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Monday, May 3rd, 2021
12:00pm 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

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Resnick Sustainability Institute Research Seminar
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture

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Provable Representation Learning: The Importance of Task Diversity and Pretext Tasks
Qi Lei, Princeton,
Wednesday, May 5th, 2021
9:00am 10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar

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Data-Driven Dynamical Systems and Control
Steve Brunton, James B. Morrison Endowed Career Development Professor / Adjunct Associate Professor, Mechanincal Engineering / Applied Mathematics, University of Washington,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Rational Anabolic Persuasion
Ran Spiegler, Professor of Economics, Tel Aviv University & University College London,
3:30pm 5:30pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

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From Bipedal to Quadrupedal Locomotion, Experimental Realization of Lyapunov Approaches
Wenlong Ma, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
Thursday, May 6th, 2021
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

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Additive Manufacturing of Polymers and Polymer Composites
Mehran Tehrani, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar

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More than one sensorial modality to do mainstream science in astronomy?
Dr. Wanda Díaz-Merced, Astronomer,
1:00pm 3:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

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Multi-Resolution Lattice Green's Function Method for High Reynolds Number External Flows
Ke Yu, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
Monday, May 10th, 2021
2:00pm 3:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

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Convex Graph Parameters and Their Applications
Venkat Chandrasekaran, Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences Dept., California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
9:00am 10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar

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Learning-based Planning and Control: Opportunities and Challenges
Jonathan How, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Controls Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

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Classification of the approximability of all finite Max-CSPs in the dynamic streaming setting
Santhoshini Velusamy, Graduate Student, Harvard University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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Monitoring Teams
Marina Halac, Professor of Economics and Director of Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University,
5:00pm 6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - From the Soil to the Clinic: How Infection-Causing Microbes Thrive Without Oxygen

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Dianne K. Newman, Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology and Executive Officer for Molecular Biology, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
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Thursday, May 13th, 2021
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

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Soft materials: from fundamental mechanics to applications
Shengqiang Cai, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego,
Friday, May 14th, 2021
Monday, May 17th, 2021
12:00pm 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar

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Resnick Sustainability Institute Research Seminar
4:30pm 5:30pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

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A Mathematical Perspective of Machine Learning
Weinan E, Professor, Applied Mathematics & Mathematical Physics, Princeton University,
Wednesday, May 19th, 2021
9:00am 10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar

Online Event
TBA
Miroslav Krstic, Sr. Assoc. Vice Chancellor for Research/ Director of CCSD/ Alspach Endowed Chair in DSC/ Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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This seminar has been canceled.
Konstantin Sonin, John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago,
Thursday, May 20th, 2021
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

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Growth, instability, and failure: bringing order into the chaos of natural phenomena
Tal Cohen, Robert N. Noyce Career Development Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, MIT,
Monday, May 24th, 2021
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

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Theoretical, computational, and experimental characterization of nematic elastomers
Victoria (Tori) Lee, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

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Stephen Wright, George B Dantzig, Professor of Computer Sciences, Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

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The Role of Complexity Bounds in Optimization
Stephen Wright, Professor, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
3:30pm 5:30pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

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Reduced Order Model Inspired Robotic Bipedal Walking: A Step-to-Step Dynamics Approximation Based Approach
Xiaobin Xiong, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Caltech,
Wednesday, May 26th, 2021
10:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

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Streamwise homogeneous turbulent boundary layers
Joseph Ruan, Graduate Student, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech,
10:00am 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

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An Overview of Using Mechanism Design for Social Good
Kira Goldner, Postdoc, Columbia University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

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Geometric approaches to infinite domain problems
Albert Chern, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

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The Wisdom of the Crowd and Higher-Order Beliefs
Mallesh Pai, Assistant Professor of Economics, Rice University,
Thursday, May 27th, 2021
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

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Machine Learning approaches for predicting Seismic, Acoustic and Atmospheric Data
Maria Giselle Fernandez, Postdoctoral Associate Fellow, XCP-8, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar

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Transforms and Entropy
Erdal Arikan, Professor, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Turkey,
Friday, May 28th, 2021
11:00am 12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

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Quantum Weak Coin Flipping—where weakness is a virtue
Atul Singh Arora, Postdoctoral Scholar, Vidick Group,
Saturday, May 29th, 2021
Monday, May 31st, 2021