Seminars for 2019-2020

Friday September 20, 2019 11:00 AM
RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar Series
Gary Marcus on "Rebooting AI: Building Machines We Can Trust"
Speaker:
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday September 24, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Lower bounds on the non-Clifford resources for quantum computations
Speaker: Michael Beverland, Microsoft
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday September 25, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Chasing Convex Bodies
Speaker: Mark Sellke, Stanford
Location: Annenberg 322
Wednesday September 25, 2019 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
Primal dual methods for Wasserstein gradient flows
Speaker: Jose A. Carrillo, Imperial College London
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday September 27, 2019 11:00 AM
RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar Series
Autoregressive Simulation of Many-body Quantum Systems
Speaker: Or Sharir
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday October 1, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Automatic Tensor Network Contraction
Speaker: Johnnie Gray, Imperial College London
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday October 1, 2019 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Approximate counting, phase transitions & geometry of polynomials
Speaker: Jingcheng Liu, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 314
Monday October 7, 2019 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Building a Fast Thread-Safe Malloc
Speaker: Ian Kuehne, Green Hills Software
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 8, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
How deep learning is transforming earthquake seismology
Speaker: Zach Ross, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 8, 2019 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Uniform Sampling Through the Lovász Local Lemma
Speaker: Jingcheng Liu, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 314
Wednesday October 9, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
CANCELED
Speaker: Shachar Lovett, UCSD
Location: Annenberg 322
Thursday October 10, 2019 12:00 PM
SketchySVD
Speaker: Joel Tropp, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 121
Thursday October 10, 2019 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Policy Announcement Design
Speaker: Semyon Malamud, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Location: Baxter B125
Friday October 11, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Dynamic Information Design with Diminishing Sensitivity Over News
Speaker: Kevin He, Caltech
Location: Baxter 125
Friday October 11, 2019 12:00 PM
Schmidt Academy for Software Engineering (Outreach session for graduating seniors)
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday October 14, 2019 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
CMS-EE Partners Techfest
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 15, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Measuring Economic Development from Space
Speaker: Stefano Ermon, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 15, 2019 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Advances in Linear Sketching over Finite Fields
Speaker: Grigory Yaroslavtsev, Indiana University, Bloomington
Location: Annenberg 314
Wednesday October 16, 2019 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
A `Liquid-Solid' Phase Transition in a Simple Model for Swarming
Speaker: Rupert Frank, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday October 17, 2019 12:00 PM
RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar Series
Machine Learning for the Real World: Provably Robust Extrapolation
Speaker: Angie Liu
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday October 18, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Defect-Level Switching: A New Mechanism for Electronic Devices
Speaker: Rafael Jaramillo, MIT
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday October 18, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
The Edgeworth Conjecture with Small Coalitions and Approximate Equilibria in Large Economies
Speaker: Federico Echenique, Caltech
Location: Baxter 125
Monday October 21, 2019 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
AI in Space – From Earth Orbit to Mars and Beyond! (JPl)
Speaker: Steve Chien, JPL
Speaker: Jagriti Agrawal, JPL
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday October 21, 2019 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems meet in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces.
