October 2019
Tuesday, October 1st, 2019
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Automatic Tensor Network Contraction
Johnnie Gray,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Imperial College London,
4:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Jingcheng Liu
Approximate counting, phase transitions & geometry of polynomials
Jingcheng Liu,
Postdoc, Center for the Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 3rd, 2019
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Autonomous Decision Making under Uncertainty in Engineering Systems: Finding Optimal Dynamic Paths in Immense Spaces
Kostas Papakonstantinou,
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Penn State,
Monday, October 7th, 2019
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Tuesday, October 8th, 2019
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IST Lunch Bunch
How deep learning is transforming earthquake seismology
Zach Ross,
Assistant Professor,
Geophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Jingcheng Liu
Uniform Sampling Through the Lovász Local Lemma
Jingcheng Liu,
Postdoc, Center for the Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
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Thursday, October 10th, 2019
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
From Patterned Sheets to Functional Morphing Structures
Paolo Celli,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Policy Announcement Design
Semyon Malamud,
Associate Professor of Finance,
Swiss Finance Institute,
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
Friday, October 11th, 2019
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Dynamic Information Design with Diminishing Sensitivity Over News
Kevin He,
Linde Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics,
Caltech,
Monday, October 14th, 2019
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Tuesday, October 15th, 2019
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IST Lunch Bunch
Measuring Economic Development from Space
Stefano Ermon,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Grigory Yaroslavtsev
Advances in Linear Sketching over Finite Fields
Grigory Yaroslavtsev,
Assistant professor of Computer Science,
Indiana University, Bloomington,
Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
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Watson Lecture - Causality: From Aristotle to Zebrafish
Frederick Eberhardt,
Professor of Philosophy,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
The Timing of Soil Liquefaction and Its Potential for Improving Liquefaction Hazard Evaluation
Steve Kramer,
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Department of Civil Engineering,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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DOLCIT Seminar
Machine Learning for the Real World: Provably Robust Extrapolation
Angie Liu,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Friday, October 18th, 2019
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Defect-Level Switching: A New Mechanism for Electronic Devices
Rafael Jaramillo,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
MIT,
12:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Edgeworth Conjecture with Small Coalitions and Approximate Equilibria in Large Economies
Federico Echenique,
Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
Monday, October 21st, 2019
12:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
AI in Space – From Earth Orbit to Mars and Beyond! (JPl)
Steve Chien,
Senior Research Scientist,
Mission Planning and Execution Section,
JPL,
Jagriti Agrawal,
Member of Technical Staff,
Artificial Intelligence Group,
JPL,
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems meet in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces.
Boumediene Hamzi,
Marie Curie Fellow,
Department of Mathematics,
Imperial College in London,
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019
10:00am
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Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Structured Policy Learning: Towards Real-world Sequential Decision Making
Hoang Le,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
10:00am
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IST Lunch Bunch
Scalable Autonomous Driving in the Urban Core
Peter Carr,
Senior Staff Engineer at Argo AI and is responsible for overseeing the tracking and prediction aspects of autonomous vehicles,
Argo AI,
4:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Guannan Qu
Distributed optimization in multi-agent systems: bridging the gap between centralized and distributed algorithms
Guannan Qu,
CMI Postdoc,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019
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Thursday, October 24th, 2019
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Accelerating Scale Bridging via Surrogate Modeling
Jaroslaw (Jarek) Knap,
Dr.,
U.S. Army Research Laboratory,
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Heterogeneity and Asset Prices: A Different Approach
Stavros Panageas,
Associate Professor of Finance,
Anderson School of Management,
UCLA,
Friday, October 25th, 2019
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Networks of Optical Parametric Oscillators: From Ising Machines to Quantum Photonic Engineering
Alireza Marandi,
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Common-Value versus Common-Probability Auctions
Kathleen Ngangoue,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics and Center for Experimental Social Science,
New York University,
Saturday, October 26th, 2019
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Monday, October 28th, 2019
12:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Algorithmic Trading Bots at Citadel
Eugene Bulkin BS '17,
Quantitative Developer,
Citadel,
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium - Seminar has been Canceled
Data-driven Decision Making and Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks
Urbashi Mitra,
Gordon S. Marshall Professor in Engineering,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Southern California,
Tuesday, October 29th, 2019
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CMI Seminar: Guannan Qu
Exponential stability of primal-dual gradient dynamics and its applications in network control
Guannan Qu,
CMI Postdoc,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 30th, 2019
8:00am
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DOLCIT Seminar
Mitigating Bias in Generative Modeling
Aditya Grover,
PhD candidate in Computer Science,
Stanford University,
Thursday, October 31st, 2019
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
The Simulation and Modeling of Turbulent Flows
Krishnan Mahesh,
Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics,
University of Minnesota,
12:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Market-based Coordination of Multi-energy Systems
Lesia Mitridati,
Postdoc,
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering,
Georgia Tech,