Seminars
January 2020
Ongoing
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Monday, January 6th, 2020
8:00am
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Manifold Learning on Fibre Bundles
Tingran Gao,
William H. Kruskal Instructor,
Department of Statistics and Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
Tuesday, January 7th, 2020
9:00am
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Wednesday, January 8th, 2020
11:00am
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Elliptic PDEs on regions with corners
Jeremy Hoskins,
Gibbs Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Modeling Multiphase Aerosol Thermodynamics – From Phase Separation to Cloud Droplet Activation
Andreas Zuend,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
"Into the dark world of excitons in atomically thin semiconductors"
Keshav M. Dani,
Associate Professor,
Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology (OIST) Graduate University,
Thursday, January 9th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Materials Innovations for Emerging Energy Technologies
Liangbing (Bing) Hu,
Professor,
University of Maryland,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Visual Culture Program
This event has been postponed to Thursday, April 9, 2020.
Leslie Thornton,
Professor Emerita of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University; former Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer in Visual Culture, Caltech,
4:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar: Yoram Rudy- WUSTL
Cancelled
Yoram Rudy,
The Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor. Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology & Physiology Medicine, Radiology, and Pediatrics,
Director, Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center (CBAC),
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Gradient Flows: From PDE to Data Analysis
Franca Hoffmann,
von Karman Instructor,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Friday, January 10th, 2020
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar
Twistronics: manipulating the spectrum of Hamiltonian operators for two-dimensional layered structures through their twist angle
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar: Guang-Zhong Yang
The Grand Challenges of Science Robotics
Guang-Zhong Yang,
Professor and Founding Dean,
Medical Robotics Institute,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Theoretical analysis of bio-inspired stealth flight
Peter Baddoo,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mathematics,
Imperial College London,
Sunday, January 12th, 2020
3:30pm
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Monday, January 13th, 2020
11:00am
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Applied Physics Seminar
Light-Matter Interactions for Energy Storage and Thermal Management
Yuan Yang,
Associate Professor,
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics,
Columbia University,
12:00pm
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Wednesday, January 15th, 2020
4:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
Data-Driven Control for Societal-Scale Cyber-Physical Systems
Yuanyuan Shi,
Fifth-year PhD student,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Decarbonizing Natural Gas by Reactive Separation in High Temperature Liquids
Eric McFarland,
University of California Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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Thursday, January 16th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
History of the Free Body Diagram
John F. Hall,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Face
Jessica Helfand,
Artist-in-Residence (Winter 2020) and Lecturer in Visual Culture,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Ralph Adolphs,
Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology; Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair, Caltech Brain Imaging Center; Director, Caltech Brain Imaging Center,
Caltech,
- Public Event
4:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar: Metin Sitti, Max Planck Institute
Small-scale Wireless Robots for Medical Applications
Professor Metin Sitti,
Director, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany,
Friday, January 17th, 2020
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Robust encoding of a qubit in a molecule
Victor Albert,
DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Preskill Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Optimal perturbations in linear stability of two fluid columns of different densities subject to gravity
4:30pm
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Special CMX Seminar
Posterior Contraction Rates for Some Possibly Nonlinear Inverse Problems
Sergios Agapiou,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Cyprus,
Monday, January 20th, 2020
12:00am
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Tuesday, January 21st, 2020
11:00am
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Analysis and computation of nonlocal models
Xiaochuan Tian,
Bing Instructor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Texas at Austin,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Using redundant ancilla encoding and flags for low overhead magic state preparation
Christopher Chamberland,
Researcher,
Amazon Quantum Group,
4:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Seminar
From inverse design to implementation of practical (quantum) photonics
Jelena Vučković,
Jensen Huang Professor in Global Leadership, School of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and by courtesy of Applied Physics, Stanford University; Director of Q-FARM,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020
12:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Binary Component Decomposition of Matrices
Richard Kueng,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Impacts of Submesoscale Currents on Marine Life: From Phytoplankton to White Sharks
Leif Thomas,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Generalized Fishnet Statistics for Quasibrittle, Biomimetic, Nacreous and Architectured Materials: Design for Failure Probability <10-6
Zdeněk P. Bažant,
Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Northwestern McCormick School of Engineering,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Super Recognizers to the Rescue
Sharrona Hyla Pearl,
Historian and Theorist of the Face and Body,
- Public Event
4:00pm
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Medical Engineering Distinguished Seminar: Steven Jacques
Optically detecting structure and granularity in tissues.
Friday, January 24th, 2020
8:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Cooperative and Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling in Solids
Xinwei Li,
Troesh Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics,
Hseih Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Revisiting and modeling the law of the wake & LES of flows with slender wings/blades and wakes
Gregoire Winckelmans,
Professor,
Mechanics, Materials, and Civil Engineering,
UCLouvain,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Spitzer: Final Voyage
Varoujan Gorjian,
Spitzer Research Scientist,
JPL,
Robert Hurt,
Spitzer Visualization Scientist,
IPAC,
Caltech,
Suzanne Dodd,
Former Spitzer Project Manager (2010-2016),
JPL,
Joseph Hunt,
Spitzer Project Manager (Current),
JPL,
- Public Event
Saturday, January 25th, 2020
8:00pm
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Monday, January 27th, 2020
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Challenges in Reliable Machine Learning
Kamalika Chaudhuri,
Associate Professor,
Computer Science and Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Borrowed Light: Art and Astronomy at the Villa Medici
Eileen Reeves,
Professor of Comparative Literature,
Princeton University,
Tuesday, January 28th, 2020
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
"Does This Vehicle Belong to You?": Extracting Social Meaning from Language by Computer
Dan Jurafsky,
Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Approximate Bacon-Shor Code and Holography
Charles Cao,
QuICS, University of Maryland,
Wednesday, January 29th, 2020
12:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
"Finite-Length Performance of Spatially Coupled Codes and Its Applications"
Fredrik Brännström,
Professor, Head of Communication Systems Group,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Chalmers University of Technology,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The role of microbial communities in ecosystem responses to environmental change
Jennifer Martiny,
University California Irvine,