CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Understanding and Modulating Interactions between Polymers and Nanoparticles for Effective Catalyst Design in Polymer Upcycling” (Anirban Majumder)

Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract: Despite recent advances in catalytic conversion of plastic waste into high-value chemicals, the interactions between the polymers and catalysts, which are highly porous nanomaterials, are not well understood. Fundamental […]

MEAM Seminar: “Learning Memory and Material Dependent Constitutive Laws”

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

The theory of homogenization provides a systematic approach to the derivation of macroscale constitutive laws, obviating the need to repeatedly resolve complex microstructure. However, the unit cell problem which defines […]

ASSET Seminar: “Alignment and Control with Representation Engineering”

Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which bypass common safeguards put in place to prevent these models from generating harmful output. Notably, these attacks can be […]

Spring 2025 GRASP on Robotics: Lingjie Liu, University of Pennsylvania, “Towards Next-Gen 3D Reconstruction and Generation: From Visual Fidelity to Multimodal and Physical Understanding”

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

This will be a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in 3D reconstruction and generation. […]

Penn Engineering Entrepreneurship (EENT): Generative AI Panel

Amy Gutmann Hall, Auditorium 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

A panel hosted by Penn Engineering Entrepreneurship (EENT) highlighting the importance of AI for the next generation of leaders and showcasing how Penn has been, and will continue to be, at the […]