Past Seminars

Friday April 16, 2021 3:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Shock Generated Vortex Rings Drive Entrainment and Cooling in Flow Induced by a Spark Discharge
Speaker: Bhavini Singh, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University
Location: Online Event
Friday April 16, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Building a quantum computer with cat codes
Speaker: Fernando Brandão
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 15, 2021 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Coping with Trauma: Noninvasive Technologies for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Speaker: Nil Gurel
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 15, 2021 1:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Multi-functional metamaterials
Speaker: Sai Sharan Injeti, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 15, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Misbehavin': anomalous atoms in solids and the extremes of thermal transport
Speaker: Prof. Austin J. Minnich, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 14, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Ab Initio Quantum Dynamics in Nanoscale Materials
Speaker: Oleg Prezhdo, University of Southern California
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 14, 2021 12:00 PM
A Fireside Chat with Emily Denton
Location:
Wednesday April 14, 2021 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
From Nash to Dominant: The Natural Index of Strategic Stability
Speaker: Adam Tauman Kalai, Microsoft Research
Speaker: Ehud Kalai, Northwestern University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 14, 2021 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
New Techniques for Proving Fine-Grained Average-Case Hardness
Speaker: Andrea Lincoln, UC Berkeley
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 14, 2021 9:00 AM
Real-time Distributed Decision Making in Networked Systems
Speaker: Na Li, Harvard University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 14, 2021 9:00 AM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Volatile organic compound emissions from Arctic ecosystems
Speaker: Riikka Rinnan, University Copenhagen
Location: Online Event
Tuesday April 13, 2021 4:00 PM
KNI Distinguished Seminar Series
Microscopic Robots?
Speaker: Paul McEuen, Cornell University
Location: Online Event
Monday April 12, 2021 4:00 PM
H. B. Keller Colloquium Series
Analysis and Interventions in Large Network Games
Speaker: Asu Ozdaglar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Friday April 9, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Mitul Luhar
Speaker: Mitul Luhar, University of Southern California
Location: Online Event
Friday April 9, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Universal Lindblad Equation for Open Quantum Systems
Speaker: Frederik Nathan
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 8, 2021 12:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Decentralized Multi-Robot Active Search and Rescue
Speaker: Ramina Ghods, Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 8, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Strength of materials under high dynamic pressures
Speaker: Dr. Suraj Ravindran, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 7, 2021 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Lacustrine records of Cenozoic and Plio-Pleistocene hydroclimate change in western North America
Speaker: Daniel Ibarra, University of California Berkeley
Location: Online Event
Wednesday April 7, 2021 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
A Network Solution to Robust Implementation: the case of Identical but Unknown Distributions
Speaker: Antonio Penta
Location: Online Event
Monday April 5, 2021 12:00 PM
RSI Research Seminar Series
Resnick Sustainability Institute Research Seminar
Location: Online Event
Monday April 5, 2021 11:00 AM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
A Networked Systems Approach to Engineering Synthetic Biological Patterning in Theory and Practice
Speaker: Melinda Perkins, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Location: Online Event
Friday April 2, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Shyam Bhaskaran
Speaker: Shyam Bhaskaran, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Location: Online Event
Friday April 2, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Verifying quantum computations using interactive proofs
Speaker: Urmila Mahadev
Location: Online Event
Thursday April 1, 2021 11:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Phase-field modeling and simulation in biomechanics: cell migration and other applications
Speaker: Dr. Adrian Moure, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 31, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Conformational Dynamics in Supramolecular Nanostructures and Applications to Water Purification
Speaker: Julia Ortony, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 31, 2021 4:00 PM
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
WE-CAN Know More about Smoke: An Overview of the Summer 2018 Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol Absorption and Nitrogen (WE-CAN)
Speaker: Emily Fischer, Colorado State University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 31, 2021 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
Optimal Auctions: Non-Expected Utility and Constant Risk Aversion
Speaker: Benny Moldovanu, Universität Bonn
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 31, 2021 10:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Optimal Sub-Gaussian Mean Estimation in R
Speaker: Jasper Lee, Brown University
Location: Online Event
Friday March 26, 2021 11:00 AM
Imaging Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87's Black Hole
Speaker: Monika Mościbrodzka, Radboud University
Location: Online Event
Friday March 26, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
Simulating Quantum Field Theories with Qubit Models
Speaker: Alex Buser
Location: Online Event
Friday March 26, 2021 10:00 AM
Medical Engineering Seminar Series
Eddy Current Damping Stroke Sensor
Speaker: Shane Shahrestani, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 24, 2021 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
Mixed Logit and Pure Characteristics Models
Speaker: Jay Lu, UCLA
Speaker: Kota Saito, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Tuesday March 23, 2021 4:00 PM
KNI Distinguished Seminar Series
Advancing the Materials and Chemistry of High-Energy Batteries
Speaker: Betar Gallant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Monday March 22, 2021 2:00 PM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Reducing Computational Costs for Many-Body Physics Problems
Speaker: Erika Ye, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Monday March 22, 2021 12:00 PM
RSI Research Seminar Series
Resnick Sustainability Institute Research Seminar
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 17, 2021 5:00 PM
Webinar: SWARM- A New Paradigm for Communication Satellites
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 17, 2021 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
Robust Minimal Instability of the Top Trading Cycles Mechanism
Speaker: Lars Ehlers, Université de Montréal
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 17, 2021 9:00 AM
TCS+ Talks
Junta Distance Approximation with Sub-Exponential Queries
Speaker: Avishay Tal, UC Berkeley
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 17, 2021 9:00 AM
Data Auctions with Externalities
Speaker: Munther Dahleh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Monday March 15, 2021 8:00 AM
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar Series
Multiscale Mechanical Characterization of Subcellular Structures in Living Walled Cells
Speaker: Leah Ginsberg, Caltech
Location: Online Event
Friday March 12, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Chiara Daraio
Speaker: Chiara Daraio, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Friday March 12, 2021 11:00 AM
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Series
APS March Meeting Talks
Speaker: Steven Wood, Shi-Ning Sun, Hyunjin Kim
Location: Online Event
Thursday March 11, 2021 3:00 PM
Polymer Coating of Gas Vesicles for Extended Ultrasound Bioimaging
Speaker: Jeong Hoon Ko (JK), California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Thursday March 11, 2021 12:00 PM
Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar Series
Simple Agent, Complex Environment: Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Agent State
Speaker: Benjamin Van Roy, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 10, 2021 4:00 PM
Caltech Young Investigators Lecture Series
Identifying New CFC Emissions Through Joint Inference of Banks and Lifetimes, with Impacts on the Ozone Layer and Climate
Speaker: Megan Lickley
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 10, 2021 4:00 PM
Materials Research Lecture Series
Electron Dynamics in Materials from First Principles
Speaker: Marco Bernardi, California Institute of Technology
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 10, 2021 12:00 PM
Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Series
Random versus Directed Search for Scarce Resources
Speaker: Teddy Mekonnen, Brown University
Location: Online Event
Wednesday March 10, 2021 9:00 AM
Simple Agent, Complex Environment: Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Agent State
Speaker: Benjamin Van Roy, Stanford University
Location: Online Event
Monday March 8, 2021 12:00 PM
RSI Research Seminar Series
Resnick Sustainability Institute Research Seminar
Location: Online Event
Friday March 5, 2021 3:00 PM
GALCIT Colloquium Series
Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations in Equatorial Atmosphere and Oceans
Speaker: Harindra Joseph Fernando, University of Notre Dame
Location: Online Event