Seminars for 2013-2014

Monday September 23, 2013 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Mathematical Theories on Linear and Nonlinear Wave Motions in Viscous Compressible Fluid
Speaker: Professor Shih-Hsien Yu, National University of Singapore
Location: Annenberg 107
Thursday October 3, 2013 8:00 AM
Solar Decathlon 2013
Location: Off Campus
Friday October 4, 2013 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Equilibria Via Samples and Testing Equilibrium Behavior
Speaker: Yakov Babichenko, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Sunday October 6, 2013 12:00 PM
FREE chartered bus to 2013 Solar Decathlon Competition
Location:
Tuesday October 8, 2013 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
A Pragmatic Approach to Visualization in Academia
Speaker: Santiago Lombeyda, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday October 10, 2013 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Statistical and Computational Tradeoffs in High Dimensional Learning
Speaker: Philippe Rigollet, California Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday October 11, 2013 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Design, Test, and EDA Research for 3D ICs at GTCAD Laboratory
Speaker: Sung Kyu Lim, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: Moore B280
Saturday October 12, 2013 12:00 PM
FREE chartered bus to 2013 Solar Decathlon Competition
Location:
Monday October 14, 2013 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Nimble Algorithms for Cloud Computing
Speaker: Ravi Kannan, Microsoft Research, India
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 15, 2013 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Approximate Formal Verification Using Model-Based Testing
Speaker: Rance Cleaveland, University of Maryland
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday October 18, 2013 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Project Design with Limited Commitment and Teams
Speaker: George Georgiadis, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Friday October 18, 2013 3:30 PM
Resnick Institute Seminar Series
Resnick Fellows Emily Kosten on Limiting Emission Angle for Improved Solar Cell Performance and David Brown on Phase Transition Enhanced Thermoelectrics
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Monday October 21, 2013 2:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The evolutionary origins of human cognition viewed from the study of chimpanzees
Speaker: Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Kyoto University
Location: Broad 100
Tuesday October 22, 2013 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Chemistry as a New Information Technology
Speaker: Erik Winfree, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday October 24, 2013 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Shuffling Cards and Adding Numbers
Speaker: Persi Diaconis, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 29, 2013 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Geoengineering the Earth's Climate (The World's Largest Control Problem!)
Speaker: Doug MacMartin, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday October 30, 2013 4:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Petri nets, chemistry, and quantum theory
Speaker: John Baez, University of California - Riverside
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday November 1, 2013 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
The Network Improvement Problem for Equilibrium Routing
Speaker: Umang Bhaskar, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Monday November 4, 2013 4:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Model checking and strategy synthesis for mobile autonomy: from theory to practice
Speaker: Marta Kwiatkowski, Trinity College, University of Oxford
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 4, 2013 4:15 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
EE Systems Seminar
Speaker: Mung Chiang, Princeton University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 4, 2013 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
From Cloud to Fog
Speaker: Mung Chiang, Princeton University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 5, 2013 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
MOOC, MIIC, MOOE
Speaker: Mung Chiang, Princeton University
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday November 6, 2013 5:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Optical stimulation of distinct cell assemblies generates a new artificial associative-memory
Speaker: Kaoru Inokuchi, University of Toyama
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Thursday November 7, 2013 3:30 PM
Resnick Institute Seminar Series
Resnick Fellows Subrahmanyam Duvvuri on "A Fresh Approach to Turbulence Towards Reduction of Skin-friction Drag" and Michael Webb on "Path-Integral Methods in Stable Isotope Studies: Implications for Geochemical and Atmospheric Isotope Analysis"
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Friday November 8, 2013 3:30 PM
SISCA Celebration: Awards Ceremony & Poster Session
Location: Jorgensen Lobby
Monday November 11, 2013 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Sampling Algorithms in Numerical Linear Algebra and Their Application
Speaker: Yousef Saad, University of Minnesota
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 12, 2013 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
A Calculus for the Optiman Quantification of Uncertainties
Speaker: Houman Owhadi, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday November 13, 2013 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
The Empirical Implications of Privacy-Aware Choice
Speaker: Rachel Cummings, Northwestern University
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday November 14, 2013 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Spatiotemporal patterns of sub-threshold oscillatory activity in the inferior convexity of the macaque prefrontal cortex
Speaker: Theofanis Panagiotaropoulos, Max Planck Institute
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Thursday November 14, 2013 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Multi-Dimensional Polynomial Interpolation on Arbitrary Nodes
Speaker: Professor Dongbin Xiu, Unversity of Utah
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday November 15, 2013 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Market Equilibrium: Complementary Pivot Algorithms and How They Led to a New Class of Utility Functions
Speaker: Vijay Vazirani, Georgia Tech
Location: Baxter 127
Monday November 18, 2013 12:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 18, 2013 12:00 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Stability
Speaker: Professor Bin Yu, University of California at Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 18, 2013 2:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
From the jungle to telemedicine: towards integration and translation in cognitive neurosciences
Speaker: Ricardo Gil da Costa, SALK Institute
Location: Broad 100
Tuesday November 19, 2013 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Reservoir Modeling and Simulation with Uncertainty
Speaker: Xiao-Huo Wu, Exxon Mobil Upstream Research Company
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday November 20, 2013 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Learning the Learning Rate: How to Repair Bayes When the Model is Wrong
Speaker: Professor Peter Grünwald, CWI Amsterdam & Leiden University
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday November 21, 2013 4:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Exploring chemical reaction spaces using a graph grammar approach.
