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CBE Seminar: “Beyond Ethanol: A Process and Systems Engineering Framework for the Design of Advanced Biofuels”

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

Abstract In my talk, I will present my work on the application of process and systems engineering techniques to the design of integrated biorefineries that produce middle distillates (jet fuel and diesel). Unlike gasoline, demand for middle distillates is expected to increase over the next 30 years, and electrification and decarbonization of sectors where middle […]

ESE Spring Colloquium – “Provably Robust Algorithms for Prediction and Control”

Zoom - Meeting ID 958 3045 4776

Feedback-driven decision-making systems are at the emerging frontier of machine learning applications. Upcoming applications of societal consequence, such as self-driving vehicles and smartwatch-based health interventions, have to contend with the challenge of operating in reactive stateful environments. In this talk, I will describe my work on designing principled robust algorithms for feedback-driven learning, with provable […]

MEAM Seminar: “Microfluidic Devices with Capillary Circuits for User-friendly, Low-cost, Multiplexed Point-of-care, Molecular Diagnostics”

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

Rapid, sensitive, and specific detection is key to personalized medicine and to the prompt implementation of appropriate mitigation measures to reduce disease transmission, mortality, morbidity, and cost. Conventional molecular detection methods require trained personnel and specialized laboratories, which limits their use to centralized laboratories. Microfluidics enables point-of-care testing. In this talk, I will show how […]

GRASP on Robotics: Jia Deng, Princeton University, “Toward Dense 3D Reconstruction in the Wild”

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

This seminar will be held in person in Wu and Chen Auditorium as well as virtually via Zoom. Reconstructing depth and motion of every pixel for arbitrary scenes is a core problem in 3D vision with many downstream applications. In this talk, I will describe some of our recent efforts toward this goal, including various […]

PICS Colloquium “Driving physics of inverted flag flapping”

Zoom - email kathom@seas.upenn.edu

Abstract: Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) is ubiquitous in the natural and engineered world, and a better understanding of FSI systems can aid in the design of renewable energy harvesting technologies, bio-inspired propulsion vehicles, and biomedical devices (to name a few applications). In this talk we will investigate “inverted” flag flapping, in which the flag is clamped at its […]

PSOC@Penn Seminar: Leyuan Ma, PhD

Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Physical 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

MEAM Seminar: “Unknown Unknowns in Designing Porous Intercalation Electrodes for Batteries”

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

Many batteries, including the state-of-the-art Lithium-ion technology, use porous intercalation electrodes. In such electrodes, energy is stored in the form of ions intercalating in particles. The conventional approach to designing such electrodes relies on using the porous electrode theory to upscale particle-scale behavior to the electrode-scale response. In this talk, I will discuss unusual material […]