Seminar Calendar
April 2016
Monday, April 4th, 2016
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Information-Theoretic Lower Bounds for Distributed Function Computation
Assistant Professor Maxim Raginsky,
ECE Department and Coordinated Science Laboratory,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar
Geometry, Analysis and Topology of Feynman Amplitudes
Emad Nasrollahpoursammi,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Percolation and invariant random subgroups
Yair Hartman,
Mathematics,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Towards simple, robust and approximately optimal auctions (part 2 of 2)
Hu Fu,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
The Energy of Heavy Atoms: The Leading Correction
Heinz siedentop,
Professor of Applied Mathematics,
Mathematics,
LMU Munich,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar
Feynman Integrals, Associated Arrangements and Their Motives
Ozgur Ceyhan,
Mathematics,
University of Luxembourg,
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Hodge classes on products of quaternionic Shimura varieties
Kartik Prasanna,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
Friday, April 8th, 2016
12:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Knot Floer Homology and Khovanov-Rozansky Homology of Singular Links
Nathan Dowlin Filip,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
Monday, April 11th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Complex varieties with infinite Chow groups modulo 2
Burt Totaro,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Can Embedded Boundary Methods Compute High Reynolds Number Flow?
Professor Marsha Berger,
Computer Science Department,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University,
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
12:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Weak containment of measure preserving group actions
Peter Burton,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Conservation Profiles, Functional Enrichment, and the Tree of Life
Benny Chor,
School of Computer Science,
Tel-Aviv University,
Wednesday, April 13th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
A Fast Distributed Algorithm for α-Fair Packing Problems
Jelena Marašević,
Electrical Engineering,
Columbia University,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar
Asymptotic symmetries and soft theorems
Vyacheslav Lysov,
Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Convergence of majority dynamics
Omer Tamuz,
Assistant Professor,
Economics/Mathematics,
Caltech,
Thursday, April 14th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Balancing the Benefits and Costs of Redundancy // Admitting More Tenants with Tail Latency SLOs
Kristy Gardner,
Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Timothy Zhu,
Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Friday, April 15th, 2016
3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Teichmuller dynamics and Hodge theory
Simion Filip,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
Monday, April 18th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Quantum representations and higher-rank Prym varieties
Johan Martens,
Lecturer and Chancellor Fellow,
Mathematics,
University of Edinburgh,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Subtle Is the noise, but malicious it is not: exploring the dynamic benefits of intracellular randomness
Professor Mustafa Khammash,
Control Theory and Systems Biology, Head, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE),
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ),
Tuesday, April 19th, 2016
12:00pm
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Math Graduate Seminar
Spectral Theory of Dynamical Systems
Peter Burton,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Weak containment of measure preserving group actions
Peter Burton,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The microstructure of spacetime and classification of superparticles
Veeravalli Varadarajan,
Professor of Mathematics,
UCLA,
Wednesday, April 20th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Dissipative transport in the localization regime
Jeffrey Schenker,
Mathematics,
Michigan State,
3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The colored Jones polynomial and boundary slopes of pretzel knots
Christine Lee,
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mathematics,
University of Texas at Austin,
Thursday, April 21st, 2016
12:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Methods for Causal Discovery
Frederick Eberhardt,
Professor of Philosophy,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Boundary cohomology of Shimura varieties
Benoit Stroh,
Mathematics Research Fellow,
Mathematics,
Institut Galilée Université Paris 13,
Friday, April 22nd, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Information-theoretic bounds and phase transitions in community detection and high-dimensional clustering
Cristopher Moore,
Santa Fe Institute,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
TBA
Sam Ballas,
RTG Visiting Assistant Present,
Mathematics,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Off Campus
Finite time blowup for semilinear wave equations
Terry Tao,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Off Campus
Harmonic maps and heat flows on hyperbolic spaces
Marius Lemm,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
Monday, April 25th, 2016
4:00pm
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High-level verifiable robotics
CMS Seminar
Hadas Kress-Gazit,
Associate Professor,
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Cornell University,
Tuesday, April 26th, 2016
12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Eigenvalue Attraction and Disordered Hamiltonian Density of States
Ramis Movassagh,
IBM,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Computing Isomorphisms between Finite Fields using Elliptic Curves (pt 1 of 2)
Anand Kumar Narayanan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 27th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Constant-round Interactive-proofs for Delegating Computation
Omer Reingold,
Samsung Research America,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Guaranteed Non-convex Learning Algorithms through Tensor Decomposition
Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Anima Anandkumar,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,
U.C. Irvine,
Thursday, April 28th, 2016
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Lubin-Tate Deformation Spaces and $(\phi,\Gamma)$-Modules
Anne Carter,
Mathematics,
University of California, San Diego,
Friday, April 29th, 2016
12:00pm
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Undergraduate Math Club Seminar
Randomness of Fractional Parts and Fourier Series
Zachary Chase,
Undergraduate Student,
Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
On Hamiltonian Gromov-Witten theory for symplectic reductions
Rui Wang,
Mathematics,
University of California, Irvine,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
A Posteriori Error Estimation Techniques for Finite Element Methods
Professor Zhiqiang Cai,
Purdue University,