Seminars for 2008-2009

Monday October 6, 2008 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Learning Sparse Representations to Restore, Classify, and Sense Images and Videos
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Monday October 13, 2008 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
From Particle to Kinetic and Hydrodynamic Descriptions of Flocking
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Monday October 20, 2008 1:00 PM
Implementation of a Titan Saturn System Mission: One Giant Leap Beyond Cassini-Huygens
Speaker: Kim R. Reh, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Monday October 20, 2008 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Spectral Computations in Hilbert Spaces
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday October 21, 2008 12:00 PM
Titan and Enceladus: What Now Beyond Cassini-Huygens?
Speaker: Jonathan Lunine, University of Arizona
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday October 21, 2008 8:00 PM
Wouk Lecture: Jörg Imberger: Life in a Changing Climate
Location: Beckman Auditorium
Friday October 24, 2008 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Correlating Blogs and Business Events
Speaker: Michael Olson, Caltech
Location: 237 Baxter
Monday October 27, 2008 11:00 AM
CACR Seminar Series
Models of Onteractions of Ca(2+), CaM, and Monomeric Catalytic Subunits of CaMKII: A Piece of the Post-Synaptic Signaling Network Puzzle
Speaker: Shirley Pepke, Caltech
Location: 080 Moore
Monday October 27, 2008 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Onsager's Conjecture and a Model for Turbulence
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Friday October 31, 2008 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Hatice Ozsoy, Caltech
Location: 237 Baxter
Monday November 3, 2008 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
A Family of Expanding Wave Solutions of the Einstein Equations that Includes the Standard Model of Cosmology
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Wednesday November 5, 2008 4:00 PM
Computer Science Seminar
Computing Game-Theoretic Solutions
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Friday November 7, 2008 12:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Revisiting Log-Linear Learning: Asynchrony, Completeness, and a Payoff-based Implementation
Speaker: Jason Marden, Caltech
Location: 237 Baxter
Monday November 10, 2008 1:00 PM
CACR Seminar Series
Making and Using VO Tools to Study the QSO Distribution
Speaker: Giuseppe Longo, University Federico II (Naples, Italy)
Location: Powell-Booth Seminar Room (PB 100)
Monday November 10, 2008 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Swarming by Nature and by Design
Location: 306 Firestone
Monday November 17, 2008 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Markovian Energies Minimization via Maximum Flow
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday November 18, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Accurate and Decoherence-Protected Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Speaker: Daniel Lidar, USC
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday December 1, 2008 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
New, Fast and Effective Algorithms for Imaging, Compressed Sensing and Related Problems, with Applications
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday December 2, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Periodic Table for Topological Insulators and Superconductors
Speaker: Alexei Kitaev, Caltech
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Friday December 5, 2008 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Hardness of Approximation Results for Network Formation Games (Techniques from Theoretical Computer Science for Problems in Revealed Preference)
Speaker: Shankar Kalyanaraman, Caltech
Location: 237 Baxter
Monday December 8, 2008 1:30 PM
E/ME 105 Presentation: Product Design for the Developing World
Location: Beckman Institute auditorium
Tuesday December 9, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Spectral Gap in Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Speaker: Mohammad Amin, Caltech
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Friday December 12, 2008 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Mohamed Mostagir, Caltech
Location: 237 Baxter
Friday January 9, 2009 11:00 AM
Computer Science Seminar
Homology Flows, Cohomology Cuts
Location: Powell-Booth Seminar Room (PB 100)
Monday January 12, 2009 2:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Theory of Strongly Interacting Fermions
Speaker: Peter Drummond, Swinburne University of Technology
Location: 156 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday January 12, 2009 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Analysis of the Performance of an Electrical Current Procedure for Disrupting Fibrous Capsule Tissue Formation Around Biomaterial Implants
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday January 13, 2009 10:30 AM
Computer Science Seminar
Retransmissions and Heavy Tails
Location: 102 Spalding Lab
Tuesday January 13, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Dynamical System Identification: A Convex Optimization Perspective
Location: 239 Moore
Tuesday January 20, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement Renormalization: Foundations, Status and Prospects
Speaker: Guifre Vidal, University of Queensland
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday January 20, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Dynamical System Identification: An Operator Theoretic Approach
Location: 239 Moore
Thursday January 22, 2009 12:00 PM
IST Student Day
Location: Winnett quad
Tuesday January 27, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Operational Meaning of Min- and Max-entropy
Speaker: Christian Schaffner, Centre for Mathematix and Computer Science (CWI)
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday January 27, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Wireless Network Information Flow: A Deterministic Approach
Location: 239 Moore
Friday January 30, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Photonic Cluster State Machine Gun
