Institute Calendar
January 2019
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019
1:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2019
12:00pm
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Friday, January 4th, 2019
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Cp* Non-Innocence uin a Metallocene and its Role in PCET
Matthew (Matt) Chalkley,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Saturday, January 5th, 2019
2:00pm
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Monday, January 7th, 2019
12:00am
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8:00am
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11:30am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Technologies for Sub-GeV Dark Matter Searches
Noah Kurinsky,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: Six Degrees of Separation
James M. Mayer,
Charlotte Fitch Roberts Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
Yale University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
9:00am
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Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting
Location to be announced
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Sangjin Yoo,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
Anupama Lakshaman,
Graduate Student,
Bioengineering,
Caltech,
11:50am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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6:00pm
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12:00pm
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EE Special Seminar
Mixed-Signal Processing for Machine Learning
Daniel Bankman,
PhD Candidate ,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
"The Formation and Timing of Near-surface Na-carbonate Deposits on Ceres" & "The Chemistry of the Hunter Becomes the Hunted: Observational Constraints on Methanol Formation in Orion KL"
Nathan Stein,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Olivia Wilkins,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
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Logic Seminar
Bernoulli Disjointness
Andy Zucker,
Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu–PRG,
Université Paris Diderot,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Machine Learning and Computer Vision for Processing-Property Analyses
Samantha Daly,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
The University of California at Santa Barbara,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, January 10th, 2019
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Settling of Cohesive Sediment: Particle-resolved Simulations
Eckart Meiburg,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Activision-Blizzard -- Data science for game development
Dean Wyatte,
Activision,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:30pm
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Electrical Engineering Seminar
Imaging at relativistic speeds; the new space between sensing and imaging
Barmak Heshmat,
Head of Optics ,
Meta Augmented Reality,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Fundamental limits on the thermodynamics of circuits
David Wolpert,
Professor of Physics,
Santa Fe Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
"Outlier Blindness": Efficient Coding Generates an Inability to Represent Extreme Values
Elise Payzan-LeNestour,
Associate Professor,
School of Banking and Finance,
University of New South Wales, Sydney,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, January 11th, 2019
11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Physics archaeology: unearthing a 45 year old quantum spin liquid
Patrick Lee,
William & Emma Rogers Professor of Physics,
MIT,
12:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Numerical relativity: black holes and beyond
Serguei Ossokine,
Junior Scientist/Postdoc,
Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity,
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Dynamic slip wall model for large-eddy simulation
Jane Bae,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Rigidity and geometricity of surface group actions
Kathryn Mann,
Department of Mathematics,
Brown University,
3:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Carbon-Fluorine Reductive Elimination from Nickel(III) Complexes
Heejun Lee,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Computability questions in planar conformal geometry
Ilia Binder,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Embedding the Heisenberg group into a Euclidean space with bounded distortion
Terence Tao,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, January 12th, 2019
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Monday, January 14th, 2019
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INQNET Seminar
Interfacing a single trapped atom to a pair of indistinguishable photons
Natalia Bruno,
ICFO, The Institute of Photonic Sciences,
4:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
The arc-topology
Akhil Mathew,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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BELS
Computational Design of Self-Assembling Protein Nanomaterials for Next-Generation Vaccines and Biologics Delivery
Neil King,
Assistant Professor ,
Institute for Protein Design,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Everything about Neoproterozoic environmental change and animal evolution (except for oxygen)
Erik Sperling,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Geological Sciences,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Searches for Dark Sector Particles with SuperCDMS SNOLAB
Belina von Krosigk,
SNOLAB,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
11:00am
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Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Polypeptides as Biological Structural Materials
Keiji Numata,
RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science,
12:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
"Europa's radiation environment and implications for the physical state and composition of its surface"
Tom Nordheim,
Research Scientist,
Planetary Chemistry and Astrobiology,
JPL,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Remodeling and Repressing X Chromosomes via Molecular Machines"
Barbara Meyer,
Professor,
Genetics, Genomics and Development,
University of California Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The tautological ring of the moduli space of curves
Aaron Pixton,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Language-based Games
Joseph Halpern,
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; Professor, Computer Science Department, Cornell University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2019
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Logic Seminar
Dense orbits in the space of subequivalence relations
Forte Shinko,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Computational Mathematics
New Developments for Initial Boundary Value Problems: Theory and Applications
Jan Nordstrom,
Professor in Scientific Computing, Head of Division of Computational MathematicsLinköping University, Sweden,
Department of Mathematics,
Linköping University, Sweden,
3:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
The uniqueness of K-polystable Fano degeneration
Chenyang Xu,
Department of Mathematics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Temperature Variabilitiy in a Changing Climate: Non-Normality, Uncertainty, and Predictability
McKinnon Karen,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
The Morphology and Topology of Nanoporous Metals
Peter Voorhees,
Frank C. Engelhardt Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,
Northwestern University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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