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Sunday, February 14, 2021
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Monday, February 15, 2021
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February 15, 2021 -ENIAC Day: 75th Anniversary of ENIAC Mini-Symposium
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February 15, 2021 -PSOC Webinar: “Sensing Matrix Rigidity: Transducing Mechanical Signals From Integrins to the Nucleus” (Pere Roca-Cusachs Soulere)
ENIAC Day: 75th Anniversary of ENIAC Mini-Symposium
Mini-symposium to celebrate the 75th anniversary of ENIAC and the birth of general-purpose computing. Automated computation has revolutionized the way we live, work, play, and connect. Join us on this anniversary to see where it started, celebrate how far we've come, and see visions of the bright future that is still ahead. Zoom Webinar Link: here (past) […]
PSOC Webinar: “Sensing Matrix Rigidity: Transducing Mechanical Signals From Integrins to the Nucleus” (Pere Roca-Cusachs Soulere)
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.
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
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February 16, 2021 -CIS Seminar: “Structural Foundations of Efficient Reinforcement Learning:
CIS Seminar: “Structural Foundations of Efficient Reinforcement Learning:
Abstract: The design of learning agents which observe, interact with, and manipulate their environment to optimize desirable behaviors is a long-standing goal in machine learning, with roots in artificial intelligence, adaptive experimental design and adaptive feedback control. In machine learning, these questions are typically studied in the area of reinforcement learning (RL), which has seen […]
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
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February 17, 2021 -CBE Seminar: “Insights into Active Site Structures for Bimetallic Heterogeneous Catalysts”
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February 17, 2021 -CIS Seminar: “IDEs for Ideas”
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February 17, 2021 -Spring 2021 GRASP SFI: “Model-Based Deep RL for Robotics”
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February 17, 2021 -ODEI Spotlight: The Masc We Live In – Cultural Implications of Masculinity
CBE Seminar: “Insights into Active Site Structures for Bimetallic Heterogeneous Catalysts”
Abstract I will describe three examples investigating the use of bimetallic catalysts for reaction systems of industrial relevance and explore the origins of their improved performance. Investigation of Pd-based bimetallic catalysts for the selective hydrogenation of acetylene and for hydrodechlorination of 1,2-dichloroethane will be explored. Additionally, Pt-based bimetallic catalysts for the hydrogenation of a model […]
CIS Seminar: “IDEs for Ideas”
Abstract: A Jupyter notebook, a preprint from arXiv, and a Stack Overflow code snippet. What do they all have in common? All convey complex ideas from a writer to an audience. However, the tools to create and read them have not kept pace with the complexity of their contents. What would it look like if […]
Spring 2021 GRASP SFI: “Model-Based Deep RL for Robotics”
Abstract: Deep learning has shown promising results in robotics, but we are still far from having intelligent systems that can operate in the unstructured settings of the real world, where disturbances, variations, and unobserved factors lead to a dynamic environment. In the first part of the talk, I will show that model-based deep RL can […]
ODEI Spotlight: The Masc We Live In – Cultural Implications of Masculinity
Join us as we host an open discussion on masculinity in different cultural contexts and the intersections of race, religion and other factors which influence how we view, interpret, and navigate masculinity. This is the first of four conversations in our ongoing discussion series for the Spring Semester. All gender identities welcome. The event is […]
Thursday, February 18, 2021
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February 18, 2021 -ESE PhD Dissertation Defense: “Enhanced Nonlinearity Enabled via Doped ENZ Metastructures: Theory & Potential Applications”
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February 18, 2021 -BE Seminar: “Engineering Synthetic Biomaterials for Islet Transplantation” (María M. Coronel)
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February 18, 2021 -CIS Seminar: “Enabling Hyperscale Web Services”
ESE PhD Dissertation Defense: “Enhanced Nonlinearity Enabled via Doped ENZ Metastructures: Theory & Potential Applications”
Synthetic composite structures, known as metamaterials, have been increasingly applied in the past two decades in numerous applications for obtaining electromagnetic characteristics far beyond naturally occurring materials. In particular, epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) media are a special category of metamaterials which have been shown to exhibit exotic wave-matter interaction properties, rendering them suitable for numerous applications. Exploiting […]
BE Seminar: “Engineering Synthetic Biomaterials for Islet Transplantation” (María M. Coronel)
This event will be held virtually via Zoom (check email or contact ksas@seas.upenn.edu). Two major challenges to the translation of cellular-based tissue-engineered therapies are the lack of adequate oxygen support post-implantation and the need for systemic immunosuppression to halt the strong inflammatory and immunological response of the host. As such, strategies that aim at addressing […]
CIS Seminar: “Enabling Hyperscale Web Services”
Abstracts: Current hardware and software systems were conceived at a time when we had scarce compute and memory resources, limited quantity of data and users, and easy hardware performance scaling due to Moore's Law. These assumptions are not true today. Today, emerging web services require data centers that scale to hundreds of thousands of servers, […]
Friday, February 19, 2021
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February 19, 2021 -GRASP On Robotics: “Trajectory Planning Using Dynamic and Power Models: a Heuristics-Based Approach”
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February 19, 2021 -ODEI Spotlight: A Conversation with Stacey Abrams
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February 19, 2021 -ESE Seminar: “(Re)building Human Dexterity: Inferring Musculoskeletal Dynamics for Next-Generation Assistive Devices & Diagnostics”
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February 19, 2021 -PICS Colloquia: “Recent Advances in Modeling Subduction and Viscoelastic Flow in Geodynamic Computations”
GRASP On Robotics: “Trajectory Planning Using Dynamic and Power Models: a Heuristics-Based Approach”
Abstract: Robot planning is needed for robots to perform purposeful missions in their environments. In realistic situations, planning does not simply involve getting to a desired destination without collisions, but often requires achieving a desired goal configuration in an optimal or near-optimal fashion. Common optimality criteria include minimum distance, minimum time, and minimum energy. To […]
ODEI Spotlight: A Conversation with Stacey Abrams
Please join us on February 19th at noon EST for a conversation with Stacey Abrams, moderated by Benjamin Todd Jealous and with remarks from President Amy Gutmann. The event is sponsored by the Annenberg School for Communication, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program, and the Penn Provost's Office. Register Here. If […]
ESE Seminar: “(Re)building Human Dexterity: Inferring Musculoskeletal Dynamics for Next-Generation Assistive Devices & Diagnostics”
While there exist a number of mechanically sophisticated exoskeletons, prostheses, and assistive robots, with articulations similar to those of the intact human arm and hand, these devices remain limited in their ability to augment human dexterity and safely interact with human users and collaborators. In particular, due to the limits of conventional sensing, robots remain […]
PICS Colloquia: “Recent Advances in Modeling Subduction and Viscoelastic Flow in Geodynamic Computations”
Abstract: We will describe two separate but related methodologies that have been implemented in the open source, finite element code ASPECT, which computational geophysicists use to model a wide variety of problems that arise in Earth and Planetary geophysics. The first technique is a volume-of-fluid (VOF) interface tracking algorithm that was originally designed to model […]
Saturday, February 20, 2021
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