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    • AI + Science Seminar

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    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

    Extracting Knowledge Priors from Scientific Texts for De Novo Molecular Design This talk will explore a large-scale effort to exploit the natural-language understanding capabilities of large language models in order to unlock information about the structure, function, and biological activity for proteins, small molecules, genetic variants, and other biological entities of interest. Register Now

    ASSET Seminar: “AIRFoundry: AI for RNA Discovery and Synthesis”

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    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

    Virtually everyone today is aware of the mRNA vaccine for COVID, which saved many lives and earned the Nobel Prize for Drs. Drew Weissman and Katalin Kariko. The vaccine consisted not only of mRNA that coded for the COVID spike protein, but a protective lipid nanoparticle envelope that carried the RNA to cells in the […]

    2025 Venture Lab Expo

    Entrepreneurship Expo 2025

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    On Wednesday, August 27, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM ET, Venture Lab is hosting the 2025 Entrepreneurship Expo, a one-stop experience for students to explore co-curricular programs, discover entrepreneurship clubs, and learn how to take the next step in their entrepreneurial journey. From students who are curious about innovation to those actively launching ventures, […]

    CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Silica Nanoparticle-Based Platform for Rare Earth Element Recovery and Separation” (Ivy Dai)

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    Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology, Room 121 231 S 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract: Rare earth elements (REEs) are essential for clean energy technologies including batteries for electrical vehicles, wind turbines and LED screens due to their unique magnetic, optical, and electronic properties. Efficient methods for their recovery and separation are urgently needed to meet the growing demands of a rapidly evolving green economy worldwide. However, current separation […]

    • MEAM Seminar: “Harnessing Living Bacteria, Fungi, and Plants as Functional Materials”

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

    For decades materials engineers have been inspired by biology to create improved properties, for example nacre-inspired hierarchical structures to improve toughness, tree-inspired vasculature to deliver fluids that can react and heal an interface, and mussel-inspired strong underwater adhesives utilizing cation-pi interactions. Now, the bioengineering toolset has reached a maturity where we can start to employ […]

    Penn AI Seminar Series: Geometric and Physics Stucture Preservation in Scientific Machine Learning

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    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

    Geometric and Physics Stucture Preservation in Scientific Machine Learning Nat Trask, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at Penn Engineering, will share about his work constructing real-time digital twins built upon a data-driven finite element exterior calculus; constructing auto-regressive integrators with guaranteed long-term stability independent of rollout length; and constructing data-driven particle models […]

    ASSET Seminar: “Provable vs Impossible Trust: Reasoning, Steering, and Safety”

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    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

    Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss a collection of highlights from our recent work in trustworthy AI. (1) Certifying reasoning explanations with reliability guarantees and aligning with expert knowledge, (2) Simple yet effective steering inspired from theoretical rule-following mechanisms for transformers, and (3) The impossibility of monitoring stateless attackers and what safety defenses should […]

    CBE Seminar: “Water–Hydrophobe Interfaces: From Debunking Myths to Boosting Global Food–Water–Climate Resilience” (Himanshu Mishra, KAUST)

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    Wu & Chen Auditorium

    Abstract: First, I will outline our work on overcoming barriers to desert rehabilitation for urban greening, landscaping, and regional food security. In arid regions, freshwater is scarce, sandy soils lose water and fertilizers rapidly, which stifles plant growth. Our team has developed two complementary solutions: (i) Superhydrophobic Sand (SHS)1 — a plastic-free, bio-inspired mulch that […]

    FOLDS Seminar: Positive random walks and positive-semidefinite random matrices

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    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 306 3317 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    On the real line, a random walk that can only move in the positive direction is very unlikely to remain close to its starting point. After a fixed number of steps, the left tail has a Gaussian profile, under minimal assumptions. Remarkably, the same phenomenon occurs when we consider a positive random walk on the […]

    BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Aoife O’Farrell

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    The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Arjun Raj are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Aoife O'Farrell. Title: Stimulus Specificity of Trained Immune Memory in Human Macrophages Advisor: Dr. Arjun Raj Date and Time: Thursday, September 4th at 2:00 PM Location: Smilow 12-146AB Zoom Link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/94438324577 The public is welcome to attend.

    BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Michael Yao

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    The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Drs. Osbert Bastani and James Gee are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Michael Yao. Title: Distributionally Robust Machine Intelligence Advisors: Osbert Bastani, PhD and James Gee, PhD Date & Time: Friday, September 5th at 11am Location: Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 (3317 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104) RSVP […]

    Future Proof Your Research With Rigor

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    Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall 3417 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    What’s the best way to avoid paper retractions and irreproducible results? Conduct rigorous research. Join us for a public talk with Ivan Oransky, Co-Founder of Retraction Watch, Anita Anita Bandrowski, founder of The Research Resource Identification Initiative (RRID), and Jason Williams, Assisant Director of the DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, on doing science […]