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Thursday, May 18th, 2017
4:00pm 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Convex Geometry for Structured Signal Recovery: Super-Resolution and Total Variation Minimization
Weiyu Xu, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa,
Friday, May 19th, 2017
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Towards CFD-Based Design of the Long-Time Behavior of Chaotic Aerodynamics
Qiqi Wang, Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:30pm 6:30pm
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Monday, May 22nd, 2017
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

TBA
Ashia Wilson, Doctoral Student, Statistics, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

A Dynamical View of Optimization Algorithms
Ashia Wilson, University of California at Berkeley,
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

"High‐fidelity probabilistic model identification and monitoring of nonlinear dynamical systems"
Audrey Olivier, 2017 Caltech Young Investigator Lecturer in Engineering and Applied Science,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH

earning with specifications
Ufuk Topcu, Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Austin,
Wednesday, May 24th, 2017
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

On the Complexity of Local Distributed Graph Problems
Mohsen Ghaffari, ETH Zurich,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

DNA Sequencing: From Information Limits to Assembly Software
Thomas Courtade, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Methane in the Climate System: Monitoring Emissions from Satellites
Daniel J. Jacob, Vasco McCoy Family Professor, Department of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Harvard University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Arbitrary and Reconfigurable Optics
David Miller, Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University,
Thursday, May 25th, 2017
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

"Order and Chaos*: Collective Behavior of Crowded Drops in Microfluidic Systems"
Sindy KY Tang, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University,
1:30pm 2:30pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar

Preserving Randomness for Adaptive Algorithms
William Hoza, UT Austin,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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EE Thesis Defense

Methods Advancing a Machine's Visual Awareness of People in Video
David Hall, Ph.D. graduate student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
Friday, May 26th, 2017
11:00am 12:00pm
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New Frontiers in Earth-System Modelling

Weather & Climate Talk
Nils Wedi, Head of the Earth System Modelling Section at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF),
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

The Deformations of Thin Nematic Elastomer Sheets
Paul Plucinsky, Graduate student, MCE, California Institute of Technology,
5:30pm 6:30pm
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Monday, May 29th, 2017
Tuesday, May 30th, 2017
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH

Simulation of multiscale dynamical systems
Bjorn Engquist, Professor, University of Texas at Austin,
Wednesday, May 31st, 2017
4:00pm 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Statistical Challenges in the Analyses of Genome-wide Genetic Data
Sriram Sankararaman, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Department of Human Genetics, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Impact of ocean submesoscale turbulence on the global climate
Zhan Su, NASA NPP Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech,