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Sunday, August 31, 2025
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Monday, September 1, 2025
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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
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September 2, 2025 -MEAM Seminar: “Harnessing Living Bacteria, Fungi, and Plants as Functional Materials”
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September 2, 2025 -Penn AI Seminar Series: Geometric and Physics Stucture Preservation in Scientific Machine Learning
MEAM Seminar: “Harnessing Living Bacteria, Fungi, and Plants as Functional Materials”
For decades materials engineers have been inspired by biology to create improved properties, for example nacre-inspired hierarchical structures to improve toughness, tree-inspired vasculature to deliver fluids that can react and heal an interface, and mussel-inspired strong underwater adhesives utilizing cation-pi interactions. Now, the bioengineering toolset has reached a maturity where we can start to employ […]
Penn AI Seminar Series: Geometric and Physics Stucture Preservation in Scientific Machine Learning
Geometric and Physics Stucture Preservation in Scientific Machine Learning Nat Trask, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at Penn Engineering, will share about his work constructing real-time digital twins built upon a data-driven finite element exterior calculus; constructing auto-regressive integrators with guaranteed long-term stability independent of rollout length; and constructing data-driven particle models […]
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
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September 3, 2025 -ASSET Seminar: “Provable vs Impossible Trust: Reasoning, Steering, and Safety”
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September 3, 2025 -CBE Seminar: “Water–Hydrophobe Interfaces: From Debunking Myths to Boosting Global Food–Water–Climate Resilience” (Himanshu Mishra, KAUST)
ASSET Seminar: “Provable vs Impossible Trust: Reasoning, Steering, and Safety”
Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss a collection of highlights from our recent work in trustworthy AI. (1) Certifying reasoning explanations with reliability guarantees and aligning with expert knowledge, (2) Simple yet effective steering inspired from theoretical rule-following mechanisms for transformers, and (3) The impossibility of monitoring stateless attackers and what safety defenses should […]
CBE Seminar: “Water–Hydrophobe Interfaces: From Debunking Myths to Boosting Global Food–Water–Climate Resilience” (Himanshu Mishra, KAUST)
Abstract: First, I will outline our work on overcoming barriers to desert rehabilitation for urban greening, landscaping, and regional food security. In arid regions, freshwater is scarce, sandy soils lose water and fertilizers rapidly, which stifles plant growth. Our team has developed two complementary solutions: (i) Superhydrophobic Sand (SHS)1 — a plastic-free, bio-inspired mulch that […]
Thursday, September 4, 2025
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September 4, 2025 -FOLDS Seminar: Positive random walks and positive-semidefinite random matrices
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September 4, 2025 -BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Aoife O’Farrell
FOLDS Seminar: Positive random walks and positive-semidefinite random matrices
On the real line, a random walk that can only move in the positive direction is very unlikely to remain close to its starting point. After a fixed number of steps, the left tail has a Gaussian profile, under minimal assumptions. Remarkably, the same phenomenon occurs when we consider a positive random walk on the […]
BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Aoife O’Farrell
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Arjun Raj are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Aoife O'Farrell. Title: Stimulus Specificity of Trained Immune Memory in Human Macrophages Advisor: Dr. Arjun Raj Date and Time: Thursday, September 4th at 2:00 PM Location: Smilow 12-146AB Zoom Link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/94438324577 The public is welcome to attend.
Friday, September 5, 2025
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September 5, 2025 -BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Michael Yao
BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Michael Yao
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Drs. Osbert Bastani and James Gee are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Michael Yao. Title: Distributionally Robust Machine Intelligence Advisors: Osbert Bastani, PhD and James Gee, PhD Date & Time: Friday, September 5th at 11am Location: Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 (3317 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104) RSVP […]
Saturday, September 6, 2025
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