Seminars for 2018-2019

Wednesday September 19, 2018 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Oracle Separation of BQP and the Polynomial Hierarchy
Speaker: Avishay Tal, Simons Institute
Location: Annenberg 322
Wednesday September 19, 2018 12:00 PM
EAS division Postdoc Townhall - NPAW 2018
Location:
Thursday September 20, 2018 6:00 PM
Tech Mixer: EAS & PMA - NPAW 2018
Location: Dabney Hall, Lounge
Wednesday September 26, 2018 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Structured Cooperation for Channels with Feedback and beyond
Speaker: Oron Sabag, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
Location: Moore B280
Thursday September 27, 2018 2:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Spurious topological entanglement entropy and subsystem symmetries in compactified cubic code
Speaker: Dominic Williamson, Yale University
Location: Annenberg 107
Friday September 28, 2018 11:00 AM
CMS Special Seminar
Speaker: Tom Goldstein, University of Maryland
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday October 2, 2018 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Algebraic Complexity Theory: Lower bounds and Derandomization (1st of 2 parts)
Speaker: Ben Lee Volk, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 314
Wednesday October 3, 2018 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Parallel Graph Connectivity in Log Diameter Rounds
Speaker: Alex Andoni, Columbia University
Location: Annenberg 322
Thursday October 4, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Green Hills Software -- Designing a Secure Smartphone: Beyond Crypto
Speaker: Tim Menninger, Green Hills Software
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday October 8, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
From Acoustics to the Lindelof Hypothesis
Speaker: Thanasis Fokas, University of Cambridge
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 9, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
New Frontiers in Imitation Learning
Speaker: Yisong Yue, CALTECH
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 9, 2018 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Algebraic Complexity Theory: Lower bounds and Derandomization (2nd of 2 parts)
Speaker: Ben Lee Volk, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 314
Thursday October 11, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Facebook -- The Development History of Facebook's Safety Check
Speaker: Andrew Huang, Facebook
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday October 11, 2018 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Learning Fast or Slow
Speaker: Terrance Odean, UC Berkeley
Location: Baxter B125
Thursday October 11, 2018 5:30 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Facebook Open House
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday October 12, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Channeling Quantum Interactions: experiments in waveguide QED with superconducting quantum circuits
Speaker: Oskar Painter
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday October 15, 2018 10:00 AM
PhD Thesis Defense
Speaker: Jeffrey Edlund, Caltech
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Monday October 15, 2018 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
CMS Techfest
Speaker: Jon Snoddy, Walt Disney Imagineering
Location: Annenberg Center
Monday October 15, 2018 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Special CNS Seminar
Speaker: Florian Engert, Harvard University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday October 16, 2018 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Hard-core interactions on graphs
Speaker: Alessandro Zocca, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 314
Wednesday October 17, 2018 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Finding forbidden minors through random walks: (almost) n^{1/2} query one-sided testers for minor closed properties
Speaker: C. Seshadri, UC Santa Cruz
Location: Annenberg 322
Wednesday October 17, 2018 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Arbitrarily Varying Broadcast and Relay Channels
Speaker: Uzi Pereg, Israel Institute of Technology
Location: Moore B280
Thursday October 18, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Citadel -- FinTech
Speaker: Lucy Yin, Citadel
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday October 18, 2018 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Active Learning with Robust Predictors for Covariate Shift
Speaker: Angie Liu, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday October 19, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Avoiding Ergodicity: Static and Dynamical Localization in Clean Interacting Systems
Speaker: Yuval Baum
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday October 22, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Nonlocal spin-exchange interactions in a near-concentric cavity
Speaker: Emily Davis, Stanford University
Location: West Bridge 57 (CMP Conference Room)
Monday October 22, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Polynomial Optimization and Dynamical Systems
Speaker: Amir Ali Ahmadi, Princeton University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 23, 2018 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Complexity, Noise, and Emergent Properties of Learning Deep Representations
Speaker: Alessandro Achille, UCLA
Location: Annenberg 314
Thursday October 25, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Google -- Two Short Talks! 1: Understanding the Web: Topic Modeling, Hierarchical Content Labeling, and Sensitive Content Detection // 2: Programming Google's Quantum Computers
Speaker: Jen Iofinova, Google
Speaker: Dave Bacon, Google
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday October 25, 2018 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Capital Market Anomalies and Quantitative Research
Speaker: Justin Birru, Ohio State University
Location: Baxter B125
Friday October 26, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Nanoengineered Materials and Interfaces for Quantum Technologies
Speaker: Pankaj Jha
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday October 29, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Randomized algorithms for accelerating matrix computations
Speaker: Gunnar Martinsson, University of Oxford, Visiting Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 30, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Protected entanglement in black holes
Speaker: Isaac Kim, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday October 30, 2018 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Combining and Comparing Experiments
Speaker: Omer Tamuz, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 314
Tuesday October 30, 2018 6:00 PM
Caltech - City of Hope Biomedical Research Initiative Symposium
Location: Off Campus
Wednesday October 31, 2018 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Approximating Edit Distance Within Constant Factor in Truly Sub-Quadratic Time
Speaker: Michal Koucky, Charles University
Location: Annenberg 322
Wednesday October 31, 2018 8:00 PM
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Sergio Pellegrino - Space Solar Power: A New Beginning
Location: Beckman Auditorium
Thursday November 1, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Northrop Grumman -- Automating Flight Path Generation for Drones
Speaker: Sokun Kan, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday November 2, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum Error-Correcting Codes in Low-Energy Subspaces
Speaker: Eugene Tang
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday November 2, 2018 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Information Design in Service Systems and Markets
Speaker: Krishnamurthy Iyer, Cornell University
Location: Baxter 125
Friday November 2, 2018 2:30 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Localization in fractonic random circuits
Speaker: Rahul Nandkishore, University of Colorado, Boulder
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday November 5, 2018 1:30 PM
Special Seminars in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Semidefinite Approximations of the Matrix Logarithm (and related functions)
Speaker: Pablo Parrilo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 5, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Fast spectral solvers for computational science and engineering
Speaker: Oscar P. Bruno, CALTECH
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 6, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Off-policy Evaluation and Learning in Theory and in the Wild
Speaker: Yu-Xiang Wang, UC Santa Barbara
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 6, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Classical Verification of Quantum Computations
Speaker: Urmila Mahadev, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday November 7, 2018 10:00 AM
JPL Research Poster Conference
Location: JPL
Wednesday November 7, 2018 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar Series
The Future of Computing: Domain-Specific Accelerators
Speaker: William Dally
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday November 8, 2018 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Promises of Machine Learning for Space Exploration.
