Institute Calendar
March 2018
Tuesday, March 13th, 2018
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1:30pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Carey Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Sofia Sakellaridi,
Postdoctoral Scholar ,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Michelle Armenta,
Postdoctoral Scholar ,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
User Centered Design and AI
Maggie Hendrie,
Department Chair of Art Center College of Design’s Interaction Design Program,
ArtCenter College of Design,
1:00pm
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1:30pm
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Center for Selective C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium Series
Stereoselective Functionalization of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons
Uttam K. Tambar,
Associate Professor in Biochemistry,
Biochemistry Department,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
1:30pm
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2:00pm
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Center for Selective C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium Series
Multi-Disciplinary Efforts for Understanding Complexity in C–H Functionalization
Djamaladdin (Jamal) G. Musaev,
Adjunct Professor of Chemistry,
Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation,
Emory University,
2:00pm
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2:30pm
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Center for Selective C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium Series
Rhodium-Catalyzed Alkylation of C–H Bonds with Alkenes: The Possible Generation of Carbene Intermediates
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Measuring the Muon Beam Distribution for the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab
Tammy Walton,
Fermilab,
2:30pm
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3:00pm
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Center for Selective C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium Series
New Bond Connections by C–H Functionalization
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
On the edge: Geometry, model selection, and quantum compressed sensing
Travis Scholten,
Center for Quantum Information and Control - University of New Mexico & Center for Computing Research - Sandia National Laboratories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Probing and Imaging Elementary Molecular Events and Conical Intersections by X -Ray Pulses and Quantum Light
Shaul Mukamel,
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KROC Lecture
"Motile Behavior of Bacteria, Some Hard to Believe"
Howard Berg,
Herchel Smith Professor of Physics Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Stein's paradox and group rationality
Jan-Willem Romeijn,
Professor of Philosophy of Science and Head of the Department of Theoretical Philosophy,
University of Groningen - Netherlands,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2018
8:00am
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8:00pm
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3/16
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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Informal Biology Seminar
"L-Form Bacteria – From the Origins of Life to Recurrent Infection"
Jeff Errington,
Professor ,
Cell & Molecular Biosciences,
Newcastle University,
10:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Hybridized metasurfaces: A new twist in flat optics
Cheng-Wei Qiu,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
National University of Singapore, Singapore,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Surprisingly Complex Lives of Massive Galaxies
Rachel Shuchter Bezanson ,
Univ of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
'Famous Farriers I have known:' Farriery Manuals and Vernacular Expertise in Renaissance Italy
Karl Appuhn,
Associate Professor of History and Italian,
New York University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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9:30pm
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3/15
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Thursday, March 15th, 2018
8:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Structures as Sensors: Indirect Monitoring of Humans and Surrounding Through Structural Vibrations
Hae Young Noh,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech Women's History Month and Reading Women STEMinar Guest Speaker Sue Finley
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Quasars with periodic variability as sub-parsec Supermassive Black Hole Binary candidates
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
The Anatomy of Beliefs: Insights from Social Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry
Xiaosi Gu,
Assistant Professor,
School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
University of Texas at Dallas,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Biolubrication and Gene Regulation: A Physicists Approach to Osteoarthritis
Friday, March 16th, 2018
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Isotopically Enhanced Triple-Dot Qubits in SiGe
Thaddeus Ladd,
senior research scientist,
HRL Laboratories, LLC,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Shining Light into the Cosmic Dark Ages
Anastasia Fialkov,
ITC Fellow,
Institute for Theory and Computation,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Saturday, March 17th, 2018
8:00am
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Ongoing
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8:00pm
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Sunday, March 18th, 2018
10:00am
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1:00pm
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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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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Monday, March 19th, 2018
8:40am
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12:30pm
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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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PhD Thesis Defense
Laboratory Investigation of Shear Ruptures: Supersonic Propagation and Nucleation by Fluid Injection
Marcello Gori,
Graduate Student,
Aerospace ,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Searches for New Physics at the Edge of Absolute Zero
Jonathan Oullet,
MIT,
Tuesday, March 20th, 2018
10:30am
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12:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
CANCELLED Human-Centric Machine Learning: Enabling Machine Learning for High-Stakes Decision-Making
Himabindu Lakkaraju,
PhD Student,
EECS,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy: From Bulk Films to Atomically Thin Layers
Zak Al Balushi,
Resnick Prize Postdoctoral Fellow,
Applied Physics and Materials Science,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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