Seminar Calendar
November 2010
Monday, November 1st, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Mathematical Physics Seminar
Decimations and Superpositions in Random Matrix Theory
Peter Forrester,
professor of mathematics and statistics,
University of Melbourne,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Rank/Sparsity Minimization and Latent Variable Graphical Model Selection
Venkat Chandrasekaran,
graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science,
MIT,
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, November 8th, 2010
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Numerical Methods for Geometric Elliptic Partial Differential Equations
Adam Oberman,
associate professor of mathematics,
Simon Fraser University,
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Adaptive Submodularity: A New Approach to Active Learning and Stochastic Optimization
Daniel Golovin,
postdoctoral scholar,
Center for the Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
All Pairs Shortest Path in Quadratic Time with High Probability
Benny Sudakov,
professor of mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Control And Dynamical Systems Seminar
This is a test
Anony Mous,
Chief,
Earth,
Univeristy of the World,
Monday, November 15th, 2010
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Detection and Imaging with Waves in Heterogeneous, Strongly Backscattering Media
Liliana Borcea,
professor of computational and applied mathematics,
Rice University,
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Gaussian Process Optimization in the Bandit Setting: No Regret and Experimental Design
Andreas Krause,
assistant professor of computer science,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Wheels within Wheels: Hamiltonian Dynamics as a Hierarchy of Action Variables
Rory Perkins,
graduate student,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
Position-Based Cryptography: Classical and Quantum
Rafail Ostrovsky,
professor of computer science and mathematics,
Center for Information and Computation Security,
UCLA,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture
The Road Coloring Problem and Symbolic Dynamics
Benjamin Weiss,
professor of mathematics, emeritus,
Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem ,
Friday, November 19th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
An Optimization-Based Framework for Automated Market-Making
Jenn Wortman Vaughan,
assistant professor of computer science,
UCLA,
Saturday, November 20th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 22nd, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Machine Learning Seminar
Learning Compact Representation of Data with Statistical Independence Measures
Fei Sha,
assistant professor of computer science,
USC,
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Analytic Quasi-Periodic Cocycles with Singularities: Lyapunov Exponent and Spectral Theory for Extended Harper's Model
Christoph Marx,
UC Irvine,
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar
Large Population Stochastic Dynamic Games (Part 1)
Sachin Adlakha,
postdoctoral scholar in computer science,
Caltech,