Institute Calendar
Fall 2016-2017
Friday, December 2nd, 2016
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Gravity from conformal large-N gauge theory
Edgar Shaghoulian,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
The Strength of American Federal Democracy
Roger Myerson,
Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Automorphy, Wall Crossing, and Symmetries of BPS States
Natalie Paquette,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Massive Black Hole Binary Mergers and their Gravitational Waves
Luke Kelley,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Material architectures that trigger bone to remain alive, dismiss temperature swings, and grow between stable states
Damiano Pasini,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
McGill,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Coarse and fine geometry of the Thurston metric
David Dumas,
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Chicago,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Local Hamiltonians Whose Ground States are Hard to Approximate
Aram Harrow,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
TBA
Shahaf Nitzan,
School of Mathematics,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Trace Reconstruction When the Number of Samples Is Exponential in the Cube Root of n
Yuval Peres,
Principal Researcher,
Microsoft Research,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Diameter bounds for the Cayley graphs of finite simple groups of large rank
Yilong Yang,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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German Film: Es geschah am hellichten Tag
Movie screening || In German with English subtitles || All interested are welcome
Es geschah am hellichten Tag (It Happened in Broad Daylight),
1958,
Directed by Ladislao Vajda,
Saturday, December 3rd, 2016
8:00am
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12/6
5:00pm
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1:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Hovsepyan Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Kepekchyan Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Shakhbandaryan Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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Monday, December 5th, 2016
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Computational modeling of the mechanics of elastic structural lattices: effects of lattice architecture and hierarchy
Alex Zelhofer,
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Dr. Jonelle Walsh,
Texas A & M,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Special Seminar
Ultra-flat and Ultra-small: New Approaches to Nanofabrication for Plasmonics and Biosensing
Sang-Hyun Oh,
Sanford P. Bordeau Chair in Electrical Engineering,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Spring and Summer Ski Mountaineering in the Cascade Range
Cody Finke,
Caltech Alpine Club,
Tuesday, December 6th, 2016
11:00am
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2:30pm
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2:00pm
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CCHF Virtual Merck Lecture Series
Biocatalysis at Merck
Matt Truppo,
Dr., Ph.D., Executive Director,
Merck & Company, Inc.,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Effect of sine-Gaussian transients on searches of gravitational waves from compact coalescing binaries
Sanjeev Dhurandhar,
Physics,
IUCAA,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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CCHF Virtual Merck Lecture Series
Best Chemistry and World Class Supply
L.-C. Campeau,
Dr., Ph.D.,
Department of Process Research and Development,
Merck & Company, Inc.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED Bray Theory Workshop
Broad sequential equilibria of multi-stage games with infinite sets of signals and actions
Roger Myerson,
Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
By Indirections Find Directions Out: Molecular Photovoltaics
Mark A. Ratner,
Lawrence B. Dumas Distinguished University Professor Emeritus,
Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Plasticity and Spatial Topography in Olfaction
Tim Holy,
Assistant Professor,
Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences,
University of Washington,
Wednesday, December 7th, 2016
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:00am
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12/9
5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Computational modeling of the mechanics of elastic structural lattices: effects of lattice architecture and hierarchy
Pinaky Bhattacharyya,
Optimal Sensor Placement for Bayesian Parametric Identification of Structures,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Spectral asymptotics for fractional Laplacian
Victor Ivrii,
Mathematics Department,
University of Toronto,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Stereoselective Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization Using Cyclometalated Ruthenium Alkylidene Complexes
Lauren Rosebrugh,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Research talks from Resnick Postdoctoral Scholars Artur Davoyan & Deep Jariwala
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Redirecting the Immune System for Cancer Therapy
Julie Bailis,
Dr., Ph.D.,
Oncology Research,
Amgen, Inc.,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
On the number of ordinary lines determined by sets in complex space
Abdul Basit,
Department of Computer Science,
Rutgers University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, December 8th, 2016
8:50am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Greening a Top-20 Economy: Energy-Efficient Timely Transportation of Heavy-Duty Trucks
RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar
Minghua Chen,
Associate Professor,
Information Engineering,
Chinese University of Hong Kong,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Time-Space Hardness of Learning Sparse Parities
Avishay Tal,
IAS, Princeton,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar
The Editorial Process and Life as a Journal Editor
Robert Kruger,
Deputy Editor of Cell,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar
The Editorial Process and Life as a Journal Editor
Robert Kruger,
Deputy Editor,
Cell,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Watson and Crick or Hoogsteen? Reigniting an Old Debate Regarding Base Pairing in the DNA Double Helix
Hashim M. Al-Hashimi,
James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry,
Department of Biochemistry,
Duke University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Influencing Connected Legislators
Marco Battaglini,
Professor of Economics,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Discovery and Engineering of Plant Chemistry
Elizabeth Sattely, PhD.,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Exploring Tidally-Induced Deformation on Satellites with Experimental Analogues
Ivy Curren,
Graduate Student,
Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
University of California, Los Angeles,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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Friday, December 9th, 2016
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:30am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Dorothea Kubler, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
College Admissions with Entrance Exams: Centralized versus Decentralized
Dorothea Kubler,
Professor and Director of the Research Unit,
WZB Berlin Social Science Center,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Special Seminar
Hyper-CEST NMR with Hyperporalized Xenon Biosensors
Leif Schroder,
Research Group Leader,
Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
H2 Activation and Electrophile-Promoted Migration to CO at Fe
Ms. Meaghan Deegan,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,