Institute Calendar
Fall 2016-2017
Wednesday, November 16th, 2016
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
The Arithmetic of Special Values of L-functions
Cristian D. Popescu,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
AGN coronae in the NuSTAR era, evidence for hybrid plasma?
Andrew Fabian,
Cambridge,
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Awareness of Unawareness: A Theory of Decision Making in the Face of Ignorance
Edi Karni,
Professor,
School of Arts & Sciences,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation without a role for ocean circulation
Amy Clement,
Professor,
Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Miami,
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Materials Research Lecture
Rapid Acquisition of 3D Data at the Mesoscale for Structural and Functional Materials
Tresa M. Pollock,
Alcoa Professor of Materials and Department Chair of Materials Science,
Materials Department,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Renormalize 'et impera': realism and approximate truth in particle physics
Porter Williams,
Assistant Professor,
Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Pittsburgh,
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Special Biology Seminar
Synthetic Biology: Building Cellular Communities with Gene Circuits and
Arthur Prindle,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
University of California, San Diego,
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Combinatorics Seminar
A generalized Alon-Boppana bound and weak Ramanujan graphs
Fan Chung,
Mathematics Department,
UC San Diego,
4:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Polygonal C*-algebras and their K-theory
Alina Vdovina,
School of Mathematics & Statistics,
Newcastle University,
Thursday, November 17th, 2016
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Adaptive coupling between damaged mechanics and peridynamics: A route for objective simulation of material degradation up to complete failure"
Gilles Lubineau,
Professor/Chair,
Mechanical Engineering,
KAUST,
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Dan Piraner,
Graduate Student, Shapiro Research Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
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International Education Week Lecture
Winnett Lounge
STEMulating the Future Generation of Scientists in Mexico
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Building Structural Complexity via Tandem Catalytic Transformations: Total Syntheses of Bioactive Macrolides and Terpenes
Mingji Dai,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Purdue University,
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Logic Seminar
Measure-preserving group actions and the Lov\'asz Local Lemma
Anton Bernshteyn,
Mathematics Department,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
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Biochemistry Seminar
Novel membrane anchoring mechanism for archaeal surface proteins
Mechthild Pohlschroder,
Professor of Biology,
Department of Biology,
University of Pennsylvania,
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CNS Seminar
Optogenetic analysis of long-range prefrontal connections in learning
Ofer Yizhar,
Department of Neurobiology,
Weizmann Institute of Schience, Israel,
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Number Theory Seminar
Hodge-Newton Filtration for p-divisible groups of Hodge type
Serin Hong,
Mathematics Department,
California Institute of Technology,
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum mechanics ?and geometry of spacetime
Juan Maldacena,
Institute for Advanced Study,
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HSS 50th Anniversary Lecture
On the Trail of Medieval Relics: Tracking Sacred Journeys
Kate Craig,
Assistant Professor,
Department of History,
Auburn University,
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The James Webb Space Telescope: Successor to Hubble
Michael Ressler,
U.S. MIRI Project Scientist,
JPL,
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Friday, November 18th, 2016
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PhD Seminar
Constant Stress and Pressure Rheology of Dense Colloidal Suspensions
Mu Wang,
graduate student,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
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Applied Physics Seminar
Defects in Optically Active Semiconductors for Quantum Applications
Kai-Mei Fu,
Assistant Professor, Physics and Electrical Engineering ,
Department of Physics,
University of Washington,
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Undergraduate Math Club Seminar
Quantum Pseudo-Telepathy Games Entangled State Dimension
Chinmay Nirkhe,
Mathematics Department,
California Institute of Technology,
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Growth and singularity in 2D fluids
Andrej Zlatos,
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Measurement protocols for entanglement entropies and entanglement spectra of cold atoms
Hannes Pichler,
AMP,
Harvard-Smithsonian, Center for Astrophysics,
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TAPIR Seminar
What is the contribution of blazars to the IceCube neutrino flux?
Maria Petropoulou,
Einstein Post Doctoral Fellow,
Physics and Astronomy,
Purdue University,
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GALCIT Colloquium
Surface (nano)Droplets: Formation and Dissolution
Detlef Lohse,
Professor,
University of Twente,
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
On the Pin(2)-equivariant monopole Floer homology of plumbed 3-manifolds
Irving Dai,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Off Campus
The weak solutions of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations
Cheng Yu,
Department of Mathematics,
The University of Texas at Austin,
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Off Campus
Superradiance initiated inside the ergoregion
Gregory Eskin,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
The James Webb Space Telescope: Successor to Hubble
Michael Ressler,
U.S. MIRI Project Scientist,
JPL,
Saturday, November 19th, 2016
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Photography on Campus : Agamalian Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Naz Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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Photography on Campus : Kyababychan Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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Sunday, November 20th, 2016
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Photography on Campus : Karaoghlanian Wedding Photoshoot
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Monday, November 21st, 2016
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Entanglement Spectroscopy of Quantum Many-body Systems
Guanyu Zhu,
Joint Quantum Institute (NIST-University of Maryland),
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Exoplanet Detectives: Seeking Clues to Explain the Diverse Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems
Heather A. Knutson,
Assistant Professor of Planetary Science,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Cation-Responsive Pincer-Crown Ether Complexes for Tunable Catalysis
Alexander Miller,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
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Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Multisymplectic HDG methods
Ari Stern,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Washington University in St. Louis,