Institute Calendar
Fall 2016-2017
Saturday, October 22nd, 2016
9:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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2:30pm
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Photography on Campus : Nichols Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Bandari/Manoukian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kendirjian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Photography on Campus : Khatcherian Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2016
3:30pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Antonious/Alfi Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 24th, 2016
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Development of Automated Reaction Path Search Methods toward Systematic Understanding and Design of Organic Reactions
Satoshi Maeda,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Hokkaido University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Next Generation Computer Simulations for Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics Electromagnetic Applications
Professor Jin-Fa Lee,
ElectroScience Lab., ECE Dept. College of Engineering,
The Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Reducing the Earth to Simple Physical Models: From Antarctica to the Core
Victor C. Tsai,
Assistant Professor of Geophysics,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Cosmology & Effective Field Theories: Higgs Evolution in Inflation and Large Scale Structure
Kathyrn Zurek,
LBNL,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2016
9:30am
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10:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar - please note date & time
Zeta polynomials for modular forms
Ken Ono,
Mathematics & Computer Science,
Emory University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
How Bitcoin enables a Machine-Payable Web
Balaji S. Srinivasan,
CEO of 21.co and a Board Partner at Andreessen Horowitz.,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Observing coating Brownian noise in silicon optics at the zero-expansion point
Johannes Eichholz,
LIGO,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Logical aspects of profinite groups
André Nies,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Auckland ,
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. Alan Dressler,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Directed assembly in liquid crystalline environments
Juan J. de Pablo,
Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering,
Institute for Molecular Engineering,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Early Decisions in Neural Fate Determination
Kenneth Kosik,
Harriman Professor of Neuroscience ,
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Seminar of the Walter Burke Institute of Theoretical Physics and the Einstein Papers Project
Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prizes
Lars Brink,
Professor Emeritus, Chalmers University of Technology; Former Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Centralization versus separation of regulatory institutions
Dana Foarta,
Assistant Professor of Political Economy,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2016
8:00am
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11/1
5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Local search yields approximation schemes for k-means and k-median in Euclidean and minor-free metrics
Claire Mathieu,
ENS,
11:50am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Extreme Power Density and Efficiency Power Converters for Grid Interfaced Applications—New Circuit Topologies and Control Techniques to Leverage Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Devices
Robert Pilawa-Podgurski,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Tropical energetic and precipitation responses to sea surface temperature perturbations: Zonal mean and the African Sahel
Spencer Hill,
NSF Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Extending the Range of the Glassy State in Metals
A. Lindsay Greer,
Head of the School of Physical Sciences, Professor of Materials Science,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
What is ‘orthodox' quantum mechanics?
David Wallace,
Professor of Philosophy,
USC,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Cokernels of Random Matrices and Sandpile Groups
Nathan Kaplan,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Irvine,
5:15pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 27th, 2016
10:30am
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12:30pm
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