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Friday, April 8th, 2016
10:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Many Dimensions of the Weak Gravity Conjecture
Tom Rudelius,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Gaypril Event
PFLAG Panel and Discussion
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
Using Quasars and the CMB to Probe Quantum Entanglement
Jason Gallicchio,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics,
Harvey Mudd College,
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
Adaptive Communication Networks and Cybersecurity for Heterogeneous Teams of Robots
Stephanie Gil,
Research Scientist,
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL),
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Knot Floer Homology and Khovanov-Rozansky Homology of Singular Links
Nathan Dowlin Filip,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Efforts Toward an Accurate Structural and Functional Model of the Oxygen Evolving Complex in Photosystem II
Heui Beom Lee,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 9th, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 10th, 2016
11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:30pm
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5:30pm
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9:00pm
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4/11
12:00am
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Monday, April 11th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar (Special Date)
Control of agile robots in complex environments with formal safety guarantees
Anirudha Majumdar,
PhD Candidate,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Development of Chemoenzymatic Labeling Approaches for the Detection of Fucosylated Biomarkers
Jean-Luc Chaubard,
Graduate Student in Chemistry,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Complex varieties with infinite Chow groups modulo 2
Burt Totaro,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Cancelled CNS Seminar
Aude Oliva,
Massachusetts Institute of Techology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Can Embedded Boundary Methods Compute High Reynolds Number Flow?
Professor Marsha Berger,
Computer Science Department,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
History Dependence in Networks of Close Relationships: Theory and Applications
James Rauch, Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Hierarchical analysis of extinction resistance in marine animal genera
Michael J. Foote,
Professor, Geophysical Sciences, Committee on Evolutionary Biology and College,
Department of the Geophysical Sciences ,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
TBA
T. Brent Gunnoe,
Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
University of Virginia,
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Creating programmable disorder in self-assembled DNA nanostructures
Lulu Qian,
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering ,
Caltech,
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
Quantum thermodynamics for very small machines
Stephanie Wehner,
QuTech, University of Delft,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Weak containment of measure preserving group actions
Peter Burton,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Collective Choice in Dynamic Public Good Provision: Real versus Formal Authority
George Georgiadis,
Assistant Professor of Strategy,
Kellogg School of Management,
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
Characterizing Habitable Planets with Extreme Adaptive Optics: The Road from MagAO to the GMT
Dr. Jared Males,
Univ. of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Conservation Profiles, Functional Enrichment, and the Tree of Life
Benny Chor,
School of Computer Science,
Tel-Aviv University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Non-Coding RNA Directed Epigenetic Gene Regulation
Marc Buehler,
Staff Scientist,
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Search, discovery and measurements of the Higgs boson in the diphoton decay channel at CMS
Joshua Bendavid,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Towards Radio Detection and Characterization of Exoplanets
Alex Wolszczan,
Evan Pugh Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics ,
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics,
The Pennsylvania State University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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A Drunken Trajectory: Tracking Active Matter Systems
Everhart Lecture
Sho Takatori,
Graduate Student - Brady group,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
A Drunken Trajectory: Tracking Active Matter Systems
Sho Takatori,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2016
9:00am
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10:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Microscopic Origin of Macroscopic Strength in Granular Media: A Numerical and Analytical Approach
Alex Jerves,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
9:30am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar
Predictive Logical Modelling of T-helper Cell Differentiation and Plasticity
Denis Thieffry,
Professor,
Computational and Systems Biology,
Institut de Biologie de l'École Normale Supérieure ,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar
Asymptotic symmetries and soft theorems
Vyacheslav Lysov,
Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Inaugural Neugebauer Lecture
Marcia Rieke,
Regent's Professor of Astronomy,
Univ. of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Stratospheric Sulfur Geoengineering - Benefits and Risks
Alan Robock,
Distinguished Professor,
Department of Environmental Sciences,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Charles Nathanson, Northwestern University
An Extrapolative Model of House Price Dynamics
Charles Nathanson, Assistant Professor of Finance, Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Piezoelectric Films for Microelectromechanical Systems
Susan Trolier-McKinstry,
Professor of Ceramic Science and Engineering, Director W. M. Keck Smart Materials Integration Laboratory,
Material Research Institute,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Teaching Polymers the Meaning of Life and Nanographene Quantum Confinement
Felix R. Fischer,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Convergence of majority dynamics
Omer Tamuz,
Assistant Professor,
Economics/Mathematics,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Harris Lecture: John P.A. Ioannidis
Empirical research on research and the reproducibility crisis
John P.A. Ioannidis,
C.F. Rehnborg Professor in Disease Prevention, Professor of Health Research and Policy,
Stanford University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 14th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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CD3 Seminar
A new model of stars
David Hogg,
Professor of Physics and Data Science at New York University,
10:30am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Evolution of submarine landslides: Unifying shear band propagation approach"
Alexander Puzrin,
Professor,
Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering,
Institute of Geotechnical Engineering ETH Zurich, Switzerland,
11:00am
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4/16
12:00pm
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