April 2015
Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Hybrid Unsteady-flow Simulation Combining PIV/PTV and DNS: Family of data-assimilation algorithms and their capabilities
Takao Suzuki,
The Boeing Company,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Multi-Resource Allocation: Fairness, Efficiency, and Applications
Carlee Joe-Wong,
Princeton University,
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Allocation in tender auctions with several stakeholders where quality aspects matter
Thomas Greve,
Research Associate, Microeconomic Theory, University of Cambridge,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Holographic quantum error-correcting codes: Toy models for the bulk/boundary correspondence
Fernando Pastawski,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Monday, April 6th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar
Interdependency and Reliability of Natural Gas & Power Grid Systems
Misha Chertkov,
Physics of Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, T-4, Theoretical Division,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometric graph-based methods for high dimensional data
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Seminar
Andrea Bertozzi,
University of California Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Computational Methods for Mesoscopic Fluid-Structure Interactions Subject to Thermal Fluctuations : Applications in Soft Materials and Microfluidics.
Professor Paul J. Atzberger,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics Department of Mechanical Engineering ,
University of California Santa Barbara,
Tuesday, April 7th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
Rights in the online world from the EFF viewpoint, the challenges of privacy and what Edward Snowden has showed us about the new surveillance state
Brad Templeton,
Electronic Frontier Foundation ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Nonlinear Linear Systems Analysis Applied to Networked Dynamical Systems
Enrique Mallada,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
Center for the Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 8th, 2015
4:00pm
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Blending Mathematical Models and Data: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications in the Geophysical and Medical Sciences
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Seminar
Andrew Stuart,
Warwick University,
Thursday, April 9th, 2015
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Geometrical derivation of a set of ODEs of motion for constrained mechanical systems
Sotirios Natsiavas,
Professor,
Aristotle University,
Friday, April 10th, 2015
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Matter Wave Interferometry in Microgravity - Towards Quantum Sensors in Space
Markus Krutzik,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Communications Architectures and Research ,
JPL,
Monday, April 13th, 2015
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Designing Dynamic Contests
Mohamed Mostagir,
Stephen M. Ross School of Business,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Bayesian Inversion for Large Scale Antarctic Ice Sheet Flow
Professor Omar Ghattas,
Jackson School of Geosciences, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Wayne Ferson, USC
How Many Good and Bad Fund Managers Are there, Really?
Wayne Ferson, Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, USC,
Tuesday, April 14th, 2015
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Collective behavior of asperities as a model for friction and adhesion
Srivatsan Hulikal,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
Getting More Women into Tech Careers and Why It Matters
Maria Klawe,
President,
Harvey Mudd College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Nonlinear Linear Systems Analysis Applied to Networked Dynamical Systems
Enrique Mallada,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
Center for the Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 15th, 2015
7:30am
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Thursday, April 16th, 2015
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Thermoelectric and spin-thermal solid-state energy conversion
Joseph Heremans,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Ohio State University,
Friday, April 17th, 2015
8:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Unfolding the color code
Alex Kubica,
Graduate Student,
Preskill Group,
12:00pm
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1:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Entanglement detection by interfering quantum many-body twins
Rajibul Islam,
Postdoctoral Fellow - Greiner Group, Rubidium Gas Microscopy,
MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms,
12:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Detection of Planted Solutions for Flat Satisfiability Problems
Quentin Berthet,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 21st, 2015
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IST Lunch Bunch
Enabling Physics Discoveries, Networking for High Energy Physics and Data Intensive Science
Dorian Kcira,
Research Scientist,
Compact Muon Solenoid group, High Energy Physics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Near-linear constructions of exact unitary 2-designs
Debbie Leung,
Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Coarsening of Particle Systems
Professor David Levermore,
Mathematics Department,
University of Maryland, College Park,
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015
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2:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Dendrites Inhibition in Rechargeable Lithium Metal Batteries
Asghar Aryanfar,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, April 23rd, 2015
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Unraveling yielding in BCC metals from crystal plasticity calculations: A multiscale computational approach fitted to first principles calculations
Jamie Marian,
Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
UCLA,
Friday, April 24th, 2015
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Unfolding the color code
Alex Kubica,
Graduate Student - Preskill Group,
Tuesday, April 28th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Innovate or die
Chris House,
Vice President,
Advanced Concepts and Technology Research,
BlackBerry,
Wednesday, April 29th, 2015
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Thursday, April 30th, 2015
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Soft Control: How cilia-generated flows affect bacteria-host associations
Eva Adnan Kanso,
Associate Professor,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Reverse Mechanism Design
Nima Haghpanah,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
MIT,