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GRASP on Robotics: Jia Deng, Princeton University, “Toward Dense 3D Reconstruction in the Wild”

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

This seminar will be held in person in Wu and Chen Auditorium as well as virtually via Zoom. Reconstructing depth and motion of every pixel for arbitrary scenes is a core problem in 3D vision with many downstream applications. In this talk, I will describe some of our recent efforts toward this goal, including various […]

PICS Colloquium “Driving physics of inverted flag flapping”

Zoom - email kathom@seas.upenn.edu

Abstract: Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) is ubiquitous in the natural and engineered world, and a better understanding of FSI systems can aid in the design of renewable energy harvesting technologies, bio-inspired propulsion vehicles, and biomedical devices (to name a few applications). In this talk we will investigate “inverted” flag flapping, in which the flag is clamped at its […]

PSOC@Penn Seminar: Leyuan Ma, PhD

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

Physical Sciences in Oncology Center PSOC@Penn Spring 2022 Hybrid-Seminar Series Towne 225 / Raisler Lounge @ Noon (EST) For Zoom link , please contact manu@seas.upenn.edu

MEAM Seminar: “Unknown Unknowns in Designing Porous Intercalation Electrodes for Batteries”

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

Many batteries, including the state-of-the-art Lithium-ion technology, use porous intercalation electrodes. In such electrodes, energy is stored in the form of ions intercalating in particles. The conventional approach to designing such electrodes relies on using the porous electrode theory to upscale particle-scale behavior to the electrode-scale response. In this talk, I will discuss unusual material […]

ESE Spring Colloquium – “Bridging Safety and Learning in Human-Robot Interaction”

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

From autonomous cars in cities to mobile manipulators at home, robots must interact with people. What makes this hard is that human behavior—especially when interacting with other agents—is vastly complex, varying between individuals, environments, and over time. Thus, robots rely on data and machine learning throughout the design process and during deployment to build and […]

Spring 2022 GRASP SFI: Ted Xiao, Robotics at Google, “A Panorama of End-to-end Robot Learning”

Levine 512

In recent years, a variety of approaches to robotic control have gained popularity as robots play an increasingly larger role in our everyday lives. In this talk I will give an introduction to modern-day robot learning, covering engineering and research challenges. After establishing the foundations of popular methods, I will present why I believe that end-to-end […]

CBE Seminar: “Spying on Sugar Transporters: Kinetic Studies of Biomolecular Sensors”

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

Abstract The allocation of sugars from photosynthetic leaves to storage tissues in seeds, fruits, and tubers is an essential determinant of crop yields. In plants, transporters play critical roles in allocating carbon to different organs. Transgenic modifications of plant membrane transporters have been shown to enhance crop yield and increase plants' resistance to biotic and […]