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GRASP on Robotics: “The Importance of Pneumatic Actuation in Adaptive Robotic Devices”

Abstract: Soft pneumatic actuators have become a popular implement in modern robotic systems due to their intrinsic mechanical compliance, which affords researchers levels of robustness and adaptability that can be difficult to achieve in rigid-body, motor-driven devices. However, with the physical advantages of these versatile actuators come significant challenges in sensing, feedback control, and sustainable, […]

PICS Colloquium: “Kinetic theory for superparameterization of sea ice dynamics”

PICS Conference Room 534 - A Wing , 5th Floor 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Arctic sea ice comprises of many ice floes whose dynamics is driven by oceanic/atmospheric currents and floe-floe interaction. Models of the effective sea ice dynamics  at large scales typically employ hydrodynamic equations of motion, such as mass and momentum conservation, with complex constitutive laws attempting to capture the rheology of sea ice as a continuum. Although hydrodynamic sea ice models […]

CBE PhD Dissertation Defense | “Process Development and Modeling for the Advancement of Direct Air Capture Technologies”

Zoom - Email CBE for link

Abstract:  "As the catastrophic effects of climate change are felt throughout our global society, we must take immediate action. A portfolio of climate solutions must include both deep and robust decarbonization, and systems to remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere. One promising suite of carbon removal technologies is Direct Air Capture (DAC). DAC refers […]

MEAM Seminar: “Robotics Goes Soft: Challenges and Achievements, for New Robotics Scenarios”

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

Largely inspired by the observation of the role of soft tissues in living organisms, the use of soft materials for building robots is recognized as one of the current challenges for pushing the boundaries of robotics technologies and building robotic systems for service tasks in natural environments. The study of living organisms sheds light on […]

Fall 2021 GRASP SFI: “Physics-inspired learning for discontinuous contact dynamics”

Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

*This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and Virtual attendance via Zoom here… Frictional contact is the core underlying behavior of robot locomotion and manipulation, and its nearly-discontinuous dynamics make planning and control challenging even when an accurate model of the robot is available. In this talk, I will first […]

ODEI Spotlight: Society of Women Engineers GSK Info Session

Society of Women Engineers GSK Info Session Wednesday, October 27 from 6-7 PM   GSK is hosting an information session for students of all grade levels! GSK is hiring for the Internship and Co-Op Program, and the Future Leaders Program! If you are interested in applying what you are learning in your current classes in […]

ESE Fall Colloquium Seminar – “Transforming Ideas to Reality: Emerging Nanotechnologies from the “Lab” to the “Fab””

Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Emerging nanotechnologies promise to enable a wide-range of next-generation applications - from energy-efficient computing to personalized healthcare. Yet many emerging nanotechnologies face substantial inherent imperfections and variations that have rendered making working systems - and therefore the next-generation applications they promise to enable - infeasible. In this talk, I will describe how by computing advances […]

MSE Grace Hopper Lecture: “Optics on the Nanoscale: Conquering Absorption with Nonlinear Optics”

Auditorium, LRSM Building 3231 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Optical nanostructures enable molding the flow of light on the subwavelength scale rendering possible the realization of compact, cost-effective, flat and highly efficient optical components for imaging, spectroscopy, sensing, and communications. From the fundamental science viewpoint, light-matter interactions at the nanoscale reveal themselves in new and often unexpected ways. In fact, the usual linear and […]

BE Seminar: “Systems-level Analyses of the Human Gut Microbiome” (Ilana Lauren Brito)

Moore 216 200 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

This seminar will be held live and broadcast on zoom – check your email for the link or contact ksas@seas.upenn.edu. A major question regarding the human gut microbiota is: by what mechanisms do our most intimately associated organisms affect human health? In this talk, I will present several systems-level approaches that we have developed to […]