Spring 2022 GRASP SFI: Georgios Georgakis, University of Pennsylvania, “Cross-modal Map Learning for Vision and Language Navigation”
Levine 512*This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Levine 512 and Virtual attendance via Zoom We consider the problem of Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) in previously unseen realistic indoor environments. […]
CBE Seminar: John A. Quinn Distinguished Lecture – “Molecular and Colloidal Interactions in Water”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesAbstract Life occurs in water, and water-mediated interactions are central to biomolecular assembly processes. Synthetic materials as common as soap and shampoo also rely on water-mediated interactions. This presentation will […]
MSE Seminar: “Role of Solvation and Dynamics on Ion Transport in Polymer Electrolytes”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesPolymer electrolytes are an important class of ion conducting materials critical to enabling various electrochemical systems. Fundamentally, ion-polymer coordination, inter-connectivity of solvation sites, and corresponding ion-solvating polymer dynamics are critical […]
GRASP Special Seminar: Steven Ceron, Cornell University, “Swarms Across Length Scales with Local-to-Global Behaviors”
Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States*This will be a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Towne 337 and Virtual attendance via Zoom Collectives in nature demonstrate behaviors that extend far beyond the capabilities of any single […]
MEAM Seminar: “Exploiting Environmental Fields for Orienteering and Planning Problems”
Zoom - Email MEAM for Link peterlit@seas.upenn.eduRobots are increasingly being used to complete tasks in complex environments. To complete these tasks, two of the most fundamental choices that the robot must make are (1) task planning: […]
GRASP on Robotics: Vincent Sitzmann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Self-supervised Scene Representation Learning for Robotics”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesGiven only a single picture, people are capable of inferring a mental representation that encodes rich information about the underlying 3D scene. We acquire this skill not through massive labeled […]
BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Leveraging Macrophage Immune Checkpoint Blockade to Link Innate and Adaptive Immunity Against Solid Tumors” (Jason Andrechak)
Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesThe Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Dennis Discher are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Jason Andrechak. Title: Leveraging Macrophage Immune Checkpoint Blockade […]
PICS Colloquium: “Transforming Healthcare from the Outside: the OBSERVER project”
PICS Conference Room 534 - A Wing , 5th Floor 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesWe live with a health care system that has evolved into an increasingly fragmented, primarily treatment-oriented, and now heavily burdened environment. More importantly, issues related to privacy, space, and disease […]
PSOC@Penn Seminar
Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesPhysical Sciences in Oncology Center PSOC@Penn Spring 2022 Hybrid-Seminar Series Towne 225 / Raisler Lounge @ Noon (EST) For Zoom link , please contact manu@seas.upenn.edu