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Sunday, April 16, 2023
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Monday, April 17, 2023
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April 17, 2023 -ESE PhD Thesis Defense: “Leveraging Models to Improve Data Efficiency: Navigation, Reinforcement Learning, and Lie Group Convolutions”
ESE PhD Thesis Defense: “Leveraging Models to Improve Data Efficiency: Navigation, Reinforcement Learning, and Lie Group Convolutions”
Consider a system which takes data as an input, processes the data with a model, and outputs a decision for a particular objective. We call the measure of the amount of data used to complete the objective with some performance metric as data efficiency. Across many domains, it is advantageous to reduce the amount of […]
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
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April 18, 2023 -MEAM Seminar: “Nano and Polymers and Mechanics and Data”
MEAM Seminar: “Nano and Polymers and Mechanics and Data”
For polymer composites, nanocomposites and polymer thin film systems, the local properties of polymers can be altered by the chemical and physical interactions with substrates and embedded particles over a length scales exceeding 100nm. The mechanisms and impact of confined polymers remains still an active area of research and debate. Here we will review methods […]
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
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April 19, 2023 -Future Leaders in Mechanobiology: Piere Rodriguez Aliaga
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April 19, 2023 -ASSET Seminar: Thinking fast with Transformers – Algorithmic Reasoning via Shortcuts (Surbhi Goel, University of Pennsylvania)
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April 19, 2023 -CIS Presents: “A Celebration of Norman Badler’s Legacy at Penn”
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April 19, 2023 -Spring 2023 GRASP SFI: Jeffrey Lipton, Northeastern University, “Robotics and Digital Manufacturing”
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April 19, 2023 -CBE Quinn Distinguished Lecture: “Reclaiming Engineering in the Minds of the Public: The Unheralded, Underappreciated, and Misunderstood Method that Built our Modern World” (Bill Hammack, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Future Leaders in Mechanobiology: Piere Rodriguez Aliaga
Launched in May 2021, the Future Leaders in Mechanobiology is a monthly seminar series featuring up-and-coming leaders in mechanobiology–PhD students and postdocs from a wide range of fields, backgrounds, and institutions. By providing an international stage to share one’s work and opportunities to interact with researchers at all career stages, we aim to create an inclusive and […]
ASSET Seminar: Thinking fast with Transformers – Algorithmic Reasoning via Shortcuts (Surbhi Goel, University of Pennsylvania)
PRESENTATION ABSTRACT: In this new era of deep learning, the emergent algorithmic reasoning capabilities of Transformer models have led to significant advancements in natural language processing, program synthesis, and theorem proving. Despite their widespread success, the underlying reasons for their efficacy and the nature of their internal representations remain elusive. In this talk, we take […]
Spring 2023 GRASP SFI: Jeffrey Lipton, Northeastern University, “Robotics and Digital Manufacturing”
This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance via Zoom. This week's presenter will be in-person as well. ABSTRACT Robotics and manufacturing are intricately linked. Each new generation of robotic fabrication tools has transformed manufacturing, enabling greater complexity and customization of the world around us. With the recent developments […]
CBE Quinn Distinguished Lecture: “Reclaiming Engineering in the Minds of the Public: The Unheralded, Underappreciated, and Misunderstood Method that Built our Modern World” (Bill Hammack, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Abstract: Naively the public assumes the products of engineers arise from the scientific method, as reflected in an old joke among engineers about the relationship of science and engineering: “if it’s a success, then it’s a scientific miracle, if a disaster, then an engineering failure.” This joke highlights that successful technologies are invisible: The hallmark […]
Thursday, April 20, 2023
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April 20, 2023 -MEAM Master’s Thesis Defense: “Preliminary Design of an Origami-Inspired Pulmonary Artery Band”
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April 20, 2023 -MSE Seminar: “Controlling Phase Separation in Elastomeric (Poly)peptides in the Production of Micro-and Nano-Structured Materials” (University of Delaware)
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April 20, 2023 -BE Seminar: “Opportunities and Support for the BME Research Community from NSF” (Laurel Kuxhaus, NSF)
MEAM Master’s Thesis Defense: “Preliminary Design of an Origami-Inspired Pulmonary Artery Band”
Every year, infants are born with life-threatening congenital heart defects that need to be corrected with reconstructive heart surgery. In cases where blood flow through the main pulmonary artery is excessive, patients typically undergo palliative treatments such as pulmonary artery banding, which aims to reduce this blood flow to a more manageable level. While traditional […]
MSE Seminar: “Controlling Phase Separation in Elastomeric (Poly)peptides in the Production of Micro-and Nano-Structured Materials” (University of Delaware)
Macromolecular materials that are capable of selectively and efficiently localizing cells, factors, and/or drugs offer important approaches for mediating biological events and in the development of hybrid materials. We have employed a combination of biosynthetic tools, bioconjugation strategies, and biomimetic assembly to produce thermoresponsive (poly)peptides derived from sequences of resilin, elastin, and collagen. These materials […]
BE Seminar: “Opportunities and Support for the BME Research Community from NSF” (Laurel Kuxhaus, NSF)
This seminar will be held in person in Glandt Forum; snacks will be served. "Opportunities and Support for the BME Research Community from NSF" The National Science Foundation (NSF) supports work in all fields of science and engineering, including biomedical engineering. That said, biomedical engineering researchers can face challenges in finding the right ‘home’ and […]
Friday, April 21, 2023
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April 21, 2023 -MEAM Seminar: “Design, Characterization, and Fabrication of Low-Cost, Passive, and Biodegradable Sensors for Precision Agriculture”
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April 21, 2023 -Spring 2023 GRASP on Robotics: Vivienne Sze, MIT, “Efficient Computing for Autonomy and Navigation”
MEAM Seminar: “Design, Characterization, and Fabrication of Low-Cost, Passive, and Biodegradable Sensors for Precision Agriculture”
With the global population projected to reach 9.1 billion people by 2050 there is a need to develop highly efficient agricultural systems that can reliably maximize crop yield. Precision Agriculture (PA) systems enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT) offer a potential solution through improvements in labor, resource, and time efficiency to improve agricultural output. […]
Spring 2023 GRASP on Robotics: Vivienne Sze, MIT, “Efficient Computing for Autonomy and Navigation”
This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance via Zoom. This week's presenter will be virtual. ABSTRACT A broad range of next-generation applications will be enabled by low-energy autonomous vehicles including insect-size flapping wing robots that can help with search and rescue, chip-size satellites that can explore […]
Saturday, April 22, 2023
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