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ASSET Seminar: Explainable AI via Semantic Information Pursuit (René Vidal, Johns Hopkins University)

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

Presentation Abstract: There is a significant interest in developing ML algorithms whose final predictions can be explained in domain-specific terms that are understandable to a human. Providing such an “explanation” can be crucial for the adoption of ML algorithms in risk-sensitive domains such as healthcare. This has motivated a number of approaches that seek to […]

Fall 2022 GRASP SFI: Zhongyu Li, University of California Berkeley, “Can We Bridge Model-based Control and Model-free RL on Legged Robots?”

Room 307, Levine Hall 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. In this talk, I will provide a brief introduction about our recent progress in applying optimal control and deep reinforcement learning (RL) on legged robots in the real world. I will then dive into our recent work to […]

MSE Seminar: “Materials Growth and Discovery for Magnetic and Quantum Applications”

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

For functional materials that are in a nascent stage, such as the antiferromagnetic spintronics, quantum information storage, and new semiconducting compounds, it is not clear what will be the high-performance materials of tomorrow. There is a pressing need to examine the complex properties of these emerging materials, and growing single crystals is a crucial step […]

Fall 2022 GRASP Seminar: GRASP Affiliated Faculty Research Overview

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

This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance via Zoom. Dr. James Pikul Simon Kim, AIA (via Zoom) Dr. Rahul Mangharam Dr. Robert Stuart Smith (via Zoom) For more details, please check out the full speaker line-up here.

Theory Seminar- Recent Developments in Combinatorial Auctions, Matt Weinberg (Princeton University)

Room 401B, 3401 Walnut 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract: In a combinatorial auction there are m items, and each of n players has a valuation function v_i which maps sets of items to non-negative reals. A designer wishes to partition the items into S_1,…,S_n to maximize the welfare (\sum_i v_i(S_i) ), perhaps assuming that all v_i lie in some class V (such as […]

MEAM Seminar: “Manually-Operated, Slider Cassette for Multiplexed Molecular Detection at the Point of Care”

Room 2C8, David Rittenhouse Laboratory Building 209 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Effective control of epidemics, individualized medicine, and new drugs with virologic response-dependent dose and timing require, among other things, simple, inexpensive, multiplexed molecular detection platforms suitable for point of care and for home use. Conventional molecular detection methods such as PCR tests, require bulky and expensive equipment, trained personnel, and specialized laboratories, limiting their use […]

ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Lattice Theory in Multi-Agent Systems”

Moore 317 200 S 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Ordered sets model signals such as binary relations, concepts, partitions, rankings, matchings, events, as well as other taxa of information, temporal, hierarchical, relational, or, in general, logical in nature. We argue that (order-) lattice-based (networked) multi-agent systems constitute a broad class of systems in which data fusion, consensus, synchronization, and other collaborative tasks are described […]

MEAM Seminar: “Development of Astronomical Instrumentation to Study the Birth and Evolution of the Universe”

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

The study of the early universe requires deep high-resolution maps of the sky at millimeter and submillimeter. This requires the development of state-of-the-art cryogenic receivers and custom built telescopes. These instruments operate in extreme locations including from NASA launched high-altitude balloons over Antarctica and high (5,200m/17,000ft) mountain tops in Northern Chile adding a level of […]