Institute Calendar
February 2016
Monday, February 1st, 2016
2:00pm
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Special CPS Seminar
From Photons to Excitons to Materials: Understanding Energetic Heterogeneity and its Role in Technology and Energy Transport
Justin Caram,
Ph.D,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Secondary Metal-Ligand Interactions: C-H Activation and Metal-Carbon Multiple Bonding in Palladium Carbene Complexes
Vlad Iluc,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Notre Dame,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Studying social interactions and their neural modulation in primates
Ziv Williams,
Associate Professor,
MGH,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Resilience of Infrastructures
Professor Munther A. Dahleh,
Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Director ,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Earthquakes in the Laboratory or How I Learned to Love Mineralogy
Alexandre Schubnel,
Associate Professor,
Laboratoire de Géologie ,
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Chemoproteomic Discovery of Host and Pathogen Enzymes Active in Cholera
Stavroula Hatzios,
Department of Microbiology & Immunobiology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Reading Seminar
Computational and descriptive complexity
Martino Lupini,
Harry Bateman Instructor,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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7:30pm
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MTI Talk: Catherine Hess
Giambologna (1529-1608): The first modern sculptor?
Catherine Hess,
Chief Curator of European Art,
The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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Learning Seminar
The motivic Galois group of Abelian varieties of potential CM type II
Majid Hadian-Jazi,
Scott Russell Johnson Research Assistant Professor in Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
10:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
The Emerging Data Market: Adaptive Incentives for Smart, Connected Infrastructure
Lillian Ratliff,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Thad Lindsay,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology and Biological Engineering,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Peter Weir,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology and Biological Engineering,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Irene Kim,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology and Biological Engineering,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Inference on gravitational waves from coalescences of stellar-mass compact objects and intermediate-mass black holes: an outlook of the current and future state of CBC parameter estimation
Carl-Johan Haster,
Physics,
Birmingham,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Weak containment of measure preserving group actions
Peter Burton,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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6:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
GIT characterizations of Harder-Narasimhan filtrations
Alfonso Zamora Saiz,
Lecturer AY-Math,
Mathematics,
CSU Channel Islands,
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
TBD
Prof. Matt Turk,
NCSA/Univ. of Illinoia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Polar Molecules
Nick Hutzler,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Genre and the <p>Longue Durée</p>
Lauren Goodlad,
Professor of English and Criticism and Interpretive Theory,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Campaign 9 of Kepler's Extended K2 Mission: A Simultaneous Space- and Ground-based Microlensing Survey
Calen Henderson,
Dr,
Exoplanet Discovery and Science,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar
Evolutionary Pressure to Control the Epithelial Phenotype
Angela Nieto,
Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, CSIC‐UMH,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Efficient Spectral Methods for Learning Mixture Models
Qingqing Huang,
Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
8:00am
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2/9
5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Rational approximation of functions with logarithmic singularities
Alexander Pushnitski,
King's College London,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Making the Connection Between Silicon and Molecules: Mechanisms and Praxis
Jillian Buriak,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Alberta,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Ground State Patterns and Phase Transitions for Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensates, Numerics and Analysis
Professor I-Liang Chern,
Department of Mathematics,
National Taiwan University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Clouds and the (extra-)tropical circulation response to climate change
Aiko Voigt,
Postdoctoral Research Scientist,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory | Ocean & Climate Physics,
Columbia University | Earth Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
"Who triggered electroweak baryogenesis"
Wei Chao,
Research Fellow,
Physics,
University of Massachusetts Amherst,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Chemistry-Driven Biological Discovery"
Christina Woo,
Department of Chemistry ,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:30pm
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10:30pm
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9:00pm
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11:00pm
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Thursday, February 4th, 2016
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
The Design and Synthesis of Transition Metal Complexes Supported by Non-innocent Ligand Scaffolds for Small Molecule Activation
Kyle Horak,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Agapie group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
The Design and Synthesis of Transition Metal Complexes Supported by Non-innocent Ligand Scaffolds for Small Molecule Activation
Kyle Horak,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Agapie group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Elucidating the Functional Role of the DNA Polymerase δ [4Fe-4S] Cluster
Phillip Bartels,
Mr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Neural Mechanisms for Dynamic Acoustic Communication in Flies
Mala Murthy,
Assistant Professor,
Princeton Neuroscience Institute,
Princeton University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Counting genus-2 curves with split Jacobians
Everett Howe,
Center for Communications Research,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Does looking inside the circuit help?
