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Keeping Up the Good Work: Honoring 40 Years of Excellence in Diversity

Heilmeier Hall (Room 100), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Penn Engineering's diversity efforts and we invite you to join us on Friday, December 3, at 3:00 p.m. EST to celebrate Penn Engineering’s new Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI), formerly known as the Office of Minority Programs. We plan to meet in Heilmeier Hall (Towne 100) […]

MEAM Seminar: “Continuum Mechanics of Non-equilibrium Phenomena: A Journey Through Space and Time Scales”

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

The fascinating diversity of material behavior at the macroscopic scale, including plasticity, phase transformations, viscoelasticity or diffusion, can only emerge from the underlying atomistic or particle behavior. Yet, the direct connection between these two scales for non-equilibrium phenomena remains an extremely challenging quest from both a theoretical and computational perspective. This knowledge gap currently hinders […]

ESE Fall Colloquium Seminar – “Alpha-loss: A Tunable Class of Loss Functions for Robust Learning”

Zoom - Meeting ID 916 0331 6605

Machine learning has dramatically enhanced the role of automated decision making across a variety of domains. There are three ingredients that are at the heart of designing of sound ML algorithms: data, learning architectures, and loss functions. In this talk, we focus on loss functions and the role of information theory in understanding the choice […]

CIS Seminar: “Synthetic Data: Anonymisation Groundhog Day”

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

Synthetic data has been advertised as a silver-bullet solution to privacy-preserving data publishing that addresses the shortcomings of traditional anonymisation techniques. The promise is that synthetic data drawn from generative models preserves the statistical properties of the original dataset but, at the same time, provides perfect protection against privacy attacks. In this work, we present the first […]

ESE Fall Colloquium Seminar – “Data Compression: From Classical to Modern”

Zoom - Meeting ID 968 2448 5695

Lossy data compression is a vital, if hidden, enabling technology. This virtual seminar would be impossible without data compression!  Existing compression standards for images and audio rely on a "classical" theory of compression that models sources as stationary Gaussian processes. This theory is quite mature, and it provides remarkable insights into how to compress Gaussian […]

MSE Seminar: “Topological Quantum Phases, Novel Superconductors, and Ultra-Thin Films Beyond Graphene”

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

Dr. Bansil will discuss some of his recent work aimed at understanding the electronic structure and spectroscopy of novel superconductors, topological materials, and atomically thin 2D films and battery materials. Illustrative examples will include: (i) How by exploiting electronic structure techniques we have been able to successfully predict and understand the characteristics of many new […]

BE Seminar: “Tissue-Inspired Synthetic Biomaterials” (Shelly Peyton)

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 zoom link or contact ksas@seas.upenn.edu. Improved experimental model systems are critically needed to better understand cancer progression and bridge the gap between lab bench proof-of-concept studies, validation in animal models, and eventual clinical application. Many methods exist to create […]

BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Single-component optogenetic tools for cytoskeletal rearrangements” (Erin Berlew)

Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Brian Chow are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Erin Berlew. Title: "Single-component optogenetic tools for cytoskeletal rearrangements" Date: Friday, December 10, 2021 Time: 10:00 AM Location: Towne 337 and Zoom Zoom information: ERIN BERLEW is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom […]

MEAM Seminar: “Architected Nanoscale Plates for Thermionic Energy Conversion and Relativistic Interstellar Travel”

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

Architected plates feature geometrical patterns that provide advantageous mechanical properties, such as an enhanced bending stiffness or a reduced tendency to tear. In this talk I will introduce our research group’s multiscale hexagonally patterned corrugated plates, which have nano-scale film thicknesses, micron-scale total heights, and square-centimeter-scale lateral area dimensions. I will first explain how we […]

ESE Fall Colloquium – “Processing in Memory: Past, Present, and Future”

Zoom - Meeting ID 996 4057 1041

Applications are increasingly data-intensive and bound by the performance of the memory and/or storage system. This “memory wall” arises from several factors: the volume of data is increasing exponentially, outstripping cache capacities; many applications extensively use streaming data with little or no temporal reuse; as algorithms become more sophisticated, access patterns are often unfriendly to […]