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    • ESE Fall Colloquium Seminar – “2D Materials, from Academia to Industry”

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    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Semiconductor sales will reach over $500 billion worldwide in 2021, a gigantic industry that keeps on growing with increasing demand for faster, more powerful, and smaller chips. However, as we keep scaling, the silicon (Si) transistor will soon reach its physical limit, and there is a pressing need to find an alternative post-Si material to […]

    CIS 189 Guest Lecture: “Optimization in Practice”

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    Towne 307 220 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract: Discrete optimization plays a critical role in solving various resource allocation problems within the industry. In this talk, we study problems from the two extremes of the optimization landscape; operational decision-making in real-time and resource provisioning for future considerations. Motivated by real-world business requirements ranging from load balancing in heterogeneous environments to privacy concerns […]

    Fall 2021 GRASP SFI: “Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Engineered-Systems Design”

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    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 via Zoom here… Our research employs artificial intelligence techniques that seek to automate the main time/cost drivers of engineered-systems design. The features of a system inform the form, function and behavior of the resulting concept that can be subsequently created […]

    ESE Fall Colloquium Seminar – ” Beyond Curve-Fitting: What’s next for deep learning in biomedical imaging?”

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    Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Over the last 5-10 years, deep learning has transformed biomedical imaging, from enhancing acquisition to maximizing downstream utility of scans. My research group has been at the forefront of this revolution, developing novel methods that have laid the foundation for next-generation tools. As I will describe in my talk, much of this progress relies on […]

    MSE Seminar: “Local to Meso-scale Order in Electronic Ceramics Characterized by Aberration -Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy”

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    Auditorium, LRSM Building 3231 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    The ability to design the composition and microstructure of electronic ceramics for emerging technological applications requires sophisticated characterization techniques that can provide quantitative information about local structure and chemistry. Such structure quantification is particularly important to the fundamental understanding of properties in many important non-linear dielectrics, where chemical heterogeneities associated with dopants or intrinsic lattice […]

    Snack Break with ODEI and EngiQueers

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    Lobby and Mezzanine, Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Levine Lobby 11/11 from 1pm-3pm ODEI and EngiQueers are collaborating to host a grab and go snack break, that showcases prominent LGBTQ+ individuals in STEM throughout history. Come grab a snack, and get a fact about a queer individual who played an integral role in the advancement of the STEM field and industry. While learning […]

    GRASP on Robotics: “Approaches to Grounded Language Acquisition from Human Interaction”

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    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 for Dr. Matuszek’s in-person talk in Wu & Chen Auditorium and Virtual attendance via Zoom Webinar here.  As robots move from labs and factories into human-centric spaces, it becomes progressively harder to predetermine the environments and interactions they will need to be able to handle. Letting […]

    PICS Colloquium: “Molecular organization in biology: What can computer simulations teach us?”

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    PICS Conference Room 534 - A Wing , 5th Floor 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract: The formation of membraneless organelles (MLOs) via phase separation of proteins and nucleic acids has emerged as an essential process with which cells can maintain spatiotemporal control. Despite enormous progress in understanding the role of MLOs in biological function in the last ten years or so, the molecular details of the underlying phenomena are […]

    MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Flying Modular Robots: From Self-Assembling Structures in Midair to Embedding Grasping Capabilities”

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    Zoom - Email MEAM for Link peterlit@seas.upenn.edu

    Flying modular robots offer a suitable autonomous platform for multiple applications such as: search and rescue, cargo lifting, and object transportation. In addition, modular robots in a swarm can use their own bodies as building units to assemble large structures. This thesis introduces ModQuad, the self-assembly structure that can cooperatively fly based on autonomous modules. […]

    ESE 2021 Jack Keil Wolf Lecture – “MEMS: the Transition from “Four-Letter-Word” to “Trendy””

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    Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Thirty years ago, semiconductor manufacturers (wafer fabs) rolled their eyes and muttered under their breath when they heard the word MEMS.  Micro-Electromechanical Mechanical Systems are minute mechanical devices built on silicon integrated circuit wafers.  They are the microphones, gravity sensors, oscillators, motion sensors, electronic filters in your cell-phone – and more.  MEMS processes were “weird”.   […]