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SUMMARY:Rigorous and Glamorous in 100 Words or Less: An Abstract Workshop
DESCRIPTION:It’s hard to write an abstract. It’s harder to write a glamorous one that tells your story without overselling your results. Community for Rigor is here to help! \nJoin Professor Konrad Kording for a rigorous abstract writing workshop on March 20th\, 2024. Together\, let’s lovingly glam up abstracts from the Community and make the most of 100 words. \nRSVP to join us Wednesday\, March 20th\, 2024\, 12:00pm-1:30pm EST. 
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/rigorous-and-glamorous-in-100-words-or-less-an-abstract-workshop/
LOCATION:rsvp for zoom link
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Doctoral,Graduate,Student,Postdoctoral,Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Community for Rigor":MAILTO:c4r@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T150000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240226T150104Z
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SUMMARY:BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: "Ionizable lipid nanoparticles for in utero gene editing of congenital disease" (Rohan Palanki)
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Drs. Michael J. Mitchell and William H. Peranteau are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Rohan Palanki. \nTitle: Ionizable lipid nanoparticles for in utero gene editing of congenital disease \nDate: March 20th\, 2024 \nTime: (1PM-3 PM) \nLocation: Law Auditorium\, Smilow Center for Translational Research (5th Floor) \nThe public is welcome to attend.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/be-doctoral-dissertation-defense-ionizable-lipid-nanoparticles-for-in-utero-gene-editing-of-congenital-disease-rohan-palanki/
LOCATION:Smilow Center Auditorium\, 3400 Civic Center Blvd\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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:20240320T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240226T145209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240226T145209Z
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SUMMARY:BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: "Nanofluidic Isolation and Quantification of Specific Extracellular Vesicles and Machine Learning Analysis to Aid Clinical Decision-Making" (Hanfei Shen)
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. David Issadore are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Hanfei Shen.\n\nTitle: Nanofluidic Isolation and Quantification of Specific Extracellular Vesicles and Machine Learning Analysis to Aid Clinical Decision-Making\n\nDate: Wednesday\, March 20\, 2024\nTime: 1:30pm-3:30pm\nLocation: Towne 337\n\nThe public is welcome to attend.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/be-doctoral-dissertation-defense-nanofluidic-isolation-and-quantification-of-specific-extracellular-vesicles-and-machine-learning-analysis-to-aid-clinical-decision-making-hanfei-shen/
LOCATION:Towne 337
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:20240320T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240229T201027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240229T201027Z
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SUMMARY:BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: "Tissue Engineered Cortical-Hippocampal Neural Networks for Pharmacological Investigations" (Victor Acero)
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. D. Kacy Cullen are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Victor Acero.\nTitle: Tissue Engineered Cortical-Hippocampal Neural Networks for Pharmacological Investigations\nDate: March 20\, 2024\nTime: 2:00 PM\nLocation: John Morgan Building Class of 62 Auditorium\n\nZoom option: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/5112542338\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe public is welcome to attend.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/be-doctoral-dissertation-defense-tissue-engineered-cortical-hippocampal-neural-networks-for-pharmacological-investigations/
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240306T163700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240306T163700Z
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SUMMARY:Spring 2024 GRASP SFI:  Eugene Vinitsky\, New York University and Apple\, "Real-world reinforcement learning in multi-agent systems: deploying cooperative autonomy at scale"
DESCRIPTION:This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. \nABSTRACT\nThe ever-increasing penetration of level-2 autonomous vehicles (AVs) offers an opportunity to reshape the energy efficiency and throughput of our highways. Even at current low penetration rates (1-5%)\, we have observed in small settings that adopting different driving behaviors from humans can sharply decrease fuel consumption by eliminating ubiquitous stop-and-go waves from traffic. We examined this idea at scale\, showing that we can use reinforcement learning to design AV behaviors that operate cooperatively to smooth traffic in large\, realistic simulators. We performed a large-scale road test\, the first of its kind\, in which we deployed a hundred of these cruise controllers onto a highway to show traffic smoothing at scale. Finally\, we discuss ongoing efforts to benchmark and test autonomous vehicles by building fast simulators populated by RL agents modeling human behaviors.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/spring-2024-grasp-sfi-eugene-vinitsky/
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:20240321T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T000000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240129T193148Z
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SUMMARY:This Seminar is currently Postponed. MSE Seminar: "Tuning Nanostructured Materials for Combustion Applications"
