Seminars for 2020-2021

Wednesday September 30, 2020 9:00 AM
The Non-Stochastic Control Problem
Speaker: Elad Hazan, Princeton
Location: Online Event
Wednesday September 30, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Low-Degree Hardness of Random Optimization Problems
Speaker: Alexander Wein, NYU
Location: Online Event
Wednesday September 30, 2020 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
Constrained pseudo-market equilibrium
Speaker: Federico Echenique, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday September 30, 2020 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Atmospheric Aerosols with Different Origins: Cities, Forests and the Oceans
Speaker: Qing Ye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Monday October 5, 2020 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Roadblocks in AV Development: Simulating Perception Data
Speaker: Roland Phillipsen, Applied Intuition
Location: Online Event
Monday October 5, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Optimization, Control and Learning in Smart Grid
Speaker: Steven Low, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 7, 2020 9:00 AM
Regret Optimal-Control
Speaker: Babak Hassibi, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 7, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Lifting with Simple Gadgets and Applications to Circuit and Proof Complexity
Speaker: Susanna F. de Rezende, Mathematical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 7, 2020 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
The Politics of News Personalization
Speaker: Anqi Li, Washington University in St. Louis
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 7, 2020 12:00 PM
Schmidt Academy for Software Engineering - Outreach Session for Graduating Seniors
Location: Online Event
Thursday October 8, 2020 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Engineering Glucose-Responsive Insulin Delivery across Length and Time
Speaker: Lisa R. Volpatti
Location: Online Event
Friday October 9, 2020 9:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
"Numerical investigation of compressibility effects in reacting subsonic flows"
Speaker: Guillaume Beardsell
Location: Online Event
Friday October 9, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum computation and "cyberpunkian" quantum field theory
Speaker: Junyu Liu
Location: Online Event
Friday October 9, 2020 1:00 PM
Nonlinear Matrix Concentration via Semigroup Methods.
Speaker: De Huang, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday October 12, 2020 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Tech Talk Series
CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Location: Online Event
Monday October 12, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Discrete Differential Operators on Arbitrary Polygonal Meshes
Speaker: Mathieu Desbrun, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Tuesday October 13, 2020 1:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
On the firewall puzzle
Speaker: Beni Yoshida, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 14, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Distributed Statistical Inference under Local Information Constraints
Speaker: Jayadev Acharya, Cornell University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 14, 2020 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
Hard-to-Interpret Signals
Speaker: Yoram Halevy, University of Toronto
Location: Online Event
Thursday October 15, 2020 9:00 AM
RSI Mini-Workshop on Imaging the Rhizosphere
Location: Online Event
Friday October 16, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Scrambling and Branching
Speaker: Yingfei Gu
Location: Online Event
Friday October 16, 2020 1:00 PM
Competitive Optimization and Factorization by KL-Minimization
Speaker: Florian Schaefer, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday October 19, 2020 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Machine Learning/Personalization for Activision Gaming Store
Speaker: Fan You, Activision
Speaker: Ru Chen, Activision
Location: Online Event
Monday October 19, 2020 4:00 PM
Preparing for Techfest
Location: Online Event
Tuesday October 20, 2020 11:00 AM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
CMS-EE Partners Techfest
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 21, 2020 9:00 AM
Control Meets Learning Seminar
Speaker: Tamer Başar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 21, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Founded Assumptions
Speaker: Aayush Jain, UCLA
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 21, 2020 11:30 AM
"Science Will Lead Us Out of the Pandemic"
Speaker: Naveed Hussain, Boeing Research & Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 21, 2020 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
Simulating Finely-wrinkled Thin Shells using Wrinkle Fields
Speaker: Etienne Vouga, University of Austin at Texas
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 21, 2020 12:00 PM
RSI Mini-Workshop on Imaging the Rhizosphere
