Seminars for 2007-2008

Monday October 1, 2007 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Modeling of Microstructure and Its Evolution in Shape
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Wednesday October 3, 2007 10:00 AM
Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Toward a Mathematical Theory of Financial Market Dynamics
Location: 308 Firestone Lab
Wednesday October 10, 2007 4:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Direct Product Theorems for Communication Complexity via Sub-Distribution Bounds with Application to Communication-Entanglement Trade-Offs in Quantum Communication Protocols
Speaker: Rahul Jain, University of Waterloo
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday October 15, 2007 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Exact Regularization of Convex Programs
Location: 306 Firestone
Tuesday October 16, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Simple Universal Hamiltonians
Speaker: Peter Love, Harvard University
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday October 22, 2007 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Multiscale Models of Solid Tumor Growth and Angiogenesis: Effect of the Microenvironment
Location: 306 Firestone
Friday October 26, 2007 4:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Rotating Photons
Speaker: Steven van Enk, University of Oregon
Location: 114 E. Bridge
Monday October 29, 2007 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Augmentation Preconditioners for Saddle Point Linear Systems
Location: 306 Firestone
Monday November 5, 2007 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Sensitivity Analysis, Model Reduction, and Circadian Oscillators
Location: 306 Firestone
Tuesday November 6, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Power of Quantum Systems on a Line
Speaker: Sandy Irani, UC Irvine
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Friday November 9, 2007 2:30 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Rank Minimization over Affine Sets
Location: 239 Moore
Monday November 12, 2007 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Fast Directional Multilevel Algorithms for Oscillatory Kernels
Location: 306 Firestone
Tuesday November 13, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Quantum Phase Transition to Topological Order and Topological Entropy
Speaker: Alioscia Hamma, USC
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Friday November 16, 2007 2:00 PM
CACR Seminar Series
Astroinformatics and Petascale Mining of Large Astronomy Sky Survey Databases
Speaker: Kirk Borne, George Mason University
Location: Powell-Booth Seminar Room (PB 100)
Friday November 16, 2007 2:30 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Rank Minimization over Affine Sets (II)
Location: 239 Moore
Monday November 19, 2007 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Free Boundary Problems for Fractional Laplacians
Location: 306 Firestone
Tuesday November 20, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Resilient Quantum Computation in Correlated Environments
Speaker: Eduardo Novais, Duke University
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday November 26, 2007 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Non-CMC Solutions of the Einstein Constraint Equations and Convergent Adaptive Algorithms
Location: 306 Firestone
Monday December 3, 2007 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Dynamics and Defect Formation in Liquid Crystalline Polymers under Shear Flow
Location: 306 Firestone
Tuesday December 4, 2007 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
An Overview of Quantum Expanders
Speaker: Matthew Hastings, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday December 5, 2007 10:30 AM
Equilibrium Purchasing Behavior When Operational Outcomes Impact Consumer Utility
Location: Powell-Booth Seminar Room (PB 100)
Friday December 7, 2007 1:30 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Problems in Computational Topology
Location: 239 Moore
Friday December 7, 2007 1:30 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Verifying Multimode Entanglement
Speaker: Pavel Lougovski, University of Oregon
Location: 214 Steele Laboratory
Wednesday December 12, 2007 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Multidimensional Persistence
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Friday December 14, 2007 2:30 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Computing Optimum Homotopy on Surfaces
Location: 239 Moore
Friday December 14, 2007 4:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
NMR and Quantum Information Processing
Speaker: Raymond Laflamme, University of Waterloo
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday January 15, 2008 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Iterative Signal Recovery from Incomplete and Inaccurate Measurements
Location: 239 Moore
Tuesday January 22, 2008 12:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
A Game Theoretic Formulation of the Sensor Allocation Problem
Speaker: Jason Marden, Caltech
Speaker: Adam Wierman, Caltech
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday January 22, 2008 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Iterative Signal Recovery from Incomplete and Inaccurate Measurements
Location: 239 Moore
Wednesday January 23, 2008 4:00 PM
Abstraction Methods for Liveness
Speaker: Amir Pnueli, New York University
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Friday January 25, 2008 3:00 PM
CACR Seminar Series
Two Open Computational Problems in Biology
Speaker: C. Titus Brown, Caltech
Location: Powell-Booth Seminar Room (PB 100)
Monday January 28, 2008 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Geometrization of Continuum and Discrete Mechanics
Location: 306 Firestone
Tuesday January 29, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Simulated Annealing
Speaker: Sergio Boixo, University of New Mexico
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday January 29, 2008 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Robust Self-Assembly
Location: 239 Moore
Monday February 4, 2008 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Radar Science and Engineering at JPL: A Computational Cornucopia
Location: 306 Firestone
Tuesday February 5, 2008 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Robust Self-Assembly
Location: 239 Moore
Wednesday February 6, 2008 4:00 PM
Special Center for Biological Circuit Design Seminar
Location: 080 Moore
Monday February 11, 2008 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Nanotubes in Global Warming: From Dynamic Topology in Superplasticity to Hyperthermia in Cancer Treatment
Location: 306 Firestone
Tuesday February 12, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Nanoscale Quantum Optics: From Single-Photon Devices to Strongly Correlated Systems
Speaker: Darrick Chang, Harvard University
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday February 19, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
How to Quantum Compute Against Biased Noise
Speaker: Panos Aliferis, IBM, Watson Research Center
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday February 19, 2008 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Formal Verification of Hybrid Systems
Location: 239 Moore
Wednesday February 20, 2008 11:00 AM
Informal IST Seminar
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday February 25, 2008 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Topic to be announced.