DESCRIPTION:Metals powders like aluminum and boron are attractive potential fuel additives for pyrotechnics\, propellants and explosives due to their high energy release upon oxidation. However\, they tend to agglomerate\, have lengthy ignition delays\, and low combustion rates/efficiencies. This work aims to design metal powders with tuned surface\, micro-structure\, morphology\, or chemistries to mitigate these challenges and favor the formation of desired products and high energy release; without jeopardizing thermochemical performance\, safety\, and stability. One approach used is to incorporate elements (like Fe) that can act as oxygen shuttle catalysts for surface reactions or to introduce elements to form exothermic intermetallic products (like Zr). Ball-milling allows a simple one pot technique to incorporate these elements to form metastable nanocomposite powders with lower ignition thresholds and improved combustion efficiencies. Novel experimental and diagnostic tools like x-ray phase contrast imaging (XPCI) and snapshot hyper-spectral imager for emissions and reactions (SHEAR) have been coupled to capture condensed phase/internal particle features and external optical emissions\, temperatures\, and gas phase species from combustion reactions\, respectively. Machine learning is also used to obtain quantitative data: identify trends\, detect anomalies\, and classify particle events from the videos produced of combustion scenes. Results show that surface modification to boron reduces ignition delays and doping boron with as low as 1wt% Fe improves surface reaction rates in air. Other additives like Bi and Co also help to change boron’s oxidation mechanism. For aluminum\, powders can be modified by emulsion assisted milling to produce spheres of various sizes by changing the milling parameter space with process control agents like acetonitrile and hexane\, and the addition of Zr can accelerate combustion in thermite formulations and allow Al powders to burn in multiple phases with improved combustion efficiencies.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/mse-seminar-tuning-nanostructured-materials-for-combustion-applications/
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="Materials Science and Engineering":MAILTO:johnruss@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T113000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240318T194158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240318T194158Z
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SUMMARY:MEAM Seminar: "Surfactants\, Colloids\, and Electrolytes: Engineering Transport Phenomena for Energy and the Environment"
DESCRIPTION:Fluid flows and mass transport mediate countless natural and engineered processes\, ranging from the spreading of pollutants to carbon capture and water cleaning. In this talk\, I will share three examples of my research where fundamental ideas in transport phenomena are applied to inform technologies with direct impact on energy and the environment. First\, I will discuss surfactants\, chemicals that preferentially adsorb to interfaces between fluids and critically affect their motion. My work has revealed that these substances play a central role in the engineering of coatings aimed at reducing the drag of marine vessels\, resulting in the discovery of a physicochemical lengthscale capable of predicting the effectiveness of a given coating. I will also demonstrate how the spontaneous migration of solid particles in chemical gradients — an effect known as diffusiophoresis— can be used to filter microplastics from water without a membrane. I will present results quantifying the efficiency of this separation process\, which is a key step towards novel water remediation technologies with enhanced energy and cost efficiency. Finally\, I will describe how fluid flows\, driven solely by natural evaporation\, can dramatically boost the concentration of electrolytes in porous materials. I will illustrate the physics of this process and how it can be leveraged for the extraction of minerals key to the energy transition\, such as lithium\, from natural brines.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-seminar-surfactants-colloids-and-electrolytes-engineering-transport-phenomena-for-energy-and-the-environment/
LOCATION:Glandt Forum\, Singh Center for Nanotechnology\, 3205 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240108T172513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T172513Z
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SUMMARY:BE Seminar: "Synthetic and Chemical Biology Routes to Unveiling Host-Pathogen Dialogue" (Aerin Yang\, Stanford)
DESCRIPTION:Disease processes within the human body are shaped by the dynamic interplay between\ninvading pathogens and the host’s defense mechanisms. The intricate molecular\ninteraction involves continuous modifications of both host and pathogen proteins\, driven\nby posttranslational modifications (PTMs) and coevolutionary mutations\, to finely regulate\ntheir interactions with binding partners. In this talk\, I will elucidate my research efforts\naimed at unraveling these complex molecular interactions through the integration of\nchemical and synthetic biology approaches. Firstly\, I will delve into my work about\nchemical biology pathways for site-specific protein modification\, advancing our\nunderstanding of PTM biology. Next\, I will describe the recently invented “library-on-\nlibrary” approaches designed to co-evolve protein-protein interactions (PPIs). This\ntechnique addresses a pivotal challenge in understanding crucial PPIs in immunology\,\nincluding those within host-pathogen interfaces.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/be-seminar-aerin-yang-stanford/
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240321T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240312T183019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240312T183019Z
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SUMMARY:CIS Seminar: "Building Planetary-Scale Collaborative Intelligence"
DESCRIPTION:Today\, access to high-quality data has become the key bottleneck to deploying Machine Learning (ML). Often\, data that is most valuable is locked away in inaccessible silos due to unfavorable incentives and ethical-legal restrictions. This is starkly evident in healthcare\, where such barriers have led to highly biased and underperforming tools. \nIn my talk\, we will dive into my collaborations with public health organizations facing such issues\, and see how collaborative systems (such as federated learning) prove a natural solution. Collaborative learning can remove barriers to data sharing by respecting the privacy and interests of the data providers. Yet\, for these systems to truly succeed\, we must confront three fundamental challenges. These systems need to i) be efficient and scale to large networks\, ii) provide reliable and trustworthy training and predictions\, and iii) manage the divergent goals and interests of the participants. We discuss how tools from optimization\, statistics\, and economics can be leveraged to address these challenges.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/10961/
LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Computer and Information Science":MAILTO:cherylh@cis.upenn.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T110000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240226T151803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240226T151803Z
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SUMMARY:BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: "Decoding the tumor microenvironment to engineer the next generation of CAR T cells" (Puneeth Guruprasad)
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Marco Ruella are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Puneeth Guruprasad.\n \n\nTitle: Decoding the tumor microenvironment to engineer the next generation of CAR T cells\nDate: Friday\, March 22nd\nTime: 10:00-11:00 AM\nLocation: Smilow Translational Research Center\, Arthur H. Rubenstein Auditorium (1st Floor)\n \nZoom Link:  \nhttps://pennmedicine.zoom.us/j/92190459355?pwd=Qkw2OTJpNHhXSkRqU08xTndFWVFoUT09\n \nMeeting ID: 921 9045 9355\n\n\n\nPasscode: 871647 \n\nThe public is welcome to attend.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/be-doctoral-dissertation-defense-decoding-the-tumor-microenvironment-to-engineer-the-next-generation-of-car-t-cells-puneeth-guruprasad/
LOCATION:Rubenstein Audtorium\, Smilow Center for Translational Research
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:20240322T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T113000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240301T194932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240301T194932Z
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SUMMARY:MEAM Seminar: "Controlling Fracture Behavior through Architecture"
DESCRIPTION:Many natural materials achieve excellent combinations of mechanical properties through their micro- and nano-scale structures\, which leverage a level of complexity currently unmatched in engineering design. Recent advances in digital manufacturing have enabled the introduction of these fine-scale architectures to improve the mechanical properties of materials\, but their complexity still lags far behind that of natural materials. In particular\, the potential of these structures to create materials with enhanced fracture resistance has remained limited\, primarily due to a narrow design focus on simple\, repetitive structures optimized for idealized elastic-brittle materials. Improving the damage-tolerance of materials is critical to the mechanical performance of structures and interfaces\, as cracks and defects often lead to failure at far-field loads that are significantly lower than the theoretical strength of the system. In this talk\, we demonstrate how leveraging disordered structures and considering material behavior beyond the elastic limit can significantly enhance the fracture resistance of architected interfaces. Specifically\, we examine three key aspects influencing the failure of architected interfaces: the effects of plasticity\, the advantages of disordered structures\, and the impacts of stochastic material failure. Through a combination of mechanics frameworks\, computational modeling\, and experimental mechanics including full-field analyses using digital image correlation and photoelasticity\, we demonstrate that properly designed architectures lead to tunable and enhanced fracture resistance. These architectures enlarge the region of damage around the crack tip\, delocalizing stresses and increasing the resistance to crack propagation\, while also revealing novel properties such as the decoupling of toughness and strength.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-seminar-controlling-fracture-behavior-through-architecture/
LOCATION:Levine 307\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T114500
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240315T201115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240315T201115Z
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SUMMARY:Spring 2024 GRASP on Robotics: GRASP Faculty Panel\, "AI Embodied in Robotics"
DESCRIPTION:This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. \nPANEL DISCUSSION\nPlease join us for a lively panel discussion featuring GRASP Faculty members Dr. Pratik Chaudhari\, Dr. Dinesh Jayaraman\, and Dr. Michael Posa. This panel will be moderated by Dr. Kostas Daniilidis around the current hot topic of AI Embodied in Robotics.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/spring-2024-grasp-on-robotics-grasp-faculty-panel-ai-embodied-in-robotics/
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:20240322T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240307T160336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240307T160336Z
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SUMMARY:BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: "Sculpting native and de novo tissue geometries for kidney organogenesis and nephron formation" (John Viola)
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Alex Hughes are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of John Viola.\n\nTitle: Sculpting native and de novo tissue geometries for kidney organogenesis and nephron formation\n\nDate: March 22\, 2024\nTime: 1:30 PM\nLocation: Glandt Forum at the Singh Center\n\nThe public is welcome to attend.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/be-doctoral-dissertation-defense-sculpting-native-and-de-novo-tissue-geometries-for-kidney-organogenesis-and-nephron-formation-john-viola/
LOCATION:Glandt Forum\, Singh Center for Nanotechnology\, 3205 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Doctoral,Graduate,Student,Dissertation or Thesis Defense
ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:be@seas.upenn.edu
END:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240313T143544Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240313T143544Z
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SUMMARY:CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: "A Fractal Landscape Dynamics Approach to Understanding Particle Motion in Soft Jammed Materials" (Clary Rodríguez-Cruz)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \n\n\n\nSoft jammed materials are disordered viscoelastic solids\, composed of densely packed particles\, that are commonly found both in the natural world and in a wide range of manufactured products. Their applications are widespread across various industries and technologies\, including food\, pharmaceuticals\, agriculture and cosmetics. Understanding the fundamental physics and mathematics behind their highly complex particle motion and distinct response to external stress is essential for their improved design and stability\, as well as the development of new materials with unique mechanical properties. Further\, it is crucial for the development of theoretical models that better describe the complex interactions and dynamics of these materials. This thesis is centered around the observation that soft jammed materials exhibit fractal landscape dynamics\, where the particles’ motion is not merely random but follows patterns influenced by the system’s underlying fractal energy landscape. Through experimental observations\, theoretical models\, and numerical simulations of ripening dense emulsions and foams\, this work reveals two major findings. First\, it demonstrates the numerical relationships between energy landscape geometry\, microscopic particle dynamics\, and macroscopic rheology through a novel high-dimensional approach. Second\, it introduces a simplistic random walk model that generates fractal paths with specified dimensions\, successfully reflecting the complex individual particle dynamics in a ripening foam after fitting to the data. This finding affirms the presence of fractal landscape dynamics as an explanation for behaviors such as non-Gaussian particle displacements\, intermittent rearrangement events\, and power-law rheology. Further exploration within this work extends the high-dimensional analysis framework to the dynamics of stock market prices\, drawing an intriguing parallel between the motion of individual stocks and emulsion droplets. Lastly\, the machine-learning metric of $\lq$softness’ is explored as a method to predict particle rearrangements in a ripening foam\, showing that simply a particle’s number of neighbors achieves a surprisingly high prediction accuracy. This thesis not only enhances our understanding of soft jammed materials but also opens new avenues for applying fractal landscape dynamics across different materials and research fields.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZoom Link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/94077696014?pwd=Q3hLYXBkZGVhdlloZ3oyM2NReXZyZz09\nMeeting ID: 940 7769 6014\, Passcode: 794659
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cbe-doctoral-dissertation-defense-a-fractal-landscape-dynamics-approach-to-understanding-particle-motion-in-soft-jammed-materials-clary-rodriguez-cruz/
LOCATION:217 Towne – Forman Active Learning Classroom\, 220 South 33rd Street\, Towne 217\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Doctoral,Student,Dissertation or Thesis Defense
ORGANIZER;CN="Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering":MAILTO:cbemail@seas.upenn.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240325T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240325T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240207T191337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240207T191337Z
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SUMMARY:ESE Spring Seminar - "Catch M(oor)e If You Can: Agile Hardware/Software Co-Design for Hyperscale Cloud Systems"
DESCRIPTION:Global reliance on cloud services\, powered by transformative technologies like generative AI\, machine learning\, and big-data analytics\, is driving exponential growth in demand for hyperscale cloud compute infrastructure. Meanwhile\, the breakdown of classical hardware scaling (e.g.\, Moore’s Law) is hampering growth in compute supply. Building domain-specific hardware can address this supply-demand gap\, but catching up with exponential demand requires developing new hardware rapidly and with confidence that performance/efficiency gains will compound in the context of a complete system. These are challenging tasks given the status quo in hardware design\, even before accounting for the immense scale of cloud systems. \nThis talk will focus on two themes of my work: (1) Developing radical new agile\, end-to-end hardware/software co-design tools that challenge the status quo in hardware design for systems of all scales and unlock the ability to innovate on new hardware at datacenter scale. (2) Leveraging these tools and insights from hyperscale datacenter fleet profiling to architect and implement state-of-the-art domain-specific hardware that addresses key efficiency challenges in hyperscale cloud systems. \nI will first cover my work creating the award-winning and widely used FireSim FPGA-accelerated hardware simulation platform\, which provides unprecedented hardware/software co-design capabilities. FireSim automatically constructs high-performance\, cycle-exact\, scale-out simulations of novel hardware designs derived from the tapeout-friendly RTL code that describes them\, empowering hardware designers and domain experts alike to directly iterate on new hardware designs in hours rather than years. FireSim also unlocks innovation in datacenter hardware with the unparalleled ability to scale to massive\, distributed simulations of thousand-node networked datacenter clusters with specialized server designs and complete control over the datacenter architecture. I will then briefly cover my work co-creating the also widely used Chipyard platform for agile construction\, simulation (including FireSim)\, and tape-out of specialized RISC-V System-on-Chip (SoC) designs using a novel\, RTL-generator-driven approach. \nNext\, I will discuss my work in collaboration with Google on Hyperscale SoC\, a cloud-optimized server chip built\, evaluated\, and taped-out with FireSim and Chipyard. Hyperscale SoC includes my work on several novel domain-specific accelerators (DSAs) for expensive but foundational operations in hyperscale servers\, including (de)serialization\, (de)compression\, and more. Hyperscale SoC demonstrates a new paradigm of data-driven\, end-to-end hardware/software co-design\, combining key insights from profiling Google’s world-wide datacenter fleet with the ability to rapidly build and evaluate novel hardware designs in FireSim/Chipyard. This instance of Hyperscale SoC is just the beginning; I will conclude by covering the wide-ranging opportunities that can now be explored for radically redesigning next generation hyperscale cloud datacenters.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/ese-spring-seminar-tbd-9/
