Seminars for 2015-2016

Monday September 21, 2015 8:40 AM
Water Resilience and Sustainability Symposium
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday September 25, 2015 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Strongly interacting photons in a synthetic magnetic field
Speaker: Pedram Roushan, Google Inc., Santa Barbara
Location: East Bridge 114
Wednesday September 30, 2015 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
What's in a (School) Name? Racial Discrimination in Higher Education Bond Markets
Speaker: Chris Parsons, Associate Professor of Finance, Rady School of Management, UCSD
Location: Baxter B125
Thursday October 1, 2015 10:30 AM
Launch of Engineers Week at Caltech
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Monday October 5, 2015 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Mathematical and Experimental Frameworks to Study Fluctuations in Cells
Speaker: Professor Johan Paulsson, Harvard University
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday October 7, 2015 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Explicit Two-Source Extractors and Resilient Functions
Speaker: David Zuckerman, UT Austin
Location: Annenberg 308
Friday October 9, 2015 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Near-Optimal Outcomes in Markets Large and Small
Speaker: Brendan Lucier, Microsoft Research, New England
Location: Baxter 125
Friday October 9, 2015 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Superconductivity in Uranium and Plutonium revealed by NMR
Speaker: Andrew Mounce, Los Alamos National Labs/Sandia Labs
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday October 13, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Grid of the Future: Is Distributed Control the Answer?
Speaker: Sonja Glavaski, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday October 14, 2015 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
How to refute a random CSP
Speaker: Ryan O'Donnell, CMU
Location: Annenberg 308
Friday October 16, 2015 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Learning and Stability in Big Uncertain Games
Speaker: Ehud Kalai, Northwestern University
Location: Baxter 125
Monday October 19, 2015 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Sub-Linear Time Algorithms for "Big Data" Recovery Based on Sparse-Graph Codes
Speaker: Professor Kannan Ramchandran, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 20, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Coarse-grained representations of information in complex systems
Speaker: Greg Ver Steeg, USC
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday October 21, 2015 3:00 PM
Resnick Institute Seminar
Enabling Large Scale Sustainable Lighting through Efficient Heat Dissipation in LEDs & Controlled Mixing of Fresh Water & Salt Water for Renewable Energy
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday October 23, 2015 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
The Speed of Social Learning
Speaker: Omer Tamuz, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday October 27, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
KnightShift: Achieving Energy Proportionality Through Server-level Heterogeneity
Speaker: Murali Annavaram, University of Southern California
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 27, 2015 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Coded MapReduce
Speaker: Salman Aversimehr, University of Southern California
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday October 27, 2015 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar Series
Stability of Causal Inference
Speaker: Piyush Srivastava, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday October 28, 2015 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
An average-case depth hierarchy theorem for Boolean circuits
Speaker: Li-Yang Tan
Location: Annenberg 308
Wednesday October 28, 2015 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Visibility Bias in the Transmission of Consumption Norms and Undersaving
Speaker: David Hirshleifer, University of California, Irvine
Location: Baxter B125
Thursday October 29, 2015 12:00 PM
Computer Science Seminar
Functional Reactive Programming for Real-Time and Cyber-Physical Systems: Response Time Analysis, Scheduling, and Verification
Speaker: Albert M. K. Cheng, University of Houston, Texas
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday October 30, 2015 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Optomechanics: a platform for exploring novel physics
Speaker: Bassam Helou
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday November 2, 2015 2:30 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Fast Solvers for the High-Frequency Helmholtz Equation
Speaker: Assistant Professor Leonardo Andrés Zepeda Núñez, UC Irvine
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday November 2, 2015 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Coding Techniques for Emerging DNA-Based Storage Systems
Speaker: Professor Olgica Milenkovic, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 3, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Algorithms in nature
Speaker: Saket Navlakha, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 3, 2015 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
