A long-standing grand challenge in computing is to enable machines to act autonomously and intelligently: to rapidly and repeatedly take appropriate actions based on information in the world around them. Driven by trends in the data economy, rapid progress in AI, and an increasingly programmable physical world we are at an inflection point that demands […]
Abstract Until now, the natural world has supplied us with antibiotics. Bacteria, however, are increasingly resistant to these drugs. The next generation of antibiotics will likely come not from nature but from computer-based discovery. Computer-driven approaches have the potential to outperform humans, as demonstrated for pattern recognition of images and text. In order for machines […]
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. David Meaney are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Samantha Schumm. The public is welcome to attend the Zoom meeting via the details below. Title: Computational Investigations of Neuronal Network Responses to Traumatic Brain Injury Date: Thursday, October 29th, 2020 Time: 9:00am EST Join Zoom […]
The Graduate Student Symposium will be held on October 30th, 11:00AM-5:00PM EDT. We are excited to share the research conducted in our department with each other and invited industrial representatives, with 14 oral talks and 36 poster presentations from soft matter, biological and biomedical engineering, energy, and catalysis. Information on the program and abstracts can […]
Two fundamental challenges that arise in the development of air-breathing supersonic combustion ramjet engines (scramjets) for hypersonic flight are: 1) the rapid mixing of fuel and oxidizer that must occur prior to combustion, and 2) the coupling between the engine structure and the flow dynamics. Interactions of shock waves and turbulence that characterize the flow […]
Talk title TBC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center PSOC@Penn Fall 2020 Webinar Series Mondays @ Noon (EST) For webinar links, please contact manu@seas.upenn.edu
Robots often struggle to move through complicated environments from cluttered living spaces to treetop canopies where humans and animals flit with ease. Jumping is an exciting locomotion mode that can enable small ground-based robots to maneuver around large obstacles and gaps in complicated environments. A high-power jumping robot can rapidly traverse obstacles, but the resulting […]
The PICS Alumni Spotlight is an opportunity for current students to talk and network with alumni. These talks begin with the speaker discussing their education and career paths and then answering questions from students.
Abstract The emergence of coordinated cellular, tissue, and organismal responses rely on complex biological networks. While the connectivity of the networks is increasingly defined, understanding the dynamics of the system and the emergence of coordinated responses at multiple spatial and temporal scales is an unsolved problem in many systems. This is a challenge addressed by […]
Seminar details forthcoming.
