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Wednesday, January 15th, 2020
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Do We Understand Tidal Disruption Events?
Wenbin Lu, David and Ellen Lee Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Astrophysics, Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture

Data-Driven Control for Societal-Scale Cyber-Physical Systems
Yuanyuan Shi, Fifth-year PhD student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Decarbonizing Natural Gas by Reactive Separation in High Temperature Liquids
Eric McFarland, University of California Santa Barbara,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Quantum surprises in ultra-clean oxides
Joseph Falson, Assistant Professor of Materials Science, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Special Chemical Biology Seminar

An activity-guided map of electrophile-cysteine interactions in primary human immune cells.
Ekaterina Vinogradova, LSRF Pfizer Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute,
Thursday, January 16th, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

History of the Free Body Diagram
John F. Hall, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

"Nitrene Transfer Catalyzed by a Non-Heme Iron Enzyme and Enhanced by Non-Native Small- Molecule Ligands"
Nathaniel Goldberg, Graduate Student, Arnold Group, CCE,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Visual Culture Program

Face
Jessica Helfand, Artist-in-Residence (Winter 2020) and Lecturer in Visual Culture, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
Ralph Adolphs, Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology; Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair, Caltech Brain Imaging Center; Director, Caltech Brain Imaging Center, Caltech,
  • Public Event
2:30pm 4:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Neurons that control social states in Drosophila Melanogaster
Yon II Jung, Graduate Student, BMB, Caltech,
2:45pm 3:45pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Hida-theoretic simplicial deformation rings and Selmer groups
Jacques Tilouine, Universite Paris 13,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Local p-indecomposability of modular p-adic Galois representations
Haruzo Hida, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Cosmology in the era of multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves
Marcelle Soares-Santos, Brandeis University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ruth & Eddie Hughes Lecture

How is electrical signal generated? Structural and mechanistic investigations of Nav channels
Nieng Yan, Shirley M. Tilghman Professor of Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University,
Friday, January 17th, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Hemisphere partition function, LG orbifolds and FJRW invariants
Mauricio Romo, Tsinghua University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Robust encoding of a qubit in a molecule
Victor Albert, DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Preskill Group,
2:30pm 3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Cleaving Strong Bonds through Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer
Matthew J. Chalkley, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Almost Sure Scattering for the Energy-Critical Nonlinear Wave Equation
Bjoern Bringmann, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Optimal perturbations in linear stability of two fluid columns of different densities subject to gravity
Carlos Pantano, Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California,
3:00pm 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Large scale geometry of large mapping class groups
Kathryn Mann, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Novel Chemistry of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Nitric Radicals and New Ambiphilic N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
Professor Eunsung Lee, Visiting Associate in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Caltech,
4:30pm 5:30pm
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Special CMX Seminar

Posterior Contraction Rates for Some Possibly Nonlinear Inverse Problems
Sergios Agapiou, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus,
Saturday, January 18th, 2020
Sunday, January 19th, 2020
Monday, January 20th, 2020
Tuesday, January 21st, 2020
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar

Using redundant ancilla encoding and flags for low overhead magic state preparation
Christopher Chamberland, Researcher, Amazon Quantum Group,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

"Genome-Wide Mapping of Protein-DNA Interaction Dynamics"
Steve Henikoff, PI, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/HHMI,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar

DECam/GROWTH follow-up of a possible neutron star-black hole merger
Igor Andreoni, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Seminar

From inverse design to implementation of practical (quantum) photonics
Jelena Vučković, Jensen Huang Professor in Global Leadership, School of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and by courtesy of Applied Physics, Stanford University; Director of Q-FARM, Stanford University,
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Binary Component Decomposition of Matrices
Richard Kueng, Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar

3-manifolds and q-series
Sunghyuk Park, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Light Echoes of Etz Carinae, Massive Star Mergers, and Pre-Supernova Eruptions
Nathan Smith, Associate Professor of Astronomy, Astronomy, University of Arizona,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

The Impacts of Submesoscale Currents on Marine Life: From Phytoplankton to White Sharks
Leif Thomas, Stanford University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond

Exploring Islamic Maps: From the Earth to the Moon and the Cosmos
Karen Pinto, Associate Research Professor, College of Innovation and Design, Boise State University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

"Van der Waals Heterostructures from 2D Materials and Beyond"
Xiangfeng Duan, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

p-adic integration for Hitchin systems and the fundamental lemma
Michael Groechenig, Mathematical & Computational Sciences, University of Toronto,
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Generalized Fishnet Statistics for Quasibrittle, Biomimetic, Nacreous and Architectured Materials: Design for Failure Probability <10-6
Zdeněk P. Bažant, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern McCormick School of Engineering,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Visual Culture Program

Super Recognizers to the Rescue
Sharrona Hyla Pearl, Historian and Theorist of the Face and Body,
  • Public Event
2:00pm 2:50pm
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Avoid Surprises When Filling Out Your Withholding Form / 2pm session

Avoid Surprises When Filling Out Your New Federal Tax Withholding Form
Lulu Jimenez, Senior Stakeholder Liaison, IRS Communications & Stakeholder Outreach,
3:00pm 3:50pm
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Avoid Surprises When Filling Out Your Withholding Form / 3pm session

Avoid Surprises When Filling Out Your New Federal Tax Withholding Form
Lulu Jimenez, Senior Stakeholder Liaison, IRS Communications & Stakeholder Outreach,
4:00pm 5:30pm
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Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem Learning Seminar

Pseudo differential operators II
Adam Artymowicz, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,