Institute Calendar
Spring 2014-2015
Saturday, April 4th, 2015
8:00am
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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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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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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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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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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 ,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On Abrikosov lattice solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) equation
Li Chen,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Nonlinear Linear Systems Analysis Applied to Networked Dynamical Systems
Enrique Mallada,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
Center for the Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Synaptic Mechanisms of Sensory Perception
Carl Petersen,
Professor,
Faculty of Life Sciences,
Brain Mind Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI-MDL Seminar
Two talks: The TIME-Pilot CII Intensity Mapping Experiment - Detectors of Electromagnetic Radiation Based on Superconducting Magnesium Diboride
Abigail Crites,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Keck Institute for Space Studies,
Caltech,
Boris Karasik,
Principal Research Technologist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI-MDL Seminar
Two talks: The Faint Intergalactic Redshifted Emission Balloon: future UV observations of the circumgalactic medium AND High Performance Silicon Detectors for UV/Visible/NIR Applications
Erika T. Hamden,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Physics,
Caltech,
April D. Jewell,
Advanced Detectors, Systems & Nanoscience,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Invariant random subgroups behaving like normal subgroups
Omer Tamuz,
Schramm Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mathematics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Evolution of Modern Militaries
Jon Bendor,
Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Political Economics and Organizations,
Stanford Graduate School of Business, School of Humanities and Sciences,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2015
9:00am
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12:00pm
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Astronomy Workshop - Introduction
Technology Concepts for the Next Generation VLA
Sander Weinreb (Caltech) and Tony Beasley (NRAO),
10:00am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Earth Month Speaker Event
Winnett Lounge
No Way Back: Charting Irreversible Climate Change with Jason-3
Josh Willis,
JPL,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar / Bray Theory Workshop
Biases and Implicit Knowledge
Tom Cunningham,
Assistant Professor,
IIES,
Stockholm University; Visiting Associate, Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Blending Mathematical Models and Data: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications in the Geophysical and Medical Sciences
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Seminar
Andrew Stuart,
Warwick University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Structure and Pseudo-Randomness in Coding Theory
Shachar Lovett,
Assistant Professor,
CSE,
UCSD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Oceans of Information
Steven Hallam,
CIFAR Scholar and Associate Professor,
Department of Microbiology & Immunology,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Periods in Perturbative Quantum Field Theory
Emad Nasrollahpoursamani,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, April 9th, 2015
8:30am
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10:00am
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8:50am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Geometrical derivation of a set of ODEs of motion for constrained mechanical systems
Sotirios Natsiavas,
Professor,
Aristotle University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Selmer ranks of twists of hyperelliptic curves and superelliptic curves
Myungjun Yu,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Workshop - Conclusions
Technology Concepts for the Next Generation VLA
Sander Weinreb (Caltech) and Tony Beasley (NRAO),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Cohabitation versus Marriage: Marriage Matching with Peer Effects (Co-authored with Aloysius Siow)
Ismael Mourifié,
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Overconvergent construction of anticyclotomic p-adic L-functions
Chan-Ho Kim,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
UC Irvine,