Past Seminars

Thursday May 6, 2021 1:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Multi-Resolution Lattice Green's Function Method for High Reynolds Number External Flows
Speaker: Ke Yu, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 6, 2021 12:00 PM
Diverse Minds Seminar Series
More than one sensorial modality to do mainstream science in astronomy?
Speaker: Dr. Wanda Díaz-Merced
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 6, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Additive Manufacturing of Polymers and Polymer Composites
Speaker: Mehran Tehrani, The University of Texas at Austin
Location: Online Event
Wednesday May 5, 2021 3:30 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
From Bipedal to Quadrupedal Locomotion, Experimental Realization of Lyapunov Approaches
Speaker: Wenlong Ma, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday May 5, 2021 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
Rational Anabolic Persuasion
Speaker: Ran Spiegler, Tel Aviv University & University College London
Location: Online Event
Wednesday May 5, 2021 9:00 AM
Data-Driven Dynamical Systems and Control
Speaker: Steve Brunton, University of Washington
Location: Online Event
Monday May 3, 2021 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Provable Representation Learning: The Importance of Task Diversity and Pretext Tasks
Speaker: Qi Lei, Princeton
Location: Online Event
Monday May 3, 2021 12:00 PM
RSI Research Seminar Series
Resnick Sustainability Institute Research Seminar
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 29, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Instabilities and flow-induced defects in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals
Speaker: Irmgard Bischofberger, MIT
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 28, 2021 4:00 PM
Diverse Minds Seminar Series
A Conversation with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Speaker: Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 28, 2021 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
Safety-Critical Control of Dynamic Robots
Speaker: Aaron D. Ames, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 28, 2021 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
Unpaired Kidney Exchange: Overcoming Double Coincidence of Wants without Money (with Julien Combe, Yinghua He, Victor Hiller, Robert Shimerk and Olivier Tercieux)
Speaker: Mohammad Akbarpour, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 28, 2021 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Localization, stochastic localization, and Chen's recent breakthrough on the Kannan-Lovasz-Simonivits conjecture
Speaker: Ronen Eldan, Weizmann Institute
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 28, 2021 9:00 AM
TBA
Speaker: Patricio Antonio Vela, Georgia Tech
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 26, 2021 1:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Dielectric metasurfaces for integrated imaging devices and active optical elements
Speaker: Hyounghan Kwon, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Monday April 26, 2021 9:00 AM
Thesis Defense: Reed McCardell
Location: Online Event
Friday April 23, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Prethermalization and dynamics in topological SYK pumps
Speaker: Iliya Esin
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 22, 2021 4:00 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Creating a Dynamic Virtual Presence
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 22, 2021 12:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Learnable Information in Deep Neural Networks
Speaker: Stefano Soatto, UCLA / AWS
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 22, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
The Viscoelastic Behavior of a Main-Chain Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
Speaker: Thao (Vicky) Nguyen, Johns Hopkins
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 21, 2021 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
The mechanics of finite-time blowup in an Euler flow
Speaker: Dwight Barkley, University of Warwick
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 21, 2021 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
Stochastic Price Adaptation, Waiting Lists, and Stochastic Gradient Descent
Speaker: Itai Ashlagi, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 21, 2021 9:00 AM
TBA
Speaker: Necmiye Ozay, University of Michigan
Location: Online Event
Monday April 19, 2021 4:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Improving Policy Learning via Programmatic Domain Knowledge
Speaker: Yisong Yue, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Monday April 19, 2021 12:00 PM
RSI Research Seminar Series
Resnick Sustainability Institute Research Seminar
Location: Online Event
Friday April 16, 2021 3:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Shock Generated Vortex Rings Drive Entrainment and Cooling in Flow Induced by a Spark Discharge
Speaker: Bhavini Singh, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University
Location: Online Event
Friday April 16, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Building a quantum computer with cat codes
Speaker: Fernando Brandão
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 15, 2021 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Coping with Trauma: Noninvasive Technologies for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Speaker: Nil Gurel
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 15, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Misbehavin': anomalous atoms in solids and the extremes of thermal transport
Speaker: Prof. Austin J. Minnich, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 14, 2021 12:00 PM
A Fireside Chat with Emily Denton
Location:
Wednesday April 14, 2021 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
From Nash to Dominant: The Natural Index of Strategic Stability
Speaker: Adam Tauman Kalai, Microsoft Research
Speaker: Ehud Kalai, Northwestern University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 14, 2021 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
New Techniques for Proving Fine-Grained Average-Case Hardness
Speaker: Andrea Lincoln, UC Berkeley
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 14, 2021 9:00 AM
Real-time Distributed Decision Making in Networked Systems
Speaker: Na Li, Harvard 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
Friday April 9, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Universal Lindblad Equation for Open Quantum Systems
Speaker: Frederik Nathan
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 8, 2021 12:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Decentralized Multi-Robot Active Search and Rescue
Speaker: Ramina Ghods, Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 8, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Strength of materials under high dynamic pressures
Speaker: Dr. Suraj Ravindran, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 7, 2021 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
A Network Solution to Robust Implementation: the case of Identical but Unknown Distributions
Speaker: Antonio Penta
Location: Online Event
Monday April 5, 2021 12:00 PM
RSI Research Seminar Series
Resnick Sustainability Institute Research Seminar
Location: Online Event
Monday April 5, 2021 11:00 AM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
A Networked Systems Approach to Engineering Synthetic Biological Patterning in Theory and Practice
Speaker: Melinda Perkins, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Location: Online Event
Friday April 2, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Verifying quantum computations using interactive proofs
Speaker: Urmila Mahadev
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 1, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Phase-field modeling and simulation in biomechanics: cell migration and other applications
Speaker: Dr. Adrian Moure, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 31, 2021 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
Optimal Auctions: Non-Expected Utility and Constant Risk Aversion
Speaker: Benny Moldovanu, Universität Bonn
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 31, 2021 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Optimal Sub-Gaussian Mean Estimation in R
Speaker: Jasper Lee, Brown University
Location: Online Event
Friday March 26, 2021 11:00 AM
Imaging Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87's Black Hole
Speaker: Monika Mościbrodzka, Radboud University
Location: Online Event
Friday March 26, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Simulating Quantum Field Theories with Qubit Models
Speaker: Alex Buser
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 24, 2021 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
Mixed Logit and Pure Characteristics Models
Speaker: Jay Lu, UCLA
Speaker: Kota Saito, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday March 22, 2021 2:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Reducing Computational Costs for Many-Body Physics Problems
Speaker: Erika Ye, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday March 22, 2021 12:00 PM
RSI Research Seminar Series
Resnick Sustainability Institute Research Seminar
Location: Online Event