Seminars
March 2019
Ongoing
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3/13
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Friday, March 1st, 2019
10:15am
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Tuning the Kinetics in Phase-Change Materials: Enlightening from the phenomenology of water and amorphous metals
Shuai Wei,
Research Fellow,
RWTH Aachen University (Germany),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Lightning Round
Sophie Ding, Victor Albert, Kevin Slagle,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Regulation-Triggered Batch Learning: A New Hope for Adaptive Aircraft Control
Miroslav Krstic,
Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
Monday, March 4th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group Seminar
One if by Land and Two if by Sea: A Glimpse into the Value of Information in Strategic Interactions
Vijay Subramanian,
Associate Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Inference, Computation, and Visualization for Convex Clustering and Biclustering
Genevera Allen,
Associate Professor,
Departments of Statistics, Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Rice University,
Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
TBA
Patricio Vela,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Georgia Tech,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Designer Matter: New Frontiers in Wave Interactions with Meta- and Nano-structures
Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Electrical and Systems Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Special Seminar
Designer Matter: New Frontiers in Wave Interactions with Meta- and Nano-structures
Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Electrical and Systems Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Strongly log concave polynomials, high dimensional simplicial complexes, and an FPRAS for counting Bases of Matroids
Shayan Oveis Gharan,
University of Washington,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Seminar
New Opportunities with Old Optical Materials
Marko Lončar,
Tiantsai Lin Professor of Electrical Engineering,
John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Thomas Kailath
On the process of making breakthroughs in engineering
Thomas Kailath,
Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Trends in Earth System Modeling and Emerging Data Science Opportunities
Christiane Jablonowski,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Smart Materials from Programmable Polymers
Grigory Tikhomirov,
Senior Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology & Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Thursday, March 7th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Instabilities and Phase Transitions in Multiphase Flow through Porous Media.
Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu,
Miller Fellow,
Department of Earth & Planetary Science,
Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Probing the 2D Fermi-Hubbard Model Under a Quantum Gas Microscope
Matt Nichols,
PhD student, Zwierlein Group,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group Seminar
Non-Convex Learning: Optimization and Robustness
Hongyang Zhang,
Ph.D. candidate,
Machine Learning,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Friday, March 8th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Enabling a New Age in Spaceflight and Space Exploration Through Space Traffic Management and Autonomous Space Systems
Richard Linares,
Assistant Professor,
Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Monday, March 11th, 2019
12:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
The Stability of Orbital Resonances for Europa Quarantine Design
Martin Lo,
Senior Mission Design Engineer,
Outer Planets Mission Analysis Group, Mission Design and Navigation Section,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
11:00am
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2:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
TBA
Dorsa Sadigh,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science & Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
8:00am
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Chip-Scale Nonlinear Photonics and its Applications
Mengjie Yu, PhD,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Carbon-silica cycle coupling throughout Earth History
Donald Penman,
Yale University,
Thursday, March 14th, 2019
8:00am
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3/17
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Uncertainties, Risk, and Learning in Engineering Systems
Marco Broccardo,
Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer,
Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research,
ETH Zürich (Switzerland),
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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CMI Faculty Lunch (invitation only): Peter Schroeder
Shape from Metric
Peter Schroeder,
Shaler Arthur Hanisch Professor of Computer Science and Applied and Computational Mathematics,
CMS,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Nuna Health -- Measuring Value in Value Based Healthcare
Andi Bui,
Nuna Health,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, March 15th, 2019
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Algorithms and Lower Bounds for Entangled XOR Games
Anand Natarajan,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Vidick Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Autonomous balloon swarms for persistent, in situ, real-time measurement of hurricanes, and a Drunken Sailor perspective and Spontaneously Singular Control approach for Lagrangian particles in turbulence
Thomas Bewley,
Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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8:30pm
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Saturday, March 16th, 2019
9:00am
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Monday, March 18th, 2019
8:00am
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3/20
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Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
3:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Exponential separation between shallow quantum circuits and unbounded fan-in shallow classical circuits
Adam Bene Watts,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, March 20th, 2019
8:00am
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TCS+ Talks
Sticky Brownian Rounding and its Applications to Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Aleksandar Nikolov,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Overparameterization without overfitting: from compressed sensing to deep learning
Samet Oymak,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of California, Riverside,
4:00pm
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