Seminars for 2017-2018

Saturday September 16, 2017 8:40 AM
Anatol Roshko Memorial Symposium
Location: Ramo Auditorium
Tuesday September 19, 2017 4:00 PM
Resnick Distinguished Lecture by Professor Zeev Gross, Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Thursday September 21, 2017 11:30 AM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Online storage management for integration of renewables in electricity market
Speaker: Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Johns Hopkins University
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday September 29, 2017 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Opportunities at the entanglement frontier
Speaker: John Preskill
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday September 29, 2017 12:00 PM
RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar Series
AI in Games: Achievements and Challenges
Speaker: Yuandong Tian, Facebook
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday September 29, 2017 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Bottleneck Links, Essential Intermediaries, and Competing Paths of Diffusion in Networks
Speaker: Mihai Manea
Location: Baxter 125
Monday October 2, 2017 9:30 AM
The Resnick Young Investigators Symposium
Location: Ramo Auditorium
Wednesday October 4, 2017 4:00 PM
The Shape of Art History in the Eyes of the Machine
Speaker: Ahmed Elgammal, Rutgers University
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday October 4, 2017 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Acquiring Information Through Peers
Speaker: Bernard Herskovic, University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Baxter B125
Thursday October 5, 2017 10:30 AM
EE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Speaker: Mark Harfouche, California Institute of Technology
Location: Watson 104
Thursday October 5, 2017 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Tensors, time series, and computational sustainability
Speaker: Qi (Rose) Yu, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday October 6, 2017 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Thermodynamics at the nano scale: The work cost of information processing
Speaker: Philippe Faist
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday October 6, 2017 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
On interim rationality, belief formation and learning in decision problems with bounded memory
Speaker: Pathikrit Basu, Caltech
Location: Baxter 125
Monday October 9, 2017 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
On Randomness and Determinism in High Dimension
Speaker: Professor Ramon van Handel, Princeton University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday October 9, 2017 6:10 PM
MOLECULARLY ENTWINED: The Caltech and City of Hope Biomedical Research Initiative
Location: Beckman Institute
Tuesday October 10, 2017 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Enabling space exploration with astrodynamics
Speaker: Stefano Campagnola, JPL
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday October 11, 2017 11:00 AM
Resnick Institute Seminar Series
Research talks from Resnick Graduate Research Fellow Vatsal Jhalani & Postdoctoral Scholar Akira Kudo PhD
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Wednesday October 11, 2017 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Nested Periodic Matrices and Dictionaries: New Signal Representations for Periodicity Analysis
Speaker: Srikanth Tenneti, California Institute of Technology
Location: Moore B280
Thursday October 12, 2017 10:00 AM
RenderMap: Exploiting the Link Between Perception and Rendering for Dense Mapping
Speaker: Claudio Pinello, United Technologies Research Center
Speaker: Andrzej Banaszuk, United Technologies Research Center
Location: Annenberg 121
Thursday October 12, 2017 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Towards Universal Representations for Image Recognition
Speaker: Fisher Yu, UC Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday October 13, 2017 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Universal Hamiltonians for Exponentially Long Simulation
Speaker: Thom Bohdanowicz
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday October 16, 2017 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
CMS Techfest
Speaker: Maja Mataric, USC
Location: Annenberg Center
Tuesday October 17, 2017 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
The Geometry of the Quantum Set
Speaker: Koon Tong Goh, National University of Singapore
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday October 18, 2017 11:00 AM
Food patterns and obesity prevalence across countries: A machine learning application
Speaker: Jocelyn Dunstan, University of Chile, Santiago
Location: Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Wednesday October 18, 2017 4:00 PM
Fireside Chat with Max Levchin of Affirm
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday October 19, 2017 3:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Testing Linearity against No-Signaling Strategies
Speaker: Peter Manohar, UC Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 314
Friday October 20, 2017 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Exactly Solvable Model for Two Dimensional Topological Superconductor
Speaker: Zitao Wang
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday October 23, 2017 4:00 PM
CNS Seminar
Speaker: Sotiris Masmanidis, UCLA Brain Research Institute
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday October 24, 2017 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
When is Biological Science Information Science?
Speaker: Lior Pachter, CALTECH
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 24, 2017 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Entanglement transformation and the structure of matrix space
Speaker: Yinan Li, University of Technology Sydney
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday October 24, 2017 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Derandomization: Polynomial Identity Testing and Isolation Lemma (1st of 2 parts)
Speaker: Rohit Gurjar, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 314
Wednesday October 25, 2017 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
A Time Hierarchy Theorem for the LOCAL Model
Speaker: Seth Pettie, University of Michigan
Location: Annenberg 308
Friday October 27, 2017 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Deferred Acceptance and Regret-Free Truthtelling: A characterization result
Speaker: Marcelo Fernandez, Caltech
Location: Baxter 125
Friday October 27, 2017 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Shining Light On Quantum Magnetism
Speaker: Nicholas Laurita
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday October 27, 2017 3:00 PM
Special Seminars in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Causal Inference in the Presence of Latent Nodes
Speaker: Negar Kiyavash, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday October 30, 2017 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Market Power in Power Markets: Folklore, Proofs, and Counterexamples
Speaker: Assistant Professor Eilyan Bitar, Cornell University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 31, 2017 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Efficient classical simulation of noisy quantum circuit
Speaker: Xun Gao, Tsinghua University
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday October 31, 2017 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Derandomization: Polynomial Identity Testing and Isolation Lemma (2nd of 2 parts)
Speaker: Rohit Gurjar, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 314
Thursday November 2, 2017 11:00 AM
Resnick Institute Seminar Series
Research talks from Resnick Graduate Research Fellow Jinglin Huang & Postdoctoral Scholar Carlos G. Read PhD
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday November 2, 2017 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
TBA
Speaker: David Spivak, MIT
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday November 2, 2017 1:45 PM
Smart Grid Seminar
Towards Smart Low-Carbon Electricity Networks: State-of-the-Art and Challenges Ahead
Speaker: Luis Ochoa, University of Melbourne
Location: Annenberg 243
Thursday November 2, 2017 7:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Second Spectrum -- Functional Enough Web Development
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday November 3, 2017 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Engineering topological materials in one and two dimensions
Speaker: Stevan Nadj-Perge
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday November 3, 2017 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Dynamic Matching for Real-Time Ridesharing
Speaker: Amy Ward, USC
Location: Baxter 125
Friday November 3, 2017 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Recovering quantum gates from few average gate fidelities
Speaker: Ingo Roth, FU Berlin
Location: Annenberg 314
Friday November 3, 2017 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Fully Adaptive Radar
Speaker: Muralidhar Rangaswamy, Air Force Research Laboratory
Location: Moore B280
Monday November 6, 2017 2:00 PM
PhD Thesis Defense
Speaker: Yong-Jun Lin, Caltech
Location: Broad 100
Monday November 6, 2017 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Non-monotonicity of the matrix exponential function, why it is a problem, and what to do about it
Speaker: Professor Eric Carlen, Rutgers University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 6, 2017 6:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Facebook: Instagram Machine Learning
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 7, 2017 10:00 AM
PhD Thesis Defense
Speaker: Jaron Colas, Caltech
Location: Broad 100
Tuesday November 7, 2017 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Open research problems in computer graphics and games
Speaker: J.P. Lewis
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 7, 2017 4:30 PM
SISCA Celebration: Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award (SISCA) Poster Session & Awards Ceremony
Location: Jorgensen Lobby
Wednesday November 8, 2017 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
A Constant-factor Approximation Algorithm for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem
Speaker: Ola Svensson, EPFL
Location: Annenberg 308
Thursday November 9, 2017 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Trebel / M&M Media -- How to Create an App Users Love
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday November 10, 2017 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Gravitational shockwaves on rotating black holes
Speaker: Yoni BenTov
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday November 10, 2017 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Ex-ante Comparative Statics: Responsiveness to Information Quality
Speaker: Tewodros (Teddy) Mekonnen, Caltech
Location: Baxter 125
Monday November 13, 2017 4:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Series
Importance Sampling the Union of Rare Events with an Application to Power Systems Analysis
Speaker: Professor Art B. Owen, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 14, 2017 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Rethinking Datacenter Management with Game Theory
Speaker: Benjamin Lee, Duke University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 14, 2017 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Matrix Product Operators in Quantum Information
Speaker: David Perez-Garcia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday November 14, 2017 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
From Network Coding to Sidon Spaces
Speaker: Netanel Raviv, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 314
Wednesday November 15, 2017 10:00 AM
2017 JPL Research Poster Conference
Location: JPL
Wednesday November 15, 2017 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Attacks on Blockwise Local PRGs and Indistinguishability Obfuscation
Speaker: Vinod Vaikuntanathan, MIT
Location: Annenberg 308
Wednesday November 15, 2017 11:00 AM
Engineering and Applied Science Lecture
Study of Human Diseases at the Intersections of Engineering, Sciences and Medicine
Speaker: Subra Suresh
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Thursday November 16, 2017 11:00 AM
Resnick Institute Seminar Series
Research talks from Resnick Graduate Research Fellows Xiaoqi Ren & Sebastian Lee
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday November 16, 2017 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
CANCELED -- Tech Talk by Locus Analytics!
