Seminar
CBE Seminar: “C4E – Computational Chemistry of Compounds for Catalysis and Energy”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesPRiML Seminar: “Optimizing probability distributions for learning: sampling meets optimization”
Room 401B, 3401 Walnut 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesOptimization and sampling are both of central importance in large-scale machine learning problems, but they are typically viewed as very different problems. This talk presents recent results that exploit the interplay between them. Viewing Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling algorithms as performing an optimization over the space of probability distributions, we demonstrate analogs of Nesterov's acceleration approach in the sampling domain, […]
CBE Seminar: “Mechanisms of Cellulose Activation and Implications for Bioenergy”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesPSOC Spring 2019 Seminar Series: Theresa Whitehead, Ph.D.
Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesCBE Seminar: “Predicting and Controlling Stability and Protein-Protein Interactions for Therapeutic Antibodies”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesBE Seminar: “Microfluidics and Immuno-Materials for Organs-on-a-Chip”
Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesThis presentation will describe microfluidic technologies to conveniently produce life-like pulsatile flows along with applications to study of lung injury, enhancement of in vitro fertilization, and analysis of frequency-dependent cellular responses. The microfluidic technologies range from adaptation of piezo-electric actuator arrays from Braille displays to design of microfluidic circuits that can be designed to switch […]
PSOC Spring 2019 Seminar Series: Alexander Anderson, Ph.D.
Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesMEAM Seminar: “Force, Shape, and Motion in Collective Cell Migration”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesCells migrate collectively to form tissues, to heal wounds, and, in cancer, to metastasize. During these biological processes, the collective migration exhibits a transition from a solid-like state, wherein cell positions remain fixed, to a fluid-like state, wherein cells flow freely and rearrange their positions with their neighbors. Recent mechanics-based models and experiments have demonstrated […]