Speaker: Shahrouz Ryan Alimo, JPL
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday November 8, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
CS Technical Interview Workshop with Alums Phil Naecker and Mason Smith
Speaker: Phil Naecker, TGS Management Company
Speaker: Mason Smith, TGS Management Company
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday November 9, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
A photonic link for donor spin qubits in silicon
Speaker: Stephanie Simmons, Simon Fraser University
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday November 9, 2018 4:00 PM
Sloan-Swartz Seminar in Theoretical Neurobiology
"The Relationship Between Implicit and Explicit Visuomotor Task Learning in Hippocampus and Parietal Cortex"
Speaker: Christian Klaes, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday November 12, 2018 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
CNS Seminar
Speaker: Surya Ganguli, Stanford University
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday November 12, 2018 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
How to Use Heuristics for Differential Privacy
Speaker: Aaron Roth, University of Pennsylvania
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 13, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Wearable Sweat Sensors for Personalized Health Monitoring
Speaker: Wei Gao, CALTECH
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 13, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Classical and quantum simulation of quantum Gibbs state
Speaker: Tomotaka Kuwahara, RIKEN
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday November 14, 2018 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Classical Homomorphic Encryption for Quantum Circuits
Speaker: Urmila Mahadev, UC Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 322
Thursday November 15, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Electronic Arts (EA) -- Powering Games with Data & AI
Speaker: Ahmad Beirami, Electronic Arts (EA)
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday November 16, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
A Simple Lattice Model of a Dielectric-Mediated Superconductor
Speaker: Kevin Slagle
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday November 16, 2018 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Random versus Directed Search with Constrained Capacity
Speaker: Tewodros (Teddy) Mekonnen, Caltech
Location: Baxter 125
Tuesday November 20, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Statistical mechanical models for quantum codes with correlated noise
Speaker: Christopher Chubb, University of Sydney
Location: Annenberg 107
Monday November 26, 2018 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Variational Quantum Simulations of Lattice Models in the Innsbruck Quantum Cloud
Speaker: Peter Zoller, Univ of Innsbruck & IQOQI Austrian Academy of Sciences
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday November 27, 2018 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Building AI powered flying machines with high fidelity simulations
Speaker: Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 27, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Second law and eigenstate thermalization in isolated quantum many-body systems
Speaker: Takahiro Sagawa, University of Tokyo
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday November 27, 2018 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Approximate Gaussian Elimination for Laplacians
Speaker: Rasmus Kyng
Location: Annenberg 314
Tuesday November 27, 2018 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Active Sensing for Quickest Event Detection in Networks
Speaker: Ali Tajer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Location: Moore B280
Wednesday November 28, 2018 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
The Adaptive Complexity of Maximizing a Submodular Function
Speaker: Eric Balkanski, Harvard University
Location: Annenberg 322
Wednesday November 28, 2018 8:00 PM
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Lihong Wang - World's Deepest-Penetration and Fastest Optical Cameras
Location: Beckman Auditorium
Thursday November 29, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Western Asset -- Blockchain: Opportunities and Challenges for Building and Deploying Enterprise Platforms
Speaker: Jae Sang, Western Asset
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday November 29, 2018 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Selling Fast and Buying Slow: Heuristics and Trading Performance of Institutional Investors
Speaker: Alex Imas, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Baxter B125
Friday November 30, 2018 11:00 AM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Hybrid Analog-Digital FIR Precoding and Equalization MIMO System
Speaker: Wai Ming Chan, City University of Hong Kong
Location: Moore B280
Friday November 30, 2018 11:00 AM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Weakly convex optimization for signal processing problems
Speaker: Qi Liu, City University of Hong Kong
Location: Moore B280
Friday November 30, 2018 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Learnability and Stochastic Choice
Speaker: Pathikrit Basu, Caltech
Location: Baxter 125
Friday November 30, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Student Session - Joe Iverson, Gautam Venugopalan
Speaker: Student Session
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday December 3, 2018 4:00 PM
Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Demystifying the Nature Research Journal Editorial Processes