A Stronger Soft-Covering Lemma that assures Semantic Security in Wiretap Channels
Speaker: Paul Cuff, Princeton University
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday November 4, 2015 3:00 PM
Resnick Institute Seminar
Mechanistic Insights into the Base Metal Catalyzed Reduction of Dinitrogen to Ammonia -AND- Cytochrome P450-Catalyzed Nitrene Transfer: A Platform for Green Amination Chemistry
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday November 6, 2015 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Distinguishing nonstationarity from inconsistency in intertemporal choice
Speaker: Shachar Kariv, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Baxter 125
Friday November 6, 2015 2:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Toward physical realizations of information-theory models for small-scale thermodynamics
Speaker: Nicole Yunger Halpern
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday November 6, 2015 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Opportunities and Challenges for Photonics in Next-Generation Data Centers
Speaker: Clint Schow, UC Santa Barbara
Location: Moore B280
Monday November 9, 2015 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Faster Convex Optimization: Simulated Annealing with an Efficient Universal Barrier
Speaker: Professor Elad Hazan, Princeton University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 10, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Energy Efficient Design: From Computing To Biomedical Devices
Speaker: Azita Emami, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday November 11, 2015 9:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
TBD
Speaker: Tim Roughgarden
Location: Annenberg 308
Wednesday November 11, 2015 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Retail Short Selling and Stock Prices
Speaker: Paul Tetlock, Professor of Business, Finance and Economics Division, Columbia University
Location: Baxter B125
Friday November 13, 2015 12:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar Series
Two-Source Dispersers for Polylogarithmic Entropy and Improved Ramsey Graphs - part 1 of 2
Speaker: Gil Cohen, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 314
Friday November 13, 2015 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
The quenched-induced geometric Hall response
Speaker: Justin Wilson
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday November 13, 2015 7:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
IEEE MTT-S, Caltech Mixed-Signal, RF & Microwave Seminar
Speaker: Sander Weinreb, California Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 17, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Chaos in a Bottle: Experimental Studies of Nonlinear Population Dynamics
Speaker: Robert Desharnais, California State University, Los Angeles
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 17, 2015 4:00 PM
The Space Connection: Navigating the Bridge between JPL and the Caltech Campus
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Friday November 20, 2015 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Contractual Equilibrium: An Application to Conservation Agreements and Computational Issues
Speaker: Joel Watson, University of California, San Diego
Location: Baxter 125
Friday November 20, 2015 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Atom-atom interactions in an ‘Alligator’ photonic crystal waveguide
Speaker: Jonathan Hood
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday November 20, 2015 4:30 PM
Dow-Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award (SISCA) Ceremony & Reception
Location: Jorgensen Lobby
Tuesday November 24, 2015 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar Series
Two-Source Dispersers for Polylogarithmic Entropy and Improved Ramsey Graphs - part 2 of 2
Speaker: Gil Cohen, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday November 25, 2015 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
TBD
Speaker: Piotr Indyk
Location: Annenberg 308
Tuesday December 1, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Inferring subsurface fault slip from orbiting satellite radar
Speaker: Mark Simons, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday December 1, 2015 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar Series
Generalized Low Rank Models (part 1 of 2)
Speaker: Madeleine Udell, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday December 3, 2015 3:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Decoding Genetic Variations: Algorithms for Haplotype Assembly
Speaker: Haris Vikalo, University of Texas - Austin
Location: Moore B280
Friday December 4, 2015 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
A General Framework for Dynamic Pricing with Patient Customers
Speaker: Ilan Lobel, New York University
Location: Baxter 125
Friday December 4, 2015 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Semiconducting-to-metallic Photoconductivity Crossover in Graphene
Speaker: Alex Frenzel, UC San Diego
Location: West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Tuesday December 8, 2015 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar Series
Generalized Low Rank Models (part 2 of 2)
Speaker: Madeleine Udell, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 314
Wednesday December 9, 2015 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
