Past Seminars

Tuesday August 20, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Machine Learning for Quantum and Vice Versa
Speaker: Murphy Yuezhen Niu, Google Research
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday August 16, 2019 10:00 AM
Thesis Seminar
Latent-variable modeling: inference, algorithms, and applications
Speaker: Armeen Taeb, California Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 121
Thursday August 15, 2019 1:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Convex Relaxations for Graph and Inverse Eigenvalue Problems
Speaker: Utkan Onur Candogan, California Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 314
Tuesday August 13, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Quantum Simulation of quantum field theory in the light-front formulation
Speaker: Peter Love, Tufts University
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday August 13, 2019 2:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Seminar Series
Nearby Skeleton Constrained Accelerated Recomputing, NSCAR, and the Bidirectional Adaptive Refinement Scheme, BARS: constrained Optimization meets Machine Learning to challenge the Von Neumann Computing Paradigm
Speaker: Bedros Afeyan, Polymath Research Inc.
Location: Moore B280
Thursday August 8, 2019 12:00 PM
Faculty Search Panel EAS/PMA
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Tuesday August 6, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Spectroscopy with quantum sensors
Speaker: Tuvia Gefen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday August 2, 2019 2:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Experiments with strongly interacting Fermi gases of atoms and molecules
Speaker: Jee Woo Park, Seoul National University
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday August 2, 2019 2:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Experiments with strongly interacting Fermi gases of atoms and molecules
Speaker: Jee Woo Park, Seoul National University
Location: East Bridge 114
Thursday August 1, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Locality estimates for complex-time evolution in 1D
Speaker: Antonio Perez, ICMAT
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday July 31, 2019 4:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
De Finetti theorems for quantum channels
Speaker: Mario Berta, Imperial College London
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday July 30, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Sampling-complexity phase diagrams
Speaker: Abhinav Deshpande, University of Maryland
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday July 30, 2019 8:00 AM
SMC-IT 2019: 7th IEEE International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology
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Tuesday July 30, 2019 8:00 AM
2019 IEEE Space Computing Conference (SCC)
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Monday July 29, 2019 3:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Universality classes of topological phase transitions
Speaker: Wei Chen, PUC - Rio
Location: East Bridge 114
Wednesday July 24, 2019 10:00 AM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Recent advances in high order and spectral approximations: Virtual Elements and Maximum Entropy reconstruction of PDFs
Speaker: Dr. Alexey Chernov, University of Oldenburg
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday July 23, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Counting without Sampling: Approximation Algorithms for Quantum Many-Body Systems at Finite Temperatures
Speaker: Mehdi Soleimanifar, MIT
Location: Annenberg 213
Sunday July 21, 2019 5:00 PM
Eighth International School for Materials for Energy and Sustainability
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Tuesday July 16, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Entanglement subvolume law for 2D frustration free systems
Speaker: Anurag Anshu, University of Waterloo
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday July 15, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
A fault-tolerant non-Clifford gate for the surface code in two dimensions
Speaker: Ben Brown, University of Sydney
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday July 10, 2019 2:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Seminar Series
Fully programmable quantum machines with all-to-all connectivity via Floquet engineering, and quantum neural networks
Speaker: Peter Mc Mahon, Cornell University
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday July 9, 2019 4:00 PM
RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar Series
Finite-Time Performance Bounds and Adaptive Learning Rate Selection for TD Learning
Speaker: R. Srikant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday July 2, 2019 12:00 PM
Landing a Faculty Position 2019 - EAS-PMA
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Monday July 1, 2019 12:00 PM
Smart Grid Seminar
Recent Advances in Autonomous Energy Grid
Speaker: Changhong Zhao, PhD, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday June 21, 2019 1:00 PM
Advanced Deep Learning and Tensor Tutorial
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday June 21, 2019 12:00 PM
RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar Series
Unsupervised Learning of Image Correspondences in Medical Image Analysis
Speaker: Adrian Dalca, MIT
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday June 20, 2019 4:00 PM
RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar Series
Optimization Aspects of Temporal Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning
Speaker: Pierre-Luc Bacon, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday June 20, 2019 11:30 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Neutral atom quantum computing: Quantum gates and Maxwell's demon
Speaker: Aishwarya Kumar, Pennsylvania State University
Location: Lauritsen 469
Tuesday June 18, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
CANCELED
Speaker: Anna Pappa, Freie Universität Berlin
Location: Annenberg 107
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
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
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
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