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CIS Seminar: “Exams with More Learning and Less Stress with a Computer-Based Testing Facility”
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Berger Auditorium (Room 13), Skirkanich Hall
210 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
In this talk, I'll share (1) research on the benefits of frequent testing and "second-chance testing" (optional exam re-takes) on increased student learning and decreased test anxiety, (2) research on patterns of cheating on unproctored online assessments, and (3) how we've reduced the instructor workload at Illinois to implement frequent testing through our Computer-Based Testing […]
CIS Seminar: “Exams with More Learning and Less Stress with a Computer-Based Testing Facility”
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Berger Auditorium (Room 13), Skirkanich Hall
210 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Exams are an important tool for summative assessment, whose utility has only grown with the advent of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, because they can be implemented in a trustworthy manner. But exams are generally not well liked by either students or faculty. Students find them stressful. For faculty (and their course staff), they […]
Fall 2025 GRASP on Robotics: Neville Hogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Sensory-motor control in humans and robots”
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Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall
3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
This event will be in-person ONLY in Wu and Chen Auditorium. ABSTRACT Despite recent advances, humans are still more agile and dexterous than robots; yet human communication (nerves) and actuation (muscles) are slower and our musculo-skeletal system is more complex. This presentation will consider features of neuro-mechanics that may confer advantage. However, they also impose limitations. […]
Homecoming 2025: Penn Engineering Faculty Lightning Talks
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Amy Gutmann Hall, Auditorium
3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Step back into the classroom with Penn Engineering! Join us for a series of TED Talk-style Lightning Talks featuring some of our most popular professors as they share their latest groundbreaking research. "Fragility and Resilience of the Soft Earth" Doug Jerolmack Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor of Earth and Environmental Science […]
PICS Colloquium: Influence of particle size distribution on random close packing with Eric Weeks
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PICS Conference Room 534 - A Wing , 5th Floor
3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
The volume fraction phi for random close packed (RCP) spheres is approximately 0.64. It is well known that higher RCP volume fractions are achieved by using collections of particles with a variety of sizes. The variety of sizes is often quantified by the polydispersity of the particle size distribution: the standard deviation of the radius […]
Building a Sustainable Future: Empowering the Next Generation.
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Amy Gutmann Hall, Auditorium
3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
ESE Guest Seminar – “Challenges and Opportunities in Radio Frequency Power Conversion for Semiconductor Plasma Applications”
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CTA
Radio frequency (RF) plasma technology is essential in modern semiconductor fabrication, enabling precise processes such as etching and deposition. As the industry advances toward increasingly complex three-dimensional structures and smaller nanoscale features, the demands on plasma-based processing continue to grow. Meeting these demands requires a new generation of RF power conversion and control systems that […]
ESE Ph.D. Seminar: “Temporal Knockoffs: Variable selection for time-varying systems with e-processes”
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Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building
220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
One of the primary goals of ‘explainable AI’ is the identification of a small subset of explanatory variables in an attempt to understand interesting phenomena. The Markov blanket constitutes one such subset, essential for tasks involving causal interpretation, prediction, and robustness. In medical imaging, identifying such variables is particularly important for achieving generalization across sites […]
FOLDS SEMINAR: The Hidden Width of Deep ResNets
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Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414
3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States
Zoom link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/6130182858 We present a mathematical framework to analyze the training dynamics of deep ResNets that rigorously captures practical architectures (including Transformers) trained from standard random initializations. Our approach combines stochastic approximation of ODEs with propagation-of-chaos arguments to obtain tight convergence rates to the “infinite size” limit of the dynamics. It yields the […]
MEAM Seminar: “Bioelastic State Recovery for Haptic Sensory Substitution”
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Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall
3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
The rich set of mechanoreceptors found in human skin offers a versatile engineering interface for transmitting information and eliciting perceptions, potentially serving a broad range of applications in patient care and other important industries. Targeted multisensory engagement of these afferent units, however, faces persistent challenges, especially for wearable, programmable systems that need to operate adaptively […]