BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Penn Engineering Events - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Penn Engineering Events REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220926T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220926T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T175537 CREATED:20220901T140045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220901T140045Z UID:10007240-1664197200-1664200800@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:PSOC Seminar: "Compromised nuclear envelope integrity leads to tumor cell invasion" (Guilherme Nader\, CHOP) DESCRIPTION:Fall 2022 Hybrid-Seminar Series \nMondays 1.00-2.00 pm (EST) \nTowne 225 / Raisler Lounge   \nFor Zoom link\, please contact 109 nanoscale magnetophoretic sorting devices in a postage-stamp-sized lattice with >70x magnetic traps and >20x improved enrichment for magnetic nanoparticles versus previous studies. \nThe understanding of cracking in particle templates\, the developed self-assembly methods\, and the application demonstrations reported in this work may advance the fabrication and applications of high-strength multifunctional porous materials\, providing fundamental insights into the design\, synthesis\, and control of complex hierarchical materials that employ colloid self-assembly. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-ph-d-thesis-defense-surface-and-interface-engineering-in-manipulation-and-fabrication-of-colloid-based-sub-microporous-hierarchical-materials-and-their-applications/ LOCATION:Moore 212 CATEGORIES:Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T133000 DTSTAMP:20260405T175537 CREATED:20220907T163817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T163817Z UID:10007255-1664366400-1664371800@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:ASSET Seminar: Equivariance in Deep Learning\, Kostas Daniilidis (University of Pennsylvania) DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT\nTraditional convolutional networks exhibit unprecedented robustness to intraclass nuisances when trained on big data. Generalization with respect to geometric transformations has been achieved via expensive data augmentation. It has been shown recently that data augmentation can be avoided if networks are structured such that feature representations are transformed the same way as the input\, a desirable property called equivariance. In this talk\, we show how equivariance can be realized via group convolutions\, how to deal with vector and tensor fields\, and how we achieve equivariance in transformers. We present results on 3D shape classification and scene reconstruction based on learning only objects but not scenes. \nBIO \nKostas Daniilidis has been faculty at the University of Pennsylvania since 1998.  He is an IEEE Fellow. He was the director of the GRASP laboratory from 2008 to 2013. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe (now KIT) in 1992. He is a co-recipient of the Best Conference Paper Award at ICRA 2017. Kostas’ main interest today is in geometric deep learning\, event-based neuromorphic vision\, and their applications in vision-based manipulation and navigation. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/asset-seminar-kostas-daniilidis-university-of-pennsylvania/ LOCATION:Levine 307\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="Computer and Information Science":MAILTO:cherylh@cis.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T163000 DTSTAMP:20260405T175537 CREATED:20220923T183934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220923T183934Z UID:10007302-1664379000-1664382600@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:Fall 2022 GRASP SFI: Millind Tambe\, Harvard University\, "Results from deployments for public health and conservation" DESCRIPTION:*This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and Virtual attendance via Zoom here… \n  \nABSTRACT\nWith the maturing of AI and multiagent systems research\, we have a tremendous opportunity to direct these advances towards addressing complex societal problems. I  will focus on  domains of public health and conservation\,  and address one key cross-cutting challenge: how to effectively deploy our limited intervention resources in these problem domains. I will present results from work around the globe in using AI for challenges in public health such as Maternal and Child care interventions\, HIV prevention\, and in conservation such as  endangered wildlife protection. Achieving social impact in these domains often requires methodological advances. To that end\, I will highlight key research advances in multiagent reasoning and learning\, in particular in\, restless multiarmed bandits\, influence maximization in social networks\, computational game theory and decision-focused learning. In pushing this research agenda\, our ultimate goal is to facilitate local communities and non-profits to directly benefit from advances in AI tools and techniques. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/fall-2022-grasp-sfi-millind-tambe-harvard-university-tba/ LOCATION:Levine 307\, 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T110000 DTSTAMP:20260405T175537 CREATED:20220912T172957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220912T172957Z UID:10007280-1664445600-1664449200@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:Fall 2022 GRASP Seminar: Guillermo Gallego\, Technical University Berlin\, "Stereo depth and optical flow estimation via contrast maximization of event camera data” DESCRIPTION:*This is a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance via Zoom. \nABSTRACT\nEvent cameras are novel vision sensors that mimic functions from the human retina and offer potential advantages over traditional cameras (low latency\, high speed\, high dynamic range\, etc.). They acquire visual information in the form of pixel-wise brightness changes\, called events. This talk presents event processing approaches for motion estimation in computer vision and robotics applications. In particular\, we will discuss recent advances by the Robotic Interactive Perception Lab at TU Berlin in extending the contrast maximization framework to stereo depth and optical flow estimation while avoiding its Achilles’ heel: event collapse. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/fall-2022-grasp-seminar-guillermo-gallego-technical-university-berlin-stereo-depth-and-optical-flow-estimation-via-contrast-maximization-of-event-camera-data/ LOCATION:Levine 307\, 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T110000 DTSTAMP:20260405T175537 CREATED:20220915T203135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T203135Z UID:10007290-1664445600-1664449200@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: "Room-temperature Electrochemical Healing of Structural Metals" DESCRIPTION:For over 6\,000 years\, repairing high-strength metallic materials has required high temperatures and large energy inputs. Likewise\, recent innovations in self-healing and repairable metals have remained limited by the need for heating\, the small size of repairable cracks\, and the low strength and constrained chemical composition of healed metals. While welding remains the most widely used approach to repair metals\, the increasing ubiquity of digital manufacturing and “unweldable” alloys call for radically different approaches. This thesis pioneers a new approach for repairing structural metals at room-temperature\, termed “electrochemical healing”. First\, by mimicking the transport-mediated healing of bone\, selective nickel electrodeposition enables rapid\, effective\, low-energy\, and room-temperature healing of a cellular metal. A polymer coating restricts electrodeposition only at fracture or high stress sites\, and a statistical method quantifies and predicts the probability of a target recovery of tensile strength based on energy input. This thesis extends room-temperature healing to low-carbon steel\, a widely used structural metal\, by elucidating how ion transport and electrolyte chemistry influence growth morphology and strength in fractured steel wires repaired with nickel electrodeposition. Pulsed electroplating and electrolyte chemistry selection improve nickel adhesion and enable fully fractured steel wires to recover up to 69% of their pristine strength. Finally\, this thesis presents a framework for effective room temperature electrochemical healing based on a quantitative model that links geometric\, mechanical\, and electrochemical parameters to the recovery of tensile strength in repaired metals. This framework enables full recovery of tensile strength in a variety of structural metals\, including “unweldable” alloys and a 3D-printed difficult-to-weld funicular shellular structure\, as well as over 100% recovery of toughness in an aluminum alloy. The model reveals scaling relationships for the energetic\, financial\, and time costs of repairing metals that facilitate the practical adoption of electrochemical healing. Room-temperature electrochemical healing could open exciting possibilities for the scalable\, autonomous\, repeatable\, and prophylactic repair of metals in structures and robots\, enable cellular materials that respond to environmental stimulus with growth and morphogenesis\, and advance the life cycle sustainability of structural metals. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-ph-d-thesis-defense-room-temperature-electrochemical-healing-of-structural-metals/ LOCATION:Greenberg Lounge (Room 114)\, Skirkanich Hall\, 210 South 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Doctoral,Dissertation or Thesis Defense ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T113000 DTSTAMP:20260405T175537 CREATED:20220921T155837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220921T155837Z UID:10007301-1664447400-1664451000@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:MEAM Seminar: "Harnessing Physical Intelligence for High-Performance Soft Robots" DESCRIPTION:Different from neuron-based computational intelligence through the brain\, physical intelligence leverages structural designs and smart materials to physically encode sensing\, actuation\, control\, adaption\, and decision-making into the body of an agent. The stimuli-responsive body materials can enable autonomous sensory\, actuation\, powering\, and other physical intelligence functions. The structural designs of soft body can simplify the required actuation for deformation and motion\, as well as enable real-time feedback control-free locomotion and self-adaption. \nIn this talk\, I will discuss our recent work in embodying mechanical intelligence of structural designs and/or materials intelligence of soft active materials in soft robotics\, for achieving delicacy in manipulation\, high speed and high efficiency in locomotion\, and autonomy and intelligence. First\, I will talk about utilizing the ancient paper cutting art of kirigami for programming 3D curved shape shifting via geometric mechanics guided design\, as well as its application in nondestructive and delicate grasping. Then\, I will discuss how to leverage bistability and multistability for achieving high-speed and high-efficient terrestrial and aqueous soft robots. Finally\, I will discuss examples of integrating structural designs with soft active materials for achieving autonomy and intelligence in soft robots. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-seminar-harnessing-physical-intelligence-for-high-performance-soft-robots/ LOCATION:Towne 227 (MEAM Conference Room)\, 220 S. 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T113000 DTSTAMP:20260405T175537 CREATED:20220925T150640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220925T150640Z UID:10007304-1664447400-1664451000@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:POSTPONED // MSE Seminar & Grace Hopper Lecture: “Materials for Quantum Technologies Through a Computational Lens" DESCRIPTION:Refreshments served at 10:15 AM \nIn this talk\, I will describe theoretical and computational strategies based on quantum mechanical calculations\, aimed at predicting material properties suitable for the development of quantum technologies. Specifically\, I will discuss the electronic structure and coherent states of spin defects in two- and three-dimensional semiconductors and insulators\, obtained using both classical and near-term quantum computers. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/postponed-mse-seminar-grace-hopper-lecture-2022/ LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Distinguished Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T114500 DTSTAMP:20260405T175537 CREATED:20220923T184357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220923T184357Z UID:10007303-1664533800-1664538300@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:Fall 2022 GRASP Seminar: Joshua Jeanson\, University of Pennsylvania\, "IP in Academic and Corporate Research Settings" DESCRIPTION:This seminar is for internal Penn students and faculty only. \n  \nABSTRACT\nAn overview of Intellectual Property and a discussion on best practices for protecting your creations and ideas in light of employment obligations. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/fall-2022-grasp-seminar-joshua-jeanson/ 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T120000 DTSTAMP:20260405T175537 CREATED:20220928T130231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220928T130231Z UID:10007311-1664535600-1664539200@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:ESE/CIS Joint Seminar: "Future Heterogeneous Systems Need More First-Class Citizens" DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, system designers have increasingly been turning to heterogeneous systems to improve performance and energy efficiency.  Specialized accelerators are frequently used to improve the efficiency of computations that run inefficiently on conventional\, general-purpose processors. As a result\, systems ranging from smartphones to datacenters\, hyperscalers\, and supercomputers are increasingly using large numbers of accelerators (including GPUs) while providing better efficiency than CPU-based solutions.  In particular\, GPUs are widely used in these systems due to their combination of programmability and efficiency.  Traditionally\, GPUs are throughput-oriented\, focused on data parallelism\, and assume synchronization happens at a coarse granularity.  However\, programmers have begun using these systems for a wider variety of applications which exhibit different characteristics\, including latency-sensitivity\, mixes of both task and data parallelism\, and fine-grained synchronization.  Thus\, future heterogeneous systems must evolve and make deadline-aware scheduling\, more intelligent data movement\, efficient fine-grained synchronization\, and effective power management first-order design constraints.  In the first part of this talk\, I will discuss our efforts to apply hardware-software co-design to help future heterogeneous systems overcome these challenges and improve performance\, energy efficiency\, and scalability.  Then\, in the second part I will discuss how the on-going transition to chiplet-based heterogeneous systems exacerbates these challenges and my vision for extending our work to address these challenges in chiplet-based heterogeneous systems by rethinking the control plane. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/ese-cis-joint-seminar/ LOCATION:Heilmeier Hall (Room 100)\, Towne Building\, 220 South 33rd Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Computer and Information Science":MAILTO:cherylh@cis.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T130000 DTSTAMP:20260405T175537 CREATED:20220920T142803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220920T142803Z UID:10007293-1664539200-1664542800@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:Theory Seminar- Rachel Cummings (Columbia University) DESCRIPTION: URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/theory-seminar-rachel-cummings-columbia-university/ LOCATION:Room 401B\, 3401 Walnut\, 3401 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminar ORGANIZER;CN="The Warren Center":MAILTO:Lhoot@seas.upenn.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T175537 CREATED:20220907T162554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T162554Z UID:10007252-1664539200-1664546400@seasevents.nmsdev7.com SUMMARY:PRECISE Seminar: Investigate and Mitigate the Attacks Caused by Out-of-Band Signals DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\n\nSensing and actuation systems are entrusted with increasing intelligence to perceive the environment and react to it. Their reliability often relies on the trustworthiness of sensors. As process automation and robotics keep evolving\, sensing methods such as pressure/temperature/motion sensing are extensively used in conventional systems and rapidly emerging applications. This talk aims to investigate the threats incurred by the out-of-band signals and discuss the low-cost defense methods against physical injection attacks on sensors. Dr. Hei will present the results from her USENIX Security\, ACM CCS\, and ASIACCS papers. [Zoom] \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio\n\n\nXiali (Sharon) Hei is an Alfred and Helen M. Lamson Endowed assistant professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Prior to joining the University of Louisiana at Lafayette\, she was an assistant professor at Delaware State University from 2015-2017 and an assistant professor at Frostburg State University from 2014-2015. Dr. Hei received her Ph.D. in computer science from Temple University in 2014. \nShe was awarded an NSF MRI Track 2 award\, a Facebook award\, an LA BoRSF CEMC Talent Initiative Fund\,  an LA BoRSF Seed fund\, a 20-million NSF ERSCoR RII Track 1 award\, an NSF CRII award\, and a Delaware DEDO grant\, etc. Also\, she earned an M.S. in Software Engineering from Tsinghua University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University. She got several awards such as ACM 2014 MobiHoc Best Poster Runner-up Award\, Dissertation Completion Fellowship\, The Bronze Award Best Graduate Project in Future of Computing Competition\, etc. Her papers were published at USENIX Security Symp.\, ACM CCS\, IEEE European Symp. on Security and Privacy\, IEEE INFOCOM\, RAID\, ASIACCS\, etc. She is a TPC member of the USENIX Security Symp. \, IEEE Euro S&P\, Annual International Conference on Privacy\, Security & Trust (PST)\, IEEE GLOBECOM\, SafeThings\, AutoSec\, IEEE ICC\, WASA\, etc. She is an IEEE senior member since 2019. URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/precise-seminar-investigate-and-mitigate-the-attacks-caused-by-out-of-band-signals/ LOCATION:https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96715197752 CATEGORIES:Seminar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR