Keller Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences

Keller The Keller Colloquium in Computing + Mathematical Sciences is the main seminar series for the CMS department. It features cutting-edge technical talks from leaders in both academia and industry on a wide variety of topics ranging from applied mathematics to computer science.

The series is funded by an endowment established in memory of Herbert B. Keller, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology. A native of Paterson, New Jersey, Professor Keller earned his PhD in Mathematics from New York University in 1954. After working as a research scientist and associate professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU, he arrived at Caltech in 1965 as a visiting professor. He became a full professor two years later. At Caltech, Keller served as an Executive Officer for Applied Mathematics and Director of Caltech's branch of the Center for Research on Parallel Computation. He retired in 2000, but remained an active researcher, attending seminars, workshops, and conferences related to his fields of interest.

Monday May 24, 2021 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
The Role of Complexity Bounds in Optimization
Speaker: Stephen Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Online Event
Monday May 17, 2021 4:30 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
A Mathematical Perspective of Machine Learning
Speaker: Weinan E, Princeton University
Location: Online Event
Monday May 10, 2021 2:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Convex Graph Parameters and Their Applications
Speaker: Venkat Chandrasekaran, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Monday April 26, 2021 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Reinforcement Learning for Complex Environments: Tree Search, Function Approximators and Markov Games
Speaker: Qiaomin Xie, Cornell University
Location: Online Event
Monday April 12, 2021 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Analysis and Interventions in Large Network Games
Speaker: Asu Ozdaglar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Monday March 1, 2021 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Critical Computing Education
Speaker: Amy Ko, University of Washington, Seattle
Location: Online Event
Monday February 22, 2021 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
On Learning Kernels for Numerical Approximation and Learning
Speaker: Houman Owhadi, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Monday February 1, 2021 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Relaxed Differentiable Search Methods for Deep Neural Networks
Speaker: Jack Xin, University of California at Irvine
Location: Online Event
Monday January 25, 2021 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Solving Inverse Problems with Deep Learning
Speaker: Lexing Ying, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Monday November 16, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Sparse Integer Solutions of Systems of Linear Equations
Speaker: Jesus De Loera, University of California, Davis
Location: Online Event
Monday November 9, 2020 2:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Stochastic Gradient Descent: From Practice Back to Theory
Speaker: Rachel Ward, University of Texas at Austin
Location: Online Event
Monday November 2, 2020 2:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Harnessing Special Properties for Distributed Decision-Making in Network Systems
Speaker: Na Li, Harvard University
Location: Online Event
Monday October 26, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Topological Tools for Understanding Complex Systems
Speaker: Michelle Feng, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Monday October 12, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Discrete Differential Operators on Arbitrary Polygonal Meshes
Speaker: Mathieu Desbrun, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Monday October 5, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Optimization, Control and Learning in Smart Grid
Speaker: Steven Low, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Monday May 4, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
**CANCELLED** Variations on a theme by George Dantzig: Revisiting the principles of the Simplex Method
Speaker: Jesus De Loera, University of California, Davis
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday April 27, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
**CANCELLED**Cities, Voting, and Spiders Spinning under the Influence: Spatial Applications of Topological Tools
Speaker: Michelle Feng, University of California Los Angeles
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday March 2, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Learning Methods for Decentralized Decision Making in IoT/CPS Systems
Speaker: Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday February 3, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Algorithms for Eliciting Machine Learning Metrics
Speaker: Sanmi Koyejo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday January 27, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Challenges in Reliable Machine Learning
Speaker: Kamalika Chaudhuri, University of California, San Diego
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday January 13, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Explainable AI: Making Visual Question Answering Systems More Transparent
Speaker: Raymond Mooney, University of Texas at Austin
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 18, 2019 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Thompson Sampling for learning in online decision making
Speaker: Shipra Agrawal, Columbia University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday October 28, 2019 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Data-driven Decision Making and Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks
Speaker: Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday October 21, 2019 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems meet in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces.
Speaker: Boumediene Hamzi, Imperial College in London
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday April 29, 2019 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Data Perturbation for Data Science
Speaker: Richard Samworth, University of Cambridge & Teaching Fellow at Saint John's College
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday April 15, 2019 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Role of Information and Learning in Bayesian Routing Games
Speaker: Saurabh Amin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday March 4, 2019 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Inference, Computation, and Visualization for Convex Clustering and Biclustering
Speaker: Genevera Allen, Rice University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday February 25, 2019 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Statistical Learning & Dynamical Systems: exploiting hidden low-dimensional structures
Speaker: Mauro Maggioni, Johns Hopkins University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday February 4, 2019 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Rigidity and Deformation
Speaker: Nina Amenta, University of California at Davis
Location: Annenberg 105
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
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 October 29, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Randomized algorithms for accelerating matrix computations
Speaker: Gunnar Martinsson, University of Oxford, Visiting Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday October 22, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Polynomial Optimization and Dynamical Systems
Speaker: Amir Ali Ahmadi, Princeton University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday October 8, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
From Acoustics to the Lindelof Hypothesis
Speaker: Thanasis Fokas, University of Cambridge
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday May 21, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Redemption of the High Frequencies
Speaker: Associate Professor Laurent Demanet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday April 30, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Program Synthesis Meets Machine Learning
Speaker: Associate Professor Armando Solar-Lezama, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday April 16, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Fighting Black Boxes, Adversaries, and Bugs in Deep Learning
Speaker: Assistant Professor Percy Liang, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday April 9, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Sufficient Statistics for Online Prediction via the Burkholder Method
Speaker: Associate Professor Alexander (Sasha) Rakhlin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday February 26, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Making Intersections Safer with I2V Communication
Speaker: Professor Pravin Varaiya, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday February 12, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Learning Versatile Behavior and Reusable Models through Real-World Interaction
Speaker: Chelsea Finn, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday January 22, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Statistical Methods for Two Problems in Biology
Speaker: Associate Professor Daniela Witten, University of Washington
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday January 8, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Algorithmic Information Structure Design: Two Vignettes, Lessons Learned, and Challenges Ahead
Speaker: Assistant Professor Shaddin Dughmi, University of Southern California
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday December 18, 2017 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Scalable Bayesian Inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
Speaker: Michael Betancourt, University of Warwick
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 27, 2017 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Interlacing Families
Speaker: Assistant Professor Nikhil Srivastava, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 20, 2017 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Investigating large-scale brain networks using high-density EEG
Speaker: Quanying Liu, Caltech & HMRI
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 13, 2017 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Importance Sampling the Union of Rare Events with an Application to Power Systems Analysis
Speaker: Professor Art B. Owen, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 6, 2017 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Non-monotonicity of the matrix exponential function, why it is a problem, and what to do about it
Speaker: Professor Eric Carlen, Rutgers University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday October 30, 2017 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Market Power in Power Markets: Folklore, Proofs, and Counterexamples
Speaker: Assistant Professor Eilyan Bitar, Cornell University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday October 9, 2017 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
On Randomness and Determinism in High Dimension
Speaker: Professor Ramon van Handel, Princeton University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday May 22, 2017 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
A Dynamical View of Optimization Algorithms
Speaker: Ashia Wilson, University of California at Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 105