Past Seminars

Wednesday January 20, 2021 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Why is it so hard to model sea ice?
Speaker: Cecilia Bitz, University of Washington
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 20, 2021 12:00 PM
CMX Lunch Series
Predicting the Course of Covid-19 and other epidemic and endemic disease
Speaker: William Shadwick, Omega Analysis Limited
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 20, 2021 9:00 AM
Data-Enabled Predictive Control
Speaker: Florian Dörfler, ETH Zürich
Location: Online Event
Friday January 15, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Intelligent Control for Fixed-Wing eVTOL Aircraft
Speaker: Xichen Shi, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Friday January 15, 2021 1:00 PM
Estimating model error using sparsity-promoting ensemble Kalman inversion
Speaker: Jinlong Wu, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday January 14, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Computational and data-driven models for modern medicine
Speaker: Spencer Bryngelson, Caltech
Location: Online Event
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
Wednesday January 13, 2021 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Can We Get to Carbon Neutral Livestock Production?
Speaker: Ermias Kebreab, University of California Davis
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 13, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
What Can Ancient Materials Teach Us About Designing Sustainable Materials Today?
Speaker: Admir Masic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 13, 2021 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
This seminar has been rescheduled to Wednesday, February 10.
Speaker: Luciano Pomatto, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 13, 2021 9:00 AM
The Provable Effectiveness of Policy Gradient Methods in Reinforcement Learning and Controls
Speaker: Sham Kakade, University of Washington
Location: Online Event
Friday January 8, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Numerical simulations of turbulent flows over rough walls
Speaker: Ugo Piomelli, Queen's University
Location: Online Event
Friday January 8, 2021 1:00 PM
Latent-variable modeling: causality, robustness, and false discovery methods
Speaker: Armeen Taeb, ETH Zürich
Speaker: Marco Pavone, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Thursday January 7, 2021 4:00 PM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
Light and Sound: Integrating Photonics with Ultrasonics
Speaker: Professor Matt O'Donnell, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle
Location: Online Event
Thursday January 7, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Kinetic Theory for Superparameterization of Sea Ice Dynamics
Speaker: Dimitris Giannakis, New York University.
Speaker: Danielle Wood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 6, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Is Densification During Sintering Diffusion Limited? Insights from Ultrahigh Temperature in situ Nanomechanical Testing and Sintering
Speaker: Shen J. Dillon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 6, 2021 4:00 PM
Diverse Minds Seminar Series
The Hierarchy of Knowledge in Machine Learning & Related Fields and Its Consequences
Speaker: Dr. Timnit Gebru, Black in AI
Location: Online Event
Wednesday January 6, 2021 9:00 AM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Stochastic Weather and Climate Models
Speaker: Tim Palmer, Oxford University
Location: Online Event
Tuesday December 22, 2020 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Designing Hysteresis Free High-Valent Redox for Electrochemical Applications
Speaker: Iwnetim Abate, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Tuesday December 22, 2020 10:00 AM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Designing Hysteresis Free High-Valent Redox for Electrochemical Applications
Speaker: Iwnetim Abate, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Friday December 18, 2020 3:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Contract-based Design: Theories and Applications
Speaker: Tung Phan, Caltech
Speaker: Dr. Hanna Song, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday December 18, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Post-Anthropocene Computation: Rewilding the Quantum Field
Speaker: Natalie Klco
Location: Online Event
Friday December 18, 2020 10:00 AM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
Stimuli responsive micro-architected materials
Speaker: Luizetta V. Elliott, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Thursday December 17, 2020 4:00 PM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
Rapid Bacterial Identification and Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing using Raman Spectroscopy and Machine Learning
Speaker: Loza Tadesse, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Tuesday December 15, 2020 3:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Assuring Safety under Uncertainty in Learning-Based Control Systems"
Speaker: Richard Cheng, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Tuesday December 15, 2020 10:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Multiscale, data-driven and nonlocal modeling of granular materials"
Speaker: Konstantinos Karapiperis, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday December 10, 2020 3:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Microstructure-Enabled Plasticity in Nano-to-Microscale Materials
Speaker: Haolu (Jane) Zhang, 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
This seminar has been postponed.
