Institute Calendar
Fall 2017-2018
Friday, November 10th, 2017
3:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Nanophotonics in the Flatland: Controlling Light at the Nanoscale with Plasmonics and Metasurfaces
Koray Aydin,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Northwestern University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Matrix-stabilized Combustion: A Tortuous Path to Establish Advanced Combustion Technologies
Matthias Ihme,
Associate Professor ,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
Saturday, November 11th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Abrahamian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hacopian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gezalian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Bagramyan/Keshishian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 12th, 2017
6:00am
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Vu Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 13th, 2017
4:00am
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11:50pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Informal Biology Seminar
How cell fate decisions are maintained by Polycomb Repressive Complexes
Oliver Bell,
Group Leader,
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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International Education Week Lecture
Economic Impact Analysis of Immigrant Entrepreneurs Across America
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
"Elucidating the role of O-GlcNAc glycosylation in neurobiology and neurodegeneration."
Elizabeth Jensen,
Graduate Student, Hsieh-Wilson Lab,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Singular support for coherent sheaves and categories
Dima Arinkin,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Biology as Information Dynamics
John Baez,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of California, Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Centennial Glacier Retreat as Categorical Evidence of Climate Change
Gerard H. Roe,
Professor, Associate Chair,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Accelerating axion dark matter searches with quantum information technology
Konrad Lehnert,
JILA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Artificial Photosynthesis by Light Absorption, Charge Separation, and Photoredox Catalysis
Han Sen Soo,
Nanyang Assistant Professor,
Division of Chemistry & Biological Chemistry, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, College of Sciences,
Nanyang Technological University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Importance Sampling the Union of Rare Events with an Application to Power Systems Analysis
Professor Art B. Owen,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Bayesian Indirect Inference and the ABC of GMM
Han Hong,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, November 14th, 2017
9:00am
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2:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Arithmetic and Geometric Structures in Physics Seminar
Non-archimedean distributions attached to twisted tensor L-functions
Baskar Balasubramanyam,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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12:45pm
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Caltech Alumni Career Webinar Series
The Nuts and Bolts of Instagram for Scientists
Paige Jarreau, PhD,
Science Communication Specialist,
Louisiana State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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International Education Week Lecture
Inspirations + Transformations: My Journey from Cairo to Caltech
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Rethinking Datacenter Management with Game Theory
Benjamin Lee,
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering ,
Duke University,
12:10pm
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12:50pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Science Seminar
Gravitational-wave polarizations: what have we learned, what will we learn, and why does it matter
Maximiliano Isi,
LIGO,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Matrix Product Operators in Quantum Information
David Perez-Garcia,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
An Operator Algebraic Tool for Deducing Measure Equivalence of Groups
Daniel Hoff,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
From Network Coding to Sidon Spaces
Netanel Raviv,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Icy ocean world interiors from gravity and topography
Doug Hemingway,
Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Autoduality of Jacobians for singular curves
Dima Arinkin,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Searching for Policy Reforms
Avidit Acharya,
Assistant Professor,
Stanford University,
4:45pm
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6:00pm
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CMA presents: First the Desert, Then the Stars: The Dubai Future Foundation, the Museum of the Future, and the 21st Century
Noah Raford,
Chief Operating Officer and Futurist-in-Chief,
Dubai Future Foundation,
5:30pm
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6:40pm
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2017
9:00am
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5:00pm
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9:30am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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4:00pm
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Attacks on Blockwise Local PRGs and Indistinguishability Obfuscation
Vinod Vaikuntanathan,
MIT,
11:00am
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11:00am
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Max Williams Lecture
Study of Human Diseases at the Intersections of Engineering, Sciences and Medicine
Subra Suresh,
President-Designate and Distinguished University Professor Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,