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday November 16, 2017 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Energy harvesting and energy cooperating wireless networks: A new frontier for communication and information theory
Speaker: Aylin Yener, Pennsylvania State University
Location: Moore B280
Thursday November 16, 2017 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
p-hacking: Evidence from two million trading strategies
Speaker: Tarun Chordia, Emory University
Location: Baxter B125
Friday November 17, 2017 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
Hierarchy of PDE Models of Cell Motility
Speaker: Professor Leonid Berlyand, Penn State
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday November 17, 2017 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Engineering Light-Matter Interactions in Photonic Crystal Waveguides
Speaker: Alex Burgers
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday November 17, 2017 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Dynamic Matching in School Choice: Efficient Seat Reassignment after Late Cancellations
Speaker: Irene Lo, Columbia University
Location: Baxter 125
Monday November 20, 2017 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Investigating large-scale brain networks using high-density EEG
Speaker: Quanying Liu, Caltech & HMRI
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 27, 2017 10:00 AM
Thesis Defense: Yoke Peng Leong
Location: Annenberg 106
Monday November 27, 2017 4:00 PM
CNS Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Rui Costa, Columbia University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday November 27, 2017 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Interlacing Families
Speaker: Assistant Professor Nikhil Srivastava, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 28, 2017 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Opportunities and Perils in Data Science
Speaker: Alfred Spector
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 28, 2017 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Irreversibility and symmetry principles for general quantum processes
Speaker: David Jennings, University of Oxford
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday November 28, 2017 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Gradient coding -- When coding theory and distributed computing meet
Speaker: Netanel Raviv, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 314
Wednesday November 29, 2017 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Almost-Linear-Time Algorithms for Markov Chains and New Spectral Primitives for Directed Graphs
Speaker: Jon Kelner, MIT
Location: Annenberg 308
Thursday November 30, 2017 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
TBA
Speaker: Justin Johnson, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday November 30, 2017 2:00 PM
Thesis Defense: Ioannis Filippidis
Location: Annenberg 121
Thursday November 30, 2017 3:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Learning Sums of Independent Commonly Supported Integer Random Variables
Speaker: Anindya De, Northwestern University
Location: Annenberg 314
Thursday November 30, 2017 3:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Optimizing Freight Logistics at Auptix with Alum Lu Saenz
Speaker: Lu Saenz, AuptiX
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday December 1, 2017 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Echo Chambers: Disagreement and Polarization in Bayesian Learning
Speaker: Cole Williams, UC Irvine
Location: Baxter 125
Friday December 1, 2017 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Exploring non-equilibrium phase transitions with driven Rydberg ensembles
Speaker: Michael Buchhold
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday December 1, 2017 2:00 PM
Digital Ventures ~ Designs Unveiled
Location: Moore B270
Friday December 1, 2017 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Mobile Microscopy, Sensing and Diagnostics for Point-of-Care Medicine and Global Health
Speaker: Aydogan Ozcan, UCLA
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday December 5, 2017 11:00 AM
Large-Scale Data Science
Speaker: Fabian Gieseke, University of Copenhagen
Location: Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room)
Tuesday December 5, 2017 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Classical branches and entanglement structure in the wavefunction of cosmological fluctuations
Speaker: Elliot Nelson, Perimeter Institute
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday December 6, 2017 4:00 PM
CNS Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Sang Wan Lee, KAIST
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Friday December 8, 2017 2:00 PM
Special Seminars in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Numerical Methods for Fractional Laplacians
Speaker: Professor Gabriel Acosta, Univeristy of Buenos Aires
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday December 8, 2017 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Nyquist Rate Healthcare: Silicon Systems to Close the Sub-Sampling Gap in Health Monitoring
Speaker: Amin Arbabian, Stanford
Location: Moore B280
Saturday December 9, 2017 8:30 AM
Symposium - Plan B: Engineering a Cooler Earth
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Monday December 11, 2017 10:00 AM
PhD Thesis Defense
Speaker: Gabriela de Oliveira Penna Tavares, Caltech
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday December 11, 2017 4:00 PM
CNS Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Michael Halassa, NYU
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday December 12, 2017 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Beyond classical computing via randomized low-depth quantum circuits
Speaker: Michael Bremner, University of Technology Sydney
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday December 13, 2017 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
k-server via multiscale entropic regularization
Speaker: Sebastien Bubeck, Microsoft Research
Location: Annenberg 308
Thursday December 14, 2017 12:00 PM
CMI Faculty Lunch - invitation only
Location:
Thursday December 14, 2017 3:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Prover vs Simulator vs Discriminator: New Techniques for Cryptographic Proofs
Speaker: Dakshita Khurana, UCLA
Location: Annenberg 314
Monday December 18, 2017 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Scalable Bayesian Inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
Speaker: Michael Betancourt, University of Warwick
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday January 3, 2018 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Information-Theoretic Security in the Smart Grid
Speaker: Dr Iñaki Esnaola, University of Sheffield
