Seminars
April 2020
Wednesday, April 1st, 2020
10:00am
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Online Event
Arıkan meets Shannon: Polar codes with near-optimal convergence to channel capacity
Venkat Guruswami,
Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Aerosol Effects on Cloud Systems
Graham Feingold,
NOAA,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Watson Lecture - The Rise of Oxygen in the Atmosphere: A View From the Deep Earth
Claire E. Bucholz,
Assistant Professor of Geology,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Friday, April 3rd, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Online Event
A Message From the Director
Mory Gharib,
Director & Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
Saturday, April 4th, 2020
6:30pm
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8:00pm
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Sunday, April 5th, 2020
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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Rademacher type and Enflo type coincide
Ramon van Handel,
Associate Professor,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Physical factors impacting convective storms and weather hazards
Jiwen Fan,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Materials Science Research Lecture
Simon Billinge,
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics,
Columbia University,
Thursday, April 9th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Water at the Inflection Point: Solutions for the Coming Water Crises
David Sedlak,
Professor,
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
University of California at Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Teleportation by size, traversable wormholes, and quantum gravity in the lab
Sepehr Ghazi Nezami,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Preskill group,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program
This event has been canceled.
Leslie Thornton,
Professor Emerita of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University; former Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer in Visual Culture, Caltech,
Friday, April 10th, 2020
9:00am
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9:01am
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10:00am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Online Event
Overview of the hypersonic boundary-layer transition (BOLT) flight experiment
Daniel Araya,
Senior Aerospace Engineer,
Applied Physics Laboratory,
Johns Hopkins University,
Tuesday, April 14th, 2020
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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CANCELED: NP-Hardness of Circuit Minimization for Multi-Output Functions
Rahul Ilango,
Graduate Student,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program
This seminar has been canceled.
elin o'Hara slavick,
Distinguished Term Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Materials Science Research Lecture
Martin Harmer,
Alcoa Foundation Professor Senior Faculty Adviser for Engineering Research Initiatives,
Lehigh University,
Thursday, April 16th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Laser Based New Materials Design and Manufacturing: Integration of Nano/Micro Functional Structures
Xining Zang,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - How NASA Observes Earth from Air & Orbit
Online Event
Paul Rosen,
Project Scientist,
NISAR mission,
NASA-JPL,
- Public Event
Friday, April 17th, 2020
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Predicting Many Properties of a Quantum System from Very Few Measurements
Hsin-Yuan (Robert) Huang,
Graduate student,
Vidick/Preskill group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Online Event
Michael Ortiz,
Frank and Ora Lee Marble Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
Monday, April 20th, 2020
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
This seminar has been canceled.
Alan Stern,
Planetary Scientist,
Southwest Research Institute,
- Public Event
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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Nearly Optimal Static Las Vegas Succinct Dictionary
Huacheng Yu,
Associate Research Scholar,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Can't We Learn to Anticipate Environmental "Costs" of New Technologies?
Phil Gschwend,
Ford Professor,
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Watson Lecture - A Geodesy Odyssey: Mapping Disasters From Space
Susan Owen,
Principal Investigator and Project Scientist,
Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) for Natural Hazards Project,
JPL,
- Public Event
Thursday, April 23rd, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Reduced-Order Modelling: Simplifying the Description of Chemically-Complex Fluids
Josette Bellan,
Dr.,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Enineering,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program
This event has been canceled.
Rob Giampietro,
Director of Design,
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
- Public Event
Friday, April 24th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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▶︎ CANCELED: Beyond Bones: Reading the Fossil Record of Earth and Other Worlds
Ceclia Sanders,
Graduate Student,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
- Public Event
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Harvesting proximity effect in 2D Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Heterostructures for Spin and Valleytronics
Ding Zhong,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Applied Physics and Materials Science,
Faraon Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Online Event
Vortex-Wall Interactions of Spatially and Temporally Evolving Vortex Pairs
Sarah Morris,
Cornell University,
Monday, April 27th, 2020
9:00am
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10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Applied Safety Critical Control
Thomas Gurriet,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: H.B. Keller Colloquium
**CANCELLED**Cities, Voting, and Spiders Spinning under the Influence: Spatial Applications of Topological Tools
Wednesday, April 29th, 2020
8:00am
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Ongoing
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10:00am
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Non-Adaptive Adaptive Sampling in Turnstile Streams
Sepideh Mahabadi,
Research Assistant Professor,
TTIC,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: EE Systems Seminar
** CANCELED** From Feedforward-Designed Convolutional Neural Networks (FF-CNNs) to Successive Subspace Learning (SSL)
C.-C. Jay Kuo,
Distinguished Professor and Director of the Media Communications Laboratory,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Title TBD
Young-Shin Jun,
Washington University St. Louis,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program
This event has been canceled.
Bill Odenkirk,
American Comedy Writer,
- Public Event
Thursday, April 30th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Interaction of Seismic Waves with Geomaterial Heterogeneity: From Multi-Scale Scattering Mechanisms to Dynamic Response of Geostructures
Kami Mohammadi,
Dr.,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Enineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life
CANCELLED: Subra Suresh Distinguished Lecture Series, EAS
Frances Arnold,
Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry,