October 2016
Tuesday, October 4th, 2016
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Politics of Sovereign Default under Financial Integration
Marina Azzimonti,
Associate Professor,
Stony Brook University,
Wednesday, October 5th, 2016
3:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Streaming Communication: Information Theoretic Perspectives
Ashish Khisti,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Toronto,
5:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, October 6th, 2016
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Phonon spectroscopy and thermal transport using predictive atomistic simulations"
Xiulin Ruan,
Professor,
School of Mechanical Engineering, and Birck Nanotechnology Center,
Purdue University,
Friday, October 7th, 2016
10:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
An Odd-Parity Hidden Order in a Perovskite Iridate Revealed Using Nonlinear Optics
Liyuan Zhao,
Richard Chase Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar in Experimental Physics,
Hsieh Group,
Monday, October 10th, 2016
4:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Secure State-Estimation and Control for Dynamical Systems Under Adversarial Attacks
Professor Paulo Tabuada,
Electrical Engineering,
University of California at Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Robert Marquez, UC Davis
Financial Frictions, Foreign Currency Borrowing, and Systemic Risk
Robert Marquez, Professor of Finance,
Graduate School of Management,
University of California, Davis,
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
12:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Arun Viswanathan,
The New Space Race: Cyber Security for Space Missions,
CTM - The Aerospace Corporation Subcontract,
JPL, Cyber Security Improvment Project,
Jeremy Pecharich,
CTM - The Aerospace Corporation Subcontract,
JPL, Cyber Security Improvment Project,
3:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Multipartite Multichannel Interferometry for Quantum Information Processing
Barry Sanders,
University of Calgary,
Wednesday, October 12th, 2016
3:00pm
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Thursday, October 13th, 2016
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Enabling large eddy simulations of realistic turbulent flows"
Johan Larsson,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of Maryland,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
From algorithms to lower bounds and back via the statistical query complexity
Vitaly Feldman,
IBM Research Almaden ,
Friday, October 14th, 2016
8:00am
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Haifeng Xu, USC
Persuasion Through the Computational Lens
Haifeng Xu, Graduate Student,
Economics & Computation,
USC,
Monday, October 17th, 2016
4:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Difference-of-Convex Programming
Professor Jong-Shi Pang,
Viterbi School of Engineering ,
University of Southern California,
Tuesday, October 18th, 2016
12:00pm
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From Pixels to Depth: Learning to Predict Shape from a Single Photograph
Oisin Mac Aodh,
Postdoc in Pietro Perona's Computational Vision Lab,
Engineering & Applied Science,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 19th, 2016
10:00am
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Thursday, October 20th, 2016
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Realistic grain shapes in the discrete element method with dilated polyhedral"
Christopher Senseney,
Professor - Lt. Col.,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
US Air Force Academy,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Friday, October 21st, 2016
8:00am
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6:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
2D to 1D Oxide interfaces: superconductivity, magnetism and ballistic transport effects
Alon Ron,
Richard Chase Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar,
Hsieh Group,
Monday, October 24th, 2016
4:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Next Generation Computer Simulations for Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics Electromagnetic Applications
Professor Jin-Fa Lee,
ElectroScience Lab., ECE Dept. College of Engineering,
The Ohio State University,
Tuesday, October 25th, 2016
12:00pm
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How Bitcoin enables a Machine-Payable Web
Balaji S. Srinivasan,
CEO of 21.co and a Board Partner at Andreessen Horowitz.,
3:00pm
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2016
8:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Local search yields approximation schemes for k-means and k-median in Euclidean and minor-free metrics
Claire Mathieu,
ENS,
3:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Extreme Power Density and Efficiency Power Converters for Grid Interfaced Applications—New Circuit Topologies and Control Techniques to Leverage Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Devices
Robert Pilawa-Podgurski,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
8:00pm
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Thursday, October 27th, 2016
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Scaling Limits in Networked Control System"
Bassam Bamieh,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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DOLCIT/RSRG Seminar
Architectures and Algorithms for Distributed Generation Control of Inertial-Less AC Microgrids
Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
1:30pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
On Probabilistic Checking in Perfect Zero Knowledge
Michael Forbes,
MIT,
2:30pm
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Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Using Algebraic Geometry for Computer Vision
Joe Kileel,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, October 28th, 2016
12:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Leonard Schulman, Caltech
The Duality Gap for Two-Team Zero-Sum Games
Leonard Schulman, Professor of Computer Science,
Engineering & Applied Science,
Caltech,