Institute Calendar
April 2018
Thursday, April 12th, 2018
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Biochemistry Seminar
Molecular interactions at the nuclear periphery and LINCs to human disease
Brian Burke,
Professor and Research Director,
Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Tuning Nanoparticle Dispersion in Polymer Hosts and their Consequences on Properties
Sanat K. Kumar,
Bykhovsky Professor of Chemical Engineering,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Xing Huang, Washington University in St. Louis
Extrapolative Beliefs in the Cross-section: What Can We Learn from the Crowds?
Xing Huang,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Olin School of Business,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Searching for New Particles and Forces with Polar Molecules
Nicholas R. (Nick) Hutzler,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Caltech,
5:30pm
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8:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gazaryan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, April 13th, 2018
12:00am
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4/14
12:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Solid-state hybrid quantum systems
Alp Sipahigil,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Painter Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Studies on O2 and NO Responses from Eu(II) MRI Contrast Agents and a [Fe4S4] Cluster DNA Repair Enzyme
Levi Ekanger,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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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
Multidisciplinary approaches to problems involving fluid mechanics
Matthew Fu,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ,
Princeton University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Ph.D. Thesis Defense
"Thermal transport in three-dimensional nanoarchitected materials"
Nicholas Dou,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Francis Bacon Conference Lecture
Un Altro Presente: on the Historical Interpretation of Mathematical Texts
Niccolò Guicciardini,
Professor of History of Science and Mathematics, University of Bergamo; Francis Bacon Visiting Professor of History, Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, April 14th, 2018
12:00am
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12:00am
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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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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Andonian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, April 15th, 2018
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Egiazaryan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, April 16th, 2018
9:00am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Advances in Autonomous Guidance, Navigation and Control for Miniaturized Distributed Space Systems
Simone D'Amico,
Assistant Professor,
DEPARTMENT OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS,
Stanford University,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Analysis of metal-oxide protected photoelectrochemical systems for water splitting
Michael Lichterman,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Making Machines the Size of Cells
Marc Miskin,
Kavli Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Nanoscale Science,
Cornell University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Geometric Recursion
Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen,
Department of Mathematics - Centre for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces,
Aarhus University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
The Discovery of Novel Materials for the Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide
Daniel Torelli,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
An experimental perspective on the chemistry of old zircon
Dustin Trail,
Asistant Professor,
Department of Earth and Evnironmental Sciences,
University of Rochester,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Deep Learning and the Bayesian Connection
Harrison Prosper,
Florida State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Rebuilding Ancient Pathways: Model Metalloenzymes for Energy Conversion
Hannah Shafaat,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Fighting Black Boxes, Adversaries, and Bugs in Deep Learning
Assistant Professor Percy Liang,
Computer Science and Statistics (courtesy),
Stanford University,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
"By far the most important event in my life": Charles Darwin's recollections of his voyage on HMS Beagle
Janet Browne,
Aramont Professor of the History of Science,
Harvard University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2018
9:00am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
On Optimization in Deep Learning: Implicit Acceleration by Overparameterization
Nadav Cohen,
Research Scholar at the School of Mathematics in the Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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MCE Seminar
Nonlinear Elasticity
Basile Audoly,
Moore Distinguished Scholar,
Mechanical & Civil Engineering ,
CNRS and Ecole polytechnique (Palaiseau, France),
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
"Quantum Supremacy" and the Complexity of Random Circuit Sampling
Bill Fefferman,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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**To be rescheduled** General Biology Seminar
**To be rescheduled**
Mauro Costa-Mattioli,
Associate Professor,
Neuroscience,
Baylor College of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Quantum Correlation Engineering for Next-Generation Nanophotonic Devices
Cristian Cortes,
PhD,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Surface-atmosphere connections on Titan
Sean Faulk,
Graduate Student,
Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Food of our Food: Medicated Feed and the Industrialization of Metabolism
Hannah Landecker,
Associate Professor of Sociology,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Theory Group Meeting
Subquadratic time encodable codes beating the Gilbert-Varshamov bound
Matthew Weidner,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Ruling the Ruling Coalition: Information Control and Autocratic Governance
Arturas Rozenas,
Assistant Professor of Politics,
New York University,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2018
9:00am
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11:50pm
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10:00am
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3:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Topological Quantum Computing with and without Majoranas
Daniel Litinski,
PhD Candidate,
von Oppen Group,
Freie University Berlin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:15pm
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2:15pm
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