Speaker: Boumediene Hamzi, Imperial College in London
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 22, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
A proof of the Sensitivity Conjecture
Speaker: Hao Huang, Emory University
Location: Annenberg 322
Tuesday October 22, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Scalable Autonomous Driving in the Urban Core
Speaker: Peter Carr, Argo AI
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 22, 2019 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Distributed optimization in multi-agent systems: bridging the gap between centralized and distributed algorithms
Speaker: Guannan Qu, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 314
Wednesday October 23, 2019 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
Mitigation of Cascading Failures in Power Systems
Speaker: Steven H. Low, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday October 24, 2019 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Heterogeneity and Asset Prices: A Different Approach
Speaker: Stavros Panageas, UCLA
Location: Baxter B125
Friday October 25, 2019 10:00 AM
Active Sensing for Quickest Event Detection in Networks
Speaker: Ali Tajer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Location: Moore B280
Friday October 25, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Networks of Optical Parametric Oscillators: From Ising Machines to Quantum Photonic Engineering
Speaker: Alireza Marandi, Caltech
Location: East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Friday October 25, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Common-Value versus Common-Probability Auctions
Speaker: Kathleen Ngangoue, New York University
Location: Baxter 125
Saturday October 26, 2019 9:00 AM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Citadel SoCal Datathon
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday October 28, 2019 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Algorithmic Trading Bots at Citadel
Speaker: Eugene Bulkin BS '17, Citadel
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday October 28, 2019 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Data-driven Decision Making and Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks
Speaker: Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday October 29, 2019 3:00 PM
KNI Distinguished Seminar Series
Lithium Niobate Nanomechanical Devices: New classical and quantum opportunities
Speaker: Amir Safavi-Naeini, Stanford University
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Tuesday October 29, 2019 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Exponential stability of primal-dual gradient dynamics and its applications in network control
Speaker: Guannan Qu, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 314
Wednesday October 30, 2019 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
Kinetic Model with Thermalization for a Gas with Total Energy Conservation
Speaker: Gianluca Favre, University of Vienna
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday October 30, 2019 4:00 PM
RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar Series
Mitigating Bias in Generative Modeling
Speaker: Aditya Grover, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday October 31, 2019 12:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Market-based Coordination of Multi-energy Systems
Speaker: Lesia Mitridati, Georgia Tech
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday November 1, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
Speaker: John Martinis
Location: Ramo Auditorium
Friday November 1, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
This seminar has been rescheduled for Friday, February 28.
Speaker: Jian Cao, Caltech
Location: Baxter 125
Monday November 4, 2019 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
CMS-EE Resume Workshop w/ Alex Cui and Eric Zhao
Speaker: Alex Cui and Eric Zhao, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 5, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction and the Information Paradox
Speaker: Geoff Penington, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday November 5, 2019 3:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Nearly Optimal Pseudorandomness From Hardness
Speaker: Dean Doron, Stanford
Location: Annenberg 314
Wednesday November 6, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Explicit near-Ramanujan graphs of every degree
Speaker: Ryan O'Donnell, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Annenberg 322
Wednesday November 6, 2019 8:00 PM
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Watson Lecture - Opportunities in Atomic-Scale Legoland: From Novel Electronic Phases to Quantum Devices
Speaker: Stevan Nadj-Perge, Caltech
Location: Beckman Auditorium
Thursday November 7, 2019 12:00 PM
Discussion with the 2018 Chang Career Exploration Prize Recipients
Speaker: Sean McKenna BS ’17
Speaker: Kyle Lakatos MS ’14
Speaker: Claire Ralph, Caltech
Location: Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Thursday November 7, 2019 1:00 PM
Celebrating innovation in the science and technology of sustainability
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Friday November 8, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
What matters in tie-breaking rules? How competition guides design
Speaker: Afshin Nikzad, USC
Location: Baxter 125
Friday November 8, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum-inspired classical sampling algorithms for machine learning
Speaker: András Gilyen
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday November 11, 2019 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Fundamentals of Building a Multiplayer Console Game
Speaker: Paul Robinson, Activision-Blizzard
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 12, 2019 3:00 PM
KNI Distinguished Seminar Series
Integrated Chi(2) Nonlinear Photonics
Speaker: Hong Tang, Yale University
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Tuesday November 12, 2019 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Poisson hyperplane tessellations in high dimensions and one-bit compression
Speaker: Eliza O'Reilly, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 314
