Institute Calendar
November 2019
Tuesday, October 15th, 2019
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11/5
12:00am
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Wednesday, October 30th, 2019
Ongoing
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11/5
5:00pm
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Friday, November 1st, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CANCELED | Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
This seminar has been rescheduled for Friday, February 28.
Jian Cao,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Data Science and Election Integrity,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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4:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
John Martinis,
Research Scientist and Professor of Physics Google and UCSB,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Generic Multiplicity One Singularities of Mean Curvature Flow of Surfaces
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
Transforming the Italian Landscape in the Middle Ages: Humans, Climate, and the Environment
Ned Schoolman,
Associate Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
University of Nevada, Reno,
4:30pm
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5:20pm
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5:00pm
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9:30pm
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5:30pm
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6:20pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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German Film Screening: Frantz
Movie screening for German 130a & 132a // In German and French with English subtitles
Saturday, November 2nd, 2019
8:00am
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Fazzino/Sommers Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, November 3rd, 2019
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Abraamyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, November 4th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
CMS-EE Resume Workshop w/ Alex Cui and Eric Zhao
Alex Cui and Eric Zhao,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:15pm
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12:45pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Unsuspected collapse of southern California marine communities in historic times: Novel insights from very young fossils
Susan Kidwell,
William Rainey Harper Professor,
Department of Geophysical Sciences,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Breakdown of the naive parton model in Super-Weak-Scale Collisions
Matthew Baumgart,
Arizona State University,
Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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12:50pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Dean Doron - *3pm start time*
Nearly Optimal Pseudorandomness From Hardness
Dean Doron,
Postdoctoral Fellow, Computer Science Theory Group,
Stanford,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction and the Information Paradox
Geoff Penington,
Graduate Student,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
"The Evolution of Gas in Planet-forming Disks"
Keri Hoadley,
David and Ellen Lee Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics,
Space Astrophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Fallacy of Calibrationism
Yoaav Isaacs,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Baylor University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Test design under falsification
Vasiliki Skreta,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Texas at Austin,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Explicit near-Ramanujan graphs of every degree
Ryan O'Donnell,
Professor,
Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:05pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Origins of Type Ia Supernovae (And What Does Darwin Have To Do With It)
Hagai Perets,
Associate Professor,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
An Economical Approach for Simulating Droplet Microphysics in Turbulent Clouds: Bridging the DNS-LES Gap
Steve Krueger,
The University of Utah,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
"Reshaping Light using Metasurfaces: from Fisheye Imaging to Reconfigurable Optics"
Juejun (JJ) Hu,
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Mistakes and Overconfidence in Detecting Lies
Marta Serra-Garcia,
Assistant Professor of Economics & Strategic Management,
Rady School of Management,
UC San Diego,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Opportunities in Atomic-Scale Legoland: From Novel Electronic Phases to Quantum Devices
Stevan Nadj-Perge,
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science; KNI-Wheatley Scholar,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, November 7th, 2019
10:00am
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4:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Spectral POD and Resolvent Analysis of Turbulent Flows
Tim Colonius,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Timing and Specificity of Co-translational Nascent Protein Modification in Bacteria
Chien-I Yang,
Graduate student,
CCE,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Discussion with the 2018 Chang Career Exploration Prize Recipients
Sean McKenna BS ’17,
Kyle Lakatos MS ’14,
Claire Ralph,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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2019 Resnick Young Investigators Symposium
Celebrating innovation in the science and technology of sustainability
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Condensed Mathematics Learning Seminar
Locally compact abelian groups
Victor Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Towards operational mastery of biological cells: A physics-based perspective
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Heavy metal capture and ion exchange mechanisms in porous minerals
Aaron Celestian,
Associate Curator of Mineral Sciences,
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
L-functions and isogenies of abelian varieties
Harry Smit,
Department of Mathematics,
Utrecht University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, November 8th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Quantum Extremal Islands and the Information Paradox
Ahmed Ahlmeiri,
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum-inspired classical sampling algorithms for machine learning
András Gilyen,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
What matters in tie-breaking rules? How competition guides design
Afshin Nikzad,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
USC,