Speaker: Christoph Flamm, University of Vienna
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday November 21, 2013 4:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Exploring chemical reaction spaces using a graph grammar approach.
Speaker: Christoph Flamm, University of Vienna
Location: Moore B280
Friday November 22, 2013 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
The Complexity of Nash Equilibria as Revealed by Data
Speaker: Siddharth Barman, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Monday November 25, 2013 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The cross-linguistic prevalence of SOV and SVO word orders reflects the sequential and hierarchical representation of action in Broca’s area
Speaker: David Kemmerer, Purdue University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday December 2, 2013 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Insider Trading and Multidimensional Private Information
Speaker: Tomasz Sadzik, New York University
Location: Baxter 127
Monday December 2, 2013 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Simple Prices for Complex Markets
Speaker: Nicole Immorlica, Northwestern University
Location: Baxter 127
Thursday December 5, 2013 3:30 PM
Resnick Institute Seminar Series
Resnick Fellows Xin Ning on "Shape-Adaptive Ultra-Lightweight Solar Concentrators" and Yiyang Liu on "Synthesis of Commodity Chemicals From Renewable Fatty Acids"
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Thursday December 5, 2013 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Quantitative Results on the Corrector Equation in Stochastic Homogenization.
Speaker: Professor Antoine Gloria, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday December 6, 2013 3:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Complete Solution to the Most General Nonlinear Filtering Problems and Its Implementation
Speaker: Professor Stephen Yau, Tsinghua University
Location:
Monday December 9, 2013 4:00 PM
Resnick Institute Seminar Series
ARPA-E: A Fresh Perspective on Next-Generation EV Battery Technology
Speaker: Ilan Gur
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Monday January 6, 2014 8:00 AM
Resnick Sustainability Institute Now Accepting Graduate Research Fellowship Applications in Sustainability Science & Renewable Energy
Location:
Monday January 6, 2014 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Dopamine, subjective value and decision making
Speaker: Paul E. M. Phillips, University of Washington
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Thursday January 9, 2014 4:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Composable Mechanisms and Price of Anarchy in Auctions
Speaker: Eva Tardos, Cornell University
Location: Baxter B125
Monday January 13, 2014 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Tracking Influence in Dynamic Social Networks
Speaker: Rebecca Willett, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 14, 2014 12:00 PM
Oringer Seminar Series
Surveillance and Privacy: A Computer Science Perspective
Speaker: Edward Felten, Princeton University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 21, 2014 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Molecular Programming with Synthetic Nucleic-Acid Systems
Speaker: Lulu Qian, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday January 27, 2014 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
CNS Seminar
Speaker: Jack Gallant, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday January 28, 2014 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Information Flows, Technology Bubbles, and Gravity Models
Speaker: Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 28, 2014 4:00 PM
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Series
Quantum Information, Entanglement, and Many-Body Physics
Speaker: Fernando Brandao, University College London
Location: East Bridge 114
Wednesday January 29, 2014 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
COMPLEX THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS
Speaker: G. Jeffrey Snyder, California Institute of Technology
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday January 29, 2014 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
COMPLEX THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS
Speaker: G. Jeffrey Snyder, California Institute of Technology
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Friday January 31, 2014 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Extracting hidden structure from data: Robust Subspace Clustering and Phase Retrieval
Speaker: Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday February 3, 2014 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Nonlinear Waves from Beaches to Photonics
Speaker: Mark Ablowitz, University of Colorado, Boulder
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 4, 2014 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Speaker and topic to be announced.
