Institute Calendar
Fall 2016-2017
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016
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Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Exploring chemical reaction spaces using a graph grammar approach.
Christoph Flamm,
Professor,
Theoretical Chemistry,
University of Vienna,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Oringer Seminar Series
Making software for rockets and spacecraft
Josh Sulkin,
Lead Flight Software Engineer - Dragon Spacecraft,
SpaceX,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Multimessenger Astronomy in the First Two Years of Advanced LIGO
Alex Urban,
LIGO,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
A unified treatment of tidal disruption by Schwarzschild black holes
Mike Kesden,
Assistant Professor,
University of Texas, Dallas,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Separating quantum communication complexity and approximate log-rank
Ankit Garg,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Microsoft Research, New England,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Bruce Hoffman, Georgetown University
The Rationality of Terrorism and Other Forms of Political Violence: Lessons from the Jewish Campaign in Palestine, 1944-1947
Bruce Hoffman,
Professor, Director of the Center for Security Studies and the Security Studies Program,
Walsh School of Foreign Service,
Georgetown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Rhythms for Cognition: Communication through Coherence
Pasqual Fries,
Professor,
Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience - Max Planck Society,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thursday, November 24th, 2016
8:00am
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11/25
5:00pm
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2:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Peru Wedding Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 25th, 2016
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Saturday, November 26th, 2016
10:00am
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3:00pm
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Photography on Campus : Musakhanyan Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Kasbarian/Skenderian Wedding Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:30pm
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8:30pm
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Monday, November 28th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSRG/DOLCIT SEMINAR
How We Can Use Optimization to Design Electric Power Markets to Support Socially Optimal Decisions
Benjamin F. Hobbs,
Theodore M. and Kay W. Schad Chair of Environmental Management,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Systems Biology Adventures in Brain Wiring and Drug Discovery
Steve Altschuler & Lani Wu ,
Professor,
Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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RSRG/DOLCIT SEMINAR
Opting Into Optimal Matchings
Nika Haghtalab,
Graduate-Research Assistant,
Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Tuesday, November 29th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CCHF Virtual Merck Lecture Series
Enabling High-throughput Experimentation through High-throughput Analysis
Yun Mao,
Dr., Ph.D., Director,
Analytical Research and Development, Merck Research Laboratories,
Merck & Company, Inc.,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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CCHF Virtual Merck Lecture Series
High-throughput Experimentation for Chemists: Rationally Designed Large Arrays of Experiments for Solving Complex Chemical Problems
Michael Shelvin,
Associate Principal Scientist,
Catalysis Laboratory, Department of Process Research and Development,
Merck & Company, Inc.,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Optical Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy
Steve Cundiff,
Professor of Physics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Prof. Marcia Rieke,
Univ. of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Aqueous Flow Through Two-Dimensional Crystals
Joel Eaves,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Metabolic Perturbation in Cancer and Genetic Diseases of Childhood
Ralph DeBerardinis,
Assistant Professor,
Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth & Development,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Discovery of Treatments from Text Corpora
Justin Grimmer,
Associate Professor of Political Science,
Stanford University,
6:00pm
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9:30pm
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Associates East Coast Program: A New Era of Robotics
Off Campus
A New Era of Robotics: Reconnecting to the Environment
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Aviad Rubenstein, UC Berkeley
Hardness of Approximation between P and NP
Aviad Rubenstein,
Computer Science PhD Candidate,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Spectral Theory Sum Rules, Meromorphic Herglotz Functions and Large Deviations
Barry Simon,
Mathematics Department,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Operator Representations in Geometry Processing and Applications
Computing and Mathematicals Sciences Seminar
Omri Azencot,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Computer Science,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Scaling plant fluorescence from the leaf to the satellite: Towards global mapping of terrestrial photosynthesis?
Troy Magney,
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Song Ma, Yale School of Management
Agency, Incentives, and Motivating Innovation
Song Ma,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
School of Management,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Elasticity and Thermodynamics of Metallic Liquids, Glasses, and Crystals
William L. Johnson,
Ruben F. and Donna Mettler Professor of Engineering and Applied Science,
Applied Physics and Materials Science Department,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Organic Synthesis
Robert R. Knowles,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Speaker: Omri Azencot, Ph.D. candidate at the Technion (Israel) Title: Operator Representations in Geometry Processing and Applications
Computing and Mathematicals Sciences Seminar
Omri Azencot,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Computer Science,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Thursday, December 1st, 2016
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Workshop
2D and 3D Visualization of Metabolomics Data
Pieter Dorrestein, PhD,
Professor; Director, Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center; Co-Director, Institute for Metabolomics Medicine,
Departments of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology,
University of California, San Diego,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Evolving Boundaries with Explicit Parametric Geometry"
Ganesh Subbrayan,
Professor,
School of Mechanical Engineering,
Purdue University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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A Conic Optimization Approach to Structured Model Reduction
RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar
James D. Anderson,
Senior Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Michiel Niesen,
Graduate Student, Miller Research Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Digitizing the Chemistry of Microbes
Pieter Dorrestein, PhD,
Professor; Director, Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center; Co-Director, Institute for Metabolomics Medicine,
Departments of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Biard Lecture: Mapping the Nearest Stars for Habitable Worlds
Sara Seager,
Professor of Planetary Science and Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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HSS 50th Anniversary Lecture
Engineering Social Institutions: The Search for Big Themes in Social Science
Roger G. Noll,
Professor of Economics, Emeritus,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, December 2nd, 2016
8:00am
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8:00am
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4:30pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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1:30pm
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