Seminars
October 2018
Monday, October 1st, 2018
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018
4:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Algebraic Complexity Theory: Lower bounds and Derandomization (1st of 2 parts)
Ben Lee Volk,
CMI Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018
10:00am
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11:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Bringing ecosystem science and remote sensing "down to earth" for environmental and land-use decision-making in drylands from Africa to California
Marc Mayes,
Research Geoscientist,
Earth Research Institute,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
New Frontiers in Thermal Transport Modeling
Giuseppe Romano,
Research Scientist ,
Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,
Thursday, October 4th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Arthur Klein Lecture in Aerospace
Indian Space Program: Recent Achievements & Future Plans
Dr. K. Sivan,
Chairman,
Indian Space Research Organization,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Mechanics and Chemistry in Designing Polymers
Meredith Silberstein,
Assistant Professor,
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Green Hills Software -- Designing a Secure Smartphone: Beyond Crypto
Tim Menninger,
Green Hills Software,
Friday, October 5th, 2018
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
"Speech Production and Pulsatile Flow over a Surface Protuberance"
Michael W. Plesniak,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ,
The George Washington University,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Monday, October 8th, 2018
12:00pm
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KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
From Acoustics to the Lindelof Hypothesis
Thanasis Fokas,
Professor of Nonlinear Mathematical Science,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge,
Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
New Frontiers in Imitation Learning
Yisong Yue,
Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Engineering and Applied Science,
CALTECH,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Algebraic Complexity Theory: Lower bounds and Derandomization (2nd of 2 parts)
Ben Lee Volk,
CMI Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Carbon-water coupling: processes, model uncertainties and observational constraints
Pierre Gentine,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Making Oxidation Easier in Ultra High Vacuum
Bharat Jalan,
Associate Professor and Distinguished Shell Chair,
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Minnesota,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, October 11th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Starting Robotic Industry on the Moon and Mars
Philip Metzger,
Florida Space Institute,
University of Central Florida ,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Facebook -- The Development History of Facebook's Safety Check
Andrew Huang,
Facebook,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Small Molecules to Particles - Do Interfaces Promote New Particle Formation over Remote Oceans?
Rainer Volkamer,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Colorado Boulder,
5:30pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, October 12th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Channeling Quantum Interactions: experiments in waveguide QED with superconducting quantum circuits
Oskar Painter,
John G Braun Professor of Applied Physics and Physics; Fletcher Jones Foundation Co-Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Synthesis and Experimental Testing of Minimum Energy Adaptive Structures
Gennaro Senatore,
School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL),
Monday, October 15th, 2018
10:00am
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11:30am
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Special CNS Seminar
Florian Engert,
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, October 16th, 2018
4:00pm
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2018
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Finding forbidden minors through random walks: (almost) n^{1/2} query one-sided testers for minor closed properties
C. Seshadri,
UC Santa Cruz,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch
Data-driven approaches for spectral analysis of ergodic dynamical systems
Dimitris Giannakis,
Assistant Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Arbitrarily Varying Broadcast and Relay Channels
Uzi Pereg,
Ph.D. student,
Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion,
Israel Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Light absorption by atmospheric particles: using field and lab studies to understand linkages between sources, chemical processing and impacts
Christopher Cappa,
Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
The Science of Shakespeare
Dan Falk,
journalist, author, and broadcaster,
Thursday, October 18th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Extreme Events in Complex Dynamical Systems: Prediction and Statistical Quantification
Themistoklis Sapsis,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Active Learning with Robust Predictors for Covariate Shift
Angie Liu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computing & Mathematical Science,
Caltech,
Friday, October 19th, 2018
8:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Avoiding Ergodicity: Static and Dynamical Localization in Clean Interacting Systems
Yuval Baum,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Refael Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The Minimal Channel for Rough-Wall Turbulent Flows
Michael MacDonald,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Atmospheric Physics and Weather Group,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Saturday, October 20th, 2018
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 22nd, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Nonlocal spin-exchange interactions in a near-concentric cavity
Emily Davis,
Graduate Student,
Schleier-Smith Group,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Polynomial Optimization and Dynamical Systems
Amir Ali Ahmadi,
Assistant Professor,
Operations Research and Financial Engineering ,
Princeton University ,
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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CMI Seminar
Complexity, Noise, and Emergent Properties of Learning Deep Representations
Alessandro Achille,
UCLA,
Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch
Operator-adapted wavelets for finite-element differential forms
Max Budninskiy,
Graduate Student, Applied and Computational Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Excited Electronic States: Dielectric Screening and Hot-Electron Mediated Ion Diffusion
Andre Schleife,
Assistant Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Thursday, October 25th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Some Recent Developments in Simulation of Stochastic Processes and Fields
George Deodatis,
Professor,
Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics,
Columbia University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Google -- Two Short Talks! 1: Understanding the Web: Topic Modeling, Hierarchical Content Labeling, and Sensitive Content Detection // 2: Programming Google's Quantum Computers
Jen Iofinova,
Google,
Dave Bacon,
Google,