Institute Calendar
January 2015
Thursday, January 1st, 2015
9:00am
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4:00pm
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Friday, January 2nd, 2015
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, January 5th, 2015
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
"A variational framework for spectral discretization of the density matrix in Kohn Sham density functional theory"
Xin (Cindy) Wang,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
What is driving bacterial manganese oxidation?
Hope A. Johnson,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biological Science,
California State University, Fullerton,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Natural Inflation and Quantum Gravity
Prashant Saraswat,
University of Maryland & Johns Hopkins,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2015
9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Extracting Progenitor Parameters of Rotating CCSNe via Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
Laksh Bashin,
Undergraduate,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Leontief Exchange Markets Can Solve Multivariate Polynomial Equations, Yielding FIXP and ETR Hardness
Ruta Mehta,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
College of Computing,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Darwin's ‘Abominable Mystery' and the Search for the First Flowering Plants
William (Ned) Friedman,
Professor,
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology ,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Historical Heat Responsible for Enceladus's Plume
Jing Luan,
Graduate student,
Department of Physics,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2015
10:00am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Why is the ITCZ in the Northern Hemisphere? And why is there a double ITCZ problem?
Dargan Frierson,
Associate Professor,
Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Washington,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, January 8th, 2015
8:50am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Traffic Networks as Mixed Monotone Systems: Dynamical Properties and Finite State Abstraction"
Sam Coogan,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
University of California, Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Towards Neutron Star Multimessenger Astronomy: A Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves from Fermi-LAT Unassociated Sources in LIGO S6 Data
Jax Sanders,
Graduate Student,
University of Michigan,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Level raising mod 2 and arbitrary 2-Selmer ranks
Chao Li,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Eigencurve over the boundary of the weight space
Liang Xiao,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Connecticut,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Seeking simplicity in complexity: A physicist's view of vulcanized media
Paul Goldbart,
Professor and Chair,
School of Physics,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Ab initio discovery of energy conversion pathways - theory and applications
Lee-Ping Wang,
Ph.D.,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, January 9th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
A molecular switch that turns on selective autophagy
Vlad Denic,
Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
The Interplay Between Structure of Finite Graphs and Maximal Averages on Their Cartesian Powers
Jordan Greenblatt,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Translating Landau-Rumer Processes to an Ultrasonic Stereo for the Hard of Hearing
Seth Putterman,
Professor,
Physics and Astronomy,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Homology three-spheres and surgery obstructions
Tye Lidman,
RTG Instructor,
Mathematics,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Well-posedness for the Cubic Dirac equation in the critical space
Ioan Bejenaru,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
UCSD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar--CANCELLED
Magnetic Field Effects on Charge Transport Through DNA
Theodore (Ted) Zwang,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum noise detection with cavity electro-mechanics
Aaron Weinstein,
Graduate Student, Schwab Group,
Applied Physics, Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
The Euler-Maxwell system in 2D
Yu Deng,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, January 10th, 2015
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Sunday, January 11th, 2015
12:00pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Fu Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, January 12th, 2015
9:00am
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5:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
How the Cellular Proteostasis Network Controls Protein Fate
Xin Zhang,
Ph.D.,
Departments of Chemistry and Molecular & Experimental Medicine,
The Scripps Research Institute,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Neural Signals for Memory and Space in the Primate Medial Temporal Lobe
Elizabeth Buffalo,
Associate Professor,
Physiology and Biophysics,
University of Washington School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The spatial-temporal evolution of topography of the central Andean plateau and geodynamic implications for the growth of plateaus
Carmala N. Garzione,
Professor,
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Rochester,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
12:00am
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1/14
12:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
From h(t) to post-detection science: The gravitational-wave science workflow
Madline Wade,
Teaching Assistant,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Searching for intermediate-mass black-hole binaries and measuring the neutron-star equation of state using advanced gravitational-wave detectors
Leslie Wade,
Teaching Assistant,
Univeristy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
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
TBA
Dr. Guillermo Blanc,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Biology Seminar
Chemical Biology to Activate Cell Signaling
Lingyin Li,
Ph.D.,
Harvard Medical School,