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 21, 2020 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
Evolutionarily Stable (Mis)specification: Theory and Application
Speaker: Jonathan Libgober, University of Southern Califonia
Location: Online Event
Thursday October 22, 2020 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Intratumoral Collagen-retained Immunotherapy
Speaker: Noor Momin
Location: Online Event
Friday October 23, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Pairing in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene: role of phonon and plasmon umklapp
Speaker: Cyprian Lewandowski
Location: Online Event
Friday October 23, 2020 1:00 PM
Lift & Learn: a scientific machine learning framework for learning low-dimensional models for nonlinear PDEs
Speaker: Elizabeth Qian, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday October 26, 2020 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Cadence and Computational Software: Electronic Design Automation and Machine Learning
Speaker: Elias Fallon, Cadence
Location: Online Event
Monday October 26, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Topological Tools for Understanding Complex Systems
Speaker: Michelle Feng, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 28, 2020 9:00 AM
Control Meets Learning Seminar
Speaker: Jeff Shamma, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 28, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Adversarially Robust Learnability: Characterization and Reductions
Speaker: Omar Montasser, TTIC
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 28, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Quantum simulation and quantum computation with programmable Rydberg atom arrays
Speaker: Harry Levine, Harvard University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 28, 2020 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
Combining knowledge and data driven methods for solving inverse imaging problems - getting the best from both worlds
Speaker: Carola-Bibiane Schonlieb, University of Cambridge
Location: Online Event
Wednesday October 28, 2020 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
Signaling with Private Monitoring
Speaker: Gonzalo Cisternas, MIT Sloan School of Management.
Location: Online Event
Thursday October 29, 2020 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Simulation and Modeling of High-Speed Disperse Two-Phase Flows
Speaker: Jesse Capecelatro, University of Michigan
Location: Online Event
Friday October 30, 2020 1:00 PM
Predicting many properties of a quantum system from very few measurements
Speaker: Robert Huang, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday November 2, 2020 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Nuro - Delivering Autonomy
Speaker: Akshay Vegesna, Nuro.ai
Speaker: Alex Moraru, Nuro.ai
Speaker: Rohan Choudhury, Nuro.ai
Location: Online Event
Monday November 2, 2020 2:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
TBD
Speaker: Na Li, Harvard University
Location: Online Event
Monday November 2, 2020 4:00 PM
Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Series
Structural Evidence for Nitrogenase Metallocluster Modularity
Speaker: Trixia Buscagan, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday November 4, 2020 9:00 AM
TBA
Speaker: Sham Kakade, University of Washington
Location: Online Event
Wednesday November 4, 2020 11:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
A New Minimax Theorem for Randomized Algorithms
Speaker: Shalev Ben-David, University of Waterloo
Location: Online Event
Wednesday November 4, 2020 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
How to Sell Hard Information
Speaker: S. Nageeb Ali, Pennsylvania State University
Location: Online Event
Thursday November 5, 2020 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Discontinuous Compression Structures: From Tensegrity Planetary Landers to Lightweight Metamaterials
Speaker: Julián J. Rímoli, Georgia Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Friday November 6, 2020 1:00 PM
TBA
Speaker: Riley Murray, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday November 9, 2020 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Misinformation and Fake News
Speaker: Cathy Ma, Facebook
Speaker: Andrew Kang, Facebook
Location: Online Event
Monday November 9, 2020 2:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
TBD
Speaker: Rachel Ward, University of Texas at Austin
Location: Online Event
Wednesday November 11, 2020 9:00 AM
TBA
Speaker: Sasha Rakhlin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday November 11, 2020 11:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
A Dichotomy for Real Boolean Holant Problems
Speaker: Shuai Shao, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location: Online Event
Wednesday November 11, 2020 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
Topic to be announced
Speaker: Philip Reny, University of Chicago
Location: Online Event
Wednesday November 11, 2020 5:00 PM
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Watson Lecture - The Power of Nonlinearities: Unlocking Opportunities for Sensing and Computing with Light
