Seminars
October 2016
Wednesday, October 26th, 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
Local search yields approximation schemes for k-means and k-median in Euclidean and minor-free metrics
Claire Mathieu,
ENS,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Extreme Power Density and Efficiency Power Converters for Grid Interfaced Applications—New Circuit Topologies and Control Techniques to Leverage Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Devices
Robert Pilawa-Podgurski,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Tropical energetic and precipitation responses to sea surface temperature perturbations: Zonal mean and the African Sahel
Spencer Hill,
NSF Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Extending the Range of the Glassy State in Metals
A. Lindsay Greer,
Head of the School of Physical Sciences, Professor of Materials Science,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 27th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Scaling Limits in Networked Control System"
Bassam Bamieh,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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DOLCIT/RSRG Seminar
Architectures and Algorithms for Distributed Generation Control of Inertial-Less AC Microgrids
Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
On Probabilistic Checking in Perfect Zero Knowledge
Michael Forbes,
MIT,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Using Algebraic Geometry for Computer Vision
Joe Kileel,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, October 28th, 2016
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Enabling Humanity's First Interstellar Missions: Directed Energy for Relativistic Flight
Philip Lubin,
UCSB,
Sunday, October 30th, 2016
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, October 31st, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Kerr Comb Generation: Dark Pulse Mode-locking in Normal Dispersion Microresonators
Andrew M. Weiner,
Scifres Family Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Purdue University,