Institute Calendar
December 2018
Monday, November 26th, 2018
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12/7
5:00pm
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12/19
4:00pm
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Saturday, December 1st, 2018
11:00am
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5:00pm
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11:30am
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2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Lopez Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Oganesyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2018
12:00am
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12:00am
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, December 3rd, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:20pm
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12:50pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Seminar
Demystifying the Nature Research Journal Editorial Processes
David Pile,
Editor ,
Nature Photonics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Understanding the Spectrum of Slow Earthquakes
Jessica D. Hawthorne,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Informal Chemical Physics Seminar
High-resolution spectroscopy of open-shell molecules in nearly degenerate states
Jinjun Liu,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Radical Frontiers in Catalysis
Theodore (Ted) Betley,
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Mathematics Colloquium
Thin sets of primes in arithmetic
Yunqing Tang,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
5:30pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2018
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
Engineering topological superconductivity in III-V Josephson junctions
Fokko de Vries,
Graduate Student,
Leo Kouwenhoven's Group,
TU Delft,
12:00pm
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12:50pm
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12:20pm
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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
Theoretical Heterogeneous Electrochemistry - From Quantum Mechanics to Machine Learning
Yufeng Huang,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Universal fault-tolerant measurement-based quantum computation
Sam Roberts,
University of Sydney,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
The Solar System at thermal wavelengths: an insight into planetary processes
Arielle Moulet,
Assistant Scientist,
National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Bernoulli shifts and entropy theory
Brandon Seward,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Consistency of Other-regarding Preferences
Han Seo,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
11:00am
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1:30pm
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Caltech Associates Holiday Luncheon: The Science of Snowflakes
with Kenneth Libbrecht, Professor of Physics
11:30am
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12:30pm
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11:40am
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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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5:00pm
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Geometrization Learning Seminar
Outline of Virtual Haken conjecture
Lei Chen,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Localization for W-algebras
Gurbir Dhillon,
Mathematics Department,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Ten Thousand Pieces of Blue Sky: Building towards the complete picture of exoplanet demographics
Jessie Christiansen,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Estimation after Parameter Selection
Tirza Routtenberg,
Senior Lecturer,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Ben-Gurion University of Negev,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
From electron-phonon and ionic transport properties to computational discovery of new materials for energy conversion and storage
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Design of Lotteries and Waitlists for Affordable Housing Allocation
Peng Shi,
Assistant Professor,
Marshall School of Business,
USC,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Cho Oyu and Denali
Kai Zinn,
Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits Professor of Biology,
Caltech,
Thursday, December 6th, 2018
9:30am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Soft Materials for Soft Machines
Lihua Jin,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Cooling by Measurement
Joerg Wrachtrup,
Professor,
Physics,
University of Stuttgart,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
EFF -- How EFF Uses CS to Fight Censorship and Defend Online Privacy
Jeremy Gillula,
EFF,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Decoupling Learning Seminar
The Bourgain Guth method
Maksym Radziwill,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Controlled Randomness: Wondering Between Synthetic and Biological Materials
Ting Xu,
Professor,
Chemistry & Materials Science and Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Randomized Algorithms for Convex and Non-Convex Optimization
Mert Pilanci,
Assistant Professor ,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Sulfur systematics illuminate the elusive record magma redox evolution
Rita Economos,
Assistant Professor,
Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences,
Southern Methodist University ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Structure of the Mordell-Weil Group Over $\mathbb{Z}_p$ - Extensions
Jaehoon Lee,
Department of Mathematics ,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
TBA
Douglas Stanford,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Semiparametrically Efficient Estimation of the Average Linear Regression Function
Bryan Graham,
Associate Professor,
UC Berkeley,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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German Film: Die göttliche Ordnung
Movie screening for German 130c & 132c // In (Swiss) German with English subtitles
Friday, December 7th, 2018
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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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
Exact Eigenstates in the Rydberg-blockaded Atom Chain Which Violate the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis
Cheng Ju (Jacob) Lin,
Graduate Student, Motrunich Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Asset Pricing in the Cross Section of Stocks
Angad Singh,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,