This event will be in-person ONLY in Wu and Chen Auditorium. ABSTRACT There are two dominant approaches to designing intelligent robots. One, typified by language behavior models, leverages unstructured deep […]
*****THIS EVENT WAS RESCHEDULED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER***** Rubbery polymer networks, including elastomers and hydrogels, are increasingly employed in advanced applications such as biomedical implants, drug delivery systems, and smart […]
Abstract: Proteins containing intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) can undergo multivalent interactions that promote phase separation to form mesoscale condensates that function as membraneless organelles. As subcellular compartments, condensates hold promise […]
For nearly two decades, low-dimensional media have promised to produce atomically-thin optical devices. However, making optical devices in the deep-subwavelength regime requires techniques to confine light for efficient light-matter interactions. […]
Mechanical metamaterials offer unique opportunities to focus or dissipate energy through controlled wave dynamics. I will first present experimental studies of wave localization in one-dimensional nonlinear lattices, where we observed […]
Pathologists have historically evaluated glass slides of excised tissue under a microscope to assess cancer and other disease. Over the last few years, the field has faced an inflection point […]
Join us for birthday cake and opportunities for photos as we celebrate 80 years of the ENIAC.
We discuss discrete diffusion models that offer a unified framework for jointly modeling categorical data such as text and images. We present a new model that we have developed for […]
This presenter is one of the winners of the 2025 GRASP vote for internal PhD or postdoc SFI Speakers! This week's speaker will be presenting virtually. This will be a […]
Abstract: Biological systems are inherently asymmetric, arising from chemical isomer specificity that propagates from metabolite chirality to higher-order structure and function, with profound consequences for the development of pharmaceuticals, fragrances, […]
