Institute Calendar
Fall 2014-2015
Saturday, November 15th, 2014
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11/16
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11/16
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11/16
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7:30am
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Le & Nguyen Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
9:00am
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nguyen Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ortega & Hazboun Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Avanessian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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Sunday, November 16th, 2014
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11/17
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11/17
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11/17
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Monday, November 17th, 2014
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Moduli spaces of principal bundles and compactifications of character varieties
Christopher Manon,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematical Sciences,
George Mason University,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Building molecular assemblies to control the flow of biological information"
Ahmad S. Khalil,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Boston University,
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Neng Wang, Columbia Business School
A Theory of Liquidity and Risk Management Based on the Inalienability of Risky Human Capital (joint with Patrick Bolton and Jinqiang Yang)
Neng Wang,
Chong Khoon Lin Professor of Real Estate and Finance,
Columbia Business School,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Measuring CO2 from Space with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory –2 (OCO-2)
David Crisp,
Senior Research Scientist and OCO-2 Science Team Leader,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Probing physics behind neutrino masses
Kaladi Babu,
Oklahoma State University,
4:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Minimal Seufaces with Arbitrary Topology in H^2xR
Baris Coskunuzer,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
Koc University and MIT,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Combinatorial tangle Floer homology
Ina Petkova,
G. C. Evans Intructor,
Mathematics,
Rice University,
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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IST Lunch Bunch
Autonomous Aerial Mobility on Earth and in Space
Larry Mathies,
Senior Research Scientist,
Computer Vision Group,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Systems Biology Supergroup Meeting
A New Circuit Element in the Synapse: From Biochemistry to Systems Biology
Mary Kennedy,
The Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Biology,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Information Causality, Szemeredi-Trotter, and algebraic variants of CHSH
Mohammad Bavarian,
MIT,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
A new approach to amenability and Ramsey theory
Andy Zucker,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
Prof. Brian Metzger,
Columbia Univ.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Boltzmann's Dog and Darwin's Finch: The statistical thermodynamics of self-replication and evolution
Jeremy L. England,
Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Career Development Assistant Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar -- Kroc Lecture
Stem Cells in Silence, Action and Cancer
Elaine Fuchs,
Professor,
Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development,
Rockefeller University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Dark Matter and the Theory for Baryon Number at the LHC
Pavel Fileviez Perez,
MPIK, Heidelberg & Caltech,
Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
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TCS+ Talk
Coding for Interactive Communication Made Communication Efficient and Easy (or "How to make conversations robust to noise.")
Bernard Haeulpler,
Carnegie Mellon University,
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Asymptotics of Chebyshev Polynomials for General Subsets of the Real Line
Barry Simon,
I.B.M. Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
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Arthur D. Riggs Lecture
Reflections on a Career of Collaboration, Mostly with Caltech
Arthur D. Riggs,
Professor and Chair, Cancer Biology,
Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Disease Research,
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A Paleo-perspective on Ocean Heat Content and Climate Change
Yair Rosenthal,
Professor,
Department of Marine Biogeochemistry, Paleontology,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Materials By Design: Unexpected routes to superconductivity
James Neilson,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Colorado State University,
4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Approximate Separability of Green's Function for Helmholtz Equation in the High Frequency Limit
Professor Hongkai Zhao,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Irvine,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 20th, 2014
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12/5
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Cluster-Induced Turbulence: Mesoscale DNS and Model Validation
Rodney Fox,
Professor,
Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Iowa State University,
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Spatial and Temporal Control of a Membrane Protein Chaperone
George Liang,
Dr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Neural Signatures of Learning and Decision-Making Across Prefrontal Cortex
Steve Kennerley,
Institute of Neurology,
University College London,
4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Astrophysical Shocks, Dust and Molecular Clouds
Dr. Sibylle Anderl,
Univ. of Grenoble,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Jason Saleeby,
Professor of Geology,
Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Machine Learning
Seth Lloyd,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
MIT,
Friday, November 21st, 2014