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ASSET Seminar: “On Testing Properties of High-Dimensional Distributions” (Erik Waingarten, Penn)
BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: ““Development of magnetic nanopore-based extracellular vesicle subpopulation sorting for the multimodal diagnosis and prognosis of neurological disease and cancer” (Andrew Lin)
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Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building
220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. David Issadore are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Andrew Lin. Title: “Development of magnetic nanopore-based extracellular vesicle […]
CBE Seminar: “Engineering Electrochemical Reactions for Sustainable Chemical Manufacturing” (Modestino, NYU)
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Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall
3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
The chemical industry produces more than 70,000 products (1.2 billion tons in total) via thermal processes powered by fossil fuel combustion, accounting for ~5% of the US energy utilization and […]
MSE Seminar: Working Safely in the Lab: Navigating Common Laboratory Hazards in MSE Research
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Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall
3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
EHRS Sr. Lab Safety Specialist Gwenn Allen will discuss how to work safely in the lab while navigating the changing landscape of materials science and engineering research. Her talk will […]
BE Seminar: “Engineering the immune response at the molecular level” (Jamie Spangler, Johns Hopkins U.)
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216 Moore Building
The repertoire of naturally occurring proteins is finite and many molecules induce multiple confounding effects, limiting their efficacy as therapeutics. Recently, there has been a growing interest in redesigning existing […]
Fall 2023 GRASP Seminar: GRASP Research Overview – Day 1
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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 on Zoom. Dr. Mark Yim […]
MEAM Seminar: “Viscoelastic Biopolymer Networks Model Fibrotic Niches”
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Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall
3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Fibrosis and remodeling of extracellular matrix are involved in many diseases, such as tumors, wound healing, and chronic inflammation. During fibrosis, tissues undergo changes in their viscoelastic properties, i.e., how […]
ESE Fall Seminar – “Josephson parametric amplifiers for rapid, high-fidelity measurement of solid-state qubits”
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Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology
3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Quantum physics puts a limit on how small the noise added by an amplifier can be. Limiting this extra noise, which causes unavoidable signal degradation, is an essential requirement for […]
ASSET Seminar: “Efficient and Targeted COVID-19 Border Testing Via Reinforcement Learning” (Hamsa Bastani, Penn)
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Levine 307
3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
ABSTRACT: Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, countries relied on a variety of ad-hoc border control protocols to allow for non-essential travel while safeguarding public health: from quarantining all travellers to restricting […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]