Institute Calendar
November 2019
Friday, November 15th, 2019
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Transparency and Demand Management in Platforms for Networked Markets
Adam Wierman,
Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences; Executive Officer for Computing and Mathematical Sciences; Director, Information Science and Technology,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Flight Testing of Supersonic Parachutes for Entry, Descent & Landing on Mars
Clara O'Farrell,
Engineer,
Guidance and Control,
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:50pm
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5:00pm
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5:50pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Saturday, November 16th, 2019
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 17th, 2019
7:00am
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Jackson Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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4:30pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Lam Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, November 18th, 2019
10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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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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Special TAPIR Seminar
Solving nonlinear elliptic equations in numerical relativity with the SpECTRE code
Nils Fischer,
Graduate Student,
Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity,
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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BELS
"Satisfying Symmetry: Functional Insights from Patterns in Membrane Protein Structures"
Lucy Forrest,
PI,
Computational Structural Biology,
National Institutes of Health,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Hydrogen production and consumption under chemically and biologically "extreme" conditions in ultramafic aquifers
Alexis Templeton,
Associate Professor,
Department of Gecological Sciences,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Thompson Sampling for learning in online decision making
Shipra Agrawal,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and Data Science Institute,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The QCD axion and Unification
Clara Murgui,
Universitat de Valencia & Case Western Reserve University,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Redox Nano-Titrations at Electrochemical Interfaces: A Versatile Toolbox for Characterizing Reaction Intermediates
Joaquin Rodriquez Lopez,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Materials Research Laboratory, Faculty Affiliate, Beckman Institute,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
TBA
Pietro Perona,
Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Engineering and Applied Science,
CALTECH,
12:00pm
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12:50pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Calculating Nature Naturally
Natalie Klco,
Graduate Student,
Institute for Nuclear Theory,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Nonlinear Spectroscopy with Quantum Light
Theodore Goodson, III,
RICHARD BARRY BERNSTEIN COLLEGIATE PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY, COLLEGE OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND THE ARTS PROFESSOR OF MACROMOLECULAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,
Chemistry,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Eliza O'Reilly
Modeling Repulsion with Determinantal Point Processes
Eliza O'Reilly,
CMI Postdoc,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Terrestrial Planet Geophysics: InSight@Mars, VERITAS@Venus
Sue Smrekar,
Senior Research Scientist,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Extreme mass-ratio inspirals: going beyond linear perturbation theory
Niels Warburton,
University College Dublin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Otters and Others: Ted Hughes to Alice Oswald
John Kerrigan,
Professor of English,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Acquisition of/Stochastic Evidence
Barton Lipman,
Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
Boston University,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Special CMX Seminar
How Many Labels Do You Need For Semi-Supervised Learning?
Matthew Thorpe,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar
Renormalization and Effective Field Theories
Bowen Yang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 20th, 2019
9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
The Karger-Stein Algorithm is Optimal for $k$-cut
Jason Li,
Graduate Student,
Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Lattice points on the sphere
Andrei Shubin,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Physics of Enigmatic Fast Radio Bursts
Pawan Kumar,
Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Weather radar, isotopes, and climate models
Courtney Schumacher,
Texas A & M University,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
"Exploring and manipulating different quantum degrees of freedom in two-dimensional van der Waals materials and nano-metamaterials"
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Two experiments on time preferences and repeated game
Jeongbin Kim,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Artworks of the Outdoors
Kelvin Nguyen,
Southern California Mountaineers Association,
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
8:00am
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Ongoing
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
CANCELED - Growth, Instability, and Failure: Bringing Order into the Chaos of Natural Phenomena
Tal Cohen,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Acoustic Biomolecules as Genetically Encoded Theragnostic Agents
Avinoam Bar-Zion,
Postdoctoral Researcher, Shapiro Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Simon Says: How Norton Simon transformed a failing art museum into a cultural powerhouse
Andrea Thabet,
Lecturer in American History,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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2:30pm
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2:45pm
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