Seminars for 2014-2015

Wednesday September 24, 2014 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Exponential Separation of Information and Communication
Speaker: Ran Raz, Weizmann Institute
Location: Annenberg 308
Thursday October 2, 2014 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Probabilistically Checkable Proofs of Proximity with Zero-Knowledge
Speaker: Mor Weiss, Technion
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday October 3, 2014 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of Sr1-xLaxCuO2 thin films grown by molecular-beam epitaxy
Speaker: John Harter, Caltech
Location: East Bridge 114
Wednesday October 8, 2014 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
List-decodability of structured random codes
Speaker: Mary Wootters, Carnegie Mellon
Location: Annenberg 308
Wednesday October 8, 2014 3:00 PM
Two Seminars: Better Enzymes for Biofuels and Green Chemistry--Solving the Cofactor Imbalance Problem & Model Complexes for Studying Heterometallic Effects Relevant to Fuel Cell Chemistry
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday October 9, 2014 11:00 AM
Finance Seminar Series
Can Investor Beliefs be Extracted from Option Prices?
Speaker: Peter Carr, Morgan Stanley
Location: Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room)
Friday October 10, 2014 11:00 AM
Control And Dynamical Systems Seminar
Coherent Lagrangian Vortices in Unsteady Continua
Speaker: George Haller, ETH Zürich
Location: Firestone 306
Friday October 10, 2014 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Natural Selection, Game Theory and Genetic Diversity
Speaker: Georgios Piliouras, Caltech
Location: Baxter 125
Friday October 10, 2014 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Enhancement of the hidden-order/large-moment antiferromagnetic phase boundary in the URu2−xFexSi2 and URu2−xOsxSi2 systems
Speaker: Noravee Kanchanavatee, Univ of California, San Diego
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday October 13, 2014 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Synthesis of Contact-Rich Behaviors with Optimal Control
Speaker: Professor Emo Todorov, University of Washington
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday October 13, 2014 4:30 PM
Open Forum on Sustainability at Caltech
Location: Jorgensen 109
Tuesday October 14, 2014 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Thinking on your Feet: Reinforcement Learning for Incremental Language Tasks
Speaker: Jordan Boyd-Graber, University of Colorado Boulder
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 14, 2014 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Entanglement in one-dimensional quantum systems
Speaker: Yi-Chen Huang, UC Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 107
Thursday October 16, 2014 4:00 PM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
Engineering near-field interactions with body for powering bioelectronic medicines
Speaker: Ada Poon, PhD, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday October 16, 2014 4:00 PM
Computational Insights and the Theory of Evolution
Speaker: Christos H. Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday October 17, 2014 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Building new edge states in twisted bilayer graphene: quantum spin Hall state and electron-hole bilayers
Speaker: Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, MIT
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday October 20, 2014 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Linear Genetics: (the Linear Algebra of) Genotype-Phenotype Association Studies
Speaker: Professor Lior Pachter, University of California at Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 21, 2014 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Real Data Science @ NASA
Speaker: Chris Mattmann, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday October 22, 2014 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Satisfiability and Evolution
Speaker: Christos Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 308
Thursday October 23, 2014 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Price Discovery Through Options
Speaker: Semyon Malamud, Swiss Finance Institute (SFI)
Location: Baxter B125
Friday October 24, 2014 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Ultrahigh-resolution quantum optical coherence tomography using ultra-broadband entangled photon pairs
Speaker: Masayuki Okano, Kyoto University
Location: West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Friday October 24, 2014 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Attosecond Electron Control
Speaker: Mohammed Tharwat Hassan, Caltech
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday October 27, 2014 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Can I Take a Peek? Continuous Monitoring of Online A/B Tests
Speaker: Professor Ramesh Johari, Stanford
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 28, 2014 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Understanding Opinions and Preferences in Product Networks
Speaker: Julian McAuley, UC San Diego
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 28, 2014 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Nash Codes for Noisy Channels
Speaker: Bernhard von Stengel, London School of Economics
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday October 29, 2014 11:00 AM
Control And Dynamical Systems Seminar
Analysis and Design of Optimization Algorithms via Integral Quadratic Constraints
Speaker: Laurent Lessard, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 121
Friday October 31, 2014 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Incentivizing Exploration [joint work with Peter Frazier, Jon Kleinberg, Robert Kleinberg]
Speaker: David Kempe, University of Southern California
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday October 31, 2014 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
TBA
Speaker: Torsten Karzig, Caltech
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday November 3, 2014 3:30 PM
Dow-Resnick SISCA Awards Ceremony & Reception
Location: Jorgensen Lobby
Tuesday November 4, 2014 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Characterizing the variable sky with the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey
Speaker: Matthew Graham, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 4, 2014 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Beyond Equilibria (1st of 2 parts. Cont. on Nov. 11.)
