Institute Calendar
March 2016
Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Shijia Chen,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology and Biological Engineering,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Daniel A. Lee,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology and Biological Engineering,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Time-correlated errors in quantum computation
Hector Bombin,
Perimeter Institute,
3:00pm
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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,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Small scale turbulence in high Karlovitz number premixed flames
Brock Bobbitt,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
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 the Sky, All the Time: The Owens Valley LWA
Prof. Gregg Hallinan,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Larry Abbott - Special Seminar in Computational Neuroscience
Sense from Randomness in Neural Circuits
Larry Abbott,
William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience,
Center for Theoretical Neuroscience,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Regularity and blow up in ideal fluid
Alex Kiselev,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
The Pluto System as Revealed by New Horizons
Kelsi Singer,
Dr,
Planetary Sciences,
Southwest Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Non-commutative biology: single cell in situ analysis by sequential FISH
Long Cai,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
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Astronomy Colloquium
Stars In Motion: Impact in Star Formation, Compact Objects, and Galactic Centers
Jessica Lu,
U. Hawaii,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Stability, Strategy-proofness, and Cumulative Offer Mechanisms
Alexander Westkamp, Assistant Professor, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A hidden mode of decadal ocean variability
Georgy Manucharyan,
Stanback Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Environmental Science & Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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John D. Roberts Lecture
Physical Chemistry of Nanocrystals with the Graphene Liquid Cell
Paul Alivisatos,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Special Beckman Institute Functional Genomis Center Seminar
Computer Science Meets Genetics in the Genome Era
David Haussler,
Professor,
University of California Santa Cruz/HHMI,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
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3/16
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Micro/Nano Acoustofluidics"
James Friend,
Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
12:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Antitumor activity of a Py-Im polyamide against enzalutamide resistant prostate cancer
Alexis Kurmis,
Ms.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Women's History Month Event
What Does Freedom Looks Like? How LGBTQI Activists are Fighting for Social Change Around the World and What We Do To Support Them
Naomi Sobel,
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
A Bayesian Approach to Internal Models: Of Ferret and Men
Máté Lengyel,
Reader in Computational Neuroscience,
Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
The coordinated action of RPA and DNA primase at the replication fork
Walter Chazin,
Chancellor's Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Ingram Professor of Cancer Research,
Department of Chemistry,
Vanderbilt University,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Arithmetic Statistics of Elliptic Curves
Nathan Kaplan,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Imaging Relativistic Fermions in Atomically-Engineered Graphene Potentials
Michael Crommie,
UC Berkeley,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, March 4th, 2016
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3/5
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Applied Physics Seminar
Optomechanical, vibrational and thermal properties of graphene nanoresonators
Cornelia Schwarz,
Institut Néel, CNRS,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
AdS4 solutions of massive IIA from dyonic supergravity and their simple Chern-Simons dual
Oscar Varela,
Utah State University,
11:20am
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2:20pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
S-duality of u(1) gauge theory with theta=pi on non-orientable manifolds: Applications to topological insulators and superconductors
Max Metlitski,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Using the cosmos to search for the invisible: the hidden worlds of dark matter, black holes, and structure formation
Katelin Schutz,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Counting with Symmetry for Structural Mechanics
Simon Guest,
Reader in Structural Mechanics,
Department of Engineering ,
University of Cambridge,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
TBA
Kristen Hendricks,
Assistant Adjunct Professor,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
3:20pm
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6:20pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Self-Optimizing Synthesis of Structured Chalcogen Alloys in Response to Tailored Photoexcitation
Azhar Carim,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Saturday, March 5th, 2016
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Photography on Campus: Ghofranian & Pabon Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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4:30pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Coronado Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:40pm
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7:30pm
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Sunday, March 6th, 2016
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Monday, March 7th, 2016
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Special Seminar in Mathematics
Higher Pentagram Maps via Cluster Mutations and Networks on Surfaces
Michael Gekhtman,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Notre Dame,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
A holistic approach to the preparation of composites of polymers and nanoparticles: from molecule to manufacture
Tony McNally,
Professor and Chair in Nanocomposites,
International Institute for Nanocomposites Manufacturing,
WMG, University of Warwick, England,
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Oxygen, Manganese, and Early Life on Earth
Joan S. Valentine,
Distinguished Research Professor,
Department of Chemistry & Bichemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2016
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Women's History Month Event
International Women's Day Celebration and Photography Opening Lunch Reception
Azita Emami,
Professor of Electrical Engineering ,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
Simona Bordani,
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
A linear time algorithm for quantum 2-SAT
Sevag Gharibian,
Virginia Commonwealth University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Describing finite groups by short first-order sentences
Andre Nies,
Professor,
Computer Science,
University of Auckland,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Atomic-Layer Semiconducting Crystals for Emerging 2D Devices and Nanosystems
Philip Feng,
Assistant Professor,
Case School of Engineering,
Case Western Reserve University,
4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
First Results from Advanced LIGO
Prof. Alan Weinstein,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
MULTI-MESSENGER MONSTERS!!!
Sarah Burke Spolaor,
National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Towards homological mirror symmetry for hypersurfaces in toric varieties
Denis Auroux,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
The Masses, Densities, and Orbital Dynamics of Exoplanets
Lauren Weiss,
Department of Astronomy ,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar
Stable Endosymbiosis Drives the Evolution of Complex Cellular and Genomic Mosaics
John McCutcheon,
Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Division of Biological Sciences ,
University of Montana,
4:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar
Stable endosymbiosis drives the evolution of complex cellular and genomic mosaics
John McCutcheon,
Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR),
University of Montana,
Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Modeling the stretch blow moulding process: from plastic bottles to biomedical scaffolds
Gary Menary,
Director,
Blow Moulding Technolgies, Belfast, Northern Ireland,
1:30pm
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3/11
2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Gravity Dual of Relative Entropy and Comments on Bulk Reconstruction
Jennifer Lin,
IAS,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Eta Invariant and Analytic Torsion
Xianzhe Dai,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UCSB,
3:30pm
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6:30pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Thinking Big (and Small) : Frontier Science in the Era of Wide Field Lensing Surveys
Alexie Leauthaud,
Kavli IPMU, Tokyo,
4:00pm
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Beckman Lecture
Global Approaches for Protein and Ligand Discovery in Native Biological Systems
Benjamin Cravatt,
Chairman,
Department of Chemical Physiology,
The Scripps Research Institute,