Past Seminars

Friday January 17, 2020 4:30 PM
CMX Special Seminar Series
Posterior Contraction Rates for Some Possibly Nonlinear Inverse Problems
Speaker: Sergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday January 17, 2020 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Robust encoding of a qubit in a molecule
Speaker: Victor Albert
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday January 13, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Explainable AI: Making Visual Question Answering Systems More Transparent
Speaker: Raymond Mooney, University of Texas at Austin
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday January 13, 2020 3:00 PM
CMX Special Seminar Series
On Type I blow-up for the incompressible Euler equations
Speaker: Dongho Chae, Chung-Ang University, Republic of Korea
Location:
Monday January 13, 2020 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Alumni-Faculty Panel: Grad school vs. Industry
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday January 10, 2020 12:00 PM
CMX Special Seminar Series
Twistronics: manipulating the spectrum of Hamiltonian operators for two-dimensional layered structures through their twist angle
Speaker: Mitchell Luskin, University of Minnesota
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday January 9, 2020 4:00 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Academic Job Talks
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Monday December 16, 2019 4:00 PM
CMX Special Seminar Series
A New Non-convex Optimization Framework For Low-rank Matrix Recovery with Mathematical Guarantee
Speaker: Zhenzhen Li, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday December 13, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Tailoring interactions between a diamond color center and phonons
Speaker: Srujan Meesala
Location: East Bridge 114
Thursday December 12, 2019 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions
Speaker: Jessica A. Wachter, University of Pennsylvania
Location: Baxter B125
Thursday December 12, 2019 3:30 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Figure Design for Presentations
Location: Annenberg 107
Monday December 9, 2019 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
The Universe in a Computer: How mathematical and numerical methods are essential
Speaker: Dr. Christian Klingenberg, Würzburg University, Germany
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday December 9, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Toward End-to-End Quantum Applications
Speaker: Xiaodi Wu, University of Maryland
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday December 6, 2019 4:00 PM
CMX Special Seminar Series
Consensus Based Models and Applications to Global Optimization
Speaker: José Antonio Carrillo, Imperial College London
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday December 6, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Fusion rules from entanglement
Speaker: Kohtaro Kato
Location: East Bridge 114
Wednesday December 4, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
TBA
Speaker: Nihar Shah, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Annenberg 322
Monday December 2, 2019 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Speaker: , Facebook
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 26, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction in Infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces with Tensor Networks
Speaker: Monica Jinwoo Kang, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 107
Monday November 25, 2019 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Google
Speaker: Blair Zajac, Google
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday November 22, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Equitable Voting Rules
Speaker: Omer Tamuz, Caltech
Location: Baxter B125
Friday November 22, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Recovery of massless Dirac fermions at charge neutrality in strongly interacting twisted bilayer graphene with disorder
Speaker: Alex Thomson
Location: East Bridge 114
Wednesday November 20, 2019 6:30 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
CS/EE UG Research at UCSD (SURF's and Grad School)
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday November 20, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
The Karger-Stein Algorithm is Optimal for $k$-cut
Speaker: Jason Li, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Annenberg 322
Tuesday November 19, 2019 4:30 PM
CMX Special Seminar Series
How Many Labels Do You Need For Semi-Supervised Learning?
Speaker: Matthew Thorpe, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday November 19, 2019 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Modeling Repulsion with Determinantal Point Processes
Speaker: Eliza O'Reilly, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 314
Tuesday November 19, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Calculating Nature Naturally
Speaker: Natalie Klco, University of Washington
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday November 19, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
TBA
Speaker: Pietro Perona, CALTECH
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 18, 2019 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Thompson Sampling for learning in online decision making
Speaker: Shipra Agrawal, Columbia University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 18, 2019 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Ethical AI
Speaker: Timnit Gebru, Google
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 18, 2019 10:30 AM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
A Fireside Chat with Dr. Timnit Gebru and Dr. Karina Edmonds (PhD '97)
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday November 15, 2019 1:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Variational Bayes for a Simple Neural Network
Speaker: Tui Nolan, University of Technology Sydney
Location: Moore B270
Friday November 15, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Transparency and Demand Management in Platforms for Networked Markets
Speaker: Adam Wierman, Caltech
Location: Baxter 125
Friday November 15, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum Supremacy: Understanding and Calibrating the Sycamore Processor
Speaker: Kevin Satzinger, Google AI Quantum
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday November 15, 2019 10:00 AM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
High Order Methods for Multiple Scattering in Terms of Farfield Expansions ABC
Speaker: Dr. Vianey Villamizar, Brigham Young University
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday November 14, 2019 4:00 PM
Universal laws and architectures in complex networked systems with applications to sensorimotor control
Speaker: John Doyle, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 121
Thursday November 14, 2019 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Conflicting Priorities: A Theory of Covenants and Collateral
Speaker: Giorgia Piacentino, Columbia University
Location: Baxter B125
Tuesday November 12, 2019 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Poisson hyperplane tessellations in high dimensions and one-bit compression
Speaker: Eliza O'Reilly, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 314
Tuesday November 12, 2019 3:00 PM
KNI Distinguished Seminar Series
Integrated Chi(2) Nonlinear Photonics
Speaker: Hong Tang, Yale University
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Monday November 11, 2019 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Fundamentals of Building a Multiplayer Console Game
Speaker: Paul Robinson, Activision-Blizzard
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday November 8, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
What matters in tie-breaking rules? How competition guides design
Speaker: Afshin Nikzad, USC
Location: Baxter 125
Friday November 8, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum-inspired classical sampling algorithms for machine learning
Speaker: András Gilyen
Location: East Bridge 114
Thursday November 7, 2019 1:00 PM
Celebrating innovation in the science and technology of sustainability
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Thursday November 7, 2019 12:00 PM
Discussion with the 2018 Chang Career Exploration Prize Recipients
Speaker: Sean McKenna BS ’17
Speaker: Kyle Lakatos MS ’14
Speaker: Claire Ralph, Caltech
Location: Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Wednesday November 6, 2019 8:00 PM
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Watson Lecture - Opportunities in Atomic-Scale Legoland: From Novel Electronic Phases to Quantum Devices
Speaker: Stevan Nadj-Perge, Caltech
Location: Beckman Auditorium
Wednesday November 6, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Explicit near-Ramanujan graphs of every degree
Speaker: Ryan O'Donnell, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Annenberg 322
Tuesday November 5, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction and the Information Paradox
Speaker: Geoff Penington, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday November 5, 2019 3:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Nearly Optimal Pseudorandomness From Hardness
Speaker: Dean Doron, Stanford
Location: Annenberg 314
Monday November 4, 2019 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
CMS-EE Resume Workshop w/ Alex Cui and Eric Zhao
Speaker: Alex Cui and Eric Zhao, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday November 1, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
Speaker: John Martinis
Location: Ramo Auditorium
Friday November 1, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
This seminar has been rescheduled for Friday, February 28.
Speaker: Jian Cao, Caltech
Location: Baxter 125