Institute Calendar
January 2015
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
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General Biology Seminar
Mysteries of Sleep: What We Can Learn from Simple Animal Models
Amita Sehgal,
Professor,
Department of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Protoplanetary Disks
Eugene Chiang,
Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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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 14th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Topics in quantum entropy and entanglement
Elliott Lieb,
Professor of Mathematics and Physics ,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Advanced LIGO: Adaptive Mode Matching for the Output Mode Cleaner
Antonio Perreca,
Research Associate,
Syracuse University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Physical mechanisms controlling the self-aggregation of tropical convection in idealized numerical simulations
Allison Wing,
NSF AGS Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
The Gauss-Bonnet theorem and scalar curvature for noncommutative two tori
Farzad Fathizadeh,
Olga Taussky and John Todd Instructor in Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:30pm
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11:00pm
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Thursday, January 15th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Glycation of DNA as a Molecular Link between Metabolic Disease and Cancer
John Termini,
Professor of Molecular Medicine,
Beckman Research Institute,
City of Hope,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
First principles Based Multiparadigm Modeling of Electronic Structures and Dynamics
Hai Xiao,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Goddard group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
The Fermilab Holometer: Operation and RF correlation of twin 40m interferometers
Lee McCuller,
Graduate Student,
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics,
University of Chicago,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Generic elements in isometry groups of Polish ultrametric spaces
Maciej Malicki,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Economics,
Warsaw School of Economics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Compactifications of PEL-type Shimura varieties in ramified characteristics
Kai-Wen Lan,
Assistant Professor,
School of Mathematics,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Optimal Thermodynamic Control and the Riemannian Geometry of the Ising model
Gavin Crooks,
Physicist Senior Scientist,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Low Density Supersonic Decelerator
Mark Adler,
Project Manager,
JPL,
Ian Clark,
Principal Investigator,
Friday, January 16th, 2015
10:00am
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11:30am
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MTI Working Group: Lindsay O'Neill
Burn This Letter: The Quirks of the Material Letter
Lindsay O'Neill,
History Department, USC,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Close-in Planets: Warm Jupiters, Super-Earths, and Exo-Mercuries
Eugene Chiang,
Professor,
Astronomy and Earth and Planetary Science,
U.C. Berkeley,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Rational Mechanics of Viral Shells: Is Continuum Theory a Stretch?
William S. Klug,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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General Chemistry Seminar
Synthetic Biology Approaches to New Chemistry
Michelle Chang,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
A dilogarithm identity on the moduli space of curves
Feng Luo,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Chemical and Materials Design for Efficient and Stable Water Splitting
Shu Hu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Low Density Supersonic Decelerator
Mark Adler,
Project Manager,
JPL,
Ian Clark,
Principal Investigator,
JPL,
Saturday, January 17th, 2015
12:00am
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1/18
12:00am
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1/18
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12:00am
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12:00am
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7:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hadjinian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sommers & Covey Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gobble Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:20pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kasparian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, January 18th, 2015
10:00am
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Cui Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 19th, 2015
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2015
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Multicore in Space, NASA and AFRL Invest in the Future of Flight Computing
Richard Doyle,
Program Manager, Information and Data Science,
Project Manager, High Performance Spaceflight Computing,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Laying a foundation for confident transient gravitational wave observation: characterizing the Advanced LIGO instruments
Jessica McIver,
Graduate Student,
University of Massachusetts Amherst,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture
Poincare's Work on Topology
David Gabai,
Hughes-Rogers Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:15pm
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Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture
Poincare's work on Topology
David Gabai,
Chair, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Biology Seminar
Mechanisms Controlling Phosphoinositide Synthesis at the Plasma Membrane
Jeremy Baskin,
Ph.D.,
Yale University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Zeros of polynomials and their applications (continues on Jan 27)
Piyush Srivastava,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Magnetically Controlled Mass Loss from Exoplanets
Fred Adams,
Professor,
University of Michigan,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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