LOCATION:Glandt Forum\, Singh Center for Nanotechnology\, 3205 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T113000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240119T164138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240119T164138Z
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SUMMARY:MEAM Seminar: "3D Modeling of the Intervertebral Disc: Direct Relationships Between Tissue Composition and Model Parameters"
DESCRIPTION:Finite element models provide a valuable tool for studying disease progression\, risk of tissue failure\, or repair strategies. To date\, many models for biological tissues employ hyperelastic material descriptions with material properties that have no direct physical interpretation. This seminar will focus on development\, validation\, and application of a multi-scale structure-based model developed for the intervertebral disc. \nThe disc is a fiber-reinforced composite structure. Model development was initiated by calibrating model parameters to mechanical behavior at the sub-tissue scale. Fiber bundles and non-fibrous material were modeled as separate materials using triphasic mixture theory\, allowing for direct physical interpretation of the material properties. The resulting parameters were used to create tissue- and joint-level models of the disc and the model-predicted mechanical behavior was compared to experimental data in the literature for model validation. Lastly\, the model was uses to assess the impact of complex loading on the relative risk of tissue failure. Specifically\, the model was used to predict the risk of disc herniation. Findings from this work highlight significant challenges in replicating clinically relevant disc herniation using commonly applied experimental techniques.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-seminar-3d-modeling-of-the-intervertebral-disc-direct-relationships-between-tissue-composition-and-model-parameters/
LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240321T133443Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240321T133443Z
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SUMMARY:ESE Spring Seminar - "Advancing the Endless Frontier- Opportunities to Engage on Basic Research at the DoD"
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Defense (DoD)’s Basic Research Office (BRO) sets scientific priorities aimed toward ensuring DoD is a leader in scientific discovery and identifying new paths for investigation. The office is responsible for oversight and management of DoD’s ~$2.9 B basic research investment in high risk\, high pay-off research and manages programs including the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship\, MURI\, Minerva\, and pilot programs such as the Newton Award. In this presentation\, Dr. Nair\, the DoD’s Director of Basic Research will discuss the BRO approach to basic research\, which includes the use-inspired questions on fundamental processes\, but also true ‘blue sky’ science with no application in mind. After presenting the BRO framework for supporting basic research\, Dr. Nair will discuss intriguing developments and future directions for funding at BRO.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/ese-spring-seminar-advancing-the-endless-frontier-opportunities-to-engage-on-basic-research-at-the-dod/
LOCATION:Greenberg Lounge (Room 114)\, Skirkanich Hall\, 210 South 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240318T183501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240318T183501Z
UID:10007905-1711467000-1711470600@seasevents.nmsdev7.com
SUMMARY:CIS Seminar: " Empowering Large Language Models with Efficient and Automated Systems"
DESCRIPTION:Large Language Models (LLMs) have brought remarkable advancements to the computing industry. However\, a high barrier exists between the LLMs and the vast majority of researchers and practitioners\, brought by the engineering challenges with the enormous model sizes and the substantial compute requirements. In this talk\, I’ll discuss my research on system innovations to democratize LLMs\, which includes (1) Alpa and AlpaServe\, the first system to automate model-parallel training and accelerate serving with model parallelism\, and (2) vLLM\, a high-throughput and memory-efficient serving engine for large language models\, accelerated with PagedAttention. I will conclude by presenting the short-term research challenges and long-term trends in LLM systems.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cis-seminar-empowering-large-language-models-with-efficient-and-automated-systems/
LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Computer and Information Science":MAILTO:cherylh@cis.upenn.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240220T185833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T185833Z
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SUMMARY:CIS Seminar: "Practical Machine Learning for Networked Systems"
DESCRIPTION:The growing complexity and heterogeneity of networked systems have spurred a plethora of machine learning (ML) solutions\, each promising a tantalizing improvement in performance. However\, their path to real-world adoption is fraught with obstacles due to concerns from system operators about ML’s generalization\, transparency\, robustness\, and efficiency. \nMy research takes a holistic approach to enabling practical ML for networked systems: 1) building open research platforms to lay the foundation for ML-based algorithms; 2) complementing ML with classical techniques (e.g.\, time-tested heuristics\, control algorithms\, or optimization methods) for enhanced deployability; and 3) validating ML-augmented methods through extensive empirical evidence gathered from real users or production systems. In this talk\, I will demonstrate this research approach using three studies: Puffer/Fugu learns to adapt video bitrate in situ on a live streaming service we developed (with over 280\,000 users to date)\, Autothrottle learns to assist resource management for cloud microservices\, and Teal learns to accelerate traffic engineering on wide-area networks. Finally\, I will conclude by outlining my research agenda for further pushing the boundaries of practical ML in networked systems.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cis-seminar-practical-machine-learning-for-networked-systems/
