Seminar Calendar
May 2021
Monday, May 3rd, 2021
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Online Event
Provable Representation Learning: The Importance of Task Diversity and Pretext Tasks
Qi Lei,
Princeton,
Tuesday, May 4th, 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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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
The matrix-weighted Hardy-Littlewood maximal function is unbounded
Wednesday, May 5th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Data-Driven Dynamical Systems and Control
Steve Brunton,
James B. Morrison Endowed Career Development Professor / Adjunct Associate Professor,
Mechanincal Engineering / Applied Mathematics,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Rational Anabolic Persuasion
Ran Spiegler,
Professor of Economics,
Tel Aviv University & University College London,
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
From Bipedal to Quadrupedal Locomotion, Experimental Realization of Lyapunov Approaches
Wenlong Ma,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
Thursday, May 6th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Sarnak's density hypothesis in horizontal families
Mikołaj Frączyk,
Department of Mathematics,
The University of Chicago,
Friday, May 7th, 2021
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, May 10th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Convex Graph Parameters and Their Applications
Venkat Chandrasekaran,
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Dept.,
California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
Learning-based Planning and Control: Opportunities and Challenges
Jonathan How,
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Controls Laboratory,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Classification of the approximability of all finite Max-CSPs in the dynamic streaming setting
Santhoshini Velusamy,
Graduate Student,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
Monitoring Teams
Marina Halac,
Professor of Economics and Director of Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics,
Yale University,
Friday, May 14th, 2021
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Khovanov homology via Floer theory of the 4-punctured sphere
Monday, May 17th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2021
3:00pm
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3:50pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Online Event
Tiling the integers with translates of one tile: the Coven-Meyerowitz tiling conditions for three prime factors
4:00pm
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4:50pm
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2021
9:00am
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10:00am
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Control Meets Learning Seminar
Online Event
TBA
Miroslav Krstic,
Sr. Assoc. Vice Chancellor for Research/ Director of CCSD/ Alspach Endowed Chair in DSC/ Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California San Diego,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Online Event
This seminar has been canceled.
Konstantin Sonin,
John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor,
University of Chicago,
Friday, May 21st, 2021
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, May 24th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Online Event
Reduced Order Model Inspired Robotic Bipedal Walking: A Step-to-Step Dynamics Approximation Based Approach
Xiaobin Xiong,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 26th, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
An Overview of Using Mechanism Design for Social Good
Kira Goldner,
Postdoc,
Columbia University,
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
The Wisdom of the Crowd and Higher-Order Beliefs
Mallesh Pai,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Rice University,
Thursday, May 27th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Online Event
Transforms and Entropy
Erdal Arikan,
Professor,
Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
Bilkent University, Turkey,
Friday, May 28th, 2021
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Lens space surgeries, lattices, and the Poincaré homology sphere
Jacob Caudell,
Mathematics Department,
Boston College,