Institute Calendar
Fall 2014-2015
Monday, October 20th, 2014
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Linear Genetics: (the Linear Algebra of) Genotype-Phenotype Association Studies
Professor Lior Pachter,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California at Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Towards a comprehensive seismic Earth model
Andreas Fichtner,
Assistant Professor,
Computational Seismology,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2014
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Real Data Science @ NASA
Chris Mattmann,
Chief Architect,
Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Extreme Outflows and the Gas Around Galaxies
Dr. Aleks Diamond-Stanic,
Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Stochastic and Deterministic Processes for Patterning the Drosophila Visual System
Claude Desplan,
Professor of Biology,
Department of Biology,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Political Competition in Legislative Elections
Mattias Polborn,
Director of Graduate Studies, Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
The Ginzburg-Landau equations with self-generated magnetic field
Christian Hainzl,
Dr.,
Mathematics,
University of Tuebingen,
12:15pm
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1:15pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Preludes to a Theory and Phenomenology of Galactic Winds
Todd Thompson,
Ohio State,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Government Interventions in a Dynamic Market with Adverse Selection (with Andy Skrzypacz)
William Fuchs,
Assistant Professor,
Berkeley-Haas Finance Group, Haas School of Business,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Large-scale Observational Constraints on GPP in Earth System Models using Atmospheric Carbonyl Sulfide
Elliott Campbell,
Associate Professor,
Department of Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Merced,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar - CANCELLED
PandaX: A dark matter experiment at China JinPing Underground Lab
Xiangdong Ji,
University of Maryland/Shanghai Jian Tong University,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Complexify Biomimetics
Filipe Natalio,
Group Leader of Bioinorganic & Biomimetic Chemistry,
Chemie, Physik und Mathematik,
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Rethinking Asymmetric Synthesis: The Development of General Metal-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions that Enable the Use of Optically Active Nucleophiles
Mark R. Biscoe,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
The City College of New York,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
10:30am
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12:30pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Modeling and Computational Challenges for Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Combustion Systems
Suresh Menon,
Professor,
School of Aerospace Engineering,
Georgia Tech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Variations on the finite Gowers' Theorem and the Lelek fan
Dana Bartosova,
Mathematics,
University of San Paolo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Models for the origin of biological homochirality
Donna G. Blackmond,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
The Scripps Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Semyon Malamud, Swiss Finance Institute
Price Discovery Through Options
Semyon Malamud,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Swiss Finance Institute (SFI),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Is Time Hollow, or Just the Earth? The Strange Case of James Ross Island
Gillen Wood,
Professor of English and Director of the Sustainability Studies Initiative in the Humanities,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Exploring sp2-bonded materials: From graphene liquid cells to atomic collapse
Alex Zettl,
Professor of Physics,
Physics,
UC Berkeley,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 24th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Resurgence in quantum field theory: handling the Devil's invention
Aleksey Cherman,
University of Minnesota,
12:00pm
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12:45pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Ultrahigh-resolution quantum optical coherence tomography using ultra-broadband entangled photon pairs
Masayuki Okano,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Graduate School of Engineering,
Kyoto University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Making Supersymmetric Quivers from N=(0,2) Sigma Models
Arkady Vainshtein,
University of Minnesota,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar - NOTE: unusual time - 1:00p
Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Cluster Outskirts
Camille Avestruz,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
Yale University,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Attosecond Electron Control
Mohammed Tharwat Hassan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Zewail group,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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7:20pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Saturday, October 25th, 2014
12:00am
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10:00am
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11:50am
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Plavdjian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nalbandian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gonzalez Carrasco Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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Monday, October 27th, 2014
3:30pm
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PhD seminar
Effects of Self Energy of Ions on the Double Layer Structure and Interfacial Properties at the Dielectric Interface
Rui Wang,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
4:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Topology of the tropical moduli spaces M_{1,n} and M_{2,n}
Melody Chan,
NSF Postdoc Fellow ,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Implementing Probabilistic Graphical Models with Chemical Reaction Networks
Ryan P. Adams,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
4:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Can I Take a Peek? Continuous Monitoring of Online A/B Tests
Professor Ramesh Johari,
Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering,
Stanford,
4:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Identification and Estimation in Manipulable Assignment Mechanisms
Paulo Somaini,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Jupiter's Grand Attack
Konstantin Batygin,
Assistant Professor of Planetary Science,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Shining light on new physics with improved dijet resonance identification
Eder Izaguirre,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,