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Sunday, September 15, 2024
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Monday, September 16, 2024
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Tuesday, September 17, 2024
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September 17, 2024 -MEAM Seminar: “Natural Structural Materials: Lessons on Toughening Mechanisms, Weight Reduction, and Multifunctionality”
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September 17, 2024 -ESE Fall Seminar – “Big AI for Small Devices”
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September 17, 2024 -CIS Seminar: “Recent Advances in Spatial Generative AI”
MEAM Seminar: “Natural Structural Materials: Lessons on Toughening Mechanisms, Weight Reduction, and Multifunctionality”
Structural materials that are damage-tolerant, lightweight, multifunctional, and sustainable are highly desirable for many engineering applications. Such combinations of properties are often found in the biological world. Organisms from nature construct various biological structural materials for protection, predation, body support, camouflage, etc. Despite the fact that these materials are made from limited constituent materials with […]
ESE Fall Seminar – “Big AI for Small Devices”
As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms industries, state-of-the-art models have exploded in size and capability. However, deploying these models on resource-constrained edge devices remains a significant challenge. Smartphones, wearables, and IoT sensors face stringent limitations on compute, memory, power, and communication, creating a gap between demanding AI models and edge hardware capabilities that hinders the deployment […]
CIS Seminar: “Recent Advances in Spatial Generative AI”
Generative spatial AI offers unprecedented capabilities for photorealistic scene representation, generation, and novel-view synthesis, among other tasks. In this talk, we discuss recent advances in large-scale 3D scene representations, efficient neural rendering approaches, and generative AI strategies that allow us to generate photorealistic multi-view-consistent digital humans and general 3D scenes.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
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September 18, 2024 -ASSET Seminar: “Representation-based Learning and Control for Dynamical Systems”
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September 18, 2024 -BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Quantitative Informatics Approaches to Characterize and Predict Childhood Genetic Epilepsies” (Peter Galer)
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September 18, 2024 -Fall 2024 GRASP SFI: Dian Wang, Northeastern University, “Equivariant Learning for Robotic Manipulation”
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September 18, 2024 -CBE Seminar: “Autonomous Soft and Colloidal Matter Fueled by Chemical Reactions” (Taylor Woehl, University of Maryland)
ASSET Seminar: “Representation-based Learning and Control for Dynamical Systems”
Abstract: The explosive growth of machine learning and data-driven methodologies have revolutionized numerous fields. Yet, the translation of these successes to the domain of dynamical physical systems remains a significant challenge. Closing the loop from data to actions in these systems faces many difficulties, stemming from the need for sample efficiency and computational feasibility, along […]
BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Quantitative Informatics Approaches to Characterize and Predict Childhood Genetic Epilepsies” (Peter Galer)
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania along with Drs. Brian Litt and Ingo Helbig proudly announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Peter Galer. Title: Quantitative Informatics Approaches to Characterize and Predict Childhood Genetic Epilepsies Date: Wednesday September 18 Time: 1:00pm Location: Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology Advisors: Dr. Brian Litt & Dr. […]
Fall 2024 GRASP SFI: Dian Wang, Northeastern University, “Equivariant Learning for Robotic Manipulation”
This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Despite recent advances in machine learning for robotics, current approaches often lack sample efficiency, posing a significant challenge due to the enormous time consumption to collect real-robot data. In this talk, I will present our innovative methods […]
CBE Seminar: “Autonomous Soft and Colloidal Matter Fueled by Chemical Reactions” (Taylor Woehl, University of Maryland)
Abstract: Biological systems utilize networks of biochemical reactions to drive autonomous and dynamic processes. Examples include the dynamic polymerization of microtubules and the dynamic min protein system in E. Coli. In contrast, synthetic soft and colloidal matter generally requires active stimulation to undergo reconfiguration, such as application of external fields or manual changes in solution […]
Thursday, September 19, 2024
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September 19, 2024 -MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Contacts with Dynamically Tunable Adhesion and Friction via Active Materials with Thermally Modulated Stiffness”
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September 19, 2024 -MSE Seminar: “Materials, Mechanics, and Performance of Flexible Polymeric Actuators in Robotics” (Sameh Tawfick – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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September 19, 2024 -CIS Seminar: “Learning Controllers for multi-robot Teams”
MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Contacts with Dynamically Tunable Adhesion and Friction via Active Materials with Thermally Modulated Stiffness”
Contact interactions, including adhesion and friction, are critical to the design of many engineered systems. Currently, most systems rely on materials with static mechanical properties, requiring careful selection of materials to realize effective systems for specialized tasks. However, with advances in smart materials, system design is no longer limited to materials with static properties. There […]
MSE Seminar: “Materials, Mechanics, and Performance of Flexible Polymeric Actuators in Robotics” (Sameh Tawfick – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
My group is developing a roadmap for soft actuating materials to replace bulky electric motors in miniature robots requiring large mechanical work output. First, I will describe the materials microstructure and mechanics of polymeric coiled muscles made by twisting nylon fishing lines, and how these actuators use internal strain energy to achieve a “record breaking” performance. Then I […]
CIS Seminar: “Learning Controllers for multi-robot Teams”
We have recently demonstrated the possibility of learning controllers that are zero-shot transferable to groups of real quadrotors via large-scale, multi-agent, end-to-end reinforcement learning. We train policies parameterized by neural networks that can control individual drones in a group in a fully decentralized manner. Our policies, trained in simulated environments with realistic quadrotor physics, demonstrate […]
Friday, September 20, 2024
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September 20, 2024 -BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Extracting Insights From Electronic Health Records Using Optimized Large Language Models” (Kevin Xie)
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September 20, 2024 -GRASP Industry Talk: Amazon Robotics – Scanless Technologies, “Amazon Robotics Tech Talk”
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September 20, 2024 -ASSET & Warren Center Research Mixer
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September 20, 2024 -PICS Colloquium: Motion-based rules and solitary waves: ameloblasts and birds
BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Extracting Insights From Electronic Health Records Using Optimized Large Language Models” (Kevin Xie)
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Brian Litt are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Kevin Xie. Title: Extracting Insights From Electronic Health Records Using Optimized Large Language Models Date: September 20th, 2024 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology Advisor: Dr. Brian Litt Zoom […]
GRASP Industry Talk: Amazon Robotics – Scanless Technologies, “Amazon Robotics Tech Talk”
This will be an in-person event only with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen. This seminar will not be recorded or available on Zoom. Amazon Robotics Tech Talk & Networking Event Amazon Robotics’ Scanless Technologies Team is excited to invite you to join us for a Tech Talk presentation followed by a Networking Event on Friday, 9/20 starting at 10:30am in Wu & Chen […]
ASSET & Warren Center Research Mixer
The ASSET and Warren Center will be hosting a research mixer to welcome new PhD students and expose new and current students to the wide range of research in Penn Engineering in AI/ML. The program will consist of (short) faculty talks, poster presentations by students/postdocs, and a reception to end the night!
PICS Colloquium: Motion-based rules and solitary waves: ameloblasts and birds
Information is usually expected to propagate across a population of active agents such as living cells or birds in a diffusive manner. Yet waviness in the microstructure of dental enamel implies coherent wave motion among the generative ameloblast cells over exceptionally long periods, from a week in the mouse to months in the human; and […]
Saturday, September 21, 2024
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