Thursday November 14, 2019 4:00 PM
Universal laws and architectures in complex networked systems with applications to sensorimotor control
Speaker: John Doyle, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 121
Thursday November 14, 2019 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Conflicting Priorities: A Theory of Covenants and Collateral
Speaker: Giorgia Piacentino, Columbia University
Location: Baxter B125
Friday November 15, 2019 10:00 AM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
High Order Methods for Multiple Scattering in Terms of Farfield Expansions ABC
Speaker: Dr. Vianey Villamizar, Brigham Young University
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday November 15, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Transparency and Demand Management in Platforms for Networked Markets
Speaker: Adam Wierman, Caltech
Location: Baxter 125
Friday November 15, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum Supremacy: Understanding and Calibrating the Sycamore Processor
Speaker: Kevin Satzinger, Google AI Quantum
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday November 15, 2019 1:00 PM
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series
Variational Bayes for a Simple Neural Network
Speaker: Tui Nolan, University of Technology Sydney
Location: Moore B270
Monday November 18, 2019 10:30 AM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
A Fireside Chat with Dr. Timnit Gebru and Dr. Karina Edmonds (PhD '97)
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 18, 2019 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Ethical AI
Speaker: Timnit Gebru, Google
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday November 18, 2019 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Thompson Sampling for learning in online decision making
Speaker: Shipra Agrawal, Columbia University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 19, 2019 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
TBA
Speaker: Pietro Perona, CALTECH
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 19, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Calculating Nature Naturally
Speaker: Natalie Klco, University of Washington
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday November 19, 2019 4:00 PM
Center for the Mathematics of Information (CMI) Seminar Series
Modeling Repulsion with Determinantal Point Processes
Speaker: Eliza O'Reilly, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 314
Tuesday November 19, 2019 4:30 PM
CMX Special Seminar Series
How Many Labels Do You Need For Semi-Supervised Learning?
Speaker: Matthew Thorpe, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday November 20, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
The Karger-Stein Algorithm is Optimal for $k$-cut
Speaker: Jason Li, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Annenberg 322
Wednesday November 20, 2019 6:30 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
CS/EE UG Research at UCSD (SURF's and Grad School)
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday November 22, 2019 12:00 PM
Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar Series (SISL)
Equitable Voting Rules
Speaker: Omer Tamuz, Caltech
Location: Baxter B125
Friday November 22, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Recovery of massless Dirac fermions at charge neutrality in strongly interacting twisted bilayer graphene with disorder
Speaker: Alex Thomson
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday November 25, 2019 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Google
Speaker: Blair Zajac, Google
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday November 26, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction in Infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces with Tensor Networks
Speaker: Monica Jinwoo Kang, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 107
Monday December 2, 2019 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Speaker: , Facebook
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday December 4, 2019 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
TBA
Speaker: Nihar Shah, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Annenberg 322
Friday December 6, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Fusion rules from entanglement
Speaker: Kohtaro Kato
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday December 6, 2019 4:00 PM
CMX Special Seminar Series
Consensus Based Models and Applications to Global Optimization
Speaker: José Antonio Carrillo, Imperial College London
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday December 9, 2019 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Toward End-to-End Quantum Applications
Speaker: Xiaodi Wu, University of Maryland
Location: Annenberg 107
Monday December 9, 2019 4:00 PM
Special Seminars in Applied Mathematics
The Universe in a Computer: How mathematical and numerical methods are essential
Speaker: Dr. Christian Klingenberg, Würzburg University, Germany
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday December 12, 2019 3:30 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Figure Design for Presentations
Location: Annenberg 107
Thursday December 12, 2019 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions
Speaker: Jessica A. Wachter, University of Pennsylvania
Location: Baxter B125
Friday December 13, 2019 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Tailoring interactions between a diamond color center and phonons
Speaker: Srujan Meesala
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday December 16, 2019 4:00 PM
CMX Special Seminar Series
A New Non-convex Optimization Framework For Low-rank Matrix Recovery with Mathematical Guarantee
Speaker: Zhenzhen Li, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday January 9, 2020 4:00 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Academic Job Talks
Location: Gates-Thomas 135
Friday January 10, 2020 12:00 PM
CMX Special Seminar Series
Twistronics: manipulating the spectrum of Hamiltonian operators for two-dimensional layered structures through their twist angle
Speaker: Mitchell Luskin, University of Minnesota
