February 2018
Thursday, February 1st, 2018
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Personalized model of kinematic and dynamic of physical activities"
Ruzena Bajcsy,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
University of California, Berkeley,
Friday, February 2nd, 2018
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Continuous measurements and quantum trajectories in circuit QED
Arian Jadbabaie,
Graduate Student,
Hutzler Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, February 5th, 2018
Tuesday, February 6th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Nonlinear control and estimation theory for multi-agent autonomy and autonomous flying ambulances
Soon-Jo Chung,
Associate Professor of Aerospace and Bren Scholar; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Scientist,
Engineering and Applied Science,
CALTECH,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Thoughts on the Potential of Quantum Computing for Nuclear Physics Grand Challenge Problems
Martin Savage,
University of Washington,
Wednesday, February 7th, 2018
9:00am
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10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics Enabled Integrity Assessment of Urban Buildings
Hao Sun,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Lab for Infrastructure Sensing and Data Science,
University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). ,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Deep optimization: from learning deep models to tuning hyper-parameters
Meisam Razaviyayn,
Assitant Professor,
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering ,
USC Machine Leaning Center,
7:00pm
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7:45pm
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CS9: Intro to CS Research and Industry
More than Recommendations: Data Science at Netflix -- Speaker: Becky Tucker, Caltech Alum
Thursday, February 8th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Topological Mechanics of Critically Coordinated Lattices"
Tom Lubensky,
Professor,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Pennsylvania,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Approaching the Fundamental Limits of Learning
Vahid Tarokh,
Rhodes Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Mathematics, and Computer Science,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science,
Duke University,
Friday, February 9th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantization of the low temperature action in the SYK model
Josephine Suh,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Kitaev Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Exploiting Sparsity for Modeling and Control of Dynamical Systems
Eurika Kaiser,
University of Washington,
Monday, February 12th, 2018
9:00am
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Learning Versatile Behavior and Reusable Models through Real-World Interaction
Chelsea Finn,
Computer Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Map and Territory
Maayan Amir,
Artist and Lecturer,
Department of Fine Arts,
Haifa University ,
Ruti Sela,
Artist and Lecturer,
Department of Fine Arts,
Haifa University ,
Robert Simmon,
Senior Data Visualization Engineer,
Planet ,
Nicolas Wey-Gomez,
Professor of History,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, February 13th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Local, Model-Agnostic Explanations of Machine Learning Predictions
Sameer Singh,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
University of California, Irvine,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture
Scalable Solid State Quantum Information Processing
Sara Mouradian,
PhD Candidate,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Spherical t-designs as a general purpose tool for partial de-randomization (1st of 2 parts)
Richard Kueng,
CMI Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 14th, 2018
10:00am
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11:00am
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, February 15th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Smaller Than the Eye Can See: Vibration Analysis with Video Cameras
Justin Chen,
Technical Staff,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, February 16th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
A quantum gas of polar KRb molecules in an optical lattice
Jacob Covey,
Richard Chace Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar,
Endres Group,
Monday, February 19th, 2018
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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TBA
Vagelis Papalexakis,
Assistant Professor ,
Computer Science & Engineering,
University of California Riverside,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Quantum supremacy: checking a quantum computer with a classical supercomputer
John Martinis,
Google,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Spherical t-designs as a general purpose tool for partial de-randomization (2nd of 2 parts)
Richard Kueng,
CMI Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
9:00am
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Toward a Resilient 21st Century
Max Didier,
Doctoral student/researcher,
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering,
ETH Zurich,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Resilient Distributed Inference in Multi-Agent Systems
Soummya Kar,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Thursday, February 22nd, 2018
8:00am
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Ongoing
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Coastal Risks in the Oil and Gas Industry: Vulnerability of Storage Tanks to Severe Storms"
Jamie E. Padgett,
Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Rice University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Inventing the Future of Finance, Alternative Data and Aperio
David Loaiza,
Point72 Aperio,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar
Disturbance Based Decentralized Frequency Control for Power Systems
Oleg Khamisov,
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology,
Friday, February 23rd, 2018
9:00am
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10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Flexible water supply infrastructure planning under uncertainty: Learning and adapting for resilience
Sarah Fletcher,
PhD Candidate,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Machine Learning and Quantum Physics
Evert van Nieuwenburg,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Refael Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Long Duration Autonomy With Applications to Persistent Environmental Monitoring
Magnus Egerstedt,
Professor and Julian T. Hightower Chair in Systems and Controls,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Levitated Nanomagnets in the Quantum Regime: Theory and Applications
Oriol Romero Isart,
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information ,
Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Monday, February 26th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Making Intersections Safer with I2V Communication
Professor Pravin Varaiya,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
University of California, Berkeley,
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Tackling Infrastructure Resiliency through Structural Modeling and Mechanics
Patrick Brewick,
Research Scientist,
US Naval Research Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond
John Preskill,
Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics; Allen V.C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair, Institute for Quantum Science and Technology,
Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
CALTECH,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar
Geometry and convexity of quadratic maps
Anatoly Dymarsky,
Professor,
Center for Energy Systems,
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology,
Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Identity-Based Encryption from the Diffie-Hellman Assumption
Sanjam Garg,
University of California, Berkeley,