICS)":MAILTO:dkparks@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211105T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211105T114500
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211029T173157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211029T173157Z
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SUMMARY:GRASP on Robotics: "Event-based Neuromorphic Perception and Computation: The Future of Sensing and AI"
DESCRIPTION:*This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Wu & Chen Auditorium and Virtual attendance via Zoom Webinar here. \nThere has been significant research over the past two decades in developing new systems for spiking neural computation. The impact of neuromorphic concepts on recent developments in optical sensing\, display and artificial vision is presented. State-of-the-art image sensors suffer from severe limitations imposed by their very principle of operation. These sensors acquire the visual information as a series of ’snapshots’ recorded at discrete point in time\, hence time-quantized at a predetermined frame rate\, resulting in limited temporal resolution\, low dynamic range and a high degree of redundancy in the acquired data. Nature suggests a different approach: Biological vision systems are driven and controlled by events happening within the scene in view\, and not — like image sensors — by artificially created timing and control signals that have no relation whatsoever to the source of the visual information. Translating the frameless paradigm of biological vision to artificial imaging systems implies that control over the acquisition of visual information is no longer being imposed externally to an array of pixels but the decision making is transferred to the single pixel that handles its own information individually. It is demonstrated that bio-inspired vision systems have the potential to outperform conventional\, frame-based vision acquisition and processing systems in many application fields and to establish new benchmarks in terms of redundancy suppression/data compression\, dynamic range\, temporal resolution and power efficiency to realize advanced functionality like 3D vision\, object tracking\, motor control\, visual feedback loops and even allow us to rethink our current paradigm of computation. The ultimate goal is to develop brain-inspired general purpose computation architectures that can breach the current bottleneck introduced by the von Neumann architecture.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/grasp-on-robotics-event-based-neuromorphic-perception-and-computation-the-future-of-sensing-and-ai/
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211104T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211104T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211026T154612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T154612Z
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SUMMARY:ODEI Spotlight: Critical Race Theory and DEI: From Theory to Practice
DESCRIPTION:The African-American Resource Center & Office of Affirmative Action Presents:\n \nCritical Race Theory and DEI: From Theory to Practice \nJoin us as we examine the language switch from Critical Race Theory to Diversity Equity and Inclusion\, \nand what each term means and what DEI means and looks like at Penn. \n  \nZoom Link:  \nhttp://upenn.zoom.us/j/7443577924 \n  \nPanelists: \nBeverly A. Crawford\, Director of Diversity and Inclusion\, Department of Preventive and Restorative Sciences \nCaptain W. Nicole McCoy\, Commanding Officer of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion\, Public Safety \nMonica Monroe\, Associate Dean for Equity & Inclusion\, Carey Law School \n  \nModerator: \nValerie Dorsey Allen\, Director\, African-American Resource Center \n  \nKeynote Speaker: \nChaz L. Howard\, Penn’s Vice President for Social Equity and Community
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/odei-spotlight-critical-race-theory-and-dei-from-theory-to-practice/
LOCATION:https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96715197752
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211104T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211104T133000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211021T182847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211021T182847Z
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SUMMARY:MSE Seminar: "Lansdcapes of Glass"
DESCRIPTION:If cooled sufficiently quickly\, the disorder of a liquid can be “quenched” or locked in place; the resulting amorphous solid is glass. Although it appears to be solid on human timescales\, glass continues to creep due to thermal vibrations at the molecular scale. Consider now a pile of sand; it too is a disordered system\, but the grains are too massive for such thermal effects to be relevant. Yet\, soils in nature relentlessly creep\, on hillslopes below the angle of repose. The unchallenged dogma is that this creep is driven by churning of soil by (bio)physical disturbances. River-bed sediments also creep\, at flows below the threshold of motion\, though this has received far less attention. In this talk Dr. Jerolmack focuses on recent work from his group and others that examines the origins of granular creep in hillslope and river systems\, and the consequences of these findings for understanding actual landscapes. Our observations\, arising from first-of-their-kind experiments and simulations\, reveal surprises for both materials and geology. First\, gravity-driven granular creep occurs with minimal disturbance\, with rates and styles comparable to field observations. Second\, this creep shares deep similarities with the behavior of glass\, suggesting that mechanical disturbance in granular systems plays a role akin to thermal fluctuations in molecular systems. Third\, fluid-driven creep in rivers has similar behavior to gravity-driven soil creep on hillsides. In both cases this creep acts to “harden” the bed\, by compaction and the creation of structures that resist motion. Thus\, sediment beds maintain a memory of their history of forcing\, that dicates the threshold for landsliding (hillslopes) or entrainment (rivers). The upshot is that Earth’s landscapes appear to be glassy\, and that viewing the Earth’s surface as a soft-matter landscape yields (pun intended) new insights with practical consequences.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/mse-seminar-lansdcapes-of-glass/
LOCATION:Auditorium\, LRSM Building\, 3231 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Materials Science and Engineering":MAILTO:johnruss@seas.upenn.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211103T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211103T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211026T181426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T181426Z
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SUMMARY:Homecoming 2021: Penn Engineering Update and "Engineering living biology with nanomachines"
DESCRIPTION:This special event is part of the virtual programming for Penn Homecoming 2021 and is open to all alumni\, parents\, and friends. Nemirovsky Family Dean and Professor Vijay Kumar will give a State of the School Update including an overview of the newly established Center for Precision Engineering for Health\, which will bring together researchers spanning multiple scientific fields to develop novel therapeutic biomaterials. \nDean Kumar’s update will be followed by a presentation\, “Engineering living biology with nanomachines\,” by Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins\, Associate Professor and Dean’s Faculty Fellow in Bioengineering and Genetics\, and Marc Miskin\, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering\, with a moderated Q&A session. \nRegister here. After registration\, attendees will receive a link to view the live discussion the day prior to the event.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/penn-engineering-update/
