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Sunday, February 9, 2025
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Monday, February 10, 2025
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February 10, 2025 -Energy Week: Joseph Bordogna Forum
Energy Week: Joseph Bordogna Forum
"Creating Lasting Impact at the Interface of Energy, Technology, and Society" Join Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering for a discussion with David Turk – the former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy and Vanessa Chan, the former Chief Commercialization Officer and Director of the Office of Technology Transitions at the […]
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
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February 11, 2025 -MEAM Seminar: “Flow Architectures, From Capillary Networks to Blood Transport through Organs”
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February 11, 2025 -ESE Spring Seminar – “Machine Learning: Algorithmic and Economic Perspectives”
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February 11, 2025 -Energy Week: “Catalyzing Clean Energy Investments in the Private Sector: The Role of the Federal Government”
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February 11, 2025 -CIS Seminar: “Leveraging the Wisdom of Clouds for Internet Security”
MEAM Seminar: “Flow Architectures, From Capillary Networks to Blood Transport through Organs”
Flow systems in nature, whether animate or inanimate, have evolved in time toward greater efficiency by adapting, or ‘morphing’, their configuration to decrease resistance to the currents flowing through them. Observations at various scales indicate that the distribution of flow, i.e. the connection of a point (source/sink) to a volume (sink/source) or vice-versa, is the […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “Machine Learning: Algorithmic and Economic Perspectives”
Algorithms are increasingly integrated into various societal applications, often directly interacting with people and communities. This highlights the importance of understanding the interplay between algorithmic decisions and economic incentives when designing machine learning algorithms. In this talk, I will explore two examples of this dynamic through the lens of privacy in data markets and fairness […]
Energy Week: “Catalyzing Clean Energy Investments in the Private Sector: The Role of the Federal Government”
In this panel, senior members of the Biden-Harris Administration will discuss the work they did to catalyze the private sector to commercialize critical technologies for the clean energy transition. Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) created over 900,000 new jobs, catalyzed over 900 new and […]
CIS Seminar: “Leveraging the Wisdom of Clouds for Internet Security”
Over the past decade, networked systems have consolidated under just a handful of hyperscale cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure). While this offers logistical and economic advantages, attackers specifically target providers and their customers, a shift that has left traditional network vantage points blind to the most sophisticated adversaries. In this talk, I’ll explore how we […]
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
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February 12, 2025 -ASSET Seminar: “Beyond Scaling: Frontiers of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models”
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February 12, 2025 -CBE Seminar: “Genetically Encodable Designer Biomaterials” (Shunzhi Wang, University of Washington)
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February 12, 2025 -Postponed Energy Week: Viewing of Legion 44 Documentary Film
ASSET Seminar: “Beyond Scaling: Frontiers of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models”
Abstract: Large Language Models (LMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities by scaling up training data and model sizes. However, they continue to face critical challenges, including hallucinations and outdated knowledge, which particularly limit their reliability in expert domains such as scientific research and software development. In this talk, I will urge the necessity of moving beyond […]
CBE Seminar: “Genetically Encodable Designer Biomaterials” (Shunzhi Wang, University of Washington)
Abstract: Nature harnesses genetic sequences to encode structural information and emergent physical and chemical transformations required by life processes. Such orchestration is achieved through hierarchical self-assemblies driven by weak molecular interactions and optimized via evolution. However, emulating this level of programmability to create designer biomolecular materials remains a grand challenge. In this seminar, I will […]
Postponed Energy Week: Viewing of Legion 44 Documentary Film
Vanessa Chan, the Jonathan and Linda Brassington Practice Professor in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) and Vice Dean of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Penn Engineering, is hosting the premiere of the documentary Legion 44. Special guests include Leila Conners, the film’s director and producer, and Dr. Max Pisciotta, a featured climate scientist in the film […]
Thursday, February 13, 2025
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February 13, 2025 -CBE & VIEST Joint Seminar: “Lignin Conversion to Performance-advantaged Fuels, Chemicals, and Polymers” (Gregg Beckham, NREL)
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February 13, 2025 -Energy Week: “Climate 101: Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence”
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February 13, 2025 -IDEAS/STAT Optimization Seminar: “Foundations of Deep Learning: Optimization and Representation Learning”
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February 13, 2025 -BE Seminar – “Engineered bacteria for cancer therapy” (Tal Danino, Columbia University)
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February 13, 2025 -CIS Seminar: “Bridging Informal and Formal AI Reasoning”
CBE & VIEST Joint Seminar: “Lignin Conversion to Performance-advantaged Fuels, Chemicals, and Polymers” (Gregg Beckham, NREL)
Abstract: Terrestrial plants harbor renewable carbon resources in their cell walls that can directly contribute to decarbonization of the transportation and materials sectors, but the heterogeneous, aromatic lignin polymer found in plants has long obstructed both natural- and humankind-driven endeavors to deconstruct plant biomass to valuable products. However, viable methods to valorize lignin are essential […]
Energy Week: “Climate 101: Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence”
The Environmental Innovations Initiative's Climate 101 series demystifies climate change and its link with a diversity of disciplines. Experts from across Penn share how they think about climate through the lens of their research and teaching, helping to raise our climate literacy and prepare us to tackle one of the planet's greatest challenges: the climate […]
IDEAS/STAT Optimization Seminar: “Foundations of Deep Learning: Optimization and Representation Learning”
Deep learning's success stems from the ability of neural networks to automatically discover meaningful representations from raw data. In this talk, I will describe some recent insights into how optimization enables this learning process. First, I will show how optimization algorithms exhibit surprisingly rich dynamics when training neural networks, and how these complex dynamics are […]
BE Seminar – “Engineered bacteria for cancer therapy” (Tal Danino, Columbia University)
Synthetic biology is driving a new era of medicine through the genetic programming of living cells. One particular focus has been the engineering of bacteria as therapeutic delivery systems for cancer, where microbes colonize and release payloads within tumors. Here, genetic circuits are designed to enhance spatial and temporal control of microbial behaviors for improved […]
CIS Seminar: “Bridging Informal and Formal AI Reasoning”
Neural language models have opened a fascinating, flexible platform for reasoning in mathematics, programming, and beyond. This talk will explore the intersection of these models and the rigor of formal reasoning. First, I discuss my work on building foundation models for mathematics and using language to guide the search for formally verified proofs. Then, I […]
Friday, February 14, 2025
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February 14, 2025 -PICS Colloquium: Powering decarbonization with modeling and optimization of renewables in the multi-scale atmosphere
PICS Colloquium: Powering decarbonization with modeling and optimization of renewables in the multi-scale atmosphere
To meet net-zero carbon emissions targets by mid-century, up to a -fold increase in wind power capacity is required. Acceleration to this rate requires urgent improvements to efficiency and reliability of installed wind farms, as well as cost reductions for future offshore farms. To expand energy production, wind turbines are rapidly increasing in size, wind […]
Saturday, February 15, 2025
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