Institute Calendar
July 2019
Monday, July 1st, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar
Recent Advances in Autonomous Energy Grid
Changhong Zhao, PhD,
Lead Researcher,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
12:15pm
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12:45pm
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Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019
12:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hakakha Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Thursday, July 4th, 2019
12:00am
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7/5
12:00am
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8:00am
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7/5
5:00pm
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Monday, July 8th, 2019
12:15pm
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12:45pm
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Tuesday, July 9th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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DOLCIT Seminar
Finite-Time Performance Bounds and Adaptive Learning Rate Selection for TD Learning
R. Srikant,
Fredric G. and Elizabeth H. Nearing Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Lab,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
10:00am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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3:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Seminar
Fully programmable quantum machines with all-to-all connectivity via Floquet engineering, and quantum neural networks
Thursday, July 11th, 2019
8:30am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:45am
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1:15pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Friday, July 12th, 2019
10:00am
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7/19
2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Massive black holes along the cosmic history: formation, dynamics and gravitational waves
Alberto Sesana,
Associate Professor,
Department of Physics and Astrophysics,
University of Milano-Bicocca,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CGSC Summer Seminar Talks
Konstantinos Giapis,
Professor of Chemical Engineering,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Moon Struck! Celebrating Apollo's 50th Anniversary
JPL and Caltech researchers and staff,
- Public Event
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
The Dynamic Radio Sky
Dillon Dong,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Saturday, July 13th, 2019
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gumrikyan/Sarkisian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, July 15th, 2019
12:15pm
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12:45pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
A fault-tolerant non-Clifford gate for the surface code in two dimensions
Ben Brown,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
University of Sydney,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, July 16th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Characterization of LIGO optics point defects using the lens-free imaging method ptychography
Tega Edo,
Dr,
Physics,
Sheffield University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Entanglement subvolume law for 2D frustration free systems
Anurag Anshu,
Graduate Student,
University of Waterloo,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, July 17th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thursday, July 18th, 2019
9:00am
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10:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Nathanael Hirscher,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:45am
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1:15pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, July 19th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Rachel Krueger,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, July 20th, 2019
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Chang Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sargsyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Amundson Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ghazarian/Paronyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, July 21st, 2019
5:00pm
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7/27
1:00pm
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Monday, July 22nd, 2019
12:15pm
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12:45pm
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Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019
10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Researches in Kamioka: Neutrinos and Gravitational Wav
Takaaki Kajita,
Professor,
ICRR,
University of Tokyo,
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Counting without Sampling: Approximation Algorithms for Quantum Many-Body Systems at Finite Temperatures
Mehdi Soleimanifar,
Graduate Student,
MIT,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, July 24th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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Special ACM Seminar
Recent advances in high order and spectral approximations: Virtual Elements and Maximum Entropy reconstruction of PDFs
Dr. Alexey Chernov,
Director of Mathematics,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
University of Oldenburg,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet
Steven W. Squyres,
James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences,
Department of Astronomy,
Cornell University,
- Public Event
Thursday, July 25th, 2019
11:45am
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1:15pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Friday, July 26th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CGSC Summer Seminar Talks
Rudy Marcus,
Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, July 29th, 2019
12:15pm
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12:45pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Universality classes of topological phase transitions
Wei Chen,
Department of Physics,
PUC - Rio,
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
8:00am
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Ongoing
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8:00am
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Ongoing
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9:30am
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10:30am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Sampling-complexity phase diagrams
Abhinav Deshpande,
Graduate Student,
University of Maryland,
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
De Finetti theorems for quantum channels
Mario Berta,
Lecturer (Assistant Professor),
Department of Computing,
Imperial College London,