Seminars for 2008-2009

Monday October 6, 2008 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Learning Sparse Representations to Restore, Classify, and Sense Images and Videos
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday October 10, 2008 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Social Affective Neuroscience in Japan
Speaker: Hidehiko Takahashi, National Institute of Radiological Sciences
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday October 13, 2008 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
From Particle to Kinetic and Hydrodynamic Descriptions of Flocking
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday October 17, 2008 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Optimality in Movement Planning
Speaker: Michael Landy, New York University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday October 20, 2008 1:00 PM
Implementation of a Titan Saturn System Mission: One Giant Leap Beyond Cassini-Huygens
Speaker: Kim R. Reh, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Monday October 20, 2008 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Spectral Computations in Hilbert Spaces
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday October 21, 2008 12:00 PM
Titan and Enceladus: What Now Beyond Cassini-Huygens?
Speaker: Jonathan Lunine, University of Arizona
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday October 21, 2008 8:00 PM
Wouk Lecture: J&#0246;rg Imberger: <I>Life in a Changing Climate</I>
Location: Beckman Auditorium
Friday October 24, 2008 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Correlating Blogs and Business Events
Speaker: Michael Olson, Caltech
Location: Baxter 237
Monday October 27, 2008 11:00 AM
CACR Seminar Series
Models of Onteractions of Ca(2+), CaM, and Monomeric Catalytic Subunits of CaMKII: A Piece of the Post-Synaptic Signaling Network Puzzle
Speaker: Shirley Pepke, Caltech
Location: Moore B280
Monday October 27, 2008 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Onsager's Conjecture and a Model for Turbulence
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday October 31, 2008 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Hatice Ozsoy, Caltech
Location: Baxter 237
Monday November 3, 2008 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
A Family of Expanding Wave Solutions of the Einstein Equations that Includes the Standard Model of Cosmology
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Wednesday November 5, 2008 4:00 PM
Computer Science Seminar
Computing Game-Theoretic Solutions
Location: Jorgensen 74
Friday November 7, 2008 12:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Revisiting Log-Linear Learning: Asynchrony, Completeness, and a Payoff-based Implementation
Speaker: Jason Marden, Caltech
Location: Baxter 237
Monday November 10, 2008 1:00 PM
CACR Seminar Series
Making and Using VO Tools to Study the QSO Distribution
Speaker: Giuseppe Longo, University Federico II (Naples, Italy)
Location: Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Monday November 10, 2008 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Social Environment Affects the Expression of Chemical Signals and the Frequency of Mating in Drosophila Melanogaster
Speaker: Joel Levine, University of Toronto
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday November 10, 2008 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Swarming by Nature and by Design
Location: Firestone 306
Friday November 14, 2008 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Novel Electromagnetic Band Gap Designs: From Microwaves to Submillimeter Waves
Speaker: Nuria Llombart, Caltech
Location: Moore B280
Monday November 17, 2008 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Markovian Energies Minimization via Maximum Flow
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday November 18, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Accurate and Decoherence-Protected Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Speaker: Daniel Lidar, USC
Location: Jorgensen 74
Friday November 21, 2008 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Traveling Wave Silicon Integrated Circuits for High-Speed Communications
Speaker: James Buckwalter, UC San Diego
Location: Moore B280
Monday November 24, 2008 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Anesthesia: A Tool for the Study of Consciousness and Cognition
Speaker: Mike Alkire, UC Irvine
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday December 1, 2008 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
New, Fast and Effective Algorithms for Imaging, Compressed Sensing and Related Problems, with Applications
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday December 2, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Periodic Table for Topological Insulators and Superconductors
Speaker: Alexei Kitaev, Caltech
Location: Jorgensen 74
Friday December 5, 2008 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Hardness of Approximation Results for Network Formation Games (Techniques from Theoretical Computer Science for Problems in Revealed Preference)
Speaker: Shankar Kalyanaraman, Caltech
Location: Baxter 237
Monday December 8, 2008 1:30 PM
E/ME 105 Presentation: Product Design for the Developing World
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Tuesday December 9, 2008 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Spectral Gap in Adiabatic Quantum Computation
Speaker: Mohammad Amin, Caltech
Location: Jorgensen 74
Friday December 12, 2008 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Mohamed Mostagir, Caltech
Location: Baxter 237
Friday January 9, 2009 11:00 AM
Computer Science Seminar
Homology Flows, Cohomology Cuts
Location: Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Monday January 12, 2009 2:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Theory of Strongly Interacting Fermions
Speaker: Peter Drummond, Swinburne University of Technology
Location: Jorgensen 156
