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Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 322
Noninteractive Zero Knowledge for NP from Learning With Errors
Chris Peikert, University of Michigan,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
Can machine learning trump theory in communication system design?
Andrea Goldsmith, Stephen Harris Professor, School of Engineering, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Homotopy Type Theory Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Tamir Hemo, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
Thursday, May 2nd, 2019
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Malle's Conjecture for octic $D_4$-fields
Ila Varma, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
Friday, May 3rd, 2019
2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Special Math Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
New roots of Lie theory
Andrei Okounkov, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Renormalized volume of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Kenneth Bromberg, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah,
4:30pm – 5:20pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310
High frequency limits and Burnett's conjecture in general relativity
Jonathan Luk, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
5:30pm – 6:20pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 310
The First-Order Planning Problem in Mean Field Games
Jameson Graber, Department of Mathematics, Baylor University,
Monday, May 6th, 2019
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Random walks, harmonic functions, 0-1 laws, and the Poisson boundary of groups
Joshua Frisch, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar: James Saunderson

Annenberg 213
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Alistair Sinclair

Annenberg 213
The Lee-Yang Theorem and the Ising Model
Alistair Sinclair, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
The Johnson filtration is finitely generated
Andrew Putnam, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame,
Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Lower bounds for Extremal Polynomials
Maxim Zinchenko, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico,
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Defense

Annenberg 243
Impact of Transmission Network Topology on Electrical Power Systems
Linqi (Daniel) Guo, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 387
The stable cohomology of the moduli space of curves with level structures
Andrew Putman, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Homotopy Type Theory Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Justin Campbell, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
Thursday, May 9th, 2019
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMI Faculty Lunch (invitation only): Adam Wierman

Annenberg 121
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Annenberg 121
Online Platforms in Networked Markets: Transparency, Anticipation and Demand Management
John Pang, Graduate Student, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
Friday, May 10th, 2019
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Baxter 125
Intertemporal Consumption With Risk: A Revealed Preference Analysis
Songfa Zhong, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore; 2018-2019 NUS Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Local dynamics of maps tangent to the identity
Sara Lapan, Department of Mathematics, UC Riverside,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry & Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Heat kernel expansion of the Dirac-Laplacian of multifractal Robertson-Walker cosmologies
Farzad Fathizadeh, Department of Mathematics, Swansea University,
Monday, May 13th, 2019
9:00am – 11:00am
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Ph.D. Thesis Defense

Annenberg 121
Connecting the speed-accuracy trade-offs in sensorimotor control and neurophysiology reveals diversity sweet spots in layered control architectures
Yorie Nakahira, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
Tuesday, May 14th, 2019
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Learning Unbiased Ranking Functions
Thorsten Joachims, Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science, and Amazon Scholar, Cornell University,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Hamiltonian simulation meets holographic duality
Toby Cubitt, University College London,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Adam Smith

Annenberg 213
The Structure of Optimal Private Tests for Simple Hypotheses
Adam Smith, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Boston University,
Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 322
Quantum-inspired classical linear algebra algorithms: why and how?
Ewin Tang, University of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Homotopy Type Theory Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 183
Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
Thursday, May 16th, 2019
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Linde Hall 255
A characterization of \Sigma^0_{n+2}-hardness
Andrew Marks, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar

Annenberg 213
Interpretable Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) via Feedforward Design
C.-C. Jay Kuo, Director of the Media Communications Laboratory and Distinguished Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Southern California,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Linde Hall 387
Iwasawa theory for function fields
Bryden R. Cais, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona,
Friday, May 17th, 2019
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

Linde Hall 255
A twisted local index formula for curved noncommutative two tori
Jim Tao, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Baxter 125
Mislearning from Censored Data: The Gambler's Fallacy in Optimal-Stopping Problems
Kevin He, PhD Candidate in Economics, Harvard University,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Arithmetic Geometry Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Use of Kudla-Millson Theory in the work of Ichino-Prasanna
Zavosh Amir Khosravi, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
2:30pm – 5:00pm
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CMS Meeting of the Minds

Annenberg 105
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
The geometry of the cyclotomic trace
Aaron Mazel-Gee, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00pm – 4:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

On the Discretized sum-product theorem
Nets Katz, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
5:00pm – 5:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar

Random Vector Functional Link Neural Networks as Universal Approximators
Palina Salanevich, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
Monday, May 20th, 2019
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Linde Hall 387
CANCELLED
Isabel Leal, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University,
Tuesday, May 21st, 2019
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Big Data, New Physics
Jeff Jonas, Founder and CEO, Senzing,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Annenberg 107
Weak simulation and benchmarking of sparse quantum circuits
Daniel Stilck França, University of Copenhagen,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Vijay Vazirani

Annenberg 213
Matching is as Easy as the Decision Problem, in the NC Model
Vijay Vazirani, UC Irvine,
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar

Moore B280
How Feedback Improves Coding Performance over Memoryless Channels
Aaron Wagner, Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Homotopy Type Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Sasha Yom Din, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
Friday, May 24th, 2019
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar

Baxter 127
Stability and Externalities in Dynamic Matching Markets
Laura Doval, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Arithmetic Geometry Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Work of Ichino-Prasanna on the Jacquet-Langlands Correspondence (2/3)
Zavosh Amir Khosravi, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Conformal field theory on the Riemann sphere and its boundary version for SLE
Nam-Gyu Kang, School of Mathematics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Affine actions with Hitchin linear part
Tengren Zhang, Mathematics Department, National University of Singapore,
Tuesday, May 28th, 2019
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch

Annenberg 105
Volumetric Imaging of Nature: from the microscopic to the grand outdoors
Aviad Levis, Doctoral Student in the Technion’s Electrical Engineering Department, Technion,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Logic Seminar

Linde Hall 255
Nonstandard analysis and Diophantine equations
Martino Lupini, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Victoria University of Wellington,
Wednesday, May 29th, 2019
10:00am – 11:00am
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TCS+ Talk

Annenberg 322
Lower Bounds for Multiplication via Network Coding
Lior Kamma, Aarhus University,