Seminar Calendar
May 2017
Monday, May 1st, 2017
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RSRG/DOLCIT
Representation power of neural networks.
Matus Telgarsky,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Tensor Decompositions: A Mathematical Tool for Data Analysis
Tamara G. Kolda,
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff,
Data Science and Cyber Analytics,
Sandia National Laboratories,
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Determinacy
Connor Meehan,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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Oringer Seminar Series
Fairness, accountability and transparency in automated decision-making
Suresh Venkatasubramanian,
Associate Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah Member of the Board of Directors, ACLU Utah.,
University of Utah,
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Graduate Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar
Rapoport-Zink Spaces
Zavosh Amir-Khosravi,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Norms in Bargaining: Evidence from Government Formation in Spain
Thomas Fujiwara,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017
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EE Systems Seminar
Coding Theory for Modern Computing and Memories
Lara Dolecek,
Associate Professor,
UCLA,
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Extracting the Universe from the Wave Function
Sean Carroll,
Department of Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Sheared Pleated surfaces and Limiting Configurations for Hitchin's equations
Michael Wolf,
Department of Mathematics,
Rice University,
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Number Theory Seminar
Diophantine Problems and the p-adic Torelli Map
Brian Lawrence,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University ,
Friday, May 5th, 2017
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Monday, May 8th, 2017
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Reconstruction in Gauge Gromov-Witten Theory
Seunghee Ye,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Excitable and Other Dynamic Behaviors in Migrating Cells
Professor Pablo Iglesias,
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering,
Tuesday, May 9th, 2017
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Cyber Weapons of Mass Destruction for Every Budget
Dan O'Dowd,
Founder, President and CEO of Green Hills Software.,
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Mathematics Colloquium
Enumerative geometry and geometric representation theory
Andrei Okounkov,
Mathematics Department,
Columbia University,
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
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EE Systems Seminar
Structured Sampling for Covariance Compression
Piya Pal,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Noncommutative Geometry from non-Laplace Type Operators
Ivan Avramidi,
Department of Mathematics,
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology,
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Combinatorics Seminar
Generating functions and enumeration in finite classical groups
Jason Fulman,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
Thursday, May 11th, 2017
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Number Theory Seminar
A Regularized Geometric Theta Lift for Diagonal Cycles
Zavosh Amir Khosravi,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, May 12th, 2017
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Conway mutation and knot Floer homology
Peter Lambert-Cole,
Department of Mathematics,
Indiana University ,
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Saturday, May 13th, 2017
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Monday, May 15th, 2017
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Special CNS Seminar
Getting the best reward: neuronal mechanisms for utility maximisation
Wolfram Schultz,
Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience,
Univerity of Cambridge, UK,
Tuesday, May 16th, 2017
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Computational Literature How can a computer generate literary text?
Eran Hadas,
Lecturer in Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Humanities and Social Sciences,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
CALTECH,
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Graduate Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar
Affine Grassmannian and Geometric Stake
Jize Yu,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
On the arithmetic degree of Shimura curves
Xinyi Yuan,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley,
Wednesday, May 17th, 2017
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Logic Seminar
Continuous categories and continuous logic
Ronnie Chen,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
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Combinatorics Seminar
The critical exponent of a graph
Apoorva Khare,
Department of Mathematics & Department of Statistics,
Stanford University,
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EE Systems Seminar
Nonconvex Optimization for High Dimensional Learning: From Phase Retrieval to Submodular Maximization
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi,
Assistant Professor,
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
Thursday, May 18th, 2017
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EE Systems Seminar
Convex Geometry for Structured Signal Recovery: Super-Resolution and Total Variation Minimization
Weiyu Xu,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Iowa,
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Number Theory Seminar
On the Gross-Stark Conjecture
Samit Dasgupta,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Santa Cruz,
Friday, May 19th, 2017
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Undergraduate Math Club Seminar
The Moduli Space of Flat Tori
Mark Greenfield,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Tight Contact Structures via Admissible Transverse Surgery
James Conway,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley,
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Analysis on models of polymeric fluids
Konstantina Trivisa,
Department of Mathematics & Institute for Physical Science and Technology,
University Of Maryland,
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Monday, May 22nd, 2017
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
TBA
Ashia Wilson,
Doctoral Student,
Statistics,
UC Berkeley,