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October 2021
The Penn Science Policy and Diplomacy Group’s Science Communication Workshop
The Penn Science Policy and Diplomacy Group's Science Communication workshop series continues this month with a workshop on Data Visualization and Poster Design. The workshop will be held virtually on Thursday October 28th from 12pm to 2pm. This session is designed to improve graphic and figure design/clarity as well as scientific poster composition. Register for the workshop here through EventBrite. To stay in touch about updates for this and other science communication workshops, join our Slack Channel or sign up for email updates via…
Find out more »PICS Colloquium: Adrian Lozano-Duran
On Friday, October 29 at 2:00 PICS is hosting a colloquium with Professor Adrián Lozano-Durán, Draper Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. Title: A model for external aerodynamics based on building-block flows Abstract: A wall model for large-eddy simulation is proposed by devising the flow as a collection of building blocks, whose information enables the prediction of the stress as the wall. The core assumption of the model is that simple canonical flows (such as turbulent channel flows,…
Find out more »November 2021
Colloquium: Pratyush Tiwary
On Friday, November 5th at 2:00 PICS will host a colloquium featuring Pratyush Tiwary, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland. Title: From atoms to emergent mechanisms with information bottleneck and diffusion probabilistic models Abstract: The ability to rapidly learn from high-dimensional data to make reliable predictions about the future is crucial in many contexts. This could be a fly avoiding predators, or the retina processing terabytes of data guiding complex human actions. Modern day artificial intelligence (AI) aims to mimic this fidelity and…
Find out more »Colloquium: Jeetain Mittal
On Friday, November 12 at 2:00pm PICS is hosting a colloquium with Jeetain Mittal, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. Title: Molecular organization in biology: What can computer simulations teach us? Abstract: The formation of membraneless organelles (MLOs) via phase separation of proteins and nucleic acids has emerged as an essential process with which cells can maintain spatiotemporal control. Despite enormous progress in understanding the role of MLOs in biological function in the last ten years or so,…
Find out more »Workshop: CUDA
On Saturday, November 13 PICS will host a workshop on CUDA: The NVIDIA® CUDA® Toolkit provides a development environment for creating high performance GPU-accelerated applications. With the CUDA Toolkit, you can develop, optimize, and deploy your applications on GPU-accelerated embedded systems, desktop workstations, enterprise data centers, cloud-based platforms and HPC supercomputers. The toolkit includes GPU-accelerated libraries, debugging and optimization tools, a C/C++ compiler, and a runtime library to build and deploy your application on major architectures including x86, Arm and…
Find out more »Alumni Spotlight: Xuran Wang
On Tuesday, November 16 at 12:00 PICS will be presenting and Alumni Spotlight featuring Xuran Wang, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University. The Zoom information to follow.
Find out more »AMCS Colloquium: Yue Lu
On Friday, November 19 AMCS will present a colloquium featuring Yue Lu, Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Mathematics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Title: TBA Abstract: TBA More information.
Find out more »Workshop: OpenMP
On Saturday, November 20 from 10:00 - 3:30 PICS will host a workshop on OpenMP. This workshop will be capped at 30 people with priority given to students enrolled in the PICS Certificate of Advanced Scientific Computing. The OpenMP API supports multi-platform shared-memory parallel programming in C/C++ and Fortran. The OpenMP API defines a portable, scalable model with a simple and flexible interface for developing parallel applications on platforms from the desktop to the supercomputer. You must register here to…
Find out more »December 2021
Colloquium: Alparslan Oztekin
On Friday, December 3 at 2:00 PICS is hosting a colloquium with Professor Alparslan Oztekin, Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics at Lehigh University. Title: Computational and Experimental Modeling of Membrane Distillation Abstract: Computational fluid dynamics simulations and experiments were conducted to study the performance of distillation membrane process for water treatment and desalination applications. Polarizations and fouling/scaling in a direct contact membrane distillation module were examined. Laminar and turbulent flow regimes in the feed and permeate channels were considered.…
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