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Sunday, September 14, 2025
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Monday, September 15, 2025
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September 15, 2025 -BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Georgios Mentzelopoulos
BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Georgios Mentzelopoulos
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Flavia Vitale are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Georgios Mentzelopoulos. Title: From thoughts to actions: cracking the neural code across scales and modalities Advisor: Dr. Flavia Vitale Date: Monday, September 15th Time: 12:30 PM- 2:30 PM Location: 225 Towne Building The […]
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
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September 16, 2025 -MEAM Seminar: “Micro-surgical Tools for Dissecting Cells and Tissues”
MEAM Seminar: “Micro-surgical Tools for Dissecting Cells and Tissues”
Wound healing is an essential biological process for maintaining homeostasis and, ultimately, for survival. We investigate the mechanisms underlying extreme wound healing in Stentor coeruleus, a single-celled organism, capable of recovering from drastic membrane wounds exceeding half of the cell surface. This talk focuses on our recent effort on developing a microfluidic platform for the […]
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
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September 17, 2025 -ASSET Seminar: “Symbolic Reasoning in the Age of Large Language Models”
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September 17, 2025 -CBE Seminar: “Natural Product Research for Human Health and Biocatalysis” (Wenjun Zhang, UC Berkeley)
ASSET Seminar: “Symbolic Reasoning in the Age of Large Language Models”
Today, reasoning is commonly interpreted as large language models generating chains of thought. Yet historically, AI reasoning had a very different meaning: executing algorithms that manipulated symbols to perform logical or probabilistic deduction and derive definite answers to questions about knowledge. In this talk, I show that such old-fashioned ideas are very relevant to reasoning […]
CBE Seminar: “Natural Product Research for Human Health and Biocatalysis” (Wenjun Zhang, UC Berkeley)
Abstract: Natural products are historically great sources of human medicines, but their impacts are well beyond their use as drugs. In addition to well-known producers like environmental microbes and plants, the human microbiome is an emerging source of new natural products that often correlate with health or disease. There is an urgent need for the […]
Thursday, September 18, 2025
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September 18, 2025 -MSE Seminar: 1D Topological Systems for Next-Generation Electronics – Judy J. Cha – Cornell University
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September 18, 2025 -FOLDS seminar: Heaviside Composite Optimization: A new paradigm of optimization
MSE Seminar: 1D Topological Systems for Next-Generation Electronics – Judy J. Cha – Cornell University
Topological nanowires, topological materials confined in one dimension (1D), hold great promise for robust and scalable quantum computing and low-dissipation interconnect applications, which will transform current computing technologies. To do so, research in topological nanowires must continue to improve their synthesis and properties. In this talk, I will discuss my group’s efforts to develop a […]
FOLDS seminar: Heaviside Composite Optimization: A new paradigm of optimization
Zoom link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/98220304722 A Heaviside function is an indicator function of a semi-infinite interval. A Heaviside composite function is a Heaviside function composed with a multivariate function that may be nonsnooth. This talk presents a touch of this novel class of discontinuous optimization problems that borders on continuous and discrete optimization. Among the rich applications […]
Friday, September 19, 2025
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September 19, 2025 -AI Research Mixer 2025
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September 19, 2025 -[VIRTUAL SPEAKER]: Fall 2025 GRASP on Robotics: Max Welling, University of Amsterdam & CuspAI, “On the Role of Uncertainty in Automating the Scientific Process with AI”
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September 19, 2025 -PICS Colloquium: Enabling computationally efficient first-principles kinetic simulations in nanoporous catalysts using machine learning and data science with Brandon Bukowski
AI Research Mixer 2025
Event Date: Friday, September 19, 2025 Time: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Event Location: Amy Gutmann Hall Auditorium Hosted by: ASSET Center for Trustworthy AI IDEAS Innovation in Data Engineering and Science The Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences DDDI Data Driven Discovery Initiative Penn AI Event Description: Please join us for a full […]
[VIRTUAL SPEAKER]: Fall 2025 GRASP on Robotics: Max Welling, University of Amsterdam & CuspAI, “On the Role of Uncertainty in Automating the Scientific Process with AI”
This event will have a VIRTUAL SPEAKER. Streaming will be in-person only in Wu and Chen. ABSTRACT We are in the middle of a transformation of the scientific process. AI is now rapidly automating scientific discovery by accelerating scientific simulation and optimisation. For example, we can now shortcut expensive quantum mechanical calculations such as DFT […]
PICS Colloquium: Enabling computationally efficient first-principles kinetic simulations in nanoporous catalysts using machine learning and data science with Brandon Bukowski
Machine learning tools have tremendous potential to accelerate computationally complex physics-based simulations. One example is the need to accelerate materials discovery through first-principles Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. This seminar will encompass how machine learning interatomic potentials accelerate the discovery of crystalline nanoporous solids such as zeolites and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that are employed in […]
Saturday, September 20, 2025
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