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  • June 2026

  • Thursday Jun 18

    ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “2D/3D Heterostructures & Ultrathin AlScN Devices for Emerging Applications in Memory & Space”

    June 18 @ 10:00 AM /
    Greenberg Lounge (Room 114), Skirkanich Hall 210 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Zoom Link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/92711825975?pwd=t5bjbMBW8FmePQfQVpwYAs7SyENU1r.1 Meeting ID: 927 1182 5975 Passcode: 429961 Abstract: The semiconductor industry’s ever-growing demand for smaller device dimensions, better power efficiency and lower prices has pushed state of the […]

    Thursday Jun 18

    ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Decomposition Methods for Safety-Aware Design: From Conservatism to Performance in Layered Control”

    June 18 @ 11:00 AM /
    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 515 3317 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

    Zoom Link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/7354979301?pwd=lQzV6QIdj4Br8fQvim4PJgV8GSl1Cp.1&omn=99268288296 Meeting ID: 735 497 9301 Passcode: 94358124 Abstract: Layered control is a concept in decision-making that separates responsibilities across different optimization problems designed to collectively perform an overall […]

    Thursday Jun 18

    MEAM Seminar: “Experimentally Validated Reduced-order Modeling for the Control of Flow in Compliant Tubes”

    June 18 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    While the movement of fluid through rigid conduits is a well-characterized classical problem, predicting the behavior of fluid flow through a compliant tube, in which tube deformation and the behavior […]

    Tuesday Jun 23

    MEAM Seminar: “Continuum Modeling of Hydrogels: Poroelasticity, Poro-viscoelasticity, and Phase Transition”

    June 23 @ 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM /
    Towne 337

    Hydrogels are fluid-filled polymer networks whose mechanical behavior is governed by the coupling between network deformation, solvent transport, molecular architecture, and time-dependent dissipation. In this seminar, I will present a […]

    Thursday Jun 25

    ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Understanding Deep Learning via Tractable Models”

    June 25 @ 11:00 AM /
    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 515 3317 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States
    Hybrid Event

    Zoom link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/9888713654 Despite the monumental success of modern deep learning, our theoretical understanding of these machine learning systems remains limited. Many prevailing theoretical frameworks fail to capture critical and […]

    Friday Jun 26

    ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Learning Under Test-Time Feedback: Reduction, Learning, Optimization”

    June 26 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM /
    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States
    Hybrid Event

    Zoom link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/9071889851?pwd=1L0RTqQqINUhCGNfssVMYaHbnM7HDN.1&omn=98919332390 Meeting ID: 907 188 9851 Passcode: 172834 A ubiquitous feature of modern AI applications involves training or deploying models sequentially, such as in robot learning and language […]

    Tuesday Jun 30

    ESE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Hierarchical Planning for Safe and Reactive Robot Autonomy in Dynamic, Human-centric Environments”

    June 30 @ 1:00 PM /
    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 515 3317 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States
    Hybrid Event

    Zoom Link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/99241403942?pwd=utmb7mJnRmc4z4whwVTCLr1f7Hi0UU.1 Meeting ID: 992 4140 3942 Passcode: 051736 Abstract: The transition of robot deployment beyond structured factories into homes, offices and busy urban spaces introduce compounded challenges of […]

  • July 2026

  • Wednesday Jul 1

    MSE Ph.D. Defense: “Effects of Polymer Brush, Nanoparticle, and Solvent Characteristics on Nanoparticle Adsorption”

    July 1 @ 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM /
    Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract: As filtration and separation technologies continue to improve, an emerging bottleneck arises in the differentiation between similarly sized nanometer-scale particles. Polymer brushes are densely grafted polymer chains and are […]

    Wednesday Jul 1

    MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Design, Performance Analysis, and Motion Control of a Jet-propelled Soft Robotics Platform”

    July 1 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
    Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Monitoring underwater ecosystems is critical for assessing marine biodiversity and tracking the ongoing impacts of global climate change. Bio-inspired soft robots present an ideal solution for these environments, leveraging morphological […]

    Tuesday Jul 7

    MEAM Seminar: “From Boundary Layers to Weather: Fluid Mechanics of Earth’s Surface”

    July 7 @ 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM /
    Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Environmental fluid mechanics seeks to understand how exchanges of momentum, heat, water, and tracers between the Earth's surface and the atmosphere influence the structure and evolution of the atmospheric boundary […]

    Tuesday Jul 7

    MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Multiscale Mechanical Regulation of Tumor Progression Across Scales”

    July 7 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM /
    Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Metastasis remains the leading cause of cancer-related mortality. To spread, cancer cells escape the primary tumor site, traverse heterogeneous tissues and the extracellular matrix, evade the immune system, and establish […]

    Thursday Jul 9

    MSE Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Stuck in the Matrix: How Chromatin Records and Replays Mechanical History”

    July 9 @ 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM /
    Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract: Tissues stiffen in aging, fibrosis, cancer, and injury, yet how these physical changes are recorded inside the nucleus has remained poorly understood. This dissertation establishes that matrix stiffness is […]

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