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SUMMARY:CBE PhD Dissertation Defense | “Process Development and Modeling for the Advancement of Direct Air Capture Technologies"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \n“As the catastrophic effects of climate change are felt throughout our global society\, we must take immediate action. A portfolio of climate solutions must include both deep and robust decarbonization\, and systems to remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere. One promising suite of carbon removal technologies is Direct Air Capture (DAC). DAC refers to engineered systems that pull CO2 from air\, capturing it in a near-pure form. The captured CO2 can be stored geologically (resulting in a reduction of atmospheric CO2 concentrations)\, or otherwise utilized. This Dissertation focuses on development and deployment of DAC technologies first by exploring the current DAC landscape\, then by proposing a novel DAC process using earth-abundant minerals. \n\nThe current landscape of DAC includes two main approaches: solid sorbent and liquid solvent. Each DAC approach has advantages and challenges\, including energy usage\, specialty chemical demand\, and land area requirements. Here\, each approach is outlined\, and suggestions are provided to accelerate industrial deployment. Additionally\, the effect of different dedicated energy infrastructure to power solvent-based DAC is evaluated\, including both fossil and renewable energy resources and quantifying the effect of energy-related emissions on the amount of carbon net removed from air. A technoeconomic tool is also presented which allows for a high-level cost estimate of DAC based on available information. The tool can be utilized by investors to evaluate key aspects of DAC technologies and determine which innovations result in significant cost reductions. \n\nAn ambient oxide looping process is proposed as a novel approach to DAC. The process uses earth-abundant minerals (limestone\, magnesite) to produce reactive oxides (calcium oxide\, magnesium oxide) that react with the CO2 in air. Investigation into the economics of the process indicates it could be less expensive per ton of CO2 removed than other DAC technologies. To understand the process viability\, a series of experiments characterize industrially available calcium and magnesium oxide and hydroxide feedstocks. These experiments probe the physical properties of these materials and different aspects of engineering optimization\, including material depth and rate enhancement as a function of both relative humidity and direct water addition to the system. “
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cbe-phd-dissertation-defense-process-development-and-modeling-for-the-advancement-of-direct-air-capture-technologies/
LOCATION:Zoom – Email CBE for link
CATEGORIES:Doctoral,Graduate,Student,Dissertation or Thesis Defense
ORGANIZER;CN="Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering":MAILTO:cbemail@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211026T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211026T113000
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SUMMARY:MEAM Seminar: “Robotics Goes Soft: Challenges and Achievements\, for New Robotics Scenarios”
DESCRIPTION:Largely inspired by the observation of the role of soft tissues in living organisms\, the use of soft materials for building robots is recognized as one of the current challenges for pushing the boundaries of robotics technologies and building robotic systems for service tasks in natural environments. The study of living organisms sheds light on principles that can be fruitfully adopted to develop additional robot abilities or to facilitate more efficient accomplishment of tasks\, because living organisms exploit soft tissues and compliant structures to move effectively in complex natural environments. \nWidely growing worldwide\, soft robotics has produced already interesting achievements in terms of technologies for actuation\, sensing\, control\, and many more. In addition to allowing more applications for robots\, soft robotics technologies are enabling robot abilities that were not possible before\, like morphing\, stiffening\, growing\, self-healing\, evolving. They open up new scenarios for robotics that brings towards more life-like robots\, effectively and efficiently adaptable to their environments and tasks.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-seminar-robotics-goes-soft-challenges-and-achievements-for-new-robotics-scenarios/
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:20211027T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211027T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T124920
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SUMMARY:ODEI Spotlight: Diversity Lecture Series at Penn\, "Addressing a More Complex and Encompassing Understanding of Identity"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Melissa E. Sanchez\, Ph.D. \nCenter for Research in Feminist\, Queer\, and Transgender Studies \nTopic: Addressing a More Complex and Encompassing Understanding of Identity \nDate: Wednesday\, October 27\, 2021 \nTime: 12 Noon to 1:00 PM \nLink:  :  https://upenn.zoom.us/j/93398784741?pwd=dmpPUFd6d2dHZmYwckRIdjhsWngzdz09
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/odei-spotlight-diversity-lecture-series-at-penn-addressing-a-more-complex-and-encompassing-understanding-of-identity/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211027T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211027T160000
DTSTAMP:20260406T124920
CREATED:20211022T182253Z
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SUMMARY:Fall 2021 GRASP SFI: “Physics-inspired learning for discontinuous contact dynamics”
DESCRIPTION:*This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and Virtual attendance via Zoom here… \nFrictional contact is the core underlying behavior of robot locomotion and manipulation\, and its nearly-discontinuous dynamics make planning and control challenging even when an accurate model of the robot is available. In this talk\, I will first present empirical evidence that learning an accurate model in the first place can be confounded by contact\, as modern deep learning approaches are not designed to capture this non-smoothness. Second\, I will discuss ContactNets\, our approach which circumvents this conflict via a smooth\, implicit encoding of discontinuity as signed distance functions and contact-frame Jacobians.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/fall-2021-grasp-sfi-physics-inspired-learning-for-discontinuous-contact-dynamics/
