Seminar Calendar
November 2020
Monday, November 2nd, 2020
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Joint Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
An asymptotic version of the prime power conjecture for perfect difference sets
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Harnessing Special Properties for Distributed Decision-Making in Network Systems
Na Li,
Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics,
Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020
10:00am
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10:50am
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11:00am
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Two-phase free boundary problems and the Friedland-Hayman inequality
Wednesday, November 4th, 2020
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
The Provable Effectiveness of Policy Gradient Methods in Reinforcement Learning and Controls (POSTPONED)
Sham Kakade,
Professor,
Department of Computer Science , Department of Statistics,
University of Washington,
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Forecasting Algorithms, Minimax Theorems, and Randomized Lower Bounds
Shalev Ben-David,
Assistant Professor,
University of Waterloo,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
How to Sell Hard Information
S. Nageeb Ali,
Professor of Economics,
Pennsylvania State University,
Thursday, November 5th, 2020
9:00am
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9:55am
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Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Non-linear Gibbs measures as mean-field limits
Nicolas Rougerie,
Laboratoire de Physique et Modelisation des Milieux Condenses CNRS,
Universite Grenoble,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Discontinuous Compression Structures: From Tensegrity Planetary Landers to Lightweight Metamaterials
Julián J. Rímoli,
Associate Professor,
Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Friday, November 6th, 2020
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Convex relaxations and computational optimization
Riley Murray,
Graduate Student,
Computing and Mathematical Science,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
3-manifold invariants, G-equivariant TQFT, and complexity
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, November 9th, 2020
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Online Event
Misinformation and Fake News
Cathy Ma,
Facebook,
Andrew Kang,
Facebook,
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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Joint Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Vanishing theorems for Shimura varieties
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Stochastic Gradient Descent: From Practice Back to Theory
Rachel Ward,
W. A. "Tex" Moncrief Distinguished Professor in Computational Engineering and Sciences—Data Science Associate Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Texas at Austin,
Tuesday, November 10th, 2020
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2020
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
A new approach to contextual bandits
Sasha Rakhlin,
Associate Professor,
Center for Statistics, IDSS / Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences / Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
A Dichotomy for Real Boolean Holant Problems
Shuai Shao,
Graduate Student,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Admissible Matchings in the School Choice Problem
Philip Reny,
The Hugo F. Sonnenschein Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College,
University of Chicago,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Geometric Representation Theory Learning Seminar
Online Event
Factorization, Beĭlinson-Drinfeld Grassmannians, and the fusion product
TBA,
Thursday, November 12th, 2020
9:00am
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9:55am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Enjoyable, Knotty Problems on Shoestrings
Oliver O'Reilly,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California at Berkeley,
Friday, November 13th, 2020
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Bounded-confidence models for network extensions
Michelle Feng,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computing and Mathematical Science,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Compactness and partial regularity theory of Ricci flows in higher dimensions
Monday, November 16th, 2020
12:00pm
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Joint Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
An asymptotic version of the prime power conjecture for perfect difference sets
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Sparse Integer Solutions of Systems of Linear Equations
Jesus De Loera,
Discreet and Computational Mathematics Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Davis,
Tuesday, November 17th, 2020
3:00pm
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3:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
BV and Sobolev continuity for maximal operators
Cristian González-Riquelme,
IMPA,
4:00pm
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4:50pm
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
TBA
Melanie Zeilinger,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering,
ETH Zurich,
12:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
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Persuasion with Correlation Neglect
Inés Moreno de Barreda,
Associate Professor and Official Fellow,
St. Peter's College,
University of Oxford,
Thursday, November 19th, 2020
9:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
A Search for Magnetic Alloys With Low Hysteresis
Ananya Renuka Balakrishna,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
Friday, November 20th, 2020
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Multiscale Computation and Parameter Learning for Kernels from PDEs: Two Provable Examples
Yifan Chen,
Graduate Student,
Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Pre-Calabi-Yau categories and dualizability in 2d
Alex Takeda,
IHES,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials and the BGG category
Frid Fu,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Monday, November 23rd, 2020
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Online Event
Argo.ai: Understanding and Predicting Trajectories (for Autonomous Driving)
Tuesday, November 24th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Safe Learning in Robotics
Claire Tomlin,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
University of California Berkley,
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
The Coin Problem with Applications to Data Streams
Sumegha Garg,
Postdoc,
Harvard University,
Monday, November 30th, 2020
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Online Event
How We Replaced Our Entire Tech Stack Without Our Users Knowing
Caelean Barnes,
Quaestor,
Evan Doyle,
Quaestor,