TBD
Speaker: Virginia Vassilevska Williams
Location: Annenberg 308
Wednesday December 9, 2015 3:00 PM
Resnick Institute Seminar
Combining Protons and Electrons to Efficiently Generate H2 from Renewable Resources AND From the Background to Center Stage: The Unexpected Role of “Innocent” Ligands in Hydrogen Evolution Catalysis and Surface Attachment
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Wednesday December 9, 2015 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Dynamic Trading: Price Inertia, Front-Running, and Relationship Banking
Speaker: Yuliy Sannikov, Professor of Economics, Princeton University
Location: Baxter B125
Thursday December 10, 2015 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar
The Capacity of General Compound Channels
Speaker: Sergey Loyka, University of Ottawa, Canada
Location: Moore B280
Friday December 18, 2015 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
POSTPONED: Linde Institute/SISL Seminar
Speaker: Krishnamurthy (Dj) Dvijotham, Caltech
Location: Baxter 125
Friday January 8, 2016 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Super-Linear Gate and Super-Quadratic Wire Lower Bounds for Depth-Two and Depth-Three Threshold Circuits
Speaker: Ryan Williams, Stanford
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday January 8, 2016 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
An Energy Barrier is Necessary for the Thermal Stability of Stabilizer Quantum Memories
Speaker: Anna Komar
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday January 11, 2016 2:30 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Data-Driven Computational Approach to Understand Cancer Progression and Drug Resistance
Speaker: Peng Jiang, Harvard University
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday January 12, 2016 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
From Language to the Mind: Learning to Read Deception, Connotation, and Literary Success
Speaker: Yejin Choi, University of Washington
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 19, 2016 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Medicine, Math, and Computing
Speaker: Marie Csete, Huntington Medical Research Institutes
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday January 20, 2016 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
The Largest Possible Quantum Speedups
Speaker: Scott Aaronson, MIT
Location: Annenberg 308
Friday January 22, 2016 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Pseudorandomness via the Discrete Fourier Transform
Speaker: Raghu Meka, UCLA
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday January 22, 2016 1:30 PM
Innovation in Aerospace - An Idea 2 Innovation Event
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Friday January 22, 2016 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Progress toward a spin squeezed 171Yb optical atomic clock
Speaker: Boris Braverman, MIT
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday January 26, 2016 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Quantum Computing: Transforming the Digital Age
Speaker: Krysta Svore, Microsoft Research, Redmond
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 26, 2016 8:00 PM
Special Events
One Entangled Evening: A Celebration of Richard Feynman's Quantum Legacy
Location: Beckman Auditorium
Wednesday January 27, 2016 9:00 AM
Special Events
Quantum Summit
Location: Ramo Auditorium
Thursday January 28, 2016 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Properties and Generalizations of the Moser-Tardos Process
Speaker: Aravind Srinivasan, University of Maryland in QuICS
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday January 28, 2016 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Excess-distortion analysis of lossy compression
Speaker: Yuval Kochman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Location: Moore B280
Friday January 29, 2016 10:30 AM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
On Holo-Hilbert Spectral Analysis and Some Applications
Speaker: Professor Norden E. Huang, National Central University
Location: Annenberg 213
Saturday January 30, 2016 8:00 AM
Electrical Engineering Symposium
Location:
Monday February 1, 2016 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Resilience of Infrastructures
Speaker: Professor Munther A. Dahleh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 2, 2016 12:00 PM
Linde Center & Resnick Institute Guest Lecturer
Location: South Mudd 365
Tuesday February 2, 2016 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
The Emerging Data Market: Adaptive Incentives for Smart, Connected Infrastructure
Speaker: Lillian Ratliff, UC Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 2, 2016 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Efficient Spectral Methods for Learning Mixture Models
Speaker: Qingqing Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday February 3, 2016 3:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Ground State Patterns and Phase Transitions for Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensates, Numerics and Analysis
Speaker: Professor I-Liang Chern, National Taiwan University
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday February 4, 2016 3:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Does looking inside the circuit help?