LOCATION:Raisler Lounge (Room 225)\, Towne Building\, 220 South 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Computer and Information Science":MAILTO:cherylh@cis.upenn.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240314T162404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240314T162404Z
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SUMMARY:Spring 2024 GRASP SFI: Eric Jang\, 1X Technologies\, "Data Engines for Humanoid Robots"
DESCRIPTION:This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom.  \nABSTRACT\n1X’s mission is to create an abundant supply of physical labor through androids that work alongside humans. I will share some of the progress 1X has been making towards general-purpose mobile manipulation. We have scaled up the number of tasks our androids can do by combining an end-to-end learning strategy with a no-code system to add new robotic capabilities. Our Android Operations team trains their own models on the data they gather themselves\, producing an extremely high-quality “farm-to-table” dataset that can be used to learn extremely capable behaviors. I’ll also share an early preview of the progress we’ve been making towards a generalist “World Model” for humanoid robots.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/spring-2024-grasp-sfi-eric-jang/
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T113000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240315T205552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240315T205552Z
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SUMMARY:MEAM Seminar: "Physics and Engineering of Moisture-Capturing Hydrogels for Freshwater and Heat Harvesting"
DESCRIPTION:Humidity in the air is a vast water and energy resource available in any location. Air in the atmosphere contains six times more freshwater than that of all rivers and lakes. This moisture also carries over a thousand times more power than the global electricity demand. For over two centuries\, numerous water sorbent materials have attempted to harness these resources. However\, their performance\, scalability\, and durability have severely limited their potential. In this talk\, I will discuss the material-level to application-level development of hydrogel-salt composites that capture record amounts of water from the air with low-cost (<$0.1/kg of material) and high durability. \nI first developed physics-based models elucidating the key thermodynamic interactions and transport mechanisms in hydrogel-salt composites. Through comprehensive synthesis and characterization\, I demonstrated that these models accurately predict the key sorption performance metrics (uptake\, enthalpy\, and kinetics) of hydrogel-salt composites from their composition. I then used these insights to 1) synthesize hydrogels with the highest capability ever demonstrated of any material to capture and store water from the air (~2 kg of water/kg of material)\, even in arid conditions (30% relative humidity)\, 2) design and demonstrate a device capable of producing >1 L/m2/day of water from humidity\, and 3) develop a heat exchanger that converts moisture capture into heat. Beyond performance\, I studied the hydrogel degradation mechanisms\, probing an unexplored\, yet critical parameter. Specifically\, by preventing metal ion-mediated hydrogel degradation\, I demonstrated >8-month material durability\, exceeding previous state-of-the-art works and providing a path towards <$0.01/L water production from the air. \nMy rational\, physics-based development of hydrogel-salt composites represents a significant step towards the utilization of ambient moisture and its energy for a wide range of applications. These results also open exciting scientific opportunities for leveraging the unconventional transport properties of hydrogels to address grand humanity challenges in the water-food-energy nexus.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-seminar-physics-and-engineering-of-moisture-capturing-hydrogels-for-freshwater-and-heat-harvesting/
LOCATION:Towne 319\, 220 S. 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240312T202318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240312T202318Z
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SUMMARY:CIs Seminar: "Privacy-Preserving Systems for a Data-Driven World"
DESCRIPTION:The potential of data to transform science and society has spurred unparalleled efforts to collect it in increasingly sensitive and granular forms\, which has raised a variety of societal concerns about how this data is handled and used. Though today\, at-rest and in-transit encryption are standard practices\, these alone are insufficient to address the security and privacy needs of emerging complex data-driven applications in inherently privacy-sensitive domains. Moreover\, these applications frequently require sharing and disclosing data for legitimate reasons. Nonetheless\, prevailing data-sharing practices in these systems often disregard privacy considerations\, leading to numerous instances of data misuse and abuse. \nIn the past few decades\, cryptographers have developed an array of theoretical techniques that\, in principle\, could address the security and privacy needs of these applications\, including secure computation and privacy-enhancing techniques. The increasing urgency in addressing security and privacy concerns within these complex environments has generated a growing demand for the transition of these theoretical techniques into practice. While these techniques promise to enhance privacy and security for sensitive data\, realizing their full potential in practice remains a challenging task. \n  \nIn this talk\, I will present my work on developing systems and abstractions that simplify the use of advanced cryptographic techniques for enhancing data privacy\, making them accessible to a broader audience and feasible to apply in complex settings. Additionally\, I will discuss my work on bringing the advantages of these techniques to challenging and resource-constrained environments. Throughout the talk\, I will discuss the prevalent challenges of efficiency\, functionality\, and accessibility in this research area\, my approach to addressing these challenges\, and future directions that will help bring cryptography and privacy tools to a broader range of applications.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cis-seminar-privacy-preserving-systems-for-a-data-driven-world/
LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Computer and Information Science":MAILTO:cherylh@cis.upenn.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T114500
