Institute Calendar
March 2018
Thursday, February 22nd, 2018
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5:00pm
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Thursday, March 1st, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Folding gels and shells: Geometric design principles for reconfigurable materials"
Ryan Hayward,
Professor,
Polymer Science and Engineering ,
University of Massachusetts Amherst,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Rhodium-Cyanine Fluorescent Probes For Specific Detection And Signaling of DNA Mismatches"
Adela Nano,
Postdoctural Scholar, Barton Research Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Exploring Emergent Phenomena in Complex Oxide Thin Films
Ruijuan Xu,
PhD Candidate,
Materials Science and Engineering,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Understanding the shape of single-cell data via manifold learning
Smita Krishnaswamy,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
Yale University,
3:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Structural and mechanistic insight into bacterial and eukaryotic N-glycosylation reactions
Kaspar Locher,
Professor of Molecular Membrane Biology,
Department of Biology,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Making Machines the Size of Cells
Marc Miskin,
Kavli Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Nanoscale Science,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Robert Engle, New York University
How Much SRISK is Too Much?
Robert Engle,
Michael Armellino Professor of Finance,
Stern School of Business,
New York University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Friday, March 2nd, 2018
12:00am
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12:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Splittability and Noether's Theorem in Quantum Field Theory
Daniel Harlow,
MIT,
11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Scrambling in quantum spin chains
Brian Swingle,
Assistant Professor,
University of Maryland,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Joint Linde Institute/SISL and Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar: Konrad Menzel, NYU
Many-Player Asymptotics for Estimating Models of Network Formation
Konrad Menzel,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Interfacial Engineering of Quantum Materials
Shuolong Yang,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Kavli Institute,
Cornell,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Stimulus-Response Behavior of Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Gels
Kenji Urayama,
Professor,
Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering,
Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Aggregation-Induced Emission: From Fundamental Study to Practical Applications
Benzhong Tang,
Chair Professor,
Department of Chemistry, Division of Biomedical Engineering,
The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST),
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Self-similarity in boundary layers
Bruno Eckhardt,
The Philipps University of Marburg,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Unoriented Cobordism Maps on Link Floer Homology
Haofei Fan,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Spin-coherent dot—cavity electronics
Michael Ferguson,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, March 3rd, 2018
12:00am
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12:00am
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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5:30pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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1:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Yeranyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Celano Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, March 4th, 2018
10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, March 5th, 2018
9:00am
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10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Hybrid Dynamical Systems for Robust Control, Optimization, and Learning in Societal Systems
Jorge Poveda,
Graduate Student Researcher,
University of California at Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar
Convex Relaxations of Chance Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow
Andreas Venzke,
Electrical Engineering,
Technical University of Denmark,
12:10pm
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12:50pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Transformational Technologies in Ground Transportation
Peter Sweatman,
CAVita ,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Cornelis Wiersma Visiting Professor of Neurobiology Seminar
Can defective genes be good for you? CYP2A6 metabolism alters risk for Smoking, Cancer and Cessation
Rachel Tyndale,
Canada Research Chair in Pharmacogenomics Head, Pharmacogenomics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Professor, ,
Pharmacology+Toxicology, & Psychiatry, ,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Evolution of orogenic plateaus
Mark Allen,
Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
Durham University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Interaction of a quantum field with a rotating heat bath
Alejandro Jenkins,
University of Costa Rica,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
To Californium and Beyond
Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt,
Gregory R. Choppin Chair in Chemistry and Director, Center for Actinide Science & Technology,
Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Florida State University,
5:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2018
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Network Algorithms and Delay Performance in Data Centers
R. Srikant,
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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2:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Writing and Publishing Your Applied Physics Paper
Eric Mills,
PhD,
Journal Manager,
"Applied Physics Letters," American Institute of Physics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"From Relative Perception in Cells, to Symmetry in Jellyfish"
Lea Goentoro,
Assistant Professor of Biology,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Peeking beyond the Standard Model: Muon g-2, Neutrino Mass Scale, and Free Neutron Decay
Martin Fertl,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Measuring Polarization in High-Dimensional Data: Method and Application to Congressional Speech
Jesse Shapiro,
George S. and Nancy B. Parker Professor of Economics,
Brown University,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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