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Fall 2024 GRASP on Robotics: Damion Shelton, Agility Robotics, “What do we want from our machines?”
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 In 2022 I represented Agility Robotics at the first “Philadelphia Summit” […]
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 […]
Fall 2024 GRASP Seminar: Yunzhu Li, Columbia University, “Foundation Models for Robotic Manipulation: Opportunities and Challenges”
Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States*This seminar will be held in-person in Levine 307 as well as virtually via Zoom. ABSTRACT Foundation models, such as GPT-4 Vision, have marked significant achievements in the fields of natural […]
MEAM Seminar: “Can Materials From the 1930’s Really Revolutionize Battery Manufacturing?”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesFluorinated polymers offer a plethora of unique and sometimes perplexing properties. One of the most interesting is the ability for specific types of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) to undergo room-temperature, sheer-induced, structural […]
ESE Fall Seminar – “Non-Parametric Analysis of Dynamical Systems: From Recurrent Sets to Generalized Lyapunov and Barrier Conditions”
Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesThis talk presents novel non-parametric methods for analyzing dynamical systems using solely trajectory data. Our critical insight is to replace the notion of invariance, a core concept in Lyapunov Theory, […]
CBE Seminar: “Scalable Access to the Hidden Topologies of Biology” (Albert Keung, North Carolina State University)
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesAbstract: Biology is characterized by a diversity of phenotypes and functions that outpace the limited molecular diversity encoded in genomes. How this is achieved is a fundamental and enduring mystery […]
Fall 2024 GRASP SFI: Gioele Zardini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Compositional Design of Complex Systems: From Autonomy to Future Mobility”
Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesThis seminar will start at 3:30 PM instead of 3:00. This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT When designing […]
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED: ESE Fall Seminar – “A changing grid powered by the new generations of power conversion, control, and energy management”
Towne 337The electric grid is undergoing a transformative paradigm shift, driven by sweeping changes in generation, demand, and energy storage. By 2035, solar PV alone is expected to supply 40% of […]
MSE Seminar: “Nano to Mesoscale: Structure, Composition, and Transport Processes in Human Dental Enamel”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesMineralized tissues are paradigmatic hierarchical materials that reap synergy from structural and compositional gradients at multiple length scales in ways that are challenging to reproduce by conventional means. My laboratory […]