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday February 10, 2014 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Cancelled CNS Seminar
Speaker: Tomaso Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday February 10, 2014 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Smoke Rings from Smoke
Speaker: Peter Schröder, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 11, 2014 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Universal Laws and Architectures: Nets, Grids, Brains, and Bugs
Speaker: John Doyle, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday February 12, 2014 3:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Hitting Times of Randomly Moving Hanoi Towers: Means and Moment Generating Functions
Speaker: Toby Berger, University of Virginia
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday February 12, 2014 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Development and Applications of Numerical Solvers for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations on Octree Adaptive Grids
Speaker: Professor Frederic G. Gibou, UC Santa Barbara
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday February 12, 2014 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar Series
Computation, Communication, and Privacy Constraints on Learning
Speaker: John Duchi, U. C. Berkeley
Location: Moore B270
Tuesday February 18, 2014 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Understanding and Predicting Online Social Contagion
Speaker: Nathan Hodas, University of Southern California
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 18, 2014 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
From Force and Torque Sensing To The Quantum Harmonic Oscillator...Using Optomechanical Springs
Speaker: John Davis, University of Alberta
Location: Watson 104
Wednesday February 19, 2014 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar Series
Nonconvex methods for high-dimensional regression with noisy and missing data
Speaker: Po-Ling Loh, U.C, Berkeley
Location: Moore B270
Monday February 24, 2014 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar Series
Computational challenges in large-scale social networks
Speaker: Johan Ugander, Cornell University
Location: Moore B270
Monday February 24, 2014 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Memory search: relating cognitive theory and neural data
Speaker: Michael Kahana, University of Pennsylvania
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday February 25, 2014 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Tracking 3D Ground Changes Using Mutli-Temporal High-Resolution Stereo Satellite Imagery
Speaker: Sebastien Leprince, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday February 26, 2014 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
An Overview of Boundary Integral Methods for the Last 40 Years
Speaker: Professor George C. Hsiao, University of Delaware
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday February 26, 2014 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar Series
A Convex-Programming Framework for Super-Resolution
Speaker: Carlos Fernandez-Granda, Stanford University
Location: Moore B270
Monday March 3, 2014 3:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar Series
From Secure Communication to Secret Computation
Speaker: Hongchao Zhou, MIT
Location: Moore B270
Monday March 3, 2014 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Finding Needles in Exponential Haystacks
Speaker: Joel Spencer, New York University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday March 4, 2014 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Global Networks for High Energy Physics, Research and Education in the LHC Era
Speaker: Harvey Newman, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday March 5, 2014 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar Series
Lossy Data Compression: Non-asymptotic Fundamental Limits
Speaker: Victoria Kostina, Princeton University
Location: Moore B270
Monday March 10, 2014 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
A Grid-Cell-Grid
Speaker: Michael Brecht, BCCN Berlin
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday March 10, 2014 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar Series
Information Flows in Distributed Communication, Storage and Computing
Speaker: Viveck Cdambe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Moore B270
Tuesday March 11, 2014 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Statistical and Computational Tradeoffs in High Dimensional Learning
Speaker: Quentin Berthet, Princeton University
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday March 12, 2014 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar Series
Efficient Learning and Inference with Combinatorial Structure
Speaker: Stefanie Jegelka, U. C. Berkeley
Location: Moore B270
Friday March 14, 2014 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Insider Trading and Multidimensional Private Information
Speaker: Tomasz Sadzik, New York University
Location: Baxter 127
Monday March 17, 2014 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar Series
Optimal RNA Assembly: From Information Theory to Software
Speaker: Sreeram Kannan, U C Berkeley
Location: Moore B270
Monday March 17, 2014 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar Series
Optimal RNA Assembly: From Information Theory to Software
Speaker: Sreeram Kannan, U. C. Berkeley
Location: Moore B270
Friday March 21, 2014 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
On the Hardness of Signaling
Speaker: Shaddin Dughmi, University of Southern California
Location: Baxter 127
Monday March 24, 2014 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Computational Connectomics: Mapping and Modeling Complex Brain Networks
Speaker: Olaf Sporns, Indiana University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Wednesday April 2, 2014 12:00 PM
Resnick Institute Seminar Series
Energy Leadership: Integrating Policies Across Sectors
Speaker: Catherine Sandoval, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday April 4, 2014 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Auctions with Dynamic Costly Information Acquisition
Speaker: Hamid Nazerzadeh, University of Southern California
Location: Baxter 127
Monday April 7, 2014 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Spatio-Temporal Correlation Mining
Speaker: Professor Alfred Hero, University of Michigan
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday April 11, 2014 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Achieving Target Equilibria in Network Routing Games without Knowing the Latency Functions
Speaker: Umang Bhaskar, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Monday April 14, 2014 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Circuits underlying cortical decisions
Speaker: Anthony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday April 15, 2014 12:00 PM
Oringer Seminar Series
Mars Code
Speaker: Gerard Holzmann, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday April 18, 2014 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Welfare-Maximizing Assignment of Agents to Hierarchical Positions (joint with Isa Hafalir)
Speaker: Antonio Miralles, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Location: Baxter 127
Monday April 21, 2014 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neural circuits for sensing directional motion
Speaker: Andrew Huberman, University of California, San Diego
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday April 21, 2014 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Statistical Learning and Optimization Based on Comparative Judgements
Speaker: Robert Nowak, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 22, 2014 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Topic to be announced.
