ESE Seminar: “Physics-Driven Sensing and Processing: From Computational Periscopy to Particle Beam Microscopy”
Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesIn many areas of science and engineering, novel signal acquisition methods allow unprecedented access to physical measurements. From digital cameras to microscopes and nano-scale biosensors, the data generated are shaped […]
CIS Seminar: “Cataloging the Visible Universe through Bayesian Inference at Petascale”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesAbstract: A key task in astronomy is to locate astronomical objects in images and to characterize them according to physical parameters such as brightness, color, and morphology. This task, known […]
CIS Seminar: “Towards Generalization and Efficiency in Reinforcement Learning”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesAbstract: In classic supervised machine learning, a learning agent behaves as a passive observer: it receives examples from some external environment which it has no control over and then makes […]
PRiML Seminar: “Optimizing probability distributions for learning: sampling meets optimization”
Room 401B, 3401 Walnut 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesOptimization and sampling are both of central importance in large-scale machine learning problems, but they are typically viewed as very different problems. This talk presents recent results that exploit the interplay between them. […]
MEAM Seminar: “Interfacial Soft Matter”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesSurface tension plays a critical role in a wide range of biological, environmental, technological and geophysical settings. In this talk, I will present three different problems dealing with interfacial soft […]
ESE Seminar: “New Designer Materials: Sculpting Electromagnetic Fields on the Atomic Scale”
Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesNew optical nanomaterials hold the potential for breakthroughs in a wide range of areas from ultrafast optoelectronics such as modulators, light sources and hyperspectral detectors, to efficient upconversion for energy […]
CIS Seminar: “Perceiving Humans in the 3D World”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesSince the dawn of civilization, we have functioned in a social environment where we spend our days interacting with other humans. As we approach a society where intelligent systems and […]
CBE Seminar: “Mechanisms of Cellulose Activation and Implications for Bioenergy”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesESE Seminar: “Towards Socially-Aware Autonomy for Mobility-Efficient Smart Cities”
Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesAs cities grow everywhere, and urban roadways become overburdened, efficient strategies are required for improving mobility. With the prevalence of smart sensing and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as […]