Seminars
October 2017
Monday, October 2nd, 2017
9:30am
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4:30pm
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017
10:00am
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10:40am
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Changes in the duration of extreme precipitation events with climate warming and links to atmospheric dynamics
Paul O'Gorman,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Machine Learning Art & Creativity Talk
The Shape of Art History in the Eyes of the Machine
Ahmed Elgammal,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Alex Greaney,
Assistant Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
UC Riverside,
Thursday, October 5th, 2017
9:00am
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10:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Numerical methods for fluid-structure interaction, and their application to flag flapping
Andres Goza,
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technolofy,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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The coherence collapse regime of high-coherence Si/III-V lasers and the use of swept frequency semiconductor lasers for full field 3D imaging
EE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Mark Harfouche,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Building monitoring for damage evaluation using seismic waves and deconvolution interferometry"
Norimitsu Nakata,
Professor,
University of Oklahoma ,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar
Tensors, time series, and computational sustainability
Qi (Rose) Yu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Friday, October 6th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Thermodynamics at the nano scale: The work cost of information processing
Philippe Faist,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Brandao Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Physical Limnology
Jörg Imberger,
Professor (Adjunct) ,
Department of Ocean Sciences,
Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science,
Monday, October 9th, 2017
8:40am
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12:30pm
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4:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
On Randomness and Determinism in High Dimension
Professor Ramon van Handel,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
6:10pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, October 10th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Enabling space exploration with astrodynamics
Stefano Campagnola,
Engineer and researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Outer Planet Mission Analysis Group,
JPL,
Wednesday, October 11th, 2017
10:00am
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11:00am
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Research talks from Resnick Graduate Research Fellow Vatsal Jhalani & Postdoctoral Scholar Akira Kudo PhD
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Nested Periodic Matrices and Dictionaries: New Signal Representations for Periodicity Analysis
Srikanth Tenneti,
PhD Student,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Oxygen isotope fractionation in the CaCO3-DIC-H2O system
James Watkins,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Oregon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Quasi 2D and 1D van der Waals Materials: From Fancy Physics to Practical Devices
Alex Balandin,
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
UC Riverside,
Thursday, October 12th, 2017
10:00am
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11:00am
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CMS Special Seminar
RenderMap: Exploiting the Link Between Perception and Rendering for Dense Mapping
Claudio Pinello,
United Technologies Research Center,
Andrzej Banaszuk,
United Technologies Research Center,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Time dependent fluid mechanics at nanometer length scales"
John E. Sader,
Professor,
School of Mathematics and Statistics ,
The University of Melbourne, Australia,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Towards Universal Representations for Image Recognition
Fisher Yu,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar
Redefining the Drug Discovery Pathway-From Drug Candidate Search to Phenotypic Personalized Medicine (PPM)
Chih-Ming Ho,
Distinguished Research Professor,
Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science,
University California Los Angeles,
Friday, October 13th, 2017
3:00am
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4:00am
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GALCIT Colloquium
Data to Decisions: Computational Methods for the Next Generation of Aerospace Systems
Karen Willcox,
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
8:00am
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5:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Universal Hamiltonians for Exponentially Long Simulation
Thom Bohdanowicz,
Graduate Student, Brandao Group,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, October 14th, 2017
10:00am
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11:00am
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 15th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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Monday, October 16th, 2017
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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CMS Techfest
Maja Mataric,
Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics,
USC,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2017
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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CD3 Seminar
Food patterns and obesity prevalence across countries: A machine learning application
Jocelyn Dunstan,
University of Chile, Santiago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch
Equilibria in energy landscapes with nonlinear diffusion and nonlocal interation
Franca Hoffman,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Modeling of Cloud Microphysics. Can we do better?
Wojciech Grabowski,
Senior Scientist,
Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) Laboratory,
NCAR,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Imaging electronic states in van der Waals heterostructures
Brian LeRoy,
Associate Professor,
Physics,
University of Arizona,
Thursday, October 19th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Dynamics, Feedback, and Transient Antibiotic Resistance in Single Cells"
Mary Dunlop,
Professor,
Biomedical Engineering Department,
Boston University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, October 20th, 2017
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Exactly Solvable Model for Two Dimensional Topological Superconductor
Zitao Wang,
Graduate Student, Xie Chen Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Turbulence in stratified flows: wakes of submersibles and flow over underwater topography
Sutanu Sarkar,
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
University of California at San Diego,
Monday, October 23rd, 2017
10:00am
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11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Coherent structures, their interactions, and their effects on passive scalar transport and aero-optic distortion in a turbulent boundary layer
Theresa Saxton-Fox,
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Deconstructing the Neural Dynamics of Anticipation
CNS Seminar
Sotiris Masmanidis,
Assistant Professor,
Neurobiology,
UCLA Brain Research Institute,
Tuesday, October 24th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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When is Biological Science Information Science?
Lior Pachter,
Bren Professor of Computational Biology and Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
CALTECH,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Entanglement transformation and the structure of matrix space
Yinan Li,
University of Technology Sydney,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Derandomization: Polynomial Identity Testing and Isolation Lemma (1st of 2 parts)
Rohit Gurjar,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,