2021 Young Investigator Lectures
![Salva Salmani-Rezaie](https://caltechsites-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/yils/images/2021-Salva_Salmani-Rezaie.75d21fde.fill-330x330-c100.jpg)
Atomic-scale Understanding of the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials
Date: January 27, 2021, 4:00 pm
Speaker: Salva Salmani-Rezaie, University of California, Santa Barbara
![Isabel-Scherl](https://caltechsites-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/yils/images/2021-Isabel-Scherl.e00cb1ef.fill-330x330-c100.jpg)
Experimental Fluid Mechanics with Machine Learning
Date: March 4, 2021, 11:00 am
Speaker: Isabel Scherl, University of Washington
![Megan Lickley](https://caltechsites-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/yils/images/2021-Megan_Lickley_KmnWkwA.c9c5cd23.fill-330x330-c100.jpg)
Identifying New CFC Emissions Through Joint Inference of Banks and Lifetimes, with Impacts on the Ozone Layer and Climate
Date: March 10, 2021, 4:00 pm
Speaker: Megan Lickley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
![Melinda Perkins](https://caltechsites-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/yils/images/2021-Melinda_Perkins_6Xmf4W0.79a20716.fill-330x330-c100.png)
A Networked Systems Approach to Engineering Synthetic Biological Patterning in Theory and Practice
Date: April 5, 2021, 11:00 am
Speaker: Melinda Perkins, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
![Ramina Ghods](https://caltechsites-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/yils/images/2021-Ramina_Ghods_36IwUln.9f1e9260.fill-330x330-c100.jpg)
Decentralized Multi-Robot Active Search and Rescue
Date: April 8, 2021, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Ramina Ghods, Carnegie Mellon University
![Nil Gurel](https://caltechsites-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/yils/images/2021-Nil_Gurel_RxQDFxc.c15dae6c.fill-330x330-c100.jpg)
Coping with Trauma: Noninvasive Technologies for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Date: April 15, 2021, 4:00 pm
Speaker: Nil Gurel, University of California, Los Angeles
![Bhavini Singh](https://caltechsites-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/yils/images/2021-Bhavini_Singh_UTAznW4.2e16d0ba.fill-330x330-c100.png)
Shock Generated Vortex Rings Drive Entrainment and Cooling in Flow Induced by a Spark Discharge
Date: April 16, 2021, 3:00 pm
Speaker: Bhavini Singh, Purdue University
![Qi Lei](https://caltechsites-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/yils/images/2021-Qi_Lei_v0nUH5A.2e16d0ba.fill-330x330-c100.jpg)
Provable Representation Learning: The Importance of Task Diversity and Pretext Tasks
Date: May 3, 2021, 4:00 pm
Speaker: Qi Lei, Princeton
![Zahra Soltani](https://caltechsites-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/yils/images/2021-Zahra_Soltani_4MpmPk7.ce31e20e.fill-330x330-c100.jpg)
RUN as fast as you can: efficient tape spring analysis
Date: June 4, 2021, 3:00 pm
Speaker: Zahra Soltani, Imperial College London
2021 Young Investigators Forum
![Estefany Carrillo](https://caltechsites-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/yils/images/2021-Estefany_Carrillo_JiZXln.d9956c29.fill-330x330-c100.jpg)
Formal Behavior Synthesis Applied to Managing a Team of UAVs for Fighting Fires and Specification Inference Applied to Human Prediction
Date: June 3, 2021, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Estefany Carrillo, University of Maryland
![Zhang-Xueru](https://caltechsites-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/yils/images/2021-Zhang-Xueru_pIBobpk.bc2f983b.fill-330x330-c100.jpg)
Trustworthy Machine Learning: On the Preservation of Individual Privacy and Fairness
Date: June 3, 2021, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Xueru Zhang, University of Michigan