ORGANIZER;CN="Development and Alumni Relations":MAILTO:alumni@seas.upenn.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211103T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211103T160000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211029T172434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211029T172434Z
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SUMMARY:Fall 2021 GRASP SFI: "Studying Bias and Representation in Sociotechnical Systems"
DESCRIPTION:*This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and Virtual attendance via Zoom here… \nAlgorithms play a central role in our lives today\, mediating our access to civic engagement\, social connections\, employment opportunities\, news media and more. While the sociotechnical systems deploying these algorithms—search engines\, social networking sites\, and others—have the potential to dramatically improve human life\, they also run the risk of reproducing or intensifying social inequities and tensions. In my research\, I ask whether and how these systems are biased and how those biases impact users\, towards the aim of building better ones. In this talk\, I will describe my work conducting algorithm audits and randomized controlled user experiments to study representation and bias\, touching on examples including my recent audits of gender and racial representation in image search results and partisan political media in web search. I will conclude by discussing my most recent work building tools to extend such audits into new domains and make them more accessible and sustainable for researchers.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/fall-2021-grasp-sfi-studying-bias-and-representation-in-sociotechnical-systems/
ORGANIZER;CN="General Robotics%2C Automation%2C Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab":MAILTO:grasplab@seas.upenn.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20210929T145452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210929T145452Z
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SUMMARY:ODEI Spotlight: Trauma Informed Care and LGBT Health
DESCRIPTION:Stephanie Tillman\, CNM — the Feminist Midwife — will discuss LGBT health through the lens of trauma informed care. Registration required\, more info TBA. Find full details on the event page here.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/odei-spotlight-trauma-informed-care-and-lgbt-health/
LOCATION:LGBT Center – 3907 Spruce Street\, 3907 Spruce Street\, Philadelphia\, United States
CATEGORIES:Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T163000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211018T160647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211018T160647Z
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SUMMARY:CIS Seminar: "Sketching Algorithms"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nA “sketch” is a data structure supporting some pre-specified set of queries and updates to a database while consuming space substantially (often exponentially) less than the information theoretic minimum required to store everything seen\, and thus can also be seen as some form of functional compression. A “streaming algorithm” is simply a data structure that maintains a sketch dynamically as data is updated. The advantages of sketching include less memory consumption\, faster algorithms\, and reduced bandwidth requirements in distributed computing environments. Despite decades of work in the area\, some of the most basic questions still remain open or were only resolved recently. In this talk\, I survey recent results across a variety of sketching topics.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cis-seminar-sketching-algorithms/
LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Computer and Information Science":MAILTO:cherylh@cis.upenn.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T120000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211027T131240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211027T131240Z
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SUMMARY:ESE Grace Hopper Lecture  - "A Communications Perspective on Digital Privacy"
DESCRIPTION:Many of the activities in cyberspace\, from social networking to the use of mobile apps\, leave digital footprints compromising the users’ privacy.  As digital tracking technologies become more sophisticated and pervasive\, there is a need to understand and quantify the users’ privacy risk\, that is\, what is the likelihood that users in cyberspace can be uniquely identified from their activities? \nIn this talk\, we focus on de-anonymization attacks\, where publicly and privately available information about users\, represented as connectivity graphs\, are leveraged to compromise user identities. We model the de-anonymization attack as a graph matching  problem in which  we have two correlated stochastic graphs the first of which has labeled vertices\, whereas the second one is unlabeled. The goal is to recover the labels of the second graph by using the correlation structure. We explore how graph matching can be posed as a communications problem\, and tools from information theory\, communication theory and probability can be used to derive theoretical guarantees and algorithms for graph matching\, thereby providing a framework for quantifying the privacy risk of users in the cyberspace.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/ese-grace-hopper-lecture-a-communications-perspective-on-digital-privacy/
LOCATION:Raisler Lounge (Room 225)\, Towne Building\, 220 South 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211102T113000
DTSTAMP:20260406T145444
CREATED:20211011T185515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T185515Z
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SUMMARY:MEAM Seminar: "Designing Robotic Systems with Collective Embodied Intelligence"
DESCRIPTION:Natural swarms exhibit sophisticated colony-level behaviors with remarkable scalability and error tolerance. Their evolutionary success stems from more than just intelligent individuals\, it hinges on their morphology\, their physical interactions\, and the way they shape and leverage their environment. Mound-building termites\, for instance\, are believed to use their own body as a template for construction; the resulting dirt mound serves\, among other things\, to regulate volatile pheromone cues which in turn guide further construction and colony growth. Throughout this talk I will argue how we can leverage the same principles to achieve greater performance in robot collectives\, by paying attention to the interplay between control and hardware\, as well as direct- and environmentally-mediated coordination between robots. I will exemplify the strength and challenges of this approach through cell-inspired\, soft\, single- and multi-robot systems for exploration; micro-scale robots for bio-medical applications; termite-inspired multi-robot systems for construction- and excavation; and bio-hybrid systems for agricultural monitoring.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-seminar-designing-robotic-systems-with-collective-embodied-intelligence/
LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu
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