Seminar Calendar
January 2017
Wednesday, January 4th, 2017
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thursday, January 5th, 2017
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
On the probe complexity of local computation algorithms
Shai Vardi,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Friday, January 6th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Undergraduate Math Club Seminar
Wizards vs. Time Machines
Jalex Stark,
Mathematics Department,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Coarse and fine geometry of the Thurston metric
Ian Zemke,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
Monday, January 9th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Subgradient Methods for General Convex Optimization
Professor James Renegar,
Operations Research and Information Engineering,
Cornell University,
Tuesday, January 10th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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"Enabling Reproducibility in Computational Science"
Victoria Stodden,
Victoria is an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences ,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Ramsey Numbers: a Probabilistic Method Approach to Operator Systems
Jalex Stark,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Galois theory and the cohomology of arithmetic 3-manifolds
Richard Taylor,
Mathematics,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Wednesday, January 11th, 2017
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Asymptotics of the eigenvalues of operators for mirror curves
Lukas Schimmer,
Mathematics Department,
Caltech,
Thursday, January 12th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Generalized Kuga-Satake theory and good reduction properties of Galois representations
Stefan Patrikis,
Mathematics Department,
University of Utah,
Friday, January 13th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Martingale methods in conformal mapping
Oleg Ivrii,
Mathematics Department,
Caltech,
Sunday, January 15th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
A Transfer Matrix Approach to Scaled Limits of Christo ffel-Darboux Kernels
Jonathan Breuer,
Department of Mathematics,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Learning to Optimize for Structured Output Spaces
Yisong Yue,
Assistant Professor,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Logic Seminar
A game-theoretic approach to Hjorth's turbulence theory
Martino Lupini,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 18th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Stability of solitary waves in the nonlinear Dirac equation
Andrew Comech,
Department of Mathematics,
Texas A&M University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Primary and secondary pairings for pseudodifferential symbols
Alexander Gorokhovsky,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
Friday, January 20th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Undergraduate Math Club Seminar
Some aspects of arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Tynan Ochse,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Monday, January 23rd, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
The Springer correspondence For symmetric Spaces and Hessenberg Varieties, I and II
Kari Vilonen,
School of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Melbourne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Structured Factor Models to Find Interpretable Signal in Genomic Data
Professor Barbara Engelhardt,
Computer Science Department Center for Statistics and Machine Learning ,
Princeton University,
Tuesday, January 24th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Overlapping Qubits
Thomas Vidick,
Assistant Professor ,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Anti-basis results for graphs of infinite Borel chromatic number
Zoltan Vidnyanszky,
Mathematics Department,
York University/University of Toronto,
Wednesday, January 25th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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EAS Special Seminar
The Office of Naval Research Science and Technology in Support of the US Navy and Marine Corps
Ellen S. Livingston, Ph.D.,
University Research Initiatives, Office of Naval Research, Arlington VA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
A homological upper bound on critical probabilities for hyperbolic percolation
Nicolas Delfosse,
IQIM,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Open Quantum Subgroups and Induced Representations
Mehrdad Kalantar,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Houston,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
A tutorial on metric learning with some recent advances
Nakul Verma,
Research Specialist,
Janelia Research Campus HHMI,
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Machines and Vision
Daniel Landau,
Artist; Senior Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Centre, Herzliya, Israel; PhD Researcher,
Alto University Media Lab, Helsinki,
Pietro Perona,
Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
Janet Vertesi,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Sociology,
Princeton University,
Thursday, January 26th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Locally compact quantum groups, their subgroups, actions, boundaries and representation theory
Mehrdad Kalantar,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Houston,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Large scale geometry of homeomorphism groups
Kathryn Mann,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, January 27th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Undergraduate Math Club Seminar
The Erdős Distinct Distances Problem Redux
Sam Bardwell-Evans,
Mathematics Department,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
TBA
Kathryn Mann,
Department of Mathematics ,
University of California, Berkeley,
Monday, January 30th, 2017
9:15am
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5:15pm
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4:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
The Springer correspondence For symmetric Spaces and Hessenberg Varieties II
Ting Xue,
School of Mathematics and Statistics,
The University of Melbourne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Analogs of Irrational Rotation Algebras Acting on L^p-Spaces
Eusebio Gardella,
Mathematics Department,
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Logic Seminar
On the complexity of conjugacy of Toeplitz subshifts
Todor Tsankov,
Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu–PRG,
Université Paris Diderot,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wolff Lecture - General Lecture
Dynamics of Quadratic Polynomials, Complex and Real
Mikhail Lyubich,
Mathematics Department,
Institute for Math Sciences at Stony Brook ,