Long before the COVID-19 pandemic forced Caltech to shift to a model of remote learning, Adam Blank, Teaching Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, focused their research on new technologies and techniques with the potential to improve student comprehension and the quality of education. Blank concentrated on making classes work remotely and helping students overcome the issues inherent in being away from campus. "The biggest thing is that I am unafraid to use a new tool, see it fail, and switch to another new tool," Blank says. "I adapted quickly—I think it's the way that I would put it—because I am used to trying new technologies all over the place and seeing what works and what doesn't." [Caltech story]
Calendar
- February 26, 2021 11:00 AM IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Speaker: Hsin Yuan (Robert) Huang Online Event
- February 26, 2021 1:00 PM CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar Speaker: (1st speaker)Zongyi Li (2nd speaker)Ziyun Zhang Online Event
- March 1, 2021 4:00 PM H.B. Keller Colloquium Speaker: Amy Ko Online Event
- March 2, 2021 1:00 PM IQI Weekly Seminar Speaker: Iman Marvian Online Event
- March 3, 2021 9:00 AM Control Meets Learning Seminar Speaker: Dorsa Sadigh Online Event
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Past Events

TechFest
A day-long event focused on providing startups and companies with a chance for meaningful interactions with undergraduate and graduate students, providing students with an opportunity to find out more about the breadth of applications for computing and mathematical sciences across industries.

Carver Mead New Adventures Fund
The afternoon featured technical talks from Carver Mead New Adventures Fund recipients, alumni, and Carver Mead himself! Since 2014, this Fund has championed exceptional projects in their earliest stage of development – too early to attract industry or government support. This characteristic embodies Carver’s approaches and practices, with a continued goal to expand Carver’s daring approach to research and innovation throughout the Caltech campus. We highlighted some of the adventurous research that has been explored by grants made possible by this initiative with you.

IST Meeting of the Minds
A day-long research conference featuring talks, laboratory open houses, and poster presentations by distinguished faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and researchers from JPL showcasing the latest and most exciting work that is underway in CMS.

Alumni College: Caltech Computes
A day-long event that will explore the ways in which computational thinking is disrupting science and engineering, and creating entirely new disciplines with "CS+X".

Ten Years of DNA Origami
A symposium to honor Paul Rothemund’s contribution to the field.

Hacktech
Caltech's premier interdisciplinary hackathon.

One Entangled Evening
A night of science and entertainment celebrating Feynman’s quantum legacy.

CDS 20th Anniversary
Control and Dynamical Systems celebrates its 20th anniversary.

SoCalNEGT
Southern California Symposium on Network Economics and Game Theory.

CS 25th Anniversary
Computer Science celebrated 25 years of innovative, ground-breaking research.