Institute Calendar
November 2013
Friday, November 15th, 2013
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Physics Research Conference
International Science Diplomacy
E. William Colglazier,
Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State,
U.S. State Department,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Guns and Roses: Exports and Electoral Violence in Kenya
Ameet Morjaria,
Post-doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science,
Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard's Center for International Development,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Multi-Dimensional Polynomial Interpolation on Arbitrary Nodes
Professor Dongbin Xiu,
Department of Mathematics, and Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute,
Unversity of Utah,
6:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 15th, 2013
12:00am
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11/16
12:00am
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8:00am
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9:00pm
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Siemens Competition on Campus: Western Regional Finalists
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Phases of 5d Gauge Theories, Monopole Walls, and Melting Crystals
Sergey Cherkis,
Univ of Arizona,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Market Equilibrium: Complementary Pivot Algorithms and How They Led to a New Class of Utility Functions
Vijay Vazirani,
School of Computer Science,
Georgia Tech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Supernova neutrinos – flavor evolution and signals
Tina Lund,
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Department of Physics,
North Carolina State University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Modeling of Chemically Reacting, Nonequilibrium Flows Using Particle Approaches
Deborah Levin,
Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
Penn State,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
A Neuro-Computational Account of Economic Choices
Philippe Domenech, MD. PhD.,
Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives,
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Boryl-Mediated H2 Activation at Metal Centers: Applications in Catalysis
Tzu-Pin Lin,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
NOA's Einstein / Einstein's NOA
Thomas Ryckman,
Professor of Philosophy,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 16th, 2013
12:00am
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12:00am
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4:00pm
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12:00am
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6:00am
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Siemens Competition on Campus: Western Regional Finalists
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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2:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Boyadzhyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Melkonian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, November 17th, 2013
10:00am
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8:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Komai Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 18th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Stability
Professor Bin Yu,
Departments of Statistics and EECS,
University of California at Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL DAY/TIME**
Topic to be announced.
Bin Yu,
Chancellor's Professor,
Statistics / Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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CNS Seminar
From the jungle to telemedicine: towards integration and translation in cognitive neurosciences
Ricardo Gil da Costa,
SALK Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
High Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrions in IceCube
Claudio Kopper,
Univ of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
O-O Bond Breaking and Bond Making with Nickel Complexes
Charles G. Riordan,
Professor and Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Education,
Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Delaware,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Megafloods down the Tsangpo Gorge, southeastern Tibet
David R. Montgomery,
Professor of Earth and Space Sciences,
University of Washington,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Bright and dark: satellite galaxies as a test of galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter
Anna Nierenberg,
UCSB,
Tuesday, November 19th, 2013
8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:30am
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12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Reservoir Modeling and Simulation with Uncertainty
Xiao-Huo Wu,
Exxon Mobil Upstream Research Company,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Bose-Hubbard model on a graph is QMA-complete
David Gosset,
University of Waterloo,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Bose-Hubbard model on a graph is QMA-complete
David Gosset,
University of Waterloo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Watching the wave function collapse: observing single quantum trajectories of a superconducting qubit
Kater Murch,
Department of Physics,
Washington University, St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
CANCELED — The Thirty Meter Telescope: How California, Canada, China, India and Japan are Working Together to Build a Next Generation Extremely Large Telescope
Gary Sanders,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Seeing Gravitational Waves: Transients in the Local Universe
Dr. Mansi Kasliwal,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Wavefunction Antisymmetry and Molecular Dissociation: Fixing Coupled Cluster Theory
Frederick R. Manby,
Professor of Theoretical Chemistry,
Centre for Computational Chemistry, School of Chemistry,
University of Bristol, UK,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Activation of gene expression and patterning at the beginning of Drosophila development
Michael Eisen,
Associate Professor,
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Active, sterile neutrinos and dark matter in models with new U(1) gauge symmetry
Rathin Adhikari,
Centre for Theoretical Physics, New Delhi,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Ejecta from Impacts: New Experiments and Insight from Missions
Brendan Hermalyn,
Research Scientist,
NASA Ames/Univ. of Hawaii,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
On the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions (with Thierry Verdier, Paris School of Economics)
Alberto Bisin,
New York University,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
8:00am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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JCAP Special Seminar
Atomic Layer Deposition for Interface Control and Stabilization in Solar Photoelectrosynthesis Cells
Gregory N. Parsons,
Alcoa Professor; NC State Nanotechnology Initiative Director,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
NC State University, Raleigh NC ,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Efficiency and Information Aggregation in Auctions with Heterogeneous Agents
Sevgi Yuksei,
PhD Student,
New York University,