Location: 306 Firestone
Tuesday February 26, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Complementarity and Wave-Particle Duality
Speaker: Berthold-Georg Englert, National University of Singapore
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday February 26, 2008 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Formal Verification of Hybrid Systems
Location: 239 Moore
Wednesday February 27, 2008 4:00 PM
Computer Science Seminar
Fighting Concurrency Bugs
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday March 3, 2008 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Computation and Application of Balanced Model Order Reduction
Location: 306 Firestone
Tuesday March 4, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Measurement-only Topological Quantum Computation
Speaker: Parsa Bonderson, Microsoft Station Q
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday March 4, 2008 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Reputation Systems I
Location: 239 Moore
Monday March 10, 2008 10:00 AM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Silence and Noise in Gene Regulation by Small RNA
Speaker: Erel Levine, UC San Diego
Location: 080 Moore
Monday March 10, 2008 4:00 PM
Computer Science Seminar
Approximation Algorithms for Maximization of Social Welfare
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday March 10, 2008 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
A Peculiar Silicate-Associated Phenomenon
Location: Beckman Institute auditorium
Tuesday March 11, 2008 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Reputation Systems II
Location: 239 Moore
Wednesday March 12, 2008 4:00 PM
Computer Science Seminar
Functional Encryption: Beyond Public Key Cryptography
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday March 17, 2008 4:00 PM
Computer Science Seminar
New Results in Lattice-based Cryptography
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday March 17, 2008 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Quadrature for Meshless Methods
Location: 306 Firestone
Tuesday March 18, 2008 2:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Systems Biophysics and Information Processing in Biological Networks
Speaker: Ilya Nemenman, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location: 142 Keck
Tuesday March 18, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Quantum Cost of a Nonlocal Measurement
Speaker: William Wootters, Williams College
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday March 19, 2008 4:00 PM
Computer Science Seminar
Optimizing Sensing from Water to the Web
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Friday March 28, 2008 2:00 PM
CACR Seminar Series
SciFlo: Scientific Knowledge Creation on the Grid Using a Semantically-Enabled Dataflow Execution Environment
Speaker: Brian Wilson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: Powell-Booth Seminar Room (PB 100)
Tuesday April 1, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Physical Underpinnings of Privacy
Speaker: Jean Christian Boileau, University of Toronto
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday April 2, 2008 10:00 AM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Programming Soft-materials in Engineered Systems: Merging Chemistry and Computation with Microfluidics
Speaker: Manu Prakash, MIT
Location: 100 Broad Center
Wednesday April 2, 2008 1:30 PM
Engineering for Space Exploration
Location: Beckman Institute auditorium
Wednesday April 2, 2008 1:30 PM
Engineering for Space Exploration
Location: Beckman Institute auditorium
Wednesday April 2, 2008 4:00 PM
Computer Science Seminar
Reining in Fabrication Costs with Brick and Mortar Chips
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday April 7, 2008 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Adaptive Computation of Electromagnetic Problems
Location: 306 Firestone
Tuesday April 8, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Out-of-Equilibrium Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices
Speaker: Ulrich Schollwock, Technical University of Aachen
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday April 9, 2008 4:00 PM
Computer Science Seminar
A Two-Sided Market Analysis of Provider Investment Incentives with an Application to the Net-Neutrality Issue
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday April 14, 2008 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Convex Optimization with Sparse Matrix Cone Constraints
Location: 306 Firestone
Tuesday April 15, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Algebraic Quantum Circuits
Speaker: Wim van Dam, UC Santa Barbara
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday April 21, 2008 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Sparse Optimization Algorithms and Applications
Location: 306 Firestone
Tuesday April 22, 2008 12:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Designing the Next Generation of Seismographic Network
Speaker: Tom Heaton, Caltech
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday April 22, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar—cancelled
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Thursday April 24, 2008 1:00 PM
Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Implied Volatility, Fundamental Solutions, Asymptotic Analysis, and Symmetry Methods
Location: 306 Firestone
Thursday April 24, 2008 4:00 PM
Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Twist and Shout: Enstrophy Production in the 3-D Navier-Stokes Equations
Location: 308 Firestone Lab
Monday April 28, 2008 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Energetic Variational Approaches in Complex Fluids
Location: 306 Firestone
Tuesday April 29, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Speed-Up via Quantum Sampling
Speaker: Pawel Wocjan, University of Central Florida
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday May 6, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Secure Optical Key Generation Using an Ultra-Long Fiber Laser
Speaker: Avi Zadok, Caltech
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday May 12, 2008 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
The Key Role of Systems Engineering in Reaching the Energy and Environment Dream
Location: 306 Firestone
Tuesday May 13, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Anyonic Interferometry and Protected Memories in Atomic Spin Lattices
Speaker: Liang Jiang, Harvard University
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday May 19, 2008 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
High-Frequency Scattering by Obstacles with Conical Singularities: Asymptotics and Numerics
Location: 306 Firestone
Tuesday May 20, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Communication with Two Zero-Capacity Channels
Speaker: Graeme Smith, T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Wednesday June 4, 2008 4:00 PM
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
The Quantum Spin Hall Effect and the Topological Magneto-Electric Effect
Speaker: Shou-Cheng Zhang, Stanford University
Location: 107 Downs Laboratory
Tuesday June 17, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Fastest Rate
Speaker: Jonathan Oppenheim, University of Cambridge
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday June 24, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Networking with Atomic Ensembles
Speaker: Hui Deng, Caltech
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday August 19, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar—CANCELLED
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Friday September 12, 2008 8:00 AM
Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Herb Keller Memorial Workshop
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Department of Computing + Mathematical Sciences