Distinguished Lecture
CIS Seminar: “Visualization for People + Systems”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesAbstract: While computers can help us manage data, human judgment and domain expertise is what turns it into understanding. Meeting the challenges of increasingly large and complex data requires methods […]
John A. Quinn Distinguished Lecture: “Some Uses and Misuses of Equilibrium Thermodynamics”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesWe will discuss a number of legitimate and of wrongful applications of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, in particular, in the screening of chemical processes. We consider how ideas of […]
BE Grace Hopper Lecture: Powering tumor cell migration through heterogeneous microenvironments
Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesTo move through tissues, cancer cells must navigate a complex, heterogeneous network of fibers in the extracellular matrix. This network of fibers also provides chemical, structural and mechanical cues to […]
Sigma Aldrich Lecture: “Epitaxy by Design: Epitaxial Growth of Dissimilar Materials”
Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesAbstract: The ability to integrate dissimilar materials with different crystal structures and properties enables heterostructures to be developed with new functionality well beyond the normal band gap engineering offered by […]
Herman P. Schwan Distinguished Lecture: “Engineering human tissues for medical impact”
Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesThe classical paradigm of tissue engineering involves the integrated use of human stem cells, biomaterial scaffolds (providing a structural and logistic template for tissue formation) and bioreactors (providing environmental control, […]
Britton Chance Distinguished Lecture: “Regenerative Immunology: The Role of Technology Translation in Guiding Discovery”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesAbstract: Biomaterial implants have a long history in the clinic, but regenerative biomaterials and regenerative medicine therapies, in general, have been slow to reach patients. Clinical translation provides a unique […]
POSTPONED: John A. Quinn Distinguished Lecture: “Molecular and Colloidal Interactions in Water”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesAbstract: Life occurs in water, and water-mediated interactions between molecules and interfaces are central to biological assembly processes. Synthetic materials as common as shampoo rely on water-mediated interactions. This presentation […]
CIS Seminar: “Recovering, manipulating and enhancing recorded speech (1905-2020)”
Zoom - Email CIS for link cherylh@cis.upenn.eduThis talk will survey several recent projects dealing with recorded speech. The first explores an optical process for recovering sound recorded onto postcards using a forgotten technology from more than […]
ESE Grace Hopper Lecture: “Emerging Non-Volatile Ferroelectric Memory”
Zoom - Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.eduAbstract The last decade has seen a remarkable shift in usage and value of semiconductor memory technologies. These changes are driven by the elevation of four particular target applications –(1) […]