On Friday, April 23 at 2:00 PICS will host a colloquium featuring Associate Professor Kunihiko (Sam) Taira of UCLA. Title: Network-Based Characterization, Modeling, and Control of Fluid Flows Abstract: The network of interactions in a sea of vortices gives rise to the amazingly rich dynamics of fluid flows. To describe these interactions, we consider the […]
On Friday, September 17 PICS will host a colloquium featuring Gregory Bowman, Associate Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Washington University in St. Louis. Title: Protein dynamics and energy landscape engineering Abstract: Experiments only reveal a few of a protein’s structures with the atomic detail required to rationally engineer mutations and drugs. However, a protein […]
On Friday, September 24 at 2:00 PICS is hosting a virtual colloquium with Julia Koehler Leman, Research Scientist, Systems Biology, CCB, Flatiron Institute. Title: How reproducible is your research? Abstract: Each year vast international resources are wasted on irreproducible research. The scientific community has been slow to adopt standard software engineering practices, despite the […]
On Friday, October 1 at 2:00 AMCS will host a colloquium featuring Mark Peletier, Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology. Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Bio: Mark Peletier obtained an MSc in mathematics from Leiden University (cum laude), and a Diplôme d’Études Approfondies at the Laboratoire d’Analyse Numérique (now Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions) of Université Paris VI, […]
On Wednesday, October 6 at 12:00, PICS will host a virtual student seminar featuring Yansong Gao, a 4th year PhD in the Chaudhari group, and Keshav Patil, 4th year PhD in the Radhakrishnan group. At this seminar each student will present for 30 minutes and then take questions. Yansong Gao Title: “A Free-Energy Principle for […]
On Friday, October 8 at 2:00 AMCS will present a colloquium featuring Nat Trask of Sandia National Laboratory. Title: TBA Abstract: TBA More information.
On Friday, October 15 at 2:00 AMCS will present a colloquium featuring David Pfau of Google DeepMind. Title: TBA Abstract: TBA More information.
On Friday, October 22 at 2:00 PICS will host a colloquium featuring Dimitris Giannakis, Jack Byrne Professor in Mathematics at Dartmouth University. Title: Kinetic theory for superparameterization of sea ice dynamics Abstract: Arctic sea ice comprises of many ice floes whose dynamics is driven by oceanic/atmospheric currents and floe-floe interaction. Models of the effective sea ice […]
The Penn Institute for Computational Science (PICS) is proud to host a C++ workshop on Saturday, October 23 from 10:00am – 3:30pm via Zoom. This one day workshop will teach students the basic skills needed to program in C++. We ask that anyone who attends has at least one year of prior programming experience in […]
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 […]