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JOHN A. QUINN DISTINGUISHED LECTURE IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: “Sticky Nanoparticles: Electrostatic Assembly of Targeted Delivery Agents” (Paula Hammond, MIT)

Wu & Chen Auditorium

Abstract: Electrostatic assembly can be used to engineer coatings that yield release of different drugs, DNA or protein, resulting in highly tunable multi -agent delivery nanolayered release systems for tissue engineering, biomedical devices, and wound healing applications. Most recently, we have developed a modular nanoparticle approach using liposomal core particles and layering them with an […]

Spring 2025 Robotics MSE Thesis and Capstone Lightning Talks and Poster Session

Wu & Chen Auditorium

This is an in-person event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen Auditorium for Lightning Talks and Levine Lobby for Poster Session. This year we will have an "Audience Choice" for best Lightning Talk and Poster. Please be sure to vote for your favorite! Voting will take place during the Poster Session using a QR […]

CBE Seminar: “Redox-responsive Interfaces for Selective Electrochemical Separations” (Xiao Su, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

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

Abstract: Electric fields and electrochemical reactions can unlock new separation pathways. While electrochemical separations have been explored previously for water desalination, their translation to value-added chemical manufacturing or resource recovery has been hampered by the lack of molecular selectivity. Here, we present the molecular design of redox-responsive materials for enabling selective electrochemical separations. Redox electron-transfer […]

Spring 2025 GRASP Seminar: Mike Shou, National University of Singapore, “Video intelligence in the era of multimodal”

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

This will be a hybrid event with a VIRTUAL speaker. The GRASP seminar will be streamed for in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT The past few years have witnessed great success in video intelligence, as supercharged by multimodal models. In this talk, I will start with a brief sharing of our […]

CPE4H Seminar: “Engineering Native Biological Complexity from the Inside–out and Outside–in” (Cole A. DeForest, University of Washington)

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

Abstract: Engineering heterogenous multicellular tissue with native complexity remains one of the holy grails of regenerative medicine and basic biological research. As success in this regard would yield powerful bioengineered constructs useful in functional transplantation, high-throughput drug screening, and fundamental biology investigation, research efforts in our lab have centered around developing and implementing tools to […]

ESE Guest SEminar – “Dynamical control of tip-induced quantum light-matter interactions at the nanoscale”

Greenberg Lounge (Room 114), Skirkanich Hall 210 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The controllable manipulation of bandgap, radiative emission, and energy transfer in low-dimensional quantum materials provides a versatile platform for a range of quantum photonic devices. Moreover, the understanding and precise regulation of nanoscale behaviors exhibited by excitonic quasiparticles, such as excitons and trions, in low-dimensional semiconductors are paramount for the development of highly efficient nano-excitonic […]

MEAM Seminar: “The Role of YAP and TAZ in Regulating Mechanical Load-induced Bone Adaptation and Osteocytes Mechanosensing”

Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Fetal movements and physical activities generate mechanical signals that regulate musculoskeletal development. It is widely accepted that a bone’s adaptive response occurs within an optimal strain range that stimulates bone formation, exceeding typical daily activity levels. This principle has led to models predicting how bones respond to mechanical loads, as insufficient mechanical signals can result […]

Summer 2025 GRASP Seminar: “Brain orchestra in resting-state: Identifying communication modules from the functional architecture of area V1”

Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 306 3317 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in AGH 306 and virtual attendance via Zoom. ABSTRACT How does the brain perform the complicated computations that allow us to learn about and interact with the environment? The rapid advances in optical imaging, machine learning, and the availability of computational resources, provide a unique opportunity to […]

MEAM Seminar: “SLAM in Hard Places”

Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping is a fundamental problem for robots interacting with a novel environment and has been a densely studied area of research for several decades. The modern paradigm of feature extraction and matching coupled with advancements in sensor technology have allowed robots to achieve sub meter localization accuracy over kilometer long trajectories in […]

MEAM Seminar: “Discrete and Continuous Modeling of Fibrous Biological Materials: Compressible Large Deformations, Damage, and Crack Propagation”

Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Random fiber networks are integral to biological materials such as the extracellular matrix, cytoskeleton, and blood clots. A random fiber network is the main structural component of the extracellular matrix, the cytoskeleton, and our blood clots. The mechanical behavior of these materials is characterized by large deformations, non-linear stress-strain response, and large compressibility. Experimental and […]