Seminar Calendar
October 2018
Monday, October 1st, 2018
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
On the equivariant cohomology of Calogero-Moser spaces
Peng Shan,
Yau Mathematics Sciences Center,
Tsinghua University,
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Algebraic Complexity Theory: Lower bounds and Derandomization (1st of 2 parts)
Ben Lee Volk,
CMI Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018
10:00am
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11:00am
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Geometrization Learning Seminar
Leopard spots and reduction of Kra's theta conjecture
Nate Sagman,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 4th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Green Hills Software -- Designing a Secure Smartphone: Beyond Crypto
Tim Menninger,
Green Hills Software,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Decoupling Seminar
Organizational Meeting
Maksym Radziwill/ Nets Katz,
Mathematics Department,
Caltech,
Friday, October 5th, 2018
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
TBA
Sarah Peluse,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
5:00pm
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5:45pm
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Monday, October 8th, 2018
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KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
From Acoustics to the Lindelof Hypothesis
Thanasis Fokas,
Professor of Nonlinear Mathematical Science,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge,
Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
New Frontiers in Imitation Learning
Yisong Yue,
Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Engineering and Applied Science,
CALTECH,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Algebraic Complexity Theory: Lower bounds and Derandomization (2nd of 2 parts)
Ben Lee Volk,
CMI Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, October 11th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Facebook -- The Development History of Facebook's Safety Check
Andrew Huang,
Facebook,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Decoupling Learning Seminar
The Stein-Tomas theorem and the Knapp example
Lei Chen,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Marked groups with isomorphic Cayley graphs but different Borel combinatorics
Felix Weilacher,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
p-converse to a theorem of Gross-Zagier, Kolyvagin and Rubin
Ashay Burungale,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
5:30pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, October 12th, 2018
12:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
What is ... Chern-Simons theory?
Sunghyuk Park,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, October 15th, 2018
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2018
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2018
10:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Finding forbidden minors through random walks: (almost) n^{1/2} query one-sided testers for minor closed properties
C. Seshadri,
UC Santa Cruz,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch
Data-driven approaches for spectral analysis of ergodic dynamical systems
Dimitris Giannakis,
Assistant Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometrization Learning Seminar
Proof of Thurston fixed point theorem
Nathaniel Sagman,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Arbitrarily Varying Broadcast and Relay Channels
Uzi Pereg,
Ph.D. student,
Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion,
Israel Institute of Technology,
Thursday, October 18th, 2018
12:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Active Learning with Robust Predictors for Covariate Shift
Angie Liu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computing & Mathematical Science,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Decoupling Learning Seminar
The role of curvature in restriction and wave packets
Mayank Pandey,
Caltech,
Friday, October 19th, 2018
12:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
An introduction to Perfectoid spaces
Tamir Hemo,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Knot concordance in 3-manifolds with an application
Eylem Zeliha Yildiz,
Department of Mathematics,
Michigan State University ,
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Gaps between consecutive eigenvalues of the Laplacian on generic flat tori
5:00pm
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5:45pm
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Monday, October 22nd, 2018
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KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Polynomial Optimization and Dynamical Systems
Amir Ali Ahmadi,
Assistant Professor,
Operations Research and Financial Engineering ,
Princeton University ,
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018
4:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Complexity, Noise, and Emergent Properties of Learning Deep Representations
Alessandro Achille,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
12:00pm
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CMX Lunch
Operator-adapted wavelets for finite-element differential forms
Max Budninskiy,
Graduate Student, Applied and Computational Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, October 25th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Google -- Two Short Talks! 1: Understanding the Web: Topic Modeling, Hierarchical Content Labeling, and Sensitive Content Detection // 2: Programming Google's Quantum Computers
Jen Iofinova,
Google,
Dave Bacon,
Google,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Decoupling Learning Seminar
The Cordoba-Fefferman argument as Bilinear restriction theory
Andrei Shubin,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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