Seminar Calendar
October 2019
Tuesday, October 1st, 2019
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Automatic Tensor Network Contraction
Johnnie Gray,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Imperial College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Jingcheng Liu
Approximate counting, phase transitions & geometry of polynomials
Jingcheng Liu,
Postdoc, Center for the Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 3rd, 2019
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Friday, October 4th, 2019
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Number Theory Seminar
Fontaine-Mazur conjecture in the residually reducible case
Lue Pan,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
4:30pm
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5:20pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Fractal properties of the Hofstadter's butterfly and singular continuous spectrum of the critical almost Mathieu operator
5:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Hodge-theoretic analysis on manifolds with boundary, heatable currents, and Onsager's conjecture in fluid dynamics
Monday, October 7th, 2019
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Tuesday, October 8th, 2019
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IST Lunch Bunch
How deep learning is transforming earthquake seismology
Zach Ross,
Assistant Professor,
Geophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Jingcheng Liu
Uniform Sampling Through the Lovász Local Lemma
Jingcheng Liu,
Postdoc, Center for the Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar
Free Field Theories and Their Observables (GW Vol 1, Chapter 2-4)
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
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Thursday, October 10th, 2019
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Friday, October 11th, 2019
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Dynamic Information Design with Diminishing Sensitivity Over News
Kevin He,
Linde Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Expanding polynomials for sets with additive or multiplicative structure
Cosmin Pohoata,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Monday, October 14th, 2019
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Quantitative recurrence and hyperbolicity of the Teichmüller flow
Ian Frankel,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
Queen's University,
Tuesday, October 15th, 2019
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IST Lunch Bunch
Measuring Economic Development from Space
Stefano Ermon,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Grigory Yaroslavtsev
Advances in Linear Sketching over Finite Fields
Grigory Yaroslavtsev,
Assistant professor of Computer Science,
Indiana University, Bloomington,
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar
Factorization algebras: Definitions and Constructions
Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
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Thursday, October 17th, 2019
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DOLCIT Seminar
Machine Learning for the Real World: Provably Robust Extrapolation
Angie Liu,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
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Friday, October 18th, 2019
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Edgeworth Conjecture with Small Coalitions and Approximate Equilibria in Large Economies
Federico Echenique,
Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
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Monday, October 21st, 2019
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
AI in Space – From Earth Orbit to Mars and Beyond! (JPl)
Steve Chien,
Senior Research Scientist,
Mission Planning and Execution Section,
JPL,
Jagriti Agrawal,
Member of Technical Staff,
Artificial Intelligence Group,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems meet in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces.
Boumediene Hamzi,
Marie Curie Fellow,
Department of Mathematics,
Imperial College in London,
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Structured Policy Learning: Towards Real-world Sequential Decision Making
Hoang Le,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
10:00am
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IST Lunch Bunch
Scalable Autonomous Driving in the Urban Core
Peter Carr,
Senior Staff Engineer at Argo AI and is responsible for overseeing the tracking and prediction aspects of autonomous vehicles,
Argo AI,
4:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory in the Verlinde category in positive characteristic
4:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Guannan Qu
Distributed optimization in multi-agent systems: bridging the gap between centralized and distributed algorithms
Guannan Qu,
CMI Postdoc,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar
Basic Examples of Factorization Algebras
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019
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Thursday, October 24th, 2019
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Number Theory Seminar
Reduced Whitehead groups of algebras over p-adic curves
Nivedita Bhaskhar,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
Friday, October 25th, 2019
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Common-Value versus Common-Probability Auctions
Kathleen Ngangoue,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics and Center for Experimental Social Science,
New York University,