Institute Calendar
June 2017
Tuesday, February 7th, 2017
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Monday, May 22nd, 2017
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6/4
12:00am
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Thursday, May 25th, 2017
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6/9
5:00pm
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Thursday, June 1st, 2017
10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Discovering Biological Roles of Glycosaminoglycans and Protein O-GlcNAcylation Using Chemical Tools
Matthew Griffin,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Coulomb blockade in one-dimensional fractional topological superconductors
Roman Lutchyn,
Station Q,
Microsoft Research, Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar Series
Matrix Completion, Saddlepoints, and Gradient Descent
Jason Lee,
Assistant Professor,
Data Sciences and Operations,
University of Southern California.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Diversity in Chemistry Initiative Seminar
Polymeric Scaffolds Engineered to Decouple the Role of Chemical and Mechanical Signals in Inflammatory and Fibrotic Disease
Anjelica Gonzalez,
Donna L. Dubinsky Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering,
School of Engineering and Applied Science,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Assessing the paleoenvironmental significance of the Neoproterozoic Zebra Nappe, Namibia
Daven Quinn,
Geology & Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Probing the Dark Universe with Galaxy Surveys
Risa Wechsler,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Stanford University/SLAC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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T & C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Distinguished Lecture
Neuronal Signals for Economic Utility
Wolfram Schultz,
Professor of Neuroscience,
University of Cambridge,
Friday, June 2nd, 2017
8:00am
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5:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
The Avatar Paradigm in Granular Materials
Reid Kawamoto,
Graduate Student, Civil Engineering,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technolofy,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Emergent spacetime and Quantum Entanglement in Matrix theory
Vatche Sahakian,
Harvey Mudd College,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Inequality and the poor law in mid Victorian England
Jonathan Chapman,
Assistant Professor of Economic History,
NYU Abu Dhabi,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Undergraduate Math Club Seminar
The table turning problem
Eitan Borgnia,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
The architecture of the nuclear pore complex
Daniel Lin,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Spin-precessing compact binaries and their Gravitational Waves
Katerina Chatziioannou,
CITA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Pressure and Velocity Fluctuations in Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows
Angeliki Laskari,
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
A Partially Hyperbolic Model in Plasma Physics: Deterministic and Stochastic Zakharov-Kuznetsov Equation
Chuntian Wang,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Probing A Gravitational Cat State: Theoretical Problems And Experimental Prospects
Maaneli Derakhshani,
Researcher,
Utrecht University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Inhomogeneous circular laws for random matrices with non-identically distributed entries
Nicholas Cook,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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German Film: Der Berg
Movie screening for German 132a & 132c // In (Swiss) German with English subtitles
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
The Origin of the Elements
Ivanna Escala,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
Saturday, June 3rd, 2017
8:00am
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6/6
5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus:Guerrero Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus:Guerrero Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus:Ohanian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, June 5th, 2017
8:40am
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Can Access to Capital Explain the Entrepreneurship Gender Gap?
Michael Ewens,
Associate Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Entanglement in One-Dimensional Quantum Liquids
Adrian Del Maestro,
Assistant Professor,
Physics,
University of Vermont,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Luminescent Ruthenium Complexes as Probes for DNA Mismatches
Adam Boynton,
Graduate Student,
c,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
First-row seats for "the photonic control of single atoms, charges and spins in nanostructures". Courtesy of femtosecond electron microscopy
Fabrizio Carbone,
Assistant Professor,
Laboratory for Ultrafast Microscopy and Electron Scattering (LUMES),
Institute of Physics, Lausanne Center for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Metal Complexes Involved in NOx Transformations Related to Global Nitrogen
Todd C. Harrop,
Associate Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Georgia,
Tuesday, June 6th, 2017
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Ryan Remedios,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Brian Duistermars,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:10pm
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12:50pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Bozhi Tian,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
The University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Titan: An Earth-like world in the Outer Solar System
Michael Malaska,
Researcher ,
JPL,
Wednesday, June 7th, 2017
8:00am
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12:00pm
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6/9
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Loop soups and the pinned random walk on the 2D torus
Pierre-Francois Rodriguez,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Astronomical Transients that defy all classification schemes
Raffaella Margutti,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Cooperation and Dynamic Network Formation: A Game Theoretic Case Study
Michihiro Kandori,
Professor of Economics,
University of Tokyo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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John D. Roberts Lecture
Mechanisms and Dynamics of Organic Reactions
Kendall N. Houk,
Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Monochromatic configurations in finite colorings of \mathbb{N}
Joel Moreira,
Department of Mathematics,
Northwestern University,
Thursday, June 8th, 2017
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Elizabeth Jensen,
Graduate Student, Hsieh-Wilson Research Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar Series
TBA
Issa Nesnas,
Group Supervisor for the Robotic Software Systems group and the Principal Investigator of the multi-institutional robotic software architecture (CLARAty ,
JPL,