Institute Calendar
Fall 2015-2016
Wednesday, November 4th, 2015
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Astronomy Colloquium
Observing the Evolution of Solids in Protoplanetary Disks
Sean Andrews,
CfZ Harvard,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Ocean turbulence: from micro scale to large scale circulation
Ali Mashayek,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar
Mechanisms of Long Non-coding RNA Transcriptional Regulation
Jhumku Kohtz,
Research Professor,
Department of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Ultrafast Dynamics of Excited Electrons in Materials for Energy Applications
Marco Bernardi,
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science,
Applied Physics and Materials Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Development of New Catalytic Methods for the Synthesis of Natural Products
Pavel Nagorny,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Michigan,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Light, Atomic Clocks, and Testing Einstein's Assumptions
Dr. John L. Hall,
JILA, University of Colorado and NIST,
Thursday, November 5th, 2015
10:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Triumph of Control Theory: How Hybrid System Models and Nonlinear Control Realized Efficient Dynamic Walking on the Humanoid Robot DURUS
Aaron Ames,
Professor,
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Inter-Domain Dynamics of an ATP-Independent Chaperone
Camille McAvoy,
Ms.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
From Dynamically Self-Assembling Materials to Chemical Reactivity in Confined Environments
Rafal Klajn,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Organic Chemistry,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
ATP-dependent and independent mechanisms of regulating chromatin
Geeta Narlikar,
Associate Professor,
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics,
UCSF School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
The N-terminal hypothesis for Alzheimer's disease
Georges Belfort,
Institute Professor,
Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Surprises in (strong/non linear) gravity
Luis Lehner,
Perimeter Institute,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Juno Mission to Jupiter
Steven Levin,
Project Scientist,
JUNO,
JPL,
Friday, November 6th, 2015
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/SISL Seminar: Shachar Kariv
Distinguishing nonstationarity from inconsistency in intertemporal choice
Shachar Kariv,
Department Chair and Benjamin N. Ward Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
University of California, Berkeley,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Quiver gauge theories, TQFT and integrable lattice models
Junya Yagi,
Univ of Warsaw,
1:30pm
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3:00pm
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General Chemistry Seminar
Non-Covalent Synthesis of Functional Supramolecular Systems
Bert Meijer,
Professor,
Organic Chemistry,
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
How gas accretion and galactic outflows affect galaxies and their haloes
Freeke van de Voort,
Joint TAC-ASIAA Fellow,
Dept of Astronomy,
UC Berkeley / ASIAA,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Toward physical realizations of information-theory models for small-scale thermodynamics
Nicole Yunger Halpern,
Graduate Student,
Preskill Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Constrained Trajectory Optimization from Formula 1 Racing to Hypersonic Vehicles
Timothy Jorris,
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics & California State University, Long Beach ,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
TBA
Peter Feller,
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mathematics,
Boston College,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Four-Electron Reductive Coupling of Carbon Monoxide
Joshua (Josh) Buss,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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3:30pm
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Learning Seminar
Abelian Varieties and polarized Hodge structures (II)
Pablo Solis,
Olga Taussky and John Todd Instructor in Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Learning Seminar
CM Abelian Varieties over C and their Hodge Structures
Brian Hwang,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Hybridization Approaches to Rare Sequence Variant Detection in Human DNA
Dave Zhang,
Ted Law Jr. Assistant Professor of Bioengineering ,
Bioengineering,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Mixed-Signal, RF & Microwave Seminar
Opportunities and Challenges for Photonics in Next-Generation Data Centers
Clint Schow,
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
The Juno Mission to Jupiter
Steven Levin,
Project Scientist,
JUNO,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, November 7th, 2015
12:00am
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Miller Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 8th, 2015
12:00am
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Batmanidis Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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5:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Tsai Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, November 9th, 2015
9:00am
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9:00am
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Proton-Coupled Reduction of N2 Facilitated by Molecular Fe Complexes
Jon Rittle,
Graduate Student in Chemistry,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Perverse sheaves on arc spaces and local L-factors
Alexis Bouthier,
Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Mixing Light and Sound in Nanophotonic Circuits
Peter T. Rakich,
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Faster Convex Optimization: Simulated Annealing with an Efficient Universal Barrier
Professor Elad Hazan,
Department of Computer Science,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Origin of Planets Found Close to their Host Stars
Kevin C. Schlaufman,
Carnegie-Princeton Fellow,
Department of Astrophysical Sciences,
Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science,