Seminars
May 2018
Tuesday, May 1st, 2018
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MCE Seminar
Nonlinear Elasticity
Basile Audoly,
Moore Distinguished Scholar,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
CNRS and Ecole polytechnique (Palaiseau, France).,
3:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Undecidability of the Spectral Gap in 1D
Johannes Bausch,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Rain over tropical continents: linear theories, abrupt changes, and monsoons
William R. Boos,
Professor,
Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2018
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Answering a Qualifying Exam Question"
Yannis Dafalias,
Distinguished Professor, CEE Department, University of California, Davis,
Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Mechanics, National Technical University, Athens,
12:00pm
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Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar
Biologically Inspired Engineering: From Mechanotherapeutics to Human Organs-on-Chips
Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D.,
Founding Director,
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Reducibility and Computational Lower Bounds for Problems with Planted Sparse Structure
Guy Bresler,
Bonnie and Marty Tenenbaum Career Development Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, May 4th, 2018
9:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum information in quantum cognition
Nicole Yunger Halpern,
Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Large Eddy Simulation of Shock-Turbulence Interaction
Noah Braun,
California Institute of Technology,
4:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Indoor Geolocation Science and Technology - At the Emergence of Smart World and IoT
Kaveh Pahlavan,
Professor and Director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies,
Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
Saturday, May 5th, 2018
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Monday, May 7th, 2018
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
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MCE Seminar
Nonlinear Elasticity
Basile Audoly,
Moore Distinguished Scholar,
Mechanical & Civil Engineering ,
CNRS and Ecole polytechnique (Palaiseau, France),
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Optimal control, lattice gauge theories, and quantum annealing
Simone Montangero,
University of Ulm ,
3:30pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Node Deployment in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks: A Source Coding Perspective
Hamid Jafarkhani,
Chancellor's Professor ,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,,
University of California, Irvine,
Wednesday, May 9th, 2018
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Observations of Failure Phenomena in Periodic Media
Louisa Avellar,
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technolofy,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Hydrologic dynamics of the Greenland ice sheet
Vena Chu,
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geography,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Additivity of Information in Multilayer Networks
Galen Reeves,
Assistant Professor ,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Duke University,
5:30pm
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Thursday, May 10th, 2018
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Avian Inspired Design"
David Lentink,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
A linearly convergent primal-dual gradient algorithm for optimal distributed feedback voltage control
2:30pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Modeling of Nucleation and Dynamic Rupture on Heterogeneous Frictional Interfaces with Applications to Foreshocks
Natalie Schaal,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar
New strategies in image-guided interventions
Kathy Ferrara, PhD,
Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at UC Davis and the Director of the Center for Content Rich Evaluation of Therapeutic Efficacy (cCRETE),
Biomedical Engineering,
Universtiy of California - Davis,
Friday, May 11th, 2018
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Bacon-Shor code with continuous measurement of non-commuting observables
Juan Atalaya,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Korotkov Group,
UC Riverside,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Reconstruction and estimation of flows using resolvent analysis and data-assimilation
Sean Symon,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF & Microwave Seminar
Breaking Reciprocity Using Metamaterials
Andrea Alù,
Einstein Professor ,
Photonics Initiative,
CUNY Advanced Science Research Center,
8:00pm
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Saturday, May 12th, 2018
9:30am
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Monday, May 14th, 2018
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CNS Seminar
Dr. Stephanie Palmer,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Department of Physics,
University of Chicago,
Tuesday, May 15th, 2018
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Towards Understanding and Generating Language for Effective Social Interaction
Chenhao Tan,
Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Information Science (by courtsey) at University of Colorado Boulder,
Computer Science,
University of Colorado Boulder,
12:00pm
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MCE Seminar
Nonlinear Elasticity
Basile Audoly,
Moore Distinguished Scholar,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
CNRS and Ecole polytechnique (Palaiseau, France),
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Coffee & Career: Jason Marshall
Jason Marshall,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
TBD
John T Reager,
Research Scientist,
Surface Hydrology,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Data-driven discovery of functional materials utilizing a 2D electronic structure database
4:15pm
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EE Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Charles Elachi
The Golden Age of Space Exploration
Charles Elachi,
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Planetary Science, Emeritus,
Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2001- 2016,
CALTECH,
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Thursday, May 17th, 2018
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Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar
Microfabrication of elastomeric polymers for organ-on-a-chip engineering and injectable tissues
Milica Radisic, PhD,
Professor and Associate Chair-Research,
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry ,
University of Toronto, Canada ,
Friday, May 18th, 2018
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Ph.D. Defense
Design, analysis, and computational methods for engineering synthetic biological networks
Ania Baetica,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
10:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
A time-domain multiplexed measurement-based large-scale optical quantum computer
Akira Furusawa,
Professor,
Department of Applied Physics,
The University of Tokyo,