Location: Annenberg 213
Monday January 13, 2020 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Alumni-Faculty Panel: Grad school vs. Industry
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday January 13, 2020 3:00 PM
CMX Special Seminar Series
On Type I blow-up for the incompressible Euler equations
Speaker: Dongho Chae, Chung-Ang University, Republic of Korea
Location:
Monday January 13, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Explainable AI: Making Visual Question Answering Systems More Transparent
Speaker: Raymond Mooney, University of Texas at Austin
Location: Annenberg 105
Friday January 17, 2020 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Robust encoding of a qubit in a molecule
Speaker: Victor Albert
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday January 17, 2020 4:30 PM
CMX Special Seminar Series
Posterior Contraction Rates for Some Possibly Nonlinear Inverse Problems
Speaker: Sergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus
Location: Annenberg 213
Tuesday January 21, 2020 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Using redundant ancilla encoding and flags for low overhead magic state preparation
Speaker: Christopher Chamberland, Amazon Quantum Group
Location: Annenberg 107
Tuesday January 21, 2020 4:00 PM
KNI Distinguished Seminar Series
From inverse design to implementation of practical (quantum) photonics
Speaker: Jelena Vučković, Stanford University
Location: Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Wednesday January 22, 2020 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
Binary Component Decomposition of Matrices
Speaker: Richard Kueng, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday January 24, 2020 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Cooperative and Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling in Solids
Speaker: Xinwei Li
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday January 27, 2020 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
▶︎ CANCELED: CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday January 27, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Challenges in Reliable Machine Learning
Speaker: Kamalika Chaudhuri, University of California, San Diego
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 28, 2020 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
"Does This Vehicle Belong to You?": Extracting Social Meaning from Language by Computer
Speaker: Dan Jurafsky, Stanford University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday January 28, 2020 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Approximate Bacon-Shor Code and Holography
Speaker: Charles Cao, QuICS, University of Maryland
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday January 29, 2020 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
Statistical Guarantees for MAP Estimators in PDE-Constrained Regression Problems
Speaker: Sven Wang, University of Cambridge
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday January 29, 2020 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
"Finite-Length Performance of Spatially Coupled Codes and Its Applications"
Speaker: Fredrik Brännström, Chalmers University of Technology
Location: Moore B280
Friday January 31, 2020 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum metrology with strongly interacting spin systems
Speaker: Joonhee Choi
Location: East Bridge 114
Friday January 31, 2020 1:30 PM
Social Science Conference
Caltech + Finance Symposium 2020
Location: Dabney Hall, Lounge
Monday February 3, 2020 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday February 3, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Algorithms for Eliciting Machine Learning Metrics
Speaker: Sanmi Koyejo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 4, 2020 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Online Optimization with Preference Feedback, Structured Decision Spaces, and Safety Constraints
Speaker: Yanan Sui, Tsinghua University
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday February 5, 2020 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Fault-tolerant quantum error correction in bosonic systems
Speaker: Kyungjoo Noh, Yale University
Location: Annenberg 314
Friday February 7, 2020 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Conformal field theories are magical
Speaker: Christopher White, University of Maryland Condensed Matter Theory Center
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday February 10, 2020 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday February 11, 2020 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Classical Coding Approaches to Quantum Applications
Speaker: Narayanan Rengaswamy, Duke University
Location: Annenberg 107
Wednesday February 12, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Automating Resolution is NP-Hard
Speaker: Albert Atserias, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Location: Annenberg 322
Wednesday February 12, 2020 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Efficient Learning of Quantum Noise
Speaker: Steve Flammia, University of Sydney
Location: Annenberg 314
Wednesday February 12, 2020 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Graph Signal Processing for Machine Learning Applications: New Insights and Algorithms
Speaker: Antonio Ortega, University of Southern California
Location: Moore B280
Friday February 14, 2020 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Creating Quantum Topological Materials with 3D Microwave Photons
Speaker: Clai Owens
Location: Keck 142
Wednesday February 19, 2020 4:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantifying quantum speedups: improved classical simulation from tighter magic monotones
Speaker: Earl Campbell, University of Sheffield
Location: East Bridge 114
Thursday February 20, 2020 12:00 PM
Smart Grid Seminar
Optimal Operation of Energy Systems via Structure Neural Networks
Speaker: Baosen Zhang, University of Washington
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday February 21, 2020 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
What is the role of curvature in complexity of optimization on manifolds?
