Seminar Calendar
November 2017
Thursday, November 2nd, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
TBA
David Spivak,
Research Scientist,
Mathematics,
MIT,
1:45pm
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2:30pm
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Smart Grid Seminar
Towards Smart Low-Carbon Electricity Networks: State-of-the-Art and Challenges Ahead
Luis Ochoa,
Professor,
Smart Grids and Power Systems,
University of Melbourne,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
The pseudo-identity operator on automorphic functions
Jonathan Wang,
School of Mathematics,
Institute for Advanced Study,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, November 3rd, 2017
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The 4-Dimensional Light Bulb Theorem
David Gabai,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
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
Fully Adaptive Radar
Muralidhar Rangaswamy,
Senior Advisor For Radar Research,
Air Force Research Laboratory,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Univalent wandering domains in the Eremenko-Lyubich Class
Kirill Lazebnik,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
L^2 Estimates for the Discrete Quadratic Carleson Operator
Ben Krause,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Monday, November 6th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Non-monotonicity of the matrix exponential function, why it is a problem, and what to do about it
Professor Eric Carlen,
Department of Mathematics,
Rutgers University,
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Open research problems in computer graphics and games
J.P. Lewis,
Lead Researcher at SEED, Electronic Arts,
2:45pm
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3:45pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Stability in the homology of configuration spaces
Jenny Wilson,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Dynamics, geometry, and the moduli space of Riemann surfaces
Alex Wright,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
A Constant-factor Approximation Algorithm for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem
Ola Svensson,
EPFL,
3:15pm
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5:15pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
A Thurston boundary for the Teichmüller space of an infinite Riemann surface
Francis Bonahon,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
Thursday, November 9th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:45pm
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3:45pm
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Analysis Seminar
Sharp estimates for Hörmander-type operators with positive-definite phase
Marina Iliopoulou,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Supersingular Isogeny Graphs in Cryptography
Kristin Lauter,
Cryptography Group,
Microsoft Research,
Friday, November 10th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Saturday, November 11th, 2017
9:30am
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6:00pm
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Monday, November 13th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Singular support for coherent sheaves and categories
Dima Arinkin,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Importance Sampling the Union of Rare Events with an Application to Power Systems Analysis
Professor Art B. Owen,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, November 14th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Arithmetic and Geometric Structures in Physics Seminar
Non-archimedean distributions attached to twisted tensor L-functions
Baskar Balasubramanyam,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Rethinking Datacenter Management with Game Theory
Benjamin Lee,
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering ,
Duke University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Matrix Product Operators in Quantum Information
David Perez-Garcia,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
An Operator Algebraic Tool for Deducing Measure Equivalence of Groups
Daniel Hoff,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
From Network Coding to Sidon Spaces
Netanel Raviv,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Autoduality of Jacobians for singular curves
Dima Arinkin,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Wednesday, November 15th, 2017
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Attacks on Blockwise Local PRGs and Indistinguishability Obfuscation
Vinod Vaikuntanathan,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Arithmetic and Geometric Structures in Physics Seminar
A multiplier functional calculus
Michael Hartz,
Department of Mathematics,
Washington University in St. Louis,
Thursday, November 16th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Energy harvesting and energy cooperating wireless networks: A new frontier for communication and information theory
Aylin Yener,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Globally analytic representations of the pro-p Iwahori of GL(2) and
Laurent Clozel,
Département de Mathématiques d’Orsay,
Université Paris-Sud,
Friday, November 17th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Hierarchy of PDE Models of Cell Motility
Professor Leonid Berlyand,
Penn State,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Bordered theory for pillowcase homology
Artem Kotelskiy,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
TBA
Jonathan Luk,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
5:00pm
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5:45pm
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Monday, November 20th, 2017
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
The simplification of singularities of Lagrangian and Legendrian fronts
Daniel Alvarez-Gavela,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
The (noncommutative) geometry of difference equations
Eric Rains,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Investigating large-scale brain networks using high-density EEG
Quanying Liu,
James Boswell Postdoc Fellow,
Caltech & HMRI,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
A sheaf-theoretic model for SL(2,C) Floer homology
Ciprian Manolescu,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
Tuesday, November 21st, 2017
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Products of projections in Hilbert space: The interplay of slow convergence of cyclic projections and non-convergence of random projections
Eva Kopecka,
Institut für Mathematik,
Universitat Innsbruck,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Interpolating sequences and Kadison-Singer
Michael Hartz,
Department of Mathematics,
Washington University in St. Louis,
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Analysis Seminar
Isoperimetric shapes in supercritical bond percolation
Julian Gold,
Department of Mathematics,
Northwestern University,
Monday, November 27th, 2017
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Drinfeld-Gaitsgory functor and contragradient duality for $(g,K)$-modules
Sasha Yom Din,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Interlacing Families
Assistant Professor Nikhil Srivastava,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley ,