Seminars
November 2014
Ongoing
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11/4
5:00pm
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Monday, November 3rd, 2014
8:00am
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Characterizing the variable sky with the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey
Matthew Graham,
Computational Scientist,
CD3 (Center for Data Driven Discovery),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI-MDL Seminar
Sander Weinreb,
Electrical Engineering and Applied Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Jose Siles,
Submillimeter Wave Advanced Technology Group,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar
Beyond Equilibria (1st of 2 parts. Cont. on Nov. 11.)
Georgios Piliouras,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:20pm
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5:20pm
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Ian Eisenman,
Assistant Professor,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, November 6th, 2014
7:30am
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7:00pm
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11:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
High-Speed Laser Diagnostics for Understanding the Physicochemical Processes of Turbulent and Reacting Flows
Jeffrey Sutton,
Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Ohio State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Asteroid Redirect Mission: Rearranging the Solar System
Brian Muirhead,
Chief Engineer,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Friday, November 7th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Limits of high power fiber lasers, slab fiber waveguides and fabrication and test of microstructures optical fibers
Jay Dawson,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
First-Order Iterative Methods in the Design of Fast Algorithms: from Multiplicative Weight Updates to Nesterov's Method
Lorenzo Orecchia,
MIT/Boston University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Exascale Co-design for Materials in Extreme Environments
Timothy C. Germann,
Director,
Exascale Co-Design Center for Materials in Extreme Environments,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Novel Mechanism of Low-Temperature CVD Graphene Growth
David Boyd,
Staff Scientist,
Yeh Group,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Asteroid Redirect Mission: Rearranging the Solar System
Brian Muirhead,
Chief Engineer,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Saturday, November 8th, 2014
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Sunday, November 9th, 2014
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 10th, 2014
9:00am
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9:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Wavefield Modeling and Signal Processing for Sensor Arrays of Arbitrary Geometry
Visa Koivunen,
Academy Professor,
Signal Processing,
Aalto University, Finland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Machine Learning and Optimization for Robotics
Associate Professor Pieter Abbeel,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of California at Berkeley,
Tuesday, November 11th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Lean, Green, Flying Machines: Control and Optimization Algorithms for Air Transportation Systems
Hamsa Balakrishnan,
Associate Professor,
Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar
Beyond Equilibria (2nd of 2 parts)
Georgios Piliouras,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 12th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Fellows Seminar
Enhanced Light-Matter Interactions in 2D Materials for Novel Solar Cell Designs & Catalysis without Precious Metals: Lessons from Nature in Sustainable Chemistry
Resnick Fellows Michelle Sherrott & Anton Toutov ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Tran Nguyen,
Stanback & NSF Postdoc Fellow,
Department of Environmental Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Harnessing Nature's Light Manipulation Strategies for Multifunctional Optical Materials
Mathias Kolle,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Flying into the Unknown: Air Traffic Management in the Presence of Uncertainty
Hamsa Balakrishnan,
Associate Professor,
Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
The Reusable Holdout: Preserving Validity in Interactive Data Analysis
Moritz Hardt,
IBM Almaden ,
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
11:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Heat Control by Thermal Diode and Thermal Metamaterials
Baowen Li,
Professor,
Centre for Computational Science and Engineering,
National University of Singapore,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Seminar
Integrating hemodynamic stress and oxidative stress to assess unstable plaque
Tzung Hsiai, MD, PhD, FAHA,
Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering,
Division of Cardiology,
UCLA School of Medicine,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 14th, 2014
10:00am
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11/15
4:00pm
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Humanities Conference: Coping with Scarcity
Coping with Scarcity: Energy Shortages, Food Crises, Drought, and Critical Materials in the Modern World (c. 1800 to the present)
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Modularity and Greed in Double Auctions
Inbal Talgam-Cohen,
Hsieh Family SIGF Fellow,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Self-similarity in the inertial region of wall turbulence
Joe Klewicki,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of New Hampshire and University of Melbourne,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Electron tunneling in Van der Waals heterostructures
Chandni U. ,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Eisenstein Group,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, November 17th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
A Solution to the Inverse Optimization Problem Using Convex Decomposition
Andreas Hempel,
Automatic Control Laboratory,
ETH Zürich,
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Autonomous Aerial Mobility on Earth and in Space
Larry Mathies,
Senior Research Scientist,
Computer Vision Group,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Information Causality, Szemeredi-Trotter, and algebraic variants of CHSH
Mohammad Bavarian,
MIT,
Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Coding for Interactive Communication Made Communication Efficient and Easy (or "How to make conversations robust to noise.")
Bernard Haeulpler,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A Paleo-perspective on Ocean Heat Content and Climate Change
Yair Rosenthal,
Professor,
Department of Marine Biogeochemistry, Paleontology,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Materials By Design: Unexpected routes to superconductivity
James Neilson,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Colorado State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Approximate Separability of Green's Function for Helmholtz Equation in the High Frequency Limit
Professor Hongkai Zhao,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Irvine,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 20th, 2014
8:00am
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Ongoing
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10:00am
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11/21
7:00pm
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The Sixth Annual Southern California Symposium on Network Economics and Game Theory
The Sixth Annual SoCal NEGT
11:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Cluster-Induced Turbulence: Mesoscale DNS and Model Validation
Rodney Fox,
Professor,
Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Iowa State University,
Friday, November 21st, 2014
8:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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