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    • GRASP On Robotics: “Advancing Innovations for Robotic Teams in Complex Environments”

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    https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96715197752

    Abstract: Complex real-world environments continue to present significant challenges for fielding robotic teams, which often face expansive spatial scales, difficult and dynamic terrain, degraded environmental conditions, and severe communication constraints. Breakthrough technologies call for integrated solutions across autonomy, perception, networking, mobility, and human teaming thrusts. As such, the DARPA OFFSET program and the DARPA Subterranean […]

    ESE Seminar: “Reliable Machine Learning in Feedback Systems”

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    Zoom - Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.edu

    Machine learning techniques have been successful for processing complex information, and thus they have the potential to play an important role in data-driven decision-making and control. However, ensuring the reliability of these methods in feedback systems remains a challenge, since classic statistical and algorithmic guarantees do not always hold. In this talk, I will provide […]

    ODEI Spotlight: Women of Color in Higher Education – Resilience and Empowerment Amidst Twin Pandemics

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    Penn Graduate School of Education's Office of Student Services and Center for Professional Learning are excited to announce the Women of Color in Higher Education: Resilience and Empowerment Amidst Twin Pandemics Virtual Institute. This annual program is open to Penn Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students who identify as a woman of color or non-binary person […]

    PSOC Webinar: Jorden Zev Gartner

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    Physical Sciences in Oncology Center PSOC@Penn Spring 2021 Webinar Series Mondays at 12:00 noon (EST) For webinar links, please contact manu@seas.upenn.edu.

    ODEI Event: Climate Change and Urban Resilience

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    https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96715197752

    Lolita Jackson, Eng ’89, has had distinguished careers in both finance and government. She currently serves as Special Advisor for Climate Policy & Programs in the NYC Mayor’s office and is also lead for the administration regarding global work on divestment and climate finance. In this talk she will describe how climate science has informed […]

    MEAM Seminar: “Understanding and Controlling Pattern Formation of Soft Materials”

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

    Soft elastic solids, such as elastomers and hydrogels, are used in many practical applications ranging from adhesives to biocompatible scaffolds for tissue engineering. Biological cells and tissues have very similar mechanical properties as those of soft materials. Such solids undergo large deformations and can respond to forces such as interfacial tension, gravity, and residual stresses […]

    MSE Seminar: “Controlling ferroelectricity at the nanoscale: from oxide heterostructures to freestanding crystalline membranes”

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    Complex oxides are fascinating material systems exhibiting a diverse set of electrical, magnetic, and thermal properties. In particular, ferroelectric oxides with an electrically switchable polarization and large dielectric and piezoelectric responses are considered as critical components for next-generation low-power logic devices, non-volatile memories, and nanoscale sensors and actuators, etc. Recent advances in thin-film synthesis techniques […]

    ESE Seminar: “Megahertz Power Electronics in Transportation and Healthcare Applications”

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    Zoom - Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.edu

    The efficient use of electrical energy is a foundation of modern society. Power electronics is at the core of electrical energy conversion and greatly impacts a system’s size, performance, and cost. High-performance miniaturized power electronics can be a key enabling technology for many emerging applications, such as electric vehicles (EV), medical devices, and soft- and […]

    CIS Seminar: “Proof systems for governance, transparency, and privacy”

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    Zoom - Email CIS for link cherylh@cis.upenn.edu

    Record-keeping has long played a critical role in society, from governing property ownership to establishing historical "truth". Today, our dependence on digital records is becoming absolute, from our personal wealth, commerce, and identities to sources of knowledge and news. This has elevated the importance of three competing dimensions: Who has control over how records are […]

    ODEI Spotlight: Truth Telling, The Media, and Social Equity

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    Following Remarks by Penn President Amy Gutmann there will be a panel featuring: Andrea Mitchell - Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent NBC News Jamil Smith - Emmy Award Winning Producer and Senior Writer Rolling Stone David Freedlander - Journalist and Author of The AOC Generation: How Millenials are Seizing Power and Rewriting […]

    ESE Seminar: “Demystifying (Deep) Reinforcement Learning: The Optimist, The Pessimist, and Their Provable Efficiency”

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    Zoom - Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.edu

    Coupled with powerful function approximators such as deep neural networks, reinforcement learning (RL) achieves tremendous empirical successes. However, its theoretical understandings lag behind. In particular, it remains unclear how to provably attain the optimal policy with a finite regret or sample complexity. In this talk, we will present the two sides of the same coin, […]