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20231220T152929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231220T152929Z
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SUMMARY:Spring 2024 GRASP on Robotics: Zac Manchester\, Carnegie Mellon University\, "Composable Optimization for Robotic Motion Planning and Control"
DESCRIPTION:This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. \nABSTRACT\nContact interactions are pervasive in real-world robotics tasks like manipulation and walking. However\, the non-smooth dynamics associated with impacts and friction remain challenging to model\, and motion planning and control algorithms that can fluently and efficiently reason about contact remain elusive. In this talk\, I will share recent work from my research group that takes an “optimization-first” approach to these challenges: collision detection\, physics\, motion planning\, state estimation\, and control are all posed as constrained optimization problems.  We then build a set of algorithmic and numerical tools that allow us to flexibly compose these optimization sub-problems to solve complex robotics tasks involving discontinuous\, unplanned\, and uncertain contact mechanics.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/spring-2024-grasp-on-robotics-zac-manchester-carnegie-mellon-university-composable-optimization-for-robotic-motion-planning-and-control/
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:20240329T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240301T203327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240301T203327Z
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SUMMARY:2024 Celebration of Diversity
DESCRIPTION:The Office of Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion is hosting another Celebration of Diversity gala.\n\nThe gathering is intended to showcase students\, staff\, and faculty from Penn Engineering in their cultural richness and heterogeneity. The event will consist of guest speakers\, special performances\, presentations from student affinity groups\, and a variety of cuisines for all to enjoy in the final hour. The bulk of the programming will take place in Wu & Chen before moving to Levine Lobby and Quain Courtyard (weather permitting) for a 5pm Penn Lions performance\, closing statements\, and food.\n\nWe hope to see you there!
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/celebration-of-diversity-2/
LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty,Doctoral,Graduate,Student,Master's,Postdoctoral,Undergraduate,Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,Staff
ORGANIZER;CN="Office of Diversity%2C Equity and Inclusion":MAILTO:odei@seas.upenn.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240402T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240402T113000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240322T175702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240322T175702Z
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SUMMARY:Tedori-Callinan Distinguished Lecture: "Origami"
DESCRIPTION:We study the geometric mechanics of origami assemblages and investigate how geometry affects behavior and properties. Understanding origami from a structural standpoint allows for conceptualizing and designing feasible applications across scales and disciplines of engineering. We review the basic mathematical rules of origami and use 3D-printed origami legos to illustrate those concepts. We then present a reduced-order-model\, which consists of an improved bar-and-hinge model\, to simulate origami assemblages. We explore the stiffness of tubular origami and kirigami structures based on the Miura-ori folding pattern. A unique orientation for zipper coupling of rigidly foldable origami tubes substantially increases stiffness in higher order modes and permits only one flexible motion through which the structure can deploy. We couple compatible origami tubes into a variety of cellular assemblages that enhances mechanical characteristics and geometric versatility\, leading to the design of structures and configurational metamaterials that can be deployed\, stiffened\, and tuned. We have designed\, fabricated (using DLW\, direct laser writing)\, and tested (in-situ SEM) this metamaterial at the micron-scale. This resulted not only in the smallest scale origami assembly\, but also in a metamaterial with intriguing mechanical properties\, such as anisotropy\, reversible auxeticity\, and large degree of shape recoverability. The presentation concludes with a vision toward the field of origami engineering\, including origami robots with distributed actuation\, allowing for on-the-fly programmability\, and other interdisciplinary applications.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/tedori-callinan-distinguished-lecture-origami/
LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Lecture
ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240402T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240402T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240223T172250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240223T172250Z
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SUMMARY:ESE Spring Seminar - "Developing next-generation wireless\, bioelectronic cellular medicine"
DESCRIPTION:Recent advances in engineering science have led to new classes of medical devices with emergent mechanical\, electrical\, and thermal properties that offer new opportunities for interfacing with living cells. I will discuss conceptual advances in microfabrication\, device physics\, power transfer and microscale transport phenomena that enable novel biosensors and cell delivery systems\, with an emphasis on two recent examples from my work: (i) Soft\, skin-interfacing wearable flow sensors for novel neurosurgical diagnostics; (ii) Battery-free bioelectronic systems for “living drug factories” that combine inorganic device elements with living cells for long-term\, functional cures for a range of diseases with an emphasis on oxygenation strategies and immune-isolation. I will illustrate the utility of the latter platform with examples of specific cell and disease models. Finally\, I will present a vision for how these types of technologies could lead to both fundamental scientific discoveries and next generation bioelectronic cell therapy platforms for the treatment and sensing of chronic disease.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/ese-spring-seminar-developing-next-generation-wireless-bioelectronic-cellular-medicine/