LOCATION:Levine 307\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="General Robotics%2C Automation%2C Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab":MAILTO:grasplab@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211027T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211027T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T124920
CREATED:20211026T154114Z
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SUMMARY:ODEI Spotlight: Society of Women Engineers GSK Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Society of Women Engineers GSK Info Session\nWednesday\, October 27 from 6-7 PM\n \nGSK is hosting an information session for students of all grade levels! GSK is hiring for the Internship and Co-Op Program\, and the Future Leaders Program! If you are interested in applying what you are learning in your current classes in real-life work scenarios\, an internship or co-op is the perfect opportunity for you to do so! If you are coming up on graduation\, the Future Leaders Program is a rotational training program that will provide you with the skills you need to succeed! \n\nJoin us to learn more about GSK’s programs\, and what it is like to work here. We look forward to seeing you there!\n\nWhen: October 27 at 6 PM\nWhere: Microsoft Teams (tinyurl.com/swe-gsk)
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/odei-spotlight-society-of-women-engineers-gsk-info-session/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211028T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211028T113000
DTSTAMP:20260406T124920
CREATED:20211019T125336Z
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SUMMARY:ESE Fall Colloquium Seminar  - "Transforming Ideas to Reality: Emerging Nanotechnologies from the “Lab” to the “Fab”"
DESCRIPTION:Emerging nanotechnologies promise to enable a wide-range of next-generation applications – from energy-efficient computing to personalized healthcare. Yet many emerging nanotechnologies face substantial inherent imperfections and variations that have rendered making working systems – and therefore the next-generation applications they promise to enable – infeasible. In this talk\, I will describe how by computing advances across the entire stack – from nanomaterial synthesis to new processing techniques\, circuit design methodologies\, architectures\, and novel systems – these challenges can be overcome to realize the first large-scale and complex electronic systems leveraging beyond-silicon emerging nanotechnologies. As a case-study\, I will describe the journey of transforming carbon nanotubes from an interesting scientific nanomaterial in academic labs into the foundation for realizing novel systems and applications that can impact our daily lives\, such as the first beyond-silicon microprocessor for energy-efficient computing and novel diagnostic tools for rapid and accurate disease diagnostics. I will conclude by describing how these emerging nanotechnologies are currently being transferred from the “lab” to multiple commercial “fabs”\, promising a new and exciting age for electronics and the systems and applications they can enable.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/ese-fall-colloquium-seminar-transforming-ideas-to-reality-emerging-nanotechnologies-from-the-lab-to-the-fab/
LOCATION:Raisler Lounge (Room 225)\, Towne Building\, 220 South 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211028T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211028T133000
DTSTAMP:20260406T124920
CREATED:20211014T192437Z
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SUMMARY:MSE Grace Hopper Lecture: "Optics on the Nanoscale: Conquering Absorption with Nonlinear Optics"
DESCRIPTION:Optical nanostructures enable molding the flow of light on the subwavelength scale rendering possible the realization of compact\, cost-effective\, flat and highly efficient optical components for imaging\, spectroscopy\, sensing\, and communications. From the fundamental science viewpoint\, light-matter interactions at the nanoscale reveal themselves in new and often unexpected ways. In fact\, the usual linear and nonlinear macroscopic theories that describe the behavior of the electromagnetic field merit revision. From the applications viewpoint\, miniaturized\, tunable and reconfigurable functionalities implemented on a chip are of paramount importance. Here\, we reassess dielectric materials such as chalcogenides as promising candidates for science and applications in wavelength ranges once thought to be hostile to the propagation of light. We show that\, in fact\, these materials constitute new\, excellent contenders for developing new\, multi-functional nanophotonic devices due to their high linear refractive indices\, strong nonlinear response\, and fast switching speeds. To date\, applications of these glasses have been limited to wavelength ranges where absorption meticulously avoided\, for example\, above 500nm for As2S3: high absorption at visible and ultraviolet wavelengths manifests itself through the large imaginary parts of the dielectric constants. However\, we demonstrate that\, as counterintuitive as it may appear\, highly nonlinear\, properly nanostructured chalcogenide glass\, transparent in the mid- and near-infrared\, can also be used to generate third harmonic frequencies in the visible and ultraviolet part of the spectrum\, despite the presence of strong material absorption in this range. Such third-harmonic generation can be tuned and further enhanced using stacked metasurfaces and various mechanisms of local field enhancement\, including Mie and quasi-bound states in continuum resonances.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/mse-grace-hopper-lecture-optics-on-the-nanoscale-conquering-absorption-with-nonlinear-optics/
LOCATION:Auditorium\, LRSM Building\, 3231 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Materials Science and Engineering":MAILTO:johnruss@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211028T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211028T163000
DTSTAMP:20260406T124920
CREATED:20211001T155256Z
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SUMMARY:BE Seminar: "Systems-level Analyses of the Human Gut Microbiome" (Ilana Lauren Brito)