Speaker: Nicolas Boumal, Princeton University
Location: Moore B280
Monday February 24, 2020 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday February 24, 2020 2:00 PM
Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar Series
Distributed decision making in networked systems: from optimization to reinforcement learning
Speaker: Guannan Qu, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 121
Tuesday February 25, 2020 3:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Quantum East model: localization, non-thermal eigenstates and slow dynamics
Speaker: Nicola Pancotti, Max Planck
Location: Annenberg 121
Wednesday February 26, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
MIP*=RE
Speaker: Henry Yuen, University of Toronto
Location: Annenberg 322
Wednesday February 26, 2020 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
An Optimal Transport Perspective on Uncertainty Propagation
Speaker: Amir Sagiv, Columbia University
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday February 28, 2020 12:00 PM
Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar Series
Multiple Imputation for Large Multiscale Data with Linear Constraints
Speaker: Jian Cao, Caltech
Location: Baxter B125
Friday February 28, 2020 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Lightning Round - APS style talks
Speaker:
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday March 2, 2020 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Bayesian analysis of tree models
Speaker: Yuhong Wu, Citadel Securities
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday March 2, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Learning Methods for Decentralized Decision Making in IoT/CPS Systems
Speaker: Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday March 3, 2020 4:30 PM
CMX Special Seminar Series
Mathematical and Computational Aspects of Imaging with Waves
Speaker: Liliana Borcea, University of Michigan
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday March 4, 2020 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Empirical Risk Minimization in High-dimensions: Asymptotics, Optimality and Double Descent
Speaker: Christos Thrampoulidis, UC Santa Barbara
Location: Moore B280
Thursday March 5, 2020 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
Top Wealth in the United States: New Estimates and Implications for Taxing the Rich
Speaker: Eric Zwick, University of Chicago
Location: Baxter B125
Friday March 6, 2020 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum Matter and Metrology far from Equilibrium
Speaker: Norman Yao, University of California, Berkeley
Location: East Bridge 114
Monday March 9, 2020 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Quantitative Research Methods
Speaker: Bryan Landman, Citadel
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday March 9, 2020 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Special Seminar Series
Colloidal Electronics
Speaker: Albert Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Moore B270
Monday March 9, 2020 4:00 PM
CNS Seminar
Speaker: Emily Finn, Dartmouth College
Location: Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Tuesday March 10, 2020 12:00 PM
IST Lunch Bunch
Unearthing the Relationship Between Graph Neural Networks and Matrix Factorization
Speaker: Bruno Ribeiro, Purdue University
Location: Annenberg 105
Tuesday March 10, 2020 4:00 PM
3D Chiral Mechanical Metamaterials
Speaker: Martin Wegener, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Location: Broad Center Rock Seminar Room
Wednesday March 11, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Reasoning About Generalization via Conditional Mutual Information
Speaker: Thomas Steinke, IBM Almaden
Location: Annenberg 322
Wednesday March 11, 2020 4:00 PM
KNI Distinguished Seminar Series
3D Laser Nanoprinting
Speaker: Martin Wegener, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Location: Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Wednesday March 11, 2020 7:00 PM
Visual Culture Program Series
New Media Art Show & Public Exhibition
Location: Jorgensen Lobby
Friday March 13, 2020 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
CANCELED: Challenges to the implementation of superconducting qubits due to microscopic phenomena inherent to superconducting films
Speaker: Lara Faoro, CNRS (Paris) and University of Madison Wisconsin
Location: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Wednesday March 25, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Nearly Optimal Pseudorandomness From Hardness
Speaker: Dana Moshkovitz, University of Texas at Austin
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 1, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Arıkan meets Shannon: Polar codes with near-optimal convergence to channel capacity
Speaker: Venkat Guruswami, Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 2, 2020 4:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
This seminar has been canceled.
