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Sunday, September 20, 2020
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Monday, September 21, 2020
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September 21, 2020 -Climate Week: Africa and Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions in a Globalized World
Climate Week: Africa and Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions in a Globalized World
Speaker: Anthony Nyong, Director of Climate Change and Green Growth at the African Development Bank (AfDB) Speaker Bio: Bio: Professor Anthony Nyong is the Director of Climate Change and Green Growth at the African Development Bank. He has about 30 years of experience in environmental and natural resources management, environmental and social safeguards, renewable energy […]
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
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September 22, 2020 -CIS Seminar: “Engineering Approximate Computations”
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September 22, 2020 -ESE Thesis Defense: “Constrained Learning and Inference”
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September 22, 2020 -MEAM Seminar: “Robots and Mechatronic Systems can help us identify, assess, and treat Motor and Cognitive Impairment after Brain Injury”
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September 22, 2020 -Climate Week: Advancing Technology to Ensure Food, Energy, and Water Security
CIS Seminar: “Engineering Approximate Computations”
There’s a new ecosystem of applications that integrates machine learning into a variety of tasks. Typical domains have included image recognition and natural language processing. However, these techniques have also spread to computer systems domains, such as program compilation, resource scheduling, and database query optimization, yielding new computer systems that learn from data to achieve […]
ESE Thesis Defense: “Constrained Learning and Inference”
Learning is a core component of the information processing and autonomous systems upon which we increasingly rely on to select job applicants, analyze medical data, and drive cars. As these systems become ubiquitous, so does the need to curtail their behavior. Left untethered, they are susceptible to tampering (adversarial examples) and prone to prejudiced and […]
MEAM Seminar: “Robots and Mechatronic Systems can help us identify, assess, and treat Motor and Cognitive Impairment after Brain Injury”
The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) indicate that in 2017 about 12.7% of adults and children had some form of disability. Stroke is the leading cause of serious long-term disability with ~7 million in the US, which will increase by 20.5% by 2030. Cerebral Palsy is the leading cause of serious long-term disability in […]
Climate Week: Advancing Technology to Ensure Food, Energy, and Water Security
Speaker: Cherie Kagan, Associate Dean of Research, Stephen J Angello Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering, Material Science and Engineering, Penn Engineering. Director, NSF’s Internet of Thing’s for Precision Agriculture Engineering Research Center Description: Ensuring food, energy, and water security is a societal grand challenge. By 2050, the US population is estimated to grow from 330 […]
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
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September 23, 2020 -MEAM PHD Thesis Defense: “Control of Dry Adhesion via Mechanics and Structuring”
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September 23, 2020 -Climate Week: Carbon Offsets Should Make a Difference: Connecting Offsets for University-Sponsored Air Travel to a Vision for an Energy and Climate Partnership with West Philadelphia
MEAM PHD Thesis Defense: “Control of Dry Adhesion via Mechanics and Structuring”
Dry adhesives that rely on van der Waals forces have a number of applications due to their versatility, reusability, and repeatability. Applications include small-scale pick-and-place and microtransfer printing processes, wearable sensors, climbing/perching robots, and robotic gripping. However, van der Waals forces are macroscopically short-range and are the weakest of the interatomic forces, so careful mechanical […]
Climate Week: Carbon Offsets Should Make a Difference: Connecting Offsets for University-Sponsored Air Travel to a Vision for an Energy and Climate Partnership with West Philadelphia
Speakers: Megan Ryerson, UPS Chair of Transportation, Associate Dean for Research, Weitzman School Benjamin C. Pierce, Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Information Science, Penn Engineering William W. Braham, Professor of Architecture, Director of the Master of Environmental Building Design and of the Center for Environmental Building + Design, Weitzman School Steve Luxton, Executive Director/CEO […]
Thursday, September 24, 2020
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September 24, 2020 -MSE Seminar: “How to Care for Yourself While Navigating a Complex World”
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September 24, 2020 -Climate Week: Embodied Carbon and the Built Environment: A Focus on Mass Timber
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September 24, 2020 -BE Seminar: “Patients, Providers and Data: How the EMR and Data Science are Changing Clinical Care” (Kevin Johnson)
MSE Seminar: “How to Care for Yourself While Navigating a Complex World”
As graduate students, it can be difficult to maintain a sense of balance throughout your academic career. There are often multiple demands on your time, from having a social life while performing well academically to maintaining your mental health and wellness. However, 2020 has brought unique challenges that include, managing a global pandemic, navigating issues […]
Climate Week: Embodied Carbon and the Built Environment: A Focus on Mass Timber
Speakers: Kerry Phillips, Associate at Lake|Flato Architects Heather Gayle Holdridge, Director of Design Performance at Lake|Flato Architects Terry Pattillo, AIA, Mid-Atlantic Regional Director, WoodWorks – Wood Products Council Moderator: Stephanie Carlisle, Senior Researcher, Carbon Leadership Forum
BE Seminar: “Patients, Providers and Data: How the EMR and Data Science are Changing Clinical Care” (Kevin Johnson)
This event will be held virtually via zoom. Check your email for the link and passcode or contact ksas@seas.upenn.edu. The electronic health record (EHR) is a powerful application of Systems Engineering to healthcare. It is a byproduct of a host of pressures including cost, consolidation of providers into networks, uniform drivers of quality, and the […]
Friday, September 25, 2020
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September 25, 2020 -SIG Seminar: “Coupling Sub-Grid Solids, Simulating Liquid Metals, and Inferring Facial Expressions”
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September 25, 2020 -Climate Week: A Case for Carbon Removal From Air
SIG Seminar: “Coupling Sub-Grid Solids, Simulating Liquid Metals, and Inferring Facial Expressions”
This lecture will discuss recent results in computational physics, computer graphics, and learning/data science. The first section will present a method for accurately simulating two-way solid-fluid coupling even when solids may be smaller than the size of a computational grid cell. Next, a numerical method for simulating materials with large surface energy (such as liquid […]
Climate Week: A Case for Carbon Removal From Air
Speakers: Jennifer Wilcox, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Energy Policy, Penn Engineering, Weitzman School Noah McQueen, Third year Ph.D. candidate in Chemical Engineering, Penn Engineering Moderator: Mark Alan Hughes, Founding Faculty Director of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy Description: As the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) continues to rise, it is […]
Saturday, September 26, 2020
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September 26, 2020 -PICS Workshop: “Machine Learning with MATLAB”
PICS Workshop: “Machine Learning with MATLAB”
Machine learning is a data analytics technique that teaches computers to do what comes naturally to humans and animals: learn from experience. Machine learning algorithms use computational methods to “learn” information directly from data without relying on a predetermined equation as a model. Using MATLAB, engineers and other domain experts have deployed thousands of applications […]