A Franklin Medal Laureate Lecture: “Building Therapies Layer-By-Layer”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesRecipient of the 2024 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry
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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 StatesThis 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 […]
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 StatesWhen 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 […]
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 StatesSynchronized 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 […]
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 StatesBiological 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 […]
Herman P. Schwan Distinguished Lecture: “Engineering Proteins, Genomes, Viruses & Organs” (George Church, Harvard & MIT)
ZoomOur 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Harold Berger Distinguished Award Lecture 2025
Wu & Chen AuditoriumQuantum 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 […]
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 […]