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MEAM Seminar: “Bioinspired Robotic Sensorimotor Systems via 3D Printed Soft and Architected Materials”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesAnimals can easily adapt their bodies and movements to new, unstructured environments and situations. Robots cannot. While engineers construct robots from rigid, motorized mechanisms to precisely control their movements, vertebrates […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “Generalization, Memorization, and Privacy in Trustworthy Machine Learning”
Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesMachine learning is transforming numerous aspects of modern society, and its expanding use in high-stakes applications calls for responsible development. In this talk, I will present my research on the […]
Spring 2025 GRASP SFI: Student Lightning Talks, Session 2
Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesThis will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT The Spring 2025 GRASP SFI Student Lightning Talks will highlight the research of […]
MSE Seminar: “Soft Microparticle Assemblies to MAP Scaffolds” Tatiana Segura – Duke University
Wu & Chen AuditoriumParticle assemblies form interconnected pockets of empty space that are hot spots for activity in many applications and natural phenomenon that deal with particulate matter. In my lab we explore […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “Can Robots Learn from Machine Dreams? – Robot Learning via GenAI-powered World Models”
Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesOver the past decade, large-scale pre-training followed by alignment has revolutionized natural language processing and computer vision. Yet, robotics remains constrained by the scarcity of real-world data. In this talk, […]
IDEAS/STAT Optimization Seminar: “Statistics-Powered ML: Building Trust and Robustness in Black-Box Predictions”
Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United StatesZoom link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/98220304722 Abstract: Modern ML models produce valuable predictions across various applications, influencing people’s lives, opportunities, and scientific advancements. However, these systems can fail in unexpected ways, generating unreliable […]
MEAM Seminar: “Multiscale and Multi-physics Mechanics Involving Highly Flexible Nano and Continuum Rods”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesFlexible rod-like structures such as nanotubes and nanowires have found significant interest in nanoelectronic applications. Likewise, with the recent advancement in soft robotics and additive manufacturing, an important goal is […]
ESE Spring Seminar – “Engineering and utilizing interactions between spins and light with molecular qubits”
Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesCoupling of spins and light can enable photon-mediated scaling and control in quantum technologies, as demonstrated in trapped atom, ion, and solid-state spin qubits. Molecular analogs of such systems hold […]
Spring 2025 GRASP SFI: Danna Ma, Cornell University, “Harnessing Physical Intelligence for Collective Motion in Robotic Matter”
Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesThis will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT In recent years, the field of swarm robotics has seen rapid advancements, […]