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PICS Colloquium: “Representations Learnt from Synthetic Volumes Enable Training-free Medical Image Analysis” with Neel Dey

PICS Large Conference Room – 534 3401 Walnut Street, 5A, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Speaker: Neel Dey, Postdoctoral Associate in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Abstract: Current medical image analysis projects involve months to years of data annotation and custom technical development. This talk introduces methods to train networks that generalize out-of-the-box to new modalities, anatomies, and datasets all without retraining for the […]

PICS Colloquium: Motion-based rules and solitary waves: ameloblasts and birds with Brian Cox

Penn Institute for Computational Science 3401 Walnut Street, 5th Floor, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Speaker: Brian Cox earned his Ph. D. in theoretical physics at Monash University in Australia, based on computational solutions to the relativistic Hartree-Fock equation, comprising 1200 lines of code on punch-cards, stored in a cardboard box. His other research interests include: magnetism (Oxford); quantum chemistry (NASA Langley); fracture mechanics, fatigue, crack bridging, textile composites (Rockwell/Teledyne); motion-based […]

PICS Colloquium: Combining High-Throughput Workflows, Quantum Chemistry, and AI for the Discovery of Tunable Materials with Unprecedented Properties with

Penn Institute for Computational Science 3401 Walnut Street, 5th Floor, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Speaker: Andrew Rosen is an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. His research group leverages recent advances in high-throughput computing, machine learning, and quantum-chemical calculations to predictively design new materials for a more sustainable future. Abstract: The solutions to many of society’s most pressing problems rely on the discovery of materials with […]

PICS Colloquium: Mean flow and turbulence in unsteady urban canopy flows with Marco Giometto

PICS Large Conference Room – 534 3401 Walnut Street, 5A, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Speaker: Dr. Giometto is an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics department at Columbia University and an Amazon Visiting Academic. He studies both fundamental and applied problems related to fluid dynamics and turbulence, with an emphasis on atmospheric boundary layer processes. He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Braunschweig […]

PICS Colloquium: Adaptive Experimentation with Bayesian Optimization: Recent Developments and Applications at Meta with Eytan Bakshy

Penn Institute for Computational Science 3401 Walnut Street, 5th Floor, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Speaker: I’m a director and research scientist at Meta, where I lead the Adaptive Experimentation team. We develop robust AI methods for sample-efficient optimization. We conduct applied and use-inspired basic research to solve real-world problems across the company, and scale these methods through the development of software frameworks. Our work is used broadly within Meta, […]

Innovative Approaches in Data-Driven Chemistry and Reaction Optimization with Andrew Zahrt

Penn Institute for Computational Science 3401 Walnut Street, 5th Floor, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Speaker: Andrew was born and raised in Fremont, MI, a small rural town in west Michigan. He graduated from Aquinas College (Grand Rapids, MI) in 2014 with degrees in Biology and Chemistry. Later that year, he began his PhD research with Prof. Scott Denmark at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a graduate student, […]

PICS Colloquium: Lipid Membrane Remodeling by Proteins and Peptides: Mechanistic insights from multi-scale analysis with Qiang Cui

PICS Large Conference Room – 534 3401 Walnut Street, 5A, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Speaker: Qiang Cui received his Ph. D. at Emory University with Professor Keiji Morokuma in 1997. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry, Harvard University with Professor Martin Karplus, and started his independent career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2001-2017). Since 2018, he has been a professor of Chemistry at Boston University […]

PICS Colloquium: Powering decarbonization with modeling and optimization of renewables in the multi-scale atmosphere with Michael F. Howland

PICS Large Conference Room – 534 3401 Walnut Street, 5A, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract: To meet net-zero carbon emissions targets by mid-century, up to a -fold increase in wind power capacity is required. Acceleration to this rate requires urgent improvements to efficiency and reliability of installed wind farms, as well as cost reductions for future offshore farms. To expand energy production, wind turbines are rapidly increasing in size, […]

PICS Colloquium: Unraveling Internal Friction in a Coarse-Grained Protein Model with Pep Español

PICS Large Conference Room – 534 3401 Walnut Street, 5A, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract: Understanding the dynamic behavior of complex biomolecules requires simplified models that not only make computations feasible but also reveal fundamental mechanisms. Coarse-graining (CG) achieves this by grouping atoms into beads, whose stochastic dynamics can be derived using the Mori-Zwanzig formalism, capturing both reversible and irreversible interactions. In liquid, the dissipative bead-bead interactions have so […]

PICS Colloquium: A geometric model for superfluid helium-4 with Michal Pavelka

PICS Large Conference Room – 534 3401 Walnut Street, 5A, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract: Superfluid helium is a peculiar liquid. For instance, it stays liquid even at very low temperatures (below 2K), it flows through narrow capillaries without friction, and temperature gradient makes it move even in the absence of pressure gradient. The usual description of superfluid helium-4 relies on the concept of two fluids, a so called […]