May 2018
Tuesday, May 1st, 2018
12:00pm
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MCE Seminar
Nonlinear Elasticity
Basile Audoly,
Moore Distinguished Scholar,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
CNRS and Ecole polytechnique (Palaiseau, France).,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Undecidability of the Spectral Gap in 1D
Johannes Bausch,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
8:00am
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5/8
5:00pm
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2018
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Answering a Qualifying Exam Question"
Yannis Dafalias,
Distinguished Professor, CEE Department, University of California, Davis,
Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Mechanics, National Technical University, Athens,
12:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Reducibility and Computational Lower Bounds for Problems with Planted Sparse Structure
Guy Bresler,
Bonnie and Marty Tenenbaum Career Development Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Jarrad Harford, University of Washington
International Trade and the Propagation of Merger Waves
Jarrad Harford,
Professor of Finance, Chair of the Department of Finance and Business Economics, Paul Pigott-PACCAR Professor in Business Administration,
Foster School of Business,
University of Washington,
Friday, May 4th, 2018
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum information in quantum cognition
Nicole Yunger Halpern,
Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Indoor Geolocation Science and Technology - At the Emergence of Smart World and IoT
Kaveh Pahlavan,
Professor and Director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies,
Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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MCE Seminar
Nonlinear Elasticity
Basile Audoly,
Moore Distinguished Scholar,
Mechanical & Civil Engineering ,
CNRS and Ecole polytechnique (Palaiseau, France),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Optimal control, lattice gauge theories, and quantum annealing
Simone Montangero,
University of Ulm ,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Node Deployment in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks: A Source Coding Perspective
Hamid Jafarkhani,
Chancellor's Professor ,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,,
University of California, Irvine,
Wednesday, May 9th, 2018
12:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Observations of Failure Phenomena in Periodic Media
Louisa Avellar,
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technolofy,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Additivity of Information in Multilayer Networks
Galen Reeves,
Assistant Professor ,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Duke University,
Thursday, May 10th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Avian Inspired Design"
David Lentink,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
A linearly convergent primal-dual gradient algorithm for optimal distributed feedback voltage control
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Modeling of Nucleation and Dynamic Rupture on Heterogeneous Frictional Interfaces with Applications to Foreshocks
Natalie Schaal,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, May 11th, 2018
8:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Bacon-Shor code with continuous measurement of non-commuting observables
Juan Atalaya,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Korotkov Group,
UC Riverside,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Shai Vardi, Caltech
Stepwise Presidential Election Reform
Shai Vardi,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 12th, 2018
9:30am
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5:00pm
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Monday, May 14th, 2018
9:00am
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9:00am
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Towards Understanding and Generating Language for Effective Social Interaction
Chenhao Tan,
Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Information Science (by courtsey) at University of Colorado Boulder,
Computer Science,
University of Colorado Boulder,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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MCE Seminar
Nonlinear Elasticity
Basile Audoly,
Moore Distinguished Scholar,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
CNRS and Ecole polytechnique (Palaiseau, France),
Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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EE Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Charles Elachi
The Golden Age of Space Exploration
Charles Elachi,
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Planetary Science, Emeritus,
Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2001- 2016,
CALTECH,
Thursday, May 17th, 2018
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Arthur Korteweg, USC
Venture Capital Contracts
Arthur Korteweg,
Dean's Associate Professor in Business Administration & Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics,
Marshall School of Business,
University of Southern California,
Friday, May 18th, 2018
10:00am
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11:30am
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Ph.D. Defense
Design, analysis, and computational methods for engineering synthetic biological networks
Ania Baetica,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
A time-domain multiplexed measurement-based large-scale optical quantum computer
Akira Furusawa,
Professor,
Department of Applied Physics,
The University of Tokyo,
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, May 21st, 2018
12:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Green Hills Software -- Compiler Optimizations for the Fastest Code
Greg Davis,
Director of Engineering, Compilers,
Green Hills Software,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Solving the Right Problems with AI
CMS Special Seminar
Crystal Rutland,
CEO and Founder, Particle Design,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Redemption of the High Frequencies
Associate Professor Laurent Demanet,
Department of Mathematics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
1:00pm
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Gradient Descent with Identity Initialization Efficiently Learns Positive Definite Linear Transformations by Deep Residual Networks
CMS Special Seminar
Phil Long,
Research Scientist,
Google,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Classical simulation of quantum circuits by dynamical localization
Adrian Chapman,
University of New Mexico,
4:00pm
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018
8:00am
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Young Investigators Lecture
Low-Complexity Modeling for Visual Data: Representations and Algorithms
Yuqian Zhang,
8:00pm
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Thursday, May 24th, 2018
8:00am
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Ongoing
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Has Performance Based Engineering Broken the Power Law?"
Thomas H. Heaton,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical & Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Generalized Benders Cuts for Infinite-Horizon Control Problems
Joe Warrington,
Senior Scientist,
Automatic Control Laboratory,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
Friday, May 25th, 2018
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Improving Seismic Collapse Risk Assessments of Steel Moment Frame Buildings
Kenny Buyco,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Addressing Challenges in Autonomy: Lessons from Information and Control Theories
REZA AHMADI,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences ,
UT Austin,
Monday, May 28th, 2018
8:00am
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2018
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness
Michael Kearns,
University of Pennsylvania,
Thursday, May 31st, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Design and Fabrication of Compliant Structures, Mechanisms, and Materials"
Jonathan B. Hopkins,
Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,