November 2015
Ongoing
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11/3
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Monday, November 2nd, 2015
2:30pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Fast Solvers for the High-Frequency Helmholtz Equation
Assistant Professor Leonardo Andrés Zepeda Núñez,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Coding Techniques for Emerging DNA-Based Storage Systems
Professor Olgica Milenkovic,
ECE Department,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Algorithms in nature
Saket Navlakha,
Assistant Professor,
Integrative Biology Laboratory,
Salk Institute for Biological Studies,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
CORRELATED WORLDLINE THEORY of QUANTUM GRAVITY: LOW-ENERGY CONSEQUENCES & TABLE-TOP TESTS
Philip Stamp,
Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics, Univ. of British Columbia,
Thursday, November 5th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Triumph of Control Theory: How Hybrid System Models and Nonlinear Control Realized Efficient Dynamic Walking on the Humanoid Robot DURUS
Aaron Ames,
Professor,
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Friday, November 6th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Scheduling in Hadoop clusters: Novel algorithms, state space collapse and delay minimization in heavy traffic
Yi Lu,
Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Shachar Kariv
Distinguishing nonstationarity from inconsistency in intertemporal choice
Shachar Kariv,
Department Chair and Benjamin N. Ward Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
University of California, Berkeley,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Toward physical realizations of information-theory models for small-scale thermodynamics
Nicole Yunger Halpern,
Graduate Student,
Preskill Group,
Monday, November 9th, 2015
9:00am
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Smart Grid Seminar
Frequency Regulation, Energy Trading, and Load Scheduling in Smart Grid
Vincent Wong,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Faster Convex Optimization: Simulated Annealing with an Efficient Universal Barrier
Professor Elad Hazan,
Department of Computer Science,
Princeton University,
Tuesday, November 10th, 2015
12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Energy Efficient Design: From Computing To Biomedical Devices
Azita Emami,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Entanglement entropy from thermodynamic entropy in one higher dimension
Mohammad Maghrebi,
JQI,
Wednesday, November 11th, 2015
9:00am
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10:00am
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Special Civil Engineering Seminar
Brighton i360 Tower Dynamics & Damping 2006 – 2015
Max Irvine,
Professor Emeritus,
University of New South Wales,
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Paul Tetlock, Columbia University
Retail Short Selling and Stock Prices
Paul Tetlock, Professor of Business, Finance and Economics Division, Columbia University,
Thursday, November 12th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Topological Methods in Robot Motion Planning
Subhrajit Bhattacharya,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Department of Mathematics ,
University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, November 13th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Two-Source Dispersers for Polylogarithmic Entropy and Improved Ramsey Graphs - part 1 of 2
Gil Cohen,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
The quenched-induced geometric Hall response
Justin Wilson,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Tuesday, November 17th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Chaos in a Bottle: Experimental Studies of Nonlinear Population Dynamics
Robert Desharnais,
Professor,
Department of Biological Sciences,
California State University, Los Angeles,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Detecting topological order in the Heisenberg pictureWe introduce a numerical method for identifying topological order in two-dimensional models based on one-dimensional bulk operators. The idea is to identify approximate symmetries supported on thin str
David Poulin,
University of Sherbrooke,
Wednesday, November 18th, 2015
8:00am
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Thursday, November 19th, 2015
8:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Ultrafast Spectroscopy for Energy Research
Xianfan Xu,
Professor,
School of Mechanical Engineering,
Purdue University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar
Complex Polynomial Optimization and its Application to Power Systems
Cédric Josz,
Applied Mathematics,
Paris VI University,
Friday, November 20th, 2015
8:00am
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Joel Watson
Contractual Equilibrium: An Application to Conservation Agreements and Computational Issues
Joel Watson,
Professor of Economics,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Atom-atom interactions in an ‘Alligator' photonic crystal waveguide
Jonathan Hood,
Graduate Student,
Kimble Group,
Monday, November 23rd, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar
A New Perspective to Synchronization in Networks of Coupled Oscillators: Reverse Engineering and Convex Relaxation
Lijun Chen,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
Tuesday, November 24th, 2015
4:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Two-Source Dispersers for Polylogarithmic Entropy and Improved Ramsey Graphs - part 2 of 2
Gil Cohen,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 25th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thursday, November 26th, 2015
8:00am
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11/27
5:00pm
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