Seminars
November 2019
Ongoing
Ongoing
–
11/5
12:00am
Add to Cal
Ongoing
–
11/5
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Friday, November 1st, 2019
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
CANCELED | Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
This seminar has been rescheduled for Friday, February 28.
Jian Cao,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Data Science and Election Integrity,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
–
1:30pm
Add to Cal
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
John Martinis,
Research Scientist and Professor of Physics Google and UCSB,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
Monday, November 4th, 2019
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
CMS-EE Resume Workshop w/ Alex Cui and Eric Zhao
Alex Cui and Eric Zhao,
Caltech,
Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
CMI Seminar: Dean Doron - *3pm start time*
Nearly Optimal Pseudorandomness From Hardness
Dean Doron,
Postdoctoral Fellow, Computer Science Theory Group,
Stanford,
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
IQI Weekly Seminar
Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction and the Information Paradox
Geoff Penington,
Graduate Student,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
10:00am
–
11:00am
Add to Cal
TCS+ Talk
Explicit near-Ramanujan graphs of every degree
Ryan O'Donnell,
Professor,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
An Economical Approach for Simulating Droplet Microphysics in Turbulent Clouds: Bridging the DNS-LES Gap
Steve Krueger,
The University of Utah,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Materials Science Research Lecture
"Reshaping Light using Metasurfaces: from Fisheye Imaging to Reconfigurable Optics"
Juejun (JJ) Hu,
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
8:00pm
–
9:30pm
Add to Cal
Watson Lecture - Opportunities in Atomic-Scale Legoland: From Novel Electronic Phases to Quantum Devices
Stevan Nadj-Perge,
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science; KNI-Wheatley Scholar,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, November 7th, 2019
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Spectral POD and Resolvent Analysis of Turbulent Flows
Tim Colonius,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Discussion with the 2018 Chang Career Exploration Prize Recipients
Sean McKenna BS ’17,
Kyle Lakatos MS ’14,
Claire Ralph,
Caltech,
1:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
2019 Resnick Young Investigators Symposium
Celebrating innovation in the science and technology of sustainability
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar. Liangfang Zhang, USCD
Discovery and Translation of the Cell Membrane Coating Nanotechnology
Liangfang Zhang, PhD,
Professor of Department of Nanoengineering, Bioengineering, and Chemical Engineering,
University of California San Diego,
Friday, November 8th, 2019
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum-inspired classical sampling algorithms for machine learning
András Gilyen,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
What matters in tie-breaking rules? How competition guides design
Afshin Nikzad,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
USC,
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
GALCIT Colloquium
Turbulent Boundary Layers Developing Over Rough Surfaces: From the Laboratory to Full-Scale Systems
Saturday, November 9th, 2019
2:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
Visual Culture Program
Off Campus
Drawing the Invisible 100-Mile U.S. Border
Ed Gomez,
Curator of the MexiCali Biennial; Artist; Assistant Professor of Art and Design, Cal State San Bernardino,
Ian Philabaum,
Program Director, Innovation Law Lab,
Arcela Nunez-Alvarez,
Research Director, National Latino Research Center (NLRC), Cal State San Marcos,
Hillary Mushkin,
Artist and Research Professor of Art and Design,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Monday, November 11th, 2019
9:00am
–
9:00am
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Fundamentals of Building a Multiplayer Console Game
Paul Robinson,
Technical Director,
Activision-Blizzard,
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
CNS Seminar
Dr. Roozbeh Kiani,
Assistant Professor,
Neural Science and Psychology,
New York University,
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
KNI Distinguished Seminar
Integrated Chi(2) Nonlinear Photonics
Hong Tang,
Llewellyn West Jones, Jr. Professor of Electrical Engineering, Physics and Applied Physics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
CMI Seminar: Eliza O'Reilly
Poisson hyperplane tessellations in high dimensions and one-bit compression
Eliza O'Reilly,
CMI Postdoc,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 13th, 2019
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Warming effect on precipitation seasonal cycle
Ruby Leung,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Materials Science Research Lecture
"Getting Something for Nothing: Classical and Machine-Learning Methods for Quantum Simulation"
Thursday, November 14th, 2019
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Elephant Olfaction and a Wombat's Cubic Feces
David Hu,
Associate Professor,
School of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
2:30pm
–
3:30pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
CMI Faculty Lunch (invitation only): John Doyle
Universal laws and architectures in complex networked systems with applications to sensorimotor control
John Doyle,
Caltech,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Medical Engineering Special Seminar: Kiana Aran-Keck Graduate Institute
CRISPR-Powered Transistors for DNA Biosensing
Friday, November 15th, 2019
10:00am
–
11:00am
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Supremacy: Understanding and Calibrating the Sycamore Processor
Kevin Satzinger,
Google AI Quantum,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Transparency and Demand Management in Platforms for Networked Markets
Adam Wierman,
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences; Executive Officer for Computing and Mathematical Sciences; Director, Information Science and Technology,
Caltech,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
1:00pm
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
GALCIT Colloquium
Flight Testing of Supersonic Parachutes for Entry, Descent & Landing on Mars
Clara O'Farrell,
Engineer,
Guidance and Control,
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of technology,
7:00pm
–
8:30pm
Add to Cal
Sunday, November 17th, 2019
8:00pm
–
10:00pm
Add to Cal
Monday, November 18th, 2019
10:30am
–
11:30am
Add to Cal
11:00am
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Quantum correlations, certifying quantum devices, and the quest for infinite entanglement
Andrea Coladangelo,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
H.B. Keller Colloquium
Thompson Sampling for learning in online decision making
Shipra Agrawal,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and Data Science Institute,
Columbia University,
Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
IST Lunch Bunch
TBA
Pietro Perona,
Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Engineering and Applied Science,
CALTECH,
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
IQI Weekly Seminar
Calculating Nature Naturally
Natalie Klco,
Graduate Student,
Institute for Nuclear Theory,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
CMI Seminar: Eliza O'Reilly
Modeling Repulsion with Determinantal Point Processes
Eliza O'Reilly,
CMI Postdoc,
Caltech,
4:30pm
–
5:30pm
Add to Cal
Special CMX Seminar
How Many Labels Do You Need For Semi-Supervised Learning?
Matthew Thorpe,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Wednesday, November 20th, 2019
9:00am
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
10:00am
–
11:00am
Add to Cal
TCS+ Talk
The Karger-Stein Algorithm is Optimal for $k$-cut
Jason Li,
Graduate Student,
Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Weather radar, isotopes, and climate models
Courtney Schumacher,
Texas A & M University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Materials Science Research Lecture
"Exploring and manipulating different quantum degrees of freedom in two-dimensional van der Waals materials and nano-metamaterials"
5:00pm
–
7:00pm
Add to Cal
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
8:00am
–
Ongoing
Add to Cal