Speaker: Antonina Kolokolova, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday February 5, 2016 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Algorithms from natural lower bounds
Speaker: Valentine Kabanets, Simon Fraser University
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday February 5, 2016 3:00 PM
Informational bottlenecks in control systems
Speaker: Gireeja Ranade, Microsoft Research, Redmond
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday February 5, 2016 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Exponential Lifetime Improvement in Topological Quantum Memories
Speaker: Charles Edouard Bardyn
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday February 8, 2016 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification for Solutions to Differential Equation Models
Speaker: Dave Campbell, Simon Fraser University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 9, 2016 12:00 PM
Fundamentals of Sustainability Science and Engineering Guest Lecturer
Location: South Mudd 365
Tuesday February 9, 2016 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Modeling and Control of Online Advertising
Speaker: Niklas Karlsson, AOL/ Verizon
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday February 12, 2016 10:00 AM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Exponential Integrators of EPIRK-type: Construction, Analysis and Implementation
Speaker: Assistant Professor Mayya Tokman, University of California, Merced
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday February 12, 2016 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Structure of protocols for XOR functions
Speaker: Shachar Lovett, UCSD
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday February 16, 2016 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Intelligent Sensors for the Internet of Things: Parallel Computing on Chicago Street Poles
Speaker: Pete Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday February 17, 2016 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Demonstration of Deterministic Photon-Atom and Photon-Photon Interactions based on Single-Photon Raman Interaction (SPRINT)
Speaker: Barak Dayan, Weizmann Institute of Science
Location: East Bridge 114
Wednesday February 17, 2016 12:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Demonstration of Deterministic Photon-Atom and Photon-Photon Interactions based on Single-Photon Raman Interaction (SPRINT)
Speaker: Barak Dayan, Weizmann Institute of Science
Location: East Bridge 114
Thursday February 18, 2016 11:00 AM
Adaptive Horizon Model Predictive Control
Speaker: Arthur Krener, Navel Postgraduate School
Location: Gates-Thomas 115
Friday February 19, 2016 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Four-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect with Ultracold Atoms
Speaker: Hannah Price, Università di Trento in Italy
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday February 22, 2016 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment
Speaker: Professor Randall J. LeVeque, University of Washington
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 23, 2016 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Computational Information Games
Speaker: Houman Owhadi, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday February 26, 2016 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Bi-Lipschitz Bijection between the Boolean Cube and the Hamming Ball
Speaker: Gil Cohen, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday February 26, 2016 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Casimir Effect, Theta Vacuum and Topological Order in QED
Speaker: Charles Cao, Caltech
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday March 4, 2016 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
POSTPONED: Linde Institute/SISL Seminar
Location: Baxter 125
Wednesday March 9, 2016 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Visibility Bias in the Transmission of Consumption Norms and Undersaving
Speaker: David Hirshleifer, University of California, Irvine
Location: Baxter B125
Thursday March 10, 2016 10:00 AM
Data-driven, Interactive Scientific Articles in a Collaborative Environment with Authorea
Speaker: Alberto Pepe
Location: Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Thursday March 10, 2016 1:00 PM
Resnick Institute Seminar
ARPA-E: Opportunities for Students and Faculty and an Overview of its Portfolio
Speaker: David Brown, PhD, ARPA-E
Speaker: Isik C. Kizilyalli, PhD, ARPA-E
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday March 11, 2016 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Inference-Based Privacy Guarantees for Differentially Private Mechanisms, or: The Physics of Differential Privacy
Speaker: Robert Kleinberg, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
Location: Baxter B125
Monday March 14, 2016 6:30 PM
New Media Art Exhibition
Location: Jorgensen Lobby
Thursday March 17, 2016 10:00 AM
Interactive Modelling of Search Intent for Exploratory Search
Speaker: Antti Kangasrääsiö, Aalto University, Finland
Location: Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Tuesday March 29, 2016 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar Series
Towards simple, robust and approximately optimal auctions (part 1 of 2)
Speaker: Hu Fu, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday April 1, 2016 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
CANCELLED | Linde Institute/SISL Seminar
Location: Baxter 125
Friday April 1, 2016 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Revealing the Dirac fluid in graphene
Speaker: Andy Lucas, Harvard University
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday April 4, 2016 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Information-Theoretic Lower Bounds for Distributed Function Computation
Speaker: Assistant Professor Maxim Raginsky , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday April 4, 2016 4:00 PM
Talk with a Techer
Speaker: Gil Elbaz, Factual
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Tuesday April 5, 2016 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Multi-Use Applications for Distributed Energy Resource Aggregations
Speaker: Seyed Madaeni, SolarCity
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 5, 2016 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar Series
Towards simple, robust and approximately optimal auctions (part 2 of 2)
Speaker: Hu Fu, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday April 6, 2016 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Financial Intermediation Chains in an OTC Market
Speaker: Hongjun Yan, Associate Professor of Finance, Rutgers Business School
Location: Baxter B125
Thursday April 7, 2016 3:30 PM
Data Science: Machine Learning, Statistics, and Beyond
Speaker: Padhraic Smyth, University of California, Irvine
Location: Off Campus
Monday April 11, 2016 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Can Embedded Boundary Methods Compute High Reynolds Number Flow?
