Institute Calendar
Fall 2014-2015
Monday, November 24th, 2014
4:00pm
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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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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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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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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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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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12:00am
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8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Approximating the best Nash Equilibrium in n^{o(log n)}-time breaks the Exponential Time Hypothesis
Omri Weinstein,
Princeton,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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12/31
1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Inside Rounds and Venture Capital Returns
Michael Ewens,
Associate Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship,
HSS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The onset of large-scale dynamical instability in the Solar System
Konstantin Batygin,
Caltech (GPS),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Unbalanced Random Matching Markets: The Stark Effect of Competition (Joint with Itai Ashlagi and Yash Kanoria)
Jacob Leshno,
Assistant Professor Decision, Risk, and Operations,
Columbia Business School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Resources for Climate Models
David Rutledge,
Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu Professor of Engineering,
Department of Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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CPET Seminar - Prof. Dennis Kochmann - Teaching a Quantitative Course
Effective Teaching of a Quantitative Course: From Designing to Teaching the Class
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, December 4th, 2014
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:50am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Robotic Materials
Nikolaus Correll,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Colorado, Boulder,