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Monday, April 2nd, 2018
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar/LA Joint Topology Seminar

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The structure of higher genus Gromov-Witten invariants of quintic 3-fold
Yongbin Ruan, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Joint LA Topology Seminar

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Symplectic geometry as topology of odd sphere bundles
Li-Sheng Tseng, Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine,
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Annenberg 105
Transformative Technology @ eBay
Dan Fain, Vice President, Data Platform Engineering - eBay ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Theory Group Meeting

Annenberg 322
Graph Rigidity and Polynomial Identity Testing
Rohit Gurjar,
Wednesday, April 4th, 2018
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Reading Seminar on Deligne's Weil II Paper

Building 15, Room 104
Overview and a review of étale cohomology
Daxin Xu, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
Thursday, April 5th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Annenberg 213
Machine Learning helps Discrete Optimization
Bistra Dilkina, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Southern California,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Some calculations with higher pro-p-Iwahori cohomology
Karol Koziol, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto,
Monday, April 9th, 2018
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Polish groupoids and continuous logic
Ronnie Chen, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Curved complexes, Khovanov-Rozans​ky homology, and Hilbert schemes
Matthew Hogancamp, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
Sufficient Statistics for Online Prediction via the Burkholder Method
Associate Professor Alexander (Sasha) Rakhlin, Center for Statistics, IDSS Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines., Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:15pm – 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
From Gaussian Multiterminal Source Coding to Distributed Karhunen–Loève Transform
Jun Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University,
Tuesday, April 10th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Annenberg 105
Learning to Code Outside the Classroom
Philip Guo, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego,
Wednesday, April 11th, 2018
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 205
On the expressiveness of comparison queries
Shay Moran, Institute for Advanced Study,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Reading Seminar on Deligne's Weil II Paper

Building 15, Room 104
Adic Formalism
Tamir Hemo, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Distribution Matching via Data Shaping
Paul Siegel, Distinguished Professor, Endowed Chair Center for Memory and Recording Research, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego,
Thursday, April 12th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMI Faculty Lunch - invitation only

Friday, April 13th, 2018
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Convex hulls of quasicircles in hyperbolic and anti-de Sitter space
Sara Maloni, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Distance graphs in sets of positive density
Akos Magyar, Department of Mathematics, University of Georgia,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

On Generalized Convexity of Power Functions
Oliver Dragičević, Department of Mathematics, University of Ljubljana,
Monday, April 16th, 2018
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Geometric Recursion
Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen, Department of Mathematics - Centre for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces, Aarhus University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Positivity of tangent bundles
Wenhao Ou, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
Fighting Black Boxes, Adversaries, and Bugs in Deep Learning
Assistant Professor Percy Liang, Computer Science and Statistics (courtesy), Stanford University,
Tuesday, April 17th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Annenberg 105
On Optimization in Deep Learning: Implicit Acceleration by Overparameterization
Nadav Cohen, Research Scholar at the School of Mathematics in the Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton, Princeton University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
"Quantum Supremacy" and the Complexity of Random Circuit Sampling
Bill Fefferman, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Theory Group Meeting

Annenberg 322
Subquadratic time encodable codes beating the Gilbert-Varshamov bound
Matthew Weidner, Caltech,
Wednesday, April 18th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMx Lunch

Annenberg 213
The Legacy of Rudolph Kalman
Andrew Stuart, Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Arithmetic Geometry Learning Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Weil Sheaves
Jize Yu, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Recovering a hidden hamiltonian cycle via linear programming
Yihong Wu, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University,
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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Art + Tech Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Critical Making
Matt Ratto, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto; Director, Critical Making Lab; Director, Semaphore Research Cluster on Mobile and Pervasive Computing,
Thursday, April 19th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Earth Week Speaker Series

Avery Dining Hall
The Path to Transforming California's Electric System
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Breuil-Mezard cycles
Brandon Levin, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona ,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Regenerative Medicine Special Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Recent progress on the Hadwiger-Nelson problem
Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
Friday, April 20th, 2018
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Convex cocompact actions in real projective geometry
Jeffrey Danciger, Mathematics Department, University of Texas, Austin ,
Monday, April 23rd, 2018
1:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Defense

Annenberg 121
Exploiting Structure for Scalable and Robust Deep Learning
Stephan Zhang, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Joint LA Topology Seminar

Distance one lens space fillings and band surgery
Allison Moore, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Joint LA Topology Seminar

Seiberg-Witten invariants of 4-dimensional homology circles
Danny Ruberman, Department of Mathematics, Brandeis University,
Tuesday, April 24th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Annenberg 105
"Real-time" Supercomputing: Disruptive Transformation of Design and Decision-Based Pocesses.
Lincoln Wallen, Visiting Associate in CMS at Caltech and former CTO of DreamWorks Animation,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Moore-Tachikawa 2d TQFTs whose values are holomorphic symplectic varieties
Hiraku Nakajima, Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University,
Wednesday, April 25th, 2018
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 205
Distributed All-Pairs Shortest Paths, Exactly
Danupon Nanongkai, KTH Royal Institute of Technology,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMx Lunch

Annenberg 213
Putting Connections to Work
Peter Schröder, Shaler Arthur Hanisch Professor of Computer Science and Applied and Computational Mathematics, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Co-induction and invariant random subgroups
Alekos Kechris, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
TBA
Ioan Bejenaru, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Arithmetic Geometry Learning Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Weights
Daxin Xu, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
Thursday, April 26th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMx Lunch

Annenberg 213
Single-Channel Blind Source Separation for Medical Time Series Challenges
Hau-tieng Wu, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University,
Friday, April 27th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Undergraduate Math Club Seminar

Uniformization of Complex Hyperbolic Curves and Real Hyperbolic 3--manifolds
Tynan Ochse, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Legendrian satellite knots, DGA representations, and the colored HOMFLY-PT polynomial
Caitlin Leverson, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Heinävarra's Proof of the Dobsch-Donoghue Theorem
Barry Simon, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Leibniz-type rules associated to bilinear pseudodifferential operators
Virginia Naibo, Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University,
Monday, April 30th, 2018
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Finite-dimensio​nal graded algebras with triangular decomposition
Ulrich Thiel, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
Program Synthesis Meets Machine Learning
Associate Professor Armando Solar-Lezama, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ,