Institute Calendar
February 2019
Monday, January 7th, 2019
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Friday, February 1st, 2019
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Synthesis and Transmission Electron Microscopy of Transition Metal Trichalcogenides in the Single Chain Limit
Thang Pham,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Unification of integrability in supersymmetric gauge theories
Junya Yagi,
Perimeter Institute,
11:40am
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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
Collective and local effects in the driven-dissipative dynamics of many-body quantum systems
Nathan Shammah,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Theoretical Quantum Physics Laboratory,
RIKEN, Japan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Heterogeneously integrated membrane photonic devices on Si substrate for datacom and computercom applications
Shinji Matsuo,
Senior Distinguished Researcher,
NTT Device Technology Laboratories,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Be X-ray binaries: spinning stars messing up population synthesis predictions
Serena Vinciguerra,
Junior Scientist/Postdoc,
Observational Relativity and Cosmology,
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Planar orthogonal polynomials and boundary universality in the random normal matrix model
Haakan Hedenmalm,
Department of Mathematics,
Royal Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Fluid Mechanics Learning from Machines
Petros Koumoutsakos,
Professor,
Computational Science,
ETH Zurich,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Hyperbolic surfaces in Minkowski 3-space
Peter Smillie,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Proton-Coupled Reduction of Acetylene Gas at a Mononuclear Iron Site Yields a Paramagnetic Alkylidyne Complex
Cooper Citek,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2019
12:00am
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Agvenyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2019
12:00am
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hailegiorgisl Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, February 4th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Family Background and Career Outcomes for Exam Degree Holders in the Qing (1644-1911)
Cameron Campbell,
Professor and Acting Head,
Division of Social Science,
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Rank 2 local systems and abelian varieties
Raju Krishnamoorthy,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Georgia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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BELS
"Enzymatic Oxidation of Methane"
Amy Rosenzweig,
Professor,
Molecular Biosciences and Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Cave that Knew your Future and where Heroin Lives: Tale of Two Isotopes
Ali Pourmand,
Associate Professor, MGS Gradate Program Director,
Department of Marine Geosciences,
University of Miami,
4:00pm
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KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Rigidity and Deformation
Nina Amenta,
Professor of Computer Science,
University of California at Davis,
Tuesday, February 5th, 2019
11:30am
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1:30pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Chasing Quantum Codes: how to Outsmart a Brute-Force Approach
Johannes Bausch,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Sounding Titan's seas
Marco Mastrogiuseppe,
Postdoc,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Mechanics of Behavior in Non-Neuronal Systems - and Other Puzzles from the Depths of the Ocean"
Manu Prakash,
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2019
8:00am
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2/12
5:00pm
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11:00am
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Logic Seminar
Measures agreeing on invariant subsets
Forte Shinko,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
A Systematic Exploration of Extragalactic Nuclear Transients with the Zwicky Transient Facility
Suvi Gezari,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Can Climate Models Correctly Simulate the Continuum of Temperature Variability?
Julien Emile-Geay,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Geometric Representation Theory Learning Seminar
The Borel-Weil-Bott theorem
Victor Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Harnessing data science to transform experimental materials discovery
Taylor Sparks,
Assistant Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Utah,
Thursday, February 7th, 2019
9:00am
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10:00am
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Quantum phase transitions in ZnO two-dimensional electron systems
Joseph Falson,
Nobel Laureate Fellowship postdoctoral researcher,
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research,