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Fall 2023 GRASP on Robotics: Stefano Soatto, AWS & UCLA, “Toward Foundational Models of Physical Scenes: From Large Language Models to World Models and Back”
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Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall
3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Now that a significant fraction of human knowledge has been shared through […]

BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Reproducible, generalizable, and scalable analytic software for large neuroimaging datasets” (Chenying Zhao)
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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 and Dr. Theodore D. Satterthwaite are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Chenying Zhao. Title: Reproducible, generalizable, and scalable analytic […]

ESE Fall Seminar – “Agile Design of Domain-Specific Accelerators and Compilers”
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Zoom - Meeting ID 990 7434 6805
With the slowing of Moore's law, computer architects have turned to domain-specific hardware accelerators to improve the performance and efficiency of computing systems. However, programming these systems entails significant modifications […]

ASSET Seminar: “Getting Computers to Do What We Want: Programming Meets Machine Learning” (Michael Littman, Brown University)
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Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building
220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
ABSTRACT: It is immensely empowering to delegate information processing and automation work to machines and have them carry out difficult tasks on our behalf. But programming computers is hard. The […]

BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Leveraging Modeling and Remodeling based Bone Formation in Cyclic Administration of Anabolic Agents for Osteoporosis Treatment” (Tala Azar)
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JMB Reunion Auditorium
3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA, United States
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. X. Sherry Liu are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Tala Azar. Title: Leveraging Modeling and Remodeling based […]

Fall 2023 GRASP SFI: Andy Zeng, Google DeepMind, “From words to actions”
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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 The rise of recent Foundation models (and applications e.g. ChatGPT) offer an exciting […]

CBE Seminar: “Statistical Teleodynamics: A Unified Theory of Emergent Arbitrage Equilibrium Phenomena in Active and Passive Matter” (Venkatasubramanian, Columbia University)
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Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall
3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
The physics of active matter, such as bacterial colonies and bird flocks, exhibiting interesting self-organizing dynamical behavior has gained considerable importance in recent years. Recent theoretical advances use techniques from […]

MSE Seminar: “Nanomaterials Enable Delivery of Genetic Material Without Transgene Integration in Mature Plants” University of California – Berkeley
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Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall
3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Genetic engineering of plants is at the core of sustainability efforts, natural product synthesis, and agricultural crop engineering. The plant cell wall is a barrier that limits the ease and […]

BE Seminar: “Synthetic mucins: from new chemical routes to engineered cells” (Jessica R. Kramer, University of Utah)
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216 Moore Building
Mucus is essential for life and serves as a barrier to hydrate, lubricate, and protect tissues. Mucin glycoproteins are the major component of mucus. There are 20+ mucin genes with […]

ASSET/IBI Symposium on Trustworthy AI for Health Care
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Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology
3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Organizers: Rajeev Alur (Penn Engineering), John Holmes (PSOM), Insup Lee (Penn Engineering), Qi Long (PSOM), Marylyn Richie (PSOM) Event Description: Artificial intelligence and machine learning promise to revolutionize nearly every field, […]

MSE PhD Defense: “Highly Controlled Transition Metal and Transition Metal Oxide Nanocrystals for Enhanced Catalytic and Magnetic Properties” Daniel Rosen
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LRSM Reading Room
3231 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA, United States
This work presents the precise synthesis, characterization, and property analysis of transition metal and transition metal oxide nanocrystals (NCs). Specifically, the interface between catalytic and magnetic properties is explored using […]