Speaker: David Pile, Nature Photonics
Location: Moore B270
Tuesday December 4, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Engineering topological superconductivity in III-V Josephson junctions
Speaker: Fokko de Vries, TU Delft
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday December 4, 2018 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Universal fault-tolerant measurement-based quantum computation
Speaker: Sam Roberts, University of Sydney
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday December 4, 2018 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Reasoning in Bayesian Opinion Exchange Networks is Computationally Hard
Speaker: Jan Hazla, MIT
Location: Annenberg 314
Wednesday December 5, 2018 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Estimation after Parameter Selection
Speaker: Tirza Routtenberg, Ben-Gurion University of Negev
Location: Moore B280
Thursday December 6, 2018 9:30 AM
Resnick Sustainability Institute Fellows Seminar Day
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Thursday December 6, 2018 12:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Cooling by Measurement
Speaker: Joerg Wrachtrup, University of Stuttgart
Location: Keck 142
Thursday December 6, 2018 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
EFF -- How EFF Uses CS to Fight Censorship and Defend Online Privacy
Speaker: Jeremy Gillula, EFF
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday December 6, 2018 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Randomized Algorithms for Convex and Non-Convex Optimization
Speaker: Mert Pilanci, Stanford University
Location: Moore B280
Friday December 7, 2018 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
A Theory of Recursive Aggregation with Applications
Speaker: Hamed Hamze Bajgiran, Caltech
Location: Baxter 125
Friday December 7, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Exact Eigenstates in the Rydberg-blockaded Atom Chain Which Violate the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis
Speaker: Cheng Ju (Jacob) Lin
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday December 7, 2018 5:00 PM
William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
The Anatomy of Artificial Intelligence
Speaker: Kate Crawford
Location: Baxter Lecture Hall
Wednesday December 12, 2018 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Almost Polynomial Hardness of Node-Disjoint Paths in Grids
Speaker: Julia Chuzhoy, TTIC
Location: Annenberg 322
Thursday December 13, 2018 12:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Exploration or Exploitation? Hedge Funds in Venture Capital
Speaker: Laura Lindsey, Arizona State University
Location: Baxter B125
Friday December 14, 2018 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Spatio-Temporal Pricing for Ridesharing Platforms.
Speaker: Hongyao Ma, Harvard University
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday December 14, 2018 12:00 PM
Managing Stress Discussion
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Friday December 14, 2018 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Alkaline earth atoms in optical tweezers
Speaker: Alexandre Cooper-Roy
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday December 18, 2018 2:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Quantum computing with wormholes
Speaker: Anirudh Krishna, Université de Sherbrooke
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday January 8, 2019 12:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar Series
Mixed-Signal Processing for Machine Learning
Speaker: Daniel Bankman, Stanford University
Location: Moore B270
Tuesday January 8, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Pseudorandom Quantum States
Speaker: Zhengfeng Ji, University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Location: Annenberg 107
Thursday January 10, 2019 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Activision-Blizzard -- Data science for game development
Speaker: Dean Wyatte, Activision
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday January 10, 2019 2:30 PM
Electrical Engineering Seminar Series
Imaging at relativistic speeds; the new space between sensing and imaging
Speaker: Barmak Heshmat, Meta Augmented Reality
Location: Moore B270
Friday January 11, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Physics archaeology: unearthing a 45 year old quantum spin liquid
Speaker: Patrick Lee, MIT
Location: East Bridge 114
Wednesday January 16, 2019 2:30 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
New Developments for Initial Boundary Value Problems: Theory and Applications
Speaker: Jan Nordstrom, Linköping University, Sweden
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday January 17, 2019 12:00 PM
Ignite Your Teaching: New Ideas in Practice
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Thursday January 17, 2019 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Actual Causality: A Survey
Speaker: Joe Halpern, Cornell University
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday January 17, 2019 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Street Simplified -- Saving Lives with Traffic Data
Speaker: Ryan Monroe, Street Simplified
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 22, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Modern Markets Require Modern Technologies
Speaker: George Papa
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 22, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Verification vs. Approximate sampling: How hard is it to verify "quantum supremacy"?
