Seminars for 2004-2005

Wednesday October 6, 2004 4:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Low Distortion Maps between Point Sets
Location: 080 Moore
Monday October 11, 2004 4:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Opportunistic Coding for Wireless Channels
Speaker: Suhas N. Diggavi, EPFL
Location: 080 Moore
Monday October 11, 2004 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Astronomical Data Analysis by Multiscale Methods
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Thursday October 14, 2004 12:00 PM
CMI Faculty Lunch
Location: 112 Parson-Gates
Friday October 15, 2004 2:30 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Fall Seminar
Location: 239 Moore
Monday October 18, 2004 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Weak Lacunae of Electromagnetic Waves in Dilute Plasma
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Wednesday October 20, 2004 4:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
How to Compute the Volume?
Speaker: Santosh Vempala, MIT
Location: 080 Moore
Friday October 29, 2004 2:30 PM
Optimal Design of Diffusion-Type Distributed Algorithms
Location: 239 Moore
Monday November 1, 2004 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Exact and Practical Ways to Unfurl a Data Manifold
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday November 2, 2004 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement Entropy of Random Critical Points in One Dimension
Speaker: Gil Refael, UCSB
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Friday November 5, 2004 11:00 AM
On Convexity and Dynamic Programming in Nonlinear and Hybrid Control
Location: 102 Steele
Friday November 5, 2004 2:30 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Computational Complexity in Robust Control Theory
Location: 239 Moore
Monday November 8, 2004 4:30 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Algebraic Geometry for the Multivariate Spline
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday November 9, 2004 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Exploring Quantum Control with Quantum Information Processors
Speaker: David Poulin, University of Waterloo
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday November 10, 2004 4:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Self-Organizing Robotic Systems
Speaker: Eric Klavins, University of Washington
Location: 080 Moore
Friday November 12, 2004 2:30 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Computational Complexity in Robust Control Theory
Location: 239 Moore
Monday November 15, 2004 4:00 PM
James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Engineering and Applied Science
Is a Mathematical Theory of Cryptography Possible?
Speaker: James L. Massey, ETH Zurich
Location: Beckman Institute auditorium
Monday November 15, 2004 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Graph Partitioning, Clustering with Qualitative Information, and Grothendieck-Yype Inequalities
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday November 16, 2004 1:30 PM
PATIKA: A tool for modeling cellular processes
Location: 114 Steele
Wednesday November 17, 2004 4:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
A New Look at Deep-Space Ranging
Speaker: James Massey
Location: 070 Moore
Thursday November 18, 2004 12:00 PM
CMI Faculty Meeting
Location: 112 Parson-Gates
Friday November 19, 2004 2:30 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Finite Metric Spaces and Their Embeddings
Location: 239 Moore
Monday November 22, 2004 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Multifractal Analysis of Signals
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday November 23, 2004 3:00 PM
Discrete State Estimators for Systems on a Lattice
Location: 125 Steele
Wednesday December 1, 2004 11:00 AM
Multiplayer Games and Adaptive Convergence to Nash Equilibria
Location: 102 Steele
Tuesday December 7, 2004 3:30 PM
Computer Sciences Holiday Party
Location: Dabney Lounge
Thursday December 9, 2004 12:00 PM
CMI Faculty Meeting
Location: 112 Parson-Gates
Thursday January 6, 2005 8:00 AM
DNA World Conference
Location: Broad Center Rock Seminar Room
Thursday January 6, 2005 8:00 AM
DNA World Conference
Location: Broad Center Rock Seminar Room
Monday January 10, 2005 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Subgrid Scale Dynamics and Simplified Two-Point Closure Modeling of Rayleigh-Taylor Turbulence and Mixing
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday January 11, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Thermodynamical Cost of Erasure of Correlations in Quantum Systems
Speaker: Michal Horodecki, University of Gdansk
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday January 12, 2005 4:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Tolls for Heterogeneous, Selfish Users of a Multicommodity Network and Generalized Congestion Games
Speaker: Lisa Fleischer, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Friday January 14, 2005 3:00 PM
