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Climate Week at Penn
Now in its sixth year, Climate Week at Penn offers opportunities for every member of the Penn community to learn about and act on the climate crisis. The theme for 2025 is “Hot Spots,” be they literal (wildfires and extreme heat) or figurative (political, cultural, interpersonal, or scholarly hot topics). The Climate Week core organizing […]
Sunday, October 12, 2025
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Monday, October 13, 2025
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Tuesday, October 14, 2025
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October 14, 2025 -ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Safeguarding AI Systems Against Unexpected Inputs”
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October 14, 2025 -MEAM Seminar: “Fluids, Fingers, Fractures and Fractals: Patterns in Porous Media”
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October 14, 2025 -ESE Guest Seminar: “Post-Moore Datacenters Are Hot Beyond Belief”
ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Safeguarding AI Systems Against Unexpected Inputs”
Artificial intelligence systems powered by deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success across a broad range of applications. However, perturbations such as natural image corruptions or crafted malicious queries, can cause significant performance degradation. This poses severe risks in safety-critical applications, such as autonomous driving and clinical decision-making. A key vulnerability of machine learning models […]
MEAM Seminar: “Fluids, Fingers, Fractures and Fractals: Patterns in Porous Media”
The displacement of one fluid by another in a porous medium gives rise to a rich variety of hydrodynamic instabilities. Beyond their scientific value as fascinating models of pattern formation, unstable porous-media flows are essential to understanding many natural and man-made processes, including water infiltration in the vadose zone, carbon dioxide injection and storage in […]
ESE Guest Seminar: “Post-Moore Datacenters Are Hot Beyond Belief”
Datacenters are the pillars of a digital economy and modern-day global IT services. The building blocks for today's datacenters are cost-effective volume servers that find their roots in the basic hardware and OS organization of the desktops of 90s with a fundamental mismatch with workloads and services. Meanwhile, there are several technological trends (e.g., slowdown […]
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
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October 15, 2025 -ASSET Seminar: “Auditing Large Language Model Ecosystems: From Model Outputs to Agentic System Deployment”
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October 15, 2025 -Fall 2025 GRASP SFI: Rao Fu, Brown University, “From Words to Worlds: Bridging Linguistic and Spatial Physical Intelligence”
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October 15, 2025 -CBE Seminar: “Electrochemical Ion Pumping: Concept, Theory, and Application” (Shihong Lin, Vanderbilt University)
ASSET Seminar: “Auditing Large Language Model Ecosystems: From Model Outputs to Agentic System Deployment”
Abstract TBD Zoom: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/97546234895
Fall 2025 GRASP SFI: Rao Fu, Brown University, “From Words to Worlds: Bridging Linguistic and Spatial Physical Intelligence”
This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance via Zoom. ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence has achieved remarkable advances in linguistic intelligence, enabling machines to process and generate language proficiently. Yet to truly assist people in everyday life, machines must also develop spatial physical intelligence—the ability to perceive, interpret, and act […]
CBE Seminar: “Electrochemical Ion Pumping: Concept, Theory, and Application” (Shihong Lin, Vanderbilt University)
Abstract: Advancements in electrochemical separation have paved the way for innovative approaches to address critical challenges in water treatment and resource recovery. In this seminar, I will introduce the Electrochemical Ion Pumping (EIP) platform, a transformative new approach to electrochemical separation that addresses the inherent limitations of conventional capacitive deionization and electrosorption. EIP leverages circuit-switching-induced […]
Thursday, October 16, 2025
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October 16, 2025 -MSE Seminar: “From Nature to Engineering: Biological Blueprints for Next Generation Advanced Materials” David Kisailus – University of California – Irvine
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October 16, 2025 -ESE Fall Seminar – “Distributional Control: From Robotic Motion Planning to Generative AI”
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October 16, 2025 -FOLDS seminar: A New Paradigm for Learning with Distribution Shift
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October 16, 2025 -Herman P. Schwan Distinguished Lecture – Jeffrey A. Hubbell, “Molecular Engineering to Tip Immune Balances between Tolerance and Aggression”
MSE Seminar: “From Nature to Engineering: Biological Blueprints for Next Generation Advanced Materials” David Kisailus – University of California – Irvine
Organisms have derived specific sets of traits in response to common selection pressures that serve as guideposts for optimal biological designs. A prime example is the evolution of toughened structures in disparate lineages within plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates 1-4. Extremely tough structures can function much like armor, battering rams, or reinforcements that enhance the ability […]
ESE Fall Seminar – “Distributional Control: From Robotic Motion Planning to Generative AI”
Uncertainty propagation and mitigation is at the core of all robotic and control systems. The standard approach so far has followed the spirit of controlling a system “with uncertainties,” as opposed to the direct control “of uncertainties.” Borrowing ideas from the classical Optimal Mass Transport (OMT) and Schrödinger Bridge problems, distributional control has recently emerged […]
FOLDS seminar: A New Paradigm for Learning with Distribution Shift
Zoom link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/98220304722 We revisit the fundamental problem of learning with distribution shift, where a learner is given labeled samples from training distribution D, unlabeled samples from test distribution D′ and is asked to output a classifier with low test error. The standard approach in this setting is to prove a generalization bound in terms of […]
Friday, October 17, 2025
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October 17, 2025 -Fall 2025 GRASP on Robotics: Parastoo Abtahi, Princeton University, “When Robots Disappear – From Haptic Illusions in VR to Object-Oriented Interactions in AR”
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October 17, 2025 -CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Configuration Matters: Unveiling Cis-Regulatory Arrangement as a Mechanism of Transcriptional Fine-Tuning” (Emilia Leyes Porello)
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October 17, 2025 -PICS Colloquium: Complex Polymer Design in the Age of AI: Why, What, and How?
Fall 2025 GRASP on Robotics: Parastoo Abtahi, Princeton University, “When Robots Disappear – From Haptic Illusions in VR to Object-Oriented Interactions in AR”
This event will be in-person ONLY in Wu and Chen Auditorium. ABSTRACT Advances in audiovisual rendering have led to the commercialization of virtual reality (VR); however, haptic technology has not kept up with these advances. While a variety of robotic systems aim to address this gap by simulating the sensation of touch, many hardware limitations […]
CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Configuration Matters: Unveiling Cis-Regulatory Arrangement as a Mechanism of Transcriptional Fine-Tuning” (Emilia Leyes Porello)
Abstract: The precise regulation of gene expression depends on coordinated enhancer-promoter (E-P) interactions, yet the principles governing how enhancer configuration influences transcription remain unclear. Classical models describe enhancers as modular and independent of orientation or relative positioning, but accumulating evidence suggests these assumptions may not hold true. To investigate this problem, systematic manipulations of enhancer […]
PICS Colloquium: Complex Polymer Design in the Age of AI: Why, What, and How?
Polymers are essential to a wide range of technologies, yet designing them with targeted structural and functional properties remains a grand challenge. A major opportunity lies in applying machine learning to help navigate the vast combinatorial design space—spanning sequence, composition, architecture, morphology, processing, and more—to discover new formulations or replace existing ones with more sustainable […]
Saturday, October 18, 2025
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