Seminars for 2009-2010

Friday September 25, 2009 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Computation and Communication—Two sides of one tapestry?
Speaker: Michael Gastpar, UC Berkeley
Location: Moore B270
Tuesday September 29, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Ultracold Collisions in an Optically Trapped Gas of Polar Molecules
Speaker: Kang-Kuen Ni, Unviersity of Colorado at Boulder
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday October 9, 2009 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Development of Ultra Low Power Single Chip mmW CMOS Sensor and Communication Nodes
Speaker: Joy Laskar, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: Moore B270
Tuesday October 13, 2009 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Finding Structure with Randomness: Stochastic Algorithms for Computing Approximate Matrix Decompositions
Speaker: Joel Tropp, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday October 19, 2009 4:00 PM
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Series
Quantum Phases of a Supersymmetric Model of Lattice Fermions
Speaker: Liza Huijse, University of Amsterdam
Location: Downs 107
Tuesday October 20, 2009 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
A Combinatorial Double Auction Exchange to Solve a Complex Environmental Problem: The Native Vegetation Exchange
Speaker: Charles Plott, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 20, 2009 3:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Xampling: Analog-to-Digital at Sub-Nyquist Rates
Speaker: Yonina Eldar, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday October 20, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Measurement-Based Quantum Computation in Realistic Spin-1 Chains
Speaker: Joe Renes, Technical University of Darmstadt
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday October 22, 2009 1:30 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Edge Detection from Spectral Data
Location: Firestone 306
Monday October 26, 2009 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Solving PDEs on Overlapping Grids with Overture
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday October 27, 2009 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Computational Mechanism Design
Speaker: John Ledyard, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday October 28, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Positive Semidefinite Grothendieck Problem with Rank Constraint
Speaker: Frank Vallentin, Delft University of Technology
Location: Annenberg 121
Friday October 30, 2009 9:30 AM
Dedication Ceremony for the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology
Location: See event detail for location
Friday October 30, 2009 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
RF and Microwave Challenges for Cognitive Radio and TV White
Speaker: Larry Larson, UC San Diego
Location: Moore B270
Monday November 2, 2009 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Numerical Solution of the Nonlinear Helmholtz Equation
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Monday November 2, 2009 4:15 PM
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Series
Random Quantum Satisfiability: Statistical Mechanics of Quantum Optimization
Speaker: Chris Laumann, Princeton University
Location: Downs 107
Tuesday November 3, 2009 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Matching Markets in the Lab
Speaker: Leeat Yariv, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 3, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Categorically Isolating Quantum Properties
Speaker: Chris Heunen, University of Oxford
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday November 6, 2009 2:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Revealing Network Neural Mechanism of Adaptive Social Behavior
Speaker: Naotaka Fujii, BSI, RIKEN
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Friday November 6, 2009 2:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Enriched Boundary Elements for Fracture Mechanics and Wave Scattering
Location: Firestone 306
Friday November 6, 2009 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Electronics for High Performance Inertial Sensors
Speaker: Bernhard E. Boser, UC Berkeley
Location: Moore B280
Monday November 9, 2009 3:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Multiple Forms of Valuation in the Human Brain
Speaker: Klaus Wunderlich, Caltech
Location: Broad 100
Monday November 9, 2009 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
What Robotics and Control May Yet Learn from the Brain
Speaker: Jean-Jacques Slotine, MIT
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday November 9, 2009 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Minimizing Communication in Linear Algebra
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday November 10, 2009 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Wireless Spectral Sharing Techniques and Issues
Speaker: Fletcher Wicker, the Aerospace Corporation
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 10, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Optimizing the Layout and Error Properties of Quantum Circuits
Speaker: John Kubiatowicz, UC Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday November 11, 2009 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Generalized Particle Flow for Maximal Stability of Nonlinear Filters
Speaker: Fred Daum, Raytheon
Location: Moore B270
Friday November 13, 2009 12:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Title: Network Science for Wireless Communication: Information Spread, Mobility, and Resilience
Speaker: Edmund Yeh, Yale University
Location: Moore B270
Friday November 13, 2009 2:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Stable Grid Refinement and Singular Source Discretization for Seismic Wave Simulations
Location: Firestone 306
Friday November 13, 2009 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
CMOS Integrated Biosensors: Fact or Fiction?
