Institute Calendar
April 2017
Tuesday, February 7th, 2017
All Day
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Saturday, March 18th, 2017
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4/2
5:00pm
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Saturday, April 1st, 2017
12:00am
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4/5
12:00am
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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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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
2:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Dai Mevel Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 3rd, 2017
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Pluto's Atmosphere During the New Horizons Flyby
G. Randall Gladstone,
Program Director,
Space Science and Engineering Division,
Southwest Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
In Vivo Pretargeting: Radiosynthesis at the Tumor Surface
Brian Zeglis,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
Hunter College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar Series
Sarah Bernhardt's Exteriority Effects: Affect, Performance, Agency
Sharon Marcus,
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Dean of Humanities,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar
Rewriting Natural Decoding Rules by de novo Genome
Kaihang Wang,
Senior Investigator Scientist,
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology - Cambridge,
Tuesday, April 4th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Customizable Computing — From Single-chip to Datacenters
Jason Cong,
Chancellor's Professor,
Computer Science,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Entanglement requirements for non-local games
William Slofstra,
Institute for Quantum Computing,
University of Waterloo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Trigger Waves in Cell Signaling
James Ferrell,
Professor,
Chemical and Systems Biology,
Stanford School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Operations: Science Planning on NASA's Silent Workhorse
Shannon Mihaly,
Payload Systems Engineer at JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
A Model of Focusing in Political Choice
Salvatore Nunnari,
Assistant Professor in Economics, Bocconi University; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
4:40pm
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6:00pm
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CMA presents "Next-Generation DNA Sequencing and the Future of Genomics"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Mark Wang, Ph.D.,
Vice President,
Engineering,
Illumina, Inc.,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, April 5th, 2017
11:30am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Optimal Incentive Contract with Endogenous Monitoring Technology
Anqi Li,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Washington University, St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture
Graphene Intercalation: A Pathway Towards Stabilizing New Two-Dimensional Crystals
Zakaria Al Balushi,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Glacier and fjord geometry dominates its response to environmental forcing
Ginny Catania,
Associate Professor,
Department of Geological Sciences,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar
Hijacking the Core Gene Expression Machinery for Genome Defense
Julius Brennecke,
Senior Scientist,
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology - Austria,
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Thin Cremona Planes (after Tits and Deligne)
Koen Thas,
Department of Mathematics,
Ghent University,
4:45pm
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5:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Combinatorial characterizations of varieties
Koen Thas,
Department of Mathematics,
Ghent University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 6th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Phase Mechanics" of arrested colloidal gels: A new paradigm for yielding and phase transitions in soft matter"
Roseanna N. Zia,
Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Cornell University,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Uncovering DNA-mediated signaling in E. coli nucleotide excision repair
Andy Zhou,
Graduate Student, Barton Research Group,
CCE, Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSRG Seminar
Using Pricing to Manage the Cloud
Carlee Joe-Wong,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Expected Subjective Value Theory (ESVT): A representation of decision under risk and certainty
Agnieszka Tymula,
Senior Lecturer, Charles Perkins Centre, School of Economics, University of Sydney; Visiting Affiliated Faculty, Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Decision Making (IISDM), New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Margo Todd, University of Pennsylvania
Preventing Violence in the Early Modern Town: Arbitration, Bonds, and Cautions
Margo Todd,
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania; Fletcher Jones Foundation Distinguished Fellow in British History, The Huntington Library,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
On a Generalized Model for B-Type Landau-Ginzburg Theories
Dmitry Doryn,
Center for Geometry and Physics,
IBS,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Breuil--Kisin modules and crystalline cohomology
Bryden R. Cais,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Arizona, Tucson,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Deconstructing (and reconstructing) wall turbulence: Characterizing natural and synthetic self-sustaining processes
Beverley McKeon,
Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics; Associate Director, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories,
Caltech,
Friday, April 7th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Causality and Universality at Strong Coupling
Tom Hartman,
Cornell University,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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5:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Shai Vardi, Caltech
Controlled Dynamic Fair Division
Shai Vardi,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The quadrupole formula: a hundred years later
Beatrice Bonga,
Graduate Student,
Penn State,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Understanding Implosion Performance on the National Iginition Facility: Progress Towards Inertial Confinement Fusion Ignition
Dan Clark,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Quantitative methods in hyperbolic geometry and applications to lifting curves simply
Priyam Patel,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Evidence of an Iron Diazenido in Protonation of an Iron N2 Adduct
Mr. Mark Nesbit,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Enhancing atom-light interactions with "selective radiance": the recipe to exponentially improve photon storage fidelities
Ana Asenjo Garcia,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Kimble Group,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special EE Seminar
Engineering at the Limits of the Nanoscale
Farnaz Niroui,
Ph.D. candidate ,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special EE Seminar
Engineering at the Limits of the Nanoscale
Farnaz Niroui,
Ph.D. candidate ,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special EE Seminar
Engineering at the Limits of the Nanoscale
Farnaz Niroui,
Ph.D. graduate student,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 8th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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