Seminars
April 2018
Ongoing
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Sunday, April 1st, 2018
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, April 2nd, 2018
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
9:00am
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Transformative Technology @ eBay
Dan Fain,
Vice President, Data Platform Engineering - eBay ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2018
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture
Molecular Understanding of Oxide Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion and Storage
Kelsey Stoerzinger,
Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Activity and dormancy of conifers in seasonally snow-covered forests
Dave Bowling,
Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology; Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept.of Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Utah,
7:30pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, April 5th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Mechanics, Manufacture, and Validation for Electronic Tattoos"
Lu Nanshu,
Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and Department of Biomedical Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Machine Learning helps Discrete Optimization
Bistra Dilkina,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar
Computational Modeling of the Mitral Heart Valve: From Mechanobiology to Surgical Repair
Michael Sacks, PhD, W. A. Moncrief, Jr. Simulation-Based Engineering Science Chair #1,
Director, Center for Willerson Center for Cardiovascular Modeling and Simulation,
Department of Biomedical Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar
Dr. Leila Wehbe,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute,
University of California, Berkeley,
Friday, April 6th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Toward realizing a time-reversal-invariant topological superconductor
Arbel Haim,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Flow physics, modeling, and control for force regularization in transient and separated flows
Anya Jones,
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
University of Maryland,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, April 9th, 2018
4:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Sufficient Statistics for Online Prediction via the Burkholder Method
Associate Professor Alexander (Sasha) Rakhlin,
Center for Statistics, IDSS Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
From Gaussian Multiterminal Source Coding to Distributed Karhunen–Loève Transform
Jun Chen,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
McMaster University,
Tuesday, April 10th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Learning to Code Outside the Classroom
Philip Guo,
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science,
University of California San Diego,
Wednesday, April 11th, 2018
10:00am
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11:00am
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Reconfigurable single-atom array for Rydberg atom quantum simulation
Hyosub Kim,
Department of Physics,
KAIST, South Korea,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Dynamics of Microbial Populations and Biogeochemical Processes Impacting Aquatic Dead-Zones
Sarah Preheim,
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Environmental Health and Engineering,
John Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
First-Principles Based Multiscale Multiparadigm Methods with Applications to Complex Materials
William Goddard,
Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Distribution Matching via Data Shaping
Paul Siegel,
Distinguished Professor, Endowed Chair Center for Memory and Recording Research,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 12th, 2018
10:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Mechanics-Guided, Deterministic 3D Assembly"
Yonggang Huang,
Professor,
Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering,
Northwestern University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar
Out of this world med techs for space and Earth
Dorit Donoviel, PhD,
Associate Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Chemical Biology and the Center for Space Medicine,
Baylor College of Medicine-Director, Translational Research Institute for Space Health,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, April 13th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Solid-state hybrid quantum systems
Alp Sipahigil,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Painter Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Multidisciplinary approaches to problems involving fluid mechanics
Matthew Fu,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ,
Princeton University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Ph.D. Thesis Defense
"Thermal transport in three-dimensional nanoarchitected materials"
Nicholas Dou,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Monday, April 16th, 2018
9:00am
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Advances in Autonomous Guidance, Navigation and Control for Miniaturized Distributed Space Systems
Simone D'Amico,
Assistant Professor,
DEPARTMENT OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Fighting Black Boxes, Adversaries, and Bugs in Deep Learning
Assistant Professor Percy Liang,
Computer Science and Statistics (courtesy),
Stanford University,
Tuesday, April 17th, 2018
9:00am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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On Optimization in Deep Learning: Implicit Acceleration by Overparameterization
Nadav Cohen,
Research Scholar at the School of Mathematics in the Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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MCE Seminar
Nonlinear Elasticity
Basile Audoly,
Moore Distinguished Scholar,
Mechanical & Civil Engineering ,
CNRS and Ecole polytechnique (Palaiseau, France),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
"Quantum Supremacy" and the Complexity of Random Circuit Sampling
Bill Fefferman,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Quantum Correlation Engineering for Next-Generation Nanophotonic Devices
Cristian Cortes,
PhD,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Theory Group Meeting
Subquadratic time encodable codes beating the Gilbert-Varshamov bound
Matthew Weidner,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 18th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMx Lunch
The Legacy of Rudolph Kalman
Andrew Stuart,
Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Topological Quantum Computing with and without Majoranas
Daniel Litinski,
PhD Candidate,
von Oppen Group,
Freie University Berlin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Human Health Impacts of Water Reuse in the Changing Climate: Pathogen Control for Global Water and Food Safety
Thanh (Helen) Nguyen,
Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Chair of Environmental Engineering and Science Program,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Recovering a hidden hamiltonian cycle via linear programming
Yihong Wu,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Statistics and Data Science,
Yale University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Art + Tech Seminar
Critical Making
Matt Ratto,
Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto; Director, Critical Making Lab; Director, Semaphore Research Cluster on Mobile and Pervasive Computing,
Thursday, April 19th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Programming dynamic behaviors in molecular systems and materials"
Elisa Franco,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Riverside,