November 2019
Ongoing
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11/5
5:00pm
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Friday, November 1st, 2019
12:00pm
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CANCELED | Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
This seminar has been rescheduled for Friday, February 28.
Jian Cao,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Data Science and Election Integrity,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
John Martinis,
Research Scientist and Professor of Physics Google and UCSB,
Monday, November 4th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
CMS-EE Resume Workshop w/ Alex Cui and Eric Zhao
Alex Cui and Eric Zhao,
Caltech,
Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Dean Doron - *3pm start time*
Nearly Optimal Pseudorandomness From Hardness
Dean Doron,
Postdoctoral Fellow, Computer Science Theory Group,
Stanford,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction and the Information Paradox
Geoff Penington,
Graduate Student,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Explicit near-Ramanujan graphs of every degree
Ryan O'Donnell,
Professor,
Carnegie Mellon University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Opportunities in Atomic-Scale Legoland: From Novel Electronic Phases to Quantum Devices
Stevan Nadj-Perge,
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science; KNI-Wheatley Scholar,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, November 7th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Spectral POD and Resolvent Analysis of Turbulent Flows
Tim Colonius,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Discussion with the 2018 Chang Career Exploration Prize Recipients
Sean McKenna BS ’17,
Kyle Lakatos MS ’14,
Claire Ralph,
Caltech,
Friday, November 8th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum-inspired classical sampling algorithms for machine learning
András Gilyen,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
What matters in tie-breaking rules? How competition guides design
Afshin Nikzad,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
USC,
Monday, November 11th, 2019
9:00am
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Fundamentals of Building a Multiplayer Console Game
Paul Robinson,
Technical Director,
Activision-Blizzard,
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Eliza O'Reilly
Poisson hyperplane tessellations in high dimensions and one-bit compression
Eliza O'Reilly,
CMI Postdoc,
Caltech,
Thursday, November 14th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Elephant Olfaction and a Wombat's Cubic Feces
David Hu,
Associate Professor,
School of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Faculty Lunch (invitation only): John Doyle
Universal laws and architectures in complex networked systems with applications to sensorimotor control
John Doyle,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Conflicting Priorities: A Theory of Covenants and Collateral
Giorgia Piacentino,
Daniel W. Stanton Associate Professor of Business,
Columbia Business School,
Columbia University,
Friday, November 15th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Supremacy: Understanding and Calibrating the Sycamore Processor
Kevin Satzinger,
Google AI Quantum,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Transparency and Demand Management in Platforms for Networked Markets
Adam Wierman,
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences; Executive Officer for Computing and Mathematical Sciences; Director, Information Science and Technology,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Monday, November 18th, 2019
10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Quantum correlations, certifying quantum devices, and the quest for infinite entanglement
Andrea Coladangelo,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Thompson Sampling for learning in online decision making
Shipra Agrawal,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and Data Science Institute,
Columbia University,
Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
TBA
Pietro Perona,
Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Engineering and Applied Science,
CALTECH,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Calculating Nature Naturally
Natalie Klco,
Graduate Student,
Institute for Nuclear Theory,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Eliza O'Reilly
Modeling Repulsion with Determinantal Point Processes
Eliza O'Reilly,
CMI Postdoc,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Special CMX Seminar
How Many Labels Do You Need For Semi-Supervised Learning?
Matthew Thorpe,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Wednesday, November 20th, 2019
9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
The Karger-Stein Algorithm is Optimal for $k$-cut
Jason Li,
Graduate Student,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
CANCELED - Growth, Instability, and Failure: Bringing Order into the Chaos of Natural Phenomena
Tal Cohen,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, November 22nd, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Recovery of massless Dirac fermions at charge neutrality in strongly interacting twisted bilayer graphene with disorder
Alex Thomson,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Equitable Voting Rules
Omer Tamuz,
Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics,
Caltech,
Monday, November 25th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, November 26th, 2019
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction in Infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces with Tensor Networks
Monica Jinwoo Kang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Caltech,
Thursday, November 28th, 2019
8:00am
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11/29
5:00pm
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