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  • February 2025

  • Tuesday Feb 18

    ESE Spring Seminar – “AI as a Lens: Expanding Vision for Scientific Discovery”

    February 18, 2025 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Conventional approaches to scientific discovery often prioritize building larger sensors, gathering more data, and scaling up computational power. In this talk, I will present a complementary perspective: extracting insights hidden […]

    Tuesday Feb 18

    CIS Seminar: “Efficient Probabilistically Checkable Proofs from High-Dimensional Expanders”

    February 18, 2025 @ 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM /
    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

    The PCP theorem, proved in the 90’s, shows how to encode a proof for any theorem into a format where the theorem's correctness can be verified by making only a […]

    Wednesday Feb 19

    MEAM Seminar: “Real-Time Safe and Energy-Efficient UAV Motion Planning in Windy Urban Environments”

    February 19, 2025 @ 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM /
    Towne 319 220 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, United States

    Recent advancements in hardware and software are bringing autonomous aerial vehicles closer than ever to finally delivering on futuristic visions of flying cars and package delivery drones. However, the safe […]

    Wednesday Feb 19

    ASSET Seminar: “Demystifying the Inner Workings of Language Models”

    February 19, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM /
    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

    Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) power a rapidly-growing and increasingly impactful suite of AI technologies. However, due to their scale and complexity, we lack a fundamental scientific understanding of much […]

    Wednesday Feb 19

    Spring 2025 GRASP SFI: Qinghua Liu, Microsoft Research, “When Is Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning Not Scary?”

    February 19, 2025 @ 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 Partial observability is ubiquitous in Reinforcement Learning (RL) applications, where agents must […]

    Wednesday Feb 19

    CBE & BE Seminar: “Targeting the Brain and Behavior to Probe the Dynamics of Aging” (Claire Bedbrook, Stanford University)

    February 19, 2025 @ 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM /
    Wu & Chen Auditorium

    Bio & Abstract: Claire Bedbrook is an engineer and neuroscientist working to extend lifespan by modulating the brain. Claire was trained in chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. […]

    Thursday Feb 20

    ESE Spring Seminar – “Quantum Simulation of Electronic Materials with a Superconducting Qubit Array”

    February 20, 2025 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Arrays of coupled superconducting qubits are a compelling platform for analog quantum simulations of solid-state matter and many-body physics. These devices natively emulate the Bose-Hubbard model while offering a high […]

    Thursday Feb 20

    IDEAS/STAT Optimization Seminar: “Theoretical foundations for multi-agent learning”

    February 20, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM /
    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

    As learning algorithms become increasingly capable of acting autonomously, it is important to better understand the behavior that results from their interactions. For example, a pervasive challenge in multi-agent learning […]

    Thursday Feb 20

    CIS Seminar: “Learning Theoretic Foundations for Modern (Data) Science”

    February 20, 2025 @ 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM /
    Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    In this talk, I will explain how fundamental problems in computational learning theory are at the heart of modern problems in machine learning and scientific applications and how algorithmic insights […]

    Friday Feb 21

    GRASP Industry Talk: Honda Research Institute, “Working with Imperfect Prediction on Autonomous Vehicles”

    February 21, 2025 @ 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. This seminar will NOT be recorded. ABSTRACT State of the art prediction […]

    Friday Feb 21

    PICS Colloquium: Unraveling Internal Friction in a Coarse-Grained Protein Model

    February 21, 2025 @ 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM /
    PICS Conference Room 534 - A Wing , 5th Floor 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Understanding the dynamic behavior of complex biomolecules requires simplified models that not only make computations feasible but also reveal fundamental mechanisms. Coarse-graining (CG) achieves this by grouping atoms into beads, […]

    Monday Feb 24

    MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Leveraging Impedance-Related Properties for Free Self-Sensing in Actuators for Compact Robots”

    February 24, 2025 @ 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM /
    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Robotic systems, particularly at small scales, require efficient actuation and sensing solutions that maintain compactness. We are interested in systems where sensing and actuation are seamlessly integrated, specifically using impedance-related […]

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