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Saturday, April 1st, 2017
Monday, April 3rd, 2017
Tuesday, April 4th, 2017
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH

Customizable Computing — From Single-chip to Datacenters
Jason Cong, Chancellor's Professor, Computer Science, UCLA,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Entanglement requirements for non-local games
William Slofstra, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo,
Wednesday, April 5th, 2017
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture

Graphene Intercalation: A Pathway Towards Stabilizing New Two-Dimensional Crystals
Zakaria Al Balushi, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University,
Thursday, April 6th, 2017
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

"Phase Mechanics" of arrested colloidal gels: A new paradigm for yielding and phase transitions in soft matter"
Roseanna N. Zia, Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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RSRG Seminar

Using Pricing to Manage the Cloud
Carlee Joe-Wong, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon,
1:30pm 2:30pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar

Tree tribes and lower bounds for switching lemmas
Jenish Mehta, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
Friday, April 7th, 2017
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Shai Vardi, Caltech

Controlled Dynamic Fair Division
Shai Vardi, Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Enhancing atom-light interactions with "selective radiance": the recipe to exponentially improve photon storage fidelities
Ana Asenjo Garcia, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Kimble Group,
5:30pm 6:30pm
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Monday, April 10th, 2017
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CNS Seminar

Fast-Spiking Interneurons Regulate Ensemble Calcium and Striatum-Dependent Learning
Anatol C. Kreitzer, Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

What mathematical algorithms can do for the real (and even fake) world
Professor Stanley Osher, Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science, Electrical Engineering & Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles,
Tuesday, April 11th, 2017
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Acoustic Rendering: from audiovisual synthesis to wave control
Changxi Zheng, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Columbia University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Social Mobility and Stability of Democracy: Re-Evaluating De Tocqueville
Konstantin Sonin, John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago,
Wednesday, April 12th, 2017
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Crossing the Logarithmic Barrier for Dynamic Boolean Data Structure Lower Bounds
Kasper Green Larsen, Aarhus University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Query Complexity of Clustering
Arya Mazumdar, Assistant Professor, College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts at Amherst,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Cary Frydman, USC Marshall School of Business

The Role of Salience and Attention in Choice Under Risk: An Experimental Investigation
Cary Frydman, Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, USC,
Thursday, April 13th, 2017
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

"Histotripsy: Focused ultrasound surgery based on nucleation of bubbles in tissue"
Adam Maxwell, Professor, Department of Urology, University of Washington School of Medicine,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar

Near-optimal Adaptive Information Acquisition: Theory and Applications
Yuxin Chen, postdoctoral scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech,, CMS, CALTECH,
6:00pm 7:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk

Increasing Internet Access Globally through Engineering and QUIC
Nickolas Westman, Google,
Friday, April 14th, 2017
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Quantum metrology gets real
Konrad Banaszek, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Poland,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Bettina Klaus, Universite de Lausanne

Object Allocation via Immediate-Acceptance: Characterizations and an Affirmative Action Application
Bettina Klaus, Professor, Department of Business and Economics, Universite de Lausanne,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Fermi Arcs and Their Topological Character in the Candidate Type-II Weyl Semimetals WTe2 and MoTe2
Flavio Yair Bruno, Ambizione Research Fellow, University of Geneva,
5:30pm 6:30pm
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Monday, April 17th, 2017
Tuesday, April 18th, 2017
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy

Experimenting with Legitimacy: How Leaders' Choices about Group Profiling and Error Reduction Affect Compliance
Greg Huber, Professor of Political Science, Yale University,
Wednesday, April 19th, 2017
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture

The Transport of Heat by Charge Carriers, Lattice Vibrations, and Spin Waves in Complex Materials
Annie Weathers, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Cover's Open Problem: "The Capacity of the Relay Channel"
Ayfer Ozgur Aydin, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University,
Thursday, April 20th, 2017
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

"Physics-Based Approaches to Model Form Uncertainty Quantification for Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Combustion"
Michael E. Mueller, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University,
Friday, April 21st, 2017
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Guillaume Roger, University of Sydney

Scale Effects in Dynamic Contracting
Guillaume Roger, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sydney,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Wind Farm Modeling and Control for Power Grid Support
Dennice Gayme, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Breaking Lorentz Reciprocity: From Physics to New Wireless Communication Paradigms

Caltech's Young Investigator Lecture Series
Negar Reiskarimian, PhD candidate , Electrical Engineering , Columbia University.,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Fault-tolerance in topological stabilizer codes and universal workarounds
Tomas Jochym O'Connor, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
5:30pm 6:30pm
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Monday, April 24th, 2017
4:00pm 5:00pm
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CNS Seminar

Using Artificial-Intelligence-Driven Deep Neural Networks to Uncover Principles of Brain Representation and Organization
Daniel L.K. Yamins, Assistant Professor , Psychology and Computer Science, Stanford University,
Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Impact of Deep Neural Networks and One of Its Mobile Applications
Charles Fan, CTO of Cheetah Mobile (NYSE: CMCM),