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SUMMARY:MEAM Seminar: "Bringing Microrobots into Biomedicine"
DESCRIPTION:Recent progress in diverse disciplines such as soft matter physics\, nanoparticle synthesis\, nanomedicine\, and microbiology has enabled rich opportunities for translation of small-scale robots into medical applications. These robotic systems are providing innovative\, high-precision\, therapeutic and diagnostic approaches for the treatment of diseases associated with microbial biofilms and are rapidly moving from proof-of-concept studies to translational biomedical applications using ex vivo and animal models. I highlight recent progress using directed nanoparticle assembly to create adaptive\, reconfigurable\, microrobotic systems capable of treating and removing microbial biofilms from topographically complex\, difficult-to-access sites. These methods for disruption rely on both chemical and mechanical activity\, using iron oxide nanoparticles with dual functionality: catalytic properties for generating reactive species on-site and magnetic properties for controlled assembly and physical removal. This approach could lead to autonomous\, multifunctional antibiofilm platforms to advance current treatment modalities and other fields contending with harmful biofilms on hard-to-reach surfaces.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/meam-seminar-bringing-microrobots-into-biomedicine/
LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminar
ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics":MAILTO:meam@seas.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T153000
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SUMMARY:CIS Seminar: "An Alternative View on AI:  Collaborative Learning\, Incentives\, and Social Welfare"
DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence (AI) has focused on a paradigm in which intelligence inheres in a single\, autonomous agent.  Social issues are entirely secondary in this paradigm.  When AI systems are deployed in social contexts\, however\, the overall design of such systems is often naive—a centralized entity provides services to passive agents and reaps the rewards.  Such a paradigm need not be the dominant paradigm for information technology.  In a broader framing\, agents are active\, they are cooperative\, and they wish to obtain value from their participation in learning-based systems.  Agents may supply data and other resources to the system\, only if it is in their interest to do so.  Critically\, intelligence inheres as much\nin the overall system as it does in individual agents\, be they humans or computers. This is a perspective that is familiar in the social sciences\, and a key theme in my work is that of bringing economics into contact with foundational issues in computing and data sciences.  I’ll emphasize some of the mathematical challenges that arise at this tripartite interface.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/cis-seminar-an-alternative-view-on-ai-collaborative-learning-incentives-and-social-welfare-2/
LOCATION:Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101)\, Levine Hall\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Computer and Information Science":MAILTO:cherylh@cis.upenn.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T100000
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SUMMARY:BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: "Investigating cell state plasticity at the gastroesophageal junction with lineage tracing in humans" (Rodrigo Gier)
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Sydney Shaffer are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Rodrigo Gier.\n \n\nTitle: Investigating cell state plasticity at the gastroesophageal junction with lineage tracing in humans\n \nDate: October 11\, 2023\nTime: 10:00 am\nLocation: Reunion Auditorium\, John Morgan Building\n\nThe public is welcome to attend.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/be-doctoral-dissertation-defense-investigating-cell-state-plasticity-at-the-gastroesophageal-junction-with-lineage-tracing-in-humans-rodrigo-gier/
LOCATION:JMB Reunion Auditorium\, 3620 Hamilton Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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:20231011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T131500
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SUMMARY:ASSET Seminar: "Towards Code-Aware Code Models" (Baishakhi Ray\, Columbia University)
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: \nThe past decade has seen unprecedented growth in Software Engineering— developers spend enormous time and effort to create new products. With such enormous growth comes the responsibility of producing and maintaining quality and robust software. In this talk\, I will discuss how AI can help develop quality products in different stages of the software development life cycle. In particular\, I will discuss how we can build AI models leveraging different static and dynamic code properties for source and binary code to automate diverse Software Engineering tasks\, including code generation\, bug finding\, security analysis\, etc.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/asset-seminar-towards-code-aware-code-models-baishakhi-ray-columbia-university/
LOCATION:Levine 307\, 3330 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fall 2023 GRASP SFI: Helmut Hauser\, University of Bristol\, "Morphological Computation - Building Smart Bodies for Smart Robots"
DESCRIPTION:This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. This week’s speaker will be virtual. \nABSTRACT\nMorphological Computation is a concept in robotics that suggests that the morphology of a robot should play  a crucial role in the design of intelligent machines.  This is inspired by observations in nature\, where we can see that biological systems rely heavily on their morphological features to implement useful functionalities to make them more energy efficient\, robust and resilient.  We work together with biologists and chemists to extract the underlying principles and to translate them into intelligent morphological structures that can be exploited to facilitate control\, improve sensing and accelerate learning.  I will present examples of morphological computation from our group ranging from theoretical models\, to simulations\, to real robot prototypes.  This will include demonstrations of how we can compute with an octopus inspired robot arm\, how we can understand spider webs as mechanical signal processing devices\, and how we can grow robot bodies to help us to learn faster.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/fall-2023-grasp-sfi-helmut-hauser/
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231012T120000
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SUMMARY:ESE PhD Thesis Defense: "Light matter interaction in low-dimensional semiconductors"
DESCRIPTION:Light matter interaction holds significant relevance across a range of applications including lasing\, sensing\, communications\, and computing. One prominent method for modulating optical properties is through the use of a Fabry-Perot cavity\, which controls the photonic density of states within optical cavities. Additionally\, plasmonic and high-contrast dielectric cavities represent a cutting-edge approach for photonic dispersion engineering and phase modulation. These techniques confine light field distribution within nanostructures whose dimensions are comparable to\, or smaller than\, the light wavelength. Materials exhibiting resonant quantum confined states\, such as excitons\, phonons\, and magnons\, offer alternate avenues for manipulating light propagation and interaction. This thesis aims to explore light-matter interactions within various innovative low-dimensional semiconductors. This exploration is achieved by generating cavity photons either out-of-plane (Fabry-Perot cavity) or in-plane (plasmonic or dielectric cavity)\, offering an innovative platform for enhancing light matter interactions and tuning optical properties. The talk will present examples of the above using chalcogenide-based excitonic semiconductors showing strong exciton-polariton coupling and antiferromagnetic semiconductors showing near unity linear dichroism and exciton-magnon coupling.
URL:https://seasevents.nmsdev7.com/event/ese-phd-thesis-defense-light-matter-interaction-in-low-dimensional-semiconductors/
LOCATION:Room 35\, Singh Center for Nanotechnology\, 3205 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dissertation or Thesis Defense
ORGANIZER;CN="Electrical and Systems Engineering":MAILTO:eseevents@seas.upenn.edu
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