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Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Characterizing the variable sky with the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey
Matthew Graham, Computational Scientist, CD3 (Center for Data Driven Discovery), Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar

Beyond Equilibria (1st of 2 parts. Cont. on Nov. 11.)
Georgios Piliouras, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
11:00am 12:00pm
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TCS+ Talk

Constructive discrepancy minimization for convex sets
Thomas Rothvoss, MIT,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Special CMI Seminar

Chordal Codes for Chip-to-Chip Communication
Amin Shokrollahi,
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
11:00am 11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

High-Speed Laser Diagnostics for Understanding the Physicochemical Processes of Turbulent and Reacting Flows
Jeffrey Sutton, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ohio State University,
Friday, November 7th, 2014
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar

First-Order Iterative Methods in the Design of Fast Algorithms: from Multiplicative Weight Updates to Nesterov's Method
Lorenzo Orecchia, MIT/Boston University,
4:30pm 5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Novel Mechanism of Low-Temperature CVD Graphene Growth
David Boyd, Staff Scientist, Yeh Group, Caltech,
Monday, November 10th, 2014
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

Machine Learning and Optimization for Robotics
Associate Professor Pieter Abbeel, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley,
Tuesday, November 11th, 2014
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Lean, Green, Flying Machines: Control and Optimization Algorithms for Air Transportation Systems
Hamsa Balakrishnan, Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar

Beyond Equilibria (2nd of 2 parts)
Georgios Piliouras, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
Wednesday, November 12th, 2014
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar

The Reusable Holdout: Preserving Validity in Interactive Data Analysis
Moritz Hardt, IBM Almaden ,
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
11:00am 11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Heat Control by Thermal Diode and Thermal Metamaterials
Baowen Li, Professor, Centre for Computational Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore,
Friday, November 14th, 2014
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Modularity and Greed in Double Auctions
Inbal Talgam-Cohen, Hsieh Family SIGF Fellow, Stanford University,
4:30pm 5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Electron tunneling in Van der Waals heterostructures
Chandni U. , IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Eisenstein Group, Caltech,
Monday, November 17th, 2014
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

A Solution to the Inverse Optimization Problem Using Convex Decomposition
Andreas Hempel, Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zürich,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Neng Wang, Columbia Business School

A Theory of Liquidity and Risk Management Based on the Inalienability of Risky Human Capital (joint with Patrick Bolton and Jinqiang Yang)
Neng Wang, Chong Khoon Lin Professor of Real Estate and Finance, Columbia Business School,
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Autonomous Aerial Mobility on Earth and in Space
Larry Mathies, Senior Research Scientist, Computer Vision Group, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Information Causality, Szemeredi-Trotter, and algebraic variants of CHSH
Mohammad Bavarian, MIT,
Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Coding for Interactive Communication Made Communication Efficient and Easy (or "How to make conversations robust to noise.")
Bernard Haeulpler, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics

Approximate Separability of Green's Function for Helmholtz Equation in the High Frequency Limit
Professor Hongkai Zhao, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine,
Thursday, November 20th, 2014
11:00am 11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Cluster-Induced Turbulence: Mesoscale DNS and Model Validation
Rodney Fox, Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University,
Friday, November 21st, 2014
4:30pm 5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Non-Abelian phases in Fractional Quantum Hall states
Roger Mong, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Caltech,
Monday, November 24th, 2014
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar

Market Mechanisms for Economic Dispatch
Wenyuan Tang, USC,
Tuesday, November 25th, 2014
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar

An Approximate Version of Caratheodory's Theorem and Its Algorithmic Applications (part 1)
Siddharth Barman, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
Thursday, November 27th, 2014