Seminars
November 2017
Wednesday, November 1st, 2017
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The role of Criegee intermediates in aerosol formation
Carl Percival,
JPL / University of Manchester,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Fundamental Processes and Materials Development in Next Generation Battery Systems
Kimberly See,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
Caltech ,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 2nd, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Urban Physics: Is L.A. A Liquid Or A Solid? A Quantitative Approach to Cities Sustainability and Resilience"
Franz-Josef Ulm,
Professor,
Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Research talks from Resnick Graduate Research Fellow Jinglin Huang & Postdoctoral Scholar Carlos G. Read PhD
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
TBA
David Spivak,
Research Scientist,
Mathematics,
MIT,
1:45pm
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2:30pm
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Smart Grid Seminar
Towards Smart Low-Carbon Electricity Networks: State-of-the-Art and Challenges Ahead
Luis Ochoa,
Professor,
Smart Grids and Power Systems,
University of Melbourne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar
Protein aggregates and potential immunogenicity in biotherapeutics
Linda Narhi, PhD,
Scientific Executive Director ,
Process Development,
Amgen,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, November 3rd, 2017
10:00am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Engineering topological materials in one and two dimensions
Stevan Nadj-Perge,
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Maxwell, Rankine, Airy, and Modern Structural Engineering Design
William Baker,
NAE, FREng,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Fully Adaptive Radar
Muralidhar Rangaswamy,
Senior Advisor For Radar Research,
Air Force Research Laboratory,
Monday, November 6th, 2017
9:00am
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9:00am
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2:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Non-monotonicity of the matrix exponential function, why it is a problem, and what to do about it
Professor Eric Carlen,
Department of Mathematics,
Rutgers University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2017
10:00am
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Open research problems in computer graphics and games
J.P. Lewis,
Lead Researcher at SEED, Electronic Arts,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
A Constant-factor Approximation Algorithm for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem
Ola Svensson,
EPFL,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Air Quality and Climate in the Central Amazon
Scot Martin,
Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Electrons and Phonons in Solids
Philip Allen,
Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Stony Brook University,
Thursday, November 9th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Towards mechanics using quantum mechanics"
Phanish Suryanarayana,
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, November 10th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Gravitational shockwaves on rotating black holes
Yoni BenTov,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Kitaev Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Nanophotonics in the Flatland: Controlling Light at the Nanoscale with Plasmonics and Metasurfaces
Koray Aydin,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Northwestern University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Matrix-stabilized Combustion: A Tortuous Path to Establish Advanced Combustion Technologies
Matthias Ihme,
Associate Professor ,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
Saturday, November 11th, 2017
9:30am
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6:00pm
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Monday, November 13th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Importance Sampling the Union of Rare Events with an Application to Power Systems Analysis
Professor Art B. Owen,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, November 14th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Rethinking Datacenter Management with Game Theory
Benjamin Lee,
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering ,
Duke University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Matrix Product Operators in Quantum Information
David Perez-Garcia,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
From Network Coding to Sidon Spaces
Netanel Raviv,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 15th, 2017
9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Attacks on Blockwise Local PRGs and Indistinguishability Obfuscation
Vinod Vaikuntanathan,
MIT,
11:00am
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11:00am
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Max Williams Lecture
Study of Human Diseases at the Intersections of Engineering, Sciences and Medicine
Subra Suresh,
President-Designate and Distinguished University Professor Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Environmental sustainability at the intersection of climate and human change
Efi Foufoula_Georgiou,
Distinguished Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Irvine,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 16th, 2017
8:00am
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Ongoing
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Fundamental Solutions in Elastodynamics: Pathologies, Outright Errors, and Paradoxes"
Eduardo Kausel,
Professor Emeritus,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Research talks from Resnick Graduate Research Fellows Xiaoqi Ren & Sebastian Lee
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Materials Science Special Lecture
Molecular Dynamics—From the First Principles of Quantum Mechanics to Computer Aided Materials Design
Anders Niklasson,
Theoretical Division,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Steering Photons: From detectors and smart windows to space propulsion and quantum forces
Jeremy Munday,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Energy harvesting and energy cooperating wireless networks: A new frontier for communication and information theory
Aylin Yener,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Pennsylvania State University,
Friday, November 17th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Engineering Light-Matter Interactions in Photonic Crystal Waveguides
Alex Burgers,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Kimble Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Hierarchy of PDE Models of Cell Motility
Professor Leonid Berlyand,
Penn State,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Shock driven instabilities in two-fluid plasmas
Vincent Wheatley,
School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering,
University of Queensland,
Saturday, November 18th, 2017
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, November 20th, 2017
4:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Investigating large-scale brain networks using high-density EEG
Quanying Liu,
James Boswell Postdoc Fellow,
Caltech & HMRI,
4:30pm
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8:30pm
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