Institute Calendar
December 2015
Thursday, November 19th, 2015
Ongoing
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12/4
5:00pm
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2015
8:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Inferring subsurface fault slip from orbiting satellite radar
Mark Simons,
Professor,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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IQI Weekly Seminar
Quantum work fluctuations: notions and exact results
Sebastian Deffner,
Los Alamos,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Automatic continuity notions and locally compact Polish groups
Phillip Wesolek,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Université Catholique de Louvain,
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
Light-ish Elements in Dwarf Galaxies: The Enigmas of Lithium, Carbon, Magnesium, and More
Prof. Evan Kirby,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Sunlight and water – agents of chemical complexity in the environment
Veronica Vaida,
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Generalized Low Rank Models (part 1 of 2)
Madeleine Udell,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Near-future prospects for detection and astrophysical inference with pulsar-timing arrays
Stephen Taylor,
NASA-JPL,
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015
8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:30am
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10:30am
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Jorumycin
Christopher Haley,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Stoltz Group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
New Developments for Scattering Amplitudes
Ulrich Schubert,
Max-Planck Institute for Physics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Sulfur intermediates coupled to O, Fe, and C: What detailed chemistry and mineralogy can tell us about bioavailability
Greg Druschel,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
TBA
Anastasiia Tsvietkova,
Krener Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Some New Thoughts on EW Baryogenesis
Tao Liu,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Transport Properties of Materials from First Principles
Ole Løvvik,
Visiting Associate in Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2015
8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Advancements in jet turbulence and noise modeling: accurate one-way solutions and empirical evaluation of the nonlinear forcing of wavepackets
Aaron Towne,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Hyperloop – Turning Concept Into Reality
Brogan BamBrogan,
Hyperloop Technologies, Inc.,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Redox Switching in Human DNA Primase
Elizabeth O'Brien,
Ms.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Redox Switching in Human DNA Primase
Elizabeth O'Brien,
Graduate Student, Chemistry,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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1:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
TBA
Massimo Ruzzene,
Professor,
D. Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering ,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Decoding Genetic Variations: Algorithms for Haplotype Assembly
Haris Vikalo,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Texas - Austin,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Physics
The Donaldson-Thomas theory of K3xE and the Igusa cusp form
Jim Bryan,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Curvature directed assembly
Kathleen Stebe,
Richer and Elizabeth Goodwin Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
TBA
Laurent Fargues,
Directeur de Recherche CNRS ,
Mathematics,
Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Science communication and the making of The PHD Movie 2
Jorge Cham,
PHD Comics,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The InSight Mission: Journey to the Center of Mars
Bruce Banderdt,
InSight Principal Investigator,
JPL,
Friday, December 4th, 2015
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Supersymmetric flavors on curved space and a precision test of AdS/CFT
Christopher Uhelmann,
Univ of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Ilan Lobel
A General Framework for Dynamic Pricing with Patient Customers
Ilan Lobel,
Assistant Professor of Information,
Operations and Management Sciences, Stern School of Business,
New York University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Integrated accretion disk angular momentum removal and astrophysical jet acceleration mechanism
Paul Bellan,
Professor,
Applied Physics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Discharge Channel Erosion in the Hall Effect Thruster
Mitchell Walker,
Associate Professor,
School of Aerospace Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology ,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Learning Seminar
Introduction to Tanakian Catagories
Jize Yu,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
A hybrid-parallel framework for the nonlinear implicit analysis of very tall buildings subjected to strong ground motion
Abel Dizon,
Graduate Student,
Mechancial and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Band Edge Control of Crystalline Silicon by Chemical Functionalization of the Surface
Noah Plymale,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Semiconducting-to-metallic Photoconductivity Crossover in Graphene
Alex Frenzel,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
UC San Diego,
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)
The InSight Mission: Journey to the Center of Mars
Bruce Banderdt,
InSight Principal Investigator,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 5th, 2015
8:00am
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12/8
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, December 6th, 2015
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, December 7th, 2015
8:00am
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special IQI Seminar
Limitations of monogamy, Tsirelson-type bounds, and other semidefinite programs in quantum information
Xiaodi Wu,
University of Oregon,
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Single variable calculus and local geometric Langlands
Sam Raskin,
CLE Moore Instructor ,
Mathematics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
The neural events preceding voluntary movement.
Mark Churchland,
Assistant Professor of Psychology,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Unobserved Preference Heterogeneity in Demand Using Generalized Random Coefficients
Arthur Lewbel,
Barbara A. and Patrick E. Roche Professor of Economics,
Boston College,
Tuesday, December 8th, 2015
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Signals, systems and psyche – simulations and computations of cortical circuits
Costas Anastassiou,
Allen Institute for Brain Science,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
"The Physiology and Computation of Pyramidal Neurons"
Adam Shai,
Bioenigineering PhD Candidate,
Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Stacked codes: universal fault-tolerant quantum computation in a two-dimensional layout
Tomas Jochym-O'Connor,
University of Waterloo,
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
All Planets Great and Small
Dr. Rebekah Dawson,
UC Berkeley,