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Sunday, November 2, 2025
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Monday, November 3, 2025
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November 3, 2025 -Fall 2025 GRASP Seminar: Aljoša Ošep, NVIDIA, “Segmenting More Than Meets the Eye: Towards Amodal 4D Segmentation”
Fall 2025 GRASP Seminar: Aljoša Ošep, NVIDIA, “Segmenting More Than Meets the Eye: Towards Amodal 4D Segmentation”
This is an in-person event ONLY in AGH 306. ABSTRACT The future of AI is embodied — imagine intelligent agents that can navigate and manipulate the world, from robot assistants helping around the home to autonomous vehicles taking you anywhere safely. To act in the physical world, these agents must do more than process raw […]
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
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November 4, 2025 -Tedori-Callinan Distinguished Lecture: “Robotic Predictions are Hard, Especially About the Future”
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November 4, 2025 -ESE Fall Seminar – “Diamond and GaN: Wide-Bandgap Allies for Thermal and Power Management from Devices to 3D-Stacked Chips”
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November 4, 2025 -Penn AI Seminar Featuring Li Shen: Harnessing Trustworthy AI and Informatics for Dementia and Aging Research
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November 4, 2025 -CIS Seminar: “Good Old Fashioned Engineering Can Close the 100,000 Year “Data Gap” in Robotics”
Tedori-Callinan Distinguished Lecture: “Robotic Predictions are Hard, Especially About the Future”
Many autonomous systems (e.g, driverless cars and drones) must make decisions based on predictions of the future actions of other nearby agents, whose dynamics and intentions are unknown. E.g., autonomous cars must predict the motions of surrounding vehicles, pedestrians and bicycles. Autonomous racing drones must avoid crashing into other drones on the race course. Unfortunately, […]
ESE Fall Seminar – “Diamond and GaN: Wide-Bandgap Allies for Thermal and Power Management from Devices to 3D-Stacked Chips”
Once considered exotic, diamond and gallium nitride (GaN) have become practical enablers for next-generation electronic systems. Their convergence—diamond providing exceptional thermal conductivity and GaN delivering high-efficiency power conversion—lays the groundwork for integrated thermal–power co-design. As computing, RF, and high-performance systems push toward higher power densities, conventional packaging and cooling approaches struggle to manage buried hotspots […]
Penn AI Seminar Featuring Li Shen: Harnessing Trustworthy AI and Informatics for Dementia and Aging Research
Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) remains a major health crisis with profound social and economic burdens. Innovative strategies are needed to identify genetic risk and protective factors, model disease mechanisms, and accelerate therapeutic discovery. Advances in trustworthy AI and informatics now enable the integration of multimodal genetics, omics, imaging, and outcome data from large […]
CIS Seminar: “Good Old Fashioned Engineering Can Close the 100,000 Year “Data Gap” in Robotics”
AI is rapidly advancing the way we think, but we live in a material world. We still need to move things, make things, and maintain things. We need AI-driven robots to support an aging human population that doesn’t have enough workers. Large vision-language models based on internet-scale data can now pass the Turing Test for […]
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
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November 5, 2025 -ASSET Seminar: “The coverage principle in language models: From pre-training to test-time scaling”
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November 5, 2025 -Fall 2025 GRASP SFI: Huy Ha, Columbia University & Stanford University, “UMI on Legs: Making Manipulation Policies Mobile with Manipulation-Centric Whole-body Controllers”
ASSET Seminar: “The coverage principle in language models: From pre-training to test-time scaling”
Test-time compute has emerged as a new axis for scaling language model capabilities, yet we lack a principled understanding of this paradigm. What are the right algorithms and trade-offs for test-time scaling? What properties of the pre-trained model enable it? And can we better align pre-training recipes for test-time success? This talk addresses these questions […]
Fall 2025 GRASP SFI: Huy Ha, Columbia University & Stanford University, “UMI on Legs: Making Manipulation Policies Mobile with Manipulation-Centric Whole-body Controllers”
This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance via Zoom. ABSTRACT We introduce UMI-on-Legs, a new framework that combines real-world and simulation data for quadruped manipulation systems. We scale task-centric data collection in the real world using a hand-held gripper (UMI), providing a cheap way to demonstrate task-relevant manipulation […]
Thursday, November 6, 2025
