Seminars
October 2021
Friday, October 1st, 2021
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Permanent of random matrices from representation theory: moments, numerics, concentration, and comments on hardness of boson-sampling
Sepehr Ghazi Nezami,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
Preskill Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Control and spread of contagion in networks
Tarun Sabarwal,
Professor of Economics,
University of Kansas,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ultralight Coilable Structures
Online Event
Sergio Pellegrino
Sergio Pellegrino,
Joyce and Kenta Kresa Professor of Aerospace and Civil Engineering,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
6:30pm
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Monday, October 4th, 2021
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Learning in the Presence of Strategic Agents
Eric Mazumdar,
Assistant Professor,
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Department,
California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, October 5th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Mateo Diaz
Complexity, conditioning, and saddle avoidance in nonsmooth optimization
Mateo Diaz,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:45pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar
Online Event
The Hierarchy of Knowledge in Machine Learning & Related Fields and its Consequences
- Public Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Webinar with Dr. Jennifer Lewis (Harvard University)
Online Event
Responsive soft matter via 3D multi-material printing
Jennifer A. Lewis,
Jianming Yu Professor of Arts and Sciences; Wyss Professor for Biologically Inspired Engineering in the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University,
- Public Event
Wednesday, October 6th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Realization of real-time fault-tolerant quantum error correction
Ciarán Ryan-Anderson,
Honeywell Quantum Solutions,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Talk 1. Interactions between ocean currents and surface waves. Talk 2. Destructive Interference: Potential of Frequency Combs for Future Greenhouse Gas Monitoring
Bia Villas Boas,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
Newton Nguyen,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Using Density Functional Theory to Help Solve Material Mysteries
Ronald Cohen,
Senior Staff Scientist,
Earth and Planets Laboratory,
Carnegie Institution for Science,
Thursday, October 7th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
The Mechanics of Slow Slip
Kyungjae Im,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Geology,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar -(POSTPONED until 10/22)
Online Event
Computing Wasserstein barycenters: easy or hard?
Jason Altschuler,
Final year PhD Student,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, October 8th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Nuclear spin-wave quantum register for a rare-earth ion qubit
Andrei Ruskuc,
Graduate Student,
Faraon Group,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
On the competition between advection and vortex stretching
Jiajie Chen,
Graduate Student,
Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Convection: from small plumes to large coherent turbulent structures
Online Event
Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico
Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico,
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Houston,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Koopman-based Learning and Control of Agile Robotic Systems"
Carl Folkestad,
Graduate Student,
Control and Dynamical Systems,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 12th, 2021
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2021
10:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Superpolynomial Lower Bounds Against Low-Depth Algebraic Circuits
Nutan Limaye,
Associate Professor,
Computer Science and Engineering,
IT University of Copenhagen,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Abstract and physical constraints on quantum LDPC codes
Anirudh Krishna,
Bloch Postdoctoral Fellow in quantum science and engineering,
Stanford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Monoterpene Organic Nitrate Formation and Hydrolysis
Sally Ng,
Georgia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Deepfake, Artificial Intelligence: Will Machines Replace Us All?
Huolin Xin,
Associate Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of California, Irvine,
Thursday, October 14th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Earthquake sequence simulations with fault zone fluid flow, pore pressure evolution, and viscoelasticity
4:00pm
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Fireside Chat
Online Event
Informal chat with Prof. Po-Shen Loh, about taking invention into the real world
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Theodore von Kármán Lecture
Online Event
The Warm Glow of our Cool Universe
Dida Markovic,
Research Scientist,
NASA/JPL,
Dr. Phil Korngut,
Research Scientist; SPHEREx instrument scientist,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Friday, October 15th, 2021
8:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Probing Topological Phenomena in Time-Multiplexed Photonic Resonator Networks
Christian Leefmans,
Graduate Student, Marandi Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Decentralized, Coordination-Free Algorithms for Learning while Matching
Eric Mazumdar,
Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Economics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Presents... How to Apply to Grad School
Online Event
Panelists: Katie Bouman (Assistant Professor of CMS, EE & Astronomy, Rosenberg Scholar), Elijah Cole (CMS Grad Student), Angela Gao (CMS Grad Student), Elizabeth Qian (CMS Von Karman Instructor) & Adam Wierman (Professor of CMS/Director of IST)
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Hypersonic Aerothermochemistry: Progress in Computational Chemistry, Experimental Validation, and Sensitivity Analysis
Online Event
Iain D. Boyd
Iain D. Boyd,
H. T. Sears Memorial Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences,
University of Colorado – Boulder,
Monday, October 18th, 2021
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11:45am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Representation of the semantic structures: from discovery to applications
Serim Ryou,
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
Learning Causality and Using Causality for Learning
Kun Zhang,
Associate Professor in Philosophy,
and Affiliate Faculty Member in Machine Learning Department,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar
Online Event
A Conversation with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson,
Marine Biologist, Policy Expert, Writer, and Brooklyn Native. She is founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for coastal cities, and is co-creator and co-host of the Spotify/Gimlet podcast How to Save a Planet.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Oscar Leong
Deep Generative Priors for Inverse Problems
Oscar Leong,
von Karman Instructor,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2021
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor
Vedika Khemani,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Stanford,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery, with Examples in Fluid Mechanics
Steven Brunton,
James B. Morrison Endowed Career Development Professor in Mechanical Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Title TBD
Paola Cessi,
Scripps Institute of Oceanography,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
The Wonderful World of Mössbauer Resonances: Newer Applications with Synchrotron Radiation
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Watson Lecture - Megasupramolecules: From Disaster to Discovery
Online Event
Julia A. Kornfield (BS '83, MS '84),
Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor of Chemical Engineering,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, October 21st, 2021
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Theory Group Seminar
Online Bipartite Matching and Adwords
Vijay Vazirani,
Distinguished Professor,
Computer Science,
UC, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Medical Engineering Seminar-Dr. Hirotake Komatsu
Online Event
Bridging between clinic and engineering: development of oxygen-transporting mesh for cell transplantation
Dr. Hirotake Komatsu, MD,
Assistant Research Professor,
Department of Translational Research & Cellular Therapeutics, Arthur Riggs Diabetes & Metabolism,
Research Institute of City of Hope,,
Friday, October 22nd, 2021
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Towards Many-Body Quantum Simulations of Interacting Bosons in Circuit QED
Steven M. Girvin,
Department of Physics and Yale Quantum Institute,
Yale University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Critical Intersections: Conversations on History, Race, and Science
Online Event
Genealogies of the University
Mordechai Feingold,
Kate Van Nuys Page Professor of the History of Science and the Humanities,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Vortex-Wave Interaction Theory: Exact Coherent Structures & Roughness
Online Event
Philip Hall,
Professor of Mathematics,
Monash University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar
Computing Wasserstein barycenters: easy or hard?
Jason Altschuler,
Final year PhD Student,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,