Institute Calendar
Spring 2014-2015
Monday, March 30th, 2015
8:00am
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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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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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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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8:00am
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4/5
6:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Austin & Birk Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, April 6th, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Towards the Next 40 Years Supersonic Aerodynamic Decelerators: An Overview of the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator Project
Ian Clark,
Dr.,
Planetary Entry, Descent, and Landing,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometric graph-based methods for high dimensional data
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Seminar
Andrea Bertozzi,
University of California Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Computational Methods for Mesoscopic Fluid-Structure Interactions Subject to Thermal Fluctuations : Applications in Soft Materials and Microfluidics.
Professor Paul J. Atzberger,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics Department of Mechanical Engineering ,
University of California Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
South Sea Dreams: Pacific Exploration in Spanish Histories of the Americas, 1500-1550
Ricardo Padrón,
Associate Professor of Spanish,
Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese,
University of Virginia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Marked variation in aquatic chemistry and methane budgets of periglacial lakes in Greenland: Implications for exploration of Mars
Lisa M. Pratt,
Provost Professor and Chair,
Department of Geological Sciences,
Indiana University Bloomington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Higgs Boson as the Origin of Mass and Inflation
Hong-Jian He,
Tsinghua University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Iron Catalysis for the Synthesis of Value-Added Products
Jeffery A, Byers,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
Boston College,
Tuesday, April 7th, 2015
10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
Rights in the online world from the EFF viewpoint, the challenges of privacy and what Edward Snowden has showed us about the new surveillance state
Brad Templeton,
Electronic Frontier Foundation ,