Speaker: Arjang Hassibi, the University of Texas at Austin
Location: Moore B280
Monday November 16, 2009 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Domain Decomposition Methods for High-Contrast Multiscale Flow Problems
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday November 17, 2009 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Babak Hassibi, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 17, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Faster Quantum Algorithm for Evaluating Game Trees
Speaker: Ben Reichardt, University of Waterloo
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 17, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Online Algorithms with No Regret Guarantees
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday November 18, 2009 4:00 PM
Probabilistic Techniques in Computational Number Theory
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 23, 2009 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Anatomical, Physiological, and Pharmacological Properties Underlying Hippocampal Sensorimotor Integration
Speaker: Brian Bland, University of Calgary
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday November 23, 2009 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Go with the Geometric Flow
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday November 24, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Dynamically Corrected Gates
Speaker: Kaveh Khodjasteh, Dartmouth College
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 24, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Mathematics of Information Seminar
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday November 30, 2009 3:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
The Geometric Structure of Conservative Complex Fluid Equations
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday December 1, 2009 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Knowledge Is Power but Ignorance is Bliss: An Introduction to Asynchronous Logic
Speaker: Alain Martin, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday December 1, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Topic to be announced.
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday December 2, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Emulation of a Quantum Spin using a Superconducting Phase Qudit
Speaker: Matthew Neeley, UC Santa Barbara
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday December 4, 2009 3:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Interactions between Hippocampal Areas CA3 and CA1 during Slow-wave Sleep
Speaker: Ming Gu, Caltech
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday December 7, 2009 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Next Generation Large-Scale Chronically Implantable Precision Motorized Microdrive Arrays for Freely Behaving Animals
Speaker: Jun Yamamoto, MIT
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday December 8, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Photonic Non-equilibrium Quantum Transport in a Nonlinear Medium
Speaker: Mohammad Hafezi, University of Maryland
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday December 8, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Topic to be announced.
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday December 9, 2009 4:15 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Maps, Connections and <i>In-vivo</i> Imaging in the Monkey Brain
Speaker: Kadharbatcha Saleem, National Institute of Mental Health
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Thursday December 10, 2009 2:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Connectivity of the Primate Brain from Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Speaker: Dirk Neumann, Caltech
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday December 14, 2009 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Generic Reinforcement Learning Agents
Speaker: Marcus Hutter, Australian National University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday December 15, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological Quantum Order: Stability Under Local Perturbations
Speaker: Spiros Michalakis, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday January 5, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological Order from Quantum Loops and Nets
Speaker: Paul Fendley, University of Virginia
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday January 18, 2010 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Attention can profoundly affect what we do and do not perceive
Speaker: John Maunsell, Harvard University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday January 19, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Pietro Perona, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 19, 2010 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Universal Compression, Denoising, and Prediction
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday January 25, 2010 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Technology for High-Resolution Functional Imaging of the Human Brain
Speaker: Larry Wald, Massachusetts General Hospital
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday January 25, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Reconstruction of Piecewise Smooth Functions from Non-uniform Fourier Data
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday January 26, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Fossil Fuel Supplies, Climate, and Climategate
Speaker: David Rutledge, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 26, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Stochastic Methods for Bose Gas Dynamics
Speaker: Crispin Gardiner, University of Otago
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 26, 2010 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Universal Compression, Denoising and Prediction
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday January 27, 2010 3:30 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Nanoelectronics&mdash;Emerging Trends in Device Technology
Speaker: H.-S. Philip Wong, Stanford University
Location: Moore B270
Friday January 29, 2010 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Bioelectronics
Speaker: Rahul Sarpeshkar, MIT
Location: Moore B280
Monday February 1, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Multiresolution Particle Methods for Flow Simulations
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday February 2, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Quantum Entanglement
Speaker: John Preskill, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday February 5, 2010 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Christiane Linster, Cornell University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday February 8, 2010 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Wireless Network Coding Algorithms
Speaker: Christina Fragouli, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Location: Moore B280
Monday February 8, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Topic to be announced.
