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Spring 2024 GRASP SFI: Michel Hidalgo, Ekumen, “Doing robotics in digital labs: Or how simulations fuel robotics development”

Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. This week's speaker will be virtual. Seminar attendees are also invited to a group discussion with Michel Hidalgo on Thursday, April 11th from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM on this link. ABSTRACT How do you do robotics without robots? […]

CBE Seminar: “Role of Water in Underwater Adhesion” (Ali Dhinojwala, University of Akron)

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

Abstract Roughness and wetness can disrupt interfacial bonding and reduce adhesion, and this phenomenon is of relevance for many biological and engineering applications. I will discuss how roughness affects both dry and wet adhesion as well as provide an overview of our current theoretical understanding in this area. My specific interest is in underwater adhesion, […]

MSE Seminar: “Thermal Architecture”

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

Air conditioning accounts for nearly 20% of the total electricity used in buildings globally and cooling energy demand is predicted to significantly increase over the next decades due to urbanization, population growth, and global warming. Heat stress is a major environmental justice concern, disproportionally impacting disadvantaged communities. What are the paths to reduce the massive energy […]

Spring 2024 GRASP on Robotics: David Fridovich-Keil, University of Texas at Austin, “Information-Aware Algorithms for Smooth Dynamic Games”

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

This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT This talk introduces dynamic game theory as a natural modeling tool for multi-agent interactions ranging from large, abstract systems such as ride-hailing networks to more concrete, physically-embodied robotic settings such as collision-avoidance in traffic. We present the […]

Career Steps Before Graduation Seminar

Auditorium, LRSM Building 3231 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

On Friday, April 12,2024, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering is hosting an information session dedicated to equipping you with insights on the essential steps to secure a career after graduation, with staff from UPenn Career Services and ISSS (International Student and Scholar Services) lending their expertise on prevailing job trends and providing guidance […]

MEAM Seminar: “Cardiovascular Engineering – A ‘Personal’ Journey from Bench to Bedside”

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

Over the past few decades, significant contributions have been made by engineers to healthcare. The successful translation of fundamental engineering concepts has helped improve patient care and diagnosis. This impact has been particularly evident in the field of cardiovascular medicine where the roles of fluid and solid mechanics, and imaging are critical. In ~45 years […]

Spring 2024 GRASP SFI: Karl Pertsch, University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University, “Building Open-Source Generalist Robot Policies”

Towne 337

This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Towne 337 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Generalist robot policies, trained on large and diverse robot datasets, have the potential to transform how robot learning research is done: in the same way that current models in NLP are almost universally derived from pretrained large […]

CBE Seminar: “Creating Real Steak Without the Cow: Using Insights from Wine and Biopharmaceutical Production to Commercialize Cultivated Meat”

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

Abstract Between a growing global population and increased consumption of meat from developing countries, it is projected that meat production will have to increase by at least 60% by 2050 to meet demand. It is unlikely that expanded conventional animal agriculture alone will be able to meet this need. Therefore, alternatives to conventional meat will […]

BE Seminar: “Using Computers to Derive Protein Structure from Sparse Data – A Case Study for Mass Spectrometry” (Steffen Lindert, Ohio State)

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

Mass spectrometry-based methods such as covalent labeling, surface induced dissociation (SID) or ion mobility (IM) are increasingly used to obtain information about protein structure. However, in contrast to other high-resolution structure determination methods, this information is not sufficient to deduce all atom coordinates and can only inform on certain elements of structure, such as solvent […]