Speaker: Professor Marsha Berger, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 12, 2016 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Creating programmable disorder in self-assembled DNA nanostructures
Speaker: Lulu Qian, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 12, 2016 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar Series
Conservation Profiles, Functional Enrichment, and the Tree of Life
Speaker: Benny Chor, Tel-Aviv University
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday April 13, 2016 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Bipartite Perfect Matching is in quasi-NC
Speaker: Stephen Fenner, University of South Carolina
Location: Annenberg 308
Wednesday April 13, 2016 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
An Extrapolative Model of House Price Dynamics
Speaker: Charles Nathanson, Assistant Professor of Finance, Northwestern University
Location: Baxter B125
Thursday April 14, 2016 10:00 AM
A new model of stars
Speaker: David Hogg
Location: Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Friday April 15, 2016 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Modeling Human Play in Unrepeated Games
Speaker: Kevin Leyton-Brown, Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
Location: Baxter 125
Friday April 15, 2016 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Spectroscopic studies of layered iridium oxides
Speaker: Alberto de la Torre
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday April 18, 2016 12:00 PM
Data Science for Water Sustainability
Speaker: Noah Olsman, California Institute of Technology
Speaker: Patrick Atwater
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday April 18, 2016 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Subtle Is the noise, but malicious it is not: exploring the dynamic benefits of intracellular randomness
Speaker: Professor Mustafa Khammash, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ)
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 19, 2016 12:00 PM
The 21st Century Solar Army
Speaker: Bryan Hunter
Location: Winnett Lounge
Tuesday April 19, 2016 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Spy vs. Spy: Anonymous Messaging over Networks
Speaker: Giulia Fanti, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 19, 2016 5:00 PM
Challenges and Opportunities for Renewable Fuel Technologies
Speaker: John Gregoire, California Institute of Technology
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday April 22, 2016 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Information-theoretic bounds and phase transitions in community detection and high-dimensional clustering
Speaker: Cristopher Moore, Santa Fe Institute
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday April 22, 2016 3:00 PM
Accelerating Innovation: Physical Science Startups at Cyclotron Road
Speaker: Raymond Weitekamp, PhD in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday April 22, 2016 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Atom waveguide QED for efficient multiphoton sources
Speaker: Alejandro González-Tudela, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday April 25, 2016 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
CMS Seminar
Speaker: Hadas Kress-Gazit, Cornell University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday April 25, 2016 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Perception as an inference problem
Speaker: Bruno Olshausen, UC Berkeley
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday April 26, 2016 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Interactive and Interpretable Machine Learning Models for Human Machine Collaboration
Speaker: Been Kim, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 26, 2016 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar Series
Computing Isomorphisms between Finite Fields using Elliptic Curves (pt 1 of 2)
Speaker: Anand Kumar Narayanan, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday April 27, 2016 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Constant-round Interactive-proofs for Delegating Computation
Speaker: Omer Reingold, Samsung Research America
Location: Annenberg 308
Wednesday April 27, 2016 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
A new approach to monetary policy
Speaker: John Cochrane, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Location: Baxter B125
Wednesday April 27, 2016 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Topic to be Announced
Speaker: Huseyin Gulen
Location: Baxter B125
Wednesday April 27, 2016 4:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Speaker: Anima Anandkumar, U.C. Irvine
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday April 29, 2016 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Procrastination with Variable Present Bias
Speaker: Nicole Immorlica, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England
Location: Baxter 125
Friday April 29, 2016 3:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
A Posteriori Error Estimation Techniques for Finite Element Methods
Speaker: Professor Zhiqiang Cai, Purdue University