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November 6, 2025 -MSE David P. Pope Distinguished Lecture: Ion Migration and Its Impact on the Stability of Halide Perovskite Solar Cells – Prashant Kamat – University of Notre Dame
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November 6, 2025 -FOLDS Seminar: ACS: An interactive framework for machine-assisted selection with model-free guarantees
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November 6, 2025 -BE Seminar – Rohit Bhargava, “Chemical imaging: engineering a bridge between morphology and molecular composition in biomedical sciences”
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November 6, 2025 -CIS Seminar: “Exams with More Learning and Less Stress with a Computer-Based Testing Facility”
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November 6, 2025 -CIS Seminar: “Exams with More Learning and Less Stress with a Computer-Based Testing Facility”
MSE David P. Pope Distinguished Lecture: Ion Migration and Its Impact on the Stability of Halide Perovskite Solar Cells – Prashant Kamat – University of Notre Dame
The ability to tune the bandgap of metal halide perovskites by alloying different halide ions is key to advancing tandem solar cells and light-emitting displays. However, this compositional flexibility also introduces challenges, most notably, the photoinduced migration of halide ions, which can degrade device performance. A prominent manifestation is photoinduced phase segregation in mixed-halide perovskites […]
FOLDS Seminar: ACS: An interactive framework for machine-assisted selection with model-free guarantees
Zoom link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/98220304722 In this talk, I will introduce adaptive conformal selection (ACS), an interactive framework for model-free selection with guaranteed error control. Building on conformal selection (Jin and Candès, 2023b), ACS generalizes the approach to support human-in-the-loop adaptive data analysis. Under the ACS framework, we can partially reuse the data to boost the selection […]
CIS Seminar: “Exams with More Learning and Less Stress with a Computer-Based Testing Facility”
In this talk, I'll share (1) research on the benefits of frequent testing and "second-chance testing" (optional exam re-takes) on increased student learning and decreased test anxiety, (2) research on patterns of cheating on unproctored online assessments, and (3) how we've reduced the instructor workload at Illinois to implement frequent testing through our Computer-Based Testing […]
CIS Seminar: “Exams with More Learning and Less Stress with a Computer-Based Testing Facility”
Exams are an important tool for summative assessment, whose utility has only grown with the advent of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, because they can be implemented in a trustworthy manner. But exams are generally not well liked by either students or faculty. Students find them stressful. For faculty (and their course staff), they […]
Friday, November 7, 2025
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November 7, 2025 -Fall 2025 GRASP on Robotics: Neville Hogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Sensory-motor control in humans and robots”
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November 7, 2025 -Homecoming 2025: Penn Engineering Faculty Lightning Talks
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November 7, 2025 -PICS Colloquium: Influence of particle size distribution on random close packing with Eric Weeks
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November 7, 2025 -Building a Sustainable Future: Empowering the Next Generation.
Fall 2025 GRASP on Robotics: Neville Hogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Sensory-motor control in humans and robots”
This event will be in-person ONLY in Wu and Chen Auditorium. ABSTRACT Despite recent advances, humans are still more agile and dexterous than robots; yet human communication (nerves) and actuation (muscles) are slower and our musculo-skeletal system is more complex. This presentation will consider features of neuro-mechanics that may confer advantage. However, they also impose limitations. […]
Homecoming 2025: Penn Engineering Faculty Lightning Talks
Step back into the classroom with Penn Engineering! Join us for a series of TED Talk-style Lightning Talks featuring some of our most popular professors as they share their latest groundbreaking research. "Fragility and Resilience of the Soft Earth" Doug Jerolmack Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor of Earth and Environmental Science […]
PICS Colloquium: Influence of particle size distribution on random close packing with Eric Weeks
The volume fraction phi for random close packed (RCP) spheres is approximately 0.64. It is well known that higher RCP volume fractions are achieved by using collections of particles with a variety of sizes. The variety of sizes is often quantified by the polydispersity of the particle size distribution: the standard deviation of the radius […]
Saturday, November 8, 2025
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