Optimization-Based Methods for Nonlinear and Hybrid Systems Verification
Location: 102 Steele
Friday January 14, 2005 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Information, Control, and Statistical Mechanics
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday January 18, 2005 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Information, Control and Statistical Mechanics
Location: 070 Moore
Thursday January 20, 2005 12:00 PM
CMI Faculty Lunch - CANCELLED
Location: 112 Parson-Gates
Thursday January 20, 2005 1:30 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Reflection Positivity for Smooth Manifolds Fails in Dimension Four and Higher
Speaker: Michael Freedman, Microsoft Research
Location: 239 Moore
Thursday January 20, 2005 2:30 PM
Optimal Vortex Formation as a Unifying Principle for Biological Fluid Transport
Speaker: John O. Dabiri, California Institute of Technology
Location: 102 Steele
Monday January 24, 2005 1:30 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Information, Control and Statistical Mechanics
Location: 070 Moore
Monday January 24, 2005 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Convergence and Dynamics of Iterative Eigensolvers
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday January 25, 2005 10:00 AM
Control And Dynamical Systems Seminar
Scalable Analysis of Nonlinear Systems Using Convex Optimization
Location: 142 Keck
Tuesday January 25, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
CANCELLED
Speaker: Wim van Dam, MIT
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday January 25, 2005 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Information, Control and Statistical Mechanics
Location: 070 Moore
Tuesday February 1, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Bell Inequalities and the Communication Cost of Simulating Non-Locality
Speaker: Stefano Pironio, Caltech
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday February 7, 2005 4:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Portrait of a Truly Primitive Gene
Speaker: Graham Cairns-Smith, University of Glasgow
Location: 24 Beckman Labs
Monday February 7, 2005 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Reduced Dimensional Computational Models of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Stacks
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Thursday February 10, 2005 12:00 PM
CMI Faculty Lunch
Location: 112 Parson-Gates
Monday February 14, 2005 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Tsunami Prediction System Based on an Innovative Global Ocean-Bottom-Pressure Wave Model.
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday February 15, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Capacity Theorems for Quantum Multiple Access Channels
Speaker: Jon Yard, Stanford University
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Friday February 18, 2005 11:00 AM
Control And Dynamical Systems Seminar
Stability and Bifurcation Analysis Based on Harmonic Balance
Location: 114 Steele
Tuesday February 22, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entangled-Pair Projected States: Properties and Applications
Speaker: Ignacio Cirac, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Thursday February 24, 2005 3:00 PM
Control And Dynamical Systems Seminar
On New Marangoni Effects and New Interpretation of Old Marangoni Effects in Physics of Interfaces
Location: 114 Steele
Tuesday March 1, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topic to be announced
Speaker: Hoi-Kwong Lo, University of Toronto
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday March 2, 2005 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Time-Asymptotic Behaviour in Hamilton-Jacobi Equations,
Location: 306 Firestone
Thursday March 3, 2005 4:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Adaptive Algorithms for Price-Setting and Overlay Routing
Speaker: Robert Kleinberg, MIT
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday March 7, 2005 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
On the Regularity Conditions for the Navier-Stokes and the Related Equations.
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday March 8, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Applications of Quantum Information to Theories of Unconventional Antiferromagnets and Superconductors
Speaker: Joel Moore, Berkeley
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday March 9, 2005 4:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Metric Geometry and Computer Science
Speaker: James Lee, UC Berkeley
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Thursday March 10, 2005 12:00 PM
CMI Faculty Lunch
Location: 112 Parson-Gates
Monday March 14, 2005 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Uniform On-Surface Radiation Conditions for Scattering and Related Asymptotic Problems in Weakly Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Theory.
