Institute Calendar
October 2017
Tuesday, February 7th, 2017
All Day
Ongoing
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Monday, October 2nd, 2017
9:30am
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4:30pm
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7:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Topology of moduli spaces of tropical curves
Sam Payne,
Mathematics Department,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
New trends in modeling granular media: applications to geosciences and planetary exploration
Jose E. Andrade,
George W. Housner Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering; Cecil and Sally Drinkward Leadership Chair,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering; Executive Officer for Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Dark Fires in the Sky: Model-Independent Dark Matter Detection via Kinetic Heating of Neutron Stars
Nirmal Raj,
Notre Dame University,
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017
10:00am
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10:40am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:10pm
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12:50pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
The impact of detector characterization on gravitational wave searches
Derek Thomas Davis,
Syracuse,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
CANCELLED - Stability in the homology of configuration spaces
Jenny Wilson,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Hyperfiniteness of boundary actions of cubulated hyperbolic groups
Forte Shinko,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Reflections of Mars: Using Orbital Radar Observations to Discover Climate Signals and More
Isaac Smith,
Research Scientist,
Planetary Science Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
MR Imaging of Brain Circuitry: Connections with Epigenetic Dynamics in Autism and Childhood Trauma
Elaine Bearer,
Professor, Pathology, Univeristy of New Mexico;,
Visiting Associate Professor, BBE, Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Tropical motivic integration
Sam Payne,
Mathematics Department,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Price-setting by Committee: Evidence from Medicare
David Chan,
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Stanford School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Women in Chemistry
Industry Conversations with Barbara Burger
Barbara Burger,
Caltech Alumna & President of Chevron Technology Ventures,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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CANCELLED | Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
This talk has been cancelled.
Alexander Blum,
Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science; Visiting Associate in History of Science, Caltech,
5:30pm
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6:40pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD seminar
The Hydrodynamics of Active Particles Inside of a Porous Container and the Galerkin Boundary Element Discretization of Stokes Flow
Kevin Marshall,
graduate student,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Changes in the duration of extreme precipitation events with climate warming and links to atmospheric dynamics
Paul O'Gorman,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Bernard Herskovic, UCLA
Acquiring Information Through Peers
Bernard Herskovic,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Anderson School of Management,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Machine Learning Art & Creativity Talk
The Shape of Art History in the Eyes of the Machine
Ahmed Elgammal,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Alex Greaney,
Assistant Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
CANCELLED - Dynamics, geometry, and the moduli space of Riemann surfaces
Alex Wright,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University ,
4:30pm
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7:00pm
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5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Arithmetic and Geometric Structures in Physics Seminar
Moonshine, Automorphy, and String Theory
Natalie Paquette,
Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
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
Packrafting the Queets River, Olympic National Park
Hayden Miller,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, October 5th, 2017
9:00am
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10:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Numerical methods for fluid-structure interaction, and their application to flag flapping
Andres Goza,
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technolofy,
9:30am
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10:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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The coherence collapse regime of high-coherence Si/III-V lasers and the use of swept frequency semiconductor lasers for full field 3D imaging
EE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Mark Harfouche,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Building monitoring for damage evaluation using seismic waves and deconvolution interferometry"
Norimitsu Nakata,
Professor,
University of Oklahoma ,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar
Tensors, time series, and computational sustainability
Qi (Rose) Yu,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Rory Cox, Caltech
Towards a Global History of the Ethics of War
Rory Cox,
Visiting Associate in the Humanities, Caltech; Lecturer in Late Medieval History, University of St Andrews,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Profiling Cells Inside and Out Using Nanostructured Materials
Shana Kelley,
Distinguished Professor ,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
p-adic L-functions for nearly finite slope Hilbert modular forms and the Exceptional Zero Conjecture
Mladen Dimitrov,
Mathematics Department,
Université Lille 1,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Can quantum mechanics be valid on large scales?
Renato Renner,
Professor for Theoretical Physics and head of the research group for Quantum Information Theory,
ETH Zurich,
5:30pm
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6:40pm
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Friday, October 6th, 2017
8:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Uncovering flavor of N=2 SCFTs through geometry
Matteo Lotito,
University of Cincinnati,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Thermodynamics at the nano scale: The work cost of information processing
Philippe Faist,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Brandao Group,
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Origin of Scales and Scaling Laws in Star Formation
David Guszejnov,
Graduate Student,
TAPIR Group,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Physical Limnology
Jörg Imberger,
Professor (Adjunct) ,
Department of Ocean Sciences,
Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Complex curves through a contact lens
Kyle Hayden,
Department of Mathemaatics,
Boston College,
3:30pm
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6:30pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
A Polynomial Roth theorem on the Real Line
Polona Durcik,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, October 7th, 2017
8:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Condon Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Demirtshian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography