October 2018
Monday, October 1st, 2018
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018
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CMI Seminar
Algebraic Complexity Theory: Lower bounds and Derandomization (1st of 2 parts)
Ben Lee Volk,
CMI Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thursday, October 4th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Mechanics and Chemistry in Designing Polymers
Meredith Silberstein,
Assistant Professor,
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Green Hills Software -- Designing a Secure Smartphone: Beyond Crypto
Tim Menninger,
Green Hills Software,
Monday, October 8th, 2018
12:00pm
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KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
From Acoustics to the Lindelof Hypothesis
Thanasis Fokas,
Professor of Nonlinear Mathematical Science,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge,
Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
New Frontiers in Imitation Learning
Yisong Yue,
Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Engineering and Applied Science,
CALTECH,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Algebraic Complexity Theory: Lower bounds and Derandomization (2nd of 2 parts)
Ben Lee Volk,
CMI Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMS,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 11th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Starting Robotic Industry on the Moon and Mars
Philip Metzger,
Florida Space Institute,
University of Central Florida ,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Facebook -- The Development History of Facebook's Safety Check
Andrew Huang,
Facebook,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Learning Fast or Slow
Terrance Odean,
Rudd Family Foundation Professor of Finance,
Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
5:30pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, October 12th, 2018
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Channeling Quantum Interactions: experiments in waveguide QED with superconducting quantum circuits
Oskar Painter,
John G Braun Professor of Applied Physics and Physics; Fletcher Jones Foundation Co-Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute,
Monday, October 15th, 2018
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2018
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2018
10:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Finding forbidden minors through random walks: (almost) n^{1/2} query one-sided testers for minor closed properties
C. Seshadri,
UC Santa Cruz,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch
Data-driven approaches for spectral analysis of ergodic dynamical systems
Dimitris Giannakis,
Assistant Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Arbitrarily Varying Broadcast and Relay Channels
Uzi Pereg,
Ph.D. student,
Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion,
Israel Institute of Technology,
Thursday, October 18th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Extreme Events in Complex Dynamical Systems: Prediction and Statistical Quantification
Themistoklis Sapsis,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Active Learning with Robust Predictors for Covariate Shift
Angie Liu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computing & Mathematical Science,
Caltech,
Friday, October 19th, 2018
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Avoiding Ergodicity: Static and Dynamical Localization in Clean Interacting Systems
Yuval Baum,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Refael Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, October 22nd, 2018
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Nonlocal spin-exchange interactions in a near-concentric cavity
Emily Davis,
Graduate Student,
Schleier-Smith Group,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Polynomial Optimization and Dynamical Systems
Amir Ali Ahmadi,
Assistant Professor,
Operations Research and Financial Engineering ,
Princeton University ,
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018
4:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Complexity, Noise, and Emergent Properties of Learning Deep Representations
Alessandro Achille,
UCLA,
Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch
Operator-adapted wavelets for finite-element differential forms
Max Budninskiy,
Graduate Student, Applied and Computational Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, October 25th, 2018
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Some Recent Developments in Simulation of Stochastic Processes and Fields
George Deodatis,
Professor,
Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics,
Columbia University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Google -- Two Short Talks! 1: Understanding the Web: Topic Modeling, Hierarchical Content Labeling, and Sensitive Content Detection // 2: Programming Google's Quantum Computers
Jen Iofinova,
Google,
Dave Bacon,
Google,
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Capital Market Anomalies and Quantitative Research
Justin Birru,
Associate Professor,
Fisher School of Business,
Ohio State University,
Friday, October 26th, 2018
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Nanoengineered Materials and Interfaces for Quantum Technologies
Pankaj Jha,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Atwater Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar
Universal growth in production economies
Simina Brânzei,
Assistant Professor of Computer Science,
Purdue University,
Monday, October 29th, 2018
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KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Randomized algorithms for accelerating matrix computations
Gunnar Martinsson,
Professor of Mathematics,
University of Oxford, Visiting Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder,
Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
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CMI Seminar
Combining and Comparing Experiments
Omer Tamuz,
Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 31st, 2018
8:00am
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Ongoing
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TCS+ Talk
Approximating Edit Distance Within Constant Factor in Truly Sub-Quadratic Time
Michal Koucky,
Charles University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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