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Tuesday, May 1st, 2018
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Undecidability of the Spectral Gap in 1D
Johannes Bausch, University of Cambridge,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Spherical cone surfaces
Rafe Mazzeo, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Theory Group Meeting

Annenberg 322
End of Potential Line
Spencer Gordon, Caltech,
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Arithmetic Geometry Learning Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Monodromy
Alexander Yom Din, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
Thursday, May 3rd, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar

Annenberg 213
Learning from logged bandit feedback
Adith Swaminathan, Researcher, Microsoft Research AI,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Reducibility and Computational Lower Bounds for Problems with Planted Sparse Structure
Guy Bresler, Bonnie and Marty Tenenbaum Career Development Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
An introduction to the de Rham-Witt complex
Christopher Davis, Mathematics Department, University of California, Irvine ,
Friday, May 4th, 2018
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
On the equivalence between Q-conditions and primitive stability
C.-M. Michael Wong, Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B270
Indoor Geolocation Science and Technology - At the Emergence of Smart World and IoT
Kaveh Pahlavan, Professor and Director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
Monday, May 7th, 2018
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Mathematics Seminar

Building 15, Room 105
Szego" condition on arbitrary subsets of the complex plane
Gokalp Alpan, Department of Mathematics, Rice University,
Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Optimal control, lattice gauge theories, and quantum annealing
Simone Montangero, University of Ulm ,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B270
Node Deployment in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks: A Source Coding Perspective
Hamid Jafarkhani, Chancellor's Professor , Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,, University of California, Irvine,
Wednesday, May 9th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Enhancing Mathematics Learning Through Peer Feedback

Annenberg 105
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Finite point configurations in discrete and continuous settings
Alex Iosevich, Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Arithmetic Geometry Learning Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Real Sheaves
Liyang Yang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Additivity of Information in Multilayer Networks
Galen Reeves, Assistant Professor , Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University,
Thursday, May 10th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMI Faculty Lunch - invitation only

12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Annenberg 213
A linearly convergent primal-dual gradient algorithm for optimal distributed feedback voltage control
GUANNAN QU, Graduate Student, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard Uninversity,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Arithmetic stability in p-adic towers of global function fields
Daqing Wan, Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine,
Friday, May 11th, 2018
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Geometry of weightless Kapustin-Witten solutions on the plane
Steven Rayan, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Saskatchewan,
4:30pm – 5:15pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Downs 103
Removability, rigidity of circle domains and Koebe's conjecture
Malik Younsi, Department of Mathematics, University of Hawaii,
5:30pm – 6:15pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Downs 103
Probabilistic local well-posedness and scattering for the 4D cubic NLS
Jonas Lührmann, Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University,
Monday, May 14th, 2018
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
The theory of resolvent degree, after Hamilton, Klein, Hilbert, and Brauer
Jesse Wolfson, Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine,
Tuesday, May 15th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH

Annenberg 105
Towards Understanding and Generating Language for Effective Social Interaction
Chenhao Tan, Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Information Science (by courtsey) at University of Colorado Boulder, Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder,
Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMx Lunch

Annenberg 213
Computer-Assisted Analysis of 3D Euler Singularity
Tom Hou, Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Growth of torsion Grigorchuk groups
Tianyi Zheng, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
On the equivalence between Q-conditions and primitive stability
Binbin Xu, Mathematics, University of Luxembourg,
3:30pm – 5:00pm
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Arithmetic Geometry Learning Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
Fourier Transform
Lingfei Yi, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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EE Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Charles Elachi

Moore B270
The Golden Age of Space Exploration
Charles Elachi, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Planetary Science, Emeritus, Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2001- 2016, CALTECH,
Thursday, May 17th, 2018
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
A split-complex analogue of abelian varieties
Zavosh Amir-Khosravi, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
Friday, May 18th, 2018
10:00am – 11:30am
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Ph.D. Defense

Annenberg 213
Design, analysis, and computational methods for engineering synthetic biological networks
Ania Baetica, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
10:00am – 11:00am
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Thesis Defense: Ania Baetica

Annenberg 213
2:00pm – 5:00pm
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IST Meeting of the Minds

Annenberg Center
Hao Li, CEO & Co-Founder, Pinscreen, Inc.,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Surgery, Polygons and Instanton Floer homology
Yi Xie, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, SUNY Stony Brook,
Monday, May 21st, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk

Annenberg 105
Green Hills Software -- Compiler Optimizations for the Fastest Code
Greg Davis, Director of Engineering, Compilers, Green Hills Software,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Solving the Right Problems with AI

Annenberg 105
CMS Special Seminar
Crystal Rutland, CEO and Founder, Particle Design,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Annenberg 105
Redemption of the High Frequencies
Associate Professor Laurent Demanet, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Gradient Descent with Identity Initialization Efficiently Learns Positive Definite Linear Transformations by Deep Residual Networks

Annenberg 213
CMS Special Seminar
Phil Long, Research Scientist, Google,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Building 15, Room 131
The cohomology of the first omega alephs: some questions
Jeffrey Bergfalk, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Classical simulation of quantum circuits by dynamical localization
Adrian Chapman, University of New Mexico,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Theory Group Meeting

Annenberg 322
Quantum lightning and applications
Andrea Coladangelo, Caltech,
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 205
Explicit Binary Tree Codes with Polylogarithmic Size Alphabet
Leonard Schulman, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Arithmetic Geometry Learning Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Weil Conjectures
Daxin Xu, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Young Investigators Lecture

Moore B280
Low-Complexity Modeling for Visual Data: Representations and Algorithms
Yuqian Zhang,
Thursday, May 24th, 2018
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Annenberg 213
Generalized Benders Cuts for Infinite-Horizon Control Problems
Joe Warrington, Senior Scientist, Automatic Control Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Galois deformation ring associated to a real quadratic field
Haruzo Hida, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
Friday, May 25th, 2018
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Annenberg 314
Addressing Challenges in Autonomy: Lessons from Information and Control Theories
REZA AHMADI, Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences , UT Austin,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Building 15, Room 104
Algorithms in group theory
Rita Gitik, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

TBA
Antoine Gloria, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Sorbonne Université ,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Sharp Strichartz inequalities for fractional and higher order Schrödinger equations
Diogo Oliveira e Silva, School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham,