October 2021
Friday, October 1st, 2021
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Permanent of random matrices from representation theory: moments, numerics, concentration, and comments on hardness of boson-sampling
Sepehr Ghazi Nezami,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
Preskill Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Control and spread of contagion in networks
Tarun Sabarwal,
Professor of Economics,
University of Kansas,
Monday, October 4th, 2021
12:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Learning in the Presence of Strategic Agents
Eric Mazumdar,
Assistant Professor,
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Department,
California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, October 5th, 2021
4:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Mateo Diaz
Complexity, conditioning, and saddle avoidance in nonsmooth optimization
Mateo Diaz,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:45pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar
Online Event
The Hierarchy of Knowledge in Machine Learning & Related Fields and its Consequences
- Public Event
Wednesday, October 6th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Realization of real-time fault-tolerant quantum error correction
Ciarán Ryan-Anderson,
Honeywell Quantum Solutions,
Thursday, October 7th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
The Mechanics of Slow Slip
Kyungjae Im,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Geology,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar -(POSTPONED until 10/22)
Online Event
Computing Wasserstein barycenters: easy or hard?
Jason Altschuler,
Final year PhD Student,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, October 8th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Nuclear spin-wave quantum register for a rare-earth ion qubit
Andrei Ruskuc,
Graduate Student,
Faraon Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
On the competition between advection and vortex stretching
Jiajie Chen,
Graduate Student,
Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Koopman-based Learning and Control of Agile Robotic Systems"
Carl Folkestad,
Graduate Student,
Control and Dynamical Systems,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 12th, 2021
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3:00pm
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Superpolynomial Lower Bounds Against Low-Depth Algebraic Circuits
Nutan Limaye,
Associate Professor,
Computer Science and Engineering,
IT University of Copenhagen,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Abstract and physical constraints on quantum LDPC codes
Anirudh Krishna,
Bloch Postdoctoral Fellow in quantum science and engineering,
Stanford,
Thursday, October 14th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Earthquake sequence simulations with fault zone fluid flow, pore pressure evolution, and viscoelasticity
Friday, October 15th, 2021
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Probing Topological Phenomena in Time-Multiplexed Photonic Resonator Networks
Christian Leefmans,
Graduate Student, Marandi Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Decentralized, Coordination-Free Algorithms for Learning while Matching
Eric Mazumdar,
Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Economics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Presents... How to Apply to Grad School
Online Event
Panelists: Katie Bouman (Assistant Professor of CMS, EE & Astronomy, Rosenberg Scholar), Elijah Cole (CMS Grad Student), Angela Gao (CMS Grad Student), Elizabeth Qian (CMS Von Karman Instructor) & Adam Wierman (Professor of CMS/Director of IST)
Monday, October 18th, 2021
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Learning Causality and Using Causality for Learning
Kun Zhang,
Associate Professor in Philosophy,
and Affiliate Faculty Member in Machine Learning Department,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar
Online Event
A Conversation with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson,
Marine Biologist, Policy Expert, Writer, and Brooklyn Native. She is founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for coastal cities, and is co-creator and co-host of the Spotify/Gimlet podcast How to Save a Planet.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Oscar Leong
Deep Generative Priors for Inverse Problems
Oscar Leong,
von Karman Instructor,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 20th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor
Vedika Khemani,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Stanford,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery, with Examples in Fluid Mechanics
Steven Brunton,
James B. Morrison Endowed Career Development Professor in Mechanical Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of Washington,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Megasupramolecules: From Disaster to Discovery
Online Event
Julia A. Kornfield (BS '83, MS '84),
Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor of Chemical Engineering,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, October 21st, 2021
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3:00pm
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Theory Group Seminar
Online Bipartite Matching and Adwords
Vijay Vazirani,
Distinguished Professor,
Computer Science,
UC, Irvine,
Friday, October 22nd, 2021
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Towards Many-Body Quantum Simulations of Interacting Bosons in Circuit QED
Steven M. Girvin,
Department of Physics and Yale Quantum Institute,
Yale University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Firm Commitments
Patrick Bolton,
Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business,
Graduate School of Business and Department of Economics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar
Computing Wasserstein barycenters: easy or hard?
Jason Altschuler,
Final year PhD Student,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Monday, October 25th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Neural Operator: Learning in Infinite Dimensions with Applications to PDEs
Animashree Anandkumar,
Bren Professor,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Dept.,
California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Pan Xu
Sample-Efficient Nonconvex Optimization Algorithms for Machine Learning Talk
Pan Xu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
8:00am
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Ongoing
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Degree vs. Approximate Degree and Quantum Implications of Huang's Sensitivity Theorem
Shravas Rao,
Postdoc,
Northwestern University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Decoding the Entanglement Structure of Monitored Quantum Circuits
Beni Yoshida,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Potential singularity of 3D incompressible Euler equations and the nearly singular behavior of 3D Navier-Stokes equations
Thomas Yizhao Hou,
Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Computing and Mathematical Science,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 28th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Cellular NeuroMechanics – Concussions, Traumatic Brain Injury and the mysterious Havana Syndrome
Christian Franck,
Grainger Institute for Engineering Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
5:30pm
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7:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Tech Talk: Software That Never Fails and Cannot Be Hacked
Dan O'Dowd,
CEO, Green Hills Software,
Friday, October 29th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Improved quantum error correction using soft information