Institute Calendar
Fall 2016-2017
Thursday, October 13th, 2016
12:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Role of Substrate in Tail-Anchored Protein Targeting
Un Seng Chio,
Graduate Student, Shan Research Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
From algorithms to lower bounds and back via the statistical query complexity
Vitaly Feldman,
IBM Research Almaden ,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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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
Integrated Modeling of GMT
Dr. Antonin Bouchez,
GMTO,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture
Symmetry Through Geometry
Nalini Joshi,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Sydney,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture - POSTPONED
Ahmad K. Omar,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
New Topological Phases of Matter: Platform for emergent Dirac, Majorana and Weyl fermions
Zahid Hasan,
Professor of Physics,
Princeton University,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Against the Odds: Our Mountain Biking Adventure from Canada to Mexico
Vito Rubino,
Caltech Alpine Club,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 14th, 2016
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:30am
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10:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Haifeng Xu, USC
Persuasion Through the Computational Lens
Haifeng Xu, Graduate Student,
Economics & Computation,
USC,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
The Timberland Economy in Southeastern Guizhou: Co-ownership, Securitization, and Risk-Sharing
Meng Zhang,
Ph.D. Candidate,
History Department,
UCLA,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Quasilocal free energy in GR: Positivity and monotonicity
Wolfgang Wieland,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Relativistic effects on LSS: power spectrum and bispectrum
Enea Di Dio,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
INAF-OATS (Trieste Observatory),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Compliance and Instability in Hierarchical Structures: from morphing wings to metamaterials
Andres Arrieta,
Purdue University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
A monopole invariant for foliations without transverse measure
Boyu Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, October 15th, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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9:00am
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5:30pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Melendis Family Portrait Session
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Banuelos Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Ambarchyan Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Babaian Dergalestian Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:20pm
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6:20pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 16th, 2016
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Collier Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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7:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Huang Family Portrait Session
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 17th, 2016
9:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Spectroscopic, Electronic, and Mechanistic Studies of Silicon Surfaces Chemically Modified with Short Alkyl Chains
Noah Plymale,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar
Violence in History and in Contemporary Conflicts: Why History Matters for Today's Politics
Bettina Koch,
Associate Professor of Political Science, Virginia Tech; Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations Fellow,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
NonLERFness of arithmetic hyperbolic manifold groups
Hongbin Sun,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Difference-of-Convex Programming
Professor Jong-Shi Pang,
Viterbi School of Engineering ,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
How bright is the proton? A precise determination of the photon PDF.
Aneesh Manohar,
UCSD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Advances in Bio-Activated and Targeted MR Imaging Probes: Are We There Yet?
Thomas J. Meade,
Professor,
Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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The Thomas J. and Earleen Ahrens Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences
Origin of plate tectonics: From global to grain scales (and back again)
David Bercovici,
Frederick William Beinecke Prof of Geophysics,
Department of Geology and Geophysics,
Yale University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
Equivariant Floer homology
Sucharit Sarkar,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
ArtDoors: Artwork of the Outdoors
Kelvin Nguyen,
Southern California Mountaineers Association,
Tuesday, October 18th, 2016
8:30am
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3:00pm
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