October 2014
Thursday, October 2nd, 2014
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Thermal Energy Transport and Conversion in Nanostructures
Renkun Chen,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California San Diego,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Probabilistically Checkable Proofs of Proximity with Zero-Knowledge
Mor Weiss,
Technion,
Friday, October 3rd, 2014
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of Sr1-xLaxCuO2 thin films grown by molecular-beam epitaxy
John Harter,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics,
Hsieh Group,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 8th, 2014
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thursday, October 9th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Peter Carr, Morgan Stanley
Can Investor Beliefs be Extracted from Option Prices?
Peter Carr,
Global Head of Market Modeling,
Morgan Stanley,
Friday, October 10th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Control and Dynamical Systems Seminar
Coherent Lagrangian Vortices in Unsteady Continua
George Haller,
Prof. Dr.,
Nonlinear Dynamics,
ETH Zürich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Natural Selection, Game Theory and Genetic Diversity
Georgios Piliouras,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Science,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Enhancement of the hidden-order/large-moment antiferromagnetic phase boundary in the URu2−xFexSi2 and URu2−xOsxSi2 systems
Noravee Kanchanavatee,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Maple Group,
Univ of California, San Diego,
Monday, October 13th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Synthesis of Contact-Rich Behaviors with Optimal Control
Professor Emo Todorov,
Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Washington,
Tuesday, October 14th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Thinking on your Feet: Reinforcement Learning for Incremental Language Tasks
Jordan Boyd-Graber,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science Department,
University of Colorado Boulder,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Entanglement in one-dimensional quantum systems
Yi-Chen Huang,
IQIM,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, October 15th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Average-case tightness of semidefinite relaxations of maximum likelihood estimation problems
Afonso Bandeira,
Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Princeton University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 16th, 2014
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Modeling Multi-phase Rarefied Plumes into Space: Examples of Plumes on Jupiter's Moon Io and Saturn's Moon Enceladus
David Goldstein,
Professor,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Distinguished Lecture in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Computational Insights and the Theory of Evolution
Christos H. Papadimitriou,
C. Lester Hogan Professor of Computer Science,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, October 17th, 2014
8:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Building new edge states in twisted bilayer graphene: quantum spin Hall state and electron-hole bilayers
Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi,
Graduate Student,
Physics,
MIT,
Monday, October 20th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Linear Genetics: (the Linear Algebra of) Genotype-Phenotype Association Studies
Professor Lior Pachter,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California at Berkeley,
Tuesday, October 21st, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Real Data Science @ NASA
Chris Mattmann,
Chief Architect,
Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Modeling and Computational Challenges for Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Combustion Systems
Suresh Menon,
Professor,
School of Aerospace Engineering,
Georgia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Semyon Malamud, Swiss Finance Institute
Price Discovery Through Options
Semyon Malamud,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Swiss Finance Institute (SFI),
Friday, October 24th, 2014
12:00pm
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12:45pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Ultrahigh-resolution quantum optical coherence tomography using ultra-broadband entangled photon pairs
Masayuki Okano,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Graduate School of Engineering,
Kyoto University,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Attosecond Electron Control
Mohammed Tharwat Hassan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Zewail group,
Caltech,
Monday, October 27th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Can I Take a Peek? Continuous Monitoring of Online A/B Tests
Professor Ramesh Johari,
Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering,
Stanford,
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Understanding Opinions and Preferences in Product Networks
Julian McAuley,
Assistant Professor,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar
Nash Codes for Noisy Channels
Bernhard von Stengel,
Department of Mathematics,
London School of Economics,
Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
8:00am
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Control and Dynamical Systems Seminar
Analysis and Design of Optimization Algorithms via Integral Quadratic Constraints
Laurent Lessard,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Berkeley Center for Control and Identification,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Marcenko-Pastur Law for Tyler's and Maronna's M-estimators
Teng Zhang,
Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Princeton University,
Thursday, October 30th, 2014
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Nuclear Energy: Misconceptions, Research Frontiers, and Global Outlook
Harold McFarlane,
Interim Associate Laboratory Director,
Nuclear Science & Technology,
Idaho National Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, October 31st, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Incentivizing Exploration [joint work with Peter Frazier, Jon Kleinberg, Robert Kleinberg]
David Kempe,
Associate Professor,
University of Southern California,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
TBA
Torsten Karzig,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Condensed Matter Theory,
Caltech,