Seminar Calendar
November 2016
Tuesday, November 1st, 2016
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Data-driven methods for sparse network estimation
Somayeh Sojoud,
Assistant Project Scientist at University of California, Berkeley,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Amenability of discrete groups
Kate Juschenko,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Northwestern University,
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016
12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Spectral shift functions and Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps
Jussi Behrndt,
Institut für Numerische Mathematik,
Technische Universität Graz,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Cosmic microwave background spectral distortions and their cosmological implications
Siavash Yasini,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
USC,
Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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CD3 Seminar
Deep Learning: the promise and the pitfalls
Ashish Mahabal,
California Institute of Technology,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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EE Systems Seminar
High-Dimensional Analysis of Stochastic Optimization Algorithms: Limiting Dynamics and Phase Transitions
Yue Lu,
Associate Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Harvard University,
Friday, November 4th, 2016
9:30am
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10:30am
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Unsupervised Learning: the Next Frontier in AI
Silver Professor of Computer Science Yann LeCun,
The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Summability condition and rigidity for finite type maps
Matthieu Astorg,
Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Maximizers for Tomas Stein inequality
Rupert Frank,
Mathematics Department,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Model checking and strategy synthesis for mobile autonomy: from theory to practice
Marta Kwiatkowska,
Trinity College, Unversity of Oxford,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, November 7th, 2016
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Convex Polytopes and Local Models of Shimura Varieties
Qiao Zhou,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Graph Structure in Polynomial Systems: Chordal Networks
Professor Pablo Parrilo,
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, November 8th, 2016
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"The Intelligent Search and Mapping of Shipwrecks in the Coastal Waters of Malta"
Zoe Wood,
Professor of Computer Science,
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Brain-Computer Interface Systems and Emerging Directions
Brendan Allison,
Cognitive Science,
UC San Diego,
Wednesday, November 9th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Quantum Approximate Markov Chains and the Locality of Entanglement Spectrum
Fernando Brandao,
Theoretical Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
A Gromov-Hausdorff Distance for Hilbert Modules
Frederic Latremoliere,
Mathematics Department,
University of Denver,
Thursday, November 10th, 2016
4:00pm
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DOLCIT/RSRG Seminar
Power of Ensemble Control for Demand Response
Michael (Misha) Chertkov,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
An approach to the Casselman-Jacquet functor
Alexander Yom Din,
Mathematics Department,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, November 11th, 2016
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Undergraduate Math Club Seminar
FERMAT'S LITTLE THEOREM AND EULER'S THEOREM IN THE GAUSSIAN INTEGERS
Milan Roberson,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The geometry of maximal representations in SO(2,3)
Jeremy Toulisse,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Southern California,
Monday, November 14th, 2016
4:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Extrapolation Bias and Financial Markets
Assistant Professor Lawrence Jin,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, November 15th, 2016
12:00pm
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From Genetics to CRISPR Gene Editing with Machine Learning
Jennifer Listgarten,
Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research New England,
4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
A Proof of Onsager's Conjecture for the Incompressible Euler Equations
Philip Isett,
Mathematics Department,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Marginal Voter's Curse
Aniol Llorente-Saguer,
Reader of Economics,
Queen Mary University of London,
Wednesday, November 16th, 2016
3:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
The Arithmetic of Special Values of L-functions
Cristian D. Popescu,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, San Diego,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
A generalized Alon-Boppana bound and weak Ramanujan graphs
Fan Chung,
Mathematics Department,
UC San Diego,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Polygonal C*-algebras and their K-theory
Alina Vdovina,
School of Mathematics & Statistics,
Newcastle University,
Thursday, November 17th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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DOLCIT/RSRG Seminar
Harnessing reviews to build richer models of opinions
Julian McAuley,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
UC San Diego,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Measure-preserving group actions and the Lov\'asz Local Lemma
Anton Bernshteyn,
Mathematics Department,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Hodge-Newton Filtration for p-divisible groups of Hodge type
Serin Hong,
Mathematics Department,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, November 18th, 2016
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Undergraduate Math Club Seminar
Quantum Pseudo-Telepathy Games Entangled State Dimension
Chinmay Nirkhe,
Mathematics Department,
California Institute of Technology,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Growth and singularity in 2D fluids
Andrej Zlatos,
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
On the Pin(2)-equivariant monopole Floer homology of plumbed 3-manifolds
Irving Dai,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Off Campus
The weak solutions of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations
Cheng Yu,
Department of Mathematics,
The University of Texas at Austin,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Off Campus
Superradiance initiated inside the ergoregion
Gregory Eskin,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
Monday, November 21st, 2016
4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Multisymplectic HDG methods
Ari Stern,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Exploring chemical reaction spaces using a graph grammar approach.
Christoph Flamm,
Professor,
Theoretical Chemistry,
University of Vienna,