Seminars for 2010-2011

Monday October 4, 2010 3:00 PM
Random Convex Programs
Speaker: Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore, Politecnico di Torino
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday October 4, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Sweeping Preconditioners for the Helmholtz Equation
Speaker: Lexing Ying, the University of Texas at Austin
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 5, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement Spectrum of Fractional Quantum Hall States and Quantum Spin Chains
Speaker: Ronny Thomale, Princeton University
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday October 6, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
An Axiomatic Theory of Fairness
Speaker: Mung Chiang, Princeton University
Location: Moore B270
Wednesday October 6, 2010 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Can Random Access Be Optimal?
Speaker: Mung Chiang, Princeton University
Location: Moore B280
Monday October 11, 2010 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure and Abstraction
Speaker: Josh Tenebaum, MIT
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday October 11, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Scheduling for the Tail: Robustness versus Optimality
Speaker: Adam Wierman, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 12, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Some Applications of Distributed Estimation and Control
Speaker: Raffaello D'Andrea, ETH Zurich
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday October 18, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Sampling in Spaces of Bandlimited Functions and Variational Splines on Combinatorial Graphs
Speaker: Misha Pesenson, Caltech
Speaker: Isaac Z. Pesenson, Temple University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 19, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Protecting the Social Graph
Speaker: Tao Stein, Facebook
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 19, 2010 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Recovery of Compressively Sampled Signals Using Partial Support Information
Speaker: Hasson Mansour, University of British Columbia
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday October 20, 2010 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Learning Tree and Latent Tree Graphical Models: Consistency,Sample Complexity and Error Rates
Speaker: Anima Anandkumar, UC Irvine
Location: Moore B280
Monday October 25, 2010 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Francisco Valero-Cuevas, USC
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday October 25, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Convex Duality in Nonconvex Quadratic Optimization
Speaker: Marc Teboulle, Tel-Aviv University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 26, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Vision of a Visipedia
Speaker: Pietro Perona, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 26, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Small Gaps, Localization, and the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm
Speaker: David Gossett, MIT
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday October 26, 2010 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Topic and speaker to be announced.
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday October 26, 2010 8:00 PM
Resnick Institute Lecture Series
Extrapolating the Past v. Inventing the Future
Speaker: Vinod Khosla
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Wednesday October 27, 2010 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Automatic Modulation Classification
Speaker: Asoke Nandi, the University of Liverpool
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday October 27, 2010 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Networked Target Tracking Architectures
Speaker: Randy Paffenroth, Numerica Corporation
Location: Firestone 308
Monday November 1, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Rank/Sparsity Minimization and Latent Variable Graphical Model Selection
Speaker: Venkat Chandrasekaran, MIT
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 2, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
A (Hypothetical) Data to Discovery Engine
Speaker: Mark Stalzer, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 2, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Spin Systemsas Toy Models for Emergent Gravity
Speaker: Fotini Markopoulou, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday November 3, 2010 7:30 PM
Art in Nature: Exploring Patterns and Emotion in the Wilderness
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Thursday November 4, 2010 3:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Hybrid Optical Sensors for Extreme Temperature Measurement in Next Generation Higher Efficiency Greener Power Plants
Speaker: Nabeel Riza, University of Central Florida
Location: Moore B280
Friday November 5, 2010 7:30 AM
Centennial Celebration for Caltech Electrical Engineering
Location: Beckman Auditorium, Exterior Promenade
Friday November 5, 2010 7:30 AM
Centennial Celebration for Caltech Electrical Engineering
Location: Beckman Auditorium, Exterior Promenade
Saturday November 6, 2010 12:00 PM
CMI Faculty Lunch
Location: Annenberg 121
Monday November 8, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Numerical Methods for Geometric Elliptic Partial Differential Equations
Speaker: Adam Oberman, Simon Fraser University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 9, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Whither Smartphone Research?
Speaker: Ramesh Govindan, USC
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 9, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Limits on Estimating a Waveform
Speaker: Carlton Caves, University of New Mexico
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday November 9, 2010 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Adaptive Submodularity: A New Approach to Active Learning and Stochastic Optimization
Speaker: Daniel Golovin, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday November 9, 2010 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
A Generalized Coupon Collector Problem
Speaker: Weiyu Xu, Cornell University
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday November 10, 2010 4:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
All Pairs Shortest Path in Quadratic Time with High Probability
Speaker: Benny Sudakov, UCLA
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday November 11, 2010 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Syndrome Decoding and Overlapping Equalization for Wireless Transmission Systems
Speaker: Klaus Hueske, TU Dortmund University
Location: Moore B280
Friday November 12, 2010 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Wireless Monitoring of Vital Signs—From Theory to Prototypes
Speaker: Andreas F. Molisch, USC
Location: Moore B280
Monday November 15, 2010 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Detection and Imaging with Waves in Heterogeneous, Strongly Backscattering Media
Speaker: Liliana Borcea, Rice University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 16, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Smart Grid
Speaker: Steven Low, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 16, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Learning from Examples Using Quantum Annealing
Speaker: Hartmut Neven, Google
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday November 16, 2010 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Gaussian Process Optimization in the Bandit Setting: No Regret and Experimental Design
Speaker: Andreas Krause, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday November 17, 2010 4:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Position-Based Cryptography: Classical and Quantum
Speaker: Rafail Ostrovsky, UCLA
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday November 19, 2010 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Special Computation and Neural Systems Seminar&mdash;<i>cancelled</i>
Speaker: Castos Rivadulla, University of the District of Columbia
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Friday November 19, 2010 4:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
An Optimization-Based Framework for Automated Market-Making
Speaker: Jenn Wortman Vaughan, UCLA
Location: Annenberg 213
Saturday November 20, 2010 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Topic and speaker to be announced.
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday November 22, 2010 12:00 PM
Learning Compact Representation of Data with Statistical Independence Measures
Speaker: Fei Sha, USC
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday November 23, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Information Processing with Atomic Spin Ensembles
Speaker: Eugene Polzik, Copenhagen University
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday November 30, 2010 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Steering Human Insight for Large-Scale Visual Learning
Speaker: Kristen Grauman, the University of Texas at Austin
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 30, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Money
Speaker: Andrew Lutomirski, MIT
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday November 30, 2010 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Large Population Stochastic Dynamic Games (Part 1)
Speaker: Sachin Adlakha, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday December 3, 2010 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Can Neurons Sense Millimeter Waves?
Speaker: Peter H. Siegel, Caltech
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday December 7, 2010 2:30 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Constructing Elliptic Curve Isogenies in Quantum Subexponential Time
Speaker: Andrew Childs, University of Waterloo
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday December 7, 2010 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Large Population Stochastic Dynamic Games (Part 2)
Speaker: Sachin Adlakha, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday December 13, 2010 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Mechanisms of Associative Learning in Young and Aging Brain
Speaker: John Disterhoft, Northwestern University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday December 14, 2010 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Subsystem and Stabilizer Codes with Spatially Local Generators
Speaker: Sergey Bravyi, IBM Research
Location: Annenberg 107
Monday January 3, 2011 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Cloaking via Change of Variables for the Helmholtz Equation
Speaker: Hoai-Minh Nguyen, New York University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 4, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Emergent spacetime and quantum entanglement
Speaker: Mark Van Raamsdonk, University of British Columbia
Location: Annenberg 107
Thursday January 6, 2011 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neural Computations in the Retina and Beyond
Speaker: Markus Meister, Harvard University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Friday January 7, 2011 4:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Input Output Analysis of Power Control in Wireless Networks
Speaker: Anders Möller, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday January 10, 2011 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neurogrid: Emulating a Million Neurons in the Cortex
Speaker: Kwabena Boahen, Stanford University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday January 10, 2011 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Acoustic, Electromagnetic and Quantum Cloaking
Speaker: Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 11, 2011 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Computational Morphodynamics
Speaker: Eric Mjolsness, UC Irvine
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 11, 2011 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Metric Structures on Datasets: Stability and Classification of Algorithms
Speaker: Facundo Memoli, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday January 12, 2011 10:00 AM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
The Certified Reduced Basis Method for High-Fidelity Simulation in Many Query and Real-Time Applications
Speaker: David Knezevic, MIT
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 18, 2011 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Machine Learning Challenges in Ecological Science and Ecosystem Management
Speaker: Thomas Dietterich, Oregon State University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 18, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Probing Majorana Edge States With a Flux Qubit
Speaker: Chang-Yu Hou, Leiden University
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday January 21, 2011 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Optogenetic fMRI: Genetically Targeted Brain Circuit Analysis and Debugging
Speaker: Jin-hyung Lee, UCLA
Location: Moore B280
Monday January 24, 2011 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Sparsity, Convexity and L1 Minimization in Blind Source Separation
Speaker: Jack Xin, UC Irvine
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 25, 2011 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Visual Pattern Recognition in Google Goggles
Speaker: Hartmut Neven, Google
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 25, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Anyons, twists and topological codes
Speaker: Hector Bombin, Perimeter Institute
Location: Annenberg 107
Thursday January 27, 2011 10:30 AM
Lemelson-Caltech Student Prize Presentations
Location: Gates-Thomas 206
Friday January 28, 2011 1:30 PM
Memorial Service for Jerrold E. Marsden
Location: Dabney Hall, Lounge
Friday January 28, 2011 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Standard-Based 60GHz Transceivers for Uncompressed High Definition A/V and Ultra High Speed Data Networking
Speaker: Sohrab Emami, SiBEAM Inc.
Location: Moore B280
Monday January 31, 2011 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Linear and Piecewise Linear Data Analysis
Speaker: Arthur Szlam, New York University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 1, 2011 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Parallelism and Time in Hierarchical Self-Assembly
Speaker: David Doty, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 1, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Interacting Quantum Field Theories from Cold Atoms
Speaker: Jiannis Pachos, University of Leeds
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday February 2, 2011 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Polar Codes and Power Blackouts
Speaker: Edmund Yeh, Yale University
Location: Moore B280
Friday February 4, 2011 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Modeling Microbial Cooperation
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday February 7, 2011 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
The Mathematics of Crime Hotspots
Speaker: Martin Short, UCLA
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 8, 2011 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
The Complexity of Simple Programs
Speaker: Damien Woods, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 8, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Optical Continuous-Variable Cluster States
Speaker: Nicolas Menicucci, Perimeter Institute
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday February 11, 2011 4:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Next Generation Warning and Alerting Systems
Speaker: Nalini Venkatasubramanian, UC Irvine
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday February 14, 2011 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Dark Computation in the Neocortex: How the Power of the Neocortex May Mostly Reside in 'Invisible' Dendritic Computations
Speaker: Bartlett Mel, USC
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday February 14, 2011 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Fast Algorithms for Oscillatory Kernels
Speaker: Lexing Ying, the University of Texas at Austin
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 15, 2011 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Living at the ‘Edge’ of the Smart Grid: Empowering Personal Energy Systems
Speaker: Eve Schooler, Intel Research
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 15, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantifying the Relation Between Work and Information-recent Results Using the Smooth Entropy Approach
Speaker: Oscar Dahlsten, National University of Singapore
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday February 18, 2011 4:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
A Non-cooperative Perspective of 'Cooperative' Communications
Speaker: Rahul Jain, USC
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday February 22, 2011 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage: Creating a Sustainable Energy Future
Speaker: Sossina Haile, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 22, 2011 12:00 PM
Sustainability Speaker Series
Thermochemical Fuels
Speaker: Sossina Haile, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 22, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Proofs for Classical Theorems
Speaker: Andrew Drucker, MIT
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday February 23, 2011 11:45 AM
Special Presentation: "Meet the Volts"
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday February 23, 2011 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Firm-based Measurements of Market Power in Transmission-constrained Electricity Markets
Speaker: Ross Baldick, the University of Texas at Austin
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday February 24, 2011 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Statistical Modeling over Graphs via Convex Optimization
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday February 28, 2011 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Fine Spatial Vision with Jittering Eyes
Speaker: Michele Rucci, Boston University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday February 28, 2011 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Approximate Acoustic
Speaker: Hongyu Liu, UC Irvine
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday March 1, 2011 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
The Economics of Net Neutrality
Speaker: Simon Wilkie, USC
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday March 1, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Entanglement and Renormalization in Many Body Systems
Speaker: Brian Swingle, MIT
Location: Annenberg 107
Thursday March 3, 2011 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
A Clean-Slate Design of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Using On-Off-Division Duplex
Speaker: Dongning Guo, Northwestern University
Location: Moore B270
Thursday March 3, 2011 4:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Limits of Communication
Speaker: Alexander Sherstov, Microsoft Research
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday March 7, 2011 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Multi-scale Dynamics and Information
Speaker: N. Sri Namachchivaya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday March 8, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum Theory Cannot be Extended
Speaker: Roger Colbeck, Perimeter Institute
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday March 9, 2011 3:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
The Nebula Future Internet Architecture: A Research Agenda
Speaker: Jonathan Smith, the University of Pennsylvania
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday March 9, 2011 4:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Efficient Bayesian Methods for Clustering Data
