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Thursday, March 1st, 2018
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

"Folding gels and shells: Geometric design principles for reconfigurable materials"
Ryan Hayward, Professor, Polymer Science and Engineering , University of Massachusetts Amherst,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk

Lessons Learned in Scaling Facebook
Bobby Johnson, Founder and CTO, Interana,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Exploring Emergent Phenomena in Complex Oxide Thin Films
Ruijuan Xu, PhD Candidate, Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Understanding the shape of single-cell data via manifold learning
Smita Krishnaswamy, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Yale University,
4:00pm 5:15pm
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Special Medical Engineering Seminar

"Research in Medical Engineering at Caltech"
Friday, March 2nd, 2018
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Scrambling in quantum spin chains
Brian Swingle, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Interfacial Engineering of Quantum Materials
Shuolong Yang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kavli Institute, Cornell,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Stimulus-Response Behavior of Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Gels
Kenji Urayama, Professor, Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Self-similarity in boundary layers
Bruno Eckhardt, The Philipps University of Marburg,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Spin-coherent dot—cavity electronics
Michael Ferguson, ETH Zurich,
Saturday, March 3rd, 2018
12:00pm 5:30pm
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Women's History Month Event

Off Campus
International Women's Day March
Monday, March 5th, 2018
9:00am 10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Hybrid Dynamical Systems for Robust Control, Optimization, and Learning in Societal Systems
Jorge Poveda, Graduate Student Researcher, University of California at Santa Barbara,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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12:00pm 1:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar

Convex Relaxations of Chance Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow
Andreas Venzke, Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar

Transformational Technologies in Ground Transportation
Peter Sweatman, CAVita ,
Tuesday, March 6th, 2018
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH

Network Algorithms and Delay Performance in Data Centers
R. Srikant, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Writing and Publishing Your Applied Physics Paper
Eric Mills, PhD, Journal Manager, "Applied Physics Letters," American Institute of Physics,
Wednesday, March 7th, 2018
12:00pm 1:00pm
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Robot Planning for Underwater Sensing and Sampling
Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Dean's Professor and Chairman , Department of Computer Science (Joint appointment in Electrical Engineering), USC,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Metal Micro-lattices by Sintering of 3D-Printed Metal Particle Inks
David Dunand, Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Northwestern University,
4:15pm 5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Adaptive Caching Algorithms with Optimality Guarantees for Arbitrary Network Topologies
Edmund Yeh, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University,
7:00pm 9:00pm
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Women's History Month Event

Who Am I? How Media Stereotypes Shape Gender Roles and What We Can Do About It
Thursday, March 8th, 2018
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Cancelled -- CMS Partner Tech Talk

**Cancelled** AuptiX Tech Talk by Alum Lu Saenz
12:00pm 1:00pm
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12:00pm 1:00pm
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4:00pm 5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

"Mathematics and Learning for Agile and Dynamic Bipedal Locomotion"
Jessy Grizzle, Professor - Director of Robotics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Young Investigator Lecture Series-Medical Engineering

Machine Learning-based Microchip Platform for the Diagnosis of Disease
Jina Ko, PhD Candidate, Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, March 9th, 2018
11:00am 12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Carbon Materials and Single Crystal Metals
Ruoff Rodney, Director, Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials, Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST),
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Nonlinearity and Uncertainty in Dynamical Systems: Is this a Dual Curse, or is it Job Security?
John Junkins, Texas A&M University,
Saturday, March 10th, 2018
8:00am 3/13 5:00pm
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Monday, March 12th, 2018
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CNS Seminar

Dr. James DiCarlo, Peter de Florez Professor and Department Head, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT,
Tuesday, March 13th, 2018
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH

User Centered Design and AI
Maggie Hendrie, Department Chair of Art Center College of Design’s Interaction Design Program, ArtCenter College of Design,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

On the edge: Geometry, model selection, and quantum compressed sensing
Travis Scholten, Center for Quantum Information and Control - University of New Mexico & Center for Computing Research - Sandia National Laboratories,
Wednesday, March 14th, 2018
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Planar Graph Perfect Matching is in NC
Nima Amari, Stanford University,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Hybridized metasurfaces: A new twist in flat optics
Cheng-Wei Qiu, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore,
Thursday, March 15th, 2018
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Structures as Sensors: Indirect Monitoring of Humans and Surrounding Through Structural Vibrations
Hae Young Noh, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Caltech Women's History Month and Reading Women STEMinar Guest Speaker Sue Finley

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
Friday, March 16th, 2018
11:00am 1:00pm
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Candidacy Exam

Frameworks for Parallel High Dimensional Optimization
Palma London, CMS, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Isotopically Enhanced Triple-Dot Qubits in SiGe
Thaddeus Ladd, senior research scientist, HRL Laboratories, LLC,
Saturday, March 17th, 2018
8:00am Ongoing
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Monday, March 19th, 2018
1:00pm 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Laboratory Investigation of Shear Ruptures: Supersonic Propagation and Nucleation by Fluid Injection
Marcello Gori, Graduate Student, Aerospace , Caltech,