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Sunday, November 26, 2023
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Monday, November 27, 2023
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November 27, 2023 -MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Mechanics-Informed Optimization for Enhanced Adhesion and Toughness”
MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Mechanics-Informed Optimization for Enhanced Adhesion and Toughness”
Structural design optimization has long played a crucial role in engineering, often with the goal of creating stiff and lightweight structures for aerospace and other applications. However, optimizing structures against failure is also crucial and has been less explored. Failure at interfaces is particularly challenging in design optimization as they involve high local stress concentrations […]
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
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November 28, 2023 -MEAM Seminar: “Advancing Bioadhesive Technologies with Mechanical Principles”
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November 28, 2023 -CIS Seminar: “Mitigating Technology Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence and Encrypted Messaging”
MEAM Seminar: “Advancing Bioadhesive Technologies with Mechanical Principles”
Bioadhesive technologies are important in a wide range of applications, spanning from wound management to wearable technologies. Forming and controlling tough adhesion on biological tissues has been a long-lasting challenge, necessitating transdisciplinary approaches. In my talk, I will share our recent progress in the design, mechanics, and applications of tough bioadhesives. I will first discuss […]
CIS Seminar: “Mitigating Technology Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence and Encrypted Messaging”
Computer security is traditionally about the protection of technology, whereas trust and safety efforts focus on preventing technology abuse from harming people. In this talk, I'll explore the interplay between security and tech abuse, and make the case that trust and safety represents an important frontier for computer security researchers. To do so, I'll draw […]
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
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November 29, 2023 -ASSET Seminar: “Inherent Interpretability via Language Model Guided Bottleneck Design” (Mark Yatskar, Penn)
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November 29, 2023 -PSOC Seminar: Denise Montell, University of California, Santa Barbara
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November 29, 2023 -CBE Doctoral Dissertation: “A Multiscale Computational Framework for Simulating Thrombus Growth Under Flow” (Kaushik Shankar)
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November 29, 2023 -Fall 2023 GRASP SFI: Xiaolong Wang, University of California San Diego, “Generalizable Geometric Robot Learning”
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November 29, 2023 -CBE Seminar: “Revolutionizing Bioimaging to Elevate Human Health”
ASSET Seminar: “Inherent Interpretability via Language Model Guided Bottleneck Design” (Mark Yatskar, Penn)
ABSTRACT: As deep learning systems improve, their applicability to critical domains is hampered because of a lack of transparency. Post-hoc explanations attempt to address this concern but they provide no guarantee of faithfulness to the model’s computations. Inherently interpretable models are an alternative but such models are often considered to be too simple to perform […]
PSOC Seminar: Denise Montell, University of California, Santa Barbara
PSOC@Penn Seminar, Wednesday Nov 29th ** New Location ** DRL 2N3 2N3 conference/seminar room is in DRL 2nd floor towards end of hallway that parallels Walnut St -Noon - 1.00pm : PSOC talk Speaker: Denise Montell, PhD Duggan Professor and Distinguished Professor, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara https://www.mcdb.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/denise-montell https://denisemontell.mcdb.ucsb.edu/ Talk : “TBA” […]
CBE Doctoral Dissertation: “A Multiscale Computational Framework for Simulating Thrombus Growth Under Flow” (Kaushik Shankar)
Abstract: Modeling thrombus growth in pathological flows allows evaluation of risk under patient-specific pharmacological, hematological, and hemodynamical conditions. To this end, we have developed a 3D multiscale framework for the prediction of thrombus growth under flow on a spatially resolved surface presenting collagen and tissue factor (TF). The multiscale framework is composed of four coupled […]
Fall 2023 GRASP SFI: Xiaolong Wang, University of California San Diego, “Generalizable Geometric Robot Learning”
This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Robot learning has witnessed significant progress in terms of generalization recently, with the help of data-driven learning and image/text foundation models. While these achievements are encouraging, most tasks conducted in this context are relatively simple (e.g., pick-and-place with a […]
CBE Seminar: “Revolutionizing Bioimaging to Elevate Human Health”
Holistic imaging of diverse functional, anatomical, and molecular architecture that span multiple levels, from cells to an entire system, remains a major challenge in biology. In this talk, I will introduce a series of technologies that enable integrated multiscale imaging and molecular phenotyping of both animal tissues and human clinical samples. I will discuss how […]
