Institute Calendar
January 2015
Wednesday, January 28th, 2015
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Applied Physics Seminar
Visualizing catalytic reactions and light-matter interactions with nanometer-scale resolution
Jennifer Dionne,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
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. David Nataf,
ANU,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
The strong correlation problem: A quantum chemistry perspective
Gustavo E. Scuseria,
Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar - piyush2
Zeros of polynomials and their applications (continued from Jan 20)
Piyush Srivastava,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The geometry of the Hilbert scheme of points on surfaces
Izzet Coskum,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UIC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Moore Scholar BBE Seminar
Sex Circuits and Brain Maps
Gregory Jefferis,
Programme Leader,
Division of Neurobiology,
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
The Nature of Rocky Exoplanets Via Study of White Dwarfs
Ben Zuckerman,
Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
UCLA,
6:00pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, January 28th, 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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Moore Distinguished Scholar Lecture
Towards an ab initio description of high-temperature superconductivity
Garnet Chan,
A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Theoretical Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Spectrum Scarcity and Optical Wireless Communications
Mohamed-Slim Alouini,
Professor,
Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division,
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST),
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Simple predictions of forest structure from resource limitations and fractal geometry
Chris Kempes,
Visiting Scholar in Control and Dynamical Systems,
Department of Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Humanities Job Candidate Seminar
Complicated Matters: Law, Commerce, and Collective Responsibility on Qing China's Southwestern Frontier (1750-1850)
Maura Dykstra,
2014-2015 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow,
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Entanglement and Geometry
Bogdan Stoica,
Graduate Student,
PMA,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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11:00pm
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Thursday, January 29th, 2015
12:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide with highly-dispersed metal nanoparticles
Karthish Manthiram,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
On a motivic method in Diophantine geometry
Majid Hadian-Jazi,
Scott Russell Johnson Fellow,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Atmospheres of Extrasolar Planets in the Super-Earth Era
Heather Knutson,
Assistant Professor of Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Friday, January 30th, 2015
12:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
AdS5 solutions from M5-branes on Riemann surface and D6-brane sources
Ibrahima (Ibou) Bah,
University of Southern California,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Rise and fall of magnetic fields in relativistic astrophysics
Jonathan Zrake,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Kavli Institute for Particle Physics (KIPAC),
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Nonlocal multiphysics for heterogeneous materials, anomalous diffusion, and hydraulic fracturing
John T. Foster,
Assistant Professor,
Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering Department ,
The University of Texas at Austin,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Proper action on Group Manifolds
Olivier Guichard,
Mathematics,
Université de Strasbourg, IRMA,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
THE SUNSHOT OPPORTUNITY: Getting to Ubiquitous Solar
Minh Le,
Director of the Solar Energy Technologies Office,
US Department of Energy ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Humanities Job Candidate Seminar
China's War on Smuggling: Law, Sovereignty, and State Power, 1928-1937
Philip Thai,
Assistant Professor,
Department of History,
Northeastern University,
4:00pm
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New Tasks for Multiheme Cytochrome c Enzymes
Special Biochemistry Seminar
Oliver Einsle,
Professor,
Lehrstuhl für Biochemie,
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiberg,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Vortex lattice anisotropy and pairing symmetry of Sr2RuO4
Morten Ring Eskildsen,
Department of Physics,
University of Notre Dame,
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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Saturday, January 31st, 2015
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10:00am
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10:00am
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hendry/Gindi Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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8:00pm
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