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday April 29, 2016 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Spectroscopic signatures of Weyl semimetals beyond photoemission
Speaker: Stefanos Kourtis, Princeton
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday May 2, 2016 12:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
The brain architecture of embodied action: The Distributed Adaptive Control Theory of decisions at a choice point
Speaker: Paul F.M.J. Verschure
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday May 2, 2016 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Illuminating the cortical circuits underlying decision making
Speaker: Karel Svoboda
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday May 2, 2016 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Bayesian inference and the low-dimensional structure of measure transport
Speaker: Professor Youssef Marzouk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 3, 2016 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Decision making at scale: Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Platforms
Speaker: Ashish Goel, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 3, 2016 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar Series
Computing Isomorphisms between Finite Fields using Elliptic Curves (pt 2 of 2)
Speaker: Anand Kumar Narayanan, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday May 4, 2016 9:30 AM
HPC computing in the cloud with Amazon Web Services
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday May 4, 2016 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Auctions with Endogenous Initiation
Speaker: Alex Gorbenko, Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall School of Business
Location: Baxter B125
Friday May 6, 2016 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Fast distance product of bounded difference matrices with applications to language edit distance and RNA folding
Speaker: Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Stanford
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday May 6, 2016 3:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Mechanisms underlying Economic Choice
Speaker: Gideon Nave, Caltech
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Friday May 6, 2016 3:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Real-Time Load-Side Control of Electric Power Systems
Speaker: Changhong Zhao, Caltech
Location: Moore 239
Monday May 9, 2016 2:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Thesis Seminar
Speaker: Mooseok Jang, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 121
Tuesday May 10, 2016 12:00 PM
Oringer Seminar Series
Computational Biology in Translational Cancer Research
Speaker: Xiaole Shirley Liu, Harvard School of Public Health
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday May 11, 2016 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Operator scaling and applications to non-commutative rational identity testing
Speaker: Ankit Garg, Princeton University
Location: Annenberg 308
Thursday May 12, 2016 10:00 AM
Thesis Seminar
Quantum of Vision: the speed vs accuracy tradeoff in visual recognition
Speaker: Bo Chen, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday May 13, 2016 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
The Invisible Hand of Laplace: the Role of Market Structure in Price Convergence and Oscillation
Speaker: Leonard Schulman, Caltech
Location: Baxter 125
Tuesday May 17, 2016 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Using data to Inform, Drive and Scale STEM Instructional Reform
Speaker: Marco Molinaro, University of California, Davis
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 17, 2016 2:30 PM
Thesis Seminar
Thesis Seminar
Speaker: Christos Thrampoulidis, Caltech
Location: Moore 139
Tuesday May 17, 2016 4:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, Not Engaged Argument
Speaker: Molly Roberts, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego
Location: Baxter 125
Thursday May 19, 2016 6:00 PM
Art + Tech Speaker Series
Art + Tech Panel: The Prosthetic Imaginary
Speaker: Sara Hendren, Olin College of Engineering
Speaker: Ken Pickar, Caltech
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday May 20, 2016 9:00 AM
UCI Southern California Machine Learning Symposium
Location: Off Campus
Friday May 20, 2016 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Spectrahedral lifts of polytopes, sums of squares, and quantum information
Speaker: James Lee, University of Washington
Location: Annenberg 314
Friday May 20, 2016 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Unexpected effects in periodic driving of gapless topological systems
Speaker: Michael Kolodrubetz, University of California, Berkeley
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday May 23, 2016 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
A Rodent Model of the "Cocktail Party Problem"
Speaker: Michael DeWeese, University of California Berkeley
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday May 24, 2016 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Data-Driven Design
