Seminars for 2012-2013

Tuesday October 2, 2012 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological order with tensor networks on infinite cylinders: an explicit wavefunction for fractionalized quasi-particle excitations
Speaker: Guifre Vidal, Perimeter Institute
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday October 5, 2012 9:30 AM
Thesis Seminar
Technology Advances for Radio Astronomy
Speaker: Damon Russell, California Institute of Technolgoy
Location: Annenberg 107
Monday October 8, 2012 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Deconstructing (and Reconstructing) Wall Turbulence: A Systems Approach
Speaker: Beverley McKeon, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 9, 2012 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Chaitanya Swamy, University of Waterloo
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday October 12, 2012 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Bargaining and Power in Networked Markets
Speaker: Emerson Melo, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Monday October 15, 2012 3:00 PM
Engineering Challenges at Quora
Speaker: Adam D'Angelo, Quora
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday October 15, 2012 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Computational Complexity of Convex Bodies
Speaker: Alexander Barvinok, University of Michigan
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday October 16, 2012 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
The Potts/Tutte Connection with an External Field
Speaker: Joanna Ellis-Monaghan, Saint Michael's College
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 16, 2012 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
A classical leash for a quantum tiger: Key distribution with minimal assumptions
Speaker: Ben Reichardt, University of Southern California
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday October 16, 2012 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Bulk and Thin Film Electrical Contacts, RF Heating and Field Enhancement
Speaker: Y.Y. Lau, University of Michigan
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday October 19, 2012 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Fractional Matching Markets
Speaker: Vikram Manjunath, Universite de Montreal
Location: Baxter 127
Monday October 22, 2012 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Recent Advances in the Theory of Linear Programming
Speaker: Jesús De Loera, UC Davis
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 23, 2012 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Crossing the Software Education Chasm using Software-as-a-Service and Cloud Computing
Speaker: Armando Fox, UC Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 23, 2012 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Efficient distributed quantum computing
Speaker: Steve Brierley, University of Bristol
Location: Annenberg 107
Thursday October 25, 2012 3:00 PM
Resnick Institute Fellows Seminar: Brush Polymers for Optoelectronic Devices and Branch Flow Model: Relaxation, Convexification and Application to Optimal Power Control
Speaker: Raymond Weitekamp
Speaker: Masoud Farivar
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday October 26, 2012 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Projects and Team Dynamics
Speaker: George Georgiadis, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Location: Baxter 127
Monday October 29, 2012 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Coding for Distributed Storage
Speaker: Alex Dimakis, USC
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 30, 2012 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Computational and Sample Tradeoffs via Convex Relaxation
Speaker: Venkat Chandrasekaran, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 30, 2012 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological stabilizer codes with a power law energy barrier via welding
Speaker: Kamil Michnicki, University of Washington
Location: Annenberg 107
Monday November 5, 2012 8:00 PM
Resnick Institute Lecture Series
A Discussion with Dr. Arun Majumdar
Speaker: Arun Majumdar
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Tuesday November 6, 2012 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
A Network Approach to Public Goods
Speaker: Matt Elliott, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday November 7, 2012 4:00 PM
Dow SISCA Awards Reception and Ceremony
Location: Jorgensen 156
Friday November 9, 2012 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Real Time Markets: Success or Disaster?
Speaker: John Ledyard, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Friday November 9, 2012 1:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Everything you always wanted to know about Locust Olfaction
Speaker: Sina Tootoonian
Location: Moore 139
Monday November 12, 2012 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Solution Structure and Operator Symmetries: A Spin on High-Order, Compact and Practical Numerical Schemes for Differential Equations
Speaker: Jean-Christophe Nave, McGill University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 13, 2012 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
A Unified Framework for Approximating and Clustering Data
Speaker: Michael Langberg, The Open University of Israel
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday November 15, 2012 3:00 PM
Resnick Institute Seminar Series
Resnick Institute Seminar
Speaker: Prineha Narang, Caltech
Speaker: Rob Usiskin, Caltech
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday November 16, 2012 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Average Testing and Pareto Efficiency
Speaker: Yakov Babichenko, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Monday November 19, 2012 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
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Speaker: Uri Hasson, Princeton University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday November 19, 2012 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Multiprocessor Deadline Scheduling for Large Scale Charging of Electric Vehicles
Speaker: Lang Tong, Cornell University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 20, 2012 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Emergence and frustration of Magnetism in a trapped ion quantum simulator
Speaker: Wes Campbell, University of Southern California
Location: Annenberg 107
Monday November 26, 2012 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Cortical circuits underlying olfaction
Speaker: jeffrey Isaacson, University California, San Diego
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday November 27, 2012 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Vehicular Cloud Computing
Speaker: Mario Gerla, UCLA
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday November 28, 2012 4:00 PM
EE Systems Seminar
Speaker: Suhas Diggavi, UCLA
Location: Moore B280
Thursday November 29, 2012 3:00 PM
Resnick Institute Seminar Series
Resnick Institute Seminar
Speaker: Paul De Martini
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday November 30, 2012 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Efficiency Loss in Cournot Oligopolies
Speaker: Yunjian Xu, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Tuesday December 4, 2012 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
3D Nanofocusing
Speaker: Hyuck Choo, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday December 10, 2012 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Of Mice and Monkeys: A Journey into the Visual System
Speaker: Edward Callaway, Salk Institute
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday January 8, 2013 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
New Coding Methods for Nonvolatile Memories
Speaker: Andrew Jiang, Texas A&M University
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday January 10, 2013 8:00 AM
Resnick Institute Accepting Applications for Graduate Research Fellowships in Renewable Energy and Sustainability Science
Location:
Thursday January 17, 2013 3:00 PM
Resnick Institute Seminar Series
Optoelectronic Devices Based on Colloidal Quantum Dot Solids
Speaker: Ted Sargent, University of Toronto
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday January 22, 2013 12:00 PM
Oringer Seminar Series
Lessons Learned: The Journey Of One Technical Woman
Speaker: Telle Whitney, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday January 28, 2013 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neuronal Mechanisms of Visual Categorization and Decision Making
Speaker: David Freeman, The University of Chicago
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday January 28, 2013 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Quantifying uncertainty and improving statistical predictions for partially observed turbulent dynamical systems
Speaker: Michal Branicki, New York University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 29, 2013 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Collaborative Image Analysis with the Masses: Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker: Alexandre Cunha, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday February 4, 2013 10:00 AM
Thesis Seminar
Synthetic Molecular Machines for Active Self-Assembly: Prototype Algorithms, Designs and Experimental Verification
Speaker: Nadine Dabby, California Institute of Technology
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Monday February 4, 2013 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
A Fresh Look at Active Sets
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 5, 2013 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Building an Information Theory for Layered Packet Communication
Speaker: Tracey Ho, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday February 6, 2013 11:00 AM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Quantification of Nonlinearity
Speaker: Norden Huang, National Central University, Taiwan
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday February 8, 2013 3:30 PM
Resnick Institute Seminar Series
Challenges and Opportunities for Long Life Energy Storage Technologies
Speaker: Ping Liu, ARPA-E
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Monday February 11, 2013 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
tba
Speaker: Gabriel Kreiman, Harvard Medical School
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday February 11, 2013 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
**CANCELED** Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 12, 2013 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Neurons Anticipated Mathematical Statistics and Information Theory by 100 Million Years
Speaker: Toby Berger, University of Virginia
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 19, 2013 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Massively Multiplayer On-Orbit Space Exploration
Speaker: Michael Johnson, JA
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday February 20, 2013 3:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
The Exascale Co-design Center for Materials in Extreme Environments
Speaker: James Belak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Location: Annenberg 107
Thursday February 21, 2013 11:30 AM
Resnick Institute Seminar Series
Resnick Institute Grid 2020 Discussion: Distributed Energy Resource Services & Pricing
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday February 25, 2013 3:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Cluster Trees, Near-Neighbor Graphs, and Continuum Percolation
Speaker: Sanjoy Dasgupta, UC San Diego
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Monday February 25, 2013 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
tba
Speaker: Michael Mauk, The University of Texas at Austin
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday February 26, 2013 12:00 PM
Oringer Seminar Series
MisMatch.com: Ethics Education and Engineering Practice
Speaker: Robert McGinn, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday February 27, 2013 4:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Learning and Optimization
Speaker: Karthik Sridharan, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday March 4, 2013 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Cell type specific computations in retina and cortex
Speaker: Botond Roska
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday March 4, 2013 4:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
New Systems, Algorithms, and Data Structures for High Availability
Speaker: Siddhartha Sen, Princeton University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday March 4, 2013 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
**CANCELED** Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday March 5, 2013 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Interactive Editing of Deformable Simulations
Speaker: Jernej Barbic, University of Southern California
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday March 6, 2013 4:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Learning in an Adversarial World, with Connections to Pricing, Hedging and Routing
Speaker: Jacob Abernethy, University of Pennsylvania
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday March 7, 2013 4:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Learning with Humans in the Loop
Speaker: Yisong Yue, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday March 11, 2013 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
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Speaker: Jack Gallant, University California, Berkeley
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday March 11, 2013 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Seismic Interferometry
Speaker: Robert Clayton, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday March 13, 2013 4:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Speaker: Zvika Brakerski, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday March 14, 2013 9:45 AM
From Monopoles to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Thursday March 14, 2013 8:00 PM
Resnick Institute Lecture Series
A Discussion with Steve Koonin
Location: Ramo Auditorium
Wednesday March 20, 2013 4:00 PM
Bioengineering Lecture Series
"Systems Metabolic Engineering"
Speaker: Sang Yup Lee, KAIST
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Monday March 25, 2013 8:00 AM
2013 Caltech Space Challenge
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Monday March 25, 2013 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Dissecting the Fabric of the Neocortex
Speaker: Andreas Tolias, Baylor College of Medicine
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Thursday March 28, 2013 4:00 AM
EE Systems Seminar
Speaker: Robert Gray, Stanford
Location: Moore B280
Thursday April 4, 2013 6:00 PM
Smart Grid: A Road Guide to Smart Choices for the Technology Entrepreneur
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 9, 2013 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Deep Learning: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
Speaker: Pierre Baldi, University of California in Irvine
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday April 12, 2013 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Quadrature by Expansion: A New Method for the Evaluation of Layer Potentials
Speaker: Leslie Greengard, New York University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday April 15, 2013 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Imaging neural ensembles during learning
Speaker: Takaki Komiyama, University California, San Diego
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday April 15, 2013 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Development and Applications of Numerical Solvers for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations on Octree Adaptive Grids
Speaker: Frederic Gibou, UC Santa Barbara
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 16, 2013 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
The Shape of Data
Speaker: Gunnar Carlsson, Ayasdi Inc.