Speaker: Fred Farina, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday April 25, 2014 8:00 AM
Social Science Conference
2014 Network Science Workshop
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday April 29, 2014 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
JPL DARPA and DHS Programs
Speaker: Edward Chow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday April 30, 2014 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Dynamics of visual perception and collective neural activity
Speaker: Jochen Braun, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, German
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Friday May 2, 2014 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
The Design, Laboratory Testing, and Implementation of Large Constrained Auctions: The Victoria, Australia, Gaming Machine Auction
Speaker: Charles R. Plott, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Wednesday May 7, 2014 2:00 PM
Engineering and Applied Science Lecture
Next: Breakthrough Technologies for National Security
Speaker: Arati Prabhakar
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday May 9, 2014 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
The Art of Optimizing via Simulations: Empirical Dynamic Programming
Speaker: Rahul Jain, University of Southern California
Location: Baxter 127
Monday May 12, 2014 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Cancelled
Speaker: Nicole Rust, University of Pennsylvania
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday May 13, 2014 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
On Cooperation in Networks and the Power of One Tiny Link
Speaker: Michelle Effros, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 13, 2014 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
On Cooperation in Networks and the Power of One Tiny Link
Speaker: Michelle Effros, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday May 14, 2014 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Advanced semiconductor devices: from nanotechnology-based photovoltaics to infrared thermal sensing
Speaker: Dr. Giacomo Mariani, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Friday May 16, 2014 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Stability and Robustness of Dynamical Network Flows
Speaker: Ketan Savla, University of Southern California
Location: Baxter 127
Friday May 16, 2014 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Unconventional magnetism in dissipative atomic systems
Speaker: Tony Lee, Harvard University
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday May 19, 2014 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Banach Space Projections and Petrov-Galerkin Estimates
Speaker: Ari Stern, Washington University in St. Louis
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 20, 2014 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
How to Create a Perfect Microscope by Adding a Computer
Speaker: Changhuei Yang, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday May 23, 2014 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Underbidding and Experience and USFS Timber Auctions
Speaker: Benjamin Gillen, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Friday May 23, 2014 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Transfer-matrix treatment of surface disorder in topological insulator
Speaker: Kun Woo Kim, Caltech
Location: West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Tuesday May 27, 2014 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Rapid Mixing of Quantum Local Dissipative Systems
Speaker: Angelo Lucia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday May 27, 2014 4:15 PM
Applied Mathematics Colloquium Series
Resiliency of the Power Grid
Speaker: Ali Pinar, Sandia National Laboratories
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday May 30, 2014 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Measuring the pseudo-spin space of hydrogenated graphene
Speaker: Thomas Szkopek, McGill University
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday June 3, 2014 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
POSTPONED until June 10, 2014
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday June 6, 2014 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quasiparticle Coherence, Collective Modes, and Competing Order in Cuprate Superconductors
Speaker: James Hinton, University of CA - Berkeley/ LBNL
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday June 9, 2014 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Cancelled
Speaker: John Reynolds, SALK Institute
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday June 10, 2014 2:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
NOTE TIME CHANGE Quantum-proof extractors via operator space theory
Speaker: Omar Fawzi, ETH, Zurich
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday June 13, 2014 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
TBD
Speaker: Torsten Karzig, Caltech
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday June 17, 2014 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
de Finetti Theorems: Quantum and Beyond
Speaker: Rotem Arnon-Friedman, ETH, Zurich
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday June 24, 2014 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
A Non-commuting Stabilzer Formalism
Speaker: Oliver Buerschaper, Perimeter Institute
Location: Annenberg 107
Thursday June 26, 2014 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar Series
Inexactness, geometry, and optimization: recurrent themes in modern data analysis
Speaker: Suvrit Sra, Max Planck Institut
Location: Moore B270
Wednesday August 27, 2014 10:00 AM
Thesis Seminar
The structure of hippocampal activity during REM sleep
Speaker: Andreas Hoenselaar, Caltech
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180