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Tech Talks: Bridging Academia and Innovation in Philadelphia’s Tech Hub

Jon M. Huntsman Hall 3730 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Join us at the University of Pennsylvania for an event co-organized by the Mack Institute for Innovation Management and the City of Philadelphia Department of Commerce. This event is set to explore and expand collaboration opportunities that are remaking Philadelphia's tech industry into a diverse and dynamic hub of innovation. Hear from city and commonwealth officials about their take on […]

MSE Seminar: “Probabilistic Digital Twins for Structure Preserving Simulation and Scientific Discovery”

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

Despite the recent flurry of work employing machine learning to develop surrogate models to accelerate scientific computation, the "black-box" underpinnings of current techniques fail to provide the verification and validation guarantees provided by modern finite element methods. In this talk we present a data-driven finite element exterior calculus for building accelerated reduced-order models of multiphysics […]

PRECISE Seminar: Optical Coherence Tomography – From Conception to Current Frontiers

Room 307, Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a technology invented in 1991 to image small critical tissue structures throughout the body with micrometer resolution. It is widely used in the management of eye and coronary heart diseases. In 2023, OCT received broad attention when its inventors received the prestigious Lasker-DeBakey Clinic Medical Research Award and the National […]

Spring 2024 GRASP on Robotics: Marco Pavone, Stanford University & NVIDIA, “Rethinking AV Development with AV Foundation Models”

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 Foundation models, trained on vast and diverse data encompassing the human experience, are at the heart of the ongoing AI revolution influencing the way we create, problem solve, and work. These models, and the lessons learned from their […]

MEAM Master’s Thesis Defense: “The Rheology and Microphysics of Monodisperse Synthetic Mucin”

Room 2C8, David Rittenhouse Laboratory Building 209 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Mucus, a complex fluid produced by every living organism, has multiple essential functions including acting as an effective barrier layer in various bodily processes, many of which involve important rheological (flow) and tribological (adhesive, lubricative) functions. The primary component of mucuses are mucins – highly glycosylated, linear polypeptides. Understanding how the structure and properties of […]

PICS Colloquium: “Representations Learnt from Synthetic Volumes Enable Training-free Medical Image Analysis”

PICS Conference Room 534 - A Wing , 5th Floor 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Current medical image analysis projects involve months to years of data annotation and custom technical development. This talk introduces methods to train networks that generalize out-of-the-box to new modalities, anatomies, and datasets all without retraining for the specific use case. Our key contributions include (A) generative models driven by biomedical shape priors that synthesize wildly […]

Entrepreneurship Seminar Series: Pathways to Impact

Towne 327

Entrepreneurship Seminar Series: Pathways to Impact This session brings together a panel of current and former faculty and PhDs that have brought their technology to market and have worked in both academia and commerce. Panelists will discuss the opportunities and approaches they took to create companies, leverage experience in academia, and drive research into commercial […]

MEAM Master’s Thesis Defense: “Modeling Off-Grid Photovoltaics Integrated with Micro-Cogeneration and Electrical Energy Storage”

Room 2C6, David Rittenhouse Laboratory Building 209 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Due to the elevated expenditure of fossil fuels and their adverse impacts on climate change resulting from greenhouse gas emissions, it is imperative to integrate clean energy sources alongside fossil fuels. This study presents the design, simulation, and optimization of an integrated system comprising solar photovoltaics, micro-cogeneration, and electrical energy storage to achieve energy self-sufficiency […]

MEAM Seminar: “Collective Transitions in Beating Cilia and Swimming Fish”

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

I will discuss the collective modes that spontaneously emerge in ciliary carpets and fish schools. In both systems, the fluid medium couples the motion of individuals in the group. Flow coupling is dominated by viscous forces in cilia and by inertial interactions in fish. I will show, numerically and analytically in the continuum limit, that […]

AI Month: Closing Keynote Address

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

AI Month at Penn concludes with closing remarks by Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean, Penn Engineering. This will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Susan Davidson, Weiss Professor, Computer and Information Science (CIS). Panel guests include: Zachary Ives, Adani President’s Distinguished Professor, CIS; George Pappas, UPS Foundation Professor of Transportation, Electrical and Systems […]