Speaker: Georgios Piliouras, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday November 5, 2014 11:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Constructive discrepancy minimization for convex sets
Speaker: Thomas Rothvoss, MIT
Location: Annenberg 308
Wednesday November 5, 2014 4:00 PM
Chordal Codes for Chip-to-Chip Communication
Speaker: Amin Shokrollahi
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday November 7, 2014 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
First-Order Iterative Methods in the Design of Fast Algorithms: from Multiplicative Weight Updates to Nesterov’s Method
Speaker: Lorenzo Orecchia, MIT/Boston University
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday November 7, 2014 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Novel Mechanism of Low-Temperature CVD Graphene Growth
Speaker: David Boyd, Caltech
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday November 10, 2014 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Machine Learning and Optimization for Robotics
Speaker: Associate Professor Pieter Abbeel, University of California at Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 11, 2014 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Lean, Green, Flying Machines: Control and Optimization Algorithms for Air Transportation Systems
Speaker: Hamsa Balakrishnan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 11, 2014 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Beyond Equilibria (2nd of 2 parts)
Speaker: Georgios Piliouras, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday November 12, 2014 3:00 PM
Enhanced Light-Matter Interactions in 2D Materials for Novel Solar Cell Designs & Catalysis without Precious Metals: Lessons from Nature in Sustainable Chemistry
Speaker: Resnick Fellows Michelle Sherrott & Anton Toutov
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Wednesday November 12, 2014 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Flying into the Unknown: Air Traffic Management in the Presence of Uncertainty
Speaker: Hamsa Balakrishnan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday November 12, 2014 4:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
The Reusable Holdout: Preserving Validity in Interactive Data Analysis
Speaker: Moritz Hardt, IBM Almaden
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday November 14, 2014 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Modularity and Greed in Double Auctions
Speaker: Inbal Talgam-Cohen, Stanford University
Location: Baxter 125
Friday November 14, 2014 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Electron tunneling in Van der Waals heterostructures
Speaker: Chandni U., Caltech
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday November 17, 2014 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
A Theory of Liquidity and Risk Management Based on the Inalienability of Risky Human Capital (joint with Patrick Bolton and Jinqiang Yang)
Speaker: Neng Wang, Columbia Business School
Location: Baxter B125
Tuesday November 18, 2014 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Autonomous Aerial Mobility on Earth and in Space
Speaker: Larry Mathies, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 18, 2014 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Information Causality, Szemeredi-Trotter, and algebraic variants of CHSH
Speaker: Mohammad Bavarian, MIT
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday November 19, 2014 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Coding for Interactive Communication Made Communication Efficient and Easy (or "How to make conversations robust to noise.")