LOCATION:Raisler Lounge (Room 225)\, Towne Building\, 220 South 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240402T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240402T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240220T194100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T194100Z
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SUMMARY:CIS/IDEAS Seminar: "Flow matching and optimal transport with applications to cell trajectories and protein design"
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: \nFlow matching models learn a (possibly stochastic) mapping between source and target distributions. Common paradigms include diffusion models\, score matching models\, and continuous normalizing flows. In this talk I will first present methods for improved training of flow matching models using ideas from optimal transport. I will then show how these improved methods can be applied to the tasks of (1) modeling  cell dynamics\, which allow us to better understand disease programs – leading to a new potential therapeutic pathway for triple-negative breast cancer and (2) generative protein design\, with applications to biologic drug discovery. \n  \nZOOM LINK: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/94916924500
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cis-ideas-seminar-alexander-tong-mila-quebec-ai-institute-universite-de-montreal/
LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T133000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240220T194210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240220T194210Z
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SUMMARY:ASSET Seminar: "Building a Foundation for Trustworthy Machine Learning" (Elan Rosenfeld\, Carnegie Mellon University)
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: \n\n\nArtificial Intelligence is being increasingly relied on in safety-critical domains. But the predictive models underlying these systems are notoriously brittle\, and trustworthy deployment remains a significant challenge. In this talk\, I give an overview of my work towards a rigorous foundation for robust machine learning (ML).\n\n\nUsing a case study of invariant prediction\, we first highlight the importance of formally specifying the space of adverse events we’d like to handle at deployment time. This provides a mathematical framework for analyzing\, comparing\, and improving the robustness of ML algorithms. Then\, we explore how careful experimental probing of these methods’ failures leads to a deeper understanding of the underlying causes\, and how these insights can inform the design of new methods with more reliable real-world behavior. We conclude with a brief summary of other past and ongoing works towards provably secure ML\, including a scalable framework which enables certified robustness to adversarial train- and test-time attacks. \n\nZOOM LINK (if unable to attend in-person): https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95678270617
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/asset-seminar-elan-rosenfeld-carnegie-mellon-university/
LOCATION:Raisler Lounge (Room 225)\, Towne Building\, 220 South 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240308T161940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240308T161940Z
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SUMMARY:Spring 2024 GRASP SFI: Madhur Behl\, University of Virginia\, "Bringing AI Up To Speed"
DESCRIPTION:This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. \nABSTRACT\nWhy has autonomous driving\, a task demanding significant intelligence\, not met the high expectations set by many? Which hurdles have turned out to be more formidable than expected\, and how can we refine our testing methodologies for autonomous vehicles (AVs) to address these problems more efficiently? In this talk\, I will discuss the targeted research initiatives we have engaged in to overcome these challenges. Leveraging more than a decade of experience from high-speed autonomous racing\, particularly with the full-scale Cavalier Autonomous Racing Indy car and the F1Tenth platform\, I will demonstrate how racing at speeds exceeding 150 mph (240 kmph) while in close quarters with other vehicles presents unique robotics challenges and offers deep insights into the limits of perception\, multi-agent prediction and planning\, dynamics modeling\, and control. I will recount our journey from algorithms to accelerations\, the rigorous engineering required to develop an autonomous racing car from scratch\, and how this fast moving field is becoming accessible to researchers and professionals alike. Despite progress\, autonomous racing has yet to match expert racing drivers’ skills or navigate the chaos of dense\, multi-car racing in the real world; indicating that several more laps are needed on our journey towards artificial general “driving” intelligence.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/spring-2024-grasp-sfi-madhur-behl/
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T034318
CREATED:20240116T181810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240116T181810Z
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SUMMARY:CBE Seminar: "Dynamics and Reactivity of Supported Catalysts in the Subnanometer Regime" (Ayman Karim\, Virginia Tech)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nSupported noble metal catalysts are extensively used in industry and their catalytic performance is strongly affected by particle size and shape. In the last decade\, supported single atoms and subnanometer clusters have attracted a lot of interest since they maximize the metal utilization and have shown extraordinary catalytic properties for many reactions. In this talk\, I will present my group’s work using detailed kinetics\, in-situ and in-operando infrared and x-ray absorption spectroscopies to understand the dynamics\, both structural and ligand\, of supported metal single atoms and small clusters which result in complex reaction mechanisms. The differences between supported single atoms\, small clusters and extended metal surfaces as well as their potential advantages and limitations will be discussed.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cbe-seminar-dynamics-and-reactivity-of-supported-catalysts-in-the-subnanometer-regime-ayman-karim-virginia-tech/
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
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