Speaker: Dominik Hangleiter, University of Berlin
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday January 22, 2019 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Privately Learning High-Dimensional Distributions
Speaker: Gautam Kamath, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
Location: Annenberg 314
Wednesday January 23, 2019 4:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Global Optimization by means of Parabolic Relaxation
Speaker: Ramtin Madani, The University of Texas at Arlington
Location: Annenberg 314
Thursday January 24, 2019 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Decentralized Statistical Learning in Adversarial Environments: Byzantine Gradient Descent
Speaker: Lili Su, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday January 24, 2019 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Kuna -- Fast, Cheap, AND Good: Making Dumb Cameras Smart with Cloud AI
Speaker: Haomiao Huang, Kuna
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday January 25, 2019 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Interactive Learning and Decision Making with Machines and People
Speaker: Yuxin Chen, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday January 25, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Unconditional separation of finite and infinite-dimensional quantum correlations
Speaker: Andrea Coladangelo
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday January 29, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Deep learning for single-cell biology
Speaker: David Van Valen, CALTECH
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 29, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
How to learn a quantum state
Speaker: John Wright, MIT
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday January 29, 2019 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Fundamentals for Low Latency Communications
Speaker: Vincent Poor, Princeton University
Location: Moore B270
Wednesday January 30, 2019 11:40 AM
EAS TecherTalk
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Wednesday January 30, 2019 4:00 PM
General Biology Seminar Series
"Building Brain Observatories for Large-Scale Cellular Surveys”
Speaker: Christok Koch, Allen Institute
Location: Broad 100
Thursday January 31, 2019 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Preparing for the Winter Career Fair with Alex and Eric
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday February 1, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Collective and local effects in the driven-dissipative dynamics of many-body quantum systems
Speaker: Nathan Shammah, RIKEN, Japan
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday February 1, 2019 2:00 PM
Applied Physics Seminar Series
Heterogeneously integrated membrane photonic devices on Si substrate for datacom and computercom applications
Speaker: Shinji Matsuo
Location: Watson 104
Monday February 4, 2019 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Rigidity and Deformation
Speaker: Nina Amenta, University of California at Davis
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 5, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
TBA
Speaker: Arun Viswanathan, JPL
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 5, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Chasing Quantum Codes: how to Outsmart a Brute-Force Approach
Speaker: Johannes Bausch, University of Cambridge
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday February 6, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Fully Bideniable Interactive Encryption
Speaker: Ran Canetti, BU and TAU
Location: Annenberg 322
Thursday February 7, 2019 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Virtualitics -- AI-driven Visual Analytics Using Immersive Virtual Environments
Speaker: Ciro Donalek, Virtualitics
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday February 7, 2019 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Heavy-traffic Delay Optimality in Pull-based Load Balancing Systems: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions.
Speaker: Xingyu Zhou, The Ohio State University
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday February 12, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Fast large-deformation elastodynamics with accurate materials and consistent meshes
Speaker: Jernej Barbic, University of Southern California
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday February 14, 2019 9:00 AM
2nd Caltech workshop on AI for Science
Location: Beckman Auditorium
Thursday February 14, 2019 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Barnabas Robotics -- Confessions of a Real-World Engineer: From Hardware Designer to Start-Up CEO (& the things in between)
Speaker: Edward Li, Barnabas Robotics
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday February 14, 2019 1:00 PM
Towards Private, Distributed, and Safe Autonomous Systems
Speaker: James Anderson, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 243
Thursday February 14, 2019 3:00 PM
Smart Grid Seminar
Building Efficient, Sustainable & Resilient Grid by Controlling the Edge
Speaker: Dr. Sonja Glavaski, ARPA-E
Location: Annenberg 121
Thursday February 14, 2019 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
General adversarial channels: When do large codes exist?
Speaker: Sidharth Jaggi, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Location: Moore B270
Tuesday February 19, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Grounding Reinforcement Learning with Real-world Dialog Applications
Speaker: Zhou Yu, UC Davis
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 19, 2019 3:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
CNS Seminar
Speaker: Josh Tenenbaum, MIT
Location: Broad 100
Tuesday February 19, 2019 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Genomes and AI: From Packing to Regulation
Speaker: Caroline Uhler, MIT
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday February 20, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
A Simple Sublinear-Time Algorithm for Counting Arbitrary Subgraphs via Edge Sampling
Speaker: Sepehr Assadi, Princeton University
Location: Annenberg 322
Wednesday February 20, 2019 2:30 PM
Multiscale Model Reduction for Heterogeneous Problems
Speaker: Guanglian Li, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday February 20, 2019 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Information theory of multiple-access channels with many users
Speaker: Yury Polyanskiy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Moore B280
Thursday February 21, 2019 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Company & Topic to be Announced!
