Institute Calendar
Spring 2014-2015
Monday, March 30th, 2015
8:00am
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11:15am
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12:15pm
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Special Biology Seminar -- CANCELLED
Merging Population and Molecular Biology, Fly Examples
Sergey Nuzhdin,
Principal Investigator,
Center for High-Performance Computing,
University of Southern California ,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Realizing the Benefits of an Academic / Industrial Collaboration During a Small Satellite Development
Professor Jens Eickhoff,
Space Technology Innovation,
Airbus,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Tropical schemes and the Berkovich analytification
Noah Giansiracusa,
RTG Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mathematics,
University of Georgia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"CRISPR-Cas Genome Surveillance: From Basic Biology to Transformative Technology"
Jennifer Doudna,
Professor,
Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago
Misspecified Recovery
Lars Peter Hansen,
David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current during the Last Glacial Maximum
Jean Lynch-Stieglitz,
Professor, Associate Chair,
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
Georgia Institute of Technology ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2015
9:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Gapped and gapless phases of frustration-free spin-1/2 chains
David Gosset,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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1:30pm
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LIGO Seminar
Optical losses and the optical power requirements in the traditional and the intracavity readout topologies of laser gravitational-wave detectors
F. YA. Khalili,
Physics,
Moscow State University,
1:30pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Single mode cavity to avoid parametric instability in laser gravitational wave detector
Sergey Vyachanin,
Physics,
Moscow State University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Collaborative Research Seminar
Water oxidation with all-inorganic earth-abundant catalysts
Dr. José Ramón Galán-Mascarós,
Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona, Spain,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Do We Know Enough to Design Biology?
Pamela Silver,
Professor,
Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Point Source Reconnaissance: Physical Studies of Near-Earth Asteroids
Nicholas Moskovitz,
NSF Fellow,
Lowell Observatory,
Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Dynamics of the homeomorphism group of the Lelek fan
Aleksandra Kwiatkowska,
Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Chemical Signatures of Planet Formation in Gas Rich Disks
Edwin Bergin,
U. Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Stochastic Dominance Analysis without the Independence Axiom
Simone Cerreia Vioglio,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Decision Sciences,
Universita Bocconi, Milan, Italy,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Experimental microbial sedimentology: seeing the processes that shaped enigmatic sedimentary structures
Giulio Mariotti,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences,
Louisiana State University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Open Lecture
Mars Helicopter Scout
MiMi Aung,
Autonomous Systems Deputy Division Manager,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Veritas Forum at Caltech
Caltech ASKS: What's the Matter? Searching for Meaning in a Cold, Dark Universe
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Hybrid Unsteady-flow Simulation Combining PIV/PTV and DNS: Family of data-assimilation algorithms and their capabilities
Takao Suzuki,
The Boeing Company,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
An HRE-binding Py-Im Polyamide Impairs Adaptation of Tumors to Hypoxia
Jerzy Szablowski,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
The advantages of precision in functional copolymers
Karen I. Winey,
Professor and TowerBrook Foundation Faculty Fellow,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Convergence polygons for p-adic differential equati
Kiran Kedlaya,
Stefan E. Warschawski Chair in Mathematics,
Mathematics,
UCSD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The CMB and Neutrinos
Lyman Page,
Henry De Wolf Smyth Professor of Physics; Chair, Department of Physics,
Princeton University,
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
10:00am
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4/10
7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus:Beckman Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Generalized Global Symmetries
Anton Kapustin,
Caltech and Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Allocation in tender auctions with several stakeholders where quality aspects matter
Thomas Greve,
Research Associate, Microeconomic Theory, University of Cambridge,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Enhancing Generalized Unitarity
Jacob Bourjaily,
Neils Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Weak lensing calibrated scaling relations of galaxy groups and poor clusters
Maggie Lieu,
Graduate Student,
Astronomy & Space Research (ASR),
University of Birmingham,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Instabilities in shear flows: local versus global analyses
Patrick Huerre,
Research director Emeritus (CNRS),
Hydrodynamics Laboratory - LadHyX,
Ecole Polytechnique,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
A graph TQFT for hat Heegaard Floer homology".
Ian Zemke,
Teaching Assistant,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Incidences between points and lines and extremal configuration of lines in Euclidean spaces
Noam Solomon,
Mathematics,
University of Tel Aviv,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Small Molecule Reactivity of an FeZr Complex Supported by a Dinucleating Ligand
Trixia Marie Buscagan,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Holographic quantum error-correcting codes: Toy models for the bulk/boundary correspondence
Fernando Pastawski,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Progress on the Triangular Hilbert Transform
Christoph Thiele,
Professor,
Bonn,
5:30pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus:Tofighi Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:30pm
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4/4
9:30pm
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Saturday, April 4th, 2015
12:00am
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12:00am
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