Institute Calendar
Fall 2019-2020
Thursday, October 10th, 2019
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Synthetic Genetic Systems for Rapid Mutation and Continuous Evolution in vivo
Chang C. Liu,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
"Watching a fine-tuned molecular machine at work: Structural and functional studies of the 26S proteasome"
Andreas Martin,
Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Policy Announcement Design
Semyon Malamud,
Associate Professor of Finance,
Swiss Finance Institute,
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
2H/1H variation in microbial lipids is controlled by NADPH metabolism
Reto Wijker,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
New frontiers in exoplanet science with high-contrast imaging and spectroscopy
Dimitri Mawet,
Caltech & JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Nothing is real, but thank God it's epistemic
Mario Hubert,
Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy of Physics,
Caltech,
Friday, October 11th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Dynamic Information Design with Diminishing Sensitivity Over News
Kevin He,
Linde Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Expanding polynomials for sets with additive or multiplicative structure
Cosmin Pohoata,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Active Particles in Complex Fluids
Gwynn Elfring,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
How Green Was My Night Soil
David Howell,
Professor of Japanese History and Chair,
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations,
Harvard University,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Elias Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, October 12th, 2019
10:00am
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5:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ashikyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hofstad Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 14th, 2019
12:00am
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12:00am
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8:45am
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12:30pm
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11:45am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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CMS-EE TechFest Keynote Talk
3D Sensing Technology and Applications
Julie Eng,
Executive Vice President and General Manager of 3D Sensing,
Finisar Corporation,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:05pm
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12:15pm
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12:45pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Quantitative recurrence and hyperbolicity of the Teichmüller flow
Ian Frankel,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
Queen's University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
On the origin of Earth's water and the formation of the Moon
Gerrit Budde,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Geochemistry,
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
Primordial Non-Gaussianity as a probe of (ultra high-energy) gauge theories.
Soubhik Kumar,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Boron Cluster Building Blocks and Synthetic Reagents
Alexander M. Spokoyny,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Tuesday, October 15th, 2019
12:00am
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11/5
12:00am
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2:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Microscale Fluid-Structure Interactions: Something Old, Something New and Something Unexpected
Leslie Y Yeo,
Professor,
Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory,
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Melbourne, Australia),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Measuring Economic Development from Space
Stefano Ermon,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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12:50pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Grigory Yaroslavtsev
Advances in Linear Sketching over Finite Fields
Grigory Yaroslavtsev,
Assistant professor of Computer Science,
Indiana University, Bloomington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Planet formation goes to extremes: the "ultra-short-periods" and the "super-puffs"
Fei Dai,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Planetary Science,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Information acquisition and strategic investment timing
Erik Madsen,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar
Factorization algebras: Definitions and Constructions
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
11:30am
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Astronomy Colloquium
Galactic Archaeology: Galaxy Formation and Nucleosynthesis
Evan Kirby,
Assistant Professor,
Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Modeling the terrestrial biosphere in the Earth system: moving beyond the incorrect but useful paradigm
Gordon Bonan,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
"Pascal conductance series in ballistic one-dimensional LaAlO3/SrTiO3 channels"
Jeremy Levy,
Distinguished Professor of Condensed Matter Physics,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Strategy and Technology of Conflict
Sandeep Baliga,
John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences,
Northwestern University,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Causality: From Aristotle to Zebrafish
Frederick Eberhardt,
Professor of Philosophy,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
10:17am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
The Timing of Soil Liquefaction and Its Potential for Improving Liquefaction Hazard Evaluation
Steve Kramer,
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Department of Civil Engineering,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Repurposing Cytochrome P450s for Selective C–H Fluoroalkylation
Juner Zhang,
Graduate student,
CCE,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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DOLCIT Seminar
Machine Learning for the Real World: Provably Robust Extrapolation
Angie Liu,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
The geomorphology of the ocean floor: Advances in the assessment of marine hazards and natural resources
Aaron Micallef,
Senior Scientist,
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Compact Proton Therapy: Improving Access to Advanced Cancer Treatment
James Cooley,
Director of Advanced Development,
Mevion Medical Systems,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
The Airing of Grievances: Are the Humanities Bullshit?
Gabriel Rosenberg,
Assistant Professor in Women's Studies,
Duke University,