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Sunday, March 16, 2025
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Monday, March 17, 2025
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Tuesday, March 18, 2025
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March 18, 2025 -MEAM Seminar: “Bioinspired Robotic Sensorimotor Systems via 3D Printed Soft and Architected Materials”
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March 18, 2025 -ESE Spring Seminar – “Generalization, Memorization, and Privacy in Trustworthy Machine Learning”
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March 18, 2025 -CIS Seminar: “Probabilistic Experimental Design for Petascale DNA Synthesis”
MEAM Seminar: “Bioinspired Robotic Sensorimotor Systems via 3D Printed Soft and Architected Materials”
Animals can easily adapt their bodies and movements to new, unstructured environments and situations. Robots cannot. While engineers construct robots from rigid, motorized mechanisms to precisely control their movements, vertebrates leverage compliant, deformable musculoskeletal systems to adaptively navigate complex environments and produce dynamically stable gaits and motions. Providing robots with an equivalent musculoskeletal system will […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “Generalization, Memorization, and Privacy in Trustworthy Machine Learning”
Machine learning is transforming numerous aspects of modern society, and its expanding use in high-stakes applications calls for responsible development. In this talk, I will present my research on the foundations and methodologies for building trustworthy ML, centered on three interconnected challenges: generalization, memorization, and privacy. First, I will show how information-theoretic tools can be […]
CIS Seminar: “Probabilistic Experimental Design for Petascale DNA Synthesis”
Generative modeling offers a powerful paradigm for designing novel functional DNA, RNA and protein sequences. In this talk, I introduce probabilistic experimental design methods to efficiently manufacture samples from generative models of biomolecules in the real world. These algorithms merge computational techniques for approximate sampling with physical randomness. I also develop tools to rigorously evaluate […]
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
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March 19, 2025 -ASSET Seminar: “Algorithmic Stability for Trustworthy Machine Learning and Statistics”
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March 19, 2025 -Spring 2025 GRASP SFI: Student Lightning Talks, Session 2
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March 19, 2025 -The Harold Berger Distinguished Award Lecture 2025
ASSET Seminar: “Algorithmic Stability for Trustworthy Machine Learning and Statistics”
Abstract: Data-driven systems hold immense potential to positively impact society, but their reliability remains a challenge. Their outputs are often too brittle to changes in their training data, leaving them vulnerable to data poisoning attacks, prone to leaking sensitive information, or susceptible to overfitting. Establishing fundamental principles for designing algorithms that are both stable—to mitigate these […]
Spring 2025 GRASP SFI: Student Lightning Talks, Session 2
This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT The Spring 2025 GRASP SFI Student Lightning Talks will highlight the research of three GRASP Lab Master's or early PhD students whose presentation topics have been nominated by their faculty advisors and voted on by their GRASP peers. […]
The Harold Berger Distinguished Award Lecture 2025
Quantum Dots: From Curiosity to Technological Impact The combination of quantum effects, nanometer dimensions and a chemical synthesis make quantum dots a platform for exploring new size-dependent fundamental properties and a sandbox for developing new applications. This talk will cover the origin story of chemically synthesized quantum dots, their basic physics, the synthesis that unlocked […]
Thursday, March 20, 2025
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March 20, 2025 -MSE Seminar: “Soft Microparticle Assemblies to MAP Scaffolds” Tatiana Segura – Duke University
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March 20, 2025 -ESE Spring Seminar – “Can Robots Learn from Machine Dreams? – Robot Learning via GenAI-powered World Models”
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March 20, 2025 -IDEAS/STAT Optimization Seminar: “Statistics-Powered ML: Building Trust and Robustness in Black-Box Predictions”
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March 20, 2025 -CIS Seminar: “AI for Materials Discovery: Graphs, Language Models, and Agents”
MSE Seminar: “Soft Microparticle Assemblies to MAP Scaffolds” Tatiana Segura – Duke University
Particle assemblies form interconnected pockets of empty space that are hot spots for activity in many applications and natural phenomenon that deal with particulate matter. In my lab we explore the use of interlinked soft microparticle assemblies as scaffolds for cell culture in vitro and to promote regenerative wound healing in vivo. The open space that is created […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “Can Robots Learn from Machine Dreams? – Robot Learning via GenAI-powered World Models”
Over the past decade, large-scale pre-training followed by alignment has revolutionized natural language processing and computer vision. Yet, robotics remains constrained by the scarcity of real-world data. In this talk, I will present our systematic approach to overcoming this bottleneck by building increasingly rich world models from data. I will first introduce our distilled feature […]
IDEAS/STAT Optimization Seminar: “Statistics-Powered ML: Building Trust and Robustness in Black-Box Predictions”
Zoom link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/98220304722 Abstract: Modern ML models produce valuable predictions across various applications, influencing people’s lives, opportunities, and scientific advancements. However, these systems can fail in unexpected ways, generating unreliable inferences and perpetuating biases present in the data. These issues are particularly troubling in high-stakes applications, where models are trained on increasingly diverse, incomplete, and […]
CIS Seminar: “AI for Materials Discovery: Graphs, Language Models, and Agents”
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming scientific discovery, particularly in materials science, by accelerating the prediction and design of materials with desired properties. Traditional physics-based modeling of atomic systems is computationally prohibitive for large-scale problems, and AI addresses this challenge by learning the underlying physics from data, thereby accelerating discoveries. In this talk I will present […]
Friday, March 21, 2025
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Saturday, March 22, 2025
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