Monday January 12, 2009 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Analysis of the Performance of an Electrical Current Procedure for Disrupting Fibrous Capsule Tissue Formation Around Biomaterial Implants
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday January 13, 2009 10:30 AM
Computer Science Seminar
Retransmissions and Heavy Tails
Location: Spalding Laboratory 102
Tuesday January 13, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Dynamical System Identification: A Convex Optimization Perspective
Location: Moore 239
Tuesday January 20, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement Renormalization: Foundations, Status and Prospects
Speaker: Guifre Vidal, University of Queensland
Location: Jorgensen 74
Tuesday January 20, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Dynamical System Identification: An Operator Theoretic Approach
Location: Moore 239
Wednesday January 21, 2009 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Entropy Functions, Polymatroids and Network Coding
Speaker: Alex Grant, University of South Australia
Location: Moore B280
Thursday January 22, 2009 12:00 PM
IST Student Day
Location: Winnett Quad
Monday January 26, 2009 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Learning from Multiple Measurements
Speaker: Sam Roweis, University of Toronto
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday January 27, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Operational Meaning of Min- and Max-entropy
Speaker: Christian Schaffner, Centre for Mathematix and Computer Science (CWI)
Location: Jorgensen 74
Tuesday January 27, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Wireless Network Information Flow: A Deterministic Approach
Location: Moore 239
Wednesday January 28, 2009 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Interference Alignment and the Capacity of Wireless Networks
Speaker: Syed Ali Jafar, UC Irvine
Location: Moore B280
Friday January 30, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Photonic Cluster State Machine Gun
Speaker: Daniel Lindner, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Location: Jorgensen 74
Monday February 2, 2009 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Wave-Corpuscle Mechanics for Elementary Charges
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday February 3, 2009 3:30 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Localization of Mushy-Layer Convection
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday February 3, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Topic to be announced.
Location: Moore 239
Monday February 9, 2009 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Sensory-Motor Integration and Plasticity in Spatial Orientation
Speaker: Gary Paige, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Wednesday February 11, 2009 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
The Development of Raptor Codes
Speaker: Amin Shokrollahi, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Location: Moore B280
Friday February 13, 2009 4:00 PM
Computer Science Seminar
From Philosophical to Industrial Logics
Location: Jorgensen 74
Tuesday February 17, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Interacting Anyonic Fermions in a Two-body Color Code Model
Speaker: Hector Bombín, Universidad Complutense, Madrid
Location: Jorgensen 74
Tuesday February 17, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Coding for Distributed Storage
Location: Moore 239
Wednesday February 18, 2009 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Three Results on the Broadcast Channel
Speaker: Chandra Nair, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Location: Moore B280
Monday February 23, 2009 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Memory Formation in the Hippocampal Formation: A Multi-region Analysis
Speaker: James Knierim, University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday February 24, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Continuous vs. Discrete Oracles
Speaker: Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Location: Jorgensen 74
Tuesday February 24, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Coding for Distributed Storage
Location: Moore 239
Wednesday February 25, 2009 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Detection of Information Flow and Anonymous Networking
Speaker: Lang Tong, Cornell Univerwity
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday February 25, 2009 4:00 PM
Computer Science Seminar
Who Am I Competing Against? Identifying Adversarial Protocols against TCP in a Congested Link
Location: Jorgensen 74
Monday March 9, 2009 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Advancing the Legacy of William James: The Radically Empirical Study of the Mind
Speaker: B. Allan Wallace, Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday March 10, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement in Quantum Games
Speaker: Thomas Vidick, UC Berkeley
Location: Jorgensen 74
Tuesday March 10, 2009 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Cooperative Communications and Coding
Speaker: Gerhard Kramer, USC
Location: Moore B280
Monday March 16, 2009 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Do We Perceive or Infer the Time When We Decided to Act?
Speaker: William P. Banks, California State Polytechnic University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Wednesday March 18, 2009 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
An Avalanche of Help: Analyzing Cooperative Broadcast Schemes in the Limit
Speaker: Anna Scaglione, UC Davis
Location: Moore B280
Friday March 20, 2009 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Large Scale Radiating Integrated Circuits
Speaker: Aydin Babakhani, Caltech
Location: Moore B280
Monday March 23, 2009 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neuronal Oscillations as Instruments of Sensory Selection
Speaker: Charles Schroeder, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday March 31, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Topic to be announced.
Location: Moore 239
Friday April 3, 2009 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Synthetic Micro/Nanosystems for Rapid Biomolecule Analysis and Stem Cell Research
Speaker: Jianping Fu, the University of Pennsylvania
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday April 7, 2009 11:00 AM
CACR Seminar Series
Monitoring Earth Surface Dynamics with Optical Imagery
Speaker: Sebastien Leprince, Caltech
Location: Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Tuesday April 7, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Algorithms for Testing Properties of Probability Distributions
Speaker: Sergey Bravyi, IBM
Location: Jorgensen 74
Friday April 10, 2009 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Nanodiamond-Based Therapeutic Delivery Agents For Cancer Treatment
Speaker: Dean Ho, Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Location: Moore B280
Monday April 13, 2009 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Certified Reduced Basis Methods for Wave Problems
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Monday April 13, 2009 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The Role of Basal Ganglia-Forebrain Circuits for Vocal Learning
Speaker: Michale Fee, MIT
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday April 20, 2009 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Structured Matrix Computations: Recent Advances and Future Work
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday April 21, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Simulating Quantum Systems Using Tensor Networks and Monte Carlo
Speaker: Norbert Schuch, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
Location: Jorgensen 74
Tuesday April 21, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Mathematics of Information Seminar--TBA
Location: Moore 239
Monday April 27, 2009 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Sparse Remote Sensing&mdash;Helmholtz Meets Heisenberg
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday April 28, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Heralded Polynomial-Time Quantum State Tomography
Speaker: Steve Flammia, Perimeter Institute
Location: Jorgensen 74
Tuesday April 28, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Beyond Convexity: Submodularity in Machine Learning Part II
Location: Moore 239
Friday May 1, 2009 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Unraveling Fine-Scale and Cell-Type Specificity of Cortical Circuits
Speaker: Edward M. Callaway, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday May 4, 2009 4:00 PM
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Series
"An Optical Gas Microscope for Quantum Simulation"
Speaker: Simon Foelling, Harvard University
Location: Downs 107
Monday May 4, 2009 4:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Achieving Complex Global Objectives via Simple Local Rules: Applications in Networking and Medical Imaging
Speaker: Yi Lu, Stanford University
Location: Moore B270
Monday May 4, 2009 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Hidden Structures in Homogenization and Inverse Homogenization
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday May 5, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Multi Prover Interactive Proofs with Communicating Provers
Speaker: Avinatan Hassidim, MIT
Location: Jorgensen 74
Tuesday May 5, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Some Topics in Algorithmic Mechanism Design Part I
Location: Moore 239
Monday May 11, 2009 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
400 Years Later: What Does the Hippocampus Do?
Speaker: Larry Swanson, USC
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday May 12, 2009 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Feedback and Control in Biological Circuit Design
Speaker: Richard Murray, Caltech
Location: Jorgensen 74
Tuesday May 12, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Some Topics in Algorithmic Mechanism Design Part II
Location: Moore 239
Friday May 15, 2009 11:00 AM
CACR Seminar Series
Analysis and Visualization of the Cosmic Web
Speaker: Miguel Angel Aragon Calvo, Johns Hopkins University
Location: Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Friday May 15, 2009 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Why Design Must Change: Rethinking Digital Design
Speaker: Mark Horowitz, Stanford University
Location: Moore B280
Monday May 18, 2009 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Convex Algebraic Geometry
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday May 19, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Matthew Elliott, University of Southern Indiana
Location: Jorgensen 74
Tuesday May 19, 2009 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Information Inequalities
Location: Moore 239
Wednesday May 20, 2009 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
On Optimal Fix-free Codes
Speaker: Serap Savari, Texas A&M University
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday May 27, 2009 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Opportunistic Routing in Wireless Networks: A Stochastic/Adaptive Control Approach
Speaker: Tara Javidi, UC San Diego
Location: Moore B280
Monday June 8, 2009 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar&mdash;<i>cancelled</i>
Speaker: Carlos Brody, Princeton University
Location: IMSS 120
Wednesday June 17, 2009 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Robust Principal Component Analysis: Exact Recovery of Corrupted Low-Rank Matrices via Convex Optimization
Speaker: John Moore, Microsoft Research Asia
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday June 23, 2009 2:00 PM
CACR Seminar Series
The Meta Clustering and Consensus Approach to Interactive Data Analysis
Speaker: Roberto Tagliaferri, NEuRoNe Lab, DMI Università di Salerno, Fisciano (Sa)
Location: Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Tuesday June 23, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Quantum Approach to Thermal Equilibrium
Speaker: Tony Short, University of Cambridge
Location: Jorgensen 74
Tuesday June 30, 2009 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Some Topological Applications of Tensor Networks
Speaker: Miguel Aguado, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
Location: Jorgensen 74
Monday July 20, 2009 4:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Adding Incentives to Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems
Speaker: Aviv Zohar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Location: Baxter 237
Friday July 24, 2009 2:00 PM
CACR Seminar Series
Compiler-Aided Soft Error Protection
Speaker: Aviral Shrivastava, Arizona State University
Location: Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)