April 2024
Monday, April 1st, 2024
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RSI Research Seminar
Developing isotopic tools to study carbon flow in cow rumen upon inhibition of methane-producing microbes
Elliot Mueller,
Grad student, Resnick Scholar,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
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William T. Freeman/MIT
Seeing Faces in Things: A Model and Dataset for Pareidolia
William T. Freeman,
Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
EECS,
Massachusetts Institue of Technology,
Thursday, April 4th, 2024
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Man-made earthquakes and the energy transition
Ruben Juanes,
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering / Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
MIT,
Friday, April 5th, 2024
10:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Experiments on a new favorite among diamond quantum networkers: the SnV center
Ronald Hanson,
Delft University of Technology,
12:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Growth and Likelihood
Jakub Steiner,
Senior Researcher, Cerge-Ei in Prague; Associate Professor (tenured), University of Zurich,
Monday, April 8th, 2024
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EE Devices Seminar- Alexander Lvovsky/Oxford
Optical neural networks: from computer vision to superresolution imaging
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Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Predictive coding in neural networks can recover the environment's map
James Gornet,
Electrical Engineering Department, Computation and Neural Systems,
Caltech,
Thursday, April 11th, 2024
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Do we really need all that data? Learning and control for contact-rich manipulation
Michael Posa,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics,
University of Pennsylvania,
Monday, April 15th, 2024
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Non-Backtracking spectral methods for sparse matrices and tensors
Yizhe Zhu,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California Irvine,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Non-reciprocity in quantum materials
Philip Moll,
Max-Planck Institute,
4:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Toward a Control Theory of LLMs
Aman Bhargava,
Electrical Engineering Department, Computational & Neural Systems,
Caltech,
Shi-Zhuo Looi,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Thursday, April 18th, 2024
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Micro/nanoscale reactive transport toward decarbonization
Wen Song,
Assistant Professor,
Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment,
University of Texas at Austin,
Friday, April 19th, 2024
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Quantum Advantage in Bayesian Games
Igal Milchtaich,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
Bar-Ilan University,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Majorana zero modes in germanium-based devices
Katharina Laubscher,
University of Maryland, College Park,
Monday, April 22nd, 2024
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Stochastic particle systems for global optimization: a journey from metaheuristics to PDEs
Lorenzo Pareschi,
Professor, Chair of Applied and Computational Mathematics,
School of Mathematics,
Heriot-Watt University,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
The Classical Limit of Quantum Max-Cut
Vir Bulchandani,
Leibniz Universität Hannover,
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
12:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Enhancing PDE Computations and Score-Based Generative Models through Optimization
Siting Liu,
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California Los Angeles,
Thursday, April 25th, 2024
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Vortex Dynamics in Inertial Fusion and Supernovae
Michael Wadas,
Cecil and Sally Drinkward Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, April 26th, 2024
12:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Price & Choose
Matias Nunez,
CNRS researcher and Professor,
Ecole Polytechnique,
Monday, April 29th, 2024
12:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Policy to Pollute: Strategic Bargaining and Dissolved Oxygen Depletion in Streams and Rivers in the American West: The Case of American Indian Water Rights
Laura Taylor,
Postdoctoral Instructor in the Social Sciences,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Statistical Foundations of Operator Learning
Nicholas H. Nelsen,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
2:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Learning Shallow Quantum Circuits
Robert Huang,
Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,