Latest Past Events

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

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

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: 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

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

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

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 […]