Seminar Calendar
October 2021
Friday, October 1st, 2021
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Monday, October 4th, 2021
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Learning in the Presence of Strategic Agents
Eric Mazumdar,
Assistant Professor,
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Department,
California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, October 5th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Mateo Diaz
Complexity, conditioning, and saddle avoidance in nonsmooth optimization
Mateo Diaz,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 6th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Thursday, October 7th, 2021
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar -(POSTPONED until 10/22)
Online Event
Computing Wasserstein barycenters: easy or hard?
Jason Altschuler,
Final year PhD Student,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, October 8th, 2021
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CMX Student/Postdoc Seminar
Online Event
On the competition between advection and vortex stretching
Jiajie Chen,
Graduate Student,
Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Solutions to the Monge-Ampere equation with polyhedral and Y-shaped singularities
Tuesday, October 12th, 2021
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Superpolynomial Lower Bounds Against Low-Depth Algebraic Circuits
Nutan Limaye,
Associate Professor,
Computer Science and Engineering,
IT University of Copenhagen,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Algorithmic information theory, effective descriptive set theory and geometric measure theory
Friday, October 15th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Decentralized, Coordination-Free Algorithms for Learning while Matching
Eric Mazumdar,
Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Economics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Presents... How to Apply to Grad School
Online Event
Panelists: Katie Bouman (Assistant Professor of CMS, EE & Astronomy, Rosenberg Scholar), Elijah Cole (CMS Grad Student), Angela Gao (CMS Grad Student), Elizabeth Qian (CMS Von Karman Instructor) & Adam Wierman (Professor of CMS/Director of IST)
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, October 18th, 2021
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
On p-adic uniformization of abelian varieties with good reduction
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Learning Causality and Using Causality for Learning
Kun Zhang,
Associate Professor in Philosophy,
and Affiliate Faculty Member in Machine Learning Department,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Oscar Leong
Deep Generative Priors for Inverse Problems
Oscar Leong,
von Karman Instructor,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Iwasawa theory in the Gan-Gross-Prasad setting
Shilin Lai,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, October 20th, 2021
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery, with Examples in Fluid Mechanics
Steven Brunton,
James B. Morrison Endowed Career Development Professor in Mechanical Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Thursday, October 21st, 2021
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Theory Group Seminar
Online Bipartite Matching and Adwords
Vijay Vazirani,
Distinguished Professor,
Computer Science,
UC, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, October 22nd, 2021
2:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Coloured Jones and Alexander polynomials unified through Lagrangian intersections in configuration spaces
Cristina Anghel,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Geneva,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CMX Seminar
Computing Wasserstein barycenters: easy or hard?
Jason Altschuler,
Final year PhD Student,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Monday, October 25th, 2021
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar
Online Event
Bias in cubic Gauss sums: Patterson's conjecture
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Online Event
Neural Operator: Learning in Infinite Dimensions with Applications to PDEs
Animashree Anandkumar,
Bren Professor,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Dept.,
California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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CMI Seminar: Pan Xu
Sample-Efficient Nonconvex Optimization Algorithms for Machine Learning Talk
Pan Xu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Online Event
Degree vs. Approximate Degree and Quantum Implications of Huang's Sensitivity Theorem
Shravas Rao,
Postdoc,
Northwestern University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Online Event
Potential singularity of 3D incompressible Euler equations and the nearly singular behavior of 3D Navier-Stokes equations
Thomas Yizhao Hou,
Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Computing and Mathematical Science,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Thursday, October 28th, 2021
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7:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Tech Talk: Software That Never Fails and Cannot Be Hacked
Dan O'Dowd,
CEO, Green Hills Software,
Friday, October 29th, 2021
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Supercritical percolation on finite transitive graphs
Philip Easo,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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