Institute Calendar
March 2015
Thursday, February 26th, 2015
Ongoing
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3/11
5:00pm
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Sunday, March 1st, 2015
10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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5:30pm
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7:00pm
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Monday, March 2nd, 2015
8:00am
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8:00pm
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8:00am
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4:30pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
All you need is love (of data): Bootstrapping sensorimotor representations for agents embodied in unknown robots
Andrea Censi,
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Nanoscience Approaches to Heterogeneity in Biological Systems
Paul S. Weiss,
KNI Distinguished Visiting Professor, Caltech; Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry & of Materials Science & Engineering,
Chemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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**CANCELLED**Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Fundamental Limits of Community Detection
Professor Emmanuel Abbe,
Department of Electrical Engineering + Applied & Computational Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Rational Connectivity and Analytic Contractibility
Morgan Brown,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Collective computation in nonlinear networks and the grammar of evolvability
Jean-Jacques Slotine,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Variability of the jet stream: a linear response function perspective
Zhiming Kuang,
Gordon McKay Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar-CANCELLED
Development of New Methods for the Functionalization of Hydrocarbons
T. Brent Gunnoe,
Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
University of Virginia,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015
8:00am
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12:00pm
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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
Intrinsic Sparse Mode Decomposition of High Dimensional Random Fields with Application to Stochastic Elliptic PDEs
Qin Li,
von Karman Instructor in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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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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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
R&D studies at ETH Zurich for the CMS EE upgrade
Francesca Nessi-Tedaldi,
CERN,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Mean curvature flow
Bruce Kleiner,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Courant Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Exploring the early solar system with paleomagnetism
Roger Fu,
Graduate Student,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences ,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Physical Organic Seminar
The Design of the World's Strongest Non-Covalently Bound Host-Guest Complex with Attomolar Dissociation Constant
Robert Glaser,
Professor of Structural Chemistry, Emeritus,
Department of Chemistry,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Informative Cheap Talk in Elections
Navin Kartik,
Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
Columbia University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2015
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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Geometry and Physics Seminar
Perturbative invariants of Chern-Simons theory on Seifert manifolds
Gaetan Borot,
MPI, Bonn,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Thurston's asymmetric metric for unusual surfeces
Daniele Alessandrini,
Professor,
Mathematical Institute,
University of Heidelberg,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Surprising New Insights into Quasars from the WISE Satellite
Daniel Stern,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture
Total Synthesis of Rare Natural and Designed Molecules of Biological and Medicinal Importance
K. C. Nicolaou,
Harry C. and Olga K. Weiss Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
Network Design Automation -- Treating Networks like VLSI Chips
George Varghese,
Microsoft Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Multi-dimensional interactions define dynamics in natural microbial communities
Karsten Zengler,
Research Scientist,
Department of Systems Biology Research,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Barriers to Efficiency: Thermal-Induced Stresses and Phase Evolution in Multiphase Ceramic Coatings
Katherine T. Faber,
Simon Ramo Professor of Materials Science,
Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:30pm
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11:00pm
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Thursday, March 5th, 2015
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:30am
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12:30pm
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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
Real-time optimization algorithms for dynamic walking, running, and manipulating robots
Scott Kuindersma,
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL),
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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
Mechanisms of Neuronal Inhibition by Chondroitin Sulfate
Greg Miller,
Mr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Jacobs Institute Translational Seminar
"Genomic Applications of Droplet Microfluidics"
Darren Link,
“Genomic Applications of Droplet Microfluidics”,
RainDance Technologies Inc.,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Structurable equivalence relations
Ruiyuan-Ronnie Chen,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caaltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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NEW SPEAKER: Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
The power of expectations: examples in visual perception and decision-making
Peggy Seriès,
Lecturer, Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
p-Selmer growth in extensions of degree p
Kestutis Cesnavicius,
Research Fellow,
Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
IceCube and the Discovery of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos
Francis Halzen,
Hilldale and Gregory Breit Professor,
Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center and Department of Physics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Friday, March 6th, 2015
8:00am
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4:30pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Loop Amplitudes without Loop Integrands: Constraining the NMHV Ratio Function
Matt von Hippel,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
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
The Oscillations of Nearly Extremal Black Holes
Aaron Zimmerman,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Astrophysics,
CITA,
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Motion Planning and Control of Robotic Systems in Natural Environments
Marin Kobilarov,
Assistant Professor,
Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics,
Johns Hopkins University,
3:20pm
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6:20pm
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3:30pm
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6:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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14th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture 2015
The Monge-Ampere equation
Alessio Figalli,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Regularity for the Monge-Ampere equation, with applications to the semigeostrophic equations
Alessio Figali,
Professor and R. L. Moore Chair,
Mathematics,
University of Texas,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED!!! Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Dead Letters on Galileo's Sunspots
Eileen Reeves,
Associate Member of the Program in the History of Science,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:20pm
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