Seminars
February 2019
Friday, February 1st, 2019
10:00am
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Synthesis and Transmission Electron Microscopy of Transition Metal Trichalcogenides in the Single Chain Limit
Thang Pham,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Collective and local effects in the driven-dissipative dynamics of many-body quantum systems
Nathan Shammah,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Theoretical Quantum Physics Laboratory,
RIKEN, Japan,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Heterogeneously integrated membrane photonic devices on Si substrate for datacom and computercom applications
Shinji Matsuo,
Senior Distinguished Researcher,
NTT Device Technology Laboratories,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Fluid Mechanics Learning from Machines
Petros Koumoutsakos,
Professor,
Computational Science,
ETH Zurich,
Monday, February 4th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Rigidity and Deformation
Nina Amenta,
Professor of Computer Science,
University of California at Davis,
Tuesday, February 5th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Chasing Quantum Codes: how to Outsmart a Brute-Force Approach
Johannes Bausch,
University of Cambridge,
Wednesday, February 6th, 2019
8:00am
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2/12
5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Can Climate Models Correctly Simulate the Continuum of Temperature Variability?
Julien Emile-Geay,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Harnessing data science to transform experimental materials discovery
Taylor Sparks,
Assistant Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Utah,
Thursday, February 7th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Quantum phase transitions in ZnO two-dimensional electron systems
Joseph Falson,
Nobel Laureate Fellowship postdoctoral researcher,
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
TBD
Amine Benzerga,
Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
Texas A&M University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Virtualitics -- AI-driven Visual Analytics Using Immersive Virtual Environments
Ciro Donalek,
Virtualitics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Heavy-traffic Delay Optimality in Pull-based Load Balancing Systems: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions.
Xingyu Zhou,
Graduate Student,
ECE,
The Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar
Activating ion channels with drugs and ultrasound
Jianmin Cui, Ph.D., Professor,
School of Engineering & Applied Science,
Washington University in St. Louis,
Friday, February 8th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Dynamic Imaging of Chiral and Topological Excitations in Magnetism
Felix Büttner,
postdoctoral researcher,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Can energy-eddies of 100 meters size be understood from eddies of 1 centimeter size?
Adrián Lozano-Durán,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Saturday, February 9th, 2019
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, February 11th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Fast large-deformation elastodynamics with accurate materials and consistent meshes
Jernej Barbic,
Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair and Associate Professor ,
Computer Science,
University of Southern California,
Wednesday, February 13th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Plant Drought Tolerance: New Frontiers from Cells to Ecosystems
Lawren Sack,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Tailoring Instability at the Atomic Limit for Novel Material Properties
SungWoo Nam,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, February 14th, 2019
9:00am
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4:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Higher Order Methods for Simulating Curvilinear Crack Propagation
Maurizio Chiaramonte,
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering ,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Barnabas Robotics -- Confessions of a Real-World Engineer: From Hardware Designer to Start-Up CEO (& the things in between)
Edward Li,
Barnabas Robotics,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group Seminar
Towards Private, Distributed, and Safe Autonomous Systems
James Anderson,
Senior Research Scientist,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar
Building Efficient, Sustainable & Resilient Grid by Controlling the Edge
Dr. Sonja Glavaski,
Program Director,
ARPA-E,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
General adversarial channels: When do large codes exist?
Sidharth Jaggi,
Associate Professor,
Department of Information Engineering,
Chinese University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Medical Engineering Seminar
Medical Engineering Ph.D. Student presentations
Jinglin Huang, Andrey Vyatskikh, Di Wu, Lealia Xiong ,
Medical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Monday, February 18th, 2019
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
9:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Controlling Electrochemistry Using Electrolyte Design
Chibueze Amanchukwu,
TomKat Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Sustainable Energy,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Special Seminar
TBA
Omiros Papaspiliopoulos,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Grounding Reinforcement Learning with Real-world Dialog Applications
Zhou Yu,
Assistant Porfessor,
Computer Science,
UC Davis,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Genomes and AI: From Packing to Regulation
Caroline Uhler,
Associate Profssor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Institute for Data, Systems and Society,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Genomes and AI: From Packing to Regulation
Caroline Uhler,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Institute for Data, Systems and Society,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, February 20th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
A Simple Sublinear-Time Algorithm for Counting Arbitrary Subgraphs via Edge Sampling
Sepehr Assadi,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch
Fast spectral time-domain PDE solvers for complex structures: the Fourier-Continuation method
Oscar Bruno,
Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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ACM Special Seminar
Multiscale Model Reduction for Heterogeneous Problems
Guanglian Li,
Newton International Fellow. Imperial College London, UK,
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Mathematics,
Imperial College London, United Kingdom,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Information theory of multiple-access channels with many users
Yury Polyanskiy,
Associate Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Great Atmospheric Washing Machine: Concomitant Variability in High-latitude Aerosols, Water Isotopes and the Hydrologic Cycle
Brad Markel,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials from Nanoscale to Bulk: Assembly, Properties, and Applications in Optoelectronics and Renewable Energy
Osman Bakr,
Associate Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
KAUST (Saudi Arabia),
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, February 21st, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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Materials Science Research Lecture
The Importance of Interfaces: Using Ionic Liquids and Nanodiamonds to Explore New Concepts in Materials Design
Matthew Gebbie,
GLAM postdoctoral fellow,
Materials Science & Engineering,
Stanford University ,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Expanding ocean utilization through symbiotic offshore systems.
Maha Haji,
Project Engineer,
ATA Engineering,
11:40am
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, February 22nd, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Low-dimensional Halide Perovskites for Light Harvesting and Optical Sources
Li Na Quan,
postdoctoral fellow,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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