Speaker: Eric D. Hilt, Wellesley College
Location: Baxter B125
Wednesday April 8, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Rademacher type and Enflo type coincide
Speaker: Ramon van Handel, Princeton University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 8, 2020 4:00 PM
Women in Leadership & Innovation Series
▶︎ CANCELED: An Evening with Ellen Ochoa
Location: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Thursday April 9, 2020 12:00 PM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Teleportation by size, traversable wormholes, and quantum gravity in the lab
Speaker: Sepehr Ghazi Nezami
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 15, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
CANCELED: NP-Hardness of Circuit Minimization for Multi-Output Functions
Speaker: Rahul Ilango, MIT
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 15, 2020 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
TBA
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday April 17, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Predicting Many Properties of a Quantum System from Very Few Measurements
Speaker: Hsin-Yuan (Robert) Huang
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 22, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Nearly Optimal Static Las Vegas Succinct Dictionary
Speaker: Huacheng Yu, Princeton University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 22, 2020 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
TBA
Location: Annenberg 213
Thursday April 23, 2020 4:00 PM
Webinar on Health, Sustainability, and COVID-19
Location: Online Event
Friday April 24, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Harvesting proximity effect in 2D Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Heterostructures for Spin and Valleytronics
Speaker: Ding Zhong
Location: Online Event
Monday April 27, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
**CANCELLED**Cities, Voting, and Spiders Spinning under the Influence: Spatial Applications of Topological Tools
Speaker: Michelle Feng, University of California Los Angeles
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday April 29, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Non-Adaptive Adaptive Sampling in Turnstile Streams
Speaker: Sepideh Mahabadi, TTIC
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 29, 2020 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
TBA
Speaker: Niles Pierce, Caltech
Location: Annenberg 213
Wednesday April 29, 2020 4:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
** CANCELED** From Feedforward-Designed Convolutional Neural Networks (FF-CNNs) to Successive Subspace Learning (SSL)
Speaker: C.-C. Jay Kuo, University of Southern California
Location: Moore B280
Thursday April 30, 2020 4:00 PM
Subra Suresh Distinguished Lecture Series
CANCELLED: Subra Suresh Distinguished Lecture Series, EAS
Speaker: Frances Arnold
Location: Baxter Lecture Hall
Monday May 4, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
**CANCELLED** Variations on a theme by George Dantzig: Revisiting the principles of the Simplex Method
Speaker: Jesus De Loera, University of California, Davis
Location: Annenberg 105
Wednesday May 6, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
An improved approximation algorithm for TSP in the half integral case
Speaker: Nathan Klein, University of Washington
Location: Online Event
Thursday May 7, 2020 12:00 PM
Finance Seminar Series
This seminar has been canceled.
Speaker: Michael Sockin, UT Austin
Location: Baxter B125
Friday May 8, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Simulating the collapse of false-vacuum bubbles in spin chains
Speaker: Ash Milsted
Location: Online Event
Wednesday May 13, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Online Vector Balancing and Geometric Discrepancy
Speaker: Sahil Singla, Princeton University
Location: Online Event
Friday May 15, 2020 2:30 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
▶︎ CANCELED: Meeting of the Minds
Location: Annenberg 105
Monday May 18, 2020 10:00 AM
Thesis Seminar
Universality Laws and Performance Analysis of the Generalized Linear Models
Speaker: Ehsan Abbasi, California Institute of Technology
Location:
Wednesday May 20, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
An Equivalence Between Private Classification and Online Prediction
Speaker: Mark Bun, Boston University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday May 20, 2020 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
TBA
Location: Annenberg 213
Friday May 22, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Fractonic order
Speaker: Wilbur Shirley
Location: Online Event
Wednesday May 27, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Is it (NP) hard to distinguish order from chaos?