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday March 15, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Generalized Entanglement as a Resource for Efficient Computation
Speaker: Rolando Somma, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday March 16, 2005 4:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Epistatic Networks and Biological Function
Speaker: Roy Kishony, Harvard University
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Friday March 18, 2005 11:00 AM
Control And Dynamical Systems Seminar
Tippy Top and Other Spinning Toys
Location: 114 Steele
Thursday March 24, 2005 4:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Biological Design Principles for Robustness, Performance and Selective Interactions with Noise: A Systems Engineering Perspective
Speaker: Hana El-Samad, UC Santa Barbara
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday March 28, 2005 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
The Discontinuous Enrichment Method for Multi-Scale Analysis
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday March 29, 2005 1:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Plenty of Room at the Bottom: The Strange World of One-Dimensional Quantum Physics
Speaker: Ulrich Schollwöck, Technical University of Aachen
Location: 156 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday March 29, 2005 3:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
State Estimation in Multi-Agent Decision and Control Systems
Location: 102 Steele
Tuesday March 29, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Spectra of Quantum States and Representation Theory
Speaker: Matthias Christandl, University of Cambridge
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday March 29, 2005 4:00 PM
Characterization of Slip Behavior at Liquid/Solid Interfaces: Influence of Liquid Ordering, Wall Roughness, and Substrate Surface Patterning
Speaker: Sandra Troian, Princeton University
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Wednesday March 30, 2005 4:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Optimization and Algorithms: New Approaches and Proofs of Conjectures
Speaker: Chandra Nair, Stanford University
Location: 070 Moore
Thursday March 31, 2005 3:00 PM
Center for Mathematics and Information Workshop on Integrated Control, Estimation and Communication
Location: Winnett Lounge
Friday April 1, 2005 9:00 AM
Center for Mathematics and Information Workshop on Integrated Control, Estimation and Communication
Location: Winnett Lounge
Saturday April 2, 2005 8:30 AM
Center for Mathematics and Information Workshop on Integrated Control, Estimation, and Communication
Location: Winnett Lounge
Monday April 4, 2005 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Oscillators, 1/f Noise, and Stock Market Fluctuations
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday April 5, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Information with Optical Lattices
Speaker: Jiannis Pachos, University of Cambridge
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday April 6, 2005 3:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Ensuring Data Integrity in Sensor-based Networked Systems
Speaker: Farinaz Koushanfar, UC Berkeley
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Thursday April 7, 2005 4:00 PM
Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Numerical Simulations of Fiber Suspensions.
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday April 8, 2005 3:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Independent Component Analysis
Location: 239 Moore
Monday April 11, 2005 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Towards the Ultimate Solver for the Wave Equation
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Thursday April 14, 2005 4:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Low-Complexity Approaches to Distributed Data Dissemination
Speaker: Todd Coleman, MIT
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Friday April 15, 2005 3:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Trees for Correlated Data Gathering
Location: 239 Moore
Monday April 18, 2005 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Separated Representations and Their Applications.
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday April 19, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological Phases for Quantum Computation: Their Properties and Physical Realization
Speaker: Jiri Vala, UC Berkeley
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday April 20, 2005 4:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Reasoning about Reliability and Security Using Boolean Methods
Speaker: Sanjit Seshia, Carnegie Mellon
Location: 070 Moore
Thursday April 21, 2005 12:00 PM
CMI Faculty Lunch
Location: 112 Parson-Gates
Friday April 22, 2005 3:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Oracles Are Subtle But Not Malicious
Location: 239 Moore
Monday April 25, 2005 4:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Signaling in Biological Cells: Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker: Maya Said, MIT
Location: 070 Moore
Monday April 25, 2005 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Small Radiators for Electromagnetic Wavelets
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday April 26, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Martin Roetteler, NEC-Labs
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday April 27, 2005 4:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Multiscale Information Processing and Communication
Speaker: Rebecca Willett, Rice University
Location: 070 Moore
Friday April 29, 2005 3:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Analytic Combinatorics
Location: 239 Moore
Monday May 2, 2005 2:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Program Analysis Using Random Interpretation
Speaker: Sumit Gulwani, Berkeley
Location: 070 Moore
Monday May 2, 2005 4:30 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensate
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday May 3, 2005 4:00 PM
Control And Dynamical Systems Seminar
Control of Oscillations in Jet Engines: From Fixing Problems to the Design of Dynamics
Location: 102 Steele
Tuesday May 3, 2005 4:30 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
You Need Never Retreat
Speaker: Peter Winkler, Dartmouth College
Location: 080 Moore
Friday May 6, 2005 1:30 PM
Thesis Seminar
Lagrangian Averaging, Nonlinear Waves, and Shock Regularization
Location: 102 Steele
Friday May 6, 2005 2:30 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Cutting Random Trees
Location: 239 Moore
Monday May 9, 2005 2:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
An Asynchronous Circuit Model of the Lambda Virus
Speaker: Chris F. Myers, University of Utah
Location: 201 E. Bridge
Tuesday May 10, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Bipartite Entanglement in the Stabilizer Formalism
Speaker: David Fattal, Stanford University
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday May 11, 2005 2:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Space-Time Reed-Muller Codes for Noncoherent MIMO Transmission
Speaker: Alexei Ashikhmin, Bell Labs
Location: 070 Moore
Thursday May 12, 2005 12:00 PM
CMI Faculty Lunch ~ Statistical Theory of Changepoint Detection
Location: 112 Parson-Gates
Friday May 13, 2005 3:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
An Entropy Technique in Combinatorics
Location: 239 Moore
Monday May 16, 2005 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Localized Nonblowup Conditions for 3-D Incompressible Euler Equations.
