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Thursday, October 1st, 2015
11:00am 12:00pm
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CANCELLED: Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Slender structures of active materials
CANCELLED - Kaushik Bhattacharya, Professor, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,
Monday, October 5th, 2015
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

Mathematical and Experimental Frameworks to Study Fluctuations in Cells
Professor Johan Paulsson, Associate Professor, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard University,
Tuesday, October 6th, 2015
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Gapped boundaries, group cohomology and fault-tolerant logical gates
Beni Yoshida, Perimeter Institute,
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Explicit Two-Source Extractors and Resilient Functions
David Zuckerman, UT Austin,
Thursday, October 8th, 2015
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

"Electrical manipulations of coherent phononic functionalities"
Young-Dahl Jho, Professor, School of Information and Communications, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology,
Friday, October 9th, 2015
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Brendan Lucier

Near-Optimal Outcomes in Markets Large and Small
Brendan Lucier, Researcher, Microsoft Research, New England,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Superconductivity in Uranium and Plutonium revealed by NMR
Andrew Mounce, Los Alamos National Labs/Sandia Labs,
Tuesday, October 13th, 2015
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Grid of the Future: Is Distributed Control the Answer?
Sonja Glavaski, Program Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E),
Wednesday, October 14th, 2015
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

How to refute a random CSP
Ryan O'Donnell, CMU,
Thursday, October 15th, 2015
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

"Towards Exascale Simulation of Turbulent Combustion"
Jackie Chen, Sandia National Laboratories, Combustion Research Facility,
Friday, October 16th, 2015
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Ehud Kalai

Learning and Stability in Big Uncertain Games
Ehud Kalai, The James J. O'Connor Professor of Decision and Game Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University,
Monday, October 19th, 2015
10:00am 11:00am
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Special Seminar in Applied & Computational Mathematics

A Hybrid Framework with Analysis for Stochastic Wave Propagation Models
Mahadevan Ganesh, College of Engineering & Computational Sciences, Colorado School of Mines,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

Sub-Linear Time Algorithms for "Big Data" Recovery Based on Sparse-Graph Codes
Professor Kannan Ramchandran, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley,
Tuesday, October 20th, 2015
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Coarse-grained representations of information in complex systems
Greg Ver Steeg, Professor, Information Sciences Institute, USC,
Wednesday, October 21st, 2015
10:00am 11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Stability of Solid-Electrolyte Interfaces during Discharge in Li-Air Battery
Panagiotis Natsiavas, Graduate Student, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
10:00am 11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Stability of Solid-Electrolyte Interfaces during Charge in Lithium Batteries
Panagiotis Natsiavas, Graduate Student, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, October 22nd, 2015
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Phonon Dynamics in Simple and Complex Materials
Li Shi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Texas Materials Institute, University of Texas,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

A Theory of Privacy for Cyber-Physical Systems with Applications in Energy Systems
Shuo Han, Electrical & Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, October 23rd, 2015
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar

The Speed of Social Learning
Omer Tamuz, Caltech,
Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

KnightShift: Achieving Energy Proportionality Through Server-level Heterogeneity
Murali Annavaram, Associate Professor, Ming-Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Two and Three Finger Caging of Polygons and Polyhedra
Tom Allen, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Topological Phases in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Systems
Alexey Gorshkov, NIST/JQI,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar

Stability of Causal Inference
Piyush Srivastava, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

An average-case depth hierarchy theorem for Boolean circuits
Li-Yang Tan,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CANCELLED || Finance Seminar: David Hirshleifer, University of California, Irvine

Visibility Bias in the Transmission of Consumption Norms and Undersaving
David Hirshleifer, Merage Chair in Business Growth, Professor of Finance, Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine,
Thursday, October 29th, 2015
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

"Understanding the mysteries of microstructure for highly reversible martensitic materials
Xian Sherry Chen, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Computer Science Seminar

Functional Reactive Programming for Real-Time and Cyber-Physical Systems: Response Time Analysis, Scheduling, and Verification
Albert M. K. Cheng, Professor, Computer Science, University of Houston, Texas,
Friday, October 30th, 2015
4:00pm 5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Optomechanics: a platform for exploring novel physics
Bassam Helou, Graduate Student, Yanbei Chen's Group,