Speaker: Bernard Haeulpler, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Annenberg 308
Wednesday November 19, 2014 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Approximate Separability of Green's Function for Helmholtz Equation in the High Frequency Limit
Speaker: Professor Hongkai Zhao, University of California, Irvine
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday November 21, 2014 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Non-Abelian phases in Fractional Quantum Hall states
Speaker: Roger Mong, Caltech
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday November 25, 2014 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
An Approximate Version of Caratheodory's Theorem and Its Algorithmic Applications (part 1)
Speaker: Siddharth Barman, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday December 2, 2014 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
An Approximate Version of Caratheodory's Theorem and Its Algorithmic Applications (part 2)
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday December 3, 2014 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Approximating the best Nash Equilibrium in n^{o(log n)}-time breaks the Exponential Time Hypothesis
Speaker: Omri Weinstein, Princeton
Location: Annenberg 308
Thursday December 4, 2014 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Evolutionary Foundations of Economic Behavior, Bounded Rationality, and Intelligence
Speaker: Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan School of Management
Location: Baxter B125
Friday December 5, 2014 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
The hidden subgraph problem
Speaker: Andrea Montanari, Stanford
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday December 5, 2014 12:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?: New Approaches to Funding Biomedical Innovation
Speaker: Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan School of Management
Location: Baxter B125
Friday December 5, 2014 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
All-fermion electrodynamics and fermion number anomaly inflow
Speaker: Shauna Kravec, Univ. of California, San Diego
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday December 8, 2014 4:00 PM
Digital Ventures ~ Designs Unveiled
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday December 10, 2014 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Index Coding - An Interference Management Perspective
Speaker: Hua Sun, U. C. Irvine
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday January 6, 2015 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Leontief Exchange Markets Can Solve Multivariate Polynomial Equations, Yielding FIXP and ETR Hardness
Speaker: Ruta Mehta, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday January 9, 2015 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
The Interplay Between Structure of Finite Graphs and Maximal Averages on Their Cartesian Powers
Speaker: Jordan Greenblatt, UCLA
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday January 9, 2015 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum noise detection with cavity electro-mechanics
Speaker: Aaron Weinstein
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday January 12, 2015 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neural Signals for Memory and Space in the Primate Medial Temporal Lobe
Speaker: Elizabeth Buffalo, University of Washington School of Medicine
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday January 20, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Multicore in Space, NASA and AFRL Invest in the Future of Flight Computing
Speaker: Richard Doyle, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 20, 2015 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Zeros of polynomials and their applications (continues on Jan 27)
Speaker: Piyush Srivastava, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday January 21, 2015 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
2-Server PIR with sub polynomial communication
Speaker: Zee Dvir
Location: Annenberg 308
Friday January 23, 2015 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Superfluid Optomechanics
Speaker: Laura DeLorenzo, Caltech
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday January 26, 2015 2:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Analog and Stochastic Computation in Living Cells and Supercomputing Chips
Speaker: Rahul Sarpeshkar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday January 26, 2015 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Predictive Stochastic Modeling of Spatiotemporal Fluctuations in Signal-Activated Gene Regulation
Speaker: Professor Brian Munsky, Colorado State University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 27, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Engineering Our Moving Image Systems
Speaker: Gary Demos
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 27, 2015 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Wigner functions negativity and contextuality in quantum computation
Speaker: Nicolas DelFosse, University of Sherbrooke
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday January 27, 2015 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Zeros of polynomials and their applications (continued from Jan 20)
Speaker: Piyush Srivastava, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday January 28, 2015 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Spectrum Scarcity and Optical Wireless Communications
Speaker: Mohamed-Slim Alouini, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Location: Moore B280
Friday January 30, 2015 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Vortex lattice anisotropy and pairing symmetry of Sr2RuO4
Speaker: Morten Ring Eskildsen, University of Notre Dame
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday February 2, 2015 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Post-Selection Inference for Forward Stepwise and Least Angle Regression
Speaker: Professor Robert Tibshirani, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 3, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Control and Optimization of Smart Grids
Speaker: Steven Low, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 3, 2015 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Phase transitions in non-Abelian string nets
Speaker: Julien Vidal, Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday February 4, 2015 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Catalytic space
Speaker: Harry Buhrmann
Location: Annenberg 308
Friday February 6, 2015 3:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Online Robust PCA or Online Sparse + Low-Rank Matrix Recovery
Speaker: Namrata Vaswani, Iowa State University
Location: Moore 239
Monday February 9, 2015 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Efficient Optimal Strategies for Online Prediction
Speaker: Professor Peter Bartlett, UC Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday February 9, 2015 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
New matrix decompositions for Gaussian communication networks
