Seminars
October 2019
Tuesday, October 1st, 2019
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Visual Culture Program
Persuasive Images in Early Modern Scientific Books
Sachiko Kusukawa,
Professor of History of Science,
University of Cambridge,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Automatic Tensor Network Contraction
Johnnie Gray,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Imperial College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Jingcheng Liu
Approximate counting, phase transitions & geometry of polynomials
Jingcheng Liu,
Postdoc, Center for the Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
From the equator to the pole in a unified turbulence and convection parameterization
Yair Cohen,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 3rd, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Autonomous Decision Making under Uncertainty in Engineering Systems: Finding Optimal Dynamic Paths in Immense Spaces
Kostas Papakonstantinou,
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Penn State,
Friday, October 4th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, October 7th, 2019
12:00pm
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Tuesday, October 8th, 2019
12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
How deep learning is transforming earthquake seismology
Zach Ross,
Assistant Professor,
Geophysics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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Visual Culture Program
Immortality Projects: Science and Art of Being Ephemeral
Natalie Andrew,
Professional Biologist and Visual Artist,
Brian Knep,
Media Artist,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Jingcheng Liu
Uniform Sampling Through the Lovász Local Lemma
Jingcheng Liu,
Postdoc, Center for the Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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2:19pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Recent trend of air pollution in China - a sectorially resolved emission-inventory based evaluation
Shu Tao,
Peking University,
Thursday, October 10th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
From Patterned Sheets to Functional Morphing Structures
Paolo Celli,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar: Chwee Teck (C.T.) Lim -NUS
Microfluidics for Disease Diagnosis and Wearable Technology – From Bench to Bedside
Chwee Teck (C.T.) Lim,
NUSS Chair Professor,
Director, Institute for Health Innovation & Technology,
National University of Singapore,
Friday, October 11th, 2019
12:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Dynamic Information Design with Diminishing Sensitivity Over News
Kevin He,
Linde Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Active Particles in Complex Fluids
Gwynn Elfring,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of British Columbia,
Monday, October 14th, 2019
8:45am
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12:30pm
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Tuesday, October 15th, 2019
12:00am
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Ongoing
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Microscale Fluid-Structure Interactions: Something Old, Something New and Something Unexpected
Leslie Y Yeo,
Professor,
Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory,
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Melbourne, Australia),
12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Measuring Economic Development from Space
Stefano Ermon,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Grigory Yaroslavtsev
Advances in Linear Sketching over Finite Fields
Grigory Yaroslavtsev,
Assistant professor of Computer Science,
Indiana University, Bloomington,
Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
12:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Modeling the terrestrial biosphere in the Earth system: moving beyond the incorrect but useful paradigm
Gordon Bonan,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
"Pascal conductance series in ballistic one-dimensional LaAlO3/SrTiO3 channels"
Jeremy Levy,
Distinguished Professor of Condensed Matter Physics,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Pittsburgh,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Causality: From Aristotle to Zebrafish
Frederick Eberhardt,
Professor of Philosophy,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
The Timing of Soil Liquefaction and Its Potential for Improving Liquefaction Hazard Evaluation
Steve Kramer,
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Department of Civil Engineering,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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DOLCIT Seminar
Machine Learning for the Real World: Provably Robust Extrapolation
Angie Liu,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Friday, October 18th, 2019
12:00am
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10/19
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8:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Defect-Level Switching: A New Mechanism for Electronic Devices
Rafael Jaramillo,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Edgeworth Conjecture with Small Coalitions and Approximate Equilibria in Large Economies
Federico Echenique,
Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
On the Interaction between Mechanics and Chemistry: Two Studies in Electrochemical Energy Storage and Heterogeneous Catalysis
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Saturday, October 19th, 2019
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 21st, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
AI in Space – From Earth Orbit to Mars and Beyond! (JPl)
Steve Chien,
Senior Research Scientist,
Mission Planning and Execution Section,
JPL,
Jagriti Agrawal,
Member of Technical Staff,
Artificial Intelligence Group,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems meet in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces.
Boumediene Hamzi,
Marie Curie Fellow,
Department of Mathematics,
Imperial College in London,
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Structured Policy Learning: Towards Real-world Sequential Decision Making
Hoang Le,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Scalable Autonomous Driving in the Urban Core
Peter Carr,
Senior Staff Engineer at Argo AI and is responsible for overseeing the tracking and prediction aspects of autonomous vehicles,
Argo AI,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Guannan Qu
Distributed optimization in multi-agent systems: bridging the gap between centralized and distributed algorithms
Guannan Qu,
CMI Postdoc,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Estimation of model parameters using a genetic algorithm
Pieter Houtekamer,
Environment Canada,