Institute Calendar
November 2019
Friday, November 8th, 2019
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GALCIT Colloquium
Turbulent Boundary Layers Developing Over Rough Surfaces: From the Laboratory to Full-Scale Systems
3:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
An Ordinary Arab Ship, and Its Stories of Early Globalism
Geraldine Heng,
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Perceval Professor in Medieval Romance, Historiography, and Culture,
Department of English,
University of Texas at Austin,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, November 9th, 2019
8:00am
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Chang Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Off Campus
Drawing the Invisible 100-Mile U.S. Border
Ed Gomez,
Curator of the MexiCali Biennial; Artist; Assistant Professor of Art and Design, Cal State San Bernardino,
Ian Philabaum,
Program Director, Innovation Law Lab,
Arcela Nunez-Alvarez,
Research Director, National Latino Research Center (NLRC), Cal State San Marcos,
Hillary Mushkin,
Artist and Research Professor of Art and Design,
Caltech,
- Public Event
2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Bakhrdzhyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Boghossian 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: Lane Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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Sunday, November 10th, 2019
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hilf Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Martirosyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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Monday, November 11th, 2019
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Fundamentals of Building a Multiplayer Console Game
Paul Robinson,
Technical Director,
Activision-Blizzard,
12:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Dr. Roozbeh Kiani,
Assistant Professor,
Neural Science and Psychology,
New York University,
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Human Magnetoreception: Tests of magnetite-based transduction
Joseph Kirschvink,
Nico and Marilyn Van Wingen Professor of Geobiology,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
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Special Biology Seminar
"Super-Resolution Imaging of Transcription in Living Mammalian Cells"
Ibrahim Cisse,
Associate Professor,
Department of Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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KNI Distinguished Seminar
Integrated Chi(2) Nonlinear Photonics
Hong Tang,
Llewellyn West Jones, Jr. Professor of Electrical Engineering, Physics and Applied Physics,
Yale University,
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Chemical Physics Seminar
What can be learnt on gas phase chiral systems by Photoelectron Circular Dichroism ?
Laurent Nahon,
Responsable Ligne De Lumière, Synchrotron Soleil,
Synchrotron Soleil,
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CMI Seminar: Eliza O'Reilly
Poisson hyperplane tessellations in high dimensions and one-bit compression
Eliza O'Reilly,
CMI Postdoc,
Caltech,
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
"Characterizing the Nucleus, Morphology and Activity of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov"
Bryce Bolin,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Astronomy,
IPAC,
IPAC - Caltech,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"HIV Diversity and Vaccine Design"
Bette Korber,
Theoretical Biology and Biophysics,
Los Alamos National Labratory,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Topological insulators and the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in relativistic quantum field theory
David Kaplan,
University of Washington,
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Experts and Financial Ties: Evidence from FDA Advisory Committees
Fanny Camara,
Assistant Professor of Economics and Director of Research (Economics),
Dornsife, College of Leters, Arts and Science,
USC,
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar
Free Field Theories Revisited
Angus Gruen,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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Wednesday, November 13th, 2019
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Astronomy Colloquium
Exploring the Mysterious Origins of Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes
Heather Knutson,
Professor of Planetary Science,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Warming effect on precipitation seasonal cycle
Ruby Leung,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
"Getting Something for Nothing: Classical and Machine-Learning Methods for Quantum Simulation"
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
A Structural Model of a Multitasking Salesforce: Job Task Allocation and Incentive Plan Design
Kosuke Uetake,
Associate Professor of Marketing,
School of Management,
Yale University,
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, November 14th, 2019
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Elephant Olfaction and a Wombat's Cubic Feces
David Hu,
Associate Professor,
School of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
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3:30pm
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CMI Faculty Lunch (invitation only): John Doyle
Universal laws and architectures in complex networked systems with applications to sensorimotor control
John Doyle,
Caltech,
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Finance Seminar
Conflicting Priorities: A Theory of Covenants and Collateral
Giorgia Piacentino,
Daniel W. Stanton Associate Professor of Business,
Columbia Business School,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Exploring Titan: Discoveries in the laboratory and future in situ work with Dragonfly
Morgan Cable,
Research Scientist and Group Supervisor of Astrobiology and Ocean Worlds Group,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Perfectoid covers of abelian varieties and the weight-monodromy conjecture
Peter Wear,
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Looking through the Gravitational Wave Window on the Universe
Laura Cadonati,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Friday, November 15th, 2019
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Physics and geometry of the knots-quivers correspondence
Pietro Longhi,
ETH Zurich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Supremacy: Understanding and Calibrating the Sycamore Processor
Kevin Satzinger,
Google AI Quantum,