October 2013
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013
9:00am
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5:00pm
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Thursday, October 3rd, 2013
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
The Community Seismic Network and Quake-Catcher Network: monitoring building response to earthquakes through community instrumentation
Monica Kohler,
Senior Research Fellow ,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, October 4th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Life-Cycle Performance Monitoring and Evaluation of Civil Infrastructure
Hui Li,
Harbin Institute of Technology, China,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Equilibria Via Samples and Testing Equilibrium Behavior
Yakov Babichenko,
Wally Baer and Jeri Weiss Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Monday, October 7th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Identification & Modeling of Complex Nonlinear Systems from Uncertain/limited Information
Eleni Chatzi,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ),
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Thursday, October 10th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Statistical and Computational Tradeoffs in High Dimensional Learning
Philippe Rigollet,
Assistant Professor,
Operations Research and Financial Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Monday, October 14th, 2013
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Nimble Algorithms for Cloud Computing
Ravi Kannan,
Principal Researcher,
Microsoft Research, India,
Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Approximate Formal Verification Using Model-Based Testing
Rance Cleaveland,
Professor of Computer Science,
University of Maryland,
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 17th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Estimating Collapse Vulnerability of Buildings in Earthquakes using a Butterworth Filter
Song Shiyan,
Dr.,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSRG Seminar
Scalable Multi-Class Traffic Management in Data Center Backbone Networks
Amitabha Ghosh,
UtopiaCompression,
Friday, October 18th, 2013
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Project Design with Limited Commitment and Teams
George Georgiadis,
Linde Institute Postdoctoral Instructor in Business, Economics, and Management,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Chemistry as a New Information Technology
Erik Winfree,
Professor of Computer Science, Computation and Neural Systems, and Bioengineering,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 24th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Premixed Combustion Subjected to Intense Turbulence Levels - Physical Mechanisms Identified Using High Speed Imaging
James F. Driscoll,
Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
University of Michigan,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL DAY/TIME**
Shuffling Cards and Adding Numbers
Persi Diaconis,
Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics,
Stanford University,
Monday, October 28th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, October 29th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Geoengineering the Earth's Climate (The World's Largest Control Problem!)
Doug MacMartin,
Senior Research Associate in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
8:00am
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Ongoing
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4:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Seminar
Petri nets, chemistry, and quantum theory
John Baez,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California - Riverside,
Thursday, October 31st, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Flame Synthesized Metal Oxide Nanowires as Effective Photoanodes for Photoelectrochemical Water-Splitting
Xiaolin Zheng,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,