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Sunday, October 26, 2025
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Monday, October 27, 2025
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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
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October 28, 2025 -MEAM Seminar: “Manipulating Mechanical Wave Propagation with Phononic Materials”
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October 28, 2025 -CIS Seminar: “Sparse View Synthesis”
MEAM Seminar: “Manipulating Mechanical Wave Propagation with Phononic Materials”
One grand challenge for materials and structures design is to satisfy multiple conflicting requirements. For example, energy infrastructure, especially those in remote and extreme environments such as offshore wind turbines and nuclear reactors, requires components to operate effectively over long time periods and avoid catastrophic failures. Structural materials in aviation must be lightweight but high […]
CIS Seminar: “Sparse View Synthesis”
We seek the ability to take a few images of a scene of interest, and turn it into an immersive visual experience, where one can explore it from different viewpoints, in effect visualizing a 3D representation of an object, scene or photograph, and providing numerous applications in augmented reality, e-commerce and 3D photography. This problem, […]
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
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October 29, 2025 -ASSET Seminar: “When Is a Conformal Set, a Conformal Set?”
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October 29, 2025 -Fall 2025 GRASP SFI: Roberto Martín-Martín, University of Texas at Austin, “Making Mobile Manipulation Real: New Learning Paradigms for Robots”
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October 29, 2025 -CBE Seminar: “Computational Approaches for Understanding and Engineering Biomolecular Condensates” (Jerelle Joseph, Princeton University)
ASSET Seminar: “When Is a Conformal Set, a Conformal Set?”
The two most popular vehicles for communicating uncertainty in the estimates of an unknown quantity are confidence sets and conformal sets. The set produced and its corresponding probability guarantee (conditional on the feature vector) depend upon assumptions the analyst has made about the underlying data generating process. For example, are the residuals independent and normally […]
Fall 2025 GRASP SFI: Roberto Martín-Martín, University of Texas at Austin, “Making Mobile Manipulation Real: New Learning Paradigms for Robots”
This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance via Zoom. ABSTRACT Most tasks people wish robots could do (fetching objects across rooms, assisting in the kitchen, tidying) require mobile manipulation, the integration of navigation and manipulation. While robots have made remarkable progress in each skill independently, bringing them together […]
CBE Seminar: “Computational Approaches for Understanding and Engineering Biomolecular Condensates” (Jerelle Joseph, Princeton University)
Abstract: Biomolecular condensates are membraneless compartments inside living cells that play critical roles in health and disease. Over the past two decades, a wide body of work has established that these compartments form through phase separation of molecules such as proteins and RNA. This discovery has sparked significant interest in uncovering the molecular factors that […]
Thursday, October 30, 2025
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October 30, 2025 -MSE Seminar: “Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing – Useful Quantum Devices in the NISQ Era” – Burns Healy – Dell Technologies
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October 30, 2025 -ESE Fall Seminar – “From Circuits to Cognition: Silicon for Embodied Intelligence”
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October 30, 2025 -FOLDS seminar: Weak to Strong Generalization in Random Feature Models
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October 30, 2025 -BE Seminar – Celeste M. Nelson “Mitochondria, mechanics, and tissue morphogenesis”
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October 30, 2025 -CIS Seminar: “Inverse Problems using Generative Priors”
MSE Seminar: “Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing – Useful Quantum Devices in the NISQ Era” – Burns Healy – Dell Technologies
After an introduction to quantum computing, we discuss the currently practiced framework of "hybrid" computing, which is a method of accelerating traditional High Performance Compute (HPC) with Quantum Processing Units. I will talk about some of the ways in which Dell's research office has implemented this idea and the value it can bring to modern […]
ESE Fall Seminar – “From Circuits to Cognition: Silicon for Embodied Intelligence”
The next generation of intelligent and autonomous systems requires not only novel devices but also new silicon architectures and design workflows that transcend conventional approaches to deliver real-time learning, perception, and decision-making under severe power and resource constraints. In this talk, I will outline a cross-layer methodology for architecting silicon for embodied AI, from workload […]
FOLDS seminar: Weak to Strong Generalization in Random Feature Models
Zoom link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/98220304722 Weak-to-Strong Generalization (Burns et al., 2023) is the phenomenon whereby a strong student, say GPT-4, learns a task from a weak teacher, say GPT-2, and ends up significantly outperforming the teacher. We show that this phenomenon does not require a strong and complex learner like GPT-4, nor pre-training. We consider students and […]
CIS Seminar: “Inverse Problems using Generative Priors”
Inverse problems seek to recover an unknown source signal X for which we have indirect, partial, or noisy measurements Y. Most real-world inverse problems are ill-posed and the conventional line of attack has been to assume some structure (or prior) on X. Unfortunately, priors are not always available and often challenging to model mathematically. Generative […]
Friday, October 31, 2025
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October 31, 2025 -Fall 2025 GRASP on Robotics: Kris Hauser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & Samsung Research America, “Modeling and Reasoning About ‘Stuff’”
Fall 2025 GRASP on Robotics: Kris Hauser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & Samsung Research America, “Modeling and Reasoning About ‘Stuff’”
This event will be in-person ONLY in Wu and Chen Auditorium. ABSTRACT Prevailing models in robotics reason about the world either as images (end-to-end learning approaches) or as a collection of rigid objects (classical approaches), but neither have proven to be suitable abstractions for manipulating cloth, ropes, piles of objects, plants, and natural terrain. My […]
Saturday, November 1, 2025
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