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BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: ““Development of magnetic nanopore-based extracellular vesicle subpopulation sorting for the multimodal diagnosis and prognosis of neurological disease and cancer” (Andrew Lin)
Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesThe Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. David Issadore are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Andrew Lin. Title: “Development of magnetic nanopore-based extracellular vesicle […]
CBE Seminar: “Engineering Electrochemical Reactions for Sustainable Chemical Manufacturing” (Modestino, NYU)
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesThe chemical industry produces more than 70,000 products (1.2 billion tons in total) via thermal processes powered by fossil fuel combustion, accounting for ~5% of the US energy utilization and […]
MSE Seminar: Working Safely in the Lab: Navigating Common Laboratory Hazards in MSE Research
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesEHRS Sr. Lab Safety Specialist Gwenn Allen will discuss how to work safely in the lab while navigating the changing landscape of materials science and engineering research. Her talk will […]
BE Seminar: “Engineering the immune response at the molecular level” (Jamie Spangler, Johns Hopkins U.)
216 Moore BuildingThe repertoire of naturally occurring proteins is finite and many molecules induce multiple confounding effects, limiting their efficacy as therapeutics. Recently, there has been a growing interest in redesigning existing […]
Fall 2023 GRASP Seminar: GRASP Research Overview – Day 1
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesGRASP Lab faculty confirmed presentations (where appropriate their presenters)... *This is a HYBRID Event with in-person attendance in Wu & Chen Auditorium and virtual attendance on Zoom. Dr. Mark Yim […]
MEAM Seminar: “Viscoelastic Biopolymer Networks Model Fibrotic Niches”
Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesFibrosis and remodeling of extracellular matrix are involved in many diseases, such as tumors, wound healing, and chronic inflammation. During fibrosis, tissues undergo changes in their viscoelastic properties, i.e., how […]
ESE Fall Seminar – “Josephson parametric amplifiers for rapid, high-fidelity measurement of solid-state qubits”
Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesQuantum physics puts a limit on how small the noise added by an amplifier can be. Limiting this extra noise, which causes unavoidable signal degradation, is an essential requirement for […]
ASSET Seminar: “Efficient and Targeted COVID-19 Border Testing Via Reinforcement Learning” (Hamsa Bastani, Penn)
Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesABSTRACT: Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, countries relied on a variety of ad-hoc border control protocols to allow for non-essential travel while safeguarding public health: from quarantining all travellers to restricting […]
Fall 2023 GRASP SFI: Jim Fan, NVIDIA AI, “Generalist Agents in Open-Ended Worlds”
Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesThis is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Levine 307 and virtual attendance on Zoom. ABSTRACT Autonomous agents have made great strides in specialist domains like Atari games and […]