Seminars
May 2019
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
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TCS+ Talk
Noninteractive Zero Knowledge for NP from Learning With Errors
Chris Peikert,
University of Michigan,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar
Marlene Cohen,
Associate Professor,
Department of Neuroscience and Associate Director, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition,,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What can statistical state dynamics teach us about emergent coherent structures in stratified turbulence?
Joseph Fitzgerald,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Properties of Metallic Liquids at High Temperature and Their Relation to Glass Formation
Kenneth Kelton,
Professor of Physics and the Arthur Holly Compton Professor in Arts & Sciences,
Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Computational Imaging: a Quest for the Perfect Image
Jaebum Chung,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, May 2nd, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Programmable Structures: Shape and Property Reconfiguration
Andres Arrieta Diaz,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering Distinguished Seminar: Andrea Goldsmith
Exploiting Information and Communication Theory in Biology and Neuroscience
Andrea Goldsmith, Ph.D.,
Stephen Harris professor in the School of Engineering and a Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University,
Friday, May 3rd, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Room temperature photo-induced electron-hole gas-to-liquid transition in 2D materials
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
A Scalable Monolithic Computational Framework for Large-scale Simulation of Hydraulic Fracture
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
A scalable monolithic computational framework for large-scale simulation of fluid-driven fracture propagation
Bianca Giovanardi,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Single Photon Detectors, Parity Measurements and Heralded Cat States in the Microwave Domain
Andreas Wallraff,
Professor for Solid State Physics,
Department of Physics,
ETH Zurich, Switzerland,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Dielectric Metasurfaces from Fundamentals to Applications
Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
5:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, May 4th, 2019
8:00pm
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Monday, May 6th, 2019
5:00pm
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
12:00pm
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4:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Alistair Sinclair
The Lee-Yang Theorem and the Ising Model
Alistair Sinclair,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
1:30pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Impact of Transmission Network Topology on Electrical Power Systems
Linqi (Daniel) Guo,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Atlantic-Pacific salinity asymmetry and the hydrological cycle
Johan Nilsson,
Stockholm University,
4:00pm
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Thursday, May 9th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Extracellular Matrix Viscoelasticity and its Impact on Cells
Ovijit Chaudhuri,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Online Platforms in Networked Markets: Transparency, Anticipation and Demand Management
John Pang,
Graduate Student,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar: Shu Chien
Epigenetic Regulation of Mechanotransduction in Vascular Endothelium
Shu Chien-M.D., Ph.D.,
University Professor of Bioengineering & Medicine and Director,
Institute of Engineering in Medicine,
University of California San Diego,
Friday, May 10th, 2019
8:00am
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8:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Entanglement, Decoherence, & Quantum Ising Systems
P.C.E. Stamp,
Professor,
University of British Columbia,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Intertemporal Consumption With Risk: A Revealed Preference Analysis
Songfa Zhong,
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore; 2018-2019 NUS Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University,
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Boundary Layer Ingestion and Power Balance: Analysis Framework for Highly-Integrated Aircraft Configuration
Alejandra Uranga,
Assistant Professor,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
PT-symmetry breaking in microscopic gain-loss systems
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Cubesats and Smallsats
Anne Marinan,
Systems Engineer, Near Earth Asteroid Scout & Mars Cube One; Team Xc Lead Engineer,
JPL,
Travis Imken,
Project Systems Engineer, RainCube,
JPL,
- Public Event
Monday, May 13th, 2019
9:00am
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Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Connecting the speed-accuracy trade-offs in sensorimotor control and neurophysiology reveals diversity sweet spots in layered control architectures
Yorie Nakahira,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Virgin Orbit – Launching the Small Satellite Revolution
William Pomerantz,
Vice President, Special Projects,
Virgin Orbit,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Ivan de Araujo,
Professor,
The Fishberg Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
Tuesday, May 14th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Learning Unbiased Ranking Functions
Thorsten Joachims,
Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science, and Amazon Scholar,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
A Crash History of Drones
Katherine Chandler,
Assistant Professor of Culture and Politics,
School of Foreign Service,
Georgetown University,
- Public Event
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Hamiltonian simulation meets holographic duality
Toby Cubitt,
University College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Adam Smith
The Structure of Optimal Private Tests for Simple Hypotheses
Adam Smith,
Professor,
Computer Science and Engineering,
Boston University,
Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
9:30am
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3:30pm
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Resnick Fellows Seminar Day
Join us at the BIA for 7 sustainability science research talks presented by Resnick Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellows! All are invited to attend!
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Quantum-inspired classical linear algebra algorithms: why and how?
Ewin Tang,
University of Washington,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The wetland methane paradox: how does O2 enhance methane production?
Xinning Zhang,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, May 16th, 2019
3:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar
Interpretable Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) via Feedforward Design
C.-C. Jay Kuo,
Director of the Media Communications Laboratory and Distinguished Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Resolved Simulations of Particulate Flows
Andrea Prosperetti,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Houston,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar. B. (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub
Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (CMUTs) in medical ultrasound imaging and therapy
Friday, May 17th, 2019
9:00am
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4:20pm
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James K. Knowles Lectures & Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium
Mechanics of cell-nanomaterial interaction: applications in nanomedicine and nanotoxicity
Huajian Gao,
Professor,
Engineering,
Brown University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Projected least squares: a numerically cheap quantum tomography procedure with optimal error bounds
Richard Kueng,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill and Tropp groups,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Mislearning from Censored Data: The Gambler's Fallacy in Optimal-Stopping Problems
Kevin He,
PhD Candidate in Economics,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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