April 2021
Thursday, April 1st, 2021
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Phase-field modeling and simulation in biomechanics: cell migration and other applications
Dr. Adrian Moure,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, April 2nd, 2021
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Verifying quantum computations using interactive proofs
Urmila Mahadev,
Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Monday, April 5th, 2021
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
A Networked Systems Approach to Engineering Synthetic Biological Patterning in Theory and Practice
Melinda Perkins,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
European Molecular Biology Laboratory,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Wednesday, April 7th, 2021
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
A Network Solution to Robust Implementation: the case of Identical but Unknown Distributions
Antonio Penta,
ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Affiliated Professor, Barcelona GSE,
Thursday, April 8th, 2021
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Strength of materials under high dynamic pressures
Dr. Suraj Ravindran,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, (GALCIT),
Caltech,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Decentralized Multi-Robot Active Search and Rescue
Ramina Ghods,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University,
Friday, April 9th, 2021
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Universal Lindblad Equation for Open Quantum Systems
Frederik Nathan,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Refael Group,
Monday, April 12th, 2021
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Analysis and Interventions in Large Network Games
Asu Ozdaglar,
MathWorks Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
9:00am
–
10:00am
Add to Cal
Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Real-time Distributed Decision Making in Networked Systems
Na Li,
Gordon McKay Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS),
Harvard University,
10:00am
–
11:00am
Add to Cal
TCS+ Talk
Online Event
New Techniques for Proving Fine-Grained Average-Case Hardness
Andrea Lincoln,
Postdoc,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
From Nash to Dominant: The Natural Index of Strategic Stability
Adam Tauman Kalai,
Senior Principal Researcher,
Microsoft Research,
Ehud Kalai,
James J. O'Connor Distinguished Professor of Decision and Game Sciences,
Northwestern University,
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Misbehavin': anomalous atoms in solids and the extremes of thermal transport
Prof. Austin J. Minnich,
Professor,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
1:00pm
–
2:00pm
Add to Cal
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Multi-functional metamaterials
Sai Sharan Injeti,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, April 16th, 2021
8:00am
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Building a quantum computer with cat codes
Fernando Brandão,
Bren Professor of Theoretical Physics, Head of Quantum Algorithms AWS,
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Shock Generated Vortex Rings Drive Entrainment and Cooling in Flow Induced by a Spark Discharge
Bhavini Singh,
Ph.D. candidate,
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University,
Monday, April 19th, 2021
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Improving Policy Learning via Programmatic Domain Knowledge
Yisong Yue,
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Dept.,
California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, April 21st, 2021
9:00am
–
10:00am
Add to Cal
Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
TBA
Necmiye Ozay,
Associate Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Stochastic Price Adaptation, Waiting Lists, and Stochastic Gradient Descent
Itai Ashlagi,
Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
5:00pm
–
6:00pm
Add to Cal
Watson Lecture - Sunlight to Everything: Catalyzing a Sustainable Future
Online Event
Jonas Peters,
Bren Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Resnick Sustainability Institute,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, April 22nd, 2021
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
The Viscoelastic Behavior of a Main-Chain Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
Thao (Vicky) Nguyen,
Professor; Marlin U. Zimmerman, Jr. Faculty Scholar,
Mechanical Engineering,
Johns Hopkins,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Online Event
Learnable Information in Deep Neural Networks
Stefano Soatto,
UCLA / AWS,
Friday, April 23rd, 2021
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Prethermalization and dynamics in topological SYK pumps
Iliya Esin,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Refael Group,
Monday, April 26th, 2021
9:00am
–
11:00am
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Reinforcement Learning for Complex Environments: Tree Search, Function Approximators and Markov Games
Qiaomin Xie,
Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell,
School of Operations Research and Information Engineering,
Cornell University,
Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
8:00am
–
Ongoing
Add to Cal
9:00am
–
10:00am
Add to Cal
10:00am
–
11:00am
Add to Cal
TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Localization, stochastic localization, and Chen's recent breakthrough on the Kannan-Lovasz-Simonivits conjecture
Ronen Eldan,
Professor,
Weizmann Institute,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Safety-Critical Control of Dynamic Robots
Aaron D. Ames,
Bren Professor,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering and Control and Dynamical Systems,
Caltech,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Unpaired Kidney Exchange: Overcoming Double Coincidence of Wants without Money (with Julien Combe, Yinghua He, Victor Hiller, Robert Shimerk and Olivier Tercieux)
Mohammad Akbarpour,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Graduate School of Business,
Stanford University,
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Instabilities and flow-induced defects in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals
Irmgard Bischofberger,
Esther & Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor; Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
MIT,
Friday, April 30th, 2021
8:00am
–
9:00am
Add to Cal
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Understanding imperfections and instabilities in crystals via physics-based and data-driven models
Ying Shi Teh,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,