PICS Colloquium: “Micro-organism Locomotion in Viscoelastic Fluids”

PICS Conference Room 534 - A Wing , 5th Floor 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Many microorganisms and cells function in complex (non-Newtonian) fluids, which are mixtures of different materials that exhibit both viscous and elastic stresses. For example, mammalian sperm swim through cervical mucus […]

ESE Fall Seminar – “Approximate symmetries in machine learning”

Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

In this talk, we explain different roles that symmetries and approximate symmetries can play in machine learning models. We define approximately equivariant graph neural networks and we show a bias-variance […]

ESE Fall Seminar – “Stochastic Geometry for Networks”

Berger Auditorium (Room 13), Skirkanich Hall 210 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Stochastic geometry is a branch of probability theory that deals with the study of random spatial patterns. Random point patterns, termed point processes, are the most basic such objects that […]

PICS Colloquium: “Exploring the landscape of model representations”

PICS Conference Room 534 - A Wing , 5th Floor 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Many studies adopt low-resolution, coarse-grained (CG) models to investigate polymers, proteins, and other soft materials. These studies must first specify the details that are retained in the low-resolution model, i.e., […]