Speaker: Vasu
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday February 21, 2019 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
BallerTV and Automated Broadcasting
Speaker: Collin Murphy, BallerTV
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday February 25, 2019 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Statistical Learning & Dynamical Systems: exploiting hidden low-dimensional structures
Speaker: Mauro Maggioni, Johns Hopkins University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday February 25, 2019 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Cancelled
Speaker: Ivan de Araujo, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday February 26, 2019 12:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Cryptographic Code Obfuscation
Speaker: Brent Waters, UT Austin
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday February 26, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Generalized Haah Codes
Speaker: Kevin Tian, University of California, Santa Barbara
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday February 26, 2019 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Two New Bootstrap Methods for High-Dimensional and Large-Scale Data
Speaker: Miles Lopes, UC Davis
Location: Annenberg 314
Thursday February 28, 2019 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
PIMCO -- Analytics and the Investment Process at PIMCO
Speaker: Masoud Sharif, PIMCO
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday February 28, 2019 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Understanding the Bias and Data Efficiency of Uncertainty Sampling
Speaker: Steve Mussmann, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday March 1, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Lightning Round
Speaker: Sophie Ding, Victor Albert, Kevin Slagle
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday March 4, 2019 12:00 PM
One if by Land and Two if by Sea: A Glimpse into the Value of Information in Strategic Interactions
Speaker: Vijay Subramanian, University of Michigan
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday March 4, 2019 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Inference, Computation, and Visualization for Convex Clustering and Biclustering
Speaker: Genevera Allen, Rice University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday March 5, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
TBA
Speaker: Patricio Vela, Georgia Tech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday March 5, 2019 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Approximation Theory meets Deep Learning
Speaker: Gitta Kutyniok, TU Berlin
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Tuesday March 5, 2019 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Designer Matter: New Frontiers in Wave Interactions with Meta- and Nano-structures
Speaker: Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri, University of Pennsylvania
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday March 5, 2019 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar Series
Designer Matter: New Frontiers in Wave Interactions with Meta- and Nano-structures
Speaker: Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri, University of Pennsylvania
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday March 6, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Strongly log concave polynomials, high dimensional simplicial complexes, and an FPRAS for counting Bases of Matroids
Speaker: Shayan Oveis Gharan, University of Washington
Location: Annenberg 322
Wednesday March 6, 2019 3:00 PM
KNI Distinguished Seminar Series
New Opportunities with Old Optical Materials
Speaker: Marko Lončar, Harvard University
Location: Broad Center Rock Seminar Room
Wednesday March 6, 2019 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series
On the process of making breakthroughs in engineering
Speaker: Thomas Kailath, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday March 7, 2019 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Internship and Job Search Workshop
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday March 7, 2019 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
Deep Learning and Modeling: Taking the Best out of Both Worlds
Speaker: Gitta Kutyniok, TU Berlin
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday March 7, 2019 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Non-Convex Learning: Optimization and Robustness
Speaker: Hongyang Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Annenberg 107
Thursday March 7, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Probing the 2D Fermi-Hubbard Model Under a Quantum Gas Microscope
Speaker: Matt Nichols, MIT
Location: Lauritsen 469
Monday March 11, 2019 4:00 PM
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
CNS Seminar
Speaker: Nuo Li, Baylor College of Medicine
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Monday March 11, 2019 7:00 PM
New Media Art Exhibition
Location: Jorgensen Lobby
Tuesday March 12, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
TBA
Speaker: Dorsa Sadigh, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday March 12, 2019 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
TOWARDS CONTROLLING BIAS IN AI SYSTEMS
Speaker: Nisheeth Vishnoi, Yale
Location: Annenberg 314
Wednesday March 13, 2019 8:30 AM
Women's History Month Watch party: Build Your Authentic Brand
Location: Gates-Thomas 210
Wednesday March 13, 2019 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Chip-Scale Nonlinear Photonics and its Applications
Speaker: Mengjie Yu, PhD, Harvard University
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Thursday March 14, 2019 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
Nuna Health -- Measuring Value in Value Based Healthcare
Speaker: Andi Bui, Nuna Health
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday March 14, 2019 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Spillover Effects of the Opioid Epidemic on Consumer Finance
Speaker: Mark Jansen, University of Utah
Location: Baxter B125
Friday March 15, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Algorithms and Lower Bounds for Entangled XOR Games
Speaker: Anand Natarajan
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday March 15, 2019 4:00 PM
Building the Computational Future
Location: Baxter Lecture Hall
Tuesday March 19, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Exponential separation between shallow quantum circuits and unbounded fan-in shallow classical circuits
Speaker: Adam Bene Watts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday March 20, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Sticky Brownian Rounding and its Applications to Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Speaker: Aleksandar Nikolov, University of Toronto
Location: Annenberg 322
Wednesday March 20, 2019 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Overparameterization without overfitting: from compressed sensing to deep learning
Speaker: Samet Oymak, University of California, Riverside
Location: Moore B280
Friday March 22, 2019 12:00 PM
Smart Grid Seminar
A Privacy-preserving Disaggregation Algorithm based on Alternate Projections Method for Non-intrusive Management of Flexible Energy
Speaker: Paulin Jacquot, EDF Innovation Lab
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday March 28, 2019 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Safeguarding privacy in dynamic decision making
Speaker: Kuang Xu, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday April 1, 2019 10:30 AM
Thesis Seminar
Decoding the Past
Speaker: Siddharth Jain, Caltech
Location: Moore B270
Wednesday April 3, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Fully Dynamic Spectral Vertex Sparsifiers and Applications
Speaker: Richard Peng, Georgia Tech
Location: Annenberg 322
Wednesday April 3, 2019 8:00 PM
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Azita Emami - Tiny Chips for Brain-Body-Machine Interfaces
Location: Beckman Auditorium
Thursday April 4, 2019 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Recommendations with Feedback
Speaker: Gustavo Manso, UC Berkeley
Location: Baxter B125
Friday April 5, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
“Quantum Nanophotonics with Ytterbium in Yttrium Orthovanadate"
Speaker: Jon Kindem
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday April 5, 2019 2:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Multi-contrast Photoacoustic Computed Tomography: Seeing through small-animal wholebody and whole brain at high spatiotemporal resolution
Speaker: Lei Li, California Institute of Technology
Location: Moore 139
Monday April 8, 2019 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
TBA
Speaker: Hongyao MA, Harvard
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday April 8, 2019 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Spatio-Temporal Pricing for Ridesharing Platforms
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday April 8, 2019 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Spatio-Temporal Pricing for Ridesharing Platforms
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 9, 2019 3:00 PM
KNI Distinguished Seminar Series
Making matter from light: Mott Insulators and Topological Fluids
Speaker: Jonathan Simon, University of Chicago
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Thursday April 11, 2019 3:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Metasurfaces: beyond diffractive and refractive optics
Speaker: Ehsan Arbabi, California Institute of Technology
Location: Keck 142
Thursday April 11, 2019 4:00 PM
CMX Special Seminar Series
Statistical Guarantees for the Bayesian Approach to Inverse Problems
Speaker: Richard Nickl, University of Cambridge
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday April 12, 2019 12:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Seminar Series
Chiral Inorganic Nanostructures: Why, How, and So What.
