Seminar Calendar
October 2016
Monday, October 3rd, 2016
4:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Graph Cohomology via Toric Geometry
Dagan Karp,
Associate Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvey Mudd College,
Tuesday, October 4th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Fractional Borel Chromatic Numbers
Connor Meehan,
PhD Candidate,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Politics of Sovereign Default under Financial Integration
Marina Azzimonti,
Associate Professor,
Stony Brook University,
Wednesday, October 5th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Sharp Lieb–Thirring inequalities on the continuum and related spectral inequalities for Jacobi operators
Lukas Schimmer,
Harry Bateman Research Instructor ,
Department of Mathematics ,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Streaming Communication: Information Theoretic Perspectives
Ashish Khisti,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Toronto,
5:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, October 7th, 2016
10:00am
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5:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The unlikely intersection theory and the cosmetic surgery Conjecture
BoGwang Jeon,
Ritt Assistant Professor,
Mathematics Department,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
L^p norms of eigenfunctions and Kakeya-Nikodym averages
Matthew Blair,
Associate Professor ,
Department of Mathematics & Statistics,
University of New Mexico,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Ioannis Angelopoulos,
Assistant Adjunct Professor,
Mathematics,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Monday, October 10th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Secure State-Estimation and Control for Dynamical Systems Under Adversarial Attacks
Professor Paulo Tabuada,
Electrical Engineering,
University of California at Los Angeles,
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Arun Viswanathan,
The New Space Race: Cyber Security for Space Missions,
CTM - The Aerospace Corporation Subcontract,
JPL, Cyber Security Improvment Project,
Jeremy Pecharich,
CTM - The Aerospace Corporation Subcontract,
JPL, Cyber Security Improvment Project,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Sofic groups
Peter Burton,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics Department,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence
Yongbin Ruan,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
Wednesday, October 12th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Global Bifurcations and Coherent States in Nonlinear Wave Equations
Eduard-Wilhelm Kirr,
Associate Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thursday, October 13th, 2016
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
From algorithms to lower bounds and back via the statistical query complexity
Vitaly Feldman,
IBM Research Almaden ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture
Symmetry Through Geometry
Nalini Joshi,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Sydney,
Friday, October 14th, 2016
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
A monopole invariant for foliations without transverse measure
Boyu Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
Monday, October 17th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
NonLERFness of arithmetic hyperbolic manifold groups
Hongbin Sun,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Difference-of-Convex Programming
Professor Jong-Shi Pang,
Viterbi School of Engineering ,
University of Southern California,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
Equivariant Floer homology
Sucharit Sarkar,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
Tuesday, October 18th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
From Pixels to Depth: Learning to Predict Shape from a Single Photograph
Oisin Mac Aodh,
Postdoc in Pietro Perona's Computational Vision Lab,
Engineering & Applied Science,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Thompson's group F is not strongly amenable
Pooya Vahidi Ferdowsi,
Mathematics Department,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Bounds for Finite Linear Groups: From Jordan and Minkowski to a Question of Serre
Michael Collins,
Emeritus Professor,
Mathematics,
Oxford University,
Wednesday, October 19th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thursday, October 20th, 2016
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Special cycles on non-compact Shimura varieties
Zavosh Amir-Khosravi,
Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Friday, October 21st, 2016
8:00am
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, October 24th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Next Generation Computer Simulations for Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics Electromagnetic Applications
Professor Jin-Fa Lee,
ElectroScience Lab., ECE Dept. College of Engineering,
The Ohio State University,
Tuesday, October 25th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar - please note date & time
Zeta polynomials for modular forms
Ken Ono,
Mathematics & Computer Science,
Emory University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
How Bitcoin enables a Machine-Payable Web
Balaji S. Srinivasan,
CEO of 21.co and a Board Partner at Andreessen Horowitz.,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Logical aspects of profinite groups
André Nies,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Auckland ,
Wednesday, October 26th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Local search yields approximation schemes for k-means and k-median in Euclidean and minor-free metrics
Claire Mathieu,
ENS,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Extreme Power Density and Efficiency Power Converters for Grid Interfaced Applications—New Circuit Topologies and Control Techniques to Leverage Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Devices
Robert Pilawa-Podgurski,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Cokernels of Random Matrices and Sandpile Groups
Nathan Kaplan,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Irvine,
Thursday, October 27th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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DOLCIT/RSRG Seminar
Architectures and Algorithms for Distributed Generation Control of Inertial-Less AC Microgrids
Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
On Probabilistic Checking in Perfect Zero Knowledge
Michael Forbes,
MIT,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Mod p isogeny classes on Shimura varieties with parahoric level structure
Rong Zhou,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Hasse Principle for multinorm equations
Eva Bayer-Fluckiger,
Mathematics,
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Using Algebraic Geometry for Computer Vision
Joe Kileel,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, October 28th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Undergraduate Math Club Seminar
Welzl's Theorem on Graph Homomorphisms
Jalex Stark,
Mathematics Department,
California Institute of Technology,