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MEAM Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “High-Dimensional Design Evaluations for Self-Aligning Geometries”
Room 3W2, David Rittenhouse Lab 209 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesPhysical connectors with self-aligning geometry aid in the docking process for many robotic and automatic control systems such as robotic self-reconfiguration and air-to-air refueling. This self-aligning geometry provides a wider range of acceptable error tolerance in relative pose between the two rigid objects, increasing successful docking chances. In a broader context, mechanical alignment properties are […]
CIS Seminar: “Achieving CSforALL through the Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC)”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesAbstract: At a time when computing is so much a part of all of our lives, has incredible job opportunities, and is so empowering, most students graduate high school without having had any introduction to computer science. A decade ago in the United States, the CSforALL movement was launched to broaden participation in computing to those traditionally underrepresented. This talk will […]
MSE Seminar: “How Do You Make a Micro-Robot?”
Auditorium, LRSM Building 3231 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesCIS: Grace Hopper Distinguished Lecture: “A 2020 Vision of U.S. Election Security”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesAbstract: Despite the provision of a $380M federal grant to enhance technology and improve security in the 2018 midterm elections, machine failures and computer malfunctions again plagued polling places (in GA, PA, NY, IN, TX, and MA), resulting in late openings, long lines, and turned-away voters. Poor ballot layouts resurfaced in Florida, resulting in nearly […]
PSOC Seminar : “Molecular microscopy without labels: Seeing the chemistry in biomedical science”
Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesMEAM Seminar: “Origami Micro, Bio, and Nanosystems “
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesDue to the inherent planarity of conventional micro and nanofabrication, it is challenging to pattern and assemble micro, bio, and nano-materials and devices in all three dimensions. Origami inspired mechanical assembly by curving, bending, and folding of appropriately designed micro and nanopatterned precursors provides a high-throughput solution to address this challenge. In this talk, I […]
ESE Seminar: “Enabling the SmartGrid with IoT Sensors and Edge-Cloud Analytics”
PICS Conference Room 534 - A Wing , 5th Floor 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesAbstract: Wireless sensors and edge-cloud analytics have the potential to gather and process vast amounts of data about the physical world, offering radical new insights about everything from critical infrastructure to interpersonal interactions. But designing, deploying, and operating geographically-distributed systems consisting a hierarchy of sensing, storage, compute, and communication elements raises interesting new challenges across […]
CIS Seminar: “Reducing Errors in Quantum Computation via Program Transformation”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesAbstract: Quantum computing promises exponential speedups for an important class of problems. While quantum computers with few dozens of qubits have been demonstrated, these machines suffer from high rate of gate errors. Such machines are operated in the Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) mode of computing where the output of the machine can be erroneous. […]
ESE Dissertation Defense: David Q. Sun
Room 307, Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesTitle: "Understanding Coalition Dynamics in Multiparty Conflicts: An Agent-Based Approach with Multi-Objective Spatial Model" Abstract: Through this research, we explore the dynamics of coalition formation in multi-agent competitive games where each agent has its unique characteristics. We do so by constructing an abstract formal model, and a more complex agent-based model. In the broader context […]