Penn Engineering Connects: A Reception on Inclusion

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

A reception on inclusion will be held for new Penn Engineering doctoral students to connect them to their peers and supporting structures within the school. Please join the Dean, Deputy Dean, […]

CBE Seminar: “Embryogenesis: A Cascade of Dynamical Systems”

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

Abstract: We aim to establish and experimentally test mathematical models of embryogenesis. While the foundation of this research is based on models of isolated developmental events, the ultimate challenge is […]

“Compressive Sensing: From Algorithms to Circuits”

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

Compressive Sensing is an acquisition technique which relies on the sparsity of the underlying signals, to enable sampling below the classical Nyquist rate. To do so, the signals must be […]

MSE Lab Safety Seminar

Auditorium, LRSM Building 3231 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

MEAM Seminar: “Dynamical Systems Approach to Geophysical and Aerospace Flows”

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

A dynamical systems approach is taken to explain the dynamics of two classes of ‘gap-leaping’ geophysical flow as well as the hypersonic second-mode instability. First, in the context of a […]

CBE Seminar: “Complexity in the Chemistry and Physics of Lipid Membranes as a Handle to Activate the Delivery of Cargo to Cells”

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

Abstract: Lipid materials having nanostructures that deviate from the conventional flat bilayer arrangement such as hexagonally packed lipid tubes and bi-continuous cubic phases are ubiquitous in nature. Their role remains elusive but over […]

PRiML Seminar: “Building Algorithms by Playing Games”

Room 401B, 3401 Walnut 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

A very popular trick for solving certain types of optimization problems is this: write your objective as the solution of a two-player zero-sum game, endow both players with an appropriate learning […]

ESE & Statistics Seminar: “Large Neural Networks: Insights from Linearized Models”

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

Abstract: Modern machine learning models, and in particular multilayer neural networks, exhibit a broad range of puzzling phenomena. Their training requires to minimize a highly non-convex high-dimensional cost function, and […]