Institute Calendar
Fall 2019-2020
Friday, November 22nd, 2019
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GALCIT Colloquium
Machine Learning and Sparse Optimization for Modeling, Sensing, and Controlling Fluid Dynamics
Steve Brunton,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics,
University of Washington,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, November 23rd, 2019
11:00am
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ferrer Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Khachikyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 24th, 2019
3:00pm
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Monday, November 25th, 2019
12:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
The integral geometric Stake equivalence in mixed characteristic
Jize Yu,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Slabs: Penetration, Stagnation, Topography and Inundation
Carolina Lithgow-Bertellon,
Louis B and Martha B Slichter Chair in the Geosciences,
Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Large-Misalignment Mechanism for Compact Axion Structures
Ken Van Tilburg,
KITP, UCSB,
Tuesday, November 26th, 2019
9:30am
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction in Infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces with Tensor Networks
Monica Jinwoo Kang,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Biology Seminar
Reimagining Druggability using Chemoproteomic Platforms
Dan Nomura,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, and Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology,
UC-Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar
CANCELLED - The Classical Batalin-Vilkovisky Formalism
7:00pm
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
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Thursday, November 28th, 2019
12:00am
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11/29
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11/29
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Monday, December 2nd, 2019
12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Evidence from oxygen-sensitive proxies for late-Pleistocene variability in ventilation of the deep ocean, with implications for atmospheric CO2
Robert F. Anderson,
Ewing Lamont Research Professor,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Columbia University Earth Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Reaction Mechanisms and Kinetics of Electrocatalysis from Quantum Mechanics: Applications to CO2 Reduction, Oxygen Evolution, Hydrogen Evolution, and Oxygen Reduction
William A. Goddard III,
Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics; Director, Materials and Process Simulation Center (MSC),
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Computational X-ray Spectroscopy: Matching Peaks and Missing Features
John Vinson,
Physicist, NIST,
Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Group,
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Towards Multipurpose Biophysics-Based Mathematical Models of Cortical Circuits"
Gaute Einevoll,
Professor,
University of Oslo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Inelastic dark matter revives the dark photon explanation of the muon g-2 anomaly
Gopolang Mohlabeng,
Brookhaven National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Kernel Estimation for Dyadic Data
James Powell,
George Break and Helen Schnacke Break Distinguished Professor of Economics,
UC Berkeley,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar
The Classical Batalin-Vilkovisky Formalism
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Heads of the Colored People
Nafissa Thompson-Spires,
American Author and Associate Professor of English at Cornell University,
- Public Event
Wednesday, December 4th, 2019
8:00am
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12:00pm
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TCS+ Talk
TBA
Nihar Shah,
Assistant Professor,
Machine Learning and Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
"RNA Structure-Function Relationships Under In Vivo and In Vivo-Like Conditions: Impacts on RNA Catalysis, Folding, and Transcriptome-Wide Response to Stress"
Philip Bevilacqua,
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Understanding the first obligate manganese oxidizing bacteria
Hank Yu,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Spiritual Mobilization: Re-selling market fundamentalism to America's clergy during the New Deal
Erik M. Conway,
Visiting Associate in the Humanities,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Who Gets Placed Where and Why? An Empirical Framework for Foster Care Placement
Alejandro Robinson-Cortés,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, December 5th, 2019
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Linking chromatin biochemistry to cell identity: decoding cell-fate decision making using next-generation epigenomic technologies
Xun Wang,
Graduate Student,
CCE,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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CANCELED! - Frontiers in Chemical Biology Seminar
Engineered Protein Switches for Studying Dynamic Cellular Processes
Dustin Maly,
Professor and Raymon E. and Rosellen M. Lawton Distinguished Scholar in Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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POSTPONED | Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been postponed to Thursday, January 9, 2020.
Vadim V. Martynov,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Friday, December 6th, 2019
8:00am
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