Seminars
February 2021
Monday, February 1st, 2021
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021
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Special Seminar in CMS and HSS
Online Event
Dynamic Resource Allocation: Control and Mechanism
Pengyu Qian,
Columbia University,
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021
8:00am
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2/9
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Safe, Interaction-Aware Decision Making and Control for Robot Autonomy
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Permafrost thaw and methane release from Arctic lakes
Katey Walter Anthony,
University of Alaska Fairbanks,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Understanding and Enhancing Li-Ion Transport in Solids and at Interfaces for All-Solid-State Electrochemical Energy Storage
Linda Nazar,
Professor,
Departments of Chemistry and Physics, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology; Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo,
Thursday, February 4th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Biomimetic and Living Materials for the Built Environment
Wil V. Srubar III,
Professor,
Civil and Architectural Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Colorado Boulder,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Online Event
Machine Learning for Partial Differential Equations
Michael P. Brenner,
Michael F. Cronin Professor,
Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics,
Harvard Univeristy,
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Resolvent Modeling of Turbulent Jets
Ethan Pickering,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar: Elisa Konofagou
Online Event
Noninvasive Drug Delivery, Immunomodulation and Neuromodulation using Focused Ultrasound
Professor Elisa Konofagou,
Robert and Margaret Hariri Professor of Biomedical and Engineering and Professor of Radiology (Physics),
Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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Special Seminar in CMS and HSS
Online Event
Robust Sequential Decision-Making in Modern Data-Driven Systems
Thodoris Lykouris,
Microsoft Research NYC,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Planetary Protection
Online Event
Moogega Cooper,
Planetary Protection Lead,
Mars 2020,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
- Public Event
Friday, February 5th, 2021
10:00am
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Science Journey: "Beyond Bones: Reading the Fossil Record of Earth and Other Worlds"
Online Event
Cecilia Sanders,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
- Public Event
12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Online Event
The Measurement and Mismeasurement of Trustworthy ML
Sanmi (Oluwasanmi) Koyejo,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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Dancing flames and singing tubes: predicting thermoacoustic instability
Online Event
Dancing flames and singing tubes: predicting thermoacoustic instability
Aimee Morgans,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Imperial College London,
Monday, February 8th, 2021
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
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KNI Distinguished Webinar: Dr. Zhenan Bao, Stanford University
Online Event
Skin-Inspired Organic Electronics
Zhenan Bao,
K.K. Lee Professor and Department Chair of Chemical Engineering; Courtesy Professor in Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering; Director of Stanford Wearable Electronics Initiative (eWEAR),
Stanford University,
- Public Event
Wednesday, February 10th, 2021
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
TBA
Anca Dragan,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
How much shortwave radiation does atmospheric mineral dust absorb?
Adeyemi (Yemi) Adebiyi,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in CMS and HSS
Online Event
Learning & Decision-Making in Societal Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and Design
Eric Mazumdar,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, February 11th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Safe, Interaction-Aware Decision Making and Control for Robot Autonomy
Marco Pavone,
Professor, Director of the Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Co-Director of the Center for Automotive Research,
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:45pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar
Online Event
Mapping the structure of emotions
Dr. Kafui Dzirasa,
K. Ranga Rama Krishnan Associate Professor at Duke University with appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Neurosurgery.,
Friday, February 12th, 2021
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
From quantum error correction to critical theories: A holographic journey
Alexander Jahn,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group,
12:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Interpolated Factored Green Function method for accelerated solution of scattering problems
Christoph Bauinger,
Graduate Student,
Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Lunar Trailblazer: A small satellite mission for lunar water and lunar geology
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Lunar Trailblazer: A small satellite mission for lunar water and lunar geology
Bethany Ehlmann,
Professor,
Planetary Science,
California Institute of Technology,
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Monday, February 15th, 2021
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2021
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Online Event
Classical and quantum communication through quantum fields
Eduardo Martin-Martinez,
Associate Professor,
University of Waterloo,
Wednesday, February 17th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Learning Risk and Social Behavior in Mixed Human-Autonomous Vehicles Systems
Daniela Rus,
Director,
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Fooling Constant-Depth Threshold Circuits
William Hoza,
University of Texas, Austin,
12:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
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Tropical Pacific climate and El Niño strength during warm climates of the past five million years
Sarah White,
University of California Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Order-Disorder-Property Relationships in Structural Materials: Guided by Randomness
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - What Cosmic Fireworks Unveil About the Universe
Online Event
Mansi Kasliwal,
Assistant Professor of Astronomy,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
- Public Event
7:00pm
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Mars 2020 Lecture: The Thrill and Terror of Landing a Spacecraft on Mars
Online Event
Rob Manning,
Chief Engineer,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
- Public Event
Thursday, February 18th, 2021
12:00am
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2/19
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Fluid-elastic Structure Interactions: From Fluid-Induced Cracks to Ice-Shelf Disintegration
Ching-Yao Lai,
Professor,
Department of Geophysics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar: Dae-Hyeong Kim
Online Event
Unconventional Bioelectronics based on Soft Materials and Wireless Technology
Dae-Hyeong Kim, PhD,
Professor,
School of Chemical & Biological Engineering,
Seoul National University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in CMS and HSS
Online Event
Algorithms for Market: Matching Under Uncertainty
Mahsa Derakhshan,
Computer Science,
University of Maryland,
Friday, February 19th, 2021
12:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Biopolitical Battle Lines: Between Eugenics and Black Lives Matter
Edgar Arcenaux,
USC, Artist, Writer/Director,
Ugo Edu,
UCLA,
Kurt Forman,
Independent Artist/Filmmaker,
Ahmad Greene-Hayes,
Princeton University,
Terence Keel,
UCLA,
Hentyle Yapp,
NYU Tisch School of the Arts,
3:00pm
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Bacterial fluid dynamics
Online Event
Eric Lauga
Eric Lauga,
Professor,
Department of Applied Mathematics,
University of Cambridge,
Monday, February 22nd, 2021
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Dynamic Bipedal Locomotion: From Hybrid Zero Dynamics to Control Lyapunov Functions via Experimentally Realizable Methods
Jenna Reher,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
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On Learning Kernels for Numerical Approximation and Learning
Houman Owhadi,
Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Control and Dynamical Systems,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Towards Learning Robotic Dynamics: Application to Multirotor Takeoff and Landing
Daniel Pastor Moreno,
Graduate Student,
Aerospace (GALCIT),
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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IDEAS Lecture
Online Event
How Do You Like Your Materials – with Multi-functionality and Reconfigurability or Just Lightweight? Additive Manufacturing of 3D-Architected Materials
J.R. Greer,
Ruben F. and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Medical Engineering, and Mechanics Fletcher Jones Foundation Director, Kavli Nanoscience Institute,
- Public Event
Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Future warming exacerbated by aged-soot effect on cloud formation
Ulrike Lohmann,
ETH Zurich University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
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From viscous to crustal fingering: phase-field modeling of complex interfacial flow
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Background Risk and Small-Stakes Risk Aversion
Luciano Pomatto,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,