Seminar Calendar
February 2021
Monday, February 1st, 2021
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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3:55pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Nonunique evolution through cones in Mean Curvature Flow and Ricci Flow
4:00pm
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4:55pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Multilinear singular and oscillatory integrals and applications
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in CMS and HSS
Online Event
Dynamic Resource Allocation: Control and Mechanism
Pengyu Qian,
Columbia University,
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Safe, Interaction-Aware Decision Making and Control for Robot Autonomy
Thursday, February 4th, 2021
9:00am
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9:55am
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Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Emergent symmetries in statistical physics systems
Hugo Duminil-Copin,
IHÉS,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Biomimetic and Living Materials for the Built Environment
Wil V. Srubar III,
Professor,
Civil and Architectural Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Colorado Boulder,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Online Event
Machine Learning for Partial Differential Equations
Michael P. Brenner,
Michael F. Cronin Professor,
Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics,
Harvard Univeristy,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in CMS and HSS
Online Event
Robust Sequential Decision-Making in Modern Data-Driven Systems
Thodoris Lykouris,
Microsoft Research NYC,
Friday, February 5th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Online Event
The Measurement and Mismeasurement of Trustworthy ML
Sanmi (Oluwasanmi) Koyejo,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Harmonic branched coverings and uniformization of CAT(k) spheres
Monday, February 8th, 2021
9:00am
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3:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
TBA
Anca Dragan,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in CMS and HSS
Online Event
Learning & Decision-Making in Societal Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and Design
Eric Mazumdar,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, February 11th, 2021
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
Safe, Interaction-Aware Decision Making and Control for Robot Autonomy
Marco Pavone,
Professor, Director of the Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Co-Director of the Center for Automotive Research,
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Stanford University,
Friday, February 12th, 2021
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
Interpolated Factored Green Function method for accelerated solution of scattering problems
Christoph Bauinger,
Graduate Student,
Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2021
10:00am
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10:50am
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Equidistribution of affine random walks on some nilmanifolds
11:00am
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11:50am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Online Event
Classical and quantum communication through quantum fields
Eduardo Martin-Martinez,
Associate Professor,
University of Waterloo,
Wednesday, February 17th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Learning Risk and Social Behavior in Mixed Human-Autonomous Vehicles Systems
Daniela Rus,
Director,
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Fooling Constant-Depth Threshold Circuits
William Hoza,
University of Texas, Austin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Thursday, February 18th, 2021
12:00am
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2/19
12:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Fluid-elastic Structure Interactions: From Fluid-Induced Cracks to Ice-Shelf Disintegration
Ching-Yao Lai,
Professor,
Department of Geophysics,
Princeton University,
9:00am
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9:55am
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Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Mean curvature flow with prescribed boundary: a dynamical approach to Plateau's problem
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in CMS and HSS
Online Event
Algorithms for Market: Matching Under Uncertainty
Mahsa Derakhshan,
Computer Science,
University of Maryland,
Friday, February 19th, 2021
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Linking Physics and Knot Theory
Angus Gruen,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Saturday, February 20th, 2021
8:30am
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4:30pm
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Sunday, February 21st, 2021
8:30am
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4:30pm
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Monday, February 22nd, 2021
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Dynamic Bipedal Locomotion: From Hybrid Zero Dynamics to Control Lyapunov Functions via Experimentally Realizable Methods
Jenna Reher,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
On Learning Kernels for Numerical Approximation and Learning
Houman Owhadi,
Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Control and Dynamical Systems,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Towards Learning Robotic Dynamics: Application to Multirotor Takeoff and Landing
Daniel Pastor Moreno,
Graduate Student,
Aerospace (GALCIT),
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
From viscous to crustal fingering: phase-field modeling of complex interfacial flow
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Background Risk and Small-Stakes Risk Aversion
Luciano Pomatto,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
Thursday, February 25th, 2021
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
Modeling and Simulation Tools for Industrial and Societal Research Applications: Digital Twins and Genome-based Machine-learning
Tarek Zohdi,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chair of the Designated Emphasis Program in Computational and Data Science and Engineering Associate, Dean for Post Baccalaureate Programs in the College of Engineering,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Online Event
Accelerated gradient methods on Riemannian manifolds - Recording available upon request
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Equidistribution in number fields
Anna Szumowicz,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Friday, February 26th, 2021
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
(1st talk) Neural operator and dynamic systems (2nd talk) Low-rank matrix manifold:Geometry and asymptotic behavior of optimization
(1st speaker)Zongyi Li (2nd speaker)Ziyun Zhang,
Graduate Students,
Applied and Computational Mathematics / Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Harmonic forms and norms on cohomology of non-compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds