Institute Calendar
Fall 2014-2015
Friday, November 21st, 2014
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TAPIR Seminar
Extremes of compact object birth, from the dimmest to the super-luminous
Brian Metzger,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics ,
Columbia University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Simulating Flow Over Roughness: Myths and Opportunities
Daniel Chung,
Lecturer ,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of Melbourne ,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Geometry of arc, curve and sphere graphs (and what it is good for)
Sebastian Hansel,
Dickson Instructor,
Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Strategies for the Stereoselective Installation of All-Carbon Quaternary Centers via Palladium and Iridium Catalysis
Corey Reeves,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Ancient Geometry Meets the Modern State: Colin MacLaurin among the Molasses Barrels
Judith V. Grabiner,
Pitzer College,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Non-Abelian phases in Fractional Quantum Hall states
Roger Mong,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2014
12:00am
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12:00am
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11/23
12:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Choi Photography Session
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2014
12:00am
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11/24
12:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tina Lowenthal Photography Session
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, November 24th, 2014
4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Cognitive skills used in establishing social hierarchies
Russell Fernald,
Professor,
Biology Department,
Stanford,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Geometry and Deformation Mechanism of Slow Slip and Tremor
Ake Fagereng,
Senior Lecturer,
Department of Geological Sciences,
University of Cape Town,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar - CANCELLED
Flavor-Covariant Formalism for Transport Phenomena
Bhupal Dev,
University of Manchester, UK,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Coordination Chemistry as an Approach to the Development of Chemically Diverse Anti-Cancer Agents
Edith C. Glazer,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Kentucky,
Tuesday, November 25th, 2014
9:30am
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10:30am
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
New Insights on Galaxy Formation from Comparisons of Simulated and Observed Galaxies
Prof. Joel Primack,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
An Approximate Version of Caratheodory's Theorem and Its Algorithmic Applications (part 1)
Siddharth Barman,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Periodic block Jacobi matrices and the XY spin chain
Milivoje Lukic,
Postdoctoral Fellow UTM,
Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, November 27th, 2014
8:00am
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11/28
5:00pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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Friday, November 28th, 2014
8:30am
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Saturday, November 29th, 2014
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Muradyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Monday, December 1st, 2014
8:00am
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4:30pm
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9:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Using Prediction Markets to Estimate the Reproducibility of Science
Anna Dreber,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Stockholm School of Economics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Higgs bundles, spectral data, and applications
Laura Schaposnik,
J. L. Doob Research Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Urbana Champaign,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Mars as a major ingredient to the Earth's recipe
Caroline Fitoussi,
Researcher Fellow - CNRS,
Laboratorie de Géologie de Lyon Terre, Planétes, Environnement,
École normale supérieure de Lyon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar-CANCELLED
Redox-, Coordination- and Photo-Chemistry in the f-Block: New Approaches to Improve the Sustainability of the Rare Earth Element Supply Chain
Eric J. Schelter,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Pennsylvania,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
8:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Paul W. Merrill: The Man Who Discovered the Evolving Universe
Jacob Berkowitz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
An Approximate Version of Caratheodory's Theorem and Its Algorithmic Applications (part 2)
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Cellular Signaling and Patterning of Neurogenesis in Urchin Embryos
Robert Burke,
Professor and Chair,
Biochemistry and Microbiology,
University of Victoria,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The geometry of the Hitchin component
Richard Canary,
Professor,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
"Giving" in to Social Pressure (co-authored with Alvaro J. Name-Correa, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Huseyin Yildirim,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Duke University,
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014
12:00am
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12:00am
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