Speaker: Alireza Marandi, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday November 12, 2020 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Enjoyable, Knotty Problems on Shoestrings
Speaker: Oliver O'Reilly, University of California at Berkeley
Location: Online Event
Friday November 13, 2020 1:00 PM
TBA
Speaker: Michelle Feng, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday November 16, 2020 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Natural Language Processing
Speaker: Sagar Indurkhya, Virtualitics
Location: Online Event
Monday November 16, 2020 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
TBD
Speaker: Jesus De Loera, University of California, Davis
Location: Online Event
Tuesday November 17, 2020 5:00 PM
Webinar: A Path Towards Net-Zero Carbon Emissions
Location: Online Event
Wednesday November 18, 2020 9:00 AM
TBA
Speaker: Melanie Zeilinger, ETH Zurich
Location: Online Event
Wednesday November 18, 2020 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
TBA
Speaker: David Ginsbourger, University of Bern
Location: Online Event
Wednesday November 18, 2020 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
Topic to be announced
Speaker: Sophie Bade, University of London
Location: Online Event
Thursday November 19, 2020 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
TBA
Speaker: Ananya Renuka Balakrishna, University of Southern California
Location: Online Event
Friday November 20, 2020 1:00 PM
TBA
Speaker: Yifan Chen, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday November 23, 2020 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Argo.ai: Topic to be announced
Speaker:
Location: Online Event
Wednesday November 25, 2020 9:00 AM
TBA
Speaker: Claire Tomlin, University of California Berkley
Location: Online Event
Wednesday November 25, 2020 11:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
The Coin Problem with Applications to Data Streams
Speaker: Sumegha Garg, Harvard University
Location: Online Event
Monday November 30, 2020 12:00 PM
CMS-EE Partners Event Series
How We Replaced Our Entire Tech Stack Without Our Users Knowing
Speaker: Caelean Barnes, Quaestor
Speaker: Evan Doyle, Quaestor
Location: Online Event
Wednesday December 2, 2020 9:00 AM
TBA
Speaker: Jean-Jacques Slotine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday December 2, 2020 11:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Faster Divergence Maximization for Faster Maximum Flow
Speaker: Yang Liu, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday December 2, 2020 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
Topic to be announced
Speaker: Shaowei Ke, University of Michigan
Location: Online Event
Thursday December 3, 2020 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Pattern Formation in Suspension Flows
Speaker: Sungyon Lee, University of Minnesota
Location: Online Event
Friday December 4, 2020 1:00 PM
TBA
Speaker: Nikola Kovachki, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday December 9, 2020 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
Learning Sparse Non-Gaussian Graphical Models
Speaker: Rebecca Morrison, University of Colorado Boulder
Location: Online Event
Wednesday December 9, 2020 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
Topic to be announced
Speaker: Konstantin Sonin, University of Chicago
Location: Online Event
Monday January 11, 2021 4:00 PM
Diverse Minds Seminar Series
The hierarchy of knowledge in machine learning & related fields and its consequences
Speaker: Dr. Timnit Gebru, Google
Location:
Wednesday January 13, 2021 5:00 PM
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Watson Lecture - Artificial Intelligence: How it Works and What it Means for the Future
Speaker: Yisong Yue, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday January 14, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
TBA
Speaker: Nathalie Vriend, University of Cambridge
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 20, 2021 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
TBA
Speaker: TBD
Location: Online Event
Thursday January 21, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
TBA
Speaker: Laura De Lorenzis, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 27, 2021 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
TBA
Speaker: TBD
Location: Online Event
Wednesday February 17, 2021 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
TBA
Speaker: TBD
Location: Online Event
Wednesday February 24, 2021 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
TBA
Speaker: TBD
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 21, 2021 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
TBA
Speaker: TBD
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 28, 2021 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
TBA
Speaker: TBD
Location: Online Event
Wednesday May 19, 2021 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
TBA
Speaker: TBD
Location: Online Event
Wednesday May 26, 2021 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
TBA
Speaker: TBD
Location: Online Event