Seminars
January 2018
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018
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EE Systems Seminar
Information-Theoretic Security in the Smart Grid
Dr Iñaki Esnaola,
Lecturer (Assistan Professor),
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering,
University of Sheffield,
Thursday, January 4th, 2018
9:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Network Monitoring and Inspection for Infrastructure Resilience"
Saurabh Amin,
Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, January 5th, 2018
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Surface chemistry, continuum breakdown, and the Curie-Prigogine Principle: A modern (hypersonic) take on a classic principle
Kelly Stephani,
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign,
Monday, January 8th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar
Latent Variable Matrix Estimation via Collaborative Filtering
Christina Lee,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Microsoft Research New England,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Algorithmic Information Structure Design: Two Vignettes, Lessons Learned, and Challenges Ahead
Assistant Professor Shaddin Dughmi,
Theory Group, Department of Computer Science,
University of Southern California,
Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
12:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
The Dueling Bandits Problem
Yisong Yue,
Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Computer Science,
CALTECH,
Wednesday, January 10th, 2018
12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Crystal Adaptronics: Dynamic and Soft-Matter-Like Properties of Molecular Crystals
Panče Naumov,
New York University Abu Dhabi,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Hydrology, sediment or permafrost: why do high latitude rivers move so slowly?
Joel Rowland,
Scientist,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Advancement of Transmission Electron Microscopy and its Application in Materials Research
Xiaoping Pan,
Professor,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science; Physics and Astronomy,
UC Irvine,
7:00pm
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7:45pm
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CS9: Intro to CS Research and Industry
Quotient Technology Inc. -- Mike Walsh, Head of Research & Development
Thursday, January 11th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Bioinspired algorithmic-driven design of additively manufactured materials"
Grace Xiang Gu,
Caltech Young Investigator Lecturer in Engineering and Applied Science Recipient,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
IKASI -- Application of Machine Learning Today: Tradeoffs in objectives, interpretability, and operationalization
Anthony Chong,
Founder/CEO,
IKASI,
Ben Flora,
Product Manager,
IKASI,
Friday, January 12th, 2018
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
From many modes to many bodies
David Schuster,
Physics Department and James Franck Institute,
University of Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Straighten up and fly right: mechanisms for long distance dispersal in insects
Michael Dickinson,
Zarem Professor of Bioengineering and Biology,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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RF and Microwave Seminar
Frontiers in Power Electronics: From Clean Energy to Wireless Powering of Vehicles
Khurram Afridi,
Assistant Professor and the Goh Faculty Fellow ,
Department of ECEE ,
University of Colorado ,
Monday, January 15th, 2018
8:00am
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2018
8:40am
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12:30pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers in Retrospective and Perspective
Alexander Lipton,
Alexander Lipton is founder and CEO of StrongHold Labs and Connection Science Fellow at M.I.T.,
Wednesday, January 17th, 2018
12:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment: A Vision to Enable Decentralized Water Treatment and Address Growing Challenges of the Water Energy Nexus
Pedro J.J. Alvarez,
George R. Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University; Director of the NSF ERC on Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Halide Perovskites: Poor man's high performance semiconductors
Mercouri Kanatzidis,
Professor,
Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Deterministic Random Matrices
Ilya Soloveychik,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
School of Engineering and Applied Science,
Harvard University,
7:00pm
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7:45pm
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CS9: Intro to CS Research and Industry
Topological Quantum Computation -- Professor Xie Chen, Caltech
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, January 18th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Physics based modeling and data analytics for infrastructure system resilience
Elnaz Esmaeilzadeh Seylabi,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Friday, January 19th, 2018
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Improving gravitational-wave detector sensitivity with cryogenic test mass cooling
Johannes Eichholz,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Experimental Physics,
Adhikari Group,
12:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
New Frontiers in Imitation Learning
Yisong Yue ,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department ,
California Institute of Technology,
Saturday, January 20th, 2018
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, January 22nd, 2018
1:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Impulsive Energy Deposition to Enhance High-Speed Flight
Kelvin Kremeyer,
founder of Physics, Materials, and Applied Mathematics Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Statistical Methods for Two Problems in Biology
Associate Professor Daniela Witten,
Statistics and Biostatistics,
University of Washington,
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
"What's New? Interpretable Discovery in Large Image Data Sets"
Kiri Wagstaff,
Principal Researcher in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning,
JPL MLS Group,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Two challenges for DNA nanotechnology: building interfaces with silicon and cells
Paul W. K. Rothemund,
Research Professor,
Bioengineering, CMS, & CNS,
California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, January 24th, 2018
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CMX Lunch
Non-Gaussian prior measures in Bayesian inverse problems: from theory to applications
Bamdad Hosseini,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Ocean Heat Uptake and Dynamical Sea Level Rise: Past and Future Uncertainty
Laure Zanna,
Associate Professor of Climate Physics,
Department of Physics,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Bridging the enormous span of length scales in lithium-ion batteries
Will Chueh,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Materials Science & Engineering ,
Stanford University ,
7:00pm
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7:45pm
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CS9: Intro to CS Research and Industry
Snap -- Production Software Engineering -- Scott Bruce, Senior Software Engineer & Caltech Alum
Thursday, January 25th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Big Data — A New Research Frontier In Earthquake Engineering"
Ertugrul Taciroglu,
Professor,
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Code Ocean -- Reproducibility Workshop: Best Practices and Easy Steps to Save Time for Yourself and Other Researchers
4:00pm
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Friday, January 26th, 2018
9:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Data-driven Infrastructure Informatics in Smart and Resilient Cities
Thomas Matarazzo,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Senseable City Lab,
MIT ,
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Bulk Entanglement Gravity
Sean Carroll,
Research Professor of Physics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Toward harnessing the full potential of urban winds: a case study of Hess Tower
Daniel Araya,
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Houston,
Monday, January 29th, 2018