Seminars
April 2021
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Thursday, April 1st, 2021
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Phase-field modeling and simulation in biomechanics: cell migration and other applications
Dr. Adrian Moure,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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4/4
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Friday, April 2nd, 2021
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Verifying quantum computations using interactive proofs
Urmila Mahadev,
Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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An Overview of Deep Space Navigation
Online Event
Shyam Bhaskaran
Shyam Bhaskaran,
Supervisor,
Outer Planet Navigation Group,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Monday, April 5th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
A Networked Systems Approach to Engineering Synthetic Biological Patterning in Theory and Practice
Melinda Perkins,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
European Molecular Biology Laboratory,
12:00pm
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2021
12:00pm
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2021
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
A Network Solution to Robust Implementation: the case of Identical but Unknown Distributions
Antonio Penta,
ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Affiliated Professor, Barcelona GSE,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Lacustrine records of Cenozoic and Plio-Pleistocene hydroclimate change in western North America
Daniel Ibarra,
University of California Berkeley,
Thursday, April 8th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Strength of materials under high dynamic pressures
Dr. Suraj Ravindran,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, (GALCIT),
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Decentralized Multi-Robot Active Search and Rescue
Ramina Ghods,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University,
Friday, April 9th, 2021
10:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Universal Lindblad Equation for Open Quantum Systems
Frederik Nathan,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Refael Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Tunable porous and patterned surfaces for turbulence control
Online Event
Mitul Luhar
Mitul Luhar,
Associate Professor,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
Monday, April 12th, 2021
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Analysis and Interventions in Large Network Games
Asu Ozdaglar,
MathWorks Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
4:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Webinar with Dr. Paul McEuen (Cornell University)
Online Event
Microscopic Robots?
Paul McEuen,
John A. Newman Professor of Physical Science and the Director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science,
Cornell University,
- Public Event
Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Real-time Distributed Decision Making in Networked Systems
Na Li,
Gordon McKay Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS),
Harvard University,
9:00am
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10:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Volatile organic compound emissions from Arctic ecosystems
Riikka Rinnan,
University Copenhagen,
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
New Techniques for Proving Fine-Grained Average-Case Hardness
Andrea Lincoln,
Postdoc,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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From Nash to Dominant: The Natural Index of Strategic Stability
Adam Tauman Kalai,
Senior Principal Researcher,
Microsoft Research,
Ehud Kalai,
James J. O'Connor Distinguished Professor of Decision and Game Sciences,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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Thursday, April 15th, 2021
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Misbehavin': anomalous atoms in solids and the extremes of thermal transport
Prof. Austin J. Minnich,
Professor,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar: PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Multi-functional metamaterials
Sai Sharan Injeti,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Science on Ice: What Ice Says About Past, Present, and Future Climate
Online Event
Alex Gardner,
Glacier Scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
- Public Event
Friday, April 16th, 2021
8:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Building a quantum computer with cat codes
Fernando Brandão,
Bren Professor of Theoretical Physics, Head of Quantum Algorithms AWS,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Speculative Worlds: Imagining Past and Future Science
Aimee Bahng,
Pomona College,
Kouslaa Kessler-Mata,
University of San Francisco,
Silvia Moreno-Garcia,
Novelist,
Enid Baxter Ryce,
Cal State Monterey Bay,
Banu Subramaniam,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Lisa Weasel,
Portland State University,
3:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Shock Generated Vortex Rings Drive Entrainment and Cooling in Flow Induced by a Spark Discharge
Bhavini Singh,
Ph.D. candidate,
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University,
Monday, April 19th, 2021
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Improving Policy Learning via Programmatic Domain Knowledge
Yisong Yue,
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Dept.,
California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, April 21st, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
TBA
Necmiye Ozay,
Associate Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Stochastic Price Adaptation, Waiting Lists, and Stochastic Gradient Descent
Itai Ashlagi,
Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
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Recycling of Moisture in the Amazonian Basin and Possible Impacts of Future Deforestation
Francina Dominguez,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Quasi-1D Hexagonal Chalcogenides: From Giant Optical Anisotropy to Ultralow Glassy Thermal Conductivity
Jayakanth Ravichandran,
Professor,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Sunlight to Everything: Catalyzing a Sustainable Future
Online Event
Jonas Peters,
Bren Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Resnick Sustainability Institute,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, April 22nd, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
The Viscoelastic Behavior of a Main-Chain Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
Thao (Vicky) Nguyen,
Professor; Marlin U. Zimmerman, Jr. Faculty Scholar,
Mechanical Engineering,
Johns Hopkins,
12:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
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Learnable Information in Deep Neural Networks
Stefano Soatto,
UCLA / AWS,
4:00pm
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Friday, April 23rd, 2021
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Prethermalization and dynamics in topological SYK pumps
Iliya Esin,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Refael Group,
12:00pm
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Adaptive Control of Infinite Dimensional Systems
Online Event
Aditya A. Paranjape
Aditya A. Paranjape,
Scientist at Tata TCS Research and,
Department of Aeronautics,
Imperial College London (starting in summer 2021),
4:00pm
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Monday, April 26th, 2021
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Dielectric metasurfaces for integrated imaging devices and active optical elements
Hyounghan Kwon,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Reinforcement Learning for Complex Environments: Tree Search, Function Approximators and Markov Games
Qiaomin Xie,
Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell,
School of Operations Research and Information Engineering,
Cornell University,
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
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