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PICS Colloquium: Information Theory of Multiscale Simulations with Daniel Tartakovsky

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

Speaker: Dr. Tartakovsky is a Professor in Energy Science and Engineering Department, Institute for Computational Mathematics and Engineering, and Bio-X at Stanford University. Prior to joining Stanford in 2015, he was a Staff Scientist in Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1996-2005) and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University of California San […]

PICS Workshop: COMSOL Multiphysics

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

We are excited to announce that COMSOL will be coming to the University of Pennsylvania for a free special event. On November 13th at 2pm we will be providing a Introduction to COMSOL Multiphysics® Workshop on campus at 3401 Walnut Street Wing A, Conference Room 534, 5th Floor. At this workshop, you will see the […]

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 […]

PICS Colloquium: Multiscale simulations of soft matter: from block copolymers to biomolecular condensates with Josh Lequieu

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

Abstract: Polymers are ubiquitous in both synthetic and biological materials and underlie technologies as diverse as surfactants, adhesives, proteins and DNA. One of the defining features of all polymeric materials is that they are characterized by a wide range of length scales, often involving phenomena that span nanometers to microns. This hierarchy of length scales […]

PICS Colloquium: Learning to Model the World (and Yourself) from Vision with Vincent Sitzmann

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

Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss recent publications from my group that attempt at learning models of the world and the effect of the actions of an agent within that world self-supervised, solely via interaction. In particular, I will discuss the potential and challenges of video generative models as a candidate for such a […]