Seminars
May 2020
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Friday, May 1st, 2020
3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Online Event
Automated Decision Making for Safety Critical Applications
Mykel Kochenderfer,
Professor,
Aeronautics & Astronautics,
Stanford University,
Saturday, May 2nd, 2020
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, May 4th, 2020
4:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: H. B. Keller Colloquium
**CANCELLED** Variations on a theme by George Dantzig: Revisiting the principles of the Simplex Method
Jesus De Loera,
Professor of Mathematics,
Computer Science and Applied Mathematics,
University of California, Davis,
Wednesday, May 6th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
An improved approximation algorithm for TSP in the half integral case
Nathan Klein,
Graduate Student,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Materials Science Research Lecture
Collin L. Broholm,
Gerhard H. Dieke Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Johns Hopkins University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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"Explore Caltech" Talks
Online Event
Arun Nagpal,
Graduate Student,
Applied Physics,
Kevin Kaichuang Yang,
Alumnus,
Celeste Labedz,
Graduate Student,
Geophysics,
- Public Event
Thursday, May 7th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Fast and Guaranteed Safe Controller Synthesis for Dynamical Systems
Chuchu Fan,
Dr.,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Friday, May 8th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Simulating the collapse of false-vacuum bubbles in spin chains
Ash Milsted,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Preskill Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Online Event
Got Stress? Visualizing and Inferring Film Stresses in patterned Wafers
Ares Rosakis,
Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Title TBD
Alberto Naveira Garabato,
University of Southampton, UK,
Monday, May 11th, 2020
9:00am
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9:00am
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2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Beyond Diversity: Developing Inclusion Skills to Optimize Outcomes
Sumun L. Pendakur, Ed.D.,
Chief Learning Officer and Director, USC Equity Institutes,
USC Race and Equity Center,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Visual Culture Program
This event has been canceled.
Lia Halloran,
Artist-in-Residence (Spring 2020) and Lecturer in Visual Culture,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Kip Thorne,
Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 13th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Online Vector Balancing and Geometric Discrepancy
Sahil Singla,
Postdoc,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Title TBD
Andrew Ault,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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"Explore Caltech" Talks
Online Event
Eduardo da Veiga Beltrame,
Graduate Student,
Bioengineering,
Howard Hui,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Physics,
Peter Martin,
Alumnus,
- Public Event
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Watson Lecture - Quantum Matter: Why Does It Matter?
Xie Chen,
Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, May 14th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Mechanics of Soft Active Materials: Characterization, Design, and Functionalization
Ruobing Bai,
Dr.,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Enineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, May 15th, 2020
8:00am
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3:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Reduced-order model for dynamic soil-pipe interaction analysis
Kien T. Nguyen,
PhD Graduate Student,
Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Online Event
Aspects of reduced-order modeling of turbulent channel flows: From linear mechanisms to data-driven approaches
Ryan McMullen,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
Sunday, May 17th, 2020
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, May 18th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Universality Laws and Performance Analysis of the Generalized Linear Models
Ehsan Abbasi,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, May 20th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
An Equivalence Between Private Classification and Online Prediction
Mark Bun,
Assistant Professor,
Boston University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Materials Science Research Lecture
Lauren Garten,
United States Naval Research Laboratory, NRL,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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"Explore Caltech" Talks
Online Event
Brian Lee,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Michael Kipp,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Geochemistry,
Lily Dove,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science & Engineering,
- Public Event
Thursday, May 21st, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Poromechanics of Complex Materials
Siavash Khosh Sokhan Monfared,
Dr.,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Enineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, May 22nd, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Fractonic order
Wilbur Shirley,
Graduate Student,
Xie Chen Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Online Event
Future of Aerospace Autonomy: How to Combine Machine Learning with Guidance, Navigation, and Control?
Soon-Jo Chung,
Bren Professor of Aerospace,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
Monday, May 25th, 2020
8:00am
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2020
9:00am
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2020
8:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Is it (NP) hard to distinguish order from chaos?
Rahul Ilango,
Graduate Student,
MIT,
4:00pm
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Friday, May 29th, 2020
8:00am
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9:00am
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11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Investigating superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene (TBG)
Harpreet Singh Arora,
Graduate Student,
Nadj-Perge Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Online Event
Free-shear flow mixing computations: initial conditions, scalar boundedness and subgrid-scale effects
Nek Sheran,
postdoctoral research associate,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Saturday, May 30th, 2020
8:00am
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