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Sunday, March 17, 2024
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Monday, March 18, 2024
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March 18, 2024 -ESE Spring Seminar – “The Next Leap in Hardware Systems: Powered by Heterogenous Memory, Logic, and 3D Integration”
ESE Spring Seminar – “The Next Leap in Hardware Systems: Powered by Heterogenous Memory, Logic, and 3D Integration”
Computing is at a critical juncture. Applications such as AI/ML demand much larger memory, higher bandwidth, and lower-energy compute compared to business as usual. New hardware systems, powered by heterogenous memory, logic, and 3D integration, are required for large energy efficiency, throughput, and scaleup benefits. I will present my contributions to three such heterogeneous systems: […]
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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March 19, 2024 -MEAM Seminar: “Designing Heart Valves from First Principles: Model Generation, Congenital Disease and Surgical Treatment”
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March 19, 2024 -ESE Spring Seminar – “An interdisciplinary approach to advance quantum science and technology”
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March 19, 2024 -Penn Bioengineering 50th Anniversary Lecture: “Synthetic Biology: Programmable Biology” (James J. Collins, MIT & Harvard)
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March 19, 2024 -CIS Seminar: Generalizing Outside the Training Distribution through Compositional Generation”
MEAM Seminar: “Designing Heart Valves from First Principles: Model Generation, Congenital Disease and Surgical Treatment”
Congenital heart defects affect approximately one in every hundred births and are the leading cause of infant mortality in the United States. Despite successes in surgical treatment, suboptimal outcomes remain common. Surgical treatment of complex, rare congenital heart valve defects typically follows an empirical, retrospective, “guess and check” approach. Further, children with congenital valve defects […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “An interdisciplinary approach to advance quantum science and technology”
Quantum science and technology hold the promise to deepen our understanding of the universe and deliver groundbreaking technical innovations. The opportunity also poses a grand challenge to today’s scientists and engineers because initializing, controlling, manipulating, and measuring quantum information while maintaining coherence and entanglement can be very difficult. Therefore, successfully achieving breakthroughs will require an […]
Penn Bioengineering 50th Anniversary Lecture: “Synthetic Biology: Programmable Biology” (James J. Collins, MIT & Harvard)
Celebrate 50 years and beyond of Penn Bioengineering! This distinguished lecture will be held in honor of the Department of Bioengineering's 50th Anniversary. Dr. Collins will deliver his talk in Glandt Forum at 3:30 pm, to be followed by a Q&A. A catered reception will follow in the Singh Center lobby at 4:30 pm.
CIS Seminar: Generalizing Outside the Training Distribution through Compositional Generation”
Generative AI has led to stunning successes in recent years but is fundamentally limited by the amount of data available. This is especially limiting in the embodied setting – where an agent must solve new tasks in new environments. In this talk, I’ll introduce the idea of compositional generative modeling, which enables generalization beyond the […]
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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March 20, 2024 -ASSET Seminar: “Bridging the Gap Between Deep Learning Theory and Practice” (Micah Goldblum, New York University)
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March 20, 2024 -Rigorous and Glamorous in 100 Words or Less: An Abstract Workshop
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March 20, 2024 -BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Ionizable lipid nanoparticles for in utero gene editing of congenital disease” (Rohan Palanki)
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March 20, 2024 -BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Nanofluidic Isolation and Quantification of Specific Extracellular Vesicles and Machine Learning Analysis to Aid Clinical Decision-Making” (Hanfei Shen)
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March 20, 2024 -BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Tissue Engineered Cortical-Hippocampal Neural Networks for Pharmacological Investigations” (Victor Acero)
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March 20, 2024 -Spring 2024 GRASP SFI: Eugene Vinitsky, New York University and Apple, “Real-world reinforcement learning in multi-agent systems: deploying cooperative autonomy at scale”
ASSET Seminar: “Bridging the Gap Between Deep Learning Theory and Practice” (Micah Goldblum, New York University)
ABSTRACT: Despite the widespread proliferation of neural networks, the mechanisms through which they operate so successfully are not well understood. In this talk, we will first explore empirical and theoretical investigations into neural network training and generalization and what they can tell us about why deep learning works. Then, we will examine a recent line […]
Rigorous and Glamorous in 100 Words or Less: An Abstract Workshop
It’s hard to write an abstract. It’s harder to write a glamorous one that tells your story without overselling your results. Community for Rigor is here to help! Join Professor Konrad Kording for a rigorous abstract writing workshop on March 20th, 2024. Together, let’s lovingly glam up abstracts from the Community and make the most of 100 […]
BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Ionizable lipid nanoparticles for in utero gene editing of congenital disease” (Rohan Palanki)
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Drs. Michael J. Mitchell and William H. Peranteau are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Rohan Palanki. Title: Ionizable lipid nanoparticles for in utero gene editing of congenital disease Date: March 20th, 2024 Time: (1PM-3 PM) Location: Law Auditorium, Smilow Center for Translational Research (5th Floor) The public is welcome […]
BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Nanofluidic Isolation and Quantification of Specific Extracellular Vesicles and Machine Learning Analysis to Aid Clinical Decision-Making” (Hanfei Shen)
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. David Issadore are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Hanfei Shen. Title: Nanofluidic Isolation and Quantification of Specific Extracellular Vesicles and Machine Learning Analysis to Aid Clinical Decision-Making Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 Time: 1:30pm-3:30pm Location: Towne 337 The public is welcome to […]
BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Tissue Engineered Cortical-Hippocampal Neural Networks for Pharmacological Investigations” (Victor Acero)
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. D. Kacy Cullen are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Victor Acero. Title: Tissue Engineered Cortical-Hippocampal Neural Networks for Pharmacological Investigations Date: March 20, 2024 Time: 2:00 PM Location: John Morgan Building Class of 62 Auditorium Zoom option: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/5112542338 The public is welcome to attend.
Spring 2024 GRASP SFI: Eugene Vinitsky, New York University and Apple, “Real-world reinforcement learning in multi-agent systems: deploying cooperative autonomy at scale”
This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT The ever-increasing penetration of level-2 autonomous vehicles (AVs) offers an opportunity to reshape the energy efficiency and throughput of our highways. Even at current low penetration rates (1-5%), we have observed in small settings that adopting different […]
Thursday, March 21, 2024
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March 21, 2024This Seminar is currently Postponed. MSE Seminar: “Tuning Nanostructured Materials for Combustion Applications”
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March 21, 2024 -MEAM Seminar: “Surfactants, Colloids, and Electrolytes: Engineering Transport Phenomena for Energy and the Environment”
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March 21, 2024 -BE Seminar: “Synthetic and Chemical Biology Routes to Unveiling Host-Pathogen Dialogue” (Aerin Yang, Stanford)
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March 21, 2024 -CIS Seminar: “Building Planetary-Scale Collaborative Intelligence”
This Seminar is currently Postponed. MSE Seminar: “Tuning Nanostructured Materials for Combustion Applications”
Metals powders like aluminum and boron are attractive potential fuel additives for pyrotechnics, propellants and explosives due to their high energy release upon oxidation. However, they tend to agglomerate, have lengthy ignition delays, and low combustion rates/efficiencies. This work aims to design metal powders with tuned surface, micro-structure, morphology, or chemistries to mitigate these challenges […]
MEAM Seminar: “Surfactants, Colloids, and Electrolytes: Engineering Transport Phenomena for Energy and the Environment”
Fluid flows and mass transport mediate countless natural and engineered processes, ranging from the spreading of pollutants to carbon capture and water cleaning. In this talk, I will share three examples of my research where fundamental ideas in transport phenomena are applied to inform technologies with direct impact on energy and the environment. First, I […]
BE Seminar: “Synthetic and Chemical Biology Routes to Unveiling Host-Pathogen Dialogue” (Aerin Yang, Stanford)
Disease processes within the human body are shaped by the dynamic interplay between invading pathogens and the host's defense mechanisms. The intricate molecular interaction involves continuous modifications of both host and pathogen proteins, driven by posttranslational modifications (PTMs) and coevolutionary mutations, to finely regulate their interactions with binding partners. In this talk, I will elucidate […]
CIS Seminar: “Building Planetary-Scale Collaborative Intelligence”
Today, access to high-quality data has become the key bottleneck to deploying Machine Learning (ML). Often, data that is most valuable is locked away in inaccessible silos due to unfavorable incentives and ethical-legal restrictions. This is starkly evident in healthcare, where such barriers have led to highly biased and underperforming tools. In my talk, we will […]
Friday, March 22, 2024
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March 22, 2024 -BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Decoding the tumor microenvironment to engineer the next generation of CAR T cells” (Puneeth Guruprasad)
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March 22, 2024 -MEAM Seminar: “Controlling Fracture Behavior through Architecture”
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March 22, 2024 -Spring 2024 GRASP on Robotics: GRASP Faculty Panel, “AI Embodied in Robotics”
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March 22, 2024 -BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Sculpting native and de novo tissue geometries for kidney organogenesis and nephron formation” (John Viola)
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March 22, 2024 -CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “A Fractal Landscape Dynamics Approach to Understanding Particle Motion in Soft Jammed Materials” (Clary Rodríguez-Cruz)
BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Decoding the tumor microenvironment to engineer the next generation of CAR T cells” (Puneeth Guruprasad)
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Marco Ruella are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Puneeth Guruprasad. Title: Decoding the tumor microenvironment to engineer the next generation of CAR T cells Date: Friday, March 22nd Time: 10:00-11:00 AM Location: Smilow Translational Research Center, Arthur H. Rubenstein Auditorium […]
MEAM Seminar: “Controlling Fracture Behavior through Architecture”
Many natural materials achieve excellent combinations of mechanical properties through their micro- and nano-scale structures, which leverage a level of complexity currently unmatched in engineering design. Recent advances in digital manufacturing have enabled the introduction of these fine-scale architectures to improve the mechanical properties of materials, but their complexity still lags far behind that of […]
Spring 2024 GRASP on Robotics: GRASP Faculty Panel, “AI Embodied in Robotics”
This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. PANEL DISCUSSION Please join us for a lively panel discussion featuring GRASP Faculty members Dr. Pratik Chaudhari, Dr. Dinesh Jayaraman, and Dr. Michael Posa. This panel will be moderated by Dr. Kostas Daniilidis around the current hot topic of AI […]
BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Sculpting native and de novo tissue geometries for kidney organogenesis and nephron formation” (John Viola)
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Alex Hughes are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of John Viola. Title: Sculpting native and de novo tissue geometries for kidney organogenesis and nephron formation Date: March 22, 2024 Time: 1:30 PM Location: Glandt Forum at the Singh Center The public is welcome to attend.
CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “A Fractal Landscape Dynamics Approach to Understanding Particle Motion in Soft Jammed Materials” (Clary Rodríguez-Cruz)
Abstract: Soft jammed materials are disordered viscoelastic solids, composed of densely packed particles, that are commonly found both in the natural world and in a wide range of manufactured products. Their applications are widespread across various industries and technologies, including food, pharmaceuticals, agriculture and cosmetics. Understanding the fundamental physics and mathematics behind their highly complex […]
Saturday, March 23, 2024
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