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Sunday, February 17, 2019
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Monday, February 18, 2019
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Tuesday, February 19, 2019
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February 19, 2019 -MSE Faculty Candidate Seminar: “Tuning Nanoscale Materials Using the Local Environment”
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February 19, 2019 -ESE Seminar: “Hybrid Quantum Networks: Interfacing Photons, Phonons, and Superconducting Qubits”
ESE Seminar: “Hybrid Quantum Networks: Interfacing Photons, Phonons, and Superconducting Qubits”
Quantum information science strives to utilize the fundamental laws of physics to achieve revolutionary improvement in computation, communication, and sensing. Existing quantum protocols rely on a wide variety of physical platforms for storing, transferring, and processing of quantum information. Optical photons are the ideal carriers of information because of their low loss, large bandwidth of […]
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Thursday, February 21, 2019
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February 21, 2019 -MSE Faculty Candidate Seminar: “Atom-Scale Engineering using 2D Materials”
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February 21, 2019 -ESE Seminar: “Physics-Driven Sensing and Processing: From Computational Periscopy to Particle Beam Microscopy”
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February 21, 2019 -CIS Seminar: “Cataloging the Visible Universe through Bayesian Inference at Petascale”
ESE Seminar: “Physics-Driven Sensing and Processing: From Computational Periscopy to Particle Beam Microscopy”
In many areas of science and engineering, novel signal acquisition methods allow unprecedented access to physical measurements. From digital cameras to microscopes and nano-scale biosensors, the data generated are shaped by both the underlying physics of the phenomena and characteristics of the acquisition device. Meanwhile, in many practical scenarios, the useful signals are remarkably weak, […]
CIS Seminar: “Cataloging the Visible Universe through Bayesian Inference at Petascale”
Abstract: A key task in astronomy is to locate astronomical objects in images and to characterize them according to physical parameters such as brightness, color, and morphology. This task, known as cataloging, is challenging for several reasons: many astronomical objects are much dimmer than the sky background, labeled data is generally unavailable, overlapping astronomical objects […]
Friday, February 22, 2019
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February 22, 2019 -CIS Seminar: “Towards Generalization and Efficiency in Reinforcement Learning”
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February 22, 2019 -PRiML Seminar: “Optimizing probability distributions for learning: sampling meets optimization”
CIS Seminar: “Towards Generalization and Efficiency in Reinforcement Learning”
Abstract: In classic supervised machine learning, a learning agent behaves as a passive observer: it receives examples from some external environment which it has no control over and then makes predictions. Reinforcement Learning (RL), on the other hand, is fundamentally interactive : an autonomous agent must learn how to behave in an unknown and possibly […]
PRiML Seminar: “Optimizing probability distributions for learning: sampling meets optimization”
Optimization and sampling are both of central importance in large-scale machine learning problems, but they are typically viewed as very different problems. This talk presents recent results that exploit the interplay between them. Viewing Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling algorithms as performing an optimization over the space of probability distributions, we demonstrate analogs of Nesterov's acceleration approach in the sampling domain, […]
Saturday, February 23, 2019
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