Institute Calendar
Fall 2014-2015
Saturday, September 27th, 2014
2:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Meneses & Palmer Wedding Party
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mushegyan Wedding Party
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ellison Wedding Party
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6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, September 28th, 2014
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, September 29th, 2014
9:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Unraveling the extraordinary code and mechanisms of grid cells
Ila Fiete,
Associate Professor,
Department of Neuroscience and Center for Learning and Memory,
The University of Texas at Austin,
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
Nanoparticles unlock big secrets: silica in earthquake rupture and gold transport
Christie Rowe,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
McGill University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, September 30th, 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
Zooming in on Planets and Disks in the Solar Neighborhood
Dr. T. J. Rodigas,
DTM,
Carnegie Institution,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Physically-motivated force fields from symmetry-adapted perturbation theory
Jordan R. "JR" Schmidt,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Horowitz Lecture
To Eat or Not to Eat: Studies of a Complex Motivational Behavior
Jeffrey Friedman,
Professor,
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics,
The Rockefeller University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2014
10:00am
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11:00am
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Applied Physics Seminar
Photonic crystal cavities for nonlinear optics
Sonia Buckley,
Stanford University,
12:15pm
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1:15pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Interplay between CO and [C II], and the suppression of SF in Compact Group galaxies: a Herschel and CARMA view
Katherine Alatalo,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Evryscope: the first full-sky gigapixel-scale telescope
Nicholas Law,
Univ of North Carolina,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth (with Davide Ticchi and Andrea Vindigni)
Roland J. Benabou,
Theodore A. Wells' 29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs,
Department of Economics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
High Energy Density Solids from Extreme Conditions
Choong-Shik Yoo,
Department of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, and Institute for Shock Physics,
Department of Chemistry,
Washington State University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Thermal Energy Transport and Conversion in Nanostructures
Renkun Chen,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California San Diego,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Quantum networks with spins in diamond: From remote entanglement to unconditional quantum teleportation
Hannes Bernien,
Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft, Netherlands,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Genetic Engineering of Fungal Natural Product Biosynthesis Pathways: Past, Present, and Future Opportunities
Clay C. C. Wang,
Associate Professor of Chemistry & Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences & School of Pharmacy,
University of Southern California,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Probabilistically Checkable Proofs of Proximity with Zero-Knowledge
Mor Weiss,
Technion,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
On the complexity of full groups
François Le Maître,
Post Doc,
Mathematics,
Université de Louvain-la-Neuve,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Seminar
Operating Rooms of the Past, Present and Future: Translating Engineering into Progress"
Yuman Fong, MD,
Professor of Surgery and Chair,
Department of Surgery,
City of Hope National Medical Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Correlations, Fluctuations, and Disorder at Chromium's Quantum Phase Transition
Thomas F. Rosenbaum,
Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and Professor of Physics,
Caltech,
5:30pm
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8:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 3rd, 2014
12:00am
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10/4
12:00am
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Perturbative and nonperturbative worldsheet string theory in AdS^n x S_n x M^{10-2n}
Radu Roiban,
Penn State,
12:00pm
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8:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Partition functions, topology, and hydrodynamics with QFT anomalies
Piotr Sulkowski,
Univ of Warsaw,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Plasma Stabilization of a Low Reynolds Number Channel Flow
Rodney Bowersox,
Professor and Department Head,
Aerospace Engineering,
Texas A&M University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Combinatorial constructions of Heegaard Floer homology using bordered invariants.
Bohua Zhan,
Instructor,
Mathematics,
MIT,
3:20pm
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6:20pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Reflectionless measures for singular integral operators. Abstract: A reflectionless measure for an $s$-dimensional singular integral operator $T$ acting in $\mathbb{R}^d$ (with $s\in (0,d)$) is, roughly speaking, a measure $\mu$ for which $T(\mu)$ is cons
Benjamin Jaye,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematical Sciences,
Kent State,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
GPS as an Independent Measurement to Estimate Water Storage Change in California, Oregon and Washington
Yuning Fu,
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of Sr1-xLaxCuO2 thin films grown by molecular-beam epitaxy
John Harter,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics,
Hsieh Group,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
The kitchen sink: asymptotic analysis of random matrix models, partition function expansions, singular limits of integrable PDEs, and maybe some rudimentary approximation theory
Ken MacLaughlin,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Arizona,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Saturday, October 4th, 2014
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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10/5
12:00am
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9:10am
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12:10pm
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10:00am
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Fitzgibbons & Frayer Party
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Jacobson Party
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1:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Karaoglanian Party
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