April 2016
Friday, April 1st, 2016
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Revealing the Dirac fluid in graphene
Andy Lucas,
Graduate Student, Subir Sachdev's group,
Harvard University,
Monday, April 4th, 2016
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Kinematics and Local Motion Planning for Quasi-static Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation
Krishna Shankar,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Information-Theoretic Lower Bounds for Distributed Function Computation
Assistant Professor Maxim Raginsky,
ECE Department and Coordinated Science Laboratory,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Multi-Use Applications for Distributed Energy Resource Aggregations
Seyed Madaeni,
Principal,
Energy Storage, Grid Engineering Solutions,
SolarCity,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Loophole-free Bell inequality violation using electron spins separated by 1.3 kilometres
Hannes Bernien,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Towards simple, robust and approximately optimal auctions (part 2 of 2)
Hu Fu,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Hongjun Yan, Rutgers Business School
Financial Intermediation Chains in an OTC Market
Hongjun Yan, Associate Professor of Finance, Rutgers Business School,
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Recent Theoretical and Experimental Progress on Near-Field Thermal Radiation"
Zhuomin Zhang,
Professor,
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Monday, April 11th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar (Special Date)
Control of agile robots in complex environments with formal safety guarantees
Anirudha Majumdar,
PhD Candidate,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Can Embedded Boundary Methods Compute High Reynolds Number Flow?
Professor Marsha Berger,
Computer Science Department,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University,
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Creating programmable disorder in self-assembled DNA nanostructures
Lulu Qian,
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering ,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Quantum thermodynamics for very small machines
Stephanie Wehner,
QuTech, University of Delft,
4:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Conservation Profiles, Functional Enrichment, and the Tree of Life
Benny Chor,
School of Computer Science,
Tel-Aviv University,
Wednesday, April 13th, 2016
9:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Microscopic Origin of Macroscopic Strength in Granular Media: A Numerical and Analytical Approach
Alex Jerves,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
A Fast Distributed Algorithm for α-Fair Packing Problems
Jelena Marašević,
Electrical Engineering,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Charles Nathanson, Northwestern University
An Extrapolative Model of House Price Dynamics
Charles Nathanson, Assistant Professor of Finance, Northwestern University,
Thursday, April 14th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Evolution of submarine landslides: Unifying shear band propagation approach"
Alexander Puzrin,
Professor,
Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering,
Institute of Geotechnical Engineering ETH Zurich, Switzerland,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Balancing the Benefits and Costs of Redundancy // Admitting More Tenants with Tail Latency SLOs
Kristy Gardner,
Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Timothy Zhu,
Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Unsteady aerodynamics and optimal control of an airfoil at low Reynolds number
Jeesoon Choi,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, April 15th, 2016
8:00am
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Kevin Leyton Brown
Modeling Human Play in Unrepeated Games
Kevin Leyton-Brown, Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Spectroscopic studies of layered iridium oxides
Alberto de la Torre,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Hsieh Group,
Monday, April 18th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Subtle Is the noise, but malicious it is not: exploring the dynamic benefits of intracellular randomness
Professor Mustafa Khammash,
Control Theory and Systems Biology, Head, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE),
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ),
Tuesday, April 19th, 2016
12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Spy vs. Spy: Anonymous Messaging over Networks
Giulia Fanti,
Coordinated Science Lab,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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Wednesday, April 20th, 2016
3:00pm
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Thursday, April 21st, 2016
12:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Methods for Causal Discovery
Frederick Eberhardt,
Professor of Philosophy,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Friday, April 22nd, 2016
12:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Information-theoretic bounds and phase transitions in community detection and high-dimensional clustering
Cristopher Moore,
Santa Fe Institute,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Atom waveguide QED for efficient multiphoton sources
Alejandro González-Tudela,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
Monday, April 25th, 2016
4:00pm
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High-level verifiable robotics
CMS Seminar
Hadas Kress-Gazit,
Associate Professor,
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Cornell University,
Tuesday, April 26th, 2016
12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Interactive and Interpretable Machine Learning Models for Human Machine Collaboration
Been Kim,
Research Scientist,
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Continuous tensor networks for quantum fields: Scale invariance and loss of information along the RG flow
Guifre Vidal,
Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Computing Isomorphisms between Finite Fields using Elliptic Curves (pt 1 of 2)
Anand Kumar Narayanan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 27th, 2016
8:00am
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10:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Constant-round Interactive-proofs for Delegating Computation
Omer Reingold,
Samsung Research America,
3:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Huseyin Gulen, Purdue
Topic to be Announced
Huseyin Gulen,
Associate Professor of Finance, Krannert School of Management, Purdue,
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar: John Cochrane, Stanford University
A new approach to monetary policy
John Cochrane, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Guaranteed Non-convex Learning Algorithms through Tensor Decomposition
Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Anima Anandkumar,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,
U.C. Irvine,
Thursday, April 28th, 2016
11:00am
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(CANCELLED) Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
(CANCELLED) Seth Guikema,
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Michigan,
Friday, April 29th, 2016
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research
Procrastination with Variable Present Bias
Nicole Immorlica, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England,
12:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Understanding Micro- and Macro-Mechanics of Soil Liquefaction: A Necessary Step for Field-Scale Assessment
Utkarsh Mital,
Understanding Micro- and Macro-Mechanics of Soil Liquefaction: A Necessary Step for Field-Scale Assessment,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
3:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
A Posteriori Error Estimation Techniques for Finite Element Methods
Professor Zhiqiang Cai,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Spectroscopic signatures of Weyl semimetals beyond photoemission
Stefanos Kourtis,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Princeton,