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  • November 2023

  • Friday Nov 3

    Fall 2023 GRASP on Robotics: Julie Shah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Effective Human-Machine Partnerships in High Stakes Settings”

    November 3, 2023 @ 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This is a HYRBID event with a VIRTUAL SPEAKER. The GRASP on Robotics Seminar will be streamed for in-person attendees in Wu and Chen and virtual attendees may join the […]

    Friday Nov 3

    PICS Colloquium: “Micro-organism Locomotion in Viscoelastic Fluids”

    November 3, 2023 @ 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM /
    PICS Conference Room 534 - A Wing , 5th Floor 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Many microorganisms and cells function in complex (non-Newtonian) fluids, which are mixtures of different materials that exhibit both viscous and elastic stresses. For example, mammalian sperm swim through cervical mucus […]

    Tuesday Nov 7

    MEAM Seminar: “Advancing the Versatility of Legged Robots and Assistive Devices”

    November 7, 2023 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Recent years have witnessed tremendous growth in the capabilities of legged robots, with quadrupeds and humanoids demonstrating athletic behaviors that even five years ago were out of reach. Likewise, actively […]

    Tuesday Nov 7

    BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Physiologically Induced High Gaussian Curvature Drives Nuclear Lamina Rupture and Cytoskeletal Displacement—Contributing to Downstream Dysfunction” (Michael Tobin)

    November 7, 2023 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Dennis Discher are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Michael Tobin. Title: Physiologically Induced High Gaussian Curvature Drives […]

    Tuesday Nov 7

    BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Reversing Engineering the Anesthetic State: Insights from Behavior and CNS Circuit Cracking” (Andrzej Wasilczuk)

    November 7, 2023 @ 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM /
    Jordan Medical Education Center, Room 505EW 3400 Civic Center Blvd

    The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Max Kelz are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Andrzej Wasilczuk Reversing Engineering the Anesthetic State: Insights […]

    Wednesday Nov 8

    ASSET Seminar: “The Future of Algorithm Auditing is Sociotechnical” (Danaë Metaxa, Penn)

    November 8, 2023 @ 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM /
    Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    ABSTRACT:  Algorithm audits are powerful tools for studying black-box systems without direct knowledge of those systems’ inner workings. While they have been effectively deployed to identify harms and biases in […]

    Wednesday Nov 8

    Fall 2023 GRASP SFI: Margaret Coad, University of Notre Dame, “Soft and Continuum Robots for Unstructured Environments”

    November 8, 2023 @ 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM /
    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 Soft and continuum robots have immense potential to assist humans with tasks that […]

    Thursday Nov 9

    ESE Fall Seminar – “Approximate symmetries in machine learning”

    November 9, 2023 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    In this talk, we explain different roles that symmetries and approximate symmetries can play in machine learning models. We define approximately equivariant graph neural networks and we show a bias-variance […]

    Thursday Nov 9

    BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Mapping variable host gene expression states to viral infection” (Sam Reffsin)

    November 9, 2023 @ 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM /
    Smilow Center for Translational Research in SCTR 11-146AB

    The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Arjun Raj are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Sam Reffsin. Title: Mapping variable host gene expression […]

    Thursday Nov 9

    CIS Seminar: “Intrinsic images, lighting and relighting without any labelling”

    November 9, 2023 @ 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Intrinsic images are maps of surface properties. A classical problem is to recover an intrinsic image, typically a map of surface lightness, from an image.   The topic has mostly […]

    Thursday Nov 9

    CIS Seminar: “Intrinsic images, lighting and relighting without any labeling”

    November 9, 2023 @ 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    I will show the results of simple experiments that suggest that very good modern depth and normal predictors are strongly sensitive to lighting – if you relight a scene in […]

    Friday Nov 10

    PRECISE Seminar: Evaluation and calibration of AI models with uncertain ground truth

    November 10, 2023 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM /
    https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96715197752

    For safety, AI systems in health undergo thorough evaluations before deployment, validating their predictions against a ground truth that is assumed certain. However, this is actually not the case and […]

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