Past Seminars

Monday June 17, 2019 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Minimax Optimal Learning of Populations of Parameters
Speaker: Ramya Korlakai Vinayak, University of Washington in Seattle
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday June 12, 2019 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Wavefront sensing and control for high-contrast imaging in space
Speaker: He Sun, Princeton University
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday June 12, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
NEEXP in MIP*
Speaker: John Wright, MIT
Location: Annenberg 322
Friday June 7, 2019 1:00 PM
Changing Directions & Changing the World: Celebrating the Carver Mead New Adventures Fund
Speaker:
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Friday June 7, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Operator Algebras in Quantum Theory: A Practical Perspective
Speaker: Oleg Kabernik, University of British Columbia
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday June 7, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Optimal Data Acquisition for Statistical Estimation
Speaker: Juba Ziani, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Thursday June 6, 2019 4:30 PM
Thesis Seminar
L-band multi-polarization radar scatterometry over global forests: modelling, analysis, and applications
Speaker: Yu Xian Lim, California Institute of Technology
Location: Moore 139
Tuesday June 4, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Batch Normalization Causes Gradient Explosion in Deep Randomly Initialized Networks
Speaker: Greg Yang, Microsoft
Speaker:
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday June 3, 2019 12:00 PM
William Bennet Munro History Seminar Series
Does Privacy Still Matter? The Complexity of Data Privacy Regulations
Speaker: Rona Yu, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday May 31, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Ab initio electronic T1 spin relaxation times in silicon and diamond & Computing charge transport in materials from first principles
Speaker: Jinsoo Park
Speaker: Jin-Jian Zhou
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday May 31, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Coordinate-wise Median: Not Bad, Not Bad, Pretty Good
Speaker: Wade D. Hann-Caruthers, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Thursday May 30, 2019 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Expectations Uncertainty and Household Economic Behavior
Speaker: Camelia M. Kuhnen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Location: Baxter B125
Thursday May 30, 2019 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Distributed goodness-of-fit: when you can't talk much and have little in common
Speaker: Clement Canonne, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 322
Thursday May 30, 2019 11:00 AM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Bubbles as Leaky Pistons: Particle Separation by Size from Suspensions
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Wednesday May 29, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Lower Bounds for Multiplication via Network Coding
Speaker: Lior Kamma, Aarhus University
Location: Annenberg 322
Tuesday May 28, 2019 3:00 PM
KNI Distinguished Seminar Series
The Revolution of Silicon Photonics
Speaker: Michal Lipson, Columbia University
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Tuesday May 28, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Volumetric Imaging of Nature: from the microscopic to the grand outdoors
Speaker: Aviad Levis, Technion
Speaker:
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday May 24, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Stability and Externalities in Dynamic Matching Markets
Speaker: Laura Doval, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Friday May 24, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum Electrodynamics of Superconducting Circuits
Speaker: Hakan E. Tureci, Princeton University
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday May 24, 2019 10:00 AM
Thesis Seminar
Long Term Implantable Pressure Sensors
Speaker: Aubrey Shapero, California Institute of Technology
Location: Moore 239
Wednesday May 22, 2019 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
How Feedback Improves Coding Performance over Memoryless Channels
Speaker: Aaron Wagner, Cornell University
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday May 21, 2019 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Matching is as Easy as the Decision Problem, in the NC Model
Speaker: Vijay Vazirani, UC Irvine
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday May 21, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Weak simulation and benchmarking of sparse quantum circuits
Speaker: Daniel Stilck França, University of Copenhagen
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday May 21, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Big Data, New Physics
Speaker: Jeff Jonas, Senzing
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday May 17, 2019 2:30 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Event Series
CMS Meeting of the Minds
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday May 17, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Mislearning from Censored Data: The Gambler’s Fallacy in Optimal-Stopping Problems
Speaker: Kevin He, Harvard University
Location: Baxter 125
Friday May 17, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Projected least squares: a numerically cheap quantum tomography procedure with optimal error bounds
Speaker: Richard Kueng
Location: East Bridge 114
Thursday May 16, 2019 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Home Equity Mitigates the Financial and Mortality Consequences of Health Shocks: Evidence from Cancer Diagnoses
Speaker: Arpit Gupta, New York University
Location: Baxter B125
Thursday May 16, 2019 3:00 PM
CMX Special Seminar Series
Interpretable Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) via Feedforward Design
Speaker: C.-C. Jay Kuo, University of Southern California
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday May 15, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Quantum-inspired classical linear algebra algorithms: why and how?
Speaker: Ewin Tang, University of Washington
Location: Annenberg 322
Wednesday May 15, 2019 9:30 AM
Resnick Institute Seminar Series
Join us at the BIA for 7 sustainability science research talks presented by Resnick Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellows! All are invited to attend!
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Tuesday May 14, 2019 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
The Structure of Optimal Private Tests for Simple Hypotheses
Speaker: Adam Smith, Boston University
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday May 14, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Hamiltonian simulation meets holographic duality
Speaker: Toby Cubitt, University College London
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday May 14, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Learning Unbiased Ranking Functions
Speaker: Thorsten Joachims, Cornell University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday May 13, 2019 9:00 AM
Connecting the speed-accuracy trade-offs in sensorimotor control and neurophysiology reveals diversity sweet spots in layered control architectures
Speaker: Yorie Nakahira, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 121
Friday May 10, 2019 3:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
PT-symmetry breaking in microscopic gain-loss systems
Speaker: Peter Rabl, TU Wien
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday May 10, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Intertemporal Consumption With Risk: A Revealed Preference Analysis
Speaker: Songfa Zhong
Location: Baxter 125
Friday May 10, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Entanglement, Decoherence, & Quantum Ising Systems
Speaker: P.C.E. Stamp, University of British Columbia
Location: East Bridge 114
Thursday May 9, 2019 12:00 PM
CMI Faculty Lunch (invitation only): Adam Wierman
Location: Annenberg 121
Wednesday May 8, 2019 2:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Impact of Transmission Network Topology on Electrical Power Systems
Speaker: Linqi (Daniel) Guo, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 243
Tuesday May 7, 2019 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
The Lee-Yang Theorem and the Ising Model
Speaker: Alistair Sinclair, UC Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday May 7, 2019 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
CMX Lunch Seminar: James Saunderson
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday May 3, 2019 3:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Single Photon Detectors, Parity Measurements and Heralded Cat States in the Microwave Domain
Speaker: Andreas Wallraff, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday May 3, 2019 3:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Dielectric Metasurfaces from Fundamentals to Applications
Speaker: Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali, California Institute of Technology
Location: Steele 125
Friday May 3, 2019 3:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
A Scalable Monolithic Computational Framework for Large-scale Simulation of Hydraulic Fracture
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday May 3, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Room temperature photo-induced electron-hole gas-to-liquid transition in 2D materials
Speaker: Alexander Kemper, North Carolina State University
Location: East Bridge 114
Wednesday May 1, 2019 4:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Computational Imaging: a Quest for the Perfect Image
Speaker: Jaebum Chung, California Institute of Technology
Location: Moore 239
Wednesday May 1, 2019 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Can machine learning trump theory in communication system design?
Speaker: Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford University
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday May 1, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Noninteractive Zero Knowledge for NP from Learning With Errors
Speaker: Chris Peikert, University of Michigan
Location: Annenberg 322
Tuesday April 30, 2019 3:00 PM
KNI Distinguished Seminar Series
Engineering Coherent Defects in Diamond
Speaker: Nathalie de Leon, Princeton University
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)