Past Seminars

Wednesday December 12, 2018 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Almost Polynomial Hardness of Node-Disjoint Paths in Grids
Speaker: Julia Chuzhoy, TTIC
Location: Annenberg 322
Friday December 7, 2018 5:00 PM
William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
The Anatomy of Artificial Intelligence
Speaker: Kate Crawford
Location: Baxter Lecture Hall
Friday December 7, 2018 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
A Theory of Recursive Aggregation with Applications
Speaker: Hamed Hamze Bajgiran, Caltech
Location: Baxter 125
Friday December 7, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Exact Eigenstates in the Rydberg-blockaded Atom Chain Which Violate the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis
Speaker: Cheng Ju (Jacob) Lin
Location: East Bridge 114
Thursday December 6, 2018 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Randomized Algorithms for Convex and Non-Convex Optimization
Speaker: Mert Pilanci, Stanford University
Location: Moore B280
Thursday December 6, 2018 12:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Cooling by Measurement
Speaker: Joerg Wrachtrup, University of Stuttgart
Location: Keck 142
Thursday December 6, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
EFF -- How EFF Uses CS to Fight Censorship and Defend Online Privacy
Speaker: Jeremy Gillula, EFF
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday December 6, 2018 9:30 AM
Resnick Sustainability Institute Fellows Seminar Day
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Wednesday December 5, 2018 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Estimation after Parameter Selection
Speaker: Tirza Routtenberg, Ben-Gurion University of Negev
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday December 4, 2018 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar Series
Reasoning in Bayesian Opinion Exchange Networks is Computationally Hard
Speaker: Jan Hazla, MIT
Location: Annenberg 314
Tuesday December 4, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Universal fault-tolerant measurement-based quantum computation
Speaker: Sam Roberts, University of Sydney
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday December 4, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Engineering topological superconductivity in III-V Josephson junctions
Speaker: Fokko de Vries , TU Delft
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday December 3, 2018 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Demystifying the Nature Research Journal Editorial Processes
Speaker: David Pile, Nature Photonics
Location: Moore B270
Friday November 30, 2018 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Learnability and Stochastic Choice
Speaker: Pathikrit Basu, Caltech
Location: Baxter 125
Friday November 30, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Student Session - Joe Iverson, Gautam Venugopalan
Speaker: Student Session
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday November 30, 2018 11:00 AM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Hybrid Analog-Digital FIR Precoding and Equalization MIMO System
Speaker: Wai Ming Chan, City University of Hong Kong
Location: Moore B280
Friday November 30, 2018 11:00 AM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Weakly convex optimization for signal processing problems
Speaker: Qi Liu, City University of Hong Kong
Location: Moore B280
Thursday November 29, 2018 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Selling Fast and Buying Slow: Heuristics and Trading Performance of Institutional Investors
Speaker: Alex Imas, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Baxter B125
Thursday November 29, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Western Asset -- Blockchain: Opportunities and Challenges for Building and Deploying Enterprise Platforms
Speaker: Jae Sang, Western Asset
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday November 28, 2018 8:00 PM
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Lihong Wang - World's Deepest-Penetration and Fastest Optical Cameras
Location: Beckman Auditorium
Wednesday November 28, 2018 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
The Adaptive Complexity of Maximizing a Submodular Function
Speaker: Eric Balkanski, Harvard University
Location: Annenberg 322
Tuesday November 27, 2018 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar Series
Approximate Gaussian Elimination for Laplacians
Speaker: Rasmus Kyng
Location: Annenberg 314
Tuesday November 27, 2018 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Active Sensing for Quickest Event Detection in Networks
Speaker: Ali Tajer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday November 27, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Second law and eigenstate thermalization in isolated quantum many-body systems
Speaker: Takahiro Sagawa, University of Tokyo
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday November 27, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Building AI powered flying machines with high fidelity simulations
Speaker: Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 26, 2018 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Variational Quantum Simulations of Lattice Models in the Innsbruck Quantum Cloud
Speaker: Peter Zoller, Univ of Innsbruck & IQOQI Austrian Academy of Sciences
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday November 20, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Statistical mechanical models for quantum codes with correlated noise
Speaker: Christopher Chubb, University of Sydney
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday November 16, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
A Simple Lattice Model of a Dielectric-Mediated Superconductor
Speaker: Kevin Slagle
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday November 16, 2018 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Random versus Directed Search with Constrained Capacity
Speaker: Tewodros (Teddy) Mekonnen, Caltech
Location: Baxter 125
Thursday November 15, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Electronic Arts (EA) -- Powering Games with Data & AI
Speaker: Ahmad Beirami, Electronic Arts (EA)
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday November 14, 2018 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Classical Homomorphic Encryption for Quantum Circuits
Speaker: Urmila Mahadev, UC Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 322
Tuesday November 13, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Classical and quantum simulation of quantum Gibbs state
Speaker: Tomotaka Kuwahara, RIKEN
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday November 13, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Wearable Sweat Sensors for Personalized Health Monitoring
Speaker: Wei Gao, CALTECH
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 12, 2018 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
CNS Seminar
Speaker: Surya Ganguli, Stanford University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday November 12, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
How to Use Heuristics for Differential Privacy
Speaker: Aaron Roth, University of Pennsylvania
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday November 9, 2018 4:00 PM
Sloan-Swartz Seminar in Theoretical Neurobiology
"The Relationship Between Implicit and Explicit Visuomotor Task Learning in Hippocampus and Parietal Cortex"
Speaker: Christian Klaes, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Friday November 9, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
A photonic link for donor spin qubits in silicon
Speaker: Stephanie Simmons, Simon Fraser University
Location: East Bridge 114
Thursday November 8, 2018 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Promises of Machine Learning for Space Exploration.
Speaker: Shahrouz Ryan Alimo, JPL
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday November 8, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
CS Technical Interview Workshop with Alums Phil Naecker and Mason Smith
Speaker: Phil Naecker, TGS Management Company
Speaker: Mason Smith, TGS Management Company
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday November 7, 2018 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar
The Future of Computing: Domain-Specific Accelerators
Speaker: William Dally
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday November 7, 2018 10:00 AM
JPL Research Poster Conference
Location: JPL
Tuesday November 6, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Classical Verification of Quantum Computations
Speaker: Urmila Mahadev , University of California, Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday November 6, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Off-policy Evaluation and Learning in Theory and in the Wild
Speaker: Yu-Xiang Wang, UC Santa Barbara
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 5, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Fast spectral solvers for computational science and engineering
Speaker: Oscar P. Bruno, CALTECH
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 5, 2018 1:30 PM
Special Seminars in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Semidefinite Approximations of the Matrix Logarithm (and related functions)
Speaker: Pablo Parrilo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday November 2, 2018 2:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Localization in fractonic random circuits
Speaker: Rahul Nandkishore , University of Colorado, Boulder
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday November 2, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum Error-Correcting Codes in Low-Energy Subspaces
Speaker: Eugene Tang
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday November 2, 2018 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Information Design in Service Systems and Markets
Speaker: Krishnamurthy Iyer, Cornell University
Location: Baxter 125
Thursday November 1, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Northrop Grumman -- Automating Flight Path Generation for Drones
Speaker: Sokun Kan, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday October 31, 2018 8:00 PM
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Sergio Pellegrino - Space Solar Power: A New Beginning
Location: Beckman Auditorium