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    • 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 variable expression patterns, splicing, and post-translational glycosylation that result in structures with discrete biochemical functions. Mucins play roles in infection, immunity, inflammation and cancer. Such […]

    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, sifting through massive amounts of data to find insights that humans would miss, making faster and more accurate decisions and predictions as a result. Applying […]

    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 precisely defined NCs. The methods of NC synthesis and characterizations are discussed including an in-depth discussion of Extended X-ray Absorption Fins Structure (EXAFS) based nanothermometry […]

    Fall 2023 GRASP on Robotics: Al Rizzi, Boston Dynamics AI, “Developing Robots that are both Physically and Cognitively Capable”

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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 Dr. Rizzi will provide an overview of the recently established Boston Dynamics AI Institute and its developing research efforts. This will include a discussion of the motivation for developing highly capable dynamic robots, a brief history of […]

    PICS Colloquium: “Wind, Waves, and Wakes: Large Eddy Simulation of Full-Scale Offshore Wind Farms under Realistic Atmospheric and Oceanic Conditions”

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

    Ambitious targets on aggressive timelines have been heralded for the development of offshore wind energy in the United States, especially in New Jersey with a target of 11 GW (nearly 2/3 of current generation) of offshore wind energy capacity by 2040. With these targets and timelines, immense effort is required to minimize risk (financial risk, […]

    MEAM Seminar: “Bringing Microrobots into Biomedicine”

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    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Recent progress in diverse disciplines such as soft matter physics, nanoparticle synthesis, nanomedicine, and microbiology has enabled rich opportunities for translation of small-scale robots into medical applications. These robotic systems are providing innovative, high-precision, therapeutic and diagnostic approaches for the treatment of diseases associated with microbial biofilms and are rapidly moving from proof-of-concept studies to […]

    CIS Seminar: “An Alternative View on AI: Collaborative Learning, Incentives, and Social Welfare”

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    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Artificial intelligence (AI) has focused on a paradigm in which intelligence inheres in a single, autonomous agent.  Social issues are entirely secondary in this paradigm.  When AI systems are deployed in social contexts, however, the overall design of such systems is often naive---a centralized entity provides services to passive agents and reaps the rewards.  Such […]

    BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Investigating cell state plasticity at the gastroesophageal junction with lineage tracing in humans” (Rodrigo Gier)

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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. Sydney Shaffer are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Rodrigo Gier.   Title: Investigating cell state plasticity at the gastroesophageal junction with lineage tracing in humans   Date: October 11, 2023 Time: 10:00 am Location: Reunion Auditorium, John Morgan Building The public is […]

    ASSET Seminar: “Towards Code-Aware Code Models” (Baishakhi Ray, Columbia University)

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    Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    ABSTRACT: The past decade has seen unprecedented growth in Software Engineering— developers spend enormous time and effort to create new products. With such enormous growth comes the responsibility of producing and maintaining quality and robust software. In this talk, I will discuss how AI can help develop quality products in different stages of the software […]

    Fall 2023 GRASP SFI: Helmut Hauser, University of Bristol, “Morphological Computation – Building Smart Bodies for Smart Robots”

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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. This week's speaker will be virtual. ABSTRACT Morphological Computation is a concept in robotics that suggests that the morphology of a robot should play  a crucial role in the design of intelligent machines.  This is inspired by observations in […]

    ESE PhD Thesis Defense: “Light matter interaction in low-dimensional semiconductors”

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    Room 35, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Light matter interaction holds significant relevance across a range of applications including lasing, sensing, communications, and computing. One prominent method for modulating optical properties is through the use of a Fabry-Perot cavity, which controls the photonic density of states within optical cavities. Additionally, plasmonic and high-contrast dielectric cavities represent a cutting-edge approach for photonic dispersion […]

    MEAM Seminar: “A Symbiotic Philosophy for Bio-inspired Robotics”

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    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Humans have frequently looked to natural phenomena to inspire the design of art, structures, and mechanisms. However, there are as many different ways to learn from nature as there are words for this approach: bioinspiration, biomimicry, and biodesign to name a few. In this talk, I propose a taxonomy for categorizing distinct biodesign approaches and […]