BE Seminar: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Human Tissues (Kelly Stevens)

This seminar will be held virtually on Zoom. Check email for details or contact ksas@seas.upenn.edu. Although much progress has been made in building artificial human tissues over the past several decades, replicating complex tissue structure remains an enormous challenge. To overcome this challenge, our field first needs to create better three-dimensional spatial maps, or “blueprints” […]

GRASP On Robotics: “Biorobotics for Personal Assistance – Translational Research and Opportunities for Human-Centered Developments”

https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96715197752

Abstract: The seminar will focus on the opportunities and challenges offered by the digital transformation of healthcare which was accelerated in the COVID-19 Pandemia. In this framework rehabilitation and social robotics can play a fundamental role as enabling technologies for providing innovative therapies and services to patients even at home or in remote environments. In […]

PICS Colloquium: “Machine learning for Fluid Mechanics”

Abstract: Many tasks in fluid mechanics, such as design optimization and control, are challenging because fluids are nonlinear and exhibit a large range of scales in both space and time. This range of scales necessitates exceedingly high-dimensional measurements and computational discretization to resolve all relevant features, resulting in vast data sets and time-intensive computations. Indeed, […]

MEAM Seminar: “Wave Engineering: From Geometry to Fragility”

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

The elastic properties of materials are determined by a few material constants such as the Young’s modulus. Using super-structures one can effectively change these “constants”. In this way we obtain functionalities such as wave-guiding, acoustic lensing or programmable failure. I will show how topological band theory, known from the description of electrons in solids, provides […]