Institute Calendar
May 2017
Tuesday, February 7th, 2017
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Monday, May 1st, 2017
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RSRG/DOLCIT
Representation power of neural networks.
Matus Telgarsky,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Preference Aggregation and Public Risk
Luciano Pomatto,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
"Characterization of the Nitrogenase Molybdenum-Iron Protein"
Christine Morrison,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Tensor Decompositions: A Mathematical Tool for Data Analysis
Tamara G. Kolda,
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff,
Data Science and Cyber Analytics,
Sandia National Laboratories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Fluxes in N and S metabolism of illuminated leaves: recent data using metabolomics and isotopic techniques
Guillaume Tcherkez,
Professor,
ARC Future Fellow Research School of Biology ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment,
Australian National University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The EW phase transition improved and unrealized
Patrick Meade,
Stony Brook University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Mechanistic and Electronic Structural Insights into the Metallobiochemistry of Nitrification
Kyle M. Lancaster,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Determinacy
Connor Meehan,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Oringer Seminar Series
Fairness, accountability and transparency in automated decision-making
Suresh Venkatasubramanian,
Associate Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah Member of the Board of Directors, ACLU Utah.,
University of Utah,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Graduate Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar
Rapoport-Zink Spaces
Zavosh Amir-Khosravi,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
The optimality of projections for quantum state exclusion
Abel Molina,
Institute for Quantum Computing,
University of Waterloo,
4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Dr. Andrew Wetzel,
Carnegie Observatories - Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Light, Electrons, Protons: Lessons from Model Systems and Potentials for Photocatalysis
Jahan Dawlaty,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Canceled
Bassem Hassan,
Directeur of Recherche and Team Leader,
ICM Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière,
ICM Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière,
4:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Evidence for Recent and Ancient Faulting at Mare Frigoris and Implications for Lunar Tectonic Evolution
Nathan Williams,
Planetary Geologist,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Norms in Bargaining: Evidence from Government Formation in Spain
Thomas Fujiwara,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Princeton University,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
A History of the Vacuum in Theoretical Physics
Aaron Sidney Wright,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Suppes Center for History and Philosophy of Science,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017
8:00am
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5/9
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Social Science History Seminar
Commercial Expansion and Churning: Business Organization in Egypt between 1911 and 1948
Cihan Artunc,
Visiting Associate in Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Boehringer-Ingelheim Symposium
Hydrophosphination of Strained Rings
Carl Busacca,
Dr., Ph.D.,
Chemical Development,
Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
A Tale of Two Stars - Planetary Formation with Stellar Binaries
Gongjie Li,
Harvard,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Boehringer-Ingelheim Symposium
Privileged Chiral Spiro Catalysts for Asymmetric Catalysis
Qi-Lin Zhou,
Professor of Chemistry,
Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry,
Nankai University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Coding Theory for Modern Computing and Memories
Lara Dolecek,
Associate Professor,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Observations and modeling of the atmospheric boundary layer and its impact on the general circulation
Gunilla Svensson,
Professor,
Department of Meteorology and Bolin Centre for Climate Research,
Stockholm University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
How to break the electroweak symmetry naturally
Jing Shu,
Institute of Theoretical Physics,
The Chinese Academy of Science ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Materials by Design: 3-Dimensional Nano-Architected Meta-Materials
Julia Greer,
Professor,
Materials Science and Mechanics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Extracting the Universe from the Wave Function
Sean Carroll,
Department of Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
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PhD Thesis Defense
"What can we infer about the atmospheric composition within the South Coast Air Basin from remote sensing?"
Jacob Hedelius,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Sheared Pleated surfaces and Limiting Configurations for Hitchin's equations
Michael Wolf,
Department of Mathematics,
Rice University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Structure and Function of the Mycobacterial Mechanosensitive Channel of Large Conductance (MscL).
Nadia Herrera,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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2017 David Goodwin Memorial Lecture
"Powered by Beer Cans"
Douglas Hart,
Skolkovo Foundation Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
You can trust me: How people use punishment and unconditional cooperation to honestly signal their trustworthiness
Jillian Jordan,
PhD Candidate in Psychology,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Lessons from Translation: Engineering a Pro-Regenerative Immune Environment with Biomaterials
Jennifer Elisseeff,
Jules Stein Professor,
School of Medicine; Chemical and Biomedical Engineering; Translational Tissue Engineering Center,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Granites and Water and Everything in Between
Craig Manning,
Professor of Geology and Geochemistry,
Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Biochemistry and Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Previously unrecognized mammalian Fe/S proteins are likely integral components of multiple and diverse metabolic and regulatory pathways in mammals
Tracey Rouault,
Head of the Molecular Medicine Program and the section on Human Iron Metabolism in the Intramural Program ,
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child and Human Development, National Institutes of Health (NIH),
National Institutes of Health,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Diophantine Problems and the p-adic Torelli Map
Brian Lawrence,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Physics and Material Science of Modern Particle Accelerators
Anna Grassellino,
Deputy Division Head,
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL),
Friday, May 5th, 2017
12:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Integrability of refined Chern-Simons theory
Shamil Shakirov,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Entanglement branes in a two-dimensional string theory
Gabriel Wong,
University of Virginia,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
"Isoprene Oxidation Pathways and Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation Under Low-NO Conditions"
Kelvin Bates,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Importance of being Eccentric
Ann-Marie Madigan,
Assistant Professor of Astrophysics,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The Use of Active Flow Control as a Tool in Preliminary Design
Israel Wygnanski,
Professor,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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BMB Seminar
An allosteric theory of transcriptional regulation.
Griffin Chure,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
What are the ‘Global Middle Ages,' and Why Do They Matter?
Geraldine Heng,
Perceval Fellow and Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, with a joint appointment in Middle Eastern studies and Women’s studies,
University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Improving Specificity of Rhodium Metalloinstertors in Targeting DNA Mismatch Repair Deficient Cancer Cells
Ms. Stephanie Threatt,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Simulating the Galaxies of our Universe
Andrew Wetzel,
Caltech-Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Theoretical Astrophysics (TAPIR),
Caltech,
Saturday, May 6th, 2017
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