Institute Calendar
April 2016
Friday, April 1st, 2016
9:30am
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Special Seminar in Applied Physics and Materials Science
Nanophotonics for Tailoring the Flow of Thermal Radiation
Ognjen Ilic,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT,
11:30am
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Dark Matter in the Cosmic Context
Katherine Mack,
DECRA Fellow,
Astro Group, School of Physics,
University of Melbourne,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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• High Enthalpy Hypervelocity Experiments: Bridging the Scales
Susan and James Wu Lecture in Aerospace
Joanna Austin,
Professor of Aerospace,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
New Catalysis for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
Sonja Francis,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Revealing the Dirac fluid in graphene
Andy Lucas,
Graduate Student, Subir Sachdev's group,
Harvard University,
Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Shandaryan Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2016
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 4th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Kinematics and Local Motion Planning for Quasi-static Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation
Krishna Shankar,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED - Bioengineering Lecture
"Molecular Structure and Organism Fitness from Genomic Sequences"
Debora Marks,
Department of Systems Biology,
Harvard,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Information-Theoretic Lower Bounds for Distributed Function Computation
Assistant Professor Maxim Raginsky,
ECE Department and Coordinated Science Laboratory,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
A Theory for Atmospheric Oxygen
Daniel P. Schrag,
Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor School of Engineering and Applied Sciences:,
Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Molecular Interactions and Reactions in Metal Organic Framework Materials
Yves Chabal,
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Texas, Dallas,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Multi-Use Applications for Distributed Energy Resource Aggregations
Seyed Madaeni,
Principal,
Energy Storage, Grid Engineering Solutions,
SolarCity,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar
Geometry, Analysis and Topology of Feynman Amplitudes
Emad Nasrollahpoursammi,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
New regulatory mechanisms in genome duplication
Xiaolan Zhao,
Ph.D.,
Molecular Biology Program,
Sloan Kettering Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Loophole-free Bell inequality violation using electron spins separated by 1.3 kilometres
Hannes Bernien,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Percolation and invariant random subgroups
Yair Hartman,
Mathematics,
Northwestern University,
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. Charles Badenes,
Univ. of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemistry 250 Course: Advances in Pharmaceutical Research
Process Chemistry Development of Ledipasvir − NS5A Inhibitor in Harvoni® for Hepatitis C Treatment
Robert W. Scott,
Dr., Ph.D., Senior Director,
Process Development,
Gilead Sciences, Inc.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Towards simple, robust and approximately optimal auctions (part 2 of 2)
Hu Fu,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Decoding the Human Genome: 2016-2020
John Stamatoyannopoulos,
Professor,
Genome Sciences and Medicine,
University of Washington, School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Flavor Physics and CP Violation as Probes for New Physics Effects at the High-Luminosity B Factory Experiment Belle 2
Markus Rohrken,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Bistatic Radar Observations of the Moon using Mini-RF on LRO and the Arecibo Observatory
Wes Patterson,
Applied Physics Laboratory,
The Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Climate, Geography, and the Evolution of Economic and Political Institutions
Stephen Haber,
A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor of Political Science,
Stanford University,
4:40pm
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6:00pm
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CMA presents "Planet Nine from Outer Space"
JPL
Konstantin Batygin,
Assistant Professor of Planetary Sciences,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
The Energy of Heavy Atoms: The Leading Correction
Heinz siedentop,
Professor of Applied Mathematics,
Mathematics,
LMU Munich,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar
Feynman Integrals, Associated Arrangements and Their Motives
Ozgur Ceyhan,
Mathematics,
University of Luxembourg,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
"Next Generation Cosmological Constraints on the Dark Sector and Gravity."
Rachel Bean,
Cornell,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New Sources of Methane in the Biogeosphere and Beyond
Frank Keppler,
Professor,
Institute of Earth Sciences,
Heidelberg University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Hongjun Yan, Rutgers Business School
Financial Intermediation Chains in an OTC Market
Hongjun Yan, Associate Professor of Finance, Rutgers Business School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar
Metabolic Oscillations and Electrical Signaling in a Bacterial Biofilm
Gurol Suel,
Associate Professor ,
Molecular Biology,
Univeristy of San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Is Diamond the Best Conductor of Heat?
David Briodo,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
Boston College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar - CANCELLED
Development of New Transformations for Organic Synthesis and Material Science
Javier Read de Alaniz,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, April 7th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Recent Theoretical and Experimental Progress on Near-Field Thermal Radiation"
Zhuomin Zhang,
Professor,
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia 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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Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Survivor Support: How to Help Someone You Care About
Jenny Mahlum,
Health Educator ,
Counseling Center ,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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CD3 Seminar
Off Campus
Data Science: Machine Learning, Statistics, and Beyond
Padhraic Smyth,
Director, UCI Data Science Initiative,
Department of Computer Science and Department of Statistics,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Cellular control in a couple of clicks
Kristi Anseth,
Distinguished Professor,
Chemical and Biological Engineering,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Hodge classes on products of quaternionic Shimura varieties
Kartik Prasanna,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Biard Lecture: Basic Components of Solid-State Quantum Computing Hardware
Charles M. Marcus,
Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor,
Center for Quantum Devices,
The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, April 8th, 2016
9:30am
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