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SUMMARY:ODEI Spotlight:  Women of Color in Higher Education - Resilience and Empowerment Amidst Twin Pandemics
DESCRIPTION: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 of color. \nWe are living in a time of renewed vigilance in the fight for racial equity\, a pandemic that opened the wound of race-based health disparities and food insecurities\, and a political/social environment that reflects insidious social injustice across the country. As such\, the Women of Color in Higher Education program seeks to unite and strengthen networks and form mentorships for the Penn community* of both women of color and non-binary people of color. \n*Please note that this program is exclusive to Penn faculty\, staff\, graduate students\, and alumni.  \nProgram Schedule \nPlease see below for the most up-to-date program schedule. \n\n\n\nMonday\, March 8 \n5:00 – 7:00 PM ET\nOpening Ceremony and Keynote Address\n\n\nTuesday\, March 9 \n9:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET \n5:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET\nCircle Sessions* \n  \nCircle Sessions*\n\n\nWednesday\, March 10 \n9:00 AM – 1:00PM ET\nCircle Sessions* and Closing Ceremony and Fireside Chat\n\n\n\n*Circle sessions are small concurrent group discussions about resilience led by faculty and staff.  \nWhat You’ll Gain \n\nBuild supportive networks within and across sectors\nEngage in reflection on practice and mechanisms that foster resilience\nExpand capacity to recovery quickly from adversity\nCelebrate self and other women and non-binary leaders of color\nValidate adversities and share strategies to foster resilience\nGain insight into how to design professional environments that foster thriving of women and non-binary people of color in leadership roles\n\nWho Should Enroll \nThis event is exclusive to Penn Faculty\, Staff and Graduate Students who identify as a woman of color or non-binary person of color. \nMore Information Here
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/odei-spotlight-women-of-color-in-higher-education-resilience-and-empowerment-amidst-twin-pandemics/
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SUMMARY:PSOC Webinar: Jorden Zev Gartner
DESCRIPTION:Physical Sciences in Oncology Center PSOC@Penn \nSpring 2021 Webinar Series Mondays at 12:00 noon (EST) \nFor webinar links\, please contact manu@seas.upenn.edu.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/psoc-webinar-jorden-zev-gartner/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="PSOC":MAILTO:manu@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210308T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210308T170000
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SUMMARY:ODEI Event: Climate Change and Urban Resilience
DESCRIPTION: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 policy making and resilience planning in NYC. Lolita will also share her journey to Penn and the obstacles she overcame as a FGLI student during the 1980s\, and how her Penn Engineering education was instrumental in her career successes at both Morgan Stanley and the NYC Mayor’s Office. \n  \nZoom link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/93852315224\nPasscode: 045597
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/climate-change-and-urban-resilience/
LOCATION:https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96715197752
ORGANIZER;CN="Office of Diversity%2C Equity and Inclusion":MAILTO:odei@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210309T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210309T120000
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SUMMARY:MEAM Seminar: "Understanding and Controlling Pattern Formation of Soft Materials"
DESCRIPTION: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 due to growth by swelling. Understanding how soft solids destabilize to external fields are crucial to avoid failure and aid engineering of materials of targeted geometries and properties\, as well as inform us about morphogenesis in soft biomatter. My research focuses on understanding fundamental principles of how joint roles of surface tension\, elasticity\, gravity interact with geometric length scales of soft solids to exhibit interfacial and bulk pattern formation\, as well as drive self-assembly of patterns in soft bio-interfaces. Soft\, porous solids also interact with liquids to give rise to interesting self-excitable phenomena. I will discuss my research with a few examples of how patterns and motions are observed in soft elastic solids\, with the motivation of learning fundamental principles of deformability of soft materials as well as harnessing them for diverse engineering applications.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-seminar-understanding-and-controlling-pattern-formation-of-soft-materials/
LOCATION:Zoom – Email MEAM for Link\, peterlit@seas.upenn.edu
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210309T104500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210309T114500
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SUMMARY:MSE Seminar: "Controlling ferroelectricity at the nanoscale: from oxide heterostructures to  freestanding crystalline membranes"
DESCRIPTION: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 including the synthesis of oxide heterostructures and crystalline membranes have provided opportunities for realizing novel functionality in ferroelectrics. In this talk\, I will show the ability to enable new device capabilities and emergent properties in the oxide heterostructures and crystalline membranes. First\, I will introduce the kinetic control of ferroelectric switching pathways to create multiple non-volatile polarization states in (111)-oriented PbZr0.2Ti0.8O3/SrTiO3 heterostructures. Such switching phenomena transcend the bi-stability of ferroelectric polarization and hold promise for multi-state functional applications. Second\, I will introduce our discovery of strain-induced ferroelectricity in quantum paraelectric SrTiO3 crystalline membranes\, which reveals enormous potential of employing membranes to create and enhance ferroelectricity in environmentally
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/mse-seminar-controlling-ferroelectricity-at-the-nanoscale-from-oxide-heterostructures-to-freestanding-crystalline-membranes/
LOCATION:PA
ORGANIZER;CN="Materials Science and Engineering":MAILTO:johnruss@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210309T110000