Speaker: Katherine Heller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday March 9, 2011 4:00 PM
Lemelson $30,000 Student Prize Announcement and Wine Reception
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Monday March 14, 2011 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Reggie Edgerton, UCLA
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday March 21, 2011 4:15 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Efficient Stochastic Particle Dynamics for High-Dimensional Simulation
Speaker: Matthew West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday March 25, 2011 11:30 AM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Extending General Equilibrium Theory to the Digital Economy
Speaker: Vijay Vazirani, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday March 25, 2011 2:30 PM
CACR Seminar Series
Computer-assisted Biomedical Image Analysis
Speaker: Metin Gurcan, Ohio State University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday March 28, 2011 4:00 PM
Computer Science Seminar
Approximate Mechanism Design Without Money
Speaker: Ariel Procaccia, Harvard University
Location: Baxter B125
Monday March 28, 2011 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Robert Nowak, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday March 28, 2011 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Integral Absorbing Boundary Conditions in the Time Domain
Speaker: Francisco-Javier Sayas, University of Delaware
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday March 29, 2011 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Imaging the Earth’s Interior
Speaker: Yu Zhang, CGGVeritas
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday March 30, 2011 4:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Formal Verification of Software Infrastructure: From Science to Engineering
Speaker: Adam Chlipala, Harvard University
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday April 1, 2011 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Ultra-Low {Power, Size} Platforms for Brain-Machine Interfaces
Speaker: Jan Rabaey, UC Berkeley
Location: Moore B280
Friday April 1, 2011 4:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Delay and Power-Optimal Control in Multi-Class Queueing Systems
Speaker: Chih-ping Li, USC
Location: Annenberg 213
Saturday April 2, 2011 2:00 PM
SCI-Arc/Caltech Solar Decathlon House Groundbreaking Ceremony
Location: See event detail for location
Monday April 4, 2011 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Parallel-in-Time Integrators for Hamiltonian Systems
Speaker: Frederic Legoll, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, France
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 5, 2011 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
High-Level Visual Recognition
Speaker: Fei-Fei Li, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 5, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Visualization of Two Qubits
Speaker: Yosi Avron, Technion
Location: Annenberg 107
Thursday April 7, 2011 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
A New Approach to Robustness and Flexibility in High-dimensions
Speaker: Sujay Sanghavi, the University of Texas at Austin
Location: Moore B280
Friday April 8, 2011 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Constructive Cortical Computation
Speaker: Rodney Douglas, Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH/ETH, Zurich
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday April 11, 2011 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Fritz Sommer, UC Berkeley
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday April 11, 2011 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Multiscale Geometric Methods for Noisy Point Clouds in High Dimensions
Speaker: Mauro Maggioni, Duke University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 12, 2011 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Underwater Acoustic Channels: Opportunities for Information and Communication Theories
Speaker: Urbashi Mitra, USC
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday April 13, 2011 4:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Towards Reliable Storage Systems
Speaker: Haryadi Gunawi, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday April 14, 2011 9:00 AM
Critical Materials Use in Sustainable Energy Applications Symposium
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Monday April 18, 2011 4:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Software Synthesis using Automated Reasoning
Speaker: Ruzica Piskac, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Switzerland
Location: Moore B270
Monday April 18, 2011 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Nonlocal Maximum Principles for Active Scalars
Speaker: Alex Kiselev, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 19, 2011 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Game Theory for Security: Lessons Learned from Deployed Applications
Speaker: Milind Tambe, USC
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 19, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Improving Telescopes with Quantum Repeaters
Speaker: Daniel Gottessman, Perimeter Institute
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday April 20, 2011 4:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Markov Logic in Machine Reading
Speaker: Hoifung Poon, University of Washington
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday April 25, 2011 12:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Transforming Light Polarization into Matter-spin-qubits and Back, Using Single, Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Speaker: David Gershoni, Israel Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday April 25, 2011 3:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Algorithms, Obstructions, and Beating Exhaustive Search