Speaker: Nicholas Kotov, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Location: Moore B270
Friday April 12, 2019 12:00 PM
Special Seminars in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Imaging a Black Hole with the Event Horizon Telescope
Speaker: Katherine (Katie) Bouman, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday April 12, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Emergent higher symmetry in topological phases of matter
Speaker: Xiao-Gang Wen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Monday April 15, 2019 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Role of Information and Learning in Bayesian Routing Games
Speaker: Saurabh Amin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 16, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Automated Data Summarization for Scalability in Bayesian Machine Learning
Speaker: Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 16, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Entropy decays for 1D quantum Gibbs samplers
Speaker: Angela Capel Cuevas, ICMAT
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday April 16, 2019 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Phononic Memories for Superconducting Quantum Processors
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday April 17, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Breaking Quadratic Time for Small Vertex Connectivity
Speaker: Thatchaphol Saranurak
Location: Annenberg 322
Wednesday April 17, 2019 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
CMX Lunch Seminar: Thomas Anderson
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday April 19, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Informational Robustness in Intertemporal Pricing
Speaker: Jonathan Libgober, University of Southern California
Location: Baxter 125
Friday April 19, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Probing Topological Superconductivity in a Phase-Controlled Planar Josephson Junction
Speaker: Hechen Ren
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday April 22, 2019 5:00 PM
Resnick Institute Chen-Huang Sustainability Lecture Series
The California Experience Goes Global
Speaker: Terry Tamminen, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
Location: Ramo Auditorium
Tuesday April 23, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
The complexity of sampling from a weak quantum computer
Speaker: Saeed Mehraban, MIT
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday April 24, 2019 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
CMX Lunch Seminar: Heather Zinn Brooks
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday April 24, 2019 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar Series
Lessons from the Early Days of Semiconductors
Speaker: Carver Mead
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Friday April 26, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Increasing spin-photon interface efficiencies via a tunable Fabry-Perot microcavity
Speaker: Daniel Riedel
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday April 26, 2019 3:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Reduced-Order Model Framework for Thermochemical Non-equilibrium Hypersonic Flows
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Monday April 29, 2019 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Data Perturbation for Data Science
Speaker: Richard Samworth, University of Cambridge & Teaching Fellow at Saint John's College
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday April 30, 2019 3:00 PM
KNI Distinguished Seminar Series
Engineering Coherent Defects in Diamond
Speaker: Nathalie de Leon, Princeton University
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday May 1, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Noninteractive Zero Knowledge for NP from Learning With Errors
Speaker: Chris Peikert, University of Michigan
Location: Annenberg 322
Wednesday May 1, 2019 4:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Computational Imaging: a Quest for the Perfect Image
Speaker: Jaebum Chung, California Institute of Technology
Location: Moore 239
Wednesday May 1, 2019 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Can machine learning trump theory in communication system design?
Speaker: Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford University
Location: Moore B280
Friday May 3, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Room temperature photo-induced electron-hole gas-to-liquid transition in 2D materials
Speaker: Alexander Kemper, North Carolina State University
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday May 3, 2019 3:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Single Photon Detectors, Parity Measurements and Heralded Cat States in the Microwave Domain
Speaker: Andreas Wallraff, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday May 3, 2019 3:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Dielectric Metasurfaces from Fundamentals to Applications
Speaker: Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali, California Institute of Technology
Location: Steele 125
Friday May 3, 2019 3:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
A Scalable Monolithic Computational Framework for Large-scale Simulation of Hydraulic Fracture
Location: Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tuesday May 7, 2019 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
CMX Lunch Seminar: James Saunderson
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday May 7, 2019 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
The Lee-Yang Theorem and the Ising Model
Speaker: Alistair Sinclair, UC Berkeley
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday May 8, 2019 2:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Impact of Transmission Network Topology on Electrical Power Systems
Speaker: Linqi (Daniel) Guo, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 243
Thursday May 9, 2019 12:00 PM
CMI Faculty Lunch (invitation only): Adam Wierman
Location: Annenberg 121
Friday May 10, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Intertemporal Consumption With Risk: A Revealed Preference Analysis
Speaker: Songfa Zhong
Location: Baxter 125
Friday May 10, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Entanglement, Decoherence, & Quantum Ising Systems
Speaker: P.C.E. Stamp, University of British Columbia
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday May 10, 2019 3:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
PT-symmetry breaking in microscopic gain-loss systems
Speaker: Peter Rabl, TU Wien
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday May 13, 2019 9:00 AM
Connecting the speed-accuracy trade-offs in sensorimotor control and neurophysiology reveals diversity sweet spots in layered control architectures
Speaker: Yorie Nakahira, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 121
Tuesday May 14, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Learning Unbiased Ranking Functions
Speaker: Thorsten Joachims, Cornell University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 14, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Hamiltonian simulation meets holographic duality
Speaker: Toby Cubitt, University College London
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday May 14, 2019 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
The Structure of Optimal Private Tests for Simple Hypotheses
Speaker: Adam Smith, Boston University
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday May 15, 2019 9:30 AM
Resnick Institute Seminar Series
Join us at the BIA for 7 sustainability science research talks presented by Resnick Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellows! All are invited to attend!
