October 2011
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Sharp Thresholds in Statistical Learning
Andrea Montanari,
Associate Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Statistics,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Assimilation of Images: A Challenge
Francois-Xavier Le Dimet,
Professor,
France,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Raffle-Based Incentive Schemes for Congestion Management
Patrick Loiseau,
UC Santa Cruz / UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Automatic Verification of Region Stability of Hybrid Systems
Sayan Mitra,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Sunday, October 9th, 2011
9:30am
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3:00pm
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Monday, October 10th, 2011
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Chi-Square and Classical Exact Tests Often Wildly Misreport Significance; the Remedy Lies in Computers
Rachel Ward,
Assistant Professor / Harrington Fellow,
Mathematics,
University of Texas at Austin,
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Progress on Flapping-wing Robotic Insects
Robert Wood,
Associate Professor,
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Bridging Photonics and Computing
Mario Paniccia,
Intel Fellow and Director of the Photonics Technology Lab,
Corporate Technology Group,
Intel Corporation,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Resonant Actuation of a Model of DNA Division
Wang Sang Koon,
Senior Scientist,
Control and Dynamical Systems ,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Earnest C. Watson Lecture
Neuroeconomics: How Does Your Brain Make Decisions?
Antonio Rangel,
Professor of Economics and Neuroscience,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Friday, October 14th, 2011
8:00am
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Real-Time Demand Response in Smart Grid with Uncertain Renewable Energy
Libin Jiang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
High Dimensional Graphical Model Selection: Tractable Graph Families and Parameter Regimes
Animashree Anandkumar,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
UC Irvine,
Saturday, October 15th, 2011
4:00pm
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8:00pm
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Mathematics in Financial World: Practical Modelling and Trading
Wendong Qu,
Senior Vice President,
PIMCO,
Gang Hu,
Managing Director,
Credit Suisse, London,
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Roughness, Fractality, Contact and Friction
James Barber,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Toward Discovering the 3D Geometrical and Semantic Structure of Objects and Scenes
Silvio Savarese,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Michigan,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, October 24th, 2011
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Inverse Problems for Non-Self-Adjoint Operators
Mark Embree,
Professor,
Computational and Applied Mathematics,
Rice University,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Write or Radiate
Christopher Rose,
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Rutgers University,
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
8:00am
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Ongoing
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
Fast Global Convergence of Gradient Methods for High-Dimensional Statistical Recovery
Sahand Negahban,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
California Water
John Hall,
Professor,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, October 28th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Dynamic Oligopoly Games under Asymmetric Costs
Andrew Ledvina,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Mathematical Finance,
Caltech,
Monday, October 31st, 2011
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Optimization of Polynomial Roots, Eigenvalues and Pseudospectra
Michael Overton,
Professor,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University,