Institute Calendar
Spring 2015-2016
Wednesday, April 13th, 2016
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Microscopic Origin of Macroscopic Strength in Granular Media: A Numerical and Analytical Approach
Alex Jerves,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
9:30am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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Informal Biology Seminar
Predictive Logical Modelling of T-helper Cell Differentiation and Plasticity
Denis Thieffry,
Professor,
Computational and Systems Biology,
Institut de Biologie de l'École Normale Supérieure ,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar
Asymptotic symmetries and soft theorems
Vyacheslav Lysov,
Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Inaugural Neugebauer Lecture
Marcia Rieke,
Regent's Professor of Astronomy,
Univ. of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Stratospheric Sulfur Geoengineering - Benefits and Risks
Alan Robock,
Distinguished Professor,
Department of Environmental Sciences,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Charles Nathanson, Northwestern University
An Extrapolative Model of House Price Dynamics
Charles Nathanson, Assistant Professor of Finance, Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Piezoelectric Films for Microelectromechanical Systems
Susan Trolier-McKinstry,
Professor of Ceramic Science and Engineering, Director W. M. Keck Smart Materials Integration Laboratory,
Material Research Institute,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Teaching Polymers the Meaning of Life and Nanographene Quantum Confinement
Felix R. Fischer,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Convergence of majority dynamics
Omer Tamuz,
Assistant Professor,
Economics/Mathematics,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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Harris Lecture: John P.A. Ioannidis
Empirical research on research and the reproducibility crisis
John P.A. Ioannidis,
C.F. Rehnborg Professor in Disease Prevention, Professor of Health Research and Policy,
Stanford University,
Thursday, April 14th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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CD3 Seminar
A new model of stars
David Hogg,
Professor of Physics and Data Science at New York University,
10:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Evolution of submarine landslides: Unifying shear band propagation approach"
Alexander Puzrin,
Professor,
Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering,
Institute of Geotechnical Engineering ETH Zurich, Switzerland,
11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Unsteady aerodynamics and optimal control of an airfoil at low Reynolds number
Jeesoon Choi,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Physics Research Conference
Internal Structure of the Moon from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Mission
Maria Zuber,
E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, Vice President for Research,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Hot Hand Fallacy Fallacy
Joshua Miller,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Decision Sciences,
Bocconi University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, April 15th, 2016
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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6:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Shape dependence of entanglement Hamiltonians and the averaged null energy condition
Thomas Faulkner,
UIUC,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Kevin Leyton Brown
Modeling Human Play in Unrepeated Games
Kevin Leyton-Brown, Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia,
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Formation of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies in Clusters
Laura Sales,
Assistant Professor,
Dept of Physics & Astronomy,
U.C. Riverside,
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
Multiscale experiments and models for advanced materials - a few examples from the Solid Mechanics Lab.
Patrick Le Tallec,
Professor,
Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides,
École Polytechnique,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Teichmuller dynamics and Hodge theory
Simion Filip,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"A Mechanistic Investigation of Photoinduced, Copper-Mediated C-S Coupling"
Kareem I. Hannoun,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Spectroscopic studies of layered iridium oxides
Alberto de la Torre,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Hsieh Group,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Advances in USGS Real-time Earthquake Shaking & Loss Estimation
David Wald,
USGS Golden, Colorado,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Astronomy from the Bottom of the Earth: Telescopes at the South Pole
Abigail Crites,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics,
Caltech,
Saturday, April 16th, 2016
12:00am
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