Seminars
April 2017
Ongoing
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4/2
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Saturday, April 1st, 2017
12:00am
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4/5
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
3:30pm
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Monday, April 3rd, 2017
8:00am
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Tuesday, April 4th, 2017
9:00am
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Customizable Computing — From Single-chip to Datacenters
Jason Cong,
Chancellor's Professor,
Computer Science,
UCLA,
4:30pm
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Wednesday, April 5th, 2017
12:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture
Graphene Intercalation: A Pathway Towards Stabilizing New Two-Dimensional Crystals
Zakaria Al Balushi,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Glacier and fjord geometry dominates its response to environmental forcing
Ginny Catania,
Associate Professor,
Department of Geological Sciences,
University of Texas at Austin,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 6th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Phase Mechanics" of arrested colloidal gels: A new paradigm for yielding and phase transitions in soft matter"
Roseanna N. Zia,
Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSRG Seminar
Using Pricing to Manage the Cloud
Carlee Joe-Wong,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Tree tribes and lower bounds for switching lemmas
Jenish Mehta,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Friday, April 7th, 2017
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Understanding Implosion Performance on the National Iginition Facility: Progress Towards Inertial Confinement Fusion Ignition
Dan Clark,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Enhancing atom-light interactions with "selective radiance": the recipe to exponentially improve photon storage fidelities
Ana Asenjo Garcia,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Kimble Group,
4:00pm
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Special EE Seminar
Engineering at the Limits of the Nanoscale
Farnaz Niroui,
Ph.D. candidate ,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,
4:00pm
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Special EE Seminar
Engineering at the Limits of the Nanoscale
Farnaz Niroui,
Ph.D. graduate student,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Special EE Seminar
Engineering at the Limits of the Nanoscale
Farnaz Niroui,
Ph.D. candidate ,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Monday, April 10th, 2017
12:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Fast-Spiking Interneurons Regulate Ensemble Calcium and Striatum-Dependent Learning
Anatol C. Kreitzer,
Senior Investigator,
Gladstone Institutes,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
What mathematical algorithms can do for the real (and even fake) world
Professor Stanley Osher,
Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science, Electrical Engineering & Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2017
12:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Acoustic Rendering: from audiovisual synthesis to wave control
Changxi Zheng,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
Columbia University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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CD3 Seminar
Building Training Sets for Astronomical Data; A Bayesian Feature Transformation for Domain Adaptation
Pavlos Protopapas,
Inst. for Applied Computational Science,
Cambridge, MA,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Semiconductor Quantum Technologies for Communications and Computing
Dirk Englund,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Social Mobility and Stability of Democracy: Re-Evaluating De Tocqueville
Konstantin Sonin,
John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor,
University of Chicago,
4:30pm
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2017
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Crossing the Logarithmic Barrier for Dynamic Boolean Data Structure Lower Bounds
Kasper Green Larsen,
Aarhus University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Query Complexity of Clustering
Arya Mazumdar,
Assistant Professor,
College of Information and Computer Sciences,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Can we predict western U.S. water?
Sarah Kapnick,
Research Physical Scientist,
Climate Variations and Predictability Group,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Mechanical Instability-driven Architecturing of Atomically-thin Materials – Where Shape Enables New Functions
SungWoo Nam,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Thursday, April 13th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Histotripsy: Focused ultrasound surgery based on nucleation of bubbles in tissue"
Adam Maxwell,
Professor,
Department of Urology,
University of Washington School of Medicine,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar
Near-optimal Adaptive Information Acquisition: Theory and Applications
Yuxin Chen,
postdoctoral scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech,,
CMS,
CALTECH,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Cancelled: Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar
Cancelled:
Scott Parazynski,
MD, Astronaut , Everest Climber, Physician, Pilot, Inventor ,
4:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Increasing Internet Access Globally through Engineering and QUIC
Nickolas Westman,
Google,
Friday, April 14th, 2017
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanoscience and nanophotonics for improved solar energy conversion
Erik Garnett,
Dr. ,
Nanoscale Solar Cells Group,
AMOLF Institute, Amsterdam,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Hypervelocity Impact Flash and Plasma on Electrically Biased Spacecraft Surfaces
Monica (Yayu) Hew,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fermi Arcs and Their Topological Character in the Candidate Type-II Weyl Semimetals WTe2 and MoTe2
Flavio Yair Bruno,
Ambizione Research Fellow,
University of Geneva,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 15th, 2017
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, April 17th, 2017
12:00pm
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2017
9:00am
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Earth Week Speaker Series
Winnett Lounge
The Fate of the Terrestrial Biosphere Under a Changing Climate
Joshua Fisher,
Climate Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Science Lead of the ECOSTRESS Mission,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Flat Photonics Using High Contrast Metastructures
Connie Chang-Hasnain,
Associate Dean for Strategic Alliances of College of Engineering and Whinnery Distinguished Chair Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
University of California, Berkeley,