Location: Moore B280
Monday January 8, 2018 12:00 PM
RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar Series
Latent Variable Matrix Estimation via Collaborative Filtering
Speaker: Christina Lee, Microsoft Research New England
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday January 8, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Algorithmic Information Structure Design: Two Vignettes, Lessons Learned, and Challenges Ahead
Speaker: Assistant Professor Shaddin Dughmi, University of Southern California
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 9, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
The Dueling Bandits Problem
Speaker: Yisong Yue, CALTECH
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday January 10, 2018 7:00 PM
Quotient Technology Inc. -- Mike Walsh, Head of Research & Development
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday January 11, 2018 12:00 PM
CMI Faculty Lunch - invitation only
Location:
Thursday January 11, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
IKASI -- Application of Machine Learning Today: Tradeoffs in objectives, interpretability, and operationalization
Speaker: Anthony Chong, IKASI
Speaker: Ben Flora, IKASI
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday January 12, 2018 8:00 AM
SoCal NEGT Conference
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Friday January 12, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
From many modes to many bodies
Speaker: David Schuster, University of Chicago
Location: East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Friday January 12, 2018 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Straighten up and fly right: mechanisms for long distance dispersal in insects
Speaker: Michael Dickinson, California Institute of Technology
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday January 12, 2018 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Frontiers in Power Electronics: From Clean Energy to Wireless Powering of Vehicles
Speaker: Khurram Afridi, University of Colorado
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday January 16, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers in Retrospective and Perspective
Speaker: Alexander Lipton
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday January 17, 2018 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Modern Monetary Circuit Theory and Stability of Financial Ecosystem
Speaker: Alexander Lipton
Location: Baxter B125
Wednesday January 17, 2018 4:15 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Deterministic Random Matrices
Speaker: Ilya Soloveychik, Harvard University
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday January 17, 2018 7:00 PM
Topological Quantum Computation -- Professor Xie Chen, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday January 19, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Improving gravitational-wave detector sensitivity with cryogenic test mass cooling
Speaker: Johannes Eichholz
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday January 19, 2018 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
New Frontiers in Imitation Learning
Speaker: Yisong Yue, California Institute of Technology
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Monday January 22, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Statistical Methods for Two Problems in Biology
Speaker: Associate Professor Daniela Witten, University of Washington
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 23, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
"What's New? Interpretable Discovery in Large Image Data Sets"
Speaker: Kiri Wagstaff, JPL
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 23, 2018 4:00 PM
Chemical Physics Seminar Series
Two challenges for DNA nanotechnology: building interfaces with silicon and cells
Speaker: Paul W. K. Rothemund, California Institute of Technology
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday January 24, 2018 7:00 PM
Snap -- Production Software Engineering -- Scott Bruce, Senior Software Engineer & Caltech Alum
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday January 25, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Code Ocean -- Reproducibility Workshop: Best Practices and Easy Steps to Save Time for Yourself and Other Researchers
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday January 25, 2018 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Resilient Distributed Inference in Multi-Agent Systems
Speaker: Soummya Kar, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Moore B280
Friday January 26, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Bulk Entanglement Gravity
Speaker: Sean Carroll, Caltech
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday January 26, 2018 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Toward harnessing the full potential of urban winds: a case study of Hess Tower
Speaker: Daniel Araya, University of Houston
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Monday January 29, 2018 7:00 PM
Art + Tech Speaker Series
Art + Tech Panel: Games and Art
Speaker: Nonny de la Peña, Emblematic
Speaker: Johnnemann Nordhagen
Speaker: Brian Schrank, Depaul University
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday January 30, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
The Growing Role for Artificial intelligence for Space Exploration and the Search for Life Beyond Earth
Speaker: Steve Chien, JPL
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday January 31, 2018 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Optimization, Complexity and Math (through the lens of one problem and one algorithm)
Speaker: Avi Wigderson, Princeton University
Location: Annenberg 205
Wednesday January 31, 2018 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Some Applications of Extreme Value Theory in Signal Processing and Data Analysis
Speaker: Vahid Tarokh, CALTECH
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday January 31, 2018 7:00 PM
ObEN -- AI & Blockchain: Where Futures Meet -- Speaker: Mark Harvilla, Chief Engineer
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday February 2, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Continuous measurements and quantum trajectories in circuit QED
Speaker: Arian Jadbabaie
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday February 2, 2018 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Tricks used for Aerodynamic Experiments
Speaker: Markus Raffel, Leibniz University
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday February 6, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Nonlinear control and estimation theory for multi-agent autonomy and autonomous flying ambulances
Speaker: Soon-Jo Chung, CALTECH