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday February 9, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Fermat's Last Theorem as a Visual Link from Superquadrics to String Theory
Speaker: Andrew J. Hanson, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 9, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
QIP = PSPACE
Speaker: Sarvagya Upadhyay, University of Waterloo
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday February 10, 2010 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Nonlinear MIMO Transceiver Design and Matrix Decomposition
Speaker: Yi Jiang, Qualcomm, Inc.
Location: Moore B280
Friday February 12, 2010 2:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Completely Random Measures for Bayesian Nonparametrics
Speaker: Michael I. Jordan, UC Berkeley
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday February 16, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Security from Physical Assumptions
Speaker: Stephanie Wehner, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 16, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
An Inverse Problem Arising in Photolithography
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Monday February 22, 2010 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Michael Jordan, UC Berkeley
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday February 22, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Optimal Recovery in High-Dimensions: A Unified Analysis of Regularized Estimators
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday February 23, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Specification, Design and Verification of Distributed, Real-Time, Embedded Systems: Application to an Autonomous Vehicle
Speaker: Nok Wongpiromsarn, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 23, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Optimal Parametrizations of Adiabatic Paths
Speaker: Joseph Avron, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday February 26, 2010 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Magnetic Nanotechnology Based Biochips&mdash;A New Tool for Cancer Diagnostics and Radiation Triage
Speaker: Shan X. Wang, Stanford University
Location: Moore B280
Saturday February 27, 2010 9:00 AM
James K. Knowles Lecture and Solid Mechanics Symposium
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Monday March 1, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Topic to be announced.
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday March 2, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Accelerate Your Favorite Numerical Integrator with Two Lines of Code
Speaker: Houman Owhadi, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday March 2, 2010 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Robustness vs. Optimality in Scheduling&mdash;Two Case Studies
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday March 3, 2010 11:30 AM
Nationwide Announcement of $30,000 Lemelson Student Prize Winners
Location: Avery Library
Friday March 5, 2010 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
THz Bipolar Transistors and nm InP MOSFETS: Scaling principles, Scaling barriers, Technology Development
Speaker: Mark Rodwell, UC Santa Barbara
Location: Moore B280
Monday March 8, 2010 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Optogenetics: Development and Application
Speaker: Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University
Location: Kerckhoff 119
Tuesday March 9, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Distinguishing Convex Sets of Quantum Strategies
Speaker: Gus Gutoski, University of Waterloo
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday March 9, 2010 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Robustness vs. Optimality in Scheduling&mdash;Two Case Studies
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday March 11, 2010 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Deep Learning with Multiplicative Interactions
Speaker: Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday March 12, 2010 2:00 PM
CACR Seminar Series
The Technical Challenges of Exascale Computing
Speaker: Peter Kogge, University of Notre Dame
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Friday March 12, 2010 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Integrated Circuit Design with Nano-Electro-Mechanical Relays
Speaker: Elad Alon, UC Berkeley
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday March 17, 2010 3:30 PM
Thesis Seminar
Transfer at C. elegans Synapses
Speaker: Anusha Narayan, Caltech
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Thursday March 18, 2010 4:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Olfactory Object Recognition and Generalization in the Insect Brain
Speaker: Kai Shen, Caltech
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday March 23, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Simulation: From Statics to Dynamics
Speaker: Peter Love, Haverford College
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday March 29, 2010 2:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods and Semiconductor Device Simulation
Location: Firestone 306
Monday March 29, 2010 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar&mdash;<i>cancelled</i>
Speaker: Dana Angluin, Yale University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday March 30, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Nano- and Opto-Mechanical Transducers for Quantum Information Processing
Speaker: Peter Rabl, Harvard University
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday March 31, 2010 2:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Challenges and Perspectives in Multi-Phase Flow Modeling: Sub-Grid Accurate and Gradient-Augmented Methods
Location: Firestone 306
Friday April 2, 2010 3:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Hydrodynamic Limits for the Boltzmann Equations
Location: Firestone 306
Monday April 5, 2010 4:00 PM
Special Lecture: <i>Sustainable Energy&mdash;Without the Hot Air</i>
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Monday April 5, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Variational and Geometric Methods in Image Processing and Analysis
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday April 6, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Adaptive Data Analysis via Nonlinear Compressed Sensing
Speaker: Thomas Y. Hou, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday April 9, 2010 2:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Integrability, Medical Imaging, and Boundary Value Problems
