Seminar Calendar
March 2021
Monday, March 1st, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Anticlassification results for groups acting freely on the line
Filippo Calderoni,
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Chicago,
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Defense: Xinying (Cindy) Ren
Principles for Designing Robust and Stable Microbial Consortia
Xinying (Cindy) Ren,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Critical Computing Education
Amy Ko,
Professor, Informatics Program Chair,
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering,
University of Washington, Seattle,
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
10:00am
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10:50am
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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
Local Symmetric Quantum Circuits: How, in the presence of symmetry, locality restricts realizable unitaries
Iman Marvian,
Assistant Professor,
Duke University,
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Walking the Boundary of Learning and Interaction
Dorsa Sadigh,
Assistant Professor,
Departments of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University,
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
A Theory of Universal Learning
Steve Hanneke,
Research Assistant Professor,
TTIC,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
The power of referential advice
Nicolas Lambert,
Visiting Associate Professor of Economics,
MIT,
Thursday, March 4th, 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
Experimental Fluid Mechanics with Machine Learning
Isabel Scherl,
PhD Candidate,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of Washington,
Friday, March 5th, 2021
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thesis Defense: Karena Cai
Safe and Interpretable Autonomous System Design: Behavioral Contracts and Semantic-Based Perception
Monday, March 8th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Simple Agent, Complex Environment: Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Agent State
Benjamin Van Roy,
Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering, and of Management Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Random versus Directed Search for Scarce Resources
Teddy Mekonnen,
Orlando Bravo Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Brown University,
Thursday, March 11th, 2021
9:00am
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9:55am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Online Event
Simple Agent, Complex Environment: Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Agent State
Benjamin Van Roy,
Professor,
Electrical Engineer and Management Science & Engineering,
Stanford University,
Monday, March 15th, 2021
8:00am
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9:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Multiscale Mechanical Characterization of Subcellular Structures in Living Walled Cells
Leah Ginsberg,
Ph.D. Thesis Defense,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
An unpublished theorem of Solovay on OD partitions of reals into two non-OD parts, revisited
Vladimir Kanovei,
Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow,
Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Data Auctions with Externalities
Munther Dahleh,
Director, IDSS; William A. Coolidge Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
9:00am
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10:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Junta Distance Approximation with Sub-Exponential Queries
Avishay Tal,
Assistant Professor,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Robust Minimal Instability of the Top Trading Cycles Mechanism
Lars Ehlers,
Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences,
Department of Economics,
Université de Montréal,
Saturday, March 20th, 2021
9:00am
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5:00pm
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Monday, March 22nd, 2021
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Reducing Computational Costs for Many-Body Physics Problems
Erika Ye,
Graduate Student,
Applied Physics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Mixed Logit and Pure Characteristics Models
Jay Lu,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
UCLA,
Kota Saito,
Professor of Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Monday, March 29th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Optimal Sub-Gaussian Mean Estimation in R
Jasper Lee,
Grad Student,
Brown University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Optimal Auctions: Non-Expected Utility and Constant Risk Aversion
Benny Moldovanu,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Universität Bonn,