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Fall 2024 GRASP on Robotics: Zak Kassas, IEEE AESS DL & The Ohio State University, “Ad Astra: Navigation with Megaconstellation LEO Satellites”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT We are witnessing a space renaissance. Tens of thousands of broadband low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites are expected to be launched by the end of this decade. These planned megaconstellations of LEO satellites along with existing […]

Tedori-Callinan Distinguished Lecture: “Novel Passive and Active Approaches to Fluid Friction Reduction using Polymers & Plastrons”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

When a superhydrophobic (SH) textured surface is immersed in water it traps a thin shiny layer of air within the texture that is known as a plastron. Contact line pinning stabilizes this Cassie-Baxter state and the patches of air trapped in the texture can act as shear-free regions that locally lower the frictional dissipation. Recent […]

ESE 2024 Jack Keil Wolf Lecture – “Army of Ants: The Power of Working in Concert”

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

Synchronized operation of a large number of similar entities can generate behavior that cannot be expected from single one. This principle combined with the physical concept of coherence in waves enables creation of programmable 3-dimensional focal points that can be used to enable many applications such as wireless energy transfer at distance on earth and […]

MSE Grace Hopper Lecture: “Bioelectronics to Probe Brain-Body Physiology” (Polina Anikeeva – Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Biological signaling in the mammalian nervous system spans a dizzying range of spatial and temporal scales. To understand how cellular and molecular signals contribute to physiology and behavior and to treat the neurological and psychiatric conditions our group designs tools that mimic biological complexity yet match the materials properties of tissues. By combining polymer engineering, […]

Herman P. Schwan Distinguished Lecture: “Engineering Proteins, Genomes, Viruses & Organs” (George Church, Harvard & MIT)

Zoom

Our exponential technologies for reading, writing genomes and epigenomes combined with AI-ML has enabled large libraries and selections for radical new functions — e.g. resistance to all viruses, novel delivery vectors for gene therapies, xeno-transplantation, de-extinction, and de-aging. This lecture will be held remotely. Zoom Link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/94497096918?pwd=5qeoyMcmEyDboMW3bKgSCmWKYBMCbP.1  

Energy Week: Joseph Bordogna Forum

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

"Creating Lasting Impact at the Interface of Energy, Technology, and Society" Join Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering for a discussion with David Turk – the former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy and Vanessa Chan, the former Chief Commercialization Officer and Director of the Office of Technology Transitions at the […]

Grace Hopper Distinguished Lecture: Melody Swartz

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

"Immunoregulatory Roles of Lymphatic Vessels in Cancer and Opportunities for Immunoengineering" Melody Swartz will discuss her pioneering research on the lymphatic system. This talk will highlight her translational work in immunotherapy, including lymph node-targeting vaccines and engineering tumor microenvironment models for therapeutic discovery.

The Harold Berger Distinguished Award Lecture 2025

Wu & Chen Auditorium

Quantum Dots: From Curiosity to Technological Impact The combination of quantum effects, nanometer dimensions and a chemical synthesis make quantum dots a platform for exploring new size-dependent fundamental properties and a sandbox for developing new applications. This talk will cover the origin story of chemically synthesized quantum dots, their basic physics, the synthesis that unlocked […]

2024-2025 Heilmeier Award and Lecture

Wu & Chen Auditorium

"Colloidal Nanocrystal Materials and Devices with Extraordinary Structures and Functions" Colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) can serve as "artificial atoms" to construct materials and devices with extraordinary structures and functions. This talk will discuss the process of designing materials and devices from single- and multiple-types of NCs. These designs can leverage the unique characteristics of NCs, in […]

ESE Guest Seminar – “Efficient Computing for AI and Robotics: From Hardware Accelerators to Algorithm Design”

Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The compute demands of AI and robotics continue to rise due to the rapidly growing volume of data to be processed; the increasingly complex algorithms for higher quality of results; and the demands for energy efficiency and real-time performance. In this talk, we will discuss the design of efficient tailored hardware accelerators and the co-design […]