Speaker: Rahul Ilango, MIT
Location: Online Event
Friday May 29, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Investigating superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene (TBG)
Speaker: Harpreet Singh Arora
Location: Online Event
Wednesday June 3, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Learning from Outcomes: Evidence-Based Rankings
Speaker: Michael Kim, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Friday June 5, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
The ghost in the radiation: Robust encodings of the black hole interior.
Speaker: Eugene Tang
Location: Online Event
Tuesday June 9, 2020 5:00 PM
Webinar: Human Impacts on the Atmosphere as Revealed by COVID-19
Location: Online Event
Thursday June 18, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Parallel Approximate Undirected Shortest Paths Via Low Hop Emulators
Speaker: Clifford Stein, Columbia University
Location: Online Event
Friday June 19, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Time-reversal-invariant topological superconductors and the fractional Josephson effect
Speaker: Christina Knapp
Location: Online Event
Friday July 17, 2020 12:00 PM
Synthetic Biology for Sustainability Seminar Series
Plant Synthetic Biology
Speaker: June Medford, Colorado State University
Location: Online Event
Friday July 24, 2020 9:00 AM
Thesis Seminar
Precision At Scale: System Design from Tiny Biosensors to Giant Arrays
Speaker: Matan Gal, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Friday July 24, 2020 10:00 AM
Thesis Seminar
Signals on Networks: Random Asynchronous and Multirate Processing, and Uncertainty Principles
Speaker: Oguzhan Teke, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Tuesday August 11, 2020 2:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Holographic baby universes: an observable story
Speaker: Monica Kang, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday August 13, 2020 10:15 AM
Visual Culture Program Series
Caltech / JPL / Art Center Visualization Program Project Presentations
Location: Online Event
Tuesday August 18, 2020 2:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
New perspectives on covariant quantum error correction
Speaker: Sisi Zhou, Yale University
Location: Online Event
Tuesday August 18, 2020 2:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Active Flat Optics Wavefront Manipulation for Imaging, Ranging, and Sensing
Speaker: Seyed Mohammadreza (Reza) Fatemi, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Tuesday August 25, 2020 1:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Covariant Quantum Error Correcting Codes via Reference Frames
Speaker: Mischa Woods, ETH Zürich
Location: Online Event
Wednesday August 26, 2020 12:00 PM
Presentation Skills Workshop Series
Presentations in the COVID Era
Location: Online Event
Wednesday September 2, 2020 4:00 PM
Thesis Seminar
Optical light manipulation and imaging through scattering media
Speaker: Jian Xu, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Tuesday September 8, 2020 1:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
The representation theory of the Clifford group, with sundry applications
Speaker: David Gross, University of Cologne
Location: Online Event
Monday September 14, 2020 8:00 AM
RSI Rhizosphere Workshop
Location: Online Event
Tuesday September 15, 2020 2:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Improved thermal area law and quasi-linear time algorithm for quantum Gibbs states
Speaker: Anurag Anshu, Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo
Location: Online Event
Thursday September 17, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Solving Sparse Linear Systems Faster than Matrix Multiplication
Speaker: Richard Peng, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Tuesday September 22, 2020 1:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
1D Noisy Random Circuit Sampling & Experimental Aspects of Bosonic QEC
Speaker: Kyungjoo Noh, AWS Center for Quantum Computing
Location: Online Event
Wednesday September 23, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Stochastic Local Search and the Lovasz Local Lemma
Speaker: Fotis Iliopoulos, Institute for Advanced Study
Location: Online Event
Wednesday September 23, 2020 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
When Choices are Mistakes
Speaker: Kirby Nielsen, Caltech
Location: Online Event