Institute Calendar
Fall 2017-2018
Saturday, November 25th, 2017
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Azarian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, November 27th, 2017
12:00am
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12/20
12:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Drinfeld-Gaitsgory functor and contragradient duality for $(g,K)$-modules
Sasha Yom Din,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Planetary Isotopic Genealogy and the Origin of Earth, Mars, and Jupiter
Christoph Burkhardt,
Research Associate,
Institut fuer Planetologie,
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Fine-tuning, Vorticity, and Singularities
Peter Graham,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Interlacing Families
Assistant Professor Nikhil Srivastava,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley ,
Tuesday, November 28th, 2017
10:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Opportunities and Perils in Data Science
Alfred Spector,
CTO of Two Sigma Investments. ,
12:10pm
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12:50pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Irreversibility and symmetry principles for general quantum processes
David Jennings,
University of Oxford,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Non-classification of Cartan subalgebras for a class of von Neumann algebras
Pieter Spaas,
Department of Mathematics,
UCSD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Gradient coding -- When coding theory and distributed computing meet
Netanel Raviv,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
TBD
Dana Anderson,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
Siteng Fan,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
CANCELED-Selective Vulnerability in Frontotemporal Dementia: Onset, Progression, and Relationship to ALS
William Seeley,
Professor,
Neurobiolgy,
University of California San Francisco ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Recent progress on correlations of multiplicative functions
Maksym Radziwill,
Department of Mathematics,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Newton as a Philosophical Geometer: The Example of the Two Revolving Globes
Monica Solomon,
Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Communication in Context: Interpreting Promises in an Experiment on Competition and Trust
Alessandra Casella,
Professor of Economics and Political Science,
Columbia University,
5:30pm
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6:40pm
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2017
9:00am
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10:30am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Almost-Linear-Time Algorithms for Markov Chains and New Spectral Primitives for Directed Graphs
Jon Kelner,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Astrochemistry at the dawn of star and planet formation in the ALMA Era
Paola Caselli,
MPI,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Interaction of Climate Change and Methane Hydrates: Late Pleistocene to Present and the Future
Carolyn Ruppel,
Chief, USGS Gas Hydrates Project,
USGS,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Mikhail Shapiro,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
Garret M. Miyake,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry Department,
Colorado State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Minimal Subjective State Spaces
Igor Kopylov,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
UC Irvine,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, November 30th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Unification through disarray: harnessing disorder at the attachment of tendon to bone"
Guy Genin,
Professor,
NSF Science and Technology Center for Engineering MechanoBiology,
Washington University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
TBA
Justin Johnson,
Graduate Student,
Computer Sciences,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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CS Theory Seminar
Learning Sums of Independent Commonly Supported Integer Random Variables
Anindya De,
Northwestern University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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NEW TIME -- 3PM: CMS Partner Tech Talk
Optimizing Freight Logistics at Auptix with Alum Lu Saenz
Lu Saenz,
AuptiX,
3:50pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Controlling the nanoscale structure, rheology and phase behavior of block copolymer based nanocomposites
Lynn M. Walker,
Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Supercuspidal L-packets
Tasho Kaletha,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Michigan ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Topological photonics: from classical to quantum
Mohammed Hafezi,
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics Departments,
Joint Quantum Institute,
University of Maryland,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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5:30pm
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6:40pm
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6:00pm
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8:30pm
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Caltech Associates President's Circle Dinner & Private Athenaeum Wine Cellar Tour: Adventures in the North Pacific
Off Campus
with Jess Adkins, Smits Family Professor of Geochemistry and Global Environmental Science
Friday, December 1st, 2017
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Exploring non-equilibrium phase transitions with driven Rydberg ensembles
Michael Buchhold,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Refael Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Cole Williams, UC Irvine
Echo Chambers: Disagreement and Polarization in Bayesian Learning
Cole Williams,
Graduate Student,
UC Irvine,
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Exploring compact-binary astrophysics with multi-messenger astronomy
Katelyn Breivik,
Graduate Student,
Northwestern University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Origami engineering: from deployable structures to configurational metamaterials
Glaucio Paulino,
Raymond Allen Jones Chair and Professor,
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Mixed-Signal, RF & Microwave Seminar
Mobile Microscopy, Sensing and Diagnostics for Point-of-Care Medicine and Global Health
Aydogan Ozcan,
Chancellor's Professor ,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering ,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
TBA
Philip Isett,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
1,3-N,O-Chelated Complexes of Rhodium and Iridium: Accessing Metal-Ligand Cooperativity in E-H Bond Activations
Marcus Drover,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Congruences between base change and non base change
Jacques Tilouine,
Institut Galilée,
Universite Paris 13,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Using laboratory earthquake ruptures and ultra-high speed DIC to reveal the structure of dynamic friction
Ares J. Rosakis,
Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:45pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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8:30pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 2nd, 2017
7:00am
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5:00pm
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Family Photography on Campus: Jackson Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00am
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12/5
5:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:30pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Mirzakhanyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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