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Thursday, December 1st, 2016
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

"Evolving Boundaries with Explicit Parametric Geometry"
Ganesh Subbrayan, Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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A Conic Optimization Approach to Structured Model Reduction

RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar
James D. Anderson, Senior Postdoctoral Scholar, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
Friday, December 2nd, 2016
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Local Hamiltonians Whose Ground States are Hard to Approximate
Aram Harrow, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Trace Reconstruction When the Number of Samples Is Exponential in the Cube Root of n
Yuval Peres, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research,
Saturday, December 3rd, 2016
Monday, December 5th, 2016
1:00pm 2:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Computational modeling of the mechanics of elastic structural lattices: effects of lattice architecture and hierarchy
Alex Zelhofer, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, December 7th, 2016
8:00am 12/9 5:00pm
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10:00am 11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar

Computational modeling of the mechanics of elastic structural lattices: effects of lattice architecture and hierarchy
Pinaky Bhattacharyya, Optimal Sensor Placement for Bayesian Parametric Identification of Structures, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Robust Estimators in High Dimensions Without the Computational Intractability
Jerry Li, MIT,
Thursday, December 8th, 2016
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Greening a Top-20 Economy: Energy-Efficient Timely Transportation of Heavy-Duty Trucks

RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar
Minghua Chen, Associate Professor, Information Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
1:30pm 2:30pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar

Time-Space Hardness of Learning Sparse Parities
Avishay Tal, IAS, Princeton,
Friday, December 9th, 2016
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Dorothea Kubler, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

College Admissions with Entrance Exams: Centralized versus Decentralized
Dorothea Kubler, Professor and Director of the Research Unit, WZB Berlin Social Science Center,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Visualizing the Behavior of Relativistic Electrons in Simple 2D Potentials in Graphene
Dillon Wong, Crommie Group, University of California, Berkeley,
Wednesday, December 14th, 2016
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Juhani Linnainmaa, University of Chicago

The History of the Cross Section of Stock Returns
Juhani Linnainmaa, Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, USC,
Thursday, December 15th, 2016
12:00pm 1:00pm
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RSRG Seminar

Demand side management & aggregation
Jakob Stoustrup, Professor, Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark,
Friday, December 16th, 2016
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Jun Zhang, Caltech

Level-k Reasoning in School Choice
Jun Zhang, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Wednesday, December 21st, 2016