Institute Calendar
March 2019
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Friday, March 1st, 2019
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:15am
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11:15am
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Tuning the Kinetics in Phase-Change Materials: Enlightening from the phenomenology of water and amorphous metals
Shuai Wei,
Research Fellow,
RWTH Aachen University (Germany),
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The polarized scattering equations and superamplitudes in 6d
Yvonne Geyer,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Lightning Round
Sophie Ding, Victor Albert, Kevin Slagle,
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Radiation-pressure Waves and Multiphase Quasar Outflows
Lluís Mas-Ribas,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Astrophysics and Space Sciences,
JPL / Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Multiplicative functions over F_q[x] and the Erd\H{o}s Discrepancy problem
Oleksiy Klurman,
Department of Mathematics,
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Regulation-Triggered Batch Learning: A New Hope for Adaptive Aircraft Control
Miroslav Krstic,
Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Classification of hyperbolic component with bounded escape
Yusheng Luo,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University ,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Small Molecule Activation by Multimetallic Cyclophane Complexes
Leslie Justin Murray,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Florida,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Cosmic Gold: Neutron Star Mergers, Gravitational Waves, and the Origin of the Elements
Eliot Quataert,
Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
University of California, Berkeley,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, March 2nd, 2019
12:00am
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:30pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Semerjian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:30pm
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9:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Private Photography Lesson on Campus: Brian Leary
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, March 3rd, 2019
11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, March 4th, 2019
11:30am
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group Seminar
One if by Land and Two if by Sea: A Glimpse into the Value of Information in Strategic Interactions
Vijay Subramanian,
Associate Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Michigan,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Affine Springer fibers and commutative algebra
Oscar Kivinen,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Ice sheets, climate, and sea level, in the past and into the future"
Nicholas Golledge,
Associate Professor,
Antarcitc Research Center,
Victoria University of Wellington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Inference, Computation, and Visualization for Convex Clustering and Biclustering
Genevera Allen,
Associate Professor,
Departments of Statistics, Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Searching for dark matter annihilation in the Milky Way halo
Laura Chang,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Humanities Seminar
The Forgotten Founder of Quantum Mechanics: The Science and Politics of Physicist Pascual Jordan
Ryan Dahn,
Visiting Scholar,
Department of History and Sociology of Science,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Predictive Simulations of Redox and Electron Transfer Events on Biomolecules: The Case of Cryptochromes
Ksenia Bravaya,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
Boston University,
Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
8:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
TBA
Patricio Vela,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Georgia Tech,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Center for Selective C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium
Olivier Baudoin,
University of Basel,
Peng Liu,
University of Pittsburgh,
Huw Davies,
Emory University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Advanced LIGO searches for sub-solar mass ultracompact objects
Ryan Magee,
Penn State / Caltech,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Designer Matter: New Frontiers in Wave Interactions with Meta- and Nano-structures
Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Electrical and Systems Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
"(Semi-)automating CRISM Analysis: Refinement of Martian Surface Mineralogy using Factor Analysis and Target Transformation" & "Probing the Gas Content of Late-Stage Protoplanetary Disks with N2H+"
Nancy Thomas,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Dana Anderson,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Special Seminar
Designer Matter: New Frontiers in Wave Interactions with Meta- and Nano-structures
Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Electrical and Systems Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Visiting Newton's Atelier Before the "Principia," 1679-1684
Michael Nauenberg,
Professor of Physics, Emeritus,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar
"How a soil bacterium responds to light"
Tilman Lamparter,
Botanical institute,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Estimation of Peer Effects in Endogenous Social Networks: Control Function Approach
Hyungsik Roger Moon,
Professor in Economics,
USC,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
8:00am
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11:50am
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TCS+ Talk
Strongly log concave polynomials, high dimensional simplicial complexes, and an FPRAS for counting Bases of Matroids
Shayan Oveis Gharan,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Seminar
New Opportunities with Old Optical Materials
Marko Lončar,
Tiantsai Lin Professor of Electrical Engineering,
John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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