Institute Calendar
Fall 2015-2016
Tuesday, November 24th, 2015
3:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Weak containment of measure preserving group actions
Peter Burton,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Colloidal Structures from Unexpected Interactions: From Dielectric Many-Body Effects to Non-Equilibrium Phase Behavior
Erik Luijten,
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics,
Materials Science and Engineering; Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics,
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Two-Source Dispersers for Polylogarithmic Entropy and Improved Ramsey Graphs - part 2 of 2
Gil Cohen,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Taussky-Todd Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
In a shadow of the Riemann Hypothesis: Approximation Problems on the Hilbert Multidisc
Nikolai Nikolski,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Bordeaux,
Wednesday, November 25th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The LOFAR EoR project: science goals, foregrounds, processing challenges and status
Ger de Bruyn,
Univ of Groningen,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Carlson-Landau inequalities and magnetic Schrödinger operators
Ari Laptev,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Imperial College London and Mittag-Leffler Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:30pm
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5:30pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, November 26th, 2015
8:00am
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11/27
5:00pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 27th, 2015
8:30am
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4:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Saturday, November 28th, 2015
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Monday, November 30th, 2015
8:00am
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4:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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CPET Seminar with Professor Neil Garg (UCLA)
From Graduate School at Caltech to Juggling Research and Teaching at UCLA
Neil Garg,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Complementarity in the Private Provision of Public Goods by Homo Pecuniarius and Homo Behavioralis
Yoram Halevy, Associate Professor, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Combinatorics Semnar
Polynomials vanishing on Cartesian products
Orit Raz,
PhD Student,
School of Computer Science,
Tel Aviv University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Earthquake Nucleation and Rupture Processes at the Base of the Seismogenic Zone
Jean Paul (Pablo) Ampuero Saenz,
Assistant Professor of Seismology,
Seismological Laboratory,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Interpreting Cosmic Ray Signals "Energy-peak" Way
Doojin Kim,
Univ of Florida,
4:00pm
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8:00pm
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2015
8:00am
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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
Inferring subsurface fault slip from orbiting satellite radar
Mark Simons,
Professor,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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IQI Weekly Seminar
Quantum work fluctuations: notions and exact results
Sebastian Deffner,
Los Alamos,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Automatic continuity notions and locally compact Polish groups
Phillip Wesolek,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Université Catholique de Louvain,
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
Light-ish Elements in Dwarf Galaxies: The Enigmas of Lithium, Carbon, Magnesium, and More
Prof. Evan Kirby,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Sunlight and water – agents of chemical complexity in the environment
Veronica Vaida,
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Generalized Low Rank Models (part 1 of 2)
Madeleine Udell,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Near-future prospects for detection and astrophysical inference with pulsar-timing arrays
Stephen Taylor,
NASA-JPL,
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015
8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:30am
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10:30am
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Jorumycin
Christopher Haley,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Stoltz Group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
New Developments for Scattering Amplitudes
Ulrich Schubert,
Max-Planck Institute for Physics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Sulfur intermediates coupled to O, Fe, and C: What detailed chemistry and mineralogy can tell us about bioavailability
Greg Druschel,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
TBA
Anastasiia Tsvietkova,
Krener Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Some New Thoughts on EW Baryogenesis
Tao Liu,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Transport Properties of Materials from First Principles
Ole Løvvik,
Visiting Associate in Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2015
8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Advancements in jet turbulence and noise modeling: accurate one-way solutions and empirical evaluation of the nonlinear forcing of wavepackets
Aaron Towne,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,