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Wednesday May 15, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Quantum-inspired classical linear algebra algorithms: why and how?
Speaker: Ewin Tang, University of Washington
Location: Annenberg 322
Thursday May 16, 2019 3:00 PM
CMX Special Seminar Series
Interpretable Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) via Feedforward Design
Speaker: C.-C. Jay Kuo, University of Southern California
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday May 16, 2019 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Home Equity Mitigates the Financial and Mortality Consequences of Health Shocks: Evidence from Cancer Diagnoses
Speaker: Arpit Gupta, New York University
Location: Baxter B125
Friday May 17, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Mislearning from Censored Data: The Gambler's Fallacy in Optimal-Stopping Problems
Speaker: Kevin He, Harvard University
Location: Baxter 125
Friday May 17, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Projected least squares: a numerically cheap quantum tomography procedure with optimal error bounds
Speaker: Richard Kueng
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday May 17, 2019 2:30 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
CMS Meeting of the Minds
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 21, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Big Data, New Physics
Speaker: Jeff Jonas, Senzing
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 21, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Weak simulation and benchmarking of sparse quantum circuits
Speaker: Daniel Stilck França, University of Copenhagen
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday May 21, 2019 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Matching is as Easy as the Decision Problem, in the NC Model
Speaker: Vijay Vazirani, UC Irvine
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday May 22, 2019 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
How Feedback Improves Coding Performance over Memoryless Channels
Speaker: Aaron Wagner, Cornell University
Location: Moore B280
Friday May 24, 2019 10:00 AM
Thesis Seminar
Long Term Implantable Pressure Sensors
Speaker: Aubrey Shapero, California Institute of Technology
Location: Moore 239
Friday May 24, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Stability and Externalities in Dynamic Matching Markets
Speaker: Laura Doval, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Friday May 24, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum Electrodynamics of Superconducting Circuits
Speaker: Hakan E. Tureci, Princeton University
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday May 28, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Volumetric Imaging of Nature: from the microscopic to the grand outdoors
Speaker: Aviad Levis, Technion
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday May 28, 2019 3:00 PM
KNI Distinguished Seminar Series
The Revolution of Silicon Photonics
Speaker: Michal Lipson, Columbia University
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday May 29, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Lower Bounds for Multiplication via Network Coding
Speaker: Lior Kamma, Aarhus University
Location: Annenberg 322
Thursday May 30, 2019 11:00 AM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Bubbles as Leaky Pistons: Particle Separation by Size from Suspensions
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Thursday May 30, 2019 12:00 PM
Theory of Computing Seminar Series
Distributed goodness-of-fit: when you can't talk much and have little in common
Speaker: Clement Canonne, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 322
Thursday May 30, 2019 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Expectations Uncertainty and Household Economic Behavior
Speaker: Camelia M. Kuhnen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Location: Baxter B125
Friday May 31, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Ab initio electronic T1 spin relaxation times in silicon and diamond & Computing charge transport in materials from first principles
Speaker: Jinsoo Park
Speaker: Jin-Jian Zhou
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday May 31, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Coordinate-wise Median: Not Bad, Not Bad, Pretty Good
Speaker: Wade D. Hann-Caruthers, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Monday June 3, 2019 12:00 PM
History Seminar Series
Does Privacy Still Matter? The Complexity of Data Privacy Regulations
Speaker: Rona Yu, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday June 4, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Batch Normalization Causes Gradient Explosion in Deep Randomly Initialized Networks
Speaker: Greg Yang, Microsoft
Location: Annenberg 105
Thursday June 6, 2019 4:30 PM
Thesis Seminar
L-band multi-polarization radar scatterometry over global forests: modelling, analysis, and applications
Speaker: Yu Xian Lim, California Institute of Technology
Location: Moore 139
Friday June 7, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Operator Algebras in Quantum Theory: A Practical Perspective
Speaker: Oleg Kabernik, University of British Columbia
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday June 7, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Optimal Data Acquisition for Statistical Estimation
Speaker: Juba Ziani, Caltech
Location: Baxter 127
Friday June 7, 2019 1:00 PM
Changing Directions & Changing the World: Celebrating the Carver Mead New Adventures Fund
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Wednesday June 12, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
NEEXP in MIP*
Speaker: John Wright, MIT
Location: Annenberg 322
Wednesday June 12, 2019 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Wavefront sensing and control for high-contrast imaging in space
Speaker: He Sun, Princeton University
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday June 17, 2019 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Minimax Optimal Learning of Populations of Parameters
Speaker: Ramya Korlakai Vinayak, University of Washington in Seattle
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday June 18, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
CANCELED
Speaker: Anna Pappa, Freie Universität Berlin
Location: Annenberg 107
Thursday June 20, 2019 11:30 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Neutral atom quantum computing: Quantum gates and Maxwell's demon
Speaker: Aishwarya Kumar, Pennsylvania State University
Location: Lauritsen 469
Thursday June 20, 2019 4:00 PM
RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar Series
Optimization Aspects of Temporal Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning
Speaker: Pierre-Luc Bacon, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday June 21, 2019 12:00 PM
RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar Series
Unsupervised Learning of Image Correspondences in Medical Image Analysis
Speaker: Adrian Dalca, MIT
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday June 21, 2019 1:00 PM
Advanced Deep Learning and Tensor Tutorial
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday July 1, 2019 12:00 PM
Smart Grid Seminar
Recent Advances in Autonomous Energy Grid
Speaker: Changhong Zhao, PhD, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday July 2, 2019 12:00 PM
Landing a Faculty Position 2019 - EAS-PMA
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Tuesday July 9, 2019 4:00 PM
RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar Series
Finite-Time Performance Bounds and Adaptive Learning Rate Selection for TD Learning
Speaker: R. Srikant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday July 10, 2019 2:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Seminar Series
Fully programmable quantum machines with all-to-all connectivity via Floquet engineering, and quantum neural networks
Speaker: Peter Mc Mahon, Cornell University
Location: Moore B280
Monday July 15, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
A fault-tolerant non-Clifford gate for the surface code in two dimensions
Speaker: Ben Brown, University of Sydney
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday July 16, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Entanglement subvolume law for 2D frustration free systems
Speaker: Anurag Anshu, University of Waterloo
Location: Annenberg 213
Sunday July 21, 2019 5:00 PM
Eighth International School for Materials for Energy and Sustainability
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Tuesday July 23, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Counting without Sampling: Approximation Algorithms for Quantum Many-Body Systems at Finite Temperatures
Speaker: Mehdi Soleimanifar, MIT
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday July 24, 2019 10:00 AM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
Recent advances in high order and spectral approximations: Virtual Elements and Maximum Entropy reconstruction of PDFs
Speaker: Dr. Alexey Chernov, University of Oldenburg
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday July 29, 2019 3:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Universality classes of topological phase transitions
Speaker: Wei Chen, PUC - Rio
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday July 30, 2019 8:00 AM
SMC-IT 2019: 7th IEEE International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology
Location:
Tuesday July 30, 2019 8:00 AM
2019 IEEE Space Computing Conference (SCC)
Location:
Tuesday July 30, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Sampling-complexity phase diagrams
Speaker: Abhinav Deshpande, University of Maryland
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday July 31, 2019 4:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
De Finetti theorems for quantum channels
Speaker: Mario Berta, Imperial College London
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday August 1, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Locality estimates for complex-time evolution in 1D
Speaker: Antonio Perez, ICMAT
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday August 2, 2019 2:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Experiments with strongly interacting Fermi gases of atoms and molecules
Speaker: Jee Woo Park, Seoul National University
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday August 2, 2019 2:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Experiments with strongly interacting Fermi gases of atoms and molecules
Speaker: Jee Woo Park, Seoul National University
Location: East Bridge 114
Tuesday August 6, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Spectroscopy with quantum sensors
Speaker: Tuvia Gefen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday August 8, 2019 12:00 PM
Faculty Search Panel EAS/PMA
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Tuesday August 13, 2019 2:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Seminar Series
Nearby Skeleton Constrained Accelerated Recomputing, NSCAR, and the Bidirectional Adaptive Refinement Scheme, BARS: constrained Optimization meets Machine Learning to challenge the Von Neumann Computing Paradigm
Speaker: Bedros Afeyan, Polymath Research Inc.
Location: Moore B280
Tuesday August 13, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Quantum Simulation of quantum field theory in the light-front formulation
Speaker: Peter Love, Tufts University
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday August 15, 2019 1:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Convex Relaxations for Graph and Inverse Eigenvalue Problems
Speaker: Utkan Onur Candogan, California Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 314
Friday August 16, 2019 10:00 AM
Thesis Seminar
Latent-variable modeling: inference, algorithms, and applications
Speaker: Armeen Taeb, California Institute of Technology
Location: Annenberg 121
Tuesday August 20, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Machine Learning for Quantum and Vice Versa
Speaker: Murphy Yuezhen Niu, Google Research
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday August 22, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Dipolar Quantum Mixtures of Erbium and Dysprosium: a new tool for quantum simulation
Speaker: Gianmaria Durastante, IQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Location: Lauritsen 469
Thursday August 22, 2019 4:00 PM
Bayesian Inference of Multiscale Differential Equations
Speaker: Giacomo Garegnani, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday September 12, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Construction and analysis of SU(3) spin liquids and resonating trimer models using Projected Entangled Pair States
Speaker: Norbert Schuch, Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics
Location: Annenberg 213