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  • September 2024

  • Friday Sep 20

    PICS Colloquium: Motion-based rules and solitary waves: ameloblasts and birds

    September 20, 2024 @ 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM /
    PICS Conference Room 534 - A Wing , 5th Floor 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Information is usually expected to propagate across a population of active agents such as living cells or birds in a diffusive manner. Yet waviness in the microstructure of dental enamel […]

    Monday Sep 23

    ESE Fall Seminar – “Beyond the Exit of the Device Miniaturization Tunnel”

    September 23, 2024 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    For the past fifty years, researchers of semiconductor technology have felt like walking inside a tunnel. There was a single path forward – two-dimensional down-scaling of device sizes, also referred […]

    Tuesday Sep 24

    MEAM Seminar: “Controlling Adhesion and Friction of Soft Interfaces by Meso-Scale Structures”

    September 24, 2024 @ 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Discoveries of unique adhesive and frictional properties in biological attachment systems have, over the past two decades, demonstrated how near-surface architecture at lengths between the molecular (a few nm) and […]

    Tuesday Sep 24

    ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Design and control of dynamical systems: a classical to quantum perspective”

    September 24, 2024 @ 2:00 PM /
    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    The design and control of dynamical systems have long been core objectives of engineering. In this thesis, we tackle the complexities of design and control across paradigms ranging from Boolean […]

    Tuesday Sep 24

    CIS Seminar: “Machine learning for discovery: deciphering RNA splicing logic”

    September 24, 2024 @ 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Recent advances in machine learning such as deep learning have led to powerful tools for modeling complex data with high predictive accuracy. However, the resulting models are typically black box, […]

    Wednesday Sep 25

    ESE Fall Seminar – “Power to the People (and to the Datacenters)! Achieving the dream of a clean and reliable electricity supply”

    September 25, 2024 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Towne 327

    Most of us think of electricity as a clean and reliable source of energy, which flows out of the plug whenever we need it. The reality is far more complex. […]

    Wednesday Sep 25

    ASSET Seminar: “Robustness in the Era of LLMs: Jailbreaking Attacks and Defenses”

    September 25, 2024 @ 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM /
    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract: Despite efforts to align large language models (LLMs) with human intentions, popular LLMs such as chatGPT, Llama, Claude, and Gemini are susceptible to jailbreaking attacks, wherein an adversary fools a targeted LLM into […]

    Wednesday Sep 25

    Fall 2024 GRASP SFI: Baxi Chong, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Mechanical intelligence in locomotion: from information theory to mesoscale robots”

    September 25, 2024 @ 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM /
    Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Locomotion in complex environments (e.g., rubble, leaf litter, granular media) is essential […]

    Wednesday Sep 25

    BRITTON CHANCE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE (CBE): “Next-generation Cancer Therapeutics Guided by Structural, Mechanistic, and Biophysical Properties” (Jennifer Cochran, Stanford University)

    September 25, 2024 @ 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Bio & Abstract: Jennifer Cochran is the Macovski Professor of Bioengineering and Senior Associate Vice Provost for Research at Stanford University. Prof. Cochran was recruited in 2005 as one of […]

    Thursday Sep 26

    MSE Seminar: “Opportunities in Whispering-Gallery Microresonators: Fundamentals and Applications”

    September 26, 2024 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Light-matter interactions form the fundamental basis for numerous phenomena and processes in optical devices. This talk will cover ultra-high-quality (Q) whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) optical microresonators which have an unprecedented capability to […]

    Friday Sep 27

    PICS Colloquium: Combining High-Throughput Workflows, Quantum Chemistry, and AI for the Discovery of Tunable Materials with Unprecedented Properties

    September 27, 2024 @ 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM /
    PICS Conference Room 534 - A Wing , 5th Floor 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    The solutions to many of society’s most pressing problems rely on the discovery of materials with unprecedented physical and chemical properties that are tailored to an application of interest. Typically, […]

    Monday Sep 30

    MSE Thesis Defense: “Imaginary-Index-Driven Programmable Integrated Photonics for Optical Computing and Networking”

    September 30, 2024 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Zoom

    Photonics serves as the backbone of modern information infrastructure, transmitting and processing data at unparalleled speeds with minimal energy consumption by harnessing the inherent parallelism, high-frequency operation, and expansive bandwidths. In the […]

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