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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Information-Theoretic Security in the Smart Grid
Dr Iñaki Esnaola, Lecturer (Assistan Professor), Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
TBA
Stefanie Petermichl, Department of Mathematics, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier ,
Thursday, January 4th, 2018
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Arithmetic Gan--Gross--Prasad conjecture and arithmetic theta lifts
Hang Xu, Department of Mathematics, The University of Arizona,
Monday, January 8th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar

Annenberg 213
Latent Variable Matrix Estimation via Collaborative Filtering
Christina Lee, Postdoctoral Scholar, Microsoft Research New England,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
TBA
Clinton Conley, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
The p-curvature conjecture and monodromy around simple closed loops
Ananth Shankar, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
Algorithmic Information Structure Design: Two Vignettes, Lessons Learned, and Challenges Ahead
Assistant Professor Shaddin Dughmi, Theory Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California,
Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Annenberg 105
The Dueling Bandits Problem
Yisong Yue, Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Computer Science, CALTECH,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Subgroup non-separability that arises from hyperbolic 3-manifold groups
Hongbin Sun, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University,
Wednesday, January 10th, 2018
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Fourier Optimization and Prime Gaps
Emanuel Carneiro, Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada,
7:00pm – 7:45pm
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CS9: Intro to CS Research and Industry

Annenberg 105
Quotient Technology Inc. -- Mike Walsh, Head of Research & Development
Thursday, January 11th, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Special Physics/Math Seminar

Building 15, Room 122
Complex Chern-Simons invariants of 3-manifolds and abelianization
Dan Freed, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMI Faculty Lunch - invitation only

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk

Annenberg 105
IKASI -- Application of Machine Learning Today: Tradeoffs in objectives, interpretability, and operationalization
Anthony Chong, Founder/CEO, IKASI,
Ben Flora, Product Manager, IKASI,
Friday, January 12th, 2018
8:00am – 5:00pm
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SoCal NEGT Conference

Beckman Institute Auditorium
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Straighten up and fly right: mechanisms for long distance dispersal in insects
Michael Dickinson, Zarem Professor of Bioengineering and Biology, Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Symplectic and exotic 4-manifolds via positive factorizations
R. Inanc Baykur, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts,
4:30pm – 5:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Downs 103
The (Euclidean) Fractal Uncertainty Principle and its proof
Ruixiang Zhang, Mathematics Department, Institute for Advanced Study,
5:30pm – 6:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Downs 103
Describing Blaschke products by their critical points
Oleg Ivrii, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
Tuesday, January 16th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Annenberg 105
Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers in Retrospective and Perspective
Alexander Lipton, Alexander Lipton is founder and CEO of StrongHold Labs and Connection Science Fellow at M.I.T.,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 105
Section problems for surface bundles
Lei Chen, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago,
Wednesday, January 17th, 2018
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 105
A refined Cantor-Bendixson rank for presented Polish spaces
Vibeke Quorning, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen,
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Analysis Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Differentiability and rectifiability on metric planes
Guy C. David, Mathematical Sciences, Ball State University,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Deterministic Random Matrices
Ilya Soloveychik, Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University,
7:00pm – 7:45pm
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CS9: Intro to CS Research and Industry

Annenberg 105
Topological Quantum Computation -- Professor Xie Chen, Caltech
Friday, January 19th, 2018
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
New Frontiers in Imitation Learning
Yisong Yue , Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department , California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Homomorphisms of pure mapping class groups to the integers
Nicholas Vlamis, Mathematics Department, University of Michigan,
Monday, January 22nd, 2018
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Measure reducibility of countable Borel equivalence relations (after Conley and Miller)
Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
Statistical Methods for Two Problems in Biology
Associate Professor Daniela Witten, Statistics and Biostatistics, University of Washington,
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Annenberg 105
"What's New? Interpretable Discovery in Large Image Data Sets"
Kiri Wagstaff, Principal Researcher in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, JPL MLS Group, JPL,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Two challenges for DNA nanotechnology: building interfaces with silicon and cells
Paul W. K. Rothemund, Research Professor, Bioengineering, CMS, & CNS, California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, January 24th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch

Annenberg 213
Non-Gaussian prior measures in Bayesian inverse problems: from theory to applications
Bamdad Hosseini, Postdoctoral Scholar, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
7:00pm – 7:45pm
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CS9: Intro to CS Research and Industry

Annenberg 105
Snap -- Production Software Engineering -- Scott Bruce, Senior Software Engineer & Caltech Alum
Thursday, January 25th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk

Annenberg 105
Code Ocean -- Reproducibility Workshop: Best Practices and Easy Steps to Save Time for Yourself and Other Researchers
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Resilient Distributed Inference in Multi-Agent Systems
Soummya Kar, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
L-groups and Covering Groups
Martin Weissman, Mathematics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz,
Friday, January 26th, 2018
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Toward harnessing the full potential of urban winds: a case study of Hess Tower
Daniel Araya, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Hilbert Structure on the universal Teichmuller space and its Weil-Petersson curvature operator
Zeno Huang, Department of Mathematics, CUNY CSI,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA
Semyon Dyatlov, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

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Alexey Miroshnikov, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
Monday, January 29th, 2018
9:00am – 5:00pm
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Frontiers in Computing + Mathematical Sciences Symposium

Annenberg 105
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
K3 categories, cubic 4-folds, and the Beauville-Voisin conjecture
Junliang Shen, Departement Mathematik, ETH Zurich,
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Games and Art

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Nonny de la Peña, Founder & CEO, Emblematic ,
Johnnemann Nordhagen, Founder of Dim Bulb Games; Co-founder of Fullbright ,
Brian Schrank, Professor of Game Development, Theory and Design, Depaul University ,
Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Annenberg 105
The Growing Role for Artificial intelligence for Space Exploration and the Search for Life Beyond Earth
Steve Chien, Artificial Intelligence Group, JPL/Caltech , JPL,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Stability in the homology of Torelli groups
Jennifer Wilson, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 205
Optimization, Complexity and Math (through the lens of one problem and one algorithm)
Avi Wigderson, Princeton University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 105
Measure reducibility of countable Borel equivalence relations (after Conley and Miller)
Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Analysis Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Oscillation of Holder continuous functions
Artur Nicolau, Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Quantifying virtual properties of 3-manifold groups
Michelle Chu, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Some Applications of Extreme Value Theory in Signal Processing and Data Analysis
Vahid Tarokh, Moore Distinguished Scholar, Electrical Engineering, CALTECH,