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 6, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Thoughts on the Potential of Quantum Computing for Nuclear Physics Grand Challenge Problems
Speaker: Martin Savage, University of Washington
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday February 7, 2018 4:15 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Deep optimization: from learning deep models to tuning hyper-parameters
Speaker: Meisam Razaviyayn, USC Machine Leaning Center
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday February 7, 2018 7:00 PM
More than Recommendations: Data Science at Netflix -- Speaker: Becky Tucker, Caltech Alum
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday February 8, 2018 12:00 PM
CMI Faculty Lunch - invitation only
Location:
Thursday February 8, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Rubrik -- Start Your Own Startup
Speaker: Soham Mazumdar, Rubrik
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday February 8, 2018 4:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Approaching the Fundamental Limits of Learning
Speaker: Vahid Tarokh, Duke University
Location: Moore B280
Friday February 9, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantization of the low temperature action in the SYK model
Speaker: Josephine Suh
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday February 9, 2018 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Exploiting Sparsity for Modeling and Control of Dynamical Systems
Speaker: Eurika Kaiser, University of Washington
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Monday February 12, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Learning Versatile Behavior and Reusable Models through Real-World Interaction
Speaker: Chelsea Finn, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday February 12, 2018 7:00 PM
Art + Tech Speaker Series
Art + Tech Panel: Map and Territory
Speaker: Maayan Amir, Haifa University
Speaker: Ruti Sela, Haifa University
Speaker: Robert Simmon, Planet
Speaker: Nicolas Wey-Gomez, Caltech
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday February 13, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Local, Model-Agnostic Explanations of Machine Learning Predictions
Speaker: Sameer Singh, University of California, Irvine
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 13, 2018 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Spherical t-designs as a general purpose tool for partial de-randomization (1st of 2 parts)
Speaker: Richard Kueng, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 314
Tuesday February 13, 2018 4:00 PM
Chen-Huang Sustainable Energy Series Lecture: Real-World Strategies to Win Climate Change w/ Hal Harvey, CEO of Energy Innovation
Location: Ramo Auditorium
Wednesday February 14, 2018 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
2-to-2 Games via expansion on the Grassmann Graph
Speaker: Dor Minzer, Tel Aviv University
Location: Annenberg 205
Thursday February 15, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Talk by Alum Kevin Gromley
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday February 16, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
A quantum gas of polar KRb molecules in an optical lattice
Speaker: Jacob Covey
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday February 16, 2018 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Surface Waves, Line Waves, and Chiral Modes for One-Directional Propagation in Electromagnetic and Acoustic Systems
Speaker: Dan Sievenpiper, UCSD
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday February 20, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
TBA
Speaker: Vagelis Papalexakis, University of California Riverside
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 20, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Quantum supremacy: checking a quantum computer with a classical supercomputer
Speaker: John Martinis, Google
Location: Moore B270
Tuesday February 20, 2018 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Spherical t-designs as a general purpose tool for partial de-randomization (2nd of 2 parts)
Speaker: Richard Kueng, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 314
Wednesday February 21, 2018 4:15 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Resilient Distributed Inference in Multi-Agent Systems
Speaker: Soummya Kar, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Moore B280
Thursday February 22, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Inventing the Future of Finance, Alternative Data and Aperio
Speaker: David Loaiza, Point72 Aperio
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday February 22, 2018 12:00 PM
Smart Grid Seminar
Disturbance Based Decentralized Frequency Control for Power Systems
Speaker: Oleg Khamisov, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday February 23, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Machine Learning and Quantum Physics
Speaker: Evert van Nieuwenburg
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday February 23, 2018 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Long Duration Autonomy With Applications to Persistent Environmental Monitoring
Speaker: Magnus Egerstedt, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday February 23, 2018 3:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Levitated Nanomagnets in the Quantum Regime: Theory and Applications
Speaker: Oriol Romero Isart, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday February 26, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Making Intersections Safer with I2V Communication
Speaker: Professor Pravin Varaiya, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 27, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond
Speaker: John Preskill, CALTECH
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 27, 2018 4:00 PM
Smart Grid Seminar
Geometry and convexity of quadratic maps
Speaker: Anatoly Dymarsky, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Location: Moore 139
Wednesday February 28, 2018 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Identity-Based Encryption from the Diffie-Hellman Assumption
Speaker: Sanjam Garg, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 205
Thursday March 1, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Lessons Learned in Scaling Facebook
Speaker: Bobby Johnson, Interana
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday March 1, 2018 12:00 PM
RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar Series
Understanding the shape of single-cell data via manifold learning
Speaker: Smita Krishnaswamy, Yale University
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday March 1, 2018 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
How Much SRISK is Too Much?
Speaker: Robert Engle, New York University
Location: Baxter B125
Friday March 2, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Scrambling in quantum spin chains
Speaker: Brian Swingle, University of Maryland
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday March 2, 2018 3:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Spin-coherent dot—cavity electronics
Speaker: Michael Ferguson, ETH Zurich
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday March 2, 2018 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Self-similarity in boundary layers
Speaker: Bruno Eckhardt, The Philipps University of Marburg
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Monday March 5, 2018 12:00 PM
Smart Grid Seminar
Convex Relaxations of Chance Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow
Speaker: Andreas Venzke, Technical University of Denmark
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday March 6, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Network Algorithms and Delay Performance in Data Centers
Speaker: R. Srikant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday March 7, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Fireside Chat with Bill Coughran
Speaker: Bill Coughran
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday March 7, 2018 4:15 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Adaptive Caching Algorithms with Optimality Guarantees for Arbitrary Network Topologies
Speaker: Edmund Yeh, Northeastern University
Location: Moore B280
Thursday March 8, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
**Cancelled** AuptiX Tech Talk by Alum Lu Saenz
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday March 8, 2018 12:00 PM
RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar Series
Sequence Modeling via Segmentations
Speaker: Chong Wang, Google
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday March 8, 2018 12:00 PM
CMI Faculty Lunch - invitation only
Location:
Monday March 12, 2018 4:00 PM
CNS Seminar
Speaker: Dr. James DiCarlo, MIT
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday March 12, 2018 7:00 PM
New Media Art Student Exhibition
Location: Jorgensen Lobby
Tuesday March 13, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
User Centered Design and AI
Speaker: Maggie Hendrie, ArtCenter College of Design
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday March 13, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
On the edge: Geometry, model selection, and quantum compressed sensing
Speaker: Travis Scholten, Center for Quantum Information and Control - University of New Mexico & Center for Computing Research - Sandia National Laboratories
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday March 14, 2018 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Planar Graph Perfect Matching is in NC
Speaker: Nima Amari, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 205
Wednesday March 14, 2018 2:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Hybridized metasurfaces: A new twist in flat optics
Speaker: Cheng-Wei Qiu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Location: Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Friday March 16, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Isotopically Enhanced Triple-Dot Qubits in SiGe
Speaker: Thaddeus Ladd, HRL Laboratories, LLC
Location: East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Tuesday March 20, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
CANCELLED Human-Centric Machine Learning: Enabling Machine Learning for High-Stakes Decision-Making
Speaker: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday March 20, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
An almost-linear time decoding algorithm
Speaker: Naomi Nickerson, PsiQuantum
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday March 23, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Filling cavities to prevent decay: bosonic quantum error correction
Speaker: Victor Albert
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday March 23, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
The learnability of stabiliser states and DNF formulae
Speaker: Andrea Rocchetto, University of Oxford/UCL
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday March 23, 2018 3:00 PM
PhD Defense
Speaker: Luke Urban, Caltech
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Monday March 26, 2018 12:00 PM
Special Seminars in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness
Speaker: Zhiwei (Steven) Wu, Microsoft Research-New York
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday March 26, 2018 4:00 PM
CNS Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Michael Long, NYU
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Wednesday March 28, 2018 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Round Compression for Parallel Matching Algorithms
Speaker: Artur Czumaj, University of Warwick
Location: Annenberg 205
Tuesday April 3, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Transformative Technology @ eBay
Speaker: Dan Fain
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 3, 2018 4:00 PM
Graph Rigidity and Polynomial Identity Testing
Speaker: Rohit Gurjar
Location: Annenberg 322
Thursday April 5, 2018 12:00 PM
RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar Series
Machine Learning helps Discrete Optimization
Speaker: Bistra Dilkina, University of Southern California
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday April 5, 2018 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Reconsidering Returns
Speaker: Samuel Hartzmark, University of Chicago
Location: Baxter B125
Thursday April 5, 2018 4:00 PM
Special CNS Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Leila Wehbe, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Broad 100
Friday April 6, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Toward realizing a time-reversal-invariant topological superconductor
Speaker: Arbel Haim
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday April 6, 2018 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Improving the search for partners on two-sided online markets
Speaker: Daniela Saban, Stanford University
Location: Baxter 127
Monday April 9, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Sufficient Statistics for Online Prediction via the Burkholder Method
Speaker: Associate Professor Alexander (Sasha) Rakhlin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday April 9, 2018 4:15 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
From Gaussian Multiterminal Source Coding to Distributed Karhunen–Loève Transform
Speaker: Jun Chen, McMaster University
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday April 10, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Learning to Code Outside the Classroom
Speaker: Philip Guo, University of California San Diego
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday April 11, 2018 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
On the expressiveness of comparison queries
Speaker: Shay Moran, Institute for Advanced Study
Location: Annenberg 205
Wednesday April 11, 2018 2:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Reconfigurable single-atom array for Rydberg atom quantum simulation
Speaker: Hyosub Kim, KAIST, South Korea
Location: Lauritsen 469
Wednesday April 11, 2018 4:15 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Distribution Matching via Data Shaping
Speaker: Paul Siegel, University of California, San Diego
Location: Moore B280
Thursday April 12, 2018 12:00 PM
CMI Faculty Lunch - invitation only
Location:
Thursday April 12, 2018 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Extrapolative Beliefs in the Cross-section: What Can We Learn from the Crowds?
