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ASSET Seminar: “Scaling Your Large Language Models on a Budget” (Atlas Wang, University of Texas at Austin)

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

ABSTRACT: As the sizes of Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to grow exponentially, it becomes imperative to explore novel computing paradigms that can address the dual challenge of scaling these models while adhering to constraints posed by compute and data resources. This presentation will delve into several strategies aimed at alleviating this dilemma: (1) refraining […]

BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Exploring the cell biology of neurodegenerative diseases at scale” (Saranya Santhosh Kumar)

HUB-01-1632 conference room

The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Ophir Shalem are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Saranya Santhosh Kumar.   Title: Exploring the cell biology of neurodegenerative diseases at scale   Date: January 18, 2024 Time: 10:00 am Location: HUB-01-1632 conference room The public is welcome to attend.

BE Seminar: “Toward a multi-task, multi-source foundation model to advance large-scale neural data analysis” (Eva Dyer, Georgia Tech)

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

Neuroscience datasets are expanding rapidly in both size and volume. However, integrating information across diverse datasets to form a unified understanding of brain function remains challenging. In this talk, I will discuss our initiatives to combine datasets from various tasks, brain regions, and species into a unified 'neurofoundation' model. This foundational model promises to enhance […]

BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Harnessing Regnase-1 and Roquin-1 activity to modulate T cell function” (David Mai)

Arthur H Rubenstein Auditorium 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Carl June are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of David Mai.   Date: January 22, 2024 Time: 1PM EST Title: Harnessing Regnase-1 and Roquin-1 activity to modulate T cell function Location: Arthur H Rubenstein Auditorium (https://www.itmat.upenn.edu/itmat/education-and-training/assets/user-content//documents/DirectionsSmilowCTRAuditorium.pdf) Zoom link The public is welcome to attend.

MEAM Seminar: “Transport and Delivery by Active Materials”

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

One of the major challenges in robotics is controlling micromanipulation by active and adaptive materials. Existing delivery technologies often suffer from limited navigation control, low speeds, and proneness to environmental disturbances. Biology often solves these problems by collectively organizing actuation at the microscale. For example, pathogens are removed from our lungs by an active carpet […]

ASSET Seminar: “Learning to Read X-Ray: Applications to Heart Failure Monitoring” (Polina Golland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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

ABSTRACT: We propose and demonstrate a novel approach to training image classification models based on large collections of images with limited labels. We take advantage of availability of radiology reports to construct joint multimodal embedding that serves as a basis for classification. We demonstrate the advantages of this approach in application to assessment of pulmonary […]

CBE Seminar: “Bioinspired Protein-Based Cancer Immunotherapy” (Yanpu He, MIT)

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

Abstract: Immunotherapy has revolutionized the field of cancer treatment over the past two decades, though only a small fraction of patients treated will achieve complete remission. As such, new paradigms to overcome resistance to immunotherapies are urgently needed. My research seeks to tailor immunotherapies towards individual differences in immune systems and the inherent heterogeneity of […]

ESE Grace Hopper Lecture – “Disrupting NextG”

Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

As 5G takes to the airwaves, we now turn our imagination to the next generation of wireless technology. The promise of this technology has created an international race to innovate, with significant investment by government as well as industry. And much innovation is needed as 6G aspires to not only support significantly higher data rates […]

Spring 2024 GRASP on Robotics: Dinesh Manocha, University of Maryland, College Park, “Robot Navigation in Complex Indoor and Outdoor Environments”

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

This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT In the last few decades, most robotics success stories have been limited to structured or controlled environments. A major challenge is to develop robot systems that can operate in complex or unstructured environments corresponding to homes, dense traffic, […]

PICS Colloquium: “An introduction to neural ODEs in scientific machine learning.”

Zoom

This is a quick introduction to neural ODEs for scientific applications. The goal is to (a) provide a modelling tool that enhances the expressivity of existing theory-driven approaches, (b) demonstrate that neural ODEs are easy to use via modern autodifferentiable software, and (c) give enough of the tips-and-tricks needed to make neural ODEs work in […]