Location: Firestone 306
Monday April 12, 2010 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Genetics and Immunology of Narcolepsy and Hypocretin
Speaker: Emmanuel Mignot, Stanford University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday April 12, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Oracle Inequalities for Inverse Problems
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday April 13, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
A Simple Geometric Model for Elastic Deformations // A Verifying Compiler for DNA Chemical Reaction Networks
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 13, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological Quantum Computers Work with a Quarter of Their Bits Missing
Speaker: Tom Stace, University of Queensland
Location: Annenberg 107
Monday April 19, 2010 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The Normalization Model of Attention
Speaker: David Heeger, New York University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday April 19, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Complex Huygens Principles as Efficient Representations of Wave Fields
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday April 20, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Spectral FFT-Based Integral and Differential PDE Solvers for General Domains
Speaker: Oscar Bruno, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 20, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Cluster Expansions and the Stability of Topological Phases
Speaker: Israel Klich, University of Virginia
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday April 23, 2010 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Manipulating Nanoparticles and Enhancing Spectroscopy with Surface Plasmons
Speaker: Ken Crozier, Harvard University
Location: Moore B280
Monday April 26, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Compressed Sensing in Infinite Dimensions
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday April 27, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Sense and Response Systems
Speaker: K. Mani Chandy, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 27, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Numerical Algorithms for Simulating Interacting Fermionic Lattice Systems
Speaker: Christina Kraus, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday April 30, 2010 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Spin Transistor and Beyond
Speaker: Supriyo Datta, Purdue University
Location: Moore B280
Monday May 3, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Topic to be announced.
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday May 4, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Jure Leskovec, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday May 10, 2010 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Understanding the Neural Networks of Attention: a New Global Player in Inferotemporal Cortex?
Speaker: Winrich Freiwald, The Rockefeller University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday May 10, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Topic to be announced.
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday May 11, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Future Innovations and What They Mean for Sustainable Cities
Speaker: Paul Camuti, Siemens Corporate Research
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 11, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Experimental Investigation of an Eight Qubit Unit Cell in a Superconducting Optimization Processor
Speaker: Richard Harris, D-Wave Systems
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday May 12, 2010 12:15 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Distinguishing Classical from Quantum Annealing in a Multi-qubit System
Speaker: Mohammad Amin, D-Wave Systems
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday May 14, 2010 10:00 AM
Thesis Seminar
Dynamic DNA Strand Displacement Circuits
Speaker: David Yu Zhang, Caltech
Location: Moore B270
Monday May 17, 2010 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Probing the Natural Scene by Echolocation in Bats
Speaker: Cynthia Moss, University of Maryland
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday May 17, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Discrete Stochastic Simulation of Spatially Inhomogeneous Biochemical Systems
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday May 18, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Adaptive Performance Optimization for Large Scale Web Application
Speaker: David Wei, Facebook
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 18, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Hidden Quadratic Polynomials and Dihedral Subgroups
Speaker: Pawel Wocjan, University of Central Florida
Location: Annenberg 107
Monday May 24, 2010 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neocortical Contributions to Individual Orienting Decisions in the Rat
Speaker: Carlos Brody, Princeton University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday May 24, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Spectral FFT-based Integral and Differential PDE Solvers for General Domains
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday May 25, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
IST Lunch Bunch
Speaker: Daniel Obenshain, Caltech
Speaker: Evan Gawlik, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 25, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Memories Based on Solid State Atomic Ensembles
Speaker: Hugues de Riedmatten, University of Geneva
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday May 26, 2010 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Recursive Reconstruction of Sparse Signal Sequences
Speaker: Namrata Vaswani, Iowa State University
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday June 1, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Coding Theory: Re-focusing on Data Storage
Speaker: Yuval Cassuto, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose Research Center
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday June 21, 2010 4:00 PM
Bioengineering Lecture Series
Single Cell Genetic Analysis
Speaker: Andreas Tögl, Advalytix (A Beckman Coulter Company)
Location: Moore B270
Friday August 6, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Trading Resources in Quantum Communication
Speaker: Mark Wilde, McGill University
Location: Annenberg 213