Seminars
April 2016
Thursday, April 21st, 2016
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 21st, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Methods for Causal Discovery
Frederick Eberhardt,
Professor of Philosophy,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Survivor Support: Help Survivors and Combat Rape Culture
Peace Over Violence ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar
Bioinspired Organoid Engineering for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics
Yu Shrike Zhang, PhD,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Division of Biomedical Engineering, Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Harvard Medical School-MIT Health Sciences and Technology,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
CubeSats: Big Goals, Tiny Package
Andrew Klesh,
Chief Engineer for Interplanetary Small Spacecraft,
JPL,
Friday, April 22nd, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Information-theoretic bounds and phase transitions in community detection and high-dimensional clustering
Cristopher Moore,
Santa Fe Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Earth Week Speaker Event
Accelerating Innovation: Physical Science Startups at Cyclotron Road
Raymond Weitekamp,
polySpectra project lead,
Cyclotron Road Accelerator ,
PhD in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Studies in Aquatic Locomotion: Discovery through simulations
Iman Borazjani,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University at Buffalo SUNY,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Atom waveguide QED for efficient multiphoton sources
Alejandro González-Tudela,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
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)
CubeSats: Big Goals, Tiny Package
Andrew Klesh,
Chief Engineer for Interplanetary Small Spacecraft,
JPL,
Monday, April 25th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Perception as an inference problem
Bruno Olshausen,
Professor,
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and School of Optometry,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High-level verifiable robotics
CMS Seminar
Hadas Kress-Gazit,
Associate Professor,
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Cornell University,
Tuesday, April 26th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Interactive and Interpretable Machine Learning Models for Human Machine Collaboration
Been Kim,
Research Scientist,
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Computing Isomorphisms between Finite Fields using Elliptic Curves (pt 1 of 2)
Anand Kumar Narayanan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 27th, 2016
8:00am
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Ongoing
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Constant-round Interactive-proofs for Delegating Computation
Omer Reingold,
Samsung Research America,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The dynamics of changing winter temperature extremes
Andrew Rhines,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Guaranteed Non-convex Learning Algorithms through Tensor Decomposition
Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Anima Anandkumar,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,
U.C. Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Kristin Persson,
Staff Scientist ,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Thursday, April 28th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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(CANCELLED) Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
(CANCELLED) Seth Guikema,
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar
Optical nanosensor: Pushing its limits for translational medicine
Qimin Quan, PhD,
Rowland Junior Fellow/Principal Investigator,
Rowland Institute,
Harvard University,
Friday, April 29th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Superconducting coherent caloritronics
Francesco Giazotto,
NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze,
CNR & Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Understanding Micro- and Macro-Mechanics of Soil Liquefaction: A Necessary Step for Field-Scale Assessment
Utkarsh Mital,
Understanding Micro- and Macro-Mechanics of Soil Liquefaction: A Necessary Step for Field-Scale Assessment,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
SUCCESS AT LAST !
Fred Culick,
Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Jet Propulsion, Emeritus,
GALCIT,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
A Posteriori Error Estimation Techniques for Finite Element Methods
Professor Zhiqiang Cai,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Spectroscopic signatures of Weyl semimetals beyond photoemission
Stefanos Kourtis,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Princeton,
Saturday, April 30th, 2016
7:00pm
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11:00pm
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