Institute Calendar
Fall 2015-2016
Thursday, October 15th, 2015
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Cracking the Codes for Cellular Identity at the Single Cell Transcript Level
Ahmet F. Coskun,
Dr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Furstenberg-Poisson boundary 101
Omer Tamuz,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Humanities and Social Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Microbial fermentation for health and fashion
John Dueber,
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The powerful magnetic fields of red giant stars
Jim Fuller,
Postdoctoral Scholar in the TAPIR Group,
Caltech,
4:40pm
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6:00pm
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CMA presents Special Effects Wizardry in "The Martian"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Chris Lawrence,
Visual Effects Supervisor and Head of Computer Graphics,
Framestore,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 16th, 2015
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Ehud Kalai
Learning and Stability in Big Uncertain Games
Ehud Kalai,
The James J. O'Connor Professor of Decision and Game Sciences,
Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Tests of strong gravity with compact objects
Emanuele Berti,
Associate Professor,
Dept of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Mississippi,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Rapid, High Quality Hypersonic Mission Design Using Indirect Methods
Michael Grant,
Assistant Professor ,
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Purdue University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Algebraic Knots, Upsilon invariant and optimal cobordisms
Shida Wang,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Indiana University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
New Cryogenic Targets for Nuclear Physics
David Kendellen,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
TUNL,
Duke University,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Saturday, October 17th, 2015
12:00am
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5:30pm
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1:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Meshefejian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 18th, 2015
3:30pm
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Monday, October 19th, 2015
12:00pm
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10/23
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Strange duality of Conformal Blocks
Swarnava Mukhopadhyay,
Brin Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mathematics,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
The Empirical Relevance of Cumulative Prospect Theory
Charles Sprenger, Associate Professor, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Quantum Chemical Games of Life
Ali Alavi,
FRS, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Sub-Linear Time Algorithms for "Big Data" Recovery Based on Sparse-Graph Codes
Professor Kannan Ramchandran,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Climate History of Mars: Was the Early Mars Climate "Warm and Wet" or "Cold and Icy"?
James W. Head, III,
Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor,
Department of Geological Sciences,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Distinguishing the new physics via the correlation of the single Higgs and double Higgs production
Hao Zhang,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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7:30pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Last Man Shralping: Sierra Ski Mountaineering on the Driest Winter in Recorded California History
Cody Finke,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 20th, 2015
10:30am
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IST Lunch Bunch
Coarse-grained representations of information in complex systems
Greg Ver Steeg,
Professor,
Information Sciences Institute,
USC,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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10/21
5:00pm
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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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CANCELLED || Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Impression of Influence
Justin Grimmer, Associate Professor of Political Science, Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Electronic Stopping under Proton Irradiation: Understanding Electronic Excitation Dynamics using First-Principles Theory
Yosuke Kanai,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The complex geometry of Teichmüller spaces and bounded symmetric domains
Stergios Antonakoudis,
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics,
University of Cambridge,
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Stability of Solid-Electrolyte Interfaces during Charge in Lithium Batteries
Panagiotis Natsiavas,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,