Speaker: Anatoly Khina, Tel Aviv University
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday February 10, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
From sampling to fluid dynamics through geometric discretization
Speaker: Mathieu Desbrun, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 10, 2015 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Topological quantum computation with anyons
Speaker: Claire Levaillant, UCSB
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday February 10, 2015 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Tools from Optimization Theory and Applications to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, part 1
Speaker: Dvijotham ("Dj") Krishnamurthy, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday February 11, 2015 3:00 PM
Development of Materials for Future Energy Systems using Combinatorial Synthesis of Thin Film Materials Libraries and High-Throughput Characterization
Speaker: Alfred Ludwig, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday February 13, 2015 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Breaking the Minsky-Papert Barrier for Constant-Depth Circuits
Speaker: Alexander Sherstov, UCLA
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday February 13, 2015 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Simulating an Interacting Quantum Gas using Matrix Product States generated with Superconducting Circuits
Speaker: Andreas Wallraff, ETH Zurich
Location: Watson 104
Friday February 13, 2015 4:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Simulating an Interacting Quantum Gas Using Matrix Product States Generated with Superconducting Circuits(*)
Speaker: Andreas Wallraff, ETH Zurich
Location: Watson 104
Tuesday February 17, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
How VCs Decide
Speaker: Evangelos Simoudis, Trident Capital
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 17, 2015 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Characterizing Topological Order with Matrix Product Operators
Speaker: Burak Sahinoglu, Universitat Wien
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday February 17, 2015 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Tools from Optimization Theory and Applications to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, part 2
Speaker: Dvijotham ("Dj") Krishnamurthy, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday February 18, 2015 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Proof of the satisfiability conjecture for large k
Speaker: Allan Sly, UC Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 308
Wednesday February 18, 2015 3:00 PM
The Science and Economics of Photoelectrochemial Hydrogen Production
Speaker: Matt Shaner, Caltech
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday February 19, 2015 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
A General Framework for High Accuracy Solutions to Energy Gradient Flows from Material Science Models
Speaker: Professor Brian Wetton, University of British Colombia
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday February 20, 2015 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Learning Arbitrary Statistical Mixtures of Discrete Distributions
Speaker: Yuval Rabani, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday February 20, 2015 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Overview of Holographic Entanglement Entropy via Illustrations
Speaker: Shaun Maguire
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday February 23, 2015 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Towards Model-Based and Closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation
Speaker: Caleb Kemere, Rice University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday February 24, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Relative Entropy Optimization and Its Applications
Speaker: Venkat Chandrasekaran, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 24, 2015 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Generalized Low Rank Models
Speaker: Madeleine Udell, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday February 26, 2015 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
A Timing Approach to Casual Network Inference
Speaker: Negar Kiyavash, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Moore B280
Monday March 2, 2015 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Collective computation in nonlinear networks and the grammar of evolvability
Speaker: Jean-Jacques Slotine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday March 2, 2015 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Fundamental Limits of Community Detection
Speaker: Professor Emmanuel Abbe, Princeton University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday March 3, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Intrinsic Sparse Mode Decomposition of High Dimensional Random Fields with Application to Stochastic Elliptic PDEs
Speaker: Qin Li, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday March 4, 2015 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Communication with Imperfectly Shared Randomness
Speaker: Madhu Sudan, MIT and Microsoft Research
Location: Annenberg 308
Wednesday March 4, 2015 4:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Network Design Automation -- Treating Networks like VLSI Chips
Speaker: George Varghese, Microsoft Research
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday March 9, 2015 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Learning of invariant representations in visual cortex: i-theory
Speaker: Tomaso Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday March 10, 2015 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Two little results in topology, motivated by quantum computation
Speaker: Gorjan Alagic, University of Copenhagen
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday March 10, 2015 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar Series
III-V acoustic devices and systems
Speaker: Mina Rais-Zadeh, University of Michigan
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday March 10, 2015 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Intangible capital and the investment-q relation
Speaker: Luke Taylor, University of Pennsylvania
Location: Baxter B125
Thursday March 12, 2015 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Capacity of the Energy Harvesting Communication Channel
Speaker: Ayfer Ozgur Aydin, Stanford University
Location: Moore B280
Friday March 13, 2015 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Price Contagion through Balance Sheet Linkages
Speaker: Agostino Capponi
Location: Baxter 125
Tuesday March 17, 2015 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Quantum systems with approximation-robust entanglement
Speaker: Lior Eldar, MIT
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday March 17, 2015 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
TBD
Speaker: Lior Eldar, MIT
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday March 18, 2015 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Cryptographic Graded-Encoding Schemes: Recent Developments
Speaker: Shai Halevi
Location: Annenberg 308
Friday March 20, 2015 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neural Circuits for Elementary Motion Detection
Speaker: Alexander Borst, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday March 23, 2015 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Neuromorphic Chips: Combining Analog Computation with Digital Communication
Speaker: Kwabena Boahen, Stanford
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday March 24, 2015 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Operationally-Motivated Uncertainty Relations for Joint Measurability and the Error-Disturbance Tradeoff
Speaker: Volker Schotz, ETH
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday March 27, 2015 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Constraining Holographic Entanglement Entropy
Speaker: Ning Bao
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday March 30, 2015 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Misspecified Recovery
Speaker: Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago
Location: Baxter B125
Wednesday April 1, 2015 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Structure and Pseudo-Randomness in Coding Theory
Speaker: Shachar Lovett
Location: Annenberg 308
Friday April 3, 2015 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Allocation in tender auctions with several stakeholders where quality aspects matter
Speaker: Thomas Greve
Location: Baxter 125
Friday April 3, 2015 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Holographic quantum error-correcting codes: Toy models for the bulk/boundary correspondence
Speaker: Fernando Pastawski
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday April 6, 2015 3:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Seminar
Speaker: Andrea Bertozzi, University of California Los Angeles
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday April 6, 2015 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Computational Methods for Mesoscopic Fluid-Structure Interactions Subject to Thermal Fluctuations : Applications in Soft Materials and Microfluidics.
Speaker: Professor Paul J. Atzberger, University of California Santa Barbara
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 7, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Rights in the online world from the EFF viewpoint, the challenges of privacy and what Edward Snowden has showed us about the new surveillance state
Speaker: Brad Templeton, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 7, 2015 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Nonlinear Linear Systems Analysis Applied to Networked Dynamical Systems
Speaker: Enrique Mallada, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday April 8, 2015 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Seminar
Speaker: Andrew Stuart, Warwick University
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday April 10, 2015 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Matter Wave Interferometry in Microgravity - Towards Quantum Sensors in Space
Speaker: Markus Krutzik, JPL
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday April 13, 2015 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Designing Dynamic Contests
Speaker: Mohamed Mostagir, University of Michigan
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday April 13, 2015 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Bayesian Inversion for Large Scale Antarctic Ice Sheet Flow
Speaker: Professor Omar Ghattas, The University of Texas at Austin
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday April 13, 2015 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
How Many Good and Bad Fund Managers Are there, Really?
Speaker: Wayne Ferson, Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, USC
Location: Baxter B125
Tuesday April 14, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Getting More Women into Tech Careers and Why It Matters
Speaker: Maria Klawe, Harvey Mudd College
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 14, 2015 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Nonlinear Linear Systems Analysis Applied to Networked Dynamical Systems
Speaker: Enrique Mallada, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday April 15, 2015 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
TBD
Speaker: Shayan Oveis Gharan
Location: Annenberg 308
Friday April 17, 2015 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Entanglement detection by interfering quantum many-body twins
Speaker: Rajibul Islam, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday April 17, 2015 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Unfolding the color code
Speaker: Alex Kubica
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday April 17, 2015 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Detection of Planted Solutions for Flat Satisfiability Problems
Speaker: Quentin Berthet, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday April 21, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Enabling Physics Discoveries, Networking for High Energy Physics and Data Intensive Science
Speaker: Dorian Kcira, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 21, 2015 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Coarsening of Particle Systems
Speaker: Professor David Levermore, University of Maryland, College Park
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday April 22, 2015 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Computation / Visualization Framework
Speaker: Chess Steston, Helynx
Location: Moore 139
Wednesday April 22, 2015 5:00 PM
Resnick Sustainability Institute Earth Day Event: "Element 19" Screening & Panel Discussion
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday April 24, 2015 8:30 AM
Workshops on Data Privacy
The Theory of Bringing Privacy into Practice
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday April 24, 2015 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Unfolding the color code
Speaker: Alex Kubica
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday April 27, 2015 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Manifolds, maps, and reinforcement learning
Speaker: Sam Gershman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday April 28, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Innovate or die
Speaker: Chris House, BlackBerry
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday May 1, 2015 9:00 AM
Caltech + Finance Symposium
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Friday May 1, 2015 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Set membership with two bit probes
Speaker: Jaikumar Radhakrishnan, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TBC)
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday May 1, 2015 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Cold atoms coupled to photonic crystals: long range interactions and photon molecules
Speaker: James Douglas, ICFO, Barcelona
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday May 4, 2015 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Do Online Social Networks Increase Welfare?
