Institute Calendar
February 2015
Monday, February 16th, 2015
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9:00am
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9:00am
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6:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
9:00am
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9:01am
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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Special Geomechanics Seminar
Discrete Modeling of Granular Media: A NURBS-based Approach Citation
Keng Wit Lim,
Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
How VCs Decide
Evangelos Simoudis,
Senior Managing Director,
Trident Capital,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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General Biology Seminar
Colloids and Epigenetic Marks: A Comparison of Two Fashions, 1900 and 2000
Ute Deichmann,
Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences,
Ben-Gurion University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
What are nice combinatorial sequences?
Igor Pak,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Characterizing Topological Order with Matrix Product Operators
Burak Sahinoglu,
Universitat Wien,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
The countable admissible ordinal equivalence relation,II
William Chan,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Mid-infrared and THz Quantum Cascade Laser Frequency Combs
Jérôme Faist,
Professor,
Institute for Quantum Electronics,
ETH Zürich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Tools from Optimization Theory and Applications to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, part 2
Dvijotham ("Dj") Krishnamurthy,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Gravity and the unseen sky
Sydney Chamberlin,
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Metal Catalysis of Nontraditional Electrophiles
Mary P. Watson,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Delaware,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
New Martian Craters: Current Impact Rate, Morphology, and Lifetimes
Ingrid Daubar,
Postdoc,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:45pm
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Chen-Huang Sustainable Energy Seminar
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors--Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century
Dr. Burton Richter,
Paul Pigott Professor Emeritus,
Physical Sciences,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Blowup Dynamics in the Keller-Segel Model of Chemotaxis
Israel Michael Sigal,
Norman Stuart Robertson Chair in Applied Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
The Science and Economics of Photoelectrochemial Hydrogen Production
Matt Shaner,
Resnick Institute Graduate Research Fellow,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Standard Model with Compactified Spatial Dimensions
Bartosz Fornal,
Physics & Astronomy,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Stable Matching Under Forward-Induction Reasoning
Luciano Pomatto,
PhD Candidate,
Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern University,
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, February 19th, 2015
12:00am
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2/20
12:00am
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2/20
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12:00am
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2/20
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2/20
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Risk Management and Combinatorial Optimization for Sustainable Power Systems
Insoon Yang,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
University of California, Berkeley,
11:40am
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1:30pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Distinct Membrane Association Modes Facilitate Co-translational Protein Targeting
Yu-Hsien Hwang Fu,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Advanced LIGO: A Prelude to Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy
David H. Reitze,
Senior Research Associate in LIGO and Executive Director of the LIGO Project,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Discovery and engineering new enzymes from nature
Yi Tang,
Professor and Vice-Chair,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
A General Framework for High Accuracy Solutions to Energy Gradient Flows from Material Science Models
Professor Brian Wetton,
Mathematics Department,
University of British Colombia,
Friday, February 20th, 2015
12:00am
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2/21
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2/21
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Learning Arbitrary Statistical Mixtures of Discrete Distributions
Yuval Rabani,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Moving Mesh Astrophysics
Paul Duffell,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Theoretical Astrophysics Center,
U.C. Berkeley,
2:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Hydrogels: tough water for new applications
Zhigang Suo,
Allen E. and Marilyn M. Puckett Professor of Mechanics and Materials,
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Fibered face theory and entropy for free-by-cyclic groups
Eriko Hironaka,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Florida State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Off Campus
Inverse Problems for Quantum Integrable Systems
Alvaro Pelayo,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Carbene Transfer Activity of Cytochrome P450: Kinetic Studies, Synthetic Application, and Identification of Deactivation Pathway
Hans Renata,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Overview of Holographic Entanglement Entropy via Illustrations
Shaun Maguire,
Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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