Seminars
May 2019
Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
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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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Thursday, May 16th, 2019
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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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GALCIT Colloquium - PhD Defense
Using the force: Applications and implications of turbulence forcing terms in direct numerical simulations
Chandru Dhandapani,
PhD Candidate,
GALCIT,
California Institute of Technology,
Monday, May 20th, 2019
8:00am
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Adventures in Drones and AI
Prachi Parihar,
Lead AI Scientist,
Aeromana,
Tuesday, May 21st, 2019
12:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Weak simulation and benchmarking of sparse quantum circuits
Daniel Stilck França,
University of Copenhagen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Vijay Vazirani
Matching is as Easy as the Decision Problem, in the NC Model
Vijay Vazirani,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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Visual Culture Program - "Peggy and Fred in Hell"
Film Screening Followed by a Q&A with the Filmmaker
Leslie Thornton,
Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer in Visual Culture, Caltech; Professor Emerita of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University,
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019
8:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Aerosol-Cloud Interactions: Buffering Processes, Challenges Ahead, and Promising Approaches
Yangang Liu,
Brookhaven National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
The Materials Science of Sustainable Cements
Claire E White,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Princeton University,
Thursday, May 23rd, 2019
8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Simulation-Based Optimization Methods for High-Dimensional Urban Transportation Problems
Carolina Osorio,
Associate Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and in the Operations Research Center,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, May 24th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Long Term Implantable Pressure Sensors
Aubrey Shapero,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Electrodynamics of Superconducting Circuits
Hakan E. Tureci,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Stability and Externalities in Dynamic Matching Markets
Laura Doval,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
A Hybrid Propulsion Solution for the Mars Ascent Vehicle
Brian Cantwell,
Professor,
Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Stanford University,
Monday, May 27th, 2019
8:00am
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Tuesday, May 28th, 2019
12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Volumetric Imaging of Nature: from the microscopic to the grand outdoors
Aviad Levis,
Doctoral Student in the Technion’s Electrical Engineering Department,
Technion,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Seminar
The Revolution of Silicon Photonics
Michal Lipson,
Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Columbia University,
Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thursday, May 30th, 2019
11:00am
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Bubbles as Leaky Pistons: Particle Separation by Size from Suspensions
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Distributed goodness-of-fit: when you can't talk much and have little in common
Clement Canonne,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computer Science,
Stanford University,
Friday, May 31st, 2019
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Ab initio electronic T1 spin relaxation times in silicon and diamond & Computing charge transport in materials from first principles
Jinsoo Park,
Graduate Student, Bernardi group,
Applied Physics and Materials Science,
Jin-Jian Zhou,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Bernardi group,
Applied Physics and Materials Science,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Coordinate-wise Median: Not Bad, Not Bad, Pretty Good
Wade D. Hann-Caruthers,
Graduate Student,
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Dynamics of flat plates in a fluid environment: Inverted flags and flapping propellers
Cecilia Huertas Cerdeira,
PhD Candidate,
GALCIT,
California Institute of Technology,