Speaker: Ryan Williams, IBM Almaden Research Center
Location: Moore B270
Monday April 25, 2011 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Linear Algebra and Machine Learning of Large Informatics Graphs
Speaker: Michael Mahoney, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 26, 2011 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
A Revealed Preference Approach to Computational Complexity in Economics
Speaker: Adam Wierman, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 26, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Spacetime Could be Simultaneously Continuous and Discrete, in the Same Way that Information Can Be
Speaker: Achim Kempf, University of Waterloo
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday April 29, 2011 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Robust System Design
Speaker: Subhasish Mitra, Stanford University
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday May 3, 2011 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
After "Eureka!": Technology, Finance, and Policy Keys to Our Energy Future
Speaker: Arati Prabhakar, U.S. Venture Partners
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 3, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Parallel Repetition of Entangled Games
Speaker: Thomas Vidick, UC Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 107
Monday May 9, 2011 4:00 PM
Whole-cell Recordings in the Hippocampus of Freely Moving Rats
Speaker: Albert Lee, HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday May 9, 2011 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Stochastic Data Reduction, Data-Driven Uncertainty Quantification and Multiscale Modeling of Complex Systems
Speaker: Guang Lin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 10, 2011 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Maximally Representative Allocations for Guaranteed Delivery Advertising Campaigns
Speaker: R. Preston McAfee, Yahoo! Research
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 10, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Thermal Stability of Topological Order and Feasibility of Efficient Self-Correcting Quantum Memory
Speaker: Beni Yoshida, UC Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday May 13, 2011 4:00 PM
Information Science and Technology Seminar
Overconnectivity - How Internet Enhanced Positive Feedback Drives Institutional Change
Speaker: William Davidow, Mohr Davidow Ventures and Caltech Trustee
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday May 16, 2011 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
How Early Experience Shapes Circuits for Vocal Perception and Production
Speaker: Richard Mooney, Duke University School of Medicine
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday May 16, 2011 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Some Simple Models to Study the Stability of Incompressible Fluid
Speaker: Congming Li, University of Colorado at Boulder
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 17, 2011 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Sustainable Ecosystems: Enabled by Supply and Demand Side Management
Speaker: Chandrakant Patel, HP Labs
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday May 18, 2011 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Bounding the Rate Distortion Performance of Voice and Video Codecs
Speaker: Jerry Gibson, UC Santa Barbara
Location: Moore B280
Monday May 23, 2011 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The Role of Basal Ganglia-Forebrain Circuits in Vocal Learning in the Songbird: A Hypothesis
Speaker: Michale Fee, MIT
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday May 23, 2011 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
On Growth and Form: Mathematics, Mechanics and Morphogenesis
Speaker: L. Mahadevan, Harvard University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 24, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
What Can We Learn from Quantum Entanglement Spectra?
Speaker: Daniel Arovas, UC San Diego
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday May 27, 2011 11:00 AM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
How to Help (and Be Helped) in Distributed Data Compression
Speaker: Aaron Wagner, Cornell University
Location: Moore B280
Friday May 27, 2011 4:00 PM
Development of Next-generation Millimeter-wave Components and Subsystems for Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Thermodynamic Profiles
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday May 31, 2011 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Trying to Compute Capacity of Two-Dimensional Constraints
Speaker: Brian Marcus, University of British Columbia
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 31, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Shangyu Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Location: Annenberg 107
Thursday June 9, 2011 1:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Intrinsic Gradient Networks
Speaker: Jason Rolfe, Caltech
Location: Moore B280
Thursday June 16, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological Phases in 1D: An Entanglement Point of View
Speaker: Frank Pollmann, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday June 28, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Quntum Substate Theorem
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday July 5, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topologically Protected Quantum State Transfer in a Chiral Spin Liquid
Speaker: Norman Yao, Harvard University
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday July 12, 2011 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A Mechanical Quantum Mechanical Resonator
Speaker: Aaron O'Connell, Pivit Computing, and University of California Santa Barbara
Location: Annenberg 107