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  • October 2023

  • Tuesday Oct 17

    CIS Seminar: “Reliable Quantum Computing Needs Intelligent Software and Hardware”

    October 17, 2023 @ 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Quantum computers can solve important problems that are beyond the capability of conventional computers. Quantum computing is at an inflection point where small systems with a few tens qubits have […]

    Wednesday Oct 18

    Engineering Faculty Teaching Forum: “Awake & Engaged: Making Lectures More Interactive”

    October 18, 2023 @ 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM /
    Towne 108 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Lectures can be a useful method for communicating complex information but are most effective when students are engaged with and focused on the material. Drs. Igor Bargatin and Amish Patel […]

    Wednesday Oct 18

    ASSET Seminar: “Lifelong Learning for Autonomous Systems: Progress and Challenges” (Eric Eaton, Penn)

    October 18, 2023 @ 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM /
    Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    ABSTRACT:  Research in lifelong or continual machine learning has advanced rapidly over the past few years, primarily focusing on enabling learned models to acquire new tasks over time while avoiding […]

    Wednesday Oct 18

    CBE Seminar: “Energetic Constraints on Biological Assembly and Motion” (Murrell, Yale)

    October 18, 2023 @ 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    On small length-scales, the mechanics of soft materials may be dominated by their interfacial properties as opposed to their bulk properties. These effects are described by equilibrium models of elasto-capillarity […]

    Thursday Oct 19

    MSE Seminar: “Bioinspired Polymers for Tissue Repair and Regeneration” (Phillip B. Messersmith University of California – Berkeley)

    October 19, 2023 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    It is of great interest for materials scientists to study wet biological adhesives as inspiration for synthetic adhesives that can perform well in wet conditions. A compelling example is given […]

    Thursday Oct 19

    ESE PhD Thesis Defense: “CyberCardia: Patient-specific Electrophysiological heart model for assisting left atrium arrhythmia ablation”

    October 19, 2023 @ 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM /
    Room 313, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Atrial arrhythmia is a prevalent heart disease that results in weak and irregular contractions of the atria. It affects millions of people worldwide. Cardiac ablation is among the most successful […]

    Thursday Oct 19

    BE Seminar: “Robust CRISPR/Cas-based epigenome editing technologies for precision human cell engineering and mechanistic dissection of pathological gene expression” (Isaac Hilton, Rice University)

    October 19, 2023 @ 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM /
    216 Moore Building

    Recent advances in CRISPR/Cas-based epigenome editing technologies have enabled programmable control over human gene expression, chromatin states, and genomic organization. Consequently, these emerging technologies have created new opportunities to engineer […]

    Friday Oct 20

    PRECISE Seminar: “Co-Optimizing Imaging, Computer Systems, and Biological Perception for Next-Generation Visual Computing Platforms”

    October 20, 2023 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM /
    Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract Emerging platforms such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and autonomous machines, while are of a computing nature, intimately interact with both the environment and humans. They must […]

    Friday Oct 20

    Fall 2023 GRASP on Robotics: Leslie Kaelbling, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Doing for our robots what nature did for us”

    October 20, 2023 @ 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM /
    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 We, as robot engineers, have to think hard about our role in […]

    Friday Oct 20

    BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Uncovering Structure-function Relationships in Chromatin Architecture” (Daniel Emerson)

    October 20, 2023 @ 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM /
    BRB 253

    The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Jennifer Phillips-Cremins are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Daniel Emerson.   Title: Uncovering Structure-function Relationships in […]

    Tuesday Oct 24

    MEAM Seminar: “Granular and Photoelastic Avalanches”

    October 24, 2023 @ 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM /
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Flowing granular materials arise everywhere around us, in industry from pharmaceutical processes to bulk good transport lines, and in nature from snow avalanches to captivating dune fields. In landslides, we […]

    Tuesday Oct 24

    ESE Fall Seminar – “Acceleration by Stepsize Hedging”

    October 24, 2023 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Can we accelerate convergence of gradient descent without changing the algorithm --- just by optimizing stepsizes? Surprisingly, we show that the answer is yes. Our proposed Silver Stepsize Schedule optimizes […]

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