Speaker: Konstantin Sonin, University of Chicago
Location: Online Event
Monday December 7, 2020 5:00 PM
IDEAS Lecture Series: Innovation and Discovery in Engineering and Applied Science
Point of Care, Everywhere!
Speaker: Axel Scherer, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday December 4, 2020 1:00 PM
Approximating Operators with Deep Learning
Speaker: Nikola Kovachki, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday December 4, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Precise Calibrations of Few-Body Physics in Potassium-39
Speaker: Xin Xie
Location: Online Event
Thursday December 3, 2020 4:00 PM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
New materials and devices for soft electronics
Speaker: Sheng Xu, University of California, San Diego
Location: Online Event
Thursday December 3, 2020 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Pattern Formation in Suspension Flows
Speaker: Sungyon Lee, University of Minnesota
Location: Online Event
Wednesday December 2, 2020 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Neutron Scattering applied to Hydrogen Storage in Metal-Organic Frameworks at the NIST Center for Neutron Research
Speaker: Craig Brown, University of Delaware, Team Lead Structure and Dynamics of Materials National Institute of Standards and Technology
Location:
Wednesday December 2, 2020 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
J. Dowling: Role of Long-Duration Energy Storage in Variable Renewable Electricity Systems ❖ K. Vasquez: Rapid hydrolysis of tertiary isoprene nitrate efficiently removes NOx from the atmosphere
Speaker: Jackie Dowling, Caltech
Speaker: Krystal Vasquez, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday December 2, 2020 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
Behavioral Neural Networks
Speaker: Shaowei Ke, University of Michigan
Location: Online Event
Wednesday December 2, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Faster Algorithms for Unit Maximum Flow
Speaker: Yang Liu, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday December 2, 2020 9:00 AM
Contraction Analysis in Optimization, Learning, and Adaptive Prediction and Control
Speaker: Jean-Jacques Slotine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Tuesday December 1, 2020 4:00 PM
KNI Distinguished Seminar Series
Transitioning to a Future Low Carbon Energy System: Key Scientific and Technological Challenges
Speaker: Peter F. Green, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Location: Online Event
Tuesday December 1, 2020 1:00 PM
Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Series
Quantum Simulation and Optimization in Near-Term Quantum Computers
Speaker: Leo Zhou, Harvard University
Location: Online Event
Monday November 30, 2020 5:00 PM
Webinar: OSIRIS-REx Sample Return from Asteroid Bennu
Location: Online Event
Monday November 30, 2020 3:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Online Learning from Human Feedback with Applications to Exoskeleton Gait Optimization"
Speaker: Ellen Novoseller, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday November 30, 2020 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences 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 November 25, 2020 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
The Coin Problem with Applications to Data Streams
Speaker: Sumegha Garg, Harvard University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday November 25, 2020 9:00 AM
Safe Learning in Robotics
Speaker: Claire Tomlin, University of California Berkley
Location: Online Event
Monday November 23, 2020 12:00 PM
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Partners Event Series
Argo.ai: Understanding and Predicting Trajectories (for Autonomous Driving)
Speaker: Andrew Hartnett
Location: Online Event
Friday November 20, 2020 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Gas-Liquid Droplet Microfluidics: Fundamentals and Applications
Speaker: Carlos Hidrovo, Northeastern University
Location: Online Event
Friday November 20, 2020 1:00 PM
Multiscale Computation and Parameter Learning for Kernels from PDEs: Two Provable Examples
Speaker: Yifan Chen, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday November 20, 2020 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
A synthetic monopole source of Kalb-Ramond field in diamond
Speaker: Mo Chen
Location: Online Event