Institute Calendar
October 2016
Saturday, October 1st, 2016
11:00am
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Photography on Campus: Kim Wedding Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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Sunday, October 2nd, 2016
12:00am
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Monday, October 3rd, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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8:00am
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12:30pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course
What is Exploration Telepresence and How Can it Help Us Explore Planetary Surfaces of the Solar System?
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Graph Cohomology via Toric Geometry
Dagan Karp,
Associate Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvey Mudd College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Delayed CO2 emissions from mid-ocean ridge volcanism as a possible cause of late-Pleistocene glacial cycles
Peter Huybers,
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and of Environmental Sciences and Engineering,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Processes Underpinning the Production of Renewable Fuels
Jillian L. Dempsey,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Climbing Attempt of the North Col Northeast Ridge Route of Mount Everest
Edmond Stevens,
Caltech Alpine Club,
Tuesday, October 4th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Fractional Borel Chromatic Numbers
Connor Meehan,
PhD Candidate,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Discovering Chemistry From First Principles: The Ab Initio Nanoreactor
Todd Martinez,
Ehrsam and Franklin Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Olfactory Circuit of Drosophila larva
Aravi Samuel,
Professor,
Physics & Center for Brain Science,
Harvard,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Politics of Sovereign Default under Financial Integration
Marina Azzimonti,
Associate Professor,
Stony Brook University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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Caltech Amateur Radio Club (CITARC) Meeting
FINDER: Radar for Locating Disaster Victims
James Lux,
Telecommunications Specialist V,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
NASA,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Dish & Discuss
Why Social Justice?
Hanna Song,
Senior Director for Diversity,
Office of the Probost,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Sharp Lieb–Thirring inequalities on the continuum and related spectral inequalities for Jacobi operators
Lukas Schimmer,
Harry Bateman Research Instructor ,
Department of Mathematics ,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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AbbVie Symposium
Veliparib: A PARP Inhibitor for the Treatment of Cancer
Thomas D. Penning,
PhD, Research Fellow/Chemistry Team Leader,
Oncology Discovery,
AbbVie, Inc.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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AbbVie Symposium
Organic Photoredox Catalysis - Synthetic Applications and Beyond
David A. Nicewicz,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Preference Types and Welfare in Insurance Markets
Levon Barseghyan,
Professor of Economics,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Streaming Communication: Information Theoretic Perspectives
Ashish Khisti,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Global climate impacts of fixing large long-standing shortwave radiation biases in the Community Earth System Model
Jennifer E. Kay,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Flat and Conformal Optics with Dielectric Metasurfaces
Andrei Faraon,
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics,
Applied Physics and Materials Science Department,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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7:00pm
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5:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Riemann-Hilbert Correspondence for Quantum Spectral Curves
Yan Soibelman,
Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
Kansas State University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, October 6th, 2016
8:50am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Phonon spectroscopy and thermal transport using predictive atomistic simulations"
Xiulin Ruan,
Professor,
School of Mechanical Engineering, and Birck Nanotechnology Center,
Purdue University,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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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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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing via Digital Quantification of Nucleic Acids
Nathan Schoepp,
Graduate Student, Ismagilov Research Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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SPECIAL TAPIR Seminar
Evolution of Supernova Remnants near the Galactic Center
Almog Yalinewich,
Researcher,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Crystals, Quantum Computing and Quantum Cognition
Matthew P.A. Fisher,
KITP/UC Santa Barbara,
4:40pm
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6:00pm
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CMA presents "STRANDBEEST: Creating New Forms of Mechanical Life Walking on Wind Powerz"
JPL
Theo Jansen,
artist,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, October 7th, 2016
9:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
From Hexagons to Heptagons: Bootstrapping Seven-Point Amplitudes in Planar N=4 super-Yang Mills Theory
Andrew McLeod,
Stanford University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar
The Facilitated Diffusion Mechanism to Establish Morphogen Gradients
Greg Reeves,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
North Carolina State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Logrolling for Private Interest: British MPs during the Railway Mania of 1845
Gabriel Mesevage,
Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Oxford; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Complete Reionization Constraints from Planck 2015 Polarization
Chen He Heinrich,
KICP Graduate Student,
University of Chicago,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Computational Modeling and Experimental Characterization of the Damage and Fracturing Behavior of Textile Composites for Large Aeronautical Structures
Marco Salviato,
University of Washington,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The unlikely intersection theory and the cosmetic surgery Conjecture
BoGwang Jeon,
Ritt Assistant Professor,
Mathematics Department,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
L^p norms of eigenfunctions and Kakeya-Nikodym averages
Matthew Blair,
Associate Professor ,
Department of Mathematics & Statistics,
University of New Mexico,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Bringing Mother Nature to Your Rooftop: The Quest for Real Artificial Photosynthesis
Mr. Daniel Torelli,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
An Odd-Parity Hidden Order in a Perovskite Iridate Revealed Using Nonlinear Optics
Liyuan Zhao,
Richard Chase Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar in Experimental Physics,
Hsieh Group,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Ioannis Angelopoulos,
Assistant Adjunct Professor,
Mathematics,
University of California, Los Angeles,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Cosmic Explosions through the Ages: Supernovae Seen with the Naked Eye
Jacob Jencson,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
Saturday, October 8th, 2016
8:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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11:00am
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1:30pm
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5:20pm
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Photography on Campus: Almasi/Keshishzadeh Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:50pm
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4:50pm
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2:00pm
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6:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Arabyan Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Mouradian Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Panosyan Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Pogosyan Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Madatian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:50pm
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6:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Giez Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, October 9th, 2016
9:00am
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1:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Banks Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 10th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Secure State-Estimation and Control for Dynamical Systems Under Adversarial Attacks
Professor Paulo Tabuada,
Electrical Engineering,
University of California at Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Robert Marquez, UC Davis
Financial Frictions, Foreign Currency Borrowing, and Systemic Risk
Robert Marquez, Professor of Finance,
Graduate School of Management,
University of California, Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Water in Motion: Mysteries from Northern California
Inez Fung,
Professor of Atmospheric Science,
Department of Earth and Planetary Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
10:30am
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Arun Viswanathan,
The New Space Race: Cyber Security for Space Missions,
CTM - The Aerospace Corporation Subcontract,
JPL, Cyber Security Improvment Project,
Jeremy Pecharich,
CTM - The Aerospace Corporation Subcontract,
JPL, Cyber Security Improvment Project,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Sofic groups
Peter Burton,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics Department,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Geometry and Physics Seminar
Topological quantum field theory and geometric invariants
Yongbin Ruan,
Professor,
University of Michigan,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Topological quantum field theory and geometric invariants
Yongbin Ruan,
William Fulton Collegiate Professor,
Mathematics Department,
University of Michigan LSA,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Multipartite Multichannel Interferometry for Quantum Information Processing
Barry Sanders,
University of Calgary,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Some Equivalence Relations without the Mycielski Property
William Chan,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics Department,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar - CANCELED
TBA
David Hughes,
Assistant Professor,
Entomology and Biology,
Penn State,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence
Yongbin Ruan,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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