Seminars
February 2020
Monday, February 3rd, 2020
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Algorithms for Eliciting Machine Learning Metrics
Sanmi Koyejo,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Online Optimization with Preference Feedback, Structured Decision Spaces, and Safety Constraints
Yanan Sui,
Assistant Professor,
Tsinghua University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
8:00am
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Reliability, Equity, and Reproducibility in Modern Machine Learning
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Fault-tolerant quantum error correction in bosonic systems
Kyungjoo Noh,
Graduate Student,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Radiative Drivers of Climate Change: Known Knowns and Known Unknowns
William Collins,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Thursday, February 6th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Snapping and Dancing Soft Structures
Francesco Dal Corso,
Associate Professor,
Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Trento, Italy,
Friday, February 7th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Conformal field theories are magical
Christopher White,
Postdoctoral Associate,
University of Maryland Condensed Matter Theory Center,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The quest to observe the Turbulent Cascade in real time
Michael Brenner,
Michael F. Cronin Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics and Professor of Physics,
Applied Mathematics,
Harvard University,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Beyond the Pale Blue Dot: Seeing Distant Planets
Rich Terrile,
Astronomer and Voyager Imaging Team Member,
NASA-JPL,
Rob Zellem,
Exoplanetary Astronomer,
NASA-JPL,
- Public Event
Monday, February 10th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
The Blessings of Multiple Causes
Yixin Wang,
Statistics,
Columbia University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
The Blessings of Multiple Causes
Yixin Wang,
Statistics,
Columbia University,
12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Shock Compression of Molybdenum Single Crystals to High Stresses Tomoyuki Oniyama, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. Thesis Defense
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Visual Culture Program
More Than Pretty Pictures
Felice Frankel,
Research Scientist, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Science Photographer,
- Public Event
Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Visual Culture Program Workshop
Are your figures and cover submissions the best they can be?
Felice Frankel,
Research Scientist, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Science Photographer,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Classical Coding Approaches to Quantum Applications
Narayanan Rengaswamy,
Graduate Student,
Duke University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture
Emergent Ferromagnetism in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Aaron Sharpe,
PhD Candidate,
Applied Physics,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, February 12th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Automating Resolution is NP-Hard
Albert Atserias,
Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Do ImageNet Classifiers Generalize to ImageNet?
Ludwig Schmidt,
Computer Science,
UC Berkeley,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Efficient Learning of Quantum Noise
Steve Flammia,
Professor,
University of Sydney,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Graph Signal Processing for Machine Learning Applications: New Insights and Algorithms
Antonio Ortega,
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
School of Engineering,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What's on the menu? Investigating the selective diet of microbes using novel isotopic tools
Nagissa Mahmoudi,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
A safari through thousands of 2D materials guided by data science
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, February 13th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Fluctuations in the Life of a Cell: Maintaining Order Amidst Disorder
Vikram Deshpande,
Professor,
Department of Materials Engineering,
University of Cambridge,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Topological Phase Transitions in Random Geometric Complexes
Omer Bobrowski,
Electrical Engineering,
Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology,
Friday, February 14th, 2020
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Creating Quantum Topological Materials with 3D Microwave Photons
Clai Owens,
Research Scientist,
Painter Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Micro-mechanics of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene fibre composites
Vikram Deshpande,
Professor,
Materials Engineering,
University of Cambridge,
Sunday, February 16th, 2020
3:30pm
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Monday, February 17th, 2020
8:00am
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Tuesday, February 18th, 2020
9:00am
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Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Surface turbulent heat fluxes control storm track intensity from cold to warm climates
Tiffany Shaw,
University Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantifying quantum speedups: improved classical simulation from tighter magic monotones
Earl Campbell,
EPSRC Research Fellow,
University of Sheffield,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, February 20th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Multistable Structures - from Energy Trapping to Morphing
Katia Bertoldi,
Professor,
Harvard John A.Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar
Optimal Operation of Energy Systems via Structure Neural Networks
Baosen Zhang,
Keith & Nancy Rattie Endowed Career Development Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Washington,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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DOLCIT Seminar
Probabilistic modeling in support of science and decision-making: from statistical physics to recommender systems
Jaan Altosaar,
Physics,
Princeton University,
Friday, February 21st, 2020
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Pulsatile Flow: Surface Protuberance, Curved Pipe and Hypophthalmichthys molitrix
Michael Plesniak,
Professor & Department Chair,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
George Washington University,
4:00pm
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Saturday, February 22nd, 2020
8:00pm
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Monday, February 24th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Deep Probabilistic Graphical Modeling
Adji Bousso Dieng,
Statistics,
Columbia University,
12:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Distributed decision making in networked systems: from optimization to reinforcement learning
Guannan Qu,
Resnick Sustainability Institute Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, February 25th, 2020
3:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Quantum East model: localization, non-thermal eigenstates and slow dynamics
Nicola Pancotti,
Graduate Student,
Max Planck,
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
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