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday May 17, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Theory of Quantum Gravity Based on Quantum Computation
Speaker: Seth Lloyd, MIT
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Thursday May 19, 2005 1:30 PM
Control And Dynamical Systems Seminar
Terminal Motion of Sliding and Spinning Disks with Coulomb Friction
Location: 125 Steele
Thursday May 19, 2005 4:00 PM
The Cell Processor
Speaker: Peter Hofstee, IBM Austin Research Laboratory
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Friday May 20, 2005 3:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Shape Restricted Estimation in the Search for Dark Matter
Location: 239 Moore
Monday May 23, 2005 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
On the Performance of a Class of Local Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Acoustic Scattering from Elliptical Shapes.
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday May 24, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum State Reconstruction via Continuous Measurement
Speaker: Andrew Silberfarb, University of New Mexico
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday May 25, 2005 2:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
A New Way of Ticking for the Circadian Clock, FRET Analysis of PER/TIM Interactions
Speaker: Pablo Meyer Rojas, Rockefeller University
Location: 200 Broad Center
Wednesday May 25, 2005 4:00 PM
Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Construction of Artificial Boundary Conditions and Their Discretization for Linear (1d and 2d) and Nonlinear (1d) Schrödinger Equations
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday May 27, 2005 3:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Introduction to Algorithmic Mechanism Design
Location: 239 Moore
Tuesday May 31, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Adiabatic Computation: From Hilbert's Tenth Problem to the Superfluid-Mott Insulator Quantum Phase Transition
Speaker: Tien D Kieu, Swinburne University of Technology
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Thursday June 2, 2005 12:00 PM
CMI Faculty Lunch
Location: 112 Parson-Gates
Thursday June 2, 2005 1:00 PM
Formal Derivation Techniques for Generating Linear Algebra Libraries
Speaker: Paolo Bientinesi, University of Texas at Austin
Location: See event detail for location
Friday June 3, 2005 2:30 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Introduction to Algorithmic Mechanism Design
Location: 239 Moore
Tuesday June 7, 2005 1:00 PM
Control And Dynamical Systems Seminar
Tracking Level Curves
Location: 125 Steele
Tuesday June 7, 2005 1:30 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Multiregister Fourier Sampling and Subexponential-Time Algorithms for the Hidden Subgroup Problem
Speaker: Cristopher Moore, University of New Mexico
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday June 8, 2005 4:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Symmetric Group Defies Fourier Sampling: Finding Hidden Subgroups Requires Non-Separable Measurement
Speaker: Alexander Russell, University of Connecticut
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday July 12, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Capacity of Bosonic Gaussian Channels with Memory
Speaker: Nicolas Cerf, University of Brussels
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday July 19, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Tour of Variational Quantum Field Theory
Speaker: Henri Verschelde, Ghent University
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday July 20, 2005 4:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
DNA Origami
Speaker: Paul Rothemund, Caltech
Location: 070 Moore
Tuesday July 26, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
New Tales of the Mean King
Speaker: Martin Roetteler, NEC-Labs
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Thursday July 28, 2005 10:00 AM
Thesis Seminar
A Theoretical Study of Internet Congestion Control: Equilibrium and Dynamics
Location: 110 Steele Laboratory
Tuesday August 2, 2005 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
From Quantum Computers to Identification of Molecules
Speaker: Tal Mor, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday August 23, 2005 3:00 PM
Control from Computer Science
Location: 114 Steele
Department of Computing + Mathematical Sciences