ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesESE
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With the constantly changing threat environment, the Army needs to be able to quickly adapt their tactics and equipment. But burdensome and lengthy acquisition cycles make this challenging. Additive manufacturing can potentially be utilized to overcome many of the challenges and enables on-demand manufacturing of repair parts, as well as rapid prototyping. Through topology optimization, […]
Abstract: Life occurs in water, and water-mediated interactions between molecules and interfaces are central to biological assembly processes. Synthetic materials as common as shampoo rely on water-mediated interactions. This presentation will describe experiments that highlight our lack of understanding of interactions in water. This lack of understanding presents the opportunity to formulate a refined set […]
I will present recent work on the modeling of the structural response of shape memory alloy tubes, bars, and beams. We have developed a new constitutive model that captures pseudoelastic transformation induced recoverable deformation in SMAs including the strong asymmetries in the tensile and compressive responses. Instead of introducing multiple conditions for forward phase transformation, […]
Thomas Gilgenast’s thesis defense Date and Time: Wednesday 4/15, 3:00pm EST Title: Development and application of computational tools for unraveling the structure of the 3D genome Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Cremins Thomas’ defense will take place virtually via Zoom. Please contact jcremins@seas.upenn.edu for the zoom link and password.
Advisor: Scott Diamond, PhD; Committee Members: Talid Sinno, PhD; Ravi Radhakrishnan, PhD; Lawrence Brass, PhD
Abstract: Many chronic disabling diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus are increasingly linked to inappropriate and chronic activation of inflammatory cells. A central event in the pathogenesis of these diseases appears to be an aberrant activation of innate immune sensors, most prominently the Pattern Recognition Receptors (PRRs), by nucleic […]