Institute Calendar
Fall 2014-2015
Saturday, November 8th, 2014
8:00am
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10:00am
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8:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Thunissen Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kazaryan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:30pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ajamian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ung Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Avedikian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, November 9th, 2014
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Swanson Family Portrait Session
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 10th, 2014
9:00am
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9:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Applications of a Concise and General Strategy for the Syntheses of Transtaganolide and Basiliolide Natural Products
Jonathan Gordon,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Stoltz group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Wavefield Modeling and Signal Processing for Sensor Arrays of Arbitrary Geometry
Visa Koivunen,
Academy Professor,
Signal Processing,
Aalto University, Finland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Stability of line bundles on reducible varieties
Atoshi Chordhury,
RTG Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Neural Mechanisms of Self-signaling Under Oath
Drazen Prelec,
Professor of Management Sciences and Economics,
Sloan School of Management,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Machine Learning and Optimization for Robotics
Associate Professor Pieter Abbeel,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of California at Berkeley,
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
Many Roads Lead to Granite: A Field Study on the Origin of High-K Granites and the Implications for Arc Batholiths
Claire Bucholz,
Graduate Student,
Department of Earth, Athmospheric, and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
GeV Gamma-Rays from the Central Milky Way and the Case for Annihilating Dark Matter
Tracy Slatyer,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Taking Snapshots of Photosynthetic Water Oxidation Using Femtosecond Pulses from an X-ray Free Electron Laser
Junko Yano,
Staff Scientist,
Physical Biosciences Division,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Tuesday, November 11th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Lean, Green, Flying Machines: Control and Optimization Algorithms for Air Transportation Systems
Hamsa Balakrishnan,
Associate Professor,
Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Parcel Tax Elections in California
Rod Kiewiet,
Professor of Political Science,
HSS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar
Beyond Equilibria (2nd of 2 parts)
Georgios Piliouras,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 12th, 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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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Resonances in general relativity
Semyon Dyatlov,
Clay Research Fellow,
Mathematics,
MIT,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Structure determination of protein complexes that regulate mRNA polyA tails
Lori Passmore,
Ph.D.,
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Fellows Seminar
Enhanced Light-Matter Interactions in 2D Materials for Novel Solar Cell Designs & Catalysis without Precious Metals: Lessons from Nature in Sustainable Chemistry
Resnick Fellows Michelle Sherrott & Anton Toutov ,
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
Probing the Origin of Supermassive Black Holes with Dwarf Galaxies
Amy Reines,
Univ of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Tran Nguyen,
Stanback & NSF Postdoc Fellow,
Department of Environmental Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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John D. Roberts Lecture
Ultrasensitive Biomolecular Analysis using Nanostructured Materials
Shana Kelley,
Professor,
Department of Biochemistry,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Harnessing Nature's Light Manipulation Strategies for Multifunctional Optical Materials
Mathias Kolle,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Convexity and Subconvexity bounds for automorphic periods and representation theory
Joseph Bernstein,
Professor of Mathematics,
University of Tel Aviv,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Flying into the Unknown: Air Traffic Management in the Presence of Uncertainty
Hamsa Balakrishnan,
Associate Professor,
Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
The Reusable Holdout: Preserving Validity in Interactive Data Analysis
Moritz Hardt,
IBM Almaden ,
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
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
Heat Control by Thermal Diode and Thermal Metamaterials
Baowen Li,
Professor,
Centre for Computational Science and Engineering,
National University of Singapore,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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, III
Peter Burton,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
The Langlands-Shahidi method over function fields for the classical groups and the Ramanujan conjecture.
Luis Lomeli,
Dr.,
MSRI,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Neural Sources of Preference Distortion
Mathias Pessiglione,
Principal investigator (Inserm researcher) ,
Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM),
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
TBA
Prof. Nathan Smith,
Univ. of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
The Revolution will be Compartmentalized: Technology for Distributed Drug Discovery
Brian M. Paegel,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
The Scripps Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Sliding Rocks of Racetrack Playa—Rock Movement without aliens or giant magnets, just floating ice and light winds
Richard Norris,
Professor of Paleobiology,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Seminar
Integrating hemodynamic stress and oxidative stress to assess unstable plaque
Tzung Hsiai, MD, PhD, FAHA,
Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering,
Division of Cardiology,
UCLA School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Taussky-Todd Lecture Series II: Convexity and subconvexity bounds for automorphic periods
Joseph Bernstein,
Professor of Mathematics,
University of Tel Aviv,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum dot micromaser driven by single electron tunneling
Jason Petta,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 14th, 2014
8:00am
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12:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Modularity and Greed in Double Auctions
Inbal Talgam-Cohen,
Hsieh Family SIGF Fellow,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Donor-Bidge-Acceptor Biradicals in Ground- and Excited States: Correlation of Exchange and Electronic Coupling with Excited-State Wave Function Mixing
David A. Shultz,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
North Carolina State University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Rates of Stellar Tidal Disruption as Probes of the Supermassive Black Hole Mass Function
Nicholas Stone,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Astrophysics Laboratory,
Columbia University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Self-similarity in the inertial region of wall turbulence
Joe Klewicki,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of New Hampshire and University of Melbourne,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Non-uniquely ergodic laminations and limit sets of geodesics in the Thurston compactification of Teichmüller space
Babak Modami,
Visiting Scholar,
Mathematics,
UIUC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Comparison of Molecular Co and Fe Complexes in the Catalytic Conversion of N2 to NH3
Trevor Del Castillo,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The impact of Alexander von Humboldt and Humboldtian science in the United States
Sandra Rebok,
Huntington Library/Spanish National Research Council ,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Electron tunneling in Van der Waals heterostructures
Chandni U. ,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Eisenstein Group,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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