Seminars
October 2020
Thursday, October 1st, 2020
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Adaptive and Active Architected Lattices for Dynamic Applications
Yifan Wang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, October 2nd, 2020
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Sitting Down with Uncomfortable Things in the Caltech Archives
- Internal Event
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Online Event
Unsteadiness boundaries in supersonic flow over double cones.
Hans Hornung,
C. L. "Kelly" Johnson Professor of Aeronautics, Emeritus,
GALCIT,
California Institute of Technology,
Monday, October 5th, 2020
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Online Event
Roadblocks in AV Development: Simulating Perception Data
Roland Phillipsen,
Applied Intuition,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Optimization, Control and Learning in Smart Grid
Steven Low,
Frank J. Gilloon Professor of Computing + Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering,
Engineering & Applied Science,
California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Regret Optimal-Control
Babak Hassibi,
Mose and Lillian S. Bohn Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Lifting with Simple Gadgets and Applications to Circuit and Proof Complexity
Susanna F. de Rezende,
Postdoc,
Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
The Politics of News Personalization
Anqi Li,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
The Role of Isopycnal Mixing in Ocean Transport
Ryan Abernathy,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Can America Have a Safe and Secure Presidential Election?
Online Event
Michael Alvarez,
Professor of Political and Computational Social Science,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, October 8th, 2020
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Multiphase Fluid-Material Interaction: Cavitation Modeling and Damage Assessment
Kevin Wang,
Associate Professor,
Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering,
Virginia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Engineering Glucose-Responsive Insulin Delivery across Length and Time
Online Event
Lisa R. Volpatti,
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering,
Friday, October 9th, 2020
9:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
"Numerical investigation of compressibility effects in reacting subsonic flows"
Guillaume Beardsell,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
10:00am
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11:30am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Quantum computation and "cyberpunkian" quantum field theory
Junyu Liu,
Graduate Student, Cheung, Preskill and Simmons-Duffin groups,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Nonlinear Matrix Concentration via Semigroup Methods.
De Huang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computing and Mathematical Science,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Online Event
Dynamic stall onset and the road to recovery
Karen Mulleners,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
Monday, October 12th, 2020
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
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Discrete Differential Operators on Arbitrary Polygonal Meshes
Mathieu Desbrun,
Carl F Braun Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Department,
California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, October 13th, 2020
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Online Event
On the firewall puzzle
Beni Yoshida,
Junior Faculty,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Matching Waveform Envelopes for Earthquake Early Warning
Becky Roh,
PhD Graduate Student,
Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Webinar & Alumni Panel with Lam Research CEO Tim Archer
Special KNI Distinguished Webinar & Alumni Panel with Lam Research President and CEO Tim Archer
- Internal Event
Wednesday, October 14th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Distributed Statistical Inference under Local Information Constraints
Jayadev Acharya,
Assistant Professor,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Hard-to-Interpret Signals
Yoram Halevy,
Professor of Economics and Director of the Toronto Experimental Economics Lab (TEEL),
Department of Economics,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
A seasonal origin for the Holocene and last interglacial thermal maxima in global temperature reconstructions
Yair Rosenthal,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Tuning Properties of 2D Materials: From Catalytic Activity to Single Photon Emission
Thursday, October 15th, 2020
9:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Learning MPC and its Applications to Robotic Systems
Ugo Rosolia,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Galaxy of Horrors: Terrifying Real Planets
Online Event
Speaker to be Announced,
- Public Event
Friday, October 16th, 2020
8:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Scrambling and Branching
Yingfei Gu,
IFQ Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Kitaev Group,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Uncomfortable (Bodies in the Archive)
Dorit Cypis,
PeoplesLab,
Monique Thomas,
Caltech Center for Inclusion and Diversity,
- Internal Event
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Competitive Optimization and Factorization by KL-Minimization
Florian Schaefer,
Graduate Student,
Computing and Mathematical Science,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Online Event
Photophoretic levitation as a new mechanism of flight
Igor Bargatin,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM),
University of Pennsylvania,
Sunday, October 18th, 2020
3:30pm
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Monday, October 19th, 2020
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Webinar: FARSIDE: A Probe-Class Mission to Place a Radio Telescope on the Lunar Farside
Online Event
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2020
11:00am
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2020
9:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Tamer Başar,
Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Founded Assumptions
Aayush Jain,
Graduate Student,
UCLA,
11:30am
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12:30pm
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"Science Will Lead Us Out of the Pandemic"
Online Event
Naveed Hussain,
Vice President & General Manager,
Boeing Research & Technology,
- Internal Event
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Simulating Finely-wrinkled Thin Shells using Wrinkle Fields
Etienne Vouga,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science Department and the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES),
University of Austin at Texas,
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Evolutionarily Stable (Mis)specification: Theory and Application
Jonathan Libgober,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of Southern Califonia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Seismotectonic and climatic controls on the geologic carbon cycle
Gen Li,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Quasi 2D and 1D van der Waals "Quantum" Materials
Alexander Balandin,
Distinguished Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of California, Riverside,
Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Certified learning, or learning for verification?
Alessandro Abate,
Professor of Verification and Control,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Oxford,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Intratumoral Collagen-retained Immunotherapy
Online Event
Noor Momin,
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT,
Friday, October 23rd, 2020
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Pairing in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene: role of phonon and plasmon umklapp
Cyprian Lewandowski,
Moore Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
12:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Lift & Learn: a scientific machine learning framework for learning low-dimensional models for nonlinear PDEs
Elizabeth Qian,
Von Karman Instructor,
Computing and Mathematical Science,
Caltech,