Seminar Calendar
April 2024
Monday, April 1st, 2024
4:00pm
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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William T. Freeman/MIT
Seeing Faces in Things: A Model and Dataset for Pareidolia
William T. Freeman,
Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
EECS,
Massachusetts Institue of Technology,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium
Online and In-Person Event
Minimal surfaces, representation theory and random permutations
Antoine Song,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Some problems and results on logarithmic potentials in prime number theory
Vesselin Dimitrov,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Thursday, April 4th, 2024
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
On Pfaffians in spin models
Marcin Lis,
Mathematics Department,
Vienna University of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
The shape of the front of multidimensional branching Brownian motion
Yujin Kim,
Courant Institute,
NYU,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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LA Probability Forum
Equilibrium in functional stochastic games with mean-field interaction
Moritz Voss,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Product of Rankin-Selberg convolutions and applications
Pan Yan,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Arizona,
Friday, April 5th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Growth and Likelihood
Jakub Steiner,
Senior Researcher, Cerge-Ei in Prague; Associate Professor (tenured), University of Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Polya's conjecture in spectral geometry
David Sher,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
DePaul University,
Saturday, April 6th, 2024
10:00am
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5:00pm
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Monday, April 8th, 2024
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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EE Devices Seminar- Alexander Lvovsky/Oxford
Optical neural networks: from computer vision to superresolution imaging
4:00pm
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Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Multiple radial SLE(0) system and classical Calogero-Sutherland model
Jiaxin Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Predictive coding in neural networks can recover the environment's map
James Gornet,
Electrical Engineering Department, Computation and Neural Systems,
Caltech,
Thursday, April 11th, 2024
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Covers of P^1 and number fields
Sameera Vemulapalli,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
Friday, April 12th, 2024
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Surgery Exact Triangles in Instanton Theory
Deeparaj Bhat,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT,
Monday, April 15th, 2024
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Non-Backtracking spectral methods for sparse matrices and tensors
Yizhe Zhu,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California Irvine,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Groups without unitary representations, submeasures, and the escape property
Sławomir Solecki,
Department of Mathematics,
Cornell University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Recent progress on mathematical wave turbulence
Yu Deng,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Uniqueness problems for generalized quadrature domains with connections to Hele-Shaw flow and the Faber transform
Andrew Graven,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar
Toward a Control Theory of LLMs
Aman Bhargava,
Electrical Engineering Department, Computational & Neural Systems,
Caltech,
Shi-Zhuo Looi,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Thursday, April 18th, 2024
2:30pm
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3:45pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Algebra and geometry of camera resectioning
Jessie Loucks-Tavitas,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Washington,
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
From geometric realizations of affine Hecke algebras to character formulas
Vasily Krylov,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
The period-index conjecture for abelian threefolds
Alexander Perry,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
Friday, April 19th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Quantum Advantage in Bayesian Games
Igal Milchtaich,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
Bar-Ilan University,
2:00pm
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6:15pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Online Event
Triple Grid Diagrams
Sarah Blackwell,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Virginia,
5:15pm
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6:15pm
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Saturday, April 20th, 2024
9:00am
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Monday, April 22nd, 2024
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Stochastic particle systems for global optimization: a journey from metaheuristics to PDEs
Lorenzo Pareschi,
Professor, Chair of Applied and Computational Mathematics,
School of Mathematics,
Heriot-Watt University,
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Learning Augmented Algorithms for MDPs
Adam Wierman,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Enhancing PDE Computations and Score-Based Generative Models through Optimization
Siting Liu,
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California Los Angeles,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Online Event
Equivalence relations classifiable by Polish abelian groups
Forte Shinko,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Line bundles on abelian schemes and p-adic heights
Adebisi Agboola,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Santa Barbara,
Friday, April 26th, 2024
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar
Price & Choose
Matias Nunez,
CNRS researcher and Professor,
Ecole Polytechnique,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, April 29th, 2024
4:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures
Random planar curves
Jason Miller,
Statistics Laboratory,
University of Cambridge,
Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar
Learning Shallow Quantum Circuits
Robert Huang,
Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wolff Memorial Lectures
Random surfaces
Jason Miller,
Statistics Laboratory,
University of Cambridge,