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CIS Seminar: “Reliable and Socially Aligned LLMs: Are We There Yet?”
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Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall
3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Large language models (LLMs) are powerful but not yet reliable: they hallucinate, misalign with human values, and struggle with social reasoning. In this talk, I will trace a path from […]

ASSET Seminar: “Robust and Uncertainty-Aware Decision Making under Distribution Shifts”
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Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414
3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States
Abstract TBD Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/92346171614

Fall 2025 GRASP SFI: Tianjiao Ding, University of Pennsylvania, “Learning Parsimonious Representations for Efficient Analysis and Synthesis”
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Levine 307
3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
This presenter is one of the winners of the 2025 GRASP vote for internal PhD or postdoc SFI Speakers! This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 […]

CBE Seminar: “Using NMR to Probe Functionality at Electrochemical Interfaces in Beyond Lithium Batteries” (Lauren Marbella, Columbia University)
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Wu & Chen Auditorium
Abstract: Beyond lithium-ion batteries, like sodium and potassium, are more abundant in the Earth’s crust and alleviate geopolitical concerns surrounding the materials inside of lithium-based batteries. However, both sodium and […]

The Penn AI Symposium: Global Ideas Shaping Humanity
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Jon M. Huntsman Hall
3730 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
The inaugural Penn AI Symposium is a landmark event that gathers leading thinkers who will share their explorations at the frontiers of artificial intelligence. The symposium is hosted by Penn AI, […]

Climate Week at Penn
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Now in its sixth year, Climate Week at Penn offers opportunities for every member of the Penn community to learn about and act on the climate crisis. The theme for […]

ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Safeguarding AI Systems Against Unexpected Inputs”
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Greenberg Lounge (Room 114), Skirkanich Hall
210 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Artificial intelligence systems powered by deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success across a broad range of applications. However, perturbations such as natural image corruptions or crafted malicious queries, can […]

MEAM Seminar: “Fluids, Fingers, Fractures and Fractals: Patterns in Porous Media”
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Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall
3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
The displacement of one fluid by another in a porous medium gives rise to a rich variety of hydrodynamic instabilities. Beyond their scientific value as fascinating models of pattern formation, […]

ESE Guest Seminar: “Post-Moore Datacenters Are Hot Beyond Belief”
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Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 306
3317 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Datacenters are the pillars of a digital economy and modern-day global IT services. The building blocks for today's datacenters are cost-effective volume servers that find their roots in the basic […]

ASSET Seminar: “Auditing Large Language Model Ecosystems: From Model Outputs to Agentic System Deployment”
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Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414
3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States
Abstract TBD Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/97546234895

Fall 2025 GRASP SFI: Rao Fu, Brown University, “From Words to Worlds: Bridging Linguistic and Spatial Physical Intelligence”
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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 via Zoom. ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence has achieved remarkable advances in linguistic intelligence, enabling machines to process […]
