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MEAM Seminar: “High-performance Electroadhesives for Materials and Robots with Programmable Stiffness”

Towne 313 220 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Materials with electroprogrammable stiffness and adhesion can enhance the performance of robotic systems but achieving large changes in stiffness and adhesive forces in real time is an ongoing challenge. Electroadhesive clutches can rapidly adhere high stiffness elements, although their low force capacities, high activation voltages, and inability to separate and turn off stiffness changes reliably […]

Quantum Engineering Summer Seminar Series: Riccardo Manenti, PhD [scalable quantum computing systems] (Rigetti)

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

About the Series: The Quantum Engineering Summer Seminar Series is hosted by the Quantum Engineering Graduate Association (QEGA) every Friday at 12:00 - 1:00 pm EDT throughout the summer months and will be followed by a separate Fall series. The series invites leading world leading experts across academia, industry, and government working on experimental, theoretical, […]

MSE Seminar: “Microstructural Design Principles for Achieving Stable Electrochemical Interfaces for Metal Anodes”

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

Lithium metal battery systems (LMBs) are being sought as an ultimate replacement to LIBs, potentially increasing the cell energy by over fifty percent due to the high capacity and low voltage of the metal anode. Analogous improvement in energy is possible with sodium metal batteries (NMBs) and with potassium metal batteries (KMBs), where existing ion […]

MEAM Seminar: “Mechanics Design in Cellulose-Enabled High-Performance Materials toward a Sustainable Future”

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

The ever-growing world population demands material consumption and drives material discovery. The progress of modern society accompanies the advent of advanced materials to enable new performance and functionalities, as epitomized by the invention of two most representative man-made materials: steels (4000 years ago) and petroleum-derived plastics (~80 years ago). The widespread use of steels (and […]

ASSET Seminar: Robust and Equitable Uncertainty Estimation (Aaron Roth, University of Pennsylvania)

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

Presentation Abstract:  Machine learning provides us with an amazing set of tools to make predictions, but how much should we trust particular predictions? To answer this, we need a way of estimating the confidence we should have in particular predictions of black-box models. Standard tools for doing this give guarantees that are averages over predictions. […]

BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Sex differences in head impact biomechanics and quantitative functional deficits due to repetitive head loading in high school sports” (Colin Huber)

Room 1120B, Roberts Center for Pediatric Research 2716 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Kristy Arbogast are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Colin Huber.   Title: Sex differences in head impact biomechanics and quantitative functional deficits due to repetitive head loading in high school sports Date: Thursday, September 8th, 2022 Time: 2:00 PM ET Location: Roberts […]

MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “A Spin-Lattice Dynamics Model with Improved Energy and Angular Momentum Conservation”

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

Magnetic materials are critically important in a wide range of application areas including data storage, medicine, energy harvesting, and refrigeration. Atomistic numerical simulations of magnetic materials can provide important insight in these applications because they offer the ability to track phenomena such as magnon-phonon interactions, ultrafast demagnetization processes, and magnetization and energy at time and […]

Fall 2022 GRASP Seminar: GRASP Research Overview – Day 1

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

GRASP Lab faculty confirmed presentations (where appropriate their presenters)... *This is a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Wu & Chen Auditorium and virtual attendance via Zoom. Dr. Mark Yim (Welcome & Introduction) Dr. Pratik Chaudhari Dr. Kostas Daniilidis Dr. Eric Eaton Dr. Dinesh Jayaraman Dr. Michelle Johnson (presented by Francis Sowande) Dr. Michael Posa […]

MEAM Seminar: MEAM Faculty Research Overview

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

Please join us on Tuesday, September 13 for a series of short research talks by MEAM faculty.  Five MEAM faculty will give "flash talks" to introduce their research activities and recent work.  This is an excellent opportunity for current graduate students to learn about ongoing research in the Department.

BE Doctoral Dissertation: “Biomechanical Evaluation of the Role of Decorin and Biglycan during Neonatal Tendon Development and Healing” (Zak Beach)

JMB Reunion Auditorium 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Lou Soslowsky are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Zak Beach. Title:  Biomechanical Evaluation of the Role of Decorin and Biglycan during Neonatal Tendon Development and Healing Date: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 Time:  2pm-3pm Location: JMB Class of 62 Auditorium