Institute Calendar
January 2019
Saturday, January 19th, 2019
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Chou Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Williams Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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7:30pm
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Sunday, January 20th, 2019
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Makhmudyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture & Lunar Eclipse Viewing
The Dawn of the Age of Gravitational-Wave and Multi-Messenger Astronomy
Jameson Rollins,
Interferometer Control Scientist,
LIGO,
Caltech,
Monday, January 21st, 2019
12:00am
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12:00am
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8:00am
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
10:30am
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Modern Markets Require Modern Technologies
George Papa,
CEO & FOUNDER of SpiderRock,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Verification vs. Approximate sampling: How hard is it to verify "quantum supremacy"?
Dominik Hangleiter,
University of Berlin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Privately Learning High-Dimensional Distributions
Gautam Kamath,
Microsoft Research Fellow,
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
"Using Magnetic Topology to Probe the Sources of Mars' Nightside Ionosphere" & "Aggregate Hazes in Exoplanet Atmospheres"
Danica Adams,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Germline Mitochondrial Inheritance and Selection"
Ruth Lehmann,
Professor & Department Chair,
Cell Biology,
New York School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Approximate polynomials, higher order Fourier analysis and
Frederick Manners,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Reshaping Global Trade: The Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Bank Failures
Chenzi Xu,
PhD Candidate in Economics,
Harvard University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
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Logic Seminar
Dense orbits in the space of subequivalence relations, II
Forte Shinko,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Natural Cohomology on P1 x P1
Pablo Solis,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Era of Surveys and the Fifth Paradigm of Science
Alex Szalay,
John Hopkins Univ.,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Decoupling Learning Seminar
Bourgain-Guth method (Ch. 9)
Maksym Radziwill,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Chemistry on Ice: Shedding Light on Arctic Halogen Photochemistry
Kerri Pratt,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Global Optimization by means of Parabolic Relaxation
Ramtin Madani,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering ,
The University of Texas at Arlington,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, January 24th, 2019
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10:30am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Seismicity-Permeability Coupling in Reservoirs and Caprocks - CANCELED
Derek Elsworth,
Professor,
Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering,
Pennsylvania State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Kuna -- Fast, Cheap, AND Good: Making Dumb Cameras Smart with Cloud AI
Haomiao Huang,
Kuna,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Decentralized Statistical Learning in Adversarial Environments: Byzantine Gradient Descent
Lili Su,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:10pm
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12:50pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Euler systems and local representation theory
Christopher Skinner,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Polyelectrolyte Assemblies: Fundamentals and Applications
Jodie Lutkenhaus,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Reconstructing carbonate alteration histories and proxy fidelity in orogenic basins
Miquela Ingalls,
Geological & Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Spinning up a silicon-based quantum processor
Jason Petta,
Professor of Physics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar Series
A Broken Promise? The Origin of Post-Cold War NATO Expansion
Mary Sarotte,
Research Associate in Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Visiting Associate in History, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Breaking the ½-Barrier for the Twisted Second Moment of Dirichlet L-Functions
Kyle Pratt,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Friday, January 25th, 2019
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High Energy Theory Seminar
A solvable deformation of quantum mechanics
Alba Grassi,
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Unconditional separation of finite and infinite-dimensional quantum correlations
Andrea Coladangelo,
Graduate Student,
Vidick Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Harmonic Maps and Teichmuller Theory
Nathaniel Sagman,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorour Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Interactive Learning and Decision Making with Machines and People
Yuxin Chen,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of "Reverse Pyridine" Bis(phosphinite) Pincer Complexes
Nicholas Swisher,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Constraining populations of compact binaries and their progenitors from gravitational wave detections
Daniel Wysocki,
Graduate Student,
Astrophysical Sciences and Technology,
Rochester Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Cascade of superconducting domes and magnetic order around quarter filling in magic angle bilayer graphene
Dmitri Efetov,
Professor,
ICFO (Barcelona, Spain),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Laser absorption imaging of non-equilibrium flows at extreme conditions
Dr. Mitchell Spearrin,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Modular tensor categories from the Coulomb branch
Du Pei,
Theoretical Physics,
Caltech ,
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Completeness of exponential functions: Beurling-Malliavin and Type problems
Alexei Poltoratski,
Department of Mathematics,
Texas A&M University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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German Film: Es war einmal in Deutschland
Movie screening for German 130b & 132b // In German with English subtitles
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, January 26th, 2019
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11:00am
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Heredia & Cottrell Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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