Institute Calendar
Fall 2014-2015
Sunday, October 12th, 2014
2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Keshishyan Wedding Party
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Monday, October 13th, 2014
9:00am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
"Micromechanical Damage and Fracture in Elastomeric Polymers"
Stefanie Heyden,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Synthesis of Contact-Rich Behaviors with Optimal Control
Professor Emo Todorov,
Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Washington,
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
New insights into the global carbon cycle using chlorophyll fluorescence + Detecting the largest local methane hotspot in the continental US from space
Christian Frankenberg,
Research Scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Parametrically Enhanced Transmission of Hidden Photons via Longitudinal Modes
Yue Zhao,
SLAC,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Thinking on your Feet: Reinforcement Learning for Incremental Language Tasks
Jordan Boyd-Graber,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science Department,
University of Colorado Boulder,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
When the clock ticks too fast: Lessons from premature ageing syndromes
Oliver Dreesen,
Ph.D.,
Institute of Medical Biology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Entanglement in one-dimensional quantum systems
Yi-Chen Huang,
IQIM,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Reciprocity relationships for gravitational-wave interferometers
Yuri Levin,
Monash University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Reciprocity relationships for gravitational-wave interferometers
Yuri Levin,
Monash University,
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
Final Products of Stellar Evolution in High Metallicity Envirnonments and the UV Excess in Elliptical Galaxies
Prof. Giovanni Carraro,
ESO,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Dynamics of super-rotor molecules in an optical centrifuge
Amy S. Mullin,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Maryland, College Park,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
From Petabytes of Data to Insights on Genomic Networks, Epistasis and Cancer
Kevin White,
Professor of Biology,
Department of Human Genetics and Department of Ecology & Evolution,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Big Bang Scenarios Before the Discovery of the Red Shift: Alexander Friedman and the Foundations of Relativistic Cosmology
Alexei Kojevnikov,
Department of History,
University of British Columbia,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2014
10:00am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Gaps, Warps, Rings and Collisions: How Planets Interact with Debris Disks
Erika Nesvold,
NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Eigenvalues of the Laplacian and the Hadamard parametrix construction.
Isak Mottelson,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Aldrich Lecture
Methods and Mechanism in Asymmetric Catalysis
Abigail G. Doyle,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Heterogeneous Integration for Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits
J. E. Bowers,
University of California Santa Barbara, California, USA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Random Choice and Private Information
Jay Lu,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Biogenic reactive oxygen species in the cycling and mineralization of manganese
Colleen Hansel,
Associate Scientist,
Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech Project for Effective Teaching Seminar - Prof. Steven Frautschi
Teaching Phys 1 and Other Courses at Caltech
Steven Frautschi,
Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus,
Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 16th, 2014
11:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Modeling Multi-phase Rarefied Plumes into Space: Examples of Plumes on Jupiter's Moon Io and Saturn's Moon Enceladus
David Goldstein,
Professor,
University of Texas at Austin,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Patterned DNA Arrays: Towards Clinical Diagnostics
Ariel Furst,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Tits buildings, class groups, and the high-dimensional cohomology of SLnOK
Tom Church,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Stanford,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Topology and convexity in the space of actions modulo weak equivalence
Peter Burton,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Transcriptional fidelity control, DNA modification and lesion recognition
Dong Wang,
Assistant Professor,
Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Distinguished Lecture in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Computational Insights and the Theory of Evolution
Christos H. Papadimitriou,
C. Lester Hogan Professor of Computer Science,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Advances on base change, symmetric powers and tensor product functoriality
Luis Dieulefait,
Professor Agregat,
Departament d'Àlgebra i Geometria,
University of Barcelona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Journey to the Center of the Earth
David J. Stevenson,
Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Chan Engagement Party
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Friday, October 17th, 2014
12:00am
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12:00am
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8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Too-big-to-fail in the Local Group: A Challenge for LCDM
Shea Garrison-Kimmel,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Center for Cosmology,
U.C. Irvine,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Living Fluids: Modeling and Simulation of Active Suspensions
David Saintillan,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California San Diego,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The moduli space of S1-type zero loci for Z2-harmonic spinors in dimension 3
Ryosuke Takahashi,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
N2 Fixation to NH3 by a 2-Coordinate Fe(0) Species
Gaël Ung,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
How Did the Humanists Define Antiquity? Historical Periodization and the Origins of Classical Scholarship
Frederic Clark,
Postdoctoral Instructor,
Stanford University,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Building new edge states in twisted bilayer graphene: quantum spin Hall state and electron-hole bilayers
Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi,
Graduate Student,
Physics,
MIT,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, October 18th, 2014
8:00am
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12:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Karapetyan Wedding Party
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1:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kharazian Wedding Party
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1:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Toste/Mirzian Wedding
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2:40pm
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4:50pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nario Wedding Party
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5:00pm
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9:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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