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Wednesday, October 25th, 2017
8:00am – 10/31 5:00pm
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Midterm Examination Period

  • Academic
10:00am – 11:00am
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Gates-Thomas 115
Laboratory studies of granular materials under shear: from avalanches to force chains.
Eloïse Marteau, Graduate Student, Applied Mechanics,
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 308
A Time Hierarchy Theorem for the LOCAL Model
Seth Pettie, University of Michigan,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch

Annenberg 213
A Game theoretic approach to numerical approximation and algorithm design.
Houman Owhadi,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Rethinking the abyssal ocean circulation: bottom-intensified mixing on slopes
Jörn Callies, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Molecular Design Strategies for Functional Soft Materials
Maxwell Robb, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Caltech,
Thursday, October 26th, 2017
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
"Scalable Thermal Energy Engineering Technologies"
Shannon K. Yee, Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk

Annenberg 105
Changing a paradigm thousands of years old: Digitizing waiting
Alex Backer, Founder & CEO, QLess,
Friday, October 27th, 2017
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Shining Light On Quantum Magnetism
Nicholas Laurita, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Hsieh Group,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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CMS/EE Special Seminar

Annenberg 213
Causal Inference in the Presence of Latent Nodes
Negar Kiyavash, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Kamran Mohseni,
Monday, October 30th, 2017
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
Market Power in Power Markets: Folklore, Proofs, and Counterexamples
Assistant Professor Eilyan Bitar, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University,
Tuesday, October 31st, 2017
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Efficient classical simulation of noisy quantum circuit
Xun Gao, Tsinghua University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar

Annenberg 314
Derandomization: Polynomial Identity Testing and Isolation Lemma (2nd of 2 parts)
Rohit Gurjar, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,