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Monday, November 2nd, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk

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Nuro - Delivering Autonomy
Akshay Vegesna, Nuro.ai,
Alex Moraru, Nuro.ai,
Rohan Choudhury, Nuro.ai,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

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Harnessing Special Properties for Distributed Decision-Making in Network Systems
Na Li, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, Harvard University,
Wednesday, November 4th, 2020
9:00am 10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar

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The Provable Effectiveness of Policy Gradient Methods in Reinforcement Learning and Controls (POSTPONED)
Sham Kakade, Professor, Department of Computer Science , Department of Statistics, University of Washington,
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

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Forecasting Algorithms, Minimax Theorems, and Randomized Lower Bounds
Shalev Ben-David, Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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How to Sell Hard Information
S. Nageeb Ali, Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University,
Thursday, November 5th, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

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Discontinuous Compression Structures: From Tensegrity Planetary Landers to Lightweight Metamaterials
Julián J. Rímoli, Associate Professor, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Friday, November 6th, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
Quantum photonics with color qubits
Chaitali Joshi, AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar, Mirhosseini Group,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar

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Convex relaxations and computational optimization
Riley Murray, Graduate Student, Computing and Mathematical Science, Caltech,
Monday, November 9th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk

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Misinformation and Fake News
Cathy Ma, Facebook,
Andrew Kang, Facebook,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

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Stochastic Gradient Descent: From Practice Back to Theory
Rachel Ward, W. A. "Tex" Moncrief Distinguished Professor in Computational Engineering and Sciences—Data Science Associate Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,
Tuesday, November 10th, 2020
Wednesday, November 11th, 2020
9:00am 10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar

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A new approach to contextual bandits
Sasha Rakhlin, Associate Professor, Center for Statistics, IDSS / Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences / Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

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A Dichotomy for Real Boolean Holant Problems
Shuai Shao, Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Admissible Matchings in the School Choice Problem
Philip Reny, The Hugo F. Sonnenschein Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College, University of Chicago,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture

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Growing the Nearly Impossible: Routes to Stabilize Metastable Phases
Lauren Garten, Jerome and Isabella Karle Distinguished Scholar Fellow, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL),
5:00pm 6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - The Power of Nonlinearities: Unlocking Opportunities for Sensing and Computing with Light

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Alireza Marandi, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech,
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Thursday, November 12th, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

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Enjoyable, Knotty Problems on Shoestrings
Oliver O'Reilly, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley,
Friday, November 13th, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

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Hierarchy of light cones in power-law interacting systems: review of recent bounds and saturating protocols
Chi-Fang (Anthony) Chen, Graduate Student, Brandao Group,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar

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Bounded-confidence models for network extensions
Michelle Feng, Postdoctoral Scholar, Computing and Mathematical Science, Caltech,
Monday, November 16th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk

Online Event
Natural Language Processing
Sagar Indurkhya, Virtualitics,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

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Sparse Integer Solutions of Systems of Linear Equations
Jesus De Loera, Discreet and Computational Mathematics Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis,
Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
9:00am 10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar

Online Event
TBA
Melanie Zeilinger, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Online Event
Persuasion with Correlation Neglect
Inés Moreno de Barreda, Associate Professor and Official Fellow, St. Peter's College, University of Oxford,
Thursday, November 19th, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

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A Search for Magnetic Alloys With Low Hysteresis
Ananya Renuka Balakrishna, Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California,
Friday, November 20th, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Online Event
A synthetic monopole source of Kalb-Ramond field in diamond
Mo Chen, Postdoctoral Scholar, Painter Group,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar

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Multiscale Computation and Parameter Learning for Kernels from PDEs: Two Provable Examples
Yifan Chen, Graduate Student, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech,
Monday, November 23rd, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk

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Argo.ai: Understanding and Predicting Trajectories (for Autonomous Driving)
Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
9:00am 10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar

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Safe Learning in Robotics
Claire Tomlin, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkley,
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Online Event
The Coin Problem with Applications to Data Streams
Sumegha Garg, Postdoc, Harvard University,
Thursday, November 26th, 2020
Monday, November 30th, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk

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How We Replaced Our Entire Tech Stack Without Our Users Knowing
Caelean Barnes, Quaestor,
Evan Doyle, Quaestor,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Online Event
"Online Learning from Human Feedback with Applications to Exoskeleton Gait Optimization"
Ellen Novoseller, Graduate Student, Control & Dynamical Systems, Caltech,