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    • Fall 2023 GRASP SFI: Jim Fan, NVIDIA AI, “Generalist Agents in Open-Ended Worlds”

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    Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Autonomous agents have made great strides in specialist domains like Atari games and Go. However, they typically learn tabula rasa in isolated environments with limited objectives, thus failing to generalize across a wide spectrum of tasks and capabilities. […]

    CBE Seminar: “Improving the Sustainability of Solvent-Borne Paints and Coatings through Fundamental Studies of Polymerization Reactions” (Soroush, Drexel University)

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    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    The global market size of paints and coatings (P&C) was US$164 Billion in 2022 and is forecast to grow to US$241Billion by 2030. A fast-growing sector in the P&C industries is acrylics. P&C should contain a solvent in order to be brushable/sprayable. However, in the case of solvent-borne P&C, their improved sustainability requires decreasing their […]

    BE Doctoral Dissertation: “Batch effect detection and harmonization methods for quantitative features extracted from medical images” (Hannah Horng)

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    Class of 62 Auditorium, John Morgan Building 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA

    The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania along with Drs. Despina Kontos and Taki Shinohara proudly announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Hannah Horng.   Title: Batch effect detection and harmonization methods for quantitative features extracted from medical images Date: September 15, 2023 Time: 10:30am Location: John Morgan Building - Class of '62 Auditorium.   Zoom […]

    Fall 2023 GRASP Seminar: GRASP Research Overview – Day 2

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    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    GRASP Lab faculty confirmed presentations (where appropriate their presenters)… *This is a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Wu & Chen Auditorium and virtual attendance via Zoom. Dr. Ani Hsieh (Welcome and Introduction) Dr. Jean Gallier Dr. Michelle Johnson (presented by Francis Sowande) Dr. Vijay Kumar (presented by Jake Welde) Dr. Lingjie Liu Dr. Nik […]

    Engineering Faculty Teaching Forum: “Being Accessible to Students while Preserving Your Time”

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    Towne 108 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Finding time to support and mentor students can be challenging. Drs. Lee Bassett and Jennifer Lukes will start this informal conversation by sharing ideas for promoting positive relationships with students while maintaining boundaries to preserve our time. We will consider ways to use office hours efficiently, as well as ways to leverage technology to simplify […]

    PICS Colloquium: “The Virtual Pregnancy: Using Computational Models to Probe Human Reproduction”

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    PICS Conference Room 534 - A Wing , 5th Floor 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

      Preterm birth affects approximately ten percent of pregnancies and rates of maternal mortality in the US are rising. Computational investigations of pregnancy have great potential to explore fundamental aspects of reproductive physiology that are otherwise difficult or even impossible to investigate in humans. There are few-to-no good animal models of human pregnancy, and the […]

    MEAM Seminar: “Insect Respiratory Biomechanics and Insect-inspired Microfluidics”

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    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Insect respiration is characterized by the rapid transport of respiratory gases within the organism and efficient exchange with the external environment. This unique system is comprised of a network of tracheal tubes that directly supply oxygen to the cells throughout the body, eliminating the need for blood as an intermediate oxygen carrier. The remarkable diversity […]

    MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Multi-Scale Probing of Colloidal Sedimentation Dynamics in Active Suspensions”

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    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Microorganisms, although challenging to observe, are ubiquitous in both natural ecosystems and industries. They inhabit diverse environments: natural ones ranging from small river tributaries and lakes to oceans, as well as in industrial settings, like wastewater treatment plants and food manufacturing. In these diverse contexts, microorganisms coexist with settling particles, a process heavily influenced by […]

    ASSET Seminar: “The Road to Explainable AI v2.0” (Eric Wong, Penn)

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    Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    ABSTRACT: "A.I. has an explainability crisis"---Fortune Magazine. If you ask an ML researcher about explainability, you'll find that there are a large number of interpretability methods with no clear consensus on what to use. In fact, it isn't clear what many of these explanations even mean, let alone how they can be used. I will […]

    CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Molecular Mechanisms of Spatiotemporal Gene Control in Early Embryonic Development”

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    Towne 225

    Development of a newly fertilized embryo is a dynamic, complex, and highly coordinated process that requires precise genetic regulation and control. As the embryo develops, DNA regulatory elements known as enhancers drive gene expression patterns in specific regions of an organism at a particular time. Mis-regulation of gene expression due to mutations in enhancers can […]

    Fall 2023 GRASP SFI: David Lentink, University of Groningen, “Avian Inspired Design”

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    Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. This week's speaker will be virtual.  ABSTRACT My lab focusses on understanding every aspect of bird flight to improve flying robots—because birds fly further, longer, and more reliable in complex visual and wind environments. I use a multidisciplinary lens […]

    CBE Seminar: “Facile Synthesis of Polymeric Nanomaterials via Chemical Vapor Deposition Techniques” (Yang, Cornell)

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    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Polymer is often considered one of the most prevalent materials in the modern age. While it has been predominantly synthesized in solution and processed into a variety of macroscopic sizes and shapes, the need for programmability in materials’ microscopic properties has challenged the traditional synthesis approaches. Recent advances in vacuum-based synthesis technologies, such as the […]