November 2017
Wednesday, November 1st, 2017
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 2nd, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Urban Physics: Is L.A. A Liquid Or A Solid? A Quantitative Approach to Cities Sustainability and Resilience"
Franz-Josef Ulm,
Professor,
Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
TBA
David Spivak,
Research Scientist,
Mathematics,
MIT,
1:45pm
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2:30pm
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Smart Grid Seminar
Towards Smart Low-Carbon Electricity Networks: State-of-the-Art and Challenges Ahead
Luis Ochoa,
Professor,
Smart Grids and Power Systems,
University of Melbourne,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, November 3rd, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Engineering topological materials in one and two dimensions
Stevan Nadj-Perge,
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Amy Ward, USC
Dynamic Matching for Real-Time Ridesharing
Amy Ward,
Associate Professor,
Marshall School of Business,
USC,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Fully Adaptive Radar
Muralidhar Rangaswamy,
Senior Advisor For Radar Research,
Air Force Research Laboratory,
Monday, November 6th, 2017
9:00am
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Non-monotonicity of the matrix exponential function, why it is a problem, and what to do about it
Professor Eric Carlen,
Department of Mathematics,
Rutgers University,
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Open research problems in computer graphics and games
J.P. Lewis,
Lead Researcher at SEED, Electronic Arts,
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
A Constant-factor Approximation Algorithm for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem
Ola Svensson,
EPFL,
Thursday, November 9th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Towards mechanics using quantum mechanics"
Phanish Suryanarayana,
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, November 10th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Gravitational shockwaves on rotating black holes
Yoni BenTov,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Kitaev Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Teddy Mekonnen, Caltech
Ex-ante Comparative Statics: Responsiveness to Information Quality
Tewodros (Teddy) Mekonnen,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Saturday, November 11th, 2017
9:30am
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6:00pm
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Monday, November 13th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Importance Sampling the Union of Rare Events with an Application to Power Systems Analysis
Professor Art B. Owen,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, November 14th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rethinking Datacenter Management with Game Theory
Benjamin Lee,
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering ,
Duke University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Matrix Product Operators in Quantum Information
David Perez-Garcia,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
From Network Coding to Sidon Spaces
Netanel Raviv,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 15th, 2017
9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Attacks on Blockwise Local PRGs and Indistinguishability Obfuscation
Vinod Vaikuntanathan,
MIT,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 16th, 2017
8:00am
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Ongoing
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Fundamental Solutions in Elastodynamics: Pathologies, Outright Errors, and Paradoxes"
Eduardo Kausel,
Professor Emeritus,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Energy harvesting and energy cooperating wireless networks: A new frontier for communication and information theory
Aylin Yener,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Tarun Chordia, Emory University
p-hacking: Evidence from two million trading strategies
Tarun Chordia,
Professor of Finance,
Goizueta Business School,
Emory University,
Friday, November 17th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Engineering Light-Matter Interactions in Photonic Crystal Waveguides
Alex Burgers,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Kimble Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Irene Lo, Columbia University
Dynamic Matching in School Choice: Efficient Seat Reassignment after Late Cancellations
Irene Lo,
PhD Candidate,
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department,
Columbia University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Hierarchy of PDE Models of Cell Motility
Professor Leonid Berlyand,
Penn State,
Monday, November 20th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Investigating large-scale brain networks using high-density EEG
Quanying Liu,
James Boswell Postdoc Fellow,
Caltech & HMRI,
Thursday, November 23rd, 2017
8:00am
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11/24
5:00pm
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Monday, November 27th, 2017
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Interlacing Families
Assistant Professor Nikhil Srivastava,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley ,
Tuesday, November 28th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Opportunities and Perils in Data Science
Alfred Spector,
CTO of Two Sigma Investments. ,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Irreversibility and symmetry principles for general quantum processes
David Jennings,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Gradient coding -- When coding theory and distributed computing meet
Netanel Raviv,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 29th, 2017
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Almost-Linear-Time Algorithms for Markov Chains and New Spectral Primitives for Directed Graphs
Jon Kelner,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Thursday, November 30th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Unification through disarray: harnessing disorder at the attachment of tendon to bone"
Guy Genin,
Professor,
NSF Science and Technology Center for Engineering MechanoBiology,
Washington University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
TBA
Justin Johnson,
Graduate Student,
Computer Sciences,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Defense
Decomposing formal specifications into assume-guarantee contracts for hierarchical system design
Ioannis Filippidis,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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CS Theory Seminar
Learning Sums of Independent Commonly Supported Integer Random Variables
Anindya De,
Northwestern University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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NEW TIME -- 3PM: CMS Partner Tech Talk
Optimizing Freight Logistics at Auptix with Alum Lu Saenz
Lu Saenz,
AuptiX,