Institute Calendar
Fall 2016-2017
Tuesday, September 20th, 2016
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11:30am
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LIGO Seminar
Maximizing the sensitivity of LIGO and the electromagnetic followup of its events
Michael Coughlin,
Physics,
Harvard University,
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
Dr. Courtney Dressing,
Caltech,
Wednesday, September 21st, 2016
8:00am
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4:00pm
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12:00pm
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12:30pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Cavitation induced failure in brittle bulk metallic glasses
Professor R. Narasimhan ,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India,
7:15pm
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10:15pm
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
10:30am
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12:30pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:30pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Constant-Round Interactive Proofs for Delegating Computation
Guy Rothblum,
Samsung Research America,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Discovery and Development of Small-Molecule Modulators for the Sulfation of Glycosaminoglycans
Sheldon Cheung,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Revealing Saturn: Cassini Science Highlights and the Grand Finale
Earl Maize,
Cassini Project Manager,
JPL,
Linda Spilker,
Cassini Project Scientist,
JPL,
Friday, September 23rd, 2016
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Revealing the nature of dark matter with Milky Way dwarf satellite galaxies
Mei-Yu Wang,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Texas A&M University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:00pm
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Photography on Campus : Aguilar Engagement Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Revealing Saturn: Cassini Science Highlights and the Grand Finale
Earl Maize,
Cassini Project Manager,
JPL,
Linda Spilker,
Cassini Project Scientist,
JPL,
Saturday, September 24th, 2016
11:00am
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2:00pm
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Photography on Campus : Melgar Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Photography on Campus : Laguna Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm
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7:30pm
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Photography on Campus : Eivazian Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, September 25th, 2016
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Photography on Campus :Assad Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, September 26th, 2016
9:00am
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Alkaline salts of sodium and potassium: from C–X reduction to C–H functionalization and beyond
Anton Toutov,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar/ Cornelis Wiersma Visiting Professor Lecture
"Probing Neural Circuits with Shaped Light"
Na Ji,
Group Leader,
Janelia Research Campus,
Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, Virgina,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Huseyin Gulen, Purdue University
Extrapolation Bias and the Predictability of Stock Returns by Price-Scaled Variables
Huseyin Gulen, Associate Professor of Finance,
Krannert School of Management,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Recent applications of the thorium-230 stopwatch in deep-sea sediments
Jerry F. McManus,
Professor,
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Lamont-Doberty Earth Observatory, Columbia University,
Tuesday, September 27th, 2016
9:30am
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10:30am
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10:30am
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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
Prof. Laura Sales,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kroc Lecture
Probing Transcription Regulation in ES Cells and Disease Models by Single Molecule Imaging
Robert Tjian,
Professor,
Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology,
University of California Berkeley,
5:30pm
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7:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Avedikyan Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:10pm
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8:30pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Rock Climbing Anchors: A Discussion of Forces and Methods
Aron Stockhausen,
Southern California Mountaineers Association,
Wednesday, September 28th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Asymptotic stability in the variable-speed $\phi^4$ model
Stanley Snelson,
L. E. Dickson Instructor,
Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Heavy Element Enrichment in Early Circumgalactic and Intergalactic Environmnents
Robert Simcoe,
MIT-Kavli,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Cornelis Wiersma Visiting Professor Lecture
"Optical physics for biological imaging"
Na Ji,
Group Leader,
Janelia Research Campus,
Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, Virgina,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Associates Northern California Panel: The Future of Driverless Cars
Off Campus
The Road Ahead: The Future of Driverless Cars
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, September 29th, 2016
10:30am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Metamaterials with tailored elasticity and nonlinearities: from impact absorption to mechanical logic gates"
Chiara Daraio,
Professor,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
A quantum gas of polar KRb molecules in an optical lattice
Jacob Covey,
Graduate Student, Jun Ye's Group,
JILA/ University of Colorado, Boulder,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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1:30pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
The entropy power inequality for the Renyi entropy
Arnaud Marsiglietti,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The LISA Pathfinder mission: first results and implications for an orbiting gravitational wave observatory
William Joseph Weber,
Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Trento,
and TIFPA/INFN, Italy,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Nanoscale biophotonics and its applications in life sciences and medicine
Luke P. Lee,
Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor; Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor; Co-Director, Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center ,
Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Biophysics Program; Medicine, Surgery, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry and Physics,
University of California, Berkeley; Biomedical Institute for Global Health Research & Technology (BIGHEART), National University of Singapore,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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HSS 50th Anniversary Lecture
George Ellery Hale's Vision of the Humane Scientist: Has it Survived?
John Sutherland,
Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature,
University College London,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, September 30th, 2016
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Studying IR Dynamics with Conformal Truncation
Matthew Walters,
Boston University,