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MEAM Seminar: “Continuum Mechanics of Non-equilibrium Phenomena: A Journey Through Space and Time Scales”

Zoom - Email MEAM for Link peterlit@seas.upenn.edu

The fascinating diversity of material behavior at the macroscopic scale, including plasticity, phase transformations, viscoelasticity or diffusion, can only emerge from the underlying atomistic or particle behavior. Yet, the direct connection between these two scales for non-equilibrium phenomena remains an extremely challenging quest from both a theoretical and computational perspective. This knowledge gap currently hinders […]

ESE Fall Colloquium Seminar – “Alpha-loss: A Tunable Class of Loss Functions for Robust Learning”

Zoom - Meeting ID 916 0331 6605

Machine learning has dramatically enhanced the role of automated decision making across a variety of domains. There are three ingredients that are at the heart of designing of sound ML algorithms: data, learning architectures, and loss functions. In this talk, we focus on loss functions and the role of information theory in understanding the choice […]

ESE Fall Colloquium Seminar – “Data Compression: From Classical to Modern”

Zoom - Meeting ID 968 2448 5695

Lossy data compression is a vital, if hidden, enabling technology. This virtual seminar would be impossible without data compression!  Existing compression standards for images and audio rely on a "classical" theory of compression that models sources as stationary Gaussian processes. This theory is quite mature, and it provides remarkable insights into how to compress Gaussian […]

BE Seminar: “Tissue-Inspired Synthetic Biomaterials” (Shelly Peyton)

Moore 216 200 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

This seminar will be held live and broadcast on zoom - check your email for the zoom link or contact ksas@seas.upenn.edu. Improved experimental model systems are critically needed to better understand cancer progression and bridge the gap between lab bench proof-of-concept studies, validation in animal models, and eventual clinical application. Many methods exist to create […]

ESE Fall Colloquium – “Processing in Memory: Past, Present, and Future”

Zoom - Meeting ID 996 4057 1041

Applications are increasingly data-intensive and bound by the performance of the memory and/or storage system. This “memory wall” arises from several factors: the volume of data is increasing exponentially, outstripping cache capacities; many applications extensively use streaming data with little or no temporal reuse; as algorithms become more sophisticated, access patterns are often unfriendly to […]

Fall 2021 GRASP Seminar: Heng Yang, “Certifiable Outlier-Robust Geometric Perception: Robots that See through the Clutter with Confidence”

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

*This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance for Dr. Malikopoulos’ in-person talk in Wu & Chen Auditorium and Virtual attendance via Zoom Webinar here.  Geometric perception is the task of estimating geometric models (e.g., object pose and 3D structure) from sensor measurements and priors (e.g., point clouds and neural network detections). Geometric perception […]

ESE Fall Colloquium – “Harnessing Piezoelectricity in Novel Microsystems for Classical and Quantum Information Processing”

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

Piezoelectricity is the intrinsic coupling between electric fields and strains in materials. While piezoelectric sensors, actuators, and RF filters are ubiquitous and important components of existing microsystems, their potential is still largely underutilized in many application spaces. In this talk, I will discuss the physics, engineering, and applications of two novel classes of piezoelectrically enabled […]

BE Seminar: “Neural Engineering and the Primate Brain: Working at the Electrical and Optical Interface” (Bijan Pesaran)

Moore 216 200 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

This seminar will be held live and broadcast on zoom – link coming soon. Neural engineering is enjoying an era of transformative growth. Classical methods that dominated the neurosciences for decades are being replaced by powerful new technologies. In this talk, I will discuss how to engineer electrical and optical interfaces to the primate brain. […]

BE Seminar: “Self-Assembling Nanotechnologies for Precision Biomaterials” (Santiago Correa, Stanford)

Self-assembled materials with defined nanoscale architectures can engage with biological systems in fundamentally new ways, providing unprecedented biomedical opportunities. In particular, the ability to more precisely control both the location and timing of drug release makes these biomaterials especially useful for delivering potent or sensitive cargo, which has major implications for cancer therapy and immuno-engineering. […]

MEAM Seminar: “Assembly Engineering of Patchy Particles into Complex Structures, and Beyond”

Zoom - Email MEAM for Link peterlit@seas.upenn.edu

The ability to predict, design and make the perfect material with just the right properties to do what we want, how we want, and when we want is the holy grail of materials research. Such “materials on demand” require control over thermodynamics, kinetics, nonequilibrium behavior, and structure across many length and time scales. With continuing […]