May 2019
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
8:00am
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5/7
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TCS+ Talk
Noninteractive Zero Knowledge for NP from Learning With Errors
Chris Peikert,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2019
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Programmable Structures: Shape and Property Reconfiguration
Andres Arrieta Diaz,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Purdue University,
Friday, May 3rd, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Room temperature photo-induced electron-hole gas-to-liquid transition in 2D materials
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
A Scalable Monolithic Computational Framework for Large-scale Simulation of Hydraulic Fracture
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Single Photon Detectors, Parity Measurements and Heralded Cat States in the Microwave Domain
Andreas Wallraff,
Professor for Solid State Physics,
Department of Physics,
ETH Zurich, Switzerland,
Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Alistair Sinclair
The Lee-Yang Theorem and the Ising Model
Alistair Sinclair,
UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Impact of Transmission Network Topology on Electrical Power Systems
Linqi (Daniel) Guo,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, May 9th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Extracellular Matrix Viscoelasticity and its Impact on Cells
Ovijit Chaudhuri,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Online Platforms in Networked Markets: Transparency, Anticipation and Demand Management
John Pang,
Graduate Student,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Friday, May 10th, 2019
8:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Entanglement, Decoherence, & Quantum Ising Systems
P.C.E. Stamp,
Professor,
University of British Columbia,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Intertemporal Consumption With Risk: A Revealed Preference Analysis
Songfa Zhong,
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore; 2018-2019 NUS Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University,
3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
PT-symmetry breaking in microscopic gain-loss systems
Monday, May 13th, 2019
9:00am
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Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Connecting the speed-accuracy trade-offs in sensorimotor control and neurophysiology reveals diversity sweet spots in layered control architectures
Yorie Nakahira,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 14th, 2019
12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Learning Unbiased Ranking Functions
Thorsten Joachims,
Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science, and Amazon Scholar,
Cornell University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Hamiltonian simulation meets holographic duality
Toby Cubitt,
University College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Adam Smith
The Structure of Optimal Private Tests for Simple Hypotheses
Adam Smith,
Professor,
Computer Science and Engineering,
Boston University,
Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Quantum-inspired classical linear algebra algorithms: why and how?
Ewin Tang,
University of Washington,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thursday, May 16th, 2019
3:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar
Interpretable Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) via Feedforward Design
C.-C. Jay Kuo,
Director of the Media Communications Laboratory and Distinguished Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Home Equity Mitigates the Financial and Mortality Consequences of Health Shocks: Evidence from Cancer Diagnoses
Arpit Gupta,
Assistant Professor,
Stern School of Business,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Resolved Simulations of Particulate Flows
Andrea Prosperetti,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Houston,
Friday, May 17th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Projected least squares: a numerically cheap quantum tomography procedure with optimal error bounds
Richard Kueng,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill and Tropp groups,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Mislearning from Censored Data: The Gambler's Fallacy in Optimal-Stopping Problems
Kevin He,
PhD Candidate in Economics,
Harvard University,
2:30pm
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2019
12:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Weak simulation and benchmarking of sparse quantum circuits
Daniel Stilck França,
University of Copenhagen,
4:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Vijay Vazirani
Matching is as Easy as the Decision Problem, in the NC Model
Vijay Vazirani,
UC Irvine,
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019
8:00am
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Thursday, May 23rd, 2019
8:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Simulation-Based Optimization Methods for High-Dimensional Urban Transportation Problems
Carolina Osorio,
Associate Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and in the Operations Research Center,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, May 24th, 2019
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Electrodynamics of Superconducting Circuits
Hakan E. Tureci,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Stability and Externalities in Dynamic Matching Markets
Laura Doval,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Monday, May 27th, 2019
8:00am
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Tuesday, May 28th, 2019
12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Volumetric Imaging of Nature: from the microscopic to the grand outdoors
Aviad Levis,
Doctoral Student in the Technion’s Electrical Engineering Department,
Technion,
Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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8:00pm
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Thursday, May 30th, 2019
11:00am
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Bubbles as Leaky Pistons: Particle Separation by Size from Suspensions
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Distributed goodness-of-fit: when you can't talk much and have little in common
Clement Canonne,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computer Science,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Expectations Uncertainty and Household Economic Behavior
Camelia M. Kuhnen,
Professor of Finance,
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Friday, May 31st, 2019
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Ab initio electronic T1 spin relaxation times in silicon and diamond & Computing charge transport in materials from first principles
Jinsoo Park,
Graduate Student, Bernardi group,
Applied Physics and Materials Science,
Jin-Jian Zhou,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Bernardi group,
Applied Physics and Materials Science,
12:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Coordinate-wise Median: Not Bad, Not Bad, Pretty Good
Wade D. Hann-Caruthers,
Graduate Student,
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,