Past Seminars

Thursday February 25, 2021 4:00 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Capturing (and Keeping!) Attention on Zoom
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 25, 2021 12:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Accelerated gradient methods on Riemannian manifolds - Recording available upon request
Speaker: Suvrit Sra, Massachusetts Institue of Technology
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 25, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Modeling and Simulation Tools for Industrial and Societal Research Applications: Digital Twins and Genome-based Machine-learning
Speaker: Tarek Zohdi, UC Berkeley
Location: Online Event
Wednesday February 24, 2021 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
From viscous to crustal fingering: phase-field modeling of complex interfacial flow
Speaker: Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday February 24, 2021 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
Background Risk and Small-Stakes Risk Aversion
Speaker: Luciano Pomatto, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday February 24, 2021 9:00 AM
TBA
Speaker: Stefano Soatto, UCLA / Amazon Web Services
Location: Online Event
Tuesday February 23, 2021 5:00 PM
IDEAS Lecture Series: Innovation and Discovery in Engineering and Applied Science
How Do You Like Your Materials – with Multi-functionality and Reconfigurability or Just Lightweight? Additive Manufacturing of 3D-Architected Materials
Speaker: J.R. Greer
Location: Online Event
Tuesday February 23, 2021 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Towards Learning Robotic Dynamics: Application to Multirotor Takeoff and Landing
Speaker: Daniel Pastor Moreno, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday February 22, 2021 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
On Learning Kernels for Numerical Approximation and Learning
Speaker: Houman Owhadi, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Monday February 22, 2021 12:00 PM
RSI Research Seminar Series
Resnick Sustainability Institute Research Seminar
Location: Online Event
Monday February 22, 2021 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Dynamic Bipedal Locomotion: From Hybrid Zero Dynamics to Control Lyapunov Functions via Experimentally Realizable Methods
Speaker: Jenna Reher, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 18, 2021 12:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Fluid-elastic Structure Interactions: From Fluid-Induced Cracks to Ice-Shelf Disintegration
Speaker: Ching-Yao Lai, Princeton University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday February 17, 2021 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
Approximation Theory and Metric Entropy of Neural Networks
Speaker: Jonathan Siegel, Penn State
Location: Online Event
Wednesday February 17, 2021 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Fooling Constant-Depth Threshold Circuits
Speaker: William Hoza, University of Texas, Austin
Location: Online Event
Wednesday February 17, 2021 9:00 AM
Learning Risk and Social Behavior in Mixed Human-Autonomous Vehicles Systems
Speaker: Daniela Rus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Tuesday February 16, 2021 1:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Classical and quantum communication through quantum fields
Speaker: Eduardo Martin-Martinez, University of Waterloo
Location: Online Event
Friday February 12, 2021 1:00 PM
Interpolated Factored Green Function method for accelerated solution of scattering problems
Speaker: Christoph Bauinger, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday February 12, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
From quantum error correction to critical theories: A holographic journey
Speaker: Alexander Jahn
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 11, 2021 4:00 PM
Diverse Minds Seminar Series
Mapping the structure of emotions
Speaker: Dr. Kafui Dzirasa
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 11, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Safe, Interaction-Aware Decision Making and Control for Robot Autonomy
Speaker: Marco Pavone, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday February 10, 2021 9:00 AM
TBA
Speaker: Anca Dragan, UC Berkeley
Location: Online Event
Monday February 8, 2021 12:00 PM
RSI Research Seminar Series
Resnick Sustainability Institute Research Seminar
Speaker:
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 4, 2021 1:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Resolvent Modeling of Turbulent Jets
Speaker: Ethan Pickering, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 4, 2021 12:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Machine Learning for Partial Differential Equations
Speaker: Michael P. Brenner, Harvard Univeristy
Location: Online Event
Thursday February 4, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Biomimetic and Living Materials for the Built Environment
Speaker: Wil V. Srubar III, University of Colorado Boulder
Location: Online Event
Wednesday February 3, 2021 9:00 AM
Safe, Interaction-Aware Decision Making and Control for Robot Autonomy
Speaker: Marco Pavone, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Monday February 1, 2021 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Relaxed Differentiable Search Methods for Deep Neural Networks
Speaker: Jack Xin, University of California at Irvine
Location: Online Event
Friday January 29, 2021 1:00 PM
Multiscale Invertible Generative Networks for High-Dimensional Bayesian Inference Problems
Speaker: Shumao Zhang, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday January 29, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Using Metrological Bounds in Quantum Error Correction
Speaker: Aleksander Kubica
Location: Online Event
Thursday January 28, 2021 12:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Finding Global Minima via Kernel Approximations
Speaker: Francis Bach, INRIA/ENS
Location: Online Event
Thursday January 28, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Representations vs Algorithms: Symbols and Geometry in Robotics
Speaker: Nicholas Roy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 27, 2021 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Atomic-scale Understanding of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials
Speaker: Salva Salmani-Rezaie, University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 27, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Atomic-scale Understanding of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials
Speaker: Salva Salmani-Rezaie, University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 27, 2021 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
Modeling and optimizing set functions via RKHS embeddings
Speaker: David Ginsbourger, University of Bern
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 27, 2021 9:00 AM
Learning for Safety-Critical Control in Dynamical Systems
Speaker: Yisong Yue, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday January 25, 2021 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Solving Inverse Problems with Deep Learning
Speaker: Lexing Ying, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Thursday January 21, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Phase-field modeling of brittle fracture: an overview and a new paradigm to address multiple solutions
Speaker: Laura De Lorenzis, ETH Zürich
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 20, 2021 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
Predicting the Course of Covid-19 and other epidemic and endemic disease
Speaker: William Shadwick, Omega Analysis Limited
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 20, 2021 9:00 AM
Data-Enabled Predictive Control
Speaker: Florian Dörfler, ETH Zürich
Location: Online Event
Friday January 15, 2021 1:00 PM
Estimating model error using sparsity-promoting ensemble Kalman inversion
Speaker: Jinlong Wu, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday January 14, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Computational and data-driven models for modern medicine
Speaker: Spencer Bryngelson, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 13, 2021 5:00 PM
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Watson Lecture - Artificial Intelligence: How it Works and What it Means for the Future
Speaker: Yisong Yue, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 13, 2021 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
This seminar has been rescheduled to Wednesday, February 10.
Speaker: Luciano Pomatto, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 13, 2021 9:00 AM
The Provable Effectiveness of Policy Gradient Methods in Reinforcement Learning and Controls
Speaker: Sham Kakade, University of Washington
Location: Online Event
Monday January 11, 2021 4:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Reconciling our Biases with our Values
Speaker: Dr. Hanna Song, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday January 8, 2021 1:00 PM
Latent-variable modeling: causality, robustness, and false discovery methods
Speaker: Armeen Taeb, ETH Zürich
Location: Online Event
Thursday January 7, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Kinetic Theory for Superparameterization of Sea Ice Dynamics
Speaker: Dimitris Giannakis, New York University.
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 6, 2021 4:00 PM
Diverse Minds Seminar Series
The Hierarchy of Knowledge in Machine Learning & Related Fields and Its Consequences
Speaker: Dr. Timnit Gebru, Black in AI
Location: Online Event
Tuesday December 22, 2020 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Designing Hysteresis Free High-Valent Redox for Electrochemical Applications
Speaker: Iwnetim Abate, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Friday December 18, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Post-Anthropocene Computation: Rewilding the Quantum Field
Speaker: Natalie Klco
Location: Online Event