Seminars
February 2018
Thursday, February 1st, 2018
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Personalized model of kinematic and dynamic of physical activities"
Ruzena Bajcsy,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar
Technology Transfer for Medical Device Development FDA Approval Challenges (Using Logicon Caries Detector as example)
Dr. David Gakenheimer,
President, GA Industries,
Friday, February 2nd, 2018
8:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Continuous measurements and quantum trajectories in circuit QED
Arian Jadbabaie,
Graduate Student,
Hutzler Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, February 5th, 2018
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Gas-Turbine Heat Transfer – Challenges and Opportunities
Tom I-P. Shih,
J. William Uhrig and Anastasia Vournas Head and Professor ,
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics ,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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BELS
Microfluidics for 3D Tissue Engineering and Personal Health Diagnostics
Samuel Sia,
Professor,
Biomedical Engineering,
Columbia University,
Tuesday, February 6th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Nonlinear control and estimation theory for multi-agent autonomy and autonomous flying ambulances
Soon-Jo Chung,
Associate Professor of Aerospace and Bren Scholar; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Scientist,
Engineering and Applied Science,
CALTECH,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Thoughts on the Potential of Quantum Computing for Nuclear Physics Grand Challenge Problems
Martin Savage,
University of Washington,
Wednesday, February 7th, 2018
9:00am
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10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics Enabled Integrity Assessment of Urban Buildings
Hao Sun,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Lab for Infrastructure Sensing and Data Science,
University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate Change in the West African Monsoon: Confusion, Consensus, and the Way Forward
Michela Biasutti,
Lamont Associate Research Professor,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Exciton-phonon interactions: theoretical techniques for light-induced structural changes
4:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Deep optimization: from learning deep models to tuning hyper-parameters
Meisam Razaviyayn,
Assitant Professor,
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering ,
USC Machine Leaning Center,
7:00pm
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7:45pm
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CS9: Intro to CS Research and Industry
More than Recommendations: Data Science at Netflix -- Speaker: Becky Tucker, Caltech Alum
Thursday, February 8th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Topological Mechanics of Critically Coordinated Lattices"
Tom Lubensky,
Professor,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Pennsylvania,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar
Printable Wearable Electrochemical Sensors: Toward Lab on the Body
Joseph Wang,
Distinguished Professor and Chair of Nanoengineering,
Department of Nanoengineering,
University California San Diego (UCSD),
4:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Approaching the Fundamental Limits of Learning
Vahid Tarokh,
Rhodes Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Mathematics, and Computer Science,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar: Young Investigator Lecture in Engineering and Applied Science
How vegetation impacts erosion
Qingjun (Judy) Yang,
PhD Candidate,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Friday, February 9th, 2018
10:00am
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11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantization of the low temperature action in the SYK model
Josephine Suh,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Kitaev Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Exploiting Sparsity for Modeling and Control of Dynamical Systems
Eurika Kaiser,
University of Washington,
Monday, February 12th, 2018
8:30am
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12:30pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Title: Novel Motion Planning Algorithms for Multi-Agent Systems and Swarms
Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay,
Robotics Technologist ,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Learning Versatile Behavior and Reusable Models through Real-World Interaction
Chelsea Finn,
Computer Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Map and Territory
Maayan Amir,
Artist and Lecturer,
Department of Fine Arts,
Haifa University ,
Ruti Sela,
Artist and Lecturer,
Department of Fine Arts,
Haifa University ,
Robert Simmon,
Senior Data Visualization Engineer,
Planet ,
Nicolas Wey-Gomez,
Professor of History,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, February 13th, 2018
10:30am
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Local, Model-Agnostic Explanations of Machine Learning Predictions
Sameer Singh,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
University of California, Irvine,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture
Scalable Solid State Quantum Information Processing
Sara Mouradian,
PhD Candidate,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Spherical t-designs as a general purpose tool for partial de-randomization (1st of 2 parts)
Richard Kueng,
CMI Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 14th, 2018
10:00am
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11:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Metals, Minerals, Microbes, and Mussels: The Chemical Biology of Catechol in Siderophores and Adhesive Proteins
Alison Butler,
Distinguished Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
2D electron-hole condensate in a van der Waals heterostructure photocell
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, February 15th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Smaller Than the Eye Can See: Vibration Analysis with Video Cameras
Justin Chen,
Technical Staff,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, February 16th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
A quantum gas of polar KRb molecules in an optical lattice
Jacob Covey,
Richard Chace Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar,
Endres Group,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF & Microwave Seminar
Surface Waves, Line Waves, and Chiral Modes for One-Directional Propagation in Electromagnetic and Acoustic Systems
Dan Sievenpiper,
Professor,
UCSD,
Monday, February 19th, 2018
8:00am
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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TBA
Vagelis Papalexakis,
Assistant Professor ,
Computer Science & Engineering,
University of California Riverside,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Quantum supremacy: checking a quantum computer with a classical supercomputer
John Martinis,
Google,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Spherical t-designs as a general purpose tool for partial de-randomization (2nd of 2 parts)
Richard Kueng,
CMI Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
9:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Toward a Resilient 21st Century
Max Didier,
Doctoral student/researcher,
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering,
ETH Zurich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Long Range Propagation of Ocean Swell
William Young,
Professor, Physical Oceanography,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California, San Diego,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Resilient Distributed Inference in Multi-Agent Systems
Soummya Kar,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Thursday, February 22nd, 2018
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Coastal Risks in the Oil and Gas Industry: Vulnerability of Storage Tanks to Severe Storms"
Jamie E. Padgett,
Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Rice University,