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday April 18, 2013 12:30 PM
Resnick Institute Seminar Series
Resnick Institute Grid 2020 Discussion: Transactive Energy & Distributed Markets
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday April 19, 2013 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
The Empirical Implications of Rank in Bimatrix Games
Speaker: Siddharth Barman, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Monday April 22, 2013 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
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Speaker: Bence Olveczky, Harvard University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday April 22, 2013 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Spectral Element Methods in Motion
Speaker: David Kopriva, The Florida State University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 23, 2013 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Networking Data Centers Randomly
Speaker: Philip Brighten Godfrey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday April 26, 2013 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
All Men Are Created Unequal -- A Wiser Wisdom of the Crowd
Speaker: Pietro Perona, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Monday April 29, 2013 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
**CANCELED** Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 30, 2013 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Decoding Natural Images in the Visual Brain
Speaker: Diane Beck, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday May 6, 2013 4:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Tracking Multiphase Physics: Geometry, Foams, and Thin Films
Speaker: James Sethian, UC Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 7, 2013 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
A Fresh Perspective: Learning to Sparsify for Detection in Massive Noisy Sensor Networks
Speaker: Matthew Faulkner, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday May 10, 2013 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
All Men Are Created Unequal -- A Wiser Wisdom of the Crowd
Speaker: Pietro Perona, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Friday May 10, 2013 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
High-Resolution mm-Wave Pulsed Radar for Imaging and Gesture Detection
Speaker: Amin Arbabian, Stanford University
Location: Moore B280
Monday May 13, 2013 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Morphological Reduction of Neurons
Speaker: Steven Cox, Rice University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 14, 2013 12:00 PM
Oringer Seminar Series
The Myth of Economies of Scale: The Vendor Business Model
Speaker: Janet Campagna, QS Investors, LLC
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday May 17, 2013 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Nonlinear Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits
Speaker: Hossein Hashemi, University of Southern California (USC)
Location: Moore B280
Monday May 20, 2013 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Trying to understand the cerebellum well enough to build one
Speaker: Michael D. Mauk, University of Texas at Austin
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday May 21, 2013 12:00 PM
Oringer Seminar Series
Solving Hard Problems in Science and Education with Game-Based Expert Development
Speaker: Zoran Popović, University of Washington
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 21, 2013 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Multilevel Monte Carlo Method
Speaker: Mike Giles, University of Oxford
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday May 23, 2013 4:00 PM
Big Data, Deep Data, and the Effect of System Architectures on Performance
Speaker: Peter M. Kogge McCourtney, Univ. of Notre Dame
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday May 24, 2013 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Individual Preferences for Privacy
Speaker: Rachel Cummings, Northwestern University
Location: Baxter 127
Saturday May 25, 2013 11:30 AM
Professor Francis Clauser Memorial Lunch
Location: Athenaeum
Wednesday May 29, 2013 4:00 PM
Engineering and Applied Science Lecture
The Wouk Lecture
Speaker: Lawrence Larson, Brown University
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday May 30, 2013 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Coding and Information-Theoretic Aspects of Coordination in Networks
Speaker: Joerg Kliewer, New Mexico State University
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday June 4, 2013 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Sparse Recovery Over Continuous Dictionaries: The Fourier Case
Speaker: Dr. Gonggou Tang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday June 14, 2013 2:30 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Convexity issues in System Identification
Speaker: Lennart Ljung, Linköping University
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday July 18, 2013 12:00 PM
Skoltech: Accelerating Innovations
Speaker: Edward F. Crawley, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday July 23, 2013 11:00 AM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Optimal transmission policies for energy harvesting communication devices
Speaker: Michele Zorzi, University of Padova, Italy & University of California, San Diego
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday July 31, 2013 8:00 AM
Resnick Sustainability Institute Now Accepting Graduate Research Fellowship Applications in Sustainability Science & Renewable Energy
Location:
Tuesday August 6, 2013 11:00 AM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
EE Systems Seminar
Speaker: Syed Ali Jafar, U. C. Irvine
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday August 14, 2013 9:30 AM
Thesis Seminar
Characterization of the neural mechanisms supporting the implementation of cognitive control
Speaker: Shabnam Hakimi
Location: Broad 100
Wednesday August 28, 2013 11:00 AM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Monte Carlo Non-Local Means: Random Sampling for Large-scale Denoising
Speaker: Stanley Chan, Harvard University
Location: Moore B280
Friday September 6, 2013 8:00 AM
Conference on Bayesian Methods in Microeconometric Modeling
Location: Steele 125