DESCRIPTION:This seminar will be held live and broadcast on zoom – check your email for the link or contact ksas@seas.upenn.edu. \nA major question regarding the human gut microbiota is: by what mechanisms do our most intimately associated organisms affect human health? In this talk\, I will present several systems-level approaches that we have developed to address this fundamental question. My lab has pioneered methods that leverage protein-protein interactions to implicate bacterial proteins in human pathways linked to disease\, revealing for the first time a network of interactions that affect diseases such as colorectal cancer\, inflammatory bowel disease\, type 2 diabetes and obesity that can be mined for novel therapeutics and therapeutic targets. I will present novel methods that that enable deeper insight into the transcriptome of organisms within our guts and their spatial localization. Finally\, I will shift to the problem of the spread of antibiotic resistance\, in which the gut microbiota are implicated. Pathogens become multi-drug resistance by acquiring resistance traits carried by the gut microbiota. Studying this process in microbiomes is inherently difficult using current methods. I will present several methods that enable tracking of genes within the microbiome and computational tools that predict the network of gene transfer between bacteria. Overall\, these systems-level tools provide deep insight into the knobs we can turn to engineer outcomes within the microbiome that can improve human health.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/be-seminar-ilana-lauren-brito/
LOCATION:Moore 216\, 200 S. 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:be@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211029T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211029T114500
DTSTAMP:20260406T124920
CREATED:20211022T184013Z
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SUMMARY:GRASP on Robotics: "Planning on Graphs of Convex Sets"
DESCRIPTION:*This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Wu & Chen Auditorium and Virtual attendance via Zoom Webinar here.  \nMotivated by the challenging problems in planning and control through contact\, our group has been working to connect more deeply the motion planning formulations we often use in robotics with a different lineage of algorithms and results in combinatorial optimization. What we’ve found surprised me: I feel that we’ve been formulating our mixed-integer motion planning problems incorrectly\, and that there are better formulations that can lead to dramatically faster solve times and tighter convex relaxations. I’d like to tell you that story\, through the lens of optimization-based collision-free motion planning. This is joint work with Tobia Marcucci\, Jack Umenberger\, and Pablo Parrilo. I’ll also briefly describe a few other ongoing projects in robotic manipulation\, and promise to show some robot videos.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/grasp-on-robotics-planning-on-graphs-of-convex-sets/
LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="General Robotics%2C Automation%2C Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab":MAILTO:grasplab@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211029T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211029T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T124920
CREATED:20211008T135949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211008T135949Z
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SUMMARY:BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: "Mechano-regulation of meniscus development and maturation" (Tonia Tsinman)
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Rob Mauck are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Tonia Tsinman.\n\nTitle: “Mechano-regulation of meniscus development and maturation”\n\nDate: October 29\, 2021\nTime: 11:00am\n\nThe public is welcome to attend via zoom at the following  link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/98160257924
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/be-doctoral-dissertation-defense-mechano-regulation-of-meniscus-development-and-maturation-tonia-tsinman/
LOCATION:https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96715197752
CATEGORIES:Doctoral,Graduate,Student,Dissertation or Thesis Defense
ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:be@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211029T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211029T150000
DTSTAMP:20260406T124920
CREATED:20210920T132525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210920T132525Z
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SUMMARY:PICS Colloquium: "A model for external aerodynamics based on building-block flows"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: A wall model for large-eddy simulation is proposed by devising the flow as a collection of building blocks\, whose information enables the prediction of the stress as the wall.  The core assumption of the model is that simple canonical flows (such as turbulent channel flows\, boundary layers\, pipes\, ducts\, speed bumps\, etc) contain the essential flow physics to devise accurate models. Three types of building block units are used to train the model\, namely\, turbulent channel flows\, turbulent ducts\, and turbulent boundary layers with separation.  The approach is implemented using two interconnected artificial neural networks: a classifier\, which identifies the contribution of each building block in the flow; and a predictor\, which estimates the wall stress via non-linear combinations of building-block units. The output of the model is accompanied by the confidence in the prediction. The latter aids the detection of areas where the model underperforms\, such as flow regions that are not representative of the building blocks used to train the model. The model is validated in a realistic aircraft geometry from NASA Juncture Flow Experiment\, which is representative of external aerodynamic applications with trailing-edge separation.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/pics-colloquium-a-model-for-external-aerodynamics-based-on-building-block-flows/
LOCATION:PICS Conference Room 534 – A Wing \, 5th Floor\, 3401 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ORGANIZER;CN="Penn Institute for Computational Science (PICS)":MAILTO:dkparks@seas.upenn.edu
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