Past Seminars

Thursday July 20, 2017 8:45 AM
Innovation Speaker Series
Innovation Speaker Series Talk
Speaker: Solange Ramírez, Caltech
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Thursday July 20, 2017 8:00 AM
Innovation Speaker Series
Innovation Speaker Series Talk
Speaker: Adam Lichtl, Delta Brain Inc.
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Thursday July 13, 2017 8:45 AM
Innovation Speaker Series
Innovation Speaker Series Talk
Speaker: Zoe Stephenson, Applied Invention, LLC
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Thursday July 13, 2017 8:00 AM
Innovation Speaker Series
Innovation Speaker Series Talk
Speaker: Athena Ahmadi, Google
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Thursday July 6, 2017 8:45 AM
Innovation Speaker Series
Innovation Speaker Series Talk
Speaker: Sean Carroll, Caltech
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Thursday July 6, 2017 8:00 AM
Innovation Speaker Series
Innovation Speaker Series Talk
Speaker: Andrew Pryor-Miller, Snapchat, Inc.
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Thursday June 29, 2017 8:45 AM
Innovation Speaker Series
Innovation Speaker Series Talk
Speaker: D.A. Wallach
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Thursday June 29, 2017 8:00 AM
Innovation Speaker Series
Innovation Speaker Series Talk
Speaker: Cullen Dudas, Indais
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Friday June 23, 2017 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Superconductivity from electronic squeezing of optically pumped phonons
Speaker: Dante Kennes, Columbia University
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday June 2, 2017 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Probing A Gravitational Cat State: Theoretical Problems And Experimental Prospects
Speaker: Maaneli Derakhshani, Utrecht University
Location: East Bridge 114
Thursday June 1, 2017 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Coulomb blockade in one-dimensional fractional topological superconductors
Speaker: Roman Lutchyn, Microsoft Research, Santa Barbara
Location: East Bridge 114
Wednesday May 31, 2017 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Statistical Challenges in the Analyses of Genome-wide Genetic Data
Speaker: Sriram Sankararaman, UCLA
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday May 30, 2017 9:30 AM
AWS Cloud for Research Computing: Machine Learning, Data Analytics, and HPC
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Friday May 26, 2017 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
The Possibilities and Limitations of Private Prediction Markets
Speaker: Rachel Cummings, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Thursday May 25, 2017 3:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Methods Advancing a Machine's Visual Awareness of People in Video
Speaker: David Hall, California Institute of Technology
Location: Broad 100
Wednesday May 24, 2017 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
DNA Sequencing: From Information Limits to Assembly Software
Speaker: Thomas Courtade, UC Berkeley
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday May 24, 2017 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
This talk has been cancelled.
Speaker: Will Goetzmann, Yale University
Location: Baxter B125
Wednesday May 24, 2017 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Meeting
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday May 23, 2017 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
earning with specifications
Speaker: Ufuk Topcu, University of Texas at Austin
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday May 22, 2017 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
A Dynamical View of Optimization Algorithms
Speaker: Ashia Wilson, University of California at Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday May 19, 2017 3:30 PM
SpaceX's Road to Mars
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Friday May 19, 2017 1:30 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Event Series
CMS Meeting of the Minds
Location: Annenberg Center
Thursday May 18, 2017 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Convex Geometry for Structured Signal Recovery: Super-Resolution and Total Variation Minimization
Speaker: Weiyu Xu, University of Iowa
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday May 17, 2017 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Nonconvex Optimization for High Dimensional Learning: From Phase Retrieval to Submodular Maximization
Speaker: Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, University of Southern California
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday May 17, 2017 3:00 PM
Special Seminars in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Trade-offs in Convex Optimization
Speaker: Volkan Cevher, EPFL
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday May 17, 2017 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Meeting
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday May 16, 2017 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Computational Literature How can a computer generate literary text?
Speaker: Eran Hadas, CALTECH
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday May 15, 2017 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Getting the best reward: neuronal mechanisms for utility maximisation
Speaker: Wolfram Schultz, Univerity of Cambridge, UK
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Friday May 12, 2017 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigator Lecture Series
Caltech’s Young Investigator Lecture Series
Speaker: Vala Fathipour , University of California at Berkeley
Location: Moore B280
Friday May 12, 2017 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Efficiently characterizing games consistent with perturbed equilibrium observations
Speaker: Juba Ziani, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Wednesday May 10, 2017 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Structured Sampling for Covariance Compression
Speaker: Piya Pal, University of California, San Diego
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday May 9, 2017 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Cyber Weapons of Mass Destruction for Every Budget
Speaker: Dan O'Dowd
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday May 8, 2017 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Excitable and Other Dynamic Behaviors in Migrating Cells
Speaker: Professor Pablo Iglesias, Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday May 3, 2017 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Coding Theory for Modern Computing and Memories
Speaker: Lara Dolecek, UCLA
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday May 2, 2017 4:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Norms in Bargaining: Evidence from Government Formation in Spain
Speaker: Thomas Fujiwara, Princeton University
Location: Baxter B125
Tuesday May 2, 2017 12:00 PM
Oringer Seminar Series
Fairness, accountability and transparency in automated decision-making
Speaker: Suresh Venkatasubramanian, University of Utah
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday May 1, 2017 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Tensor Decompositions: A Mathematical Tool for Data Analysis
Speaker: Tamara G. Kolda, Sandia National Laboratories
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday May 1, 2017 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Representation power of neural networks.
Speaker: Matus Telgarsky, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday April 28, 2017 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
On-chip quantum memories for telecom photons using ensembles of erbium ions
Speaker: Ioana Craiciu
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday April 28, 2017 12:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar
Real-time Biosensors for Continuous Measurements of Specific Biomolecules in Live Animals
Speaker: H. Tom Soh, Stanford University
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday April 26, 2017 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Renegotiation of Dynamically Incomplete Contracts
Speaker: John Zhu, University of Pennsylvania
Location: Baxter B125
Wednesday April 26, 2017 12:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Measurement-dependent Noisy Search: An Information Acquisition Approach
Speaker: Tara Javidi, University of California, San Diego
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday April 25, 2017 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Impact of Deep Neural Networks and One of Its Mobile Applications
Speaker: Charles Fan
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday April 24, 2017 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Using Artificial-Intelligence-Driven Deep Neural Networks to Uncover Principles of Brain Representation and Organization
Speaker: Daniel L.K. Yamins, Stanford University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Friday April 21, 2017 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigator Lecture Series
Caltech’s Young Investigator Lecture Series
Speaker: Negar Reiskarimian, Columbia University.
Location: Moore B280
Friday April 21, 2017 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Fault-tolerance in topological stabilizer codes and universal workarounds
Speaker: Tomas Jochym O'Connor
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday April 21, 2017 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Wind Farm Modeling and Control for Power Grid Support
Speaker: Dennice Gayme, Johns Hopkins University
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday April 21, 2017 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Scale Effects in Dynamic Contracting
Speaker: Guillaume Roger, University of Sydney
Location: Baxter 127
Friday April 21, 2017 9:00 AM
Earth Week Coffee Forum - Academia, Career & Disseminating Science in Africa w/ Moureen Kemei PhD
Location: Jorgensen 109
Thursday April 20, 2017 6:00 PM
Science March Sign-Making Party!
Location: Avery Courtyard