Institute Calendar
October 2018
Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Dwarf Galaxies in the Southern Sky: Dark Matter Annihilation and the Connection to the Large Magellanic Cloud
Andrew Pace,
Postdoc and Mitchell Astronomy Fellow,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Texas A&M University,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Recent Observational Puzzles from Tidal Disruption Flares: Towards Viable Probes in the LSST Era
Brad Cenko,
NASA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Making the World Go 'Round: How Urbano Monte Created his Map of 1587
Chet Van Duzer,
Geography and Map Division,
Library of Congress, Washington, DC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Excited Electronic States: Dielectric Screening and Hot-Electron Mediated Ion Diffusion
Andre Schleife,
Assistant Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Development and Applications of New Synthetic Strategies for Polymer Science
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Efficient Coding and Risky Choice
Lawrence Jin,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, October 25th, 2018
10:30am
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12:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Some Recent Developments in Simulation of Stochastic Processes and Fields
George Deodatis,
Professor,
Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics,
Columbia University,
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
"Noninvasive neuromodulation with Acoustically Targeted Chemogenetics"
Jerzy Szablowski,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Shapiro Group,
CCE,
Caltech ,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Google -- Two Short Talks! 1: Understanding the Web: Topic Modeling, Hierarchical Content Labeling, and Sensitive Content Detection // 2: Programming Google's Quantum Computers
Jen Iofinova,
Google,
Dave Bacon,
Google,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Decoupling Learning Seminar
The Cordoba-Fefferman argument as Bilinear restriction theory
Andrei Shubin,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Teaching Old Active Sites New Tricks
Justin Notestein,
Associate Professor,
Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Capital Market Anomalies and Quantitative Research
Justin Birru,
Associate Professor,
Fisher School of Business,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Generalization of Dasgupta's factorization formula of p-adic Rankin L-series
Aprameyo Pal,
Mathematics Department,
Universität Duisburg-Essen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Elements of a topological quantum computer
Felix von Oppen,
Professor of Physics,
Freie Universität Berlin,
Friday, October 26th, 2018
10:00am
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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
On the phase diagram of SU(N)xSU(N) gauge theory with bifundamental fermion
Aver Karasik,
Weizmann Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Nanoengineered Materials and Interfaces for Quantum Technologies
Pankaj Jha,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Atwater Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Seminar
Universal growth in production economies
Simina Brânzei,
Assistant Professor of Computer Science,
Purdue University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Engineering Tiny Space Systems: From ChipSats to Starships
Zachary Manchester,
Assistant Professor,
Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Graduate Student Number Theory Seminar
An overview of the Braverman-Kazhdan-Ngo's approach to L-functions
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, October 27th, 2018
12:00am
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12:00am
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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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12:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kohn/Rivera Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Garcia Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, October 29th, 2018
8:50am
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12:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Chemically caving into climate: Desert, permafrost, and monsoon
Gideon Henderson,
Professor of Earth Sciences,
Oceanography, Climate and Palaeoenvironment,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Significant Excess of Electron-Like Events in the MiniBooNE Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiment
En-Chuan Huang,
LANL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Randomized algorithms for accelerating matrix computations
Gunnar Martinsson,
Professor of Mathematics,
University of Oxford, Visiting Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar
"Understanding the Genetic Basis for Biological Patterning from the Bottom Up"
Pulin Li,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
9:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:50pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:30pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Green Chemistry Awareness in Drug Discovery
Aaron Siegmund,
Senior Scientist,
Amgen Inc.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Optical Nanomaterials: Chirality, Refractive Index, and Applications to Solar Energy Conversion
Vivian Ferry,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Ultrafast and Non Equilibrium Lattice Dynamics
David A. Reis,
Deputy Director of the Stanford PULSE Institute and Professor of Applied Physics and Photon Science,
Department of Applied Physics and Photon Science,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Combining and Comparing Experiments
Omer Tamuz,
Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
The Origin of the Moon Within a Terrestrial Synestia
Simon Lock,
Postdoc,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Algorithmic and Architectural Foundations for Programmable Molecular Machines: DNA Robots, Information-Processing Circuits, and Reconfigurable Nanostructures"
Lulu Qian,
Assistant Professor,
Biology & Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Some unknown unknowns, and some known unknowns in the Standard Model EFT
Michael Trott,
University of Copenhagen and CERN VISC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Discrete groups, Lyapunov exponents, and Hodge theory
Simion Filip,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Quantum Measurement and Ontology
Jeff Barrett,
Chancellor’s Professor,
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science,
UC Irvine,
6:00pm
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8:30pm
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