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Thursday, December 1st, 2016
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

"Evolving Boundaries with Explicit Parametric Geometry"
Ganesh Subbrayan, Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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A Conic Optimization Approach to Structured Model Reduction

RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar
James D. Anderson, Senior Postdoctoral Scholar, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
Friday, December 2nd, 2016
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Material architectures that trigger bone to remain alive, dismiss temperature swings, and grow between stable states
Damiano Pasini, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, McGill,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Local Hamiltonians Whose Ground States are Hard to Approximate
Aram Harrow, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Trace Reconstruction When the Number of Samples Is Exponential in the Cube Root of n
Yuval Peres, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research,
Saturday, December 3rd, 2016
Monday, December 5th, 2016
1:00pm 2:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Computational modeling of the mechanics of elastic structural lattices: effects of lattice architecture and hierarchy
Alex Zelhofer, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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EE Special Seminar

Ultra-flat and Ultra-small: New Approaches to Nanofabrication for Plasmonics and Biosensing
Sang-Hyun Oh, Sanford P. Bordeau Chair in Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities,
Wednesday, December 7th, 2016
10:00am 11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Computational modeling of the mechanics of elastic structural lattices: effects of lattice architecture and hierarchy
Pinaky Bhattacharyya, Optimal Sensor Placement for Bayesian Parametric Identification of Structures, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Robust Estimators in High Dimensions Without the Computational Intractability
Jerry Li, MIT,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar

Research talks from Resnick Postdoctoral Scholars Artur Davoyan & Deep Jariwala
Thursday, December 8th, 2016
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Greening a Top-20 Economy: Energy-Efficient Timely Transportation of Heavy-Duty Trucks

RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar
Minghua Chen, Associate Professor, Information Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
1:30pm 2:30pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar

Time-Space Hardness of Learning Sparse Parities
Avishay Tal, IAS, Princeton,
Friday, December 9th, 2016
4:00pm 5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Visualizing the Behavior of Relativistic Electrons in Simple 2D Potentials in Graphene
Dillon Wong, Crommie Group, University of California, Berkeley,
Saturday, December 10th, 2016
Wednesday, December 14th, 2016
Thursday, December 15th, 2016
12:00pm 1:00pm
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RSRG Seminar

Demand side management & aggregation
Jakob Stoustrup, Professor, Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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CNS Thesis Defense

Online Learning for the Control of Human Standing via Spinal Cord Stimulation
Yanan Sui, Graduate Student, Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology,
7:00pm 8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Spinning Black Holes, Exploding Stars, and Hyperluminous Pulsars: Recent Results from the NuSTAR Satellite
Daniel Stern, NuSTAR Project Scientist, JPL,
Friday, December 16th, 2016
7:00pm 8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture

Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Spinning Black Holes, Exploding Stars, and Hyperluminous Pulsars: Recent Results from the NuSTAR Satellite
Daniel Stern, NuSTAR Project Scientist, JPL,
Saturday, December 17th, 2016
Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
4:00pm 5:00pm
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