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ESE Grace Hopper Lecture: “Scalable Photonics: An Optimized Approach”

Zoom - Email ESE for Link jbatter@seas.upenn.edu

Classical and quantum photonics with superior properties can be implemented in a variety of old (silicon, silicon nitride) and new (silicon carbide, diamond) photonic materials by combining state of the art optimization and machine learning techniques (photonics inverse design) with new fabrication approaches. In addition to making photonics more robust to errors in fabrication and […]

CIS Seminar:”Critical Computing Education

Zoom - Email CIS for link cherylh@cis.upenn.edu

Computing can be a wondrous, powerful tool, bringing us information, experiences, and connections that transform our lives for the better. However, as many of us have learned, computing has also contributed to great injustices, increasing surveillance of our most vulnerable populations, eroding the middle class through economic displacement, and amplifying historical injustices embedded in society. […]

CIS Seminar:”Critical Computing Education”

Zoom - Email CIS for link cherylh@cis.upenn.edu

Computing can be a wondrous, powerful tool, bringing us information, experiences, and connections that transform our lives for the better. However, as many of us have learned, computing has also contributed to great injustices, increasing surveillance of our most vulnerable populations, eroding the middle class through economic displacement, and amplifying historical injustices embedded in society. […]

Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Light-inducible control of microtubule organization in minimal cell-like compartments” (Jessica Bermudez)

The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Matthew Good are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Jessica Bermudez. The public is welcome to attend the Zoom meeting via the details below. Title: Light-inducible control of microtubule organization in minimal cell-like compartments Date: Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 Time: 12:30 PM EST Join Zoom Meeting […]

CBE Seminar: “The Role of Utilization in Meeting Mid-Century Carbon Removal Targets”

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Abstract The utilization of CO2 broadly applies to any process that transforms captured CO2 into valuable products. These processes strive to achieve any of the following objectives: (1) permanent storage (2) revenue generation and/or (3) avoiding emissions of conventional products with high amounts of embodied carbon. This talk will explore how carbon utilization can be […]

MSE Seminar: “Nano-Volumetric Materials Properties of Ferroelectrics and Photovoltaics via Tomographic AFM”

Nano- and meso- scale materials properties are crucial to the macroscopic performance of a wide range of functional and photovoltaic devices. In 2-dimensions, photoconductivity, ferroelectricity, and even domain dynamics have thus been investigated for decades now especially using variations of Atomic Force Microscopy. Our work and others reveals how these properties are frequently mediated by […]

MEAM Seminar: “How to Make Your Ocean Smarter”

Zoom - Email MEAM for Link peterlit@seas.upenn.edu

Our oceans drive worldwide weather-climate systems; our rivers serve as nutrient conduits; and our marine ecosystems house the largest repository of biodiversity and mineral resources on the planet. Humans have relied on rivers, lakes, and oceans for transportation, energy generation, farming, and recreation throughout our history. And today, robots are critical tools in our stewardship […]

CIS Grace Hopper Distinguished Lecture:”Video Data Management: From Data Models to Data Storage and Benchmarking.”

Zoom - Email CIS for link cherylh@cis.upenn.edu

The proliferation of inexpensive high-quality cameras coupled with recent advances in machine learning and computer vision have enabled new applications on video data. This in turn has renewed interest in video data management systems. In this talk, we explore several challenges related to video data management. We start by discussing data models. How should we […]

SIG Seminar:”From Bits to Bricks – Bridging Building Energy Modeling and Simulation with Graphics”

Zoom - Email CIS for link cherylh@cis.upenn.edu

Computer graphics is often used to visualize complex imagery for the film and game industries, however, computer graphics can also be used to solve a diverse set of transdisciplinary problems. In this talk, I will introduce research that bridges building energy modeling and simulation and computer graphics. Buildings are a leading contributor to total energy […]

MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “All-Passive Hardware Architectures for Neuromorphic Computation”

Zoom - Email MEAM for Link peterlit@seas.upenn.edu

Human brains demonstrate how simple computational primitives can be combined in massively parallel ways to produce networks capable of identifying complicated patterns in sensory data. In contrast, electronic computers adopt hardware architectures that process information serially, leading to higher latency and power consumption when implementing intrinsically parallel algorithms, such as neural networks. This software-hardware architectural […]