Speaker: Ranjitha Kumar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday May 25, 2016 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
A Polynomial Lower Bound for Testing Monotonicity
Speaker: Eric Blais, University of Waterloo
Location: Annenberg 308
Wednesday May 25, 2016 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
High Frequency Market Making
Speaker: Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Otto A. Hack 1903 Professor of Finance and Economics, Princeton University
Location: Baxter B125
Wednesday May 25, 2016 4:30 PM
Thesis Seminar
Neural and hormonal systems underlying human reward-seeking behavior
Speaker: Simon Dunne, Caltech
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Friday May 27, 2016 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Interplay between Influence Dynamics and Social Networks: Centrality, Cooperative Games, and Scalable Algorithms
Speaker: Shang-Hua Teng, Seeley G. Mudd Professor, Computer Science Viterbi School of Engineering, USC
Location: Baxter 125
Friday May 27, 2016 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Many-body localization: a dynamical perspective
Speaker: Sarang Gopalakrishnan
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday May 31, 2016 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Building the Next Generation Power Grid
Speaker: Pedro Pizarro, PhD, Southern California Edison
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday June 1, 2016 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Prediction Versus Inducement and the Informational Efficiency of Going Concern Opinions
Speaker: Joseph Gerakos, Associate Professor of Accounting and David G. Booth Faculty Fellow, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Location: Baxter B125
Friday June 3, 2016 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Faster Algorithms for the Constrained k-means Problem
Speaker: Ragesh Jaiswal, University of California, San Diego
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday June 3, 2016 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Market Dynamics of Best-Response with Lookahead
Speaker: Krishnamurthy (Dj) Dvijotham, Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Science, Caltech
Location: Baxter 125
Friday June 3, 2016 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Boson condensation and instability in the tensor network representation of topological states
Speaker: Sujeet Shukla
Location: East Bridge 114
Saturday June 4, 2016 8:30 AM
SOCAMS 2016 (Southern California Applied Mathematics Symposium)
Location: Off Campus
Monday June 6, 2016 9:00 AM
Resnick Sustainability Institute Battery Symposium
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday June 9, 2016 10:00 AM
Computational Rediscovery of Some Classical Force Laws
Speaker: Mark Stalzer, Caltech
Location: Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Friday June 17, 2016 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Anomalous Floquet-Anderson Insulator as a Nonadiabatic Quantized Charge Pump
Speaker: Paraj Titum Bhattacharjee
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday June 27, 2016 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
The Diamond Norm as an Improved Regularizer for Low Rank Matrix Recovery
Speaker: Richard Kueng, University of Cologne, Germany
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday June 29, 2016 4:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Achievable Performance of Blind Policies in Heavy Traffic
Speaker: Bart Kamphorst, National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI)
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday July 7, 2016 5:30 PM
CD3 Seminar Series
Big-Data Technology Innovation: Hadoop, Real-time, and Machine Learning
Speaker: Andy Feng, Yahoo
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday August 4, 2016 9:00 AM
Workshops on Information and Social Economics
WISE16: Workshop on Information and Social Economics
Location: Baxter B125
Thursday August 4, 2016 10:00 AM
CD3 Seminar Series
Data integration in genomics and systems biology
Speaker: Roberto Tagliaferri, University of Salerno
Location: Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Thursday August 4, 2016 3:30 PM
Data Visualization Summer Internship Program Final Presentations
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Wednesday August 10, 2016 12:00 AM
15th International Conference on Complex Acute Illness
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Friday August 12, 2016 3:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Breaking symmetric cryptosystems using quantum period finding
Speaker: Marc Kaplan, Paris Tech
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday August 12, 2016 3:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar
Empirical Chaos Processes and their Application in Blind Deconvolution
Speaker: Felix Krahmer, Technische Universität München
Location: Moore 139
Wednesday August 24, 2016 10:30 AM
JPL Postdoc Research Day - Poster Session
Location: JPL
Monday September 12, 2016 8:30 AM
The Resnick Young Investigators Symposium
Location: Ramo Auditorium