Seminar Calendar
April 2021
Thursday, April 1st, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, April 2nd, 2021
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, April 5th, 2021
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
A Networked Systems Approach to Engineering Synthetic Biological Patterning in Theory and Practice
Melinda Perkins,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
European Molecular Biology Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2021
3:00pm
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3:50pm
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4:00pm
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4:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Explicit and nonlinear variants of Bourgain's projection theorem
Wednesday, April 7th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
A Network Solution to Robust Implementation: the case of Identical but Unknown Distributions
Antonio Penta,
ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Affiliated Professor, Barcelona GSE,
Thursday, April 8th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, April 9th, 2021
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, April 12th, 2021
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
Analysis and Interventions in Large Network Games
Asu Ozdaglar,
MathWorks Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Real-time Distributed Decision Making in Networked Systems
Na Li,
Gordon McKay Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS),
Harvard University,
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
New Techniques for Proving Fine-Grained Average-Case Hardness
Andrea Lincoln,
Postdoc,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
From Nash to Dominant: The Natural Index of Strategic Stability
Adam Tauman Kalai,
Senior Principal Researcher,
Microsoft Research,
Ehud Kalai,
James J. O'Connor Distinguished Professor of Decision and Game Sciences,
Northwestern University,
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
9:00am
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9:55am
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4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
The distribution of closed geodesics on the modular surface
Alexandre Perozim de Faveri,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Friday, April 16th, 2021
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Online Event
Operator algebras and the emergence of spacetime
Elliott Gesteau,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Sunday, April 18th, 2021
8:00am
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2:00pm
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Monday, April 19th, 2021
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
Improving Policy Learning via Programmatic Domain Knowledge
Yisong Yue,
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Dept.,
California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, April 20th, 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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Wednesday, April 21st, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
TBA
Necmiye Ozay,
Associate Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Stochastic Price Adaptation, Waiting Lists, and Stochastic Gradient Descent
Itai Ashlagi,
Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
Thursday, April 22nd, 2021
9:00am
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9:55am
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Analysis Seminar
Online Event
On the well-posedness of the derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Online Event
Learnable Information in Deep Neural Networks
Stefano Soatto,
UCLA / AWS,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, April 23rd, 2021
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
The failure of the 4D light bulb theorem with dual spheres of non-zero square
Monday, April 26th, 2021
9:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Reinforcement Learning for Complex Environments: Tree Search, Function Approximators and Markov Games
Qiaomin Xie,
Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell,
School of Operations Research and Information Engineering,
Cornell University,
Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Localization, stochastic localization, and Chen's recent breakthrough on the Kannan-Lovasz-Simonivits conjecture
Ronen Eldan,
Professor,
Weizmann Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Safety-Critical Control of Dynamic Robots
Aaron D. Ames,
Bren Professor,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering and Control and Dynamical Systems,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Unpaired Kidney Exchange: Overcoming Double Coincidence of Wants without Money (with Julien Combe, Yinghua He, Victor Hiller, Robert Shimerk and Olivier Tercieux)
Mohammad Akbarpour,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Graduate School of Business,
Stanford University,
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
9:00am
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9:55am
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Friday, April 30th, 2021
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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