Speaker: Xing Huang, Washington University in St. Louis
Location: Baxter B125
Friday April 13, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Solid-state hybrid quantum systems
Speaker: Alp Sipahigil
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday April 16, 2018 9:00 AM
Earth Week Climate School
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Monday April 16, 2018 12:00 PM
Fostering Sustainable & Equitable Community Development
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday April 16, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Fighting Black Boxes, Adversaries, and Bugs in Deep Learning
Speaker: Assistant Professor Percy Liang, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 17, 2018 9:00 AM
Earth Week Climate School
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Tuesday April 17, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
On Optimization in Deep Learning: Implicit Acceleration by Overparameterization
Speaker: Nadav Cohen, Princeton University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 17, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
"Quantum Supremacy" and the Complexity of Random Circuit Sampling
Speaker: Bill Fefferman, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday April 17, 2018 4:00 PM
Subquadratic time encodable codes beating the Gilbert-Varshamov bound
Speaker: Matthew Weidner, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 322
Wednesday April 18, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Topological Quantum Computing with and without Majoranas
Speaker: Daniel Litinski, Freie University Berlin
Location: West Bridge 265
Wednesday April 18, 2018 4:15 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Recovering a hidden hamiltonian cycle via linear programming
Speaker: Yihong Wu, Yale University
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday April 18, 2018 7:00 PM
Art + Tech Speaker Series
Critical Making
Speaker: Matt Ratto
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Thursday April 19, 2018 12:00 PM
The Path to Transforming California’s Electric System
Location: Avery Dining Hall
Thursday April 19, 2018 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Institutional Investors, Heterogeneous Benchmarks and the Comovement of Asset Prices
Speaker: Andrea Buffa, Boston University
Location: Baxter B125
Monday April 23, 2018 4:00 PM
CNS Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Peyman Golshani, M.D., David Geffen School of Medicine
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday April 24, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
“Real-time” Supercomputing: Disruptive Transformation of Design and Decision-Based Pocesses.
Speaker: Lincoln Wallen
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday April 25, 2018 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Distributed All-Pairs Shortest Paths, Exactly
Speaker: Danupon Nanongkai, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 205
Wednesday April 25, 2018 4:00 PM
Special CNS Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Daniel McDuff, Microsoft Research
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Friday April 27, 2018 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Kidney Exchange: Market Failure and Solutions
Speaker: Itai Ashlagi, Stanford University
Location: Baxter 127
Friday April 27, 2018 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Toward Ultra-Low-Power Computing in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
Speaker: Mingoo Seok, Columbia University
Location: Moore B280
Monday April 30, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Program Synthesis Meets Machine Learning
Speaker: Associate Professor Armando Solar-Lezama, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 1, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Undecidability of the Spectral Gap in 1D
Speaker: Johannes Bausch, University of Cambridge
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday May 1, 2018 4:00 PM
End of Potential Line
Speaker: Spencer Gordon, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 322
Thursday May 3, 2018 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Learning from logged bandit feedback
Speaker: Adith Swaminathan, Microsoft Research AI
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday May 3, 2018 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
International Trade and the Propagation of Merger Waves
Speaker: Jarrad Harford, University of Washington
Location: Baxter B125
Thursday May 3, 2018 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Reducibility and Computational Lower Bounds for Problems with Planted Sparse Structure
Speaker: Guy Bresler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Moore B280
Friday May 4, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum information in quantum cognition
Speaker: Nicole Yunger Halpern
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday May 4, 2018 4:15 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Indoor Geolocation Science and Technology - At the Emergence of Smart World and IoT
Speaker: Kaveh Pahlavan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Location: Moore B270
Saturday May 5, 2018 8:30 AM
25th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Tuesday May 8, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Optimal control, lattice gauge theories, and quantum annealing
Speaker: Simone Montangero, University of Ulm
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday May 8, 2018 4:15 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Node Deployment in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks: A Source Coding Perspective
Speaker: Hamid Jafarkhani, University of California, Irvine
Location: Moore B270
Wednesday May 9, 2018 12:00 PM
Enhancing Mathematics Learning Through Peer Feedback
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday May 9, 2018 4:15 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Additivity of Information in Multilayer Networks
Speaker: Galen Reeves, Duke University
Location: Moore B280
Thursday May 10, 2018 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
A linearly convergent primal-dual gradient algorithm for optimal distributed feedback voltage control
Speaker: GUANNAN QU, Harvard Uninversity
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday May 10, 2018 12:00 PM
CMI Faculty Lunch - invitation only
Location:
Friday May 11, 2018 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Stepwise Presidential Election Reform
Speaker: Shai Vardi, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Friday May 11, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Bacon-Shor code with continuous measurement of non-commuting observables
Speaker: Juan Atalaya, UC Riverside
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday May 11, 2018 3:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Breaking Reciprocity Using Metamaterials
Speaker: Andrea Alù, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center
Location: Moore B280
Monday May 14, 2018 4:00 PM
CNS Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Palmer, University of Chicago
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday May 15, 2018 9:30 AM
Resnick Fellows Seminar Day
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Tuesday May 15, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Towards Understanding and Generating Language for Effective Social Interaction
Speaker: Chenhao Tan, University of Colorado Boulder
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday May 16, 2018 4:15 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar Series
The Golden Age of Space Exploration
Speaker: Charles Elachi, CALTECH
Location: Moore B270
Thursday May 17, 2018 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Venture Capital Contracts
Speaker: Arthur Korteweg, University of Southern California
Location: Baxter B125
Friday May 18, 2018 10:00 AM
Thesis Defense: Ania Baetica
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday May 18, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
A time-domain multiplexed measurement-based large-scale optical quantum computer
Speaker: Akira Furusawa, The University of Tokyo
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday May 18, 2018 2:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
IST Meeting of the Minds
Speaker: Hao Li, Pinscreen, Inc.
Location: Annenberg Center
Friday May 18, 2018 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Advanced 5G and SATCOM Phased-Arrays and Transceivers Using Silicon Technologies: THE END OF THE MARCONI ERA IS NEAR
Speaker: Gabriel Rebeiz, University of California, San Diego
Location: Moore B280
Monday May 21, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Green Hills Software -- Compiler Optimizations for the Fastest Code
Speaker: Greg Davis, Green Hills Software
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday May 21, 2018 1:00 PM
CMS Special Seminar
Speaker: Crystal Rutland
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday May 21, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Redemption of the High Frequencies
Speaker: Associate Professor Laurent Demanet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 22, 2018 1:00 PM
CMS Special Seminar
Speaker: Phil Long, Google
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday May 22, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Classical simulation of quantum circuits by dynamical localization
Speaker: Adrian Chapman, University of New Mexico
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday May 22, 2018 4:00 PM
Quantum lightning and applications
Speaker: Andrea Coladangelo, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 322
Wednesday May 23, 2018 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Explicit Binary Tree Codes with Polylogarithmic Size Alphabet
Speaker: Leonard Schulman, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 205
Wednesday May 23, 2018 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Low-Complexity Modeling for Visual Data: Representations and Algorithms
Speaker: Yuqian Zhang
Location: Moore B280
Thursday May 24, 2018 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Generalized Benders Cuts for Infinite-Horizon Control Problems
Speaker: Joe Warrington, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday May 25, 2018 2:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Addressing Challenges in Autonomy: Lessons from Information and Control Theories
Speaker: REZA AHMADI, UT Austin
Location: Annenberg 314
Wednesday May 30, 2018 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness
Speaker: Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania
Location: Annenberg 205
Thursday May 31, 2018 12:00 PM
RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar Series
Online Experiment Design
Speaker: Reza Eghbali, SIMONS Institute for the Theory of Computing
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday May 31, 2018 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Herding and Contrarianism: A Matter of Preference?
Speaker: Chad Kendall, University of Southern California
Location: Baxter B125
Friday June 1, 2018 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Modeling the cost of information
Speaker: Luciano Pomatto, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Friday June 1, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Fermionized Parafermions and Symmetry-Enriched Majorana Modes
Speaker: Aaron Chew
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday June 1, 2018 2:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Nested Periodic Subspaces: Extensions of Ramanujan Sums for Periodicity Analysis.
Location: Moore B280
Monday June 4, 2018 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
CNS Seminar
Speaker: Brian Wiltgen, UC Davis
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday June 5, 2018 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Program Synthesis at the Edge of Artificial Intelligence
Speaker: Swarat Chaudhuri, Rice University
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday June 5, 2018 4:00 PM
A new algorithm for fast generalized DFTs
Speaker: Chris Umans, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 322
Thursday June 7, 2018 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Sample-efficient exploration in reinforcement learning with function approximation
Speaker: Nan Jiang, Microsoft Research, NYC
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday June 11, 2018 12:00 PM
Blockchain Research Challenges
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday June 11, 2018 1:00 PM
PhD Thesis Defense
Speaker: Vipul Singhal, Caltech
Location: Broad 100
Tuesday June 19, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Ungauging quantum error-correcting codes
Speaker: Aleksander Kubica, Perimeter Institute
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday June 20, 2018 10:00 AM
Special Seminars in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Shelf-Type Breathers for a Nonlocal Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation
Speaker: Professor Roberto Ben, UNGS
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday June 20, 2018 10:30 AM
JPL Postdoc Research Day - Poster Session
Location: JPL
Friday June 22, 2018 12:00 PM
Smart Grid Seminar
Power system harmonics: identification and mitigation
Speaker: Josh Taylor, University of Toronto
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday July 17, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks
Speaker: Iris Cong, Harvard University
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday September 10, 2018 12:00 PM
Smart Grid Seminar
Achieving fairness for EV charging in overload: a fluid approach
Speaker: Fernando Paganini, Universidad ORT, Uruguay
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday September 11, 2018 9:30 AM
The Resnick Young Investigators Symposium
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Tuesday September 18, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Tensor Network and Cold Atoms Methods for Lattice Gauge Theories
Speaker: Erez Zohar, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik
Location: Annenberg 107