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Thursday, February 1st, 2018
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Weak subconvexity without a Ramanujan hypothesis
Jesse Thorner, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University ,
Friday, February 2nd, 2018
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Tricks used for Aerodynamic Experiments
Markus Raffel, Leibniz University ,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Existence of closed geodesics through a regular point on translation surfaces
Weixu Su, School of Mathematical Science, Fudan University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Constancy of generalized Hodge-Tate weights of a p-adic local system
Koji Shimizu, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
Monday, February 5th, 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
The small quantum group in type A and the diagonal coinvariants
Anna Lachowska, EPFL,
Tuesday, February 6th, 2018
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Special Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Vertex algebras and three dimensional gauge theories
Kevin Costello, Theoretical Physics, Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Annenberg 105
Nonlinear control and estimation theory for multi-agent autonomy and autonomous flying ambulances
Soon-Jo Chung, Associate Professor of Aerospace and Bren Scholar; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Scientist, Engineering and Applied Science, CALTECH,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Thoughts on the Potential of Quantum Computing for Nuclear Physics Grand Challenge Problems
Martin Savage, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CTLO-Physics-Mathematics Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Taking a scientific approach to teaching science and engineering
Carl Wieman, Department of Physics, Stanford University,
Wednesday, February 7th, 2018
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 105
Measure reducibility of countable Borel equivalence relations (after Conley and Miller), III
Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Deep optimization: from learning deep models to tuning hyper-parameters
Meisam Razaviyayn, Assitant Professor, Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering , USC Machine Leaning Center,
7:00pm – 7:45pm
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CS9: Intro to CS Research and Industry

Annenberg 105
More than Recommendations: Data Science at Netflix -- Speaker: Becky Tucker, Caltech Alum
Thursday, February 8th, 2018
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
Rubrik -- Start Your Own Startup
Soham Mazumdar, Co-Founder, Rubrik,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Analytic Number Theory in Function Fields and Twin Primes in the Large Finite-Field Limit
Ofir Gorodetsky, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Moore B280
Approaching the Fundamental Limits of Learning
Vahid Tarokh, Rhodes Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Mathematics, and Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science, Duke University,
Friday, February 9th, 2018
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Exploiting Sparsity for Modeling and Control of Dynamical Systems
Eurika Kaiser, University of Washington,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Strongly automorphic mappings
Alastair Fletcher, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Northern Illinois University,
4:30pm – 5:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Downs 103
Factorising X^n
Jonathan Hickman, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago,
5:30pm – 6:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Downs 103
A Epiperimetric approach to singular points in the Alt-Caffarelli functional
Max Engelstein, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
Monday, February 12th, 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), IV
Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Hypertoric varieties and perverse sheaves
Carl Mautner, Department of Mathematics, UC, Riverside,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
Learning Versatile Behavior and Reusable Models through Real-World Interaction
Chelsea Finn, Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley,
7:00pm – 8:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Map and Territory

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Maayan Amir, Artist and Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, Haifa University ,
Ruti Sela, Artist and Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, Haifa University ,
Robert Simmon, Senior Data Visualization Engineer, Planet ,
Nicolas Wey-Gomez, Professor of History, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Tuesday, February 13th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Annenberg 105
Local, Model-Agnostic Explanations of Machine Learning Predictions
Sameer Singh, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar

Annenberg 314
Spherical t-designs as a general purpose tool for partial de-randomization (1st of 2 parts)
Richard Kueng, CMI Postdoctoral Scholar, CMS, Caltech,
Wednesday, February 14th, 2018
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 205
2-to-2 Games via expansion on the Grassmann Graph
Dor Minzer, Tel Aviv University,
Thursday, February 15th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk

Annenberg 105
Talk by Alum Kevin Gromley
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Special values of L-functions
Ameya Pitale, Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma,
Friday, February 16th, 2018
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
On Renormalized Volume
Franco Vargas Pallete, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
Tuesday, February 20th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Annenberg 105
TBA
Vagelis Papalexakis, Assistant Professor , Computer Science & Engineering, University of California Riverside,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Moore B270
Quantum supremacy: checking a quantum computer with a classical supercomputer
John Martinis, Google,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar

Annenberg 314
Spherical t-designs as a general purpose tool for partial de-randomization (2nd of 2 parts)
Richard Kueng, CMI Postdoctoral Scholar, CMS, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 122
Special cycles on simple Shimura varieties
Wei Zhang, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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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,
Thursday, February 22nd, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk

Annenberg 105
Inventing the Future of Finance, Alternative Data and Aperio
David Loaiza, Point72 Aperio,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar

Annenberg 213
Disturbance Based Decentralized Frequency Control for Power Systems
Oleg Khamisov, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Theta and the big Hecke action
Sean Howe, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
Friday, February 23rd, 2018
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Long Duration Autonomy With Applications to Persistent Environmental Monitoring
Magnus Egerstedt, Professor and Julian T. Hightower Chair in Systems and Controls, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
A Characterization of Braid Axes
Ken Baker, Department of Mathematics, University of Miami ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA
Casey Jao, Department of Mathematics, UC, Berkeley,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

The Helicoidal Method
Camil Muscalu, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
Monday, February 26th, 2018
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Semisimplificat​ion of tensor categories
Pavel Etingof, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
Making Intersections Safer with I2V Communication
Professor Pravin Varaiya, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley,
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Annenberg 105
Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond
John Preskill, Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics; Allen V.C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair, Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, CALTECH,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar

Moore 139
Geometry and convexity of quadratic maps
Anatoly Dymarsky, Professor, Center for Energy Systems, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology,
Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 205
Identity-Based Encryption from the Diffie-Hellman Assumption
Sanjam Garg, University of California, Berkeley,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 105
Proximal Actions, Strong amenability, and the Infinite Conjugacy Class Property
Joshua Frisch, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Analysis Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Connectivity of the Julia set for Newton's maps: A unified approach
Xavier Jarque, Departament de Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Universitat de Barcelona,