Speaker: Mallesh Pai, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Location: Baxter 125
Tuesday May 5, 2015 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Recovery from Linear Measurements via Denoising and Approximate Message Passing
Speaker: Dror Baron, North Carolina State University
Location: Moore B270
Thursday May 7, 2015 4:00 PM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
The Advent of Ultrafast Imaging in Biomedical Ultrasound
Speaker: Mickaël Tanter, Ph.D, French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM)
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday May 7, 2015 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Fundamental Trade-offs in Primal-Dual Optimization
Speaker: Volkan Cevher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Location: Moore B280
Friday May 8, 2015 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
DMRG Study of a Quantum Hall system
Speaker: Scott Geraedts, Caltech
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday May 11, 2015 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Genetic dissection of visual circuits for sensing direction
Speaker: Andrew Huberman, University of California, San Diego
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday May 11, 2015 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
A Probabilistic Theory of Deep Learning
Speaker: Professor Richard G. Baraniuk, Rice University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 12, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Democratizing 3D Human Capture: Getting Hairy!
Speaker: Hao Li, University of Southern California
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday May 15, 2015 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Kolmogorov width of discrete linear spaces: an approach to matrix rigidity
Speaker: Sergey Yekhanin, Microsoft Research
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday May 15, 2015 4:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
TBA
Speaker: Ryan Mishmash, Caltech
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday May 18, 2015 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Dynamically Eliciting Unobservable Information
Speaker: Nicolas Lambert
Location: Baxter 125
Monday May 18, 2015 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
The Credit Spread Puzzle in the Merton Model – Myth or Reality?
Speaker: Peter Feldhutter, London Business School
Location: Baxter B125
Tuesday May 19, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
IST Lunch Bunch
Speaker: Gaurav Sukhatme, University of Southern California
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday May 22, 2015 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Engineering Quantum Matter: From Superfluids to Low-Dimensional Electrons
Speaker: Johannes Pollanen, Caltech
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday May 26, 2015 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Security of Logic and Logic of Security: Protecting Content and Devices in the Pervasive Computing Era
Speaker: Farinaz Koushanfar, Rice University
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday May 27, 2015 3:00 PM
Resnick Institute Seminar Series
Mining Critical Metals and Elements from Seawater-An Overview of Recent Advances
Speaker: Mamadou Diallo
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday May 29, 2015 12:00 PM
Dynamics for the random-cluster model
Speaker: Alistair Sinclair, UC Berkeley/Simons Institute
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday May 29, 2015 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum Coding with Finite Resources
Speaker: Mario Berta, Caltech
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday June 5, 2015 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Algorithmic Bayesian Persuasion
Speaker: Shaddin Dughmi, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, USC
Location: Baxter 125
Friday June 5, 2015 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Ultracold Molecules in Crystals of Light: A Highly Tunable System for Exploring Novel Materials, Quantum Dynamics, and Quantum Complexity
Speaker: Lincoln Carr, Colorado School of Mines
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday June 8, 2015 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Dissecting computations in the dopamine reward circuit
Speaker: Naoshige Uchida, Harvard University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Wednesday June 17, 2015 10:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Thermodynamics with electrons in a circuit
Speaker: Jukka Pekola, Aalto University School of Science
Location: Steele 125
Friday August 7, 2015 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Broken-symmetry states in topological insulators
Speaker: Yihua Wang, Stanford University
Location: West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
Friday August 14, 2015 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Strongly interacting photons in a synthetic magnetic field
Speaker: Pedram Roushan, Google Inc., Santa Barbara
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday August 14, 2015 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
The resource theory approach to thermodynamics and coherence
Speaker: Matteo Lostaglio, University College, London
Location: East Bridge 114
Saturday August 22, 2015 5:00 PM
Whitham Memorial Bench Dedication
Location: Winnett Quad