Exhibits

Penn Museum
Info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/.

17        Virtual Global Guide Tour: Asia Galleries; 2:30 p.m.

18        Asia Galleries Tour; 11 a.m.

            Global Guide Tour: Africa Galleries; 2:30 p.m. Also December 29, 2:30 p.m.

19        Egypt Galleries Tour; 11 a.m.

            Global Guide Tour: Middle East Galleries; 2:30 p.m. Also December 30, 2:30 p.m.

29        Highlights Tour; 11 a.m. Also December 30, 11 a.m.

Fitness & Learning

14        Study and Intern Abroad in Latin America and Portugal; learn about Penn programs in Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, and Portugal; 12:30 p.m.; room 473, McNeil Building and Zoom webinar; register: https://bit.ly/PennAbroad (Penn Global; Center for Latin American & Latinx Studies).

Graduate School of Education (GSE)

Online events. Info: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/events-calendar.

16        Mid-Career Virtual Information Session; 6 p.m.

LGBT Center

Online and in-person events. Info: https://tinyurl.com/lgbt-center-calendar.

16        Penn Parent Check-Ins; 11 a.m.; online event.

17        Study Break with Goats; 3-5 p.m.; LGBT Center.

Talks

15        Immuno-Stromal Axes in Pulmonary and Biomaterial-Mediated Fibrosis; Daniel Abebayehu, University of Virginia; 11 a.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/abebayehu-talk-dec-15 (Center for Engineering MechanoBiology).

            Certifiable Outlier-Robust Geometric Perception: Robots that See through the Clutter with Confidence; Heng Yang, MIT; 2 p.m.; Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall, and Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/yang-talk-dec-15 (GRASP Lab).

16        Special Briefing on State and City Spending of Federal Infrastructure Funds; panel of speakers; 11 a.m.; online webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/iur-talk-dec-16 (Penn Institute for Urban Research).

            Neural Engineering and the Primate Brain: Working at the Electrical and Optical Interface; Bijan Pesaran, NYU; 3:30 p.m.; room 216, Moore Building (Bioengineering).

Economics

In-person events. Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.

14        Closed-Form Solutions in Additive Random Utility Models; Andrew Shephard, economics; noon; room 101, PCPSE.

Penn Dental

Online webinars. Info: https://www.dental.upenn.edu/news-events/events/.

16        Mind the Gap: Closing Gaps in Knowledge with Innovation, Precision and Collaboration; Flavia Teles, microbiology; Diagnosing Disease on a Microchip: Finding Nanoscale Needles in a Nanoscale Haystack; David Issadore, bioengineering; noon.

AT PENN Calendar 

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