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CBE PhD Dissertation Defense | “3D-stiffness Microenvironment Leads to Nuclear Envelope Rupture, DNA Damage, and Genome Variation”

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

Abstract:  "Solid tumor cells grow in a stiff microenvironment with dense extracellular matrix (ECM) and condensed packing of adjacent cells. Tumor cells are capable of migrating through constricted pores formed by ECM or surrounded by other cells, and the nuclear envelope can break with repair factor mislocalization, further leading to DNA damage and genetic changes, […]

PSOC@Penn Seminar: Cindy Reinhart King

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

Room: Towne 225/Raisler Lounge For zoom link, contact manu@seas.upenn.edu.

MEAM Seminar: “Designing Robotic Systems with Collective Embodied Intelligence”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Natural swarms exhibit sophisticated colony-level behaviors with remarkable scalability and error tolerance. Their evolutionary success stems from more than just intelligent individuals, it hinges on their morphology, their physical interactions, and the way they shape and leverage their environment. Mound-building termites, for instance, are believed to use their own body as a template for construction; […]

ESE Grace Hopper Lecture – “A Communications Perspective on Digital Privacy”

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

Many of the activities in cyberspace, from social networking to the use of mobile apps, leave digital footprints compromising the users’ privacy.  As digital tracking technologies become more sophisticated and pervasive, there is a need to understand and quantify the users’ privacy risk, that is, what is the likelihood that users in cyberspace can be […]

CIS Seminar: “Sketching Algorithms”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract: A "sketch" is a data structure supporting some pre-specified set of queries and updates to a database while consuming space substantially (often exponentially) less than the information theoretic minimum required to store everything seen, and thus can also be seen as some form of functional compression. A "streaming algorithm" is simply a data structure […]

ODEI Spotlight: Trauma Informed Care and LGBT Health

LGBT Center - 3907 Spruce Street 3907 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, United States

Stephanie Tillman, CNM -- the Feminist Midwife -- will discuss LGBT health through the lens of trauma informed care. Registration required, more info TBA. Find full details on the event page here.

Fall 2021 GRASP SFI: “Studying Bias and Representation in Sociotechnical Systems”

*This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and Virtual attendance via Zoom here… Algorithms play a central role in our lives today, mediating our access to civic engagement, social connections, employment opportunities, news media and more. While the sociotechnical systems deploying these algorithms—search engines, social networking sites, and others—have the […]

Homecoming 2021: Penn Engineering Update and “Engineering living biology with nanomachines”

This special event is part of the virtual programming for Penn Homecoming 2021 and is open to all alumni, parents, and friends. Nemirovsky Family Dean and Professor Vijay Kumar will give a State of the School Update including an overview of the newly established Center for Precision Engineering for Health, which will bring together researchers […]

MSE Seminar: “Lansdcapes of Glass”

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

If cooled sufficiently quickly, the disorder of a liquid can be "quenched" or locked in place; the resulting amorphous solid is glass. Although it appears to be solid on human timescales, glass continues to creep due to thermal vibrations at the molecular scale. Consider now a pile of sand; it too is a disordered system, […]

ODEI Spotlight: Critical Race Theory and DEI: From Theory to Practice

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

The African-American Resource Center & Office of Affirmative Action Presents: Critical Race Theory and DEI: From Theory to Practice Join us as we examine the language switch from Critical Race Theory to Diversity Equity and Inclusion, and what each term means and what DEI means and looks like at Penn.   Zoom Link: http://upenn.zoom.us/j/7443577924   […]