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PICS Colloquium: “Exploring the landscape of model representations” with William Noid

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

Speaker: William Noid, Professor of Chemistry at Penn State University Abstract: Many studies adopt low-resolution, coarse-grained (CG) models to investigate polymers, proteins, and other soft materials. These studies must first specify the details that are retained in the low-resolution model, i.e., they must specify the “CG representation.” Unfortunately, the “best” representation for complex systems is […]

PICS Colloquium: “Wall-models of turbulent flows via scientific multi-agent reinforcement learning” with Jane Bae

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

Speaker: Jane Bae, Assistant Professor of Aerospace at Caltech Abstract: The predictive capabilities of turbulent flow simulations, critical for aerodynamic design and weather prediction, hinge on the choice of turbulence models. The abundance of data from experiments and simulations and the advent of machine learning have provided a boost to turbulence modeling efforts. However, simulations […]

PICS Colloquium: “Genetic testing and adverse selection” with Eduardo Azevedo

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

Title: Genetic testing and adverse selection Speaker: Eduardo Azevedo, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at Wharton, John M. Bendheim Professor, Thomas L. Bendheim Professor Abstract: Technology is dramatically driving down the cost of sequencing genetic data and increasing the quality of predictions made with this data. A standard concern is that these predictions […]

PICS Workshop: Python Boot Camp

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

Instructor: Arvind Bhusnurmath Title:  Python Boot Camp – from variables and simple statements to fun data visualizations Summary: In this boot camp we will begin from the basics of Python programming (assuming little to no programming knowledge) and quickly cover topics such as conditionals and loops with the intent to use Python as a tool […]

PICS Workshop: Mathematica 14

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

Instructor: Kelvin Mischo from Wolfram Summary: This workshop will provide hands-on experience with Mathematica for engineering applications. The workshop will also cover newer capabilities like the link to AI / LLMs to create Mathematica calculations or programs. Both novice and experienced users are welcome to attend. Bio: Kelvin Mischo is a Certified Mathematica Instructor who […]

PICS Colloquium: “Modeling Lone Pair Dynamics in Materials” with Richard Remsing

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

Title: Modeling Lone Pair Dynamics in Materials Speaker: Richard Remsing, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University Abstract: Materials properties are governed by the structure and dynamics of the bonds between their constituent atoms. In addition to covalent, metallic, and ionic interactions that we typically think about, lone pair electrons can result in […]

PICS Colloquium: “Physics-compatible kinetic-energy and entropy preserving (KEEP) scheme for high-fidelity simulation of compressible turbulence” with Soshi Kawai

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

Title: Physics-compatible kinetic-energy and entropy preserving (KEEP) scheme for high-fidelity simulation of compressible turbulence Speaker: Soshi Kawai, Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Tohoku University Abstract: Low (or ideally zero) numerical dissipation is always critical for high-fidelity scale-resolving flow simulations, as numerical dissipation prevents the physics of inviscid kinetic energy and entropy conservation, which is an […]

PICS Colloquium: “Exploiting time-domain parallelism to accelerate neural network training and PDE constrained optimization” with Eric Cyr

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

Title: Exploiting time-domain parallelism to accelerate neural network training and PDE constrained optimization Speaker: Eric Cyr, Principal Member of the Technical Staff at the Computer Science Research Institute at Sandia National Laboratories Abstract: This talk will explore methods for accelerating numerical optimization constrained by transient problems using parallelism. Two types of transient problems will be […]

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 Office Clean Out on May 3rd

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

The PICS office will be hosting an office clean out on Friday, May 3rd. This office clean out will happen throughout the day on Friday. Please join us to clean out your office. We will have larger trash and recycling bins available to help with cleaning.