Institute Calendar
November 2018
Tuesday, November 27th, 2018
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Icy ocean world interiors: techniques and implications
Doug Hemingway,
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism,
Carnegie Institution for Science,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Possibility of new CP-violating interactions
Kaori Fuyuto,
Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Variational Quantum Simulations of Lattice Models in the Innsbruck Quantum Cloud
Peter Zoller,
Univ of Innsbruck & IQOQI Austrian Academy of Sciences,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Solving the Common-Pool Resource Problem Using Markets? A Study of the Surface Water Trading and Groundwater Depletion in CA
Hao Zhao,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, November 27th, 2018
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IST Lunch Bunch - CANCELED
Building AI powered flying machines with high fidelity simulations
Ashish Kapoor,
Principal Researcher, Research Manager,
Microsoft Research,
12:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Second law and eigenstate thermalization in isolated quantum many-body systems
Takahiro Sagawa,
University of Tokyo,
4:00pm
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CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Experts and Financial Ties: Evidence from FDA Advisory Committees
Fanny Camara,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
USC,
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Ethylenedione and the Oxyallyl Radical: Exotic Molecules and the Chemistry of Transient Anions
Robert E. Continetti,
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, San Diego,
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Magnetic Anomalies and the Color of the Moon—Insights from Lunar Swirls
Doug Hemmingway,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism,
Carnegie Institution of Washington,
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EE Systems Seminar
Active Sensing for Quickest Event Detection in Networks
Ali Tajer,
Assistant Professor ,
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering ,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
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General Biology Seminar
"Selective Processing of Need-Relevant Cues: a Dialogue Between Hypothalamus and Cortex"
Mark Andermann,
Assistant Professor,
Neuroscience,
Harvard,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Hard Problem of Intertheoretic Comparisons
Jennifer Carr,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Philosophy,
UC San Diego,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Postdoctoral Math Seminar
The factorizable derived geometric Satake equivalence
Justin Campbell,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 28th, 2018
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
The Adaptive Complexity of Maximizing a Submodular Function
Eric Balkanski,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometrization Learning Seminar
The double limit Theorem
Nate Sagman & Dmitri Gekhtman,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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Diversity in Chemistry Initiative Seminar
Turns and Twists along the Path of Reactivity-driven Methods Development
Hosea Nelson,
Assistant Profesor, Assistant Director,
Center for Diverse Leadership in Science, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Series of Three Talks: See Abstract section for Titles/Speakers
See Abstract Section ,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Structure and Dynamics of Block Copolymer Dispersions
Frank Bates,
Regents Professor,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
A Theory of Recursive Aggregation with Applications
Hamed Hamze Bajgiran,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
The Evolution of Belaying and Belay Devices
Aron Stockhausen,
Southern California Mountaineers Association,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, November 29th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Control Theory for Synthetic Biology: From Fundamentals to Application
Domitilla Del Vecchio,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Nuclear pore complex anchoring in the nuclear membrane"
Ferdinand Huber,
Graduate Student, Hoelz Lab,
CCE,
Caltech ,
12:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Western Asset -- Blockchain: Opportunities and Challenges for Building and Deploying Enterprise Platforms
Jae Sang,
Western Asset,
2:00pm
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Arthur D. Riggs Lecture
Folding, unfolding and refolding genomes
Job Dekker,
Professor,
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology ,
University of Massachusetts Medical School,
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Selling Fast and Buying Slow: Heuristics and Trading Performance of Institutional Investors
Alex Imas,
William S. Dietrich II Assistant Professor in Behavioral Economics,
Social and Decision Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Isotopic evidence of natural gas at equilibrium in petroleum fields and implications for natural gas formation
Nithya Thiagarajan,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
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Physics Research Conference
Detecting the Tiny Thump of the Neutrino
Kate Scholberg,
Arts & Sciences Professor of Physics,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Historical Foundations of Free Market Fundamentalism
Naomi Oreskes,
Professor of the History of Science,
Harvard University,
Friday, November 30th, 2018
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EE Systems Seminar
Weakly convex optimization for signal processing problems
Qi Liu,
Graduate Student,
Department of Electronic Engineering,
City University of Hong Kong,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Hybrid Analog-Digital FIR Precoding and Equalization MIMO System
Wai Ming Chan,
Graduate Student,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
City University of Hong Kong,
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
A bit of holography and a lot of field theory for de Sitter
Victor Gorbenko,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Student Session - Joe Iverson, Gautam Venugopalan
Student Session ,
12:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
String Diagrams, a graphical calculus for Monoidal Categories
Angus Gruen,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Revisiting Some Flows with Surfaces and Lines of Discontinuities
Kamran Mohseni,
Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of Florida,
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
The pointwise convergence problem for the free Schrödinger equation
Ruixang Zhang,
Mathematics,
IAS,
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inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Zerovalent Rh and Ir Complexes Bearing 2-Center, 3-Electron M-Si Sigma-Bonds
Patricia Nance,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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