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SUMMARY:ESE Seminar: "Megahertz Power Electronics in Transportation and Healthcare Applications"
DESCRIPTION: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 micro-robotics. \nThis talk presents a new generation of power electronic devices that leverage high-frequency (3-300 MHz) operations to reduce energy storage requirements and achieve a significant reduction in overall size and cost. New circuits and system architectures are introduced that enable such dramatic increases in operating frequencies. We will show several system examples\, including 1) a 1.7 kW inductive wireless power transfer system for EV charging\, 2) a 54 kV high-voltage power supply for Xray CT scanners\, and 3) a compact high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) device for noninvasive cancer therapy\, to demonstrate the promising potential of high-performance megahertz power electronics in various applications.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/ese-seminar-megahertz-power-electronics-in-transportation-and-healthcare-applications/
LOCATION:Zoom – Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.edu
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Faculty,Colloquium,Student
ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210309T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210309T160000
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CREATED:20210216T164506Z
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SUMMARY:CIS Seminar: "Proof systems for governance\, transparency\, and privacy"
DESCRIPTION: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 managed? Who can verify the integrity of record maintenance? Who can see the information in records? Over the last decade\, these questions have sparked the development of digital record-keeping systems called “blockchains”. \nThis talk will cover three proof systems that bring new capabilities for governance\, transparency\, and privacy in blockchains. I will first talk about new techniques for balancing transparency and privacy that achieve order-of-magnitude efficiency improvements over the prior state of the art. Next\, I will talk about two new proof systems pertaining to governance: Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) and Proofs-of-Replication (PoReps). VDFs enable an unbiased leader election protocol that will be used within the consensus of Ethereum 2.0. PoReps enable a “permission-less” consensus protocol where voting power is based on data storage capacity instead of Bitcoin’s energy-wasteful “proof-of-work”. PoReps are deployed in Filecoin\, a decentralized storage network exceeding a capacity of two exabytes that secures a cryptocurrency worth over two billion dollars.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cis-seminar-proof-systems-for-governance-transparency-and-privacy/
LOCATION:Zoom – Email CIS for link\, cherylh@cis.upenn.edu
ORGANIZER;CN="Computer and Information Science":MAILTO:cherylh@cis.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210309T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210309T163000
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SUMMARY:ODEI Spotlight: Truth Telling\, The Media\, and Social Equity
DESCRIPTION:Following Remarks by Penn President Amy Gutmann there will be a panel featuring: \nAndrea Mitchell – Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent NBC News \nJamil Smith – Emmy Award Winning Producer and Senior Writer Rolling Stone \nDavid Freedlander – Journalist and Author of The AOC Generation: How Millenials are Seizing Power and Rewriting the Rules of American Politics \nJohn Jackson – Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Richard Perry University Professor. \nKayla Padilla – Founder and Editor and Chief of The Sideline Post\, Current Wharton Student\, and Member of the Penn Women’s Basketball Team \nThe panel will be moderated by Monica Yant Kinney (Chief of Staff and Chief Communications Officer University Life Division and former Metropolitan Columnist with The Philadelphia Inquirer) \nHope to see you all there for what promises to be an informative and challenging conversation! And please feel free to share the flyer and info with others.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/odei-spotlight-truth-telling-the-media-and-social-equity/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210311T104500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210311T114500
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CREATED:20210305T182131Z
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SUMMARY:MSE Seminar: "Tailoring materials properties by ultrafast laser driving of collective modes"
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/mse-seminar-tailoring-materials-properties-by-ultrafast-laser-driving-of-collective-modes/
LOCATION:PA
ORGANIZER;CN="Materials Science and Engineering":MAILTO:johnruss@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T120000
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SUMMARY:ESE Seminar: "Demystifying (Deep) Reinforcement Learning: The Optimist\, The Pessimist\, and Their Provable Efficiency"
DESCRIPTION: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\, which demonstrates an intriguing duality between pessimism and optimism. \n– In the online setting\, we aim to learn the optimal policy by actively interacting with an environment. To strike a balance between exploration and exploitation\, we propose an optimistic least-squares value iteration algorithm\, which achieves a \sqrt{T} regret in the presence of linear\, kernel\, and neural function approximators. \n– In the offline setting\, we aim to learn the optimal policy based on a dataset collected a priori. Due to a lack of active interactions with the environment\, we suffer from the insufficient coverage of the dataset. To maximally exploit the dataset\, we propose a pessimistic least-squares value iteration algorithm\, which achieves a minimax-optimal sample complexity.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/ese-seminar-demystifying-deep-reinforcement-learning-the-optimist-the-pessimist-and-their-provable-efficiency/
LOCATION:Zoom – Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.edu
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Faculty,Colloquium,Student
ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu
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