Antonina Kolokolova,
Memorial University of Newfoundland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Order and disorder in light-responsive materials for energy applications
Bradley F. Chmelka,
Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Slopes of overconvergent modular forms over boundary of the weight space
Ruochuan Liu,
Professor,
Mathematics,
BICMR,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Large Hadron Collider: Awakening at the next energy frontier
Anyes Taffard,
Associate Professor,
Physics & Astronomy,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Dissecting Human Transcription Dynamics by Single-Molecule Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Zhengjian Zhang, Ph.D.,
Senior Scientist,
Transcription Imaging Consortium,
Janelia Research Campus of HHMI,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, February 5th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Topology optimization of silicon anode structures for lithium-ion battery applications
Sarah Mitchell,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Fluid Manifesto: Topological sigma models and dissipative hydrodynamics
Mukund Rangamani,
UC Davis,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Algorithms from natural lower bounds
Valentine Kabanets,
Simon Fraser University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
From GUT scale to galaxies: probing the early universe with large-scale structure
Fabian Schmidt,
Scientific Staff Member,
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA),
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Dynamics and suppression of instabilities in magnetohydrodynamic implosions
Wouter Mostert,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Graduate Aerospace Laboratories ,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Informational bottlenecks in control systems
Gireeja Ranade,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Microsoft Research, Redmond,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Theory of arrested spinodal decomposition: physical gels, porous glasses, and the glass transition
Magdaleno Medina-Noyola,
Professor,
Instituto de Fisica "Manuel Sandoval Vallarta",
Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Exponential Lifetime Improvement in Topological Quantum Memories
Charles Edouard Bardyn,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Condensed Matter Theory,
Saturday, February 6th, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Ter-Grigorian Wedding
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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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, February 8th, 2016
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Design, Synthesis, and Study of Novel Platforms for Iron-N2 Chemistry and Photoinduced, Copper-Mediated C-N Bond Formation
Sid Creutz,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Peters group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification for Solutions to Differential Equation Models
Dave Campbell,
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, and Director, Management and System Science,
Simon Fraser University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Dry Ice on Mars
Candice Hansen,
Senior Scientist,
Planetary Science Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Maximal representations and projective structures on iterated sphere bundles
Anna Wienhard,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics & Physics,
University of Heidelberg,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Type Ia Supernovae and Heavy Metals From Dark Matter
Joseph Bramante,
Notre Dame University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informational Biology Seminar
3D Chromatin and Chromosome Conformations and Gene Expression Control
Peter Fraser,
Nuclear Dynamics Programme,
The Babraham Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
II_1 Factors with Non-isomorphic Ultrapowers
Adrian Ioana,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UCSD,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Reading Seminar
Computational and descriptive complexity
Martino Lupini,
Bateman Research Instructor,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Chern--Simons theory, surface separability, representation volumes, and dominations of 3-manifolds
Shicheng Wang,
Peking University,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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7:30pm
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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Learning Seminar
An introduction to Weil groups
Andrei Frimu,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
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
Modeling and Control of Online Advertising
Niklas Karlsson,
VP,
Research and Development,
AOL/ Verizon,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Reducing My Platinum Footprint
Fundamentals of Sustainability Science and Engineering Guest Lecturer
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Probing the universe on a table top experiment
Atta Almasi,
Physics,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Revisiting the first-order theories of McDuff's II_1 factors
Isaac Goldbring,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Illinois at Chicago,
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
Probing Small Planets at Several AU with Microlensing
Dr. Jennifer Yee,
Harvard-CfA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Polynomials representing primes
James Maynard,
Mathematical Institute,
Magdalen College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2016