Institute Calendar
Fall 2019-2020
Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Terrestrial Planet Geophysics: InSight@Mars, VERITAS@Venus
Sue Smrekar,
Senior Research Scientist,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Extreme mass-ratio inspirals: going beyond linear perturbation theory
Niels Warburton,
University College Dublin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Otters and Others: Ted Hughes to Alice Oswald
John Kerrigan,
Professor of English,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Acquisition of/Stochastic Evidence
Barton Lipman,
Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
Boston University,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Special CMX Seminar
How Many Labels Do You Need For Semi-Supervised Learning?
Matthew Thorpe,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar
Renormalization and Effective Field Theories
Bowen Yang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 20th, 2019
9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
The Karger-Stein Algorithm is Optimal for $k$-cut
Jason Li,
Graduate Student,
Carnegie Mellon University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Lattice points on the sphere
Andrei Shubin,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Physics of Enigmatic Fast Radio Bursts
Pawan Kumar,
Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Weather radar, isotopes, and climate models
Courtney Schumacher,
Texas A & M University,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
"Exploring and manipulating different quantum degrees of freedom in two-dimensional van der Waals materials and nano-metamaterials"
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Two experiments on time preferences and repeated game
Jeongbin Kim,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Artworks of the Outdoors
Kelvin Nguyen,
Southern California Mountaineers Association,
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
8:00am
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12/6
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
CANCELED - Growth, Instability, and Failure: Bringing Order into the Chaos of Natural Phenomena
Tal Cohen,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Acoustic Biomolecules as Genetically Encoded Theragnostic Agents
Avinoam Bar-Zion,
Postdoctoral Researcher, Shapiro Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Simon Says: How Norton Simon transformed a failing art museum into a cultural powerhouse
Andrea Thabet,
Lecturer in American History,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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2:45pm
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3:45pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Towards holistic imaging and rapid phenotyping of complex biological systems
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Detecting Gravitational Waves Using the public LIGO-VIRGO data: Doubling the sample of Binary Black Hole Mergers
Barak Zackay,
IAS,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, November 22nd, 2019
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Visualizing small proteins with the cryoEM Platform and The Structure of the Vibrio cholerae Type IV Competence Pilus Secretin PilQ
Sara J. Weaver,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Visualizing small proteins with the cryoEM Platform and The Structure of the Vibrio cholerae Type IV Competence Pilus Secretin PilQ
Sara Weaver,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Recovery of massless Dirac fermions at charge neutrality in strongly interacting twisted bilayer graphene with disorder
Alex Thomson,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Photography/Filming on Campus: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Equitable Voting Rules
Omer Tamuz,
Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Resistance is Futile: Physical science, systems biology and single-cell analysis to understanding the plastic and heterogeneous nature of melanoma and their role in non-genetic drug resistance
Yapeng Su,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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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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