Seminars
January 2021
Ongoing
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Monday, January 4th, 2021
12:00am
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1/5
12:00am
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2021
9:00am
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12:00pm
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Stochastic Weather and Climate Models
Tim Palmer,
Oxford University,
4:00pm
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5:45pm
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▶︎POSTPONED: Diverse Minds Seminar
Online Event
The Hierarchy of Knowledge in Machine Learning & Related Fields and Its Consequences
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Is Densification During Sintering Diffusion Limited? Insights from Ultrahigh Temperature in situ Nanomechanical Testing and Sintering
Shen J. Dillon,
Associate Professor,
Material Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Thursday, January 7th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Kinetic Theory for Superparameterization of Sea Ice Dynamics
Dimitris Giannakis,
Associate Professor,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar: Matt O'Donnell
Online Event
Light and Sound: Integrating Photonics with Ultrasonics
Professor Matt O'Donnell, PhD,
Frank and Julie Jungers Dean Emeritus, College of Engineering Professor,
Department of Bioengineering,
University of Washington, Seattle,
Friday, January 8th, 2021
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Latent-variable modeling: causality, robustness, and false discovery methods
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Flows over Rough Walls
Online Event
Numerical simulations of turbulent flows over rough walls
Ugo Piomelli,
Professor,
Mechanical and Materials Engineering,
Queen's University,
Monday, January 11th, 2021
9:00am
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4:15pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Reconciling our Biases with our Values
Dr. Hanna Song,
Senior Director for Inclusion & Diversity,
Caltech,
Tuesday, January 12th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
The Provable Effectiveness of Policy Gradient Methods in Reinforcement Learning and Controls
Sham Kakade,
Professor,
Department of Computer Science and the Department of Statistics,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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● POSTPONED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
This seminar has been rescheduled to Wednesday, February 10.
Luciano Pomatto,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Can We Get to Carbon Neutral Livestock Production?
Ermias Kebreab,
University of California Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
What Can Ancient Materials Teach Us About Designing Sustainable Materials Today?
Admir Masic,
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Archaeological Materials,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Artificial Intelligence: How it Works and What it Means for the Future
Online Event
Yisong Yue,
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, January 14th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Computational and data-driven models for modern medicine
Spencer Bryngelson,
Senior Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Spacecraft Origami
Online Event
Manan Arya,
Technologist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Lizbeth B. De La Torre,
Creative Technologist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
- Public Event
Friday, January 15th, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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Science Journey: "Snowballs in the Desert: Studying Climate Transitions in Earth's Deep Past"
Online Event
Dustin Morris,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
- Public Event
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Estimating model error using sparsity-promoting ensemble Kalman inversion
Jinlong Wu,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate,
Environmental Science and Engineering Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Intelligent Control for Fixed-Wing eVTOL Aircraft
Online Event
Intelligent Control for Fixed-Wing eVTOL Aircraft
Xichen Shi,
PhD Student,
GALCIT,
California Institute of Technology,
Monday, January 18th, 2021
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
8:00am
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10:00am
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9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Data-Enabled Predictive Control
Florian Dörfler,
Associate Professor,
Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering,
ETH Zürich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Predicting the Course of Covid-19 and other epidemic and endemic disease
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Why is it so hard to model sea ice?
Cecilia Bitz,
University of Washington,
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Phase-field modeling of brittle fracture: an overview and a new paradigm to address multiple solutions
Laura De Lorenzis,
Professor,
Computational Mechanics,
ETH Zürich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar: Saswati Chatterjee-City of Hope
Online Event
AAVHSC: A Novel Genetic Medicine Platform for Gene Therapy & Genome Editing
Saswati Chatterjee, PhD,
Professor, Department of Surgery,
City of Hope,
Friday, January 22nd, 2021
8:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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The hydrodynamics of rowing
Online Event
The hydrodynamics of rowing
Jerry Westerweel,
Professor,
Delft University of Technology,
Monday, January 25th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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POSTPONED: KNI Distinguished Webinar: Dr. Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University
Online Event
Colloidal Crystal Engineering with DNA: Repurposing the Blueprint for Life
Chad A. Mirkin,
Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Medicine,
Northwestern University,
- Public Event
Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Learning for Safety-Critical Control in Dynamical Systems
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Modeling and optimizing set functions via RKHS embeddings
David Ginsbourger,
Titular Professor,
Departement of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Bern,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Online Event
Atomic-scale Understanding of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials
Salva Salmani-Rezaie,
Materials Department,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Understanding Tropical Cyclone Risk: from Mountain Drivers to Economic Impacts
Jane Wilson Baldwin,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Atomic-scale Understanding of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials
Salva Salmani-Rezaie,
Materials Department,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
Thursday, January 28th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Representations vs Algorithms: Symbols and Geometry in Robotics
Nicholas Roy,
Professor,
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, January 29th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Using Metrological Bounds in Quantum Error Correction
Aleksander Kubica,
AWS Center for Quantum Computing,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Multiscale Invertible Generative Networks for High-Dimensional Bayesian Inference Problems
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Structure Genome: a Unified Multiscale Approach to Bridging Materials Genome and Structural Analysis
Online Event
Structure Genome: a Unified Multiscale Approach to Bridging Materials Genome and Structural Analysis
Wenbin Yu,
Professor,
Purdue University,