Institute Calendar
Spring 2014-2015
Friday, May 1st, 2015
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GALCIT Colloquium
Prosthetic heart valves: ideas for improvement
Roberto Zenit,
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Heegaard Floer contact invariants for positive rational surgery
Tom Mark,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Virginia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Derivatization of Corroles for Surface Functionalization
Carl Blumenfeld,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Cold atoms coupled to photonic crystals: long range interactions and photon molecules
James Douglas,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Theoretical Quantum-Nano Photonics,
ICFO, Barcelona,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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6:10pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 2nd, 2015
12:00am
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5/3
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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5/3
12:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Abnoosian Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ohrn/Bitton Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tsaturyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 3rd, 2015
12:00am
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5/4
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 4th, 2015
10:00am
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CPET Seminar - Putting Theory into Practice as a New Professor
Putting Theory into Practice as a New Professor - Professor Suzanne Kern
10:00am
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11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Shock Wave Behavior of Particulate Composites
Michael Rauls,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Do Online Social Networks Increase Welfare?
Mallesh Pai, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
The Decomposition Theorem and Parity Sheaves
Carl Mautner,
Mathematics,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
The Design, Discovery, and Applications of Catalytic Reactions Involving C-C, C-O, or C-N Bond Activation
Christopher J. Douglas,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Medical Philosophers: Nicolas Hartsoeker and Cartesian Physicians in the Dutch Republic
Catherine Abou-Nemeh, Lecturer, School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thomas J. and Earleen Ahrens Lecture
Protons to Planets: Materials Simulation as a Window into Earth and Planetary Interiors
Lars Stixrude,
Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
University College London,
Tuesday, May 5th, 2015
10:30am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
Dr. Yue Shen,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Recovery from Linear Measurements via Denoising and Approximate Message Passing
Dror Baron,
Assistant Professor,
Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
North Carolina State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Redistribution of Synaptic Strength and Subcellular Components during Long-term Potentiation
Kristen Harris,
Professor of Neuroscience,
Center for Learning and Memory,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
SESAME- A POSSIBLE SOURCE Of LIGHT IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Eliezer Rabinovici,
Hebrew University,
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,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Advanced Detectors, Systems & Nanoscience,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
Microlocal Analysis on Representations, and Applications To Number Theory
Akshay Venkatesh,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Stanford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
From cloudy to cloudless hot Jupiters
Vivien Parmentier,
Postdoctoral Sagan Fellow,
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics ,
University of California Santa-Cruz,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2015
9:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Experimental Study on Inertial Effects in Liquid-Solid Flows
Esperanza Linares,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Comparative Measures of Naivete and Sophistication for Dynamically Inconsistent Preferences
David Ahn, Associate Professor, Economics Department, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Resolving Discrepancies in High Global Warming Potential Greenhouse Gas Emissions Using Atmospheric Measurements
Ray Weiss,
Distinguished Research Professor of Geochemistry,
Department of Geosciences Research,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry
Spectral Triples and Toeplitz Operators
Bruno Iochum,
Mathematics,
Aix Marseille Universite, CNRS et Universite de Toulon,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Open Lecture
Richard Nixon and the American Space Program
John M. Logsdon,
Professor Emeritus ,
Political Science and International Affairs,
George Washington University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, May 7th, 2015
10:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Jamming, Flow, and Fluctuations for Granular Materials
Robert Behringer,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
Duke University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Single molecule Barcoding of Drosophila Dscam Spliceoforms to understand Neuronal Self-identity
Kelly Burke,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Cellular Mechanisms of Membrane Protein Folding
William Skatch, MD,
Professor,
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,
Oregon Health & Science University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Fundamental Trade-offs in Primal-Dual Optimization
Volkan Cevher,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
American Poetry in Public
Virginia Jackson,
UCI Endowed Chair in Rhetoric, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, Critical Theory School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Information Processing and Metrology Using Few Electron Spins in Solids
Amir Yacoby,
Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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POSTPONED | Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Dan Benjamin,
Visiting Associate Professor (Research) of Economics, CESR, USC,
Friday, May 8th, 2015
12:00am
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12:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Geometric engineering, Mirror symmetry and 6d (1,0) to 4d N=2
Dan Xie,
Harvard University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Electrodynamic Effects of Inflationary Gravitons
Richard Woodard,
University of Florida,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Cosmic Neutrinos and Large-scale Structure
Marilena Loverde,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
KICP,
University of Chicago,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Teichmüller space is rigid
Kasra Rafi,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Photoinduced, Copper-Catalyzed Alkylation
Shoshana Bachman,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Surface temperature determination of small bodies
Federico Tosi,
Research Associate,
INAF - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
DMRG Study of a Quantum Hall system
Scott Geraedts,
Graduate Student,
Condensed Matter Theory,
Caltech,