Thursday, November 30, 2023
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November 30, 2023 -MSE Seminar: “Aluminum Scandium Nitride Thin Films and Microdevices for Radio Frequency Filters and Magnetoelectric Sensors”
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November 30, 2023 -ESE Fall Seminar – “Electromagnetics for advanced power electronics and wireless power transfer”
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November 30, 2023 -BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “A robotic system for automated genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans” (John Zihao Li)
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November 30, 2023 -CIS Seminar: “Diffusion Models in Computer Vision”
MSE Seminar: “Aluminum Scandium Nitride Thin Films and Microdevices for Radio Frequency Filters and Magnetoelectric Sensors”
Aluminum Nitride (AlN) is a well-established thin film piezoelectric material. AlN bulk acoustic wave (BAW) radio frequency (RF) filters were one of the key innovations that enabled the 3G and 4G smart phone revolution. Recently, the substitutional doping of scandium (Sc) for aluminum (Al) to form aluminum scandium nitride (AlScN) has been studied to significantly […]
ESE Fall Seminar – “Electromagnetics for advanced power electronics and wireless power transfer”
Power electronics is an essential enabler for efficient energy utilization across many different applications as well for renewable electricity generation. Advances in power semiconductor materials and devices are improving power electronics capabilities, but power electronics also relies heavily on passive electromagnetic components---inductors, transformers, and capacitors. The capabilities of these components are increasingly the bottlenecks limiting […]
BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “A robotic system for automated genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans” (John Zihao Li)
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Christopher Fang-Yen are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of John Zihao Li. Title: A robotic system for automated genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans. Date: Thursday, November 30, 2023 Time: 2:00pm Location: Greenberg Lounge, 114 Skirkanich Hall Zoom Option: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/5692069917?pwd=M2tmSnV5QnZxakx5QVhLd0VDR2YzQT09 Meeting ID: 569 206 9917 Passcode: […]
CIS Seminar: “Diffusion Models in Computer Vision”
Denoising diffusion models represent a recent emerging topic in computer vision, demonstrating impressive results in generative modeling. A diffusion model is a deep generative model that is based on two stages, a forward diffusion stage and a reverse diffusion stage. In the forward diffusion stage, the input data is gradually perturbed over several steps by […]
Friday, December 1, 2023
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December 1, 2023 -CBE Doctoral Dissertation: “Understanding and Controlling Polymer-Porous Solid Interactions for Catalytic Recycling of Polymers” (Tian Ren)
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December 1, 2023 -PRECISE Seminar: Protecting Health Care & Cyberphysical Systems – Wicked Bizarre Semiconductor Physics of Sensor Security
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December 1, 2023 -Fall 2023 GRASP on Robotics: Nancy Amato, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Sampling-Based Task and Motion Planning: From Robotic Manipulators to Intelligent CAD to Analyzing Proteins”
CBE Doctoral Dissertation: “Understanding and Controlling Polymer-Porous Solid Interactions for Catalytic Recycling of Polymers” (Tian Ren)
Abstract: Understanding and controlling polymer-solid interactions is critical for optimizing the catalytic processes involved in polymer upcycling. In this Ph.D. thesis, I explored the intricacies of polymer behavior in nanoporous materials by monitoring the capillary infiltration dynamics of polystyrene (PS) and polyethylene (PE) into random packings of silica nanoparticles. To test the effect of surface […]
PRECISE Seminar: Protecting Health Care & Cyberphysical Systems – Wicked Bizarre Semiconductor Physics of Sensor Security
Medical devices, healthcare delivery, and other cyber-physical systems depend on sensors to make safety-critical, automated decisions. My research lab investigates the problem of how to protect cyber-physical systems from adversaries who can maliciously control sensor output by subverting its semiconductor physics. Finding principled, systematic solutions is extremely important to give consumers confidence in innovative medical […]
Fall 2023 GRASP on Robotics: Nancy Amato, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Sampling-Based Task and Motion Planning: From Robotic Manipulators to Intelligent CAD to Analyzing Proteins”
This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Task and motion planning has application in robotics, animation, virtual prototyping and training, and even for seemingly unrelated tasks such as evaluating architectural plans or simulating protein motions. Surprisingly, sampling-based methods have proven effective on problems from all […]
Saturday, December 2, 2023
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