Speaker: Daniel Lindner, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday February 2, 2009 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Wave-Corpuscle Mechanics for Elementary Charges
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday February 3, 2009 3:30 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Localization of Mushy-Layer Convection
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday February 3, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Location: 239 Moore
Friday February 13, 2009 4:00 PM
Computer Science Seminar
From Philosophical to Industrial Logics
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday February 17, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Interacting Anyonic Fermions in a Two-body Color Code Model
Speaker: Hector Bombín, Universidad Complutense, Madrid
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday February 17, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Coding for Distributed Storage
Location: 239 Moore
Tuesday February 24, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Continuous vs. Discrete Oracles
Speaker: Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday February 24, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Coding for Distributed Storage
Location: 239 Moore
Wednesday February 25, 2009 4:00 PM
Computer Science Seminar
Who Am I Competing Against? Identifying Adversarial Protocols against TCP in a Congested Link
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday March 10, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement in Quantum Games
Speaker: Thomas Vidick, UC Berkeley
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday March 31, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Location: 239 Moore
Tuesday April 7, 2009 11:00 AM
CACR Seminar Series
Monitoring Earth Surface Dynamics with Optical Imagery
Speaker: Sebastien Leprince, Caltech
Location: Powell-Booth Seminar Room (PB 100)
Tuesday April 7, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Algorithms for Testing Properties of Probability Distributions
Speaker: Sergey Bravyi, IBM
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday April 13, 2009 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Certified Reduced Basis Methods for Wave Problems
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Monday April 20, 2009 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Structured Matrix Computations: Recent Advances and Future Work
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday April 21, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Simulating Quantum Systems Using Tensor Networks and Monte Carlo
Speaker: Norbert Schuch, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday April 21, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Mathematics of Information Seminar--TBA
Location: 239 Moore
Monday April 27, 2009 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Sparse Remote Sensing—Helmholtz Meets Heisenberg
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday April 28, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Heralded Polynomial-Time Quantum State Tomography
Speaker: Steve Flammia, Perimeter Institute
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday April 28, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Beyond Convexity: Submodularity in Machine Learning Part II
Location: 239 Moore
Monday May 4, 2009 4:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Achieving Complex Global Objectives via Simple Local Rules: Applications in Networking and Medical Imaging
Speaker: Yi Lu, Stanford University
Location: 070 Moore
Monday May 4, 2009 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Hidden Structures in Homogenization and Inverse Homogenization
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday May 5, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Multi Prover Interactive Proofs with Communicating Provers
Speaker: Avinatan Hassidim, MIT
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday May 5, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Some Topics in Algorithmic Mechanism Design Part I
Location: 239 Moore
Tuesday May 12, 2009 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Feedback and Control in Biological Circuit Design
Speaker: Richard Murray, Caltech
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday May 12, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Some Topics in Algorithmic Mechanism Design Part II
Location: 239 Moore
Friday May 15, 2009 11:00 AM
CACR Seminar Series
Analysis and Visualization of the Cosmic Web
Speaker: Miguel Angel Aragon Calvo, Johns Hopkins University
Location: Powell-Booth Seminar Room (PB 100)
Monday May 18, 2009 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Convex Algebraic Geometry
Location: 101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Tuesday May 19, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Matthew Elliott, University of Southern Indiana
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday May 19, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Information Inequalities
Location: 239 Moore
Tuesday June 23, 2009 2:00 PM
CACR Seminar Series
The Meta Clustering and Consensus Approach to Interactive Data Analysis
Speaker: Roberto Tagliaferri, NEuRoNe Lab, DMI Università di Salerno, Fisciano (Sa)
Location: Powell-Booth Seminar Room (PB 100)
Tuesday June 23, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Quantum Approach to Thermal Equilibrium
Speaker: Tony Short, University of Cambridge
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Tuesday June 30, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Some Topological Applications of Tensor Networks
Speaker: Miguel Aguado, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
Location: 74 Jorgensen Laboratory
Monday July 20, 2009 4:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Adding Incentives to Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems
Speaker: Aviv Zohar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Location: 237 Baxter
Friday July 24, 2009 2:00 PM
CACR Seminar Series
Compiler-Aided Soft Error Protection
Speaker: Aviral Shrivastava, Arizona State University
Location: Powell-Booth Seminar Room (PB 100)
Department of Computing + Mathematical Sciences