Institute Calendar
Spring 2015-2016
Wednesday, May 4th, 2016
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Thursday, May 5th, 2016
9:45am
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9:45am
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Visible-light Absorbing Photoremovable Protecting Groups for Alcohols and Amines
David Paul Walton,
Mr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Nambu-Goldstone bosons, dark pions, and effective operators
Hitoshi Murayama,
UC Berkeley and Kavli IPMU, Univ of Tokyo,
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
Visible-light Absorbing Photoremovable Protecting Groups for Alcohols and Armines
David Paul Walton,
Dougherty Research Group Graduate Student,
CCE,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Development of a Cationic Mucic Acid Polymer-Based Nanoparticle siRNA Delivery System
Dorothy Pan,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Davis group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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2016 David Goodwin Memorial Lecture
"Materials and Devices for Efficient Solar and Thermal Energy Utilization"
Gang Chen,
Department Chair and Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Intracellular compartments for dynamic metal storage
Sabeeha Merchant,
Professor of Biochemistry,
Molecular Biology Institute,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Wild symbols in local class field theory
Michiel Kosters,
Mathematics,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
When a Symmetry Breaks
Hitoshi Murayama,
Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley and Director, Institute for the Physics and Math of the Universe (IPMU), Tokyo,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Thinking With Your Gut: Microbial Effects on Behavior in Flies
Catherine (Katie) Schretter,
Graduate Student,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 6th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar - CANCELLED
Phonons and rotons in liquid helium
Alberto Nicolis,
Columbia University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Fast distance product of bounded difference matrices with applications to language edit distance and RNA folding
Virginia Vassilevska Williams,
Stanford,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Temporal Control of Ion Channel Activation
Oliver Shafaat,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Gas Phase Spectroscopy and Kinetics of Atmospheric Radicals
Leah Dodson,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Okumura group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Nonlinear Tides in Coalescing Binary Neutron Stars
Nevin Weinberg,
Assistant Professor ,
Physics,
MIT,
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
Thesis Defense: Mixing, Chemical Reactions, and Combustion in Supersonic Flows
Niccolo Cymbalist,
PhD Candidate ,
GALCIT,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Unsmoothable group actions on one-manifolds
Thomas Koberda,
Mathematics,
Univeristy of Virginia,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Real-Time Load-Side Control of Electric Power Systems
Changhong Zhao,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Mechanisms underlying Economic Choice
Gideon Nave,
Graduate Student,
Computation & Neural Systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Sets of Measure Zero and the Converse to Rademacher's Theorem: Part 2
Peter Jones,
Professor,
Mathematics & Applied Math,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Approximate Clustering
Stéphane Bonhomme, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
New Catalysts for Visible-Light-Induced Cross-Couplings
Jun Myun (Joe) Ahn,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
Lecture 2: Sets of Measure Zero and the Converse to Rademacher's Theorem: Part 2
Peter Jones,
Professor,
Mathematics & Applied Math,
Yale University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Simonian Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:30pm
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8:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Boghosianghezeljeh Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Saturday, May 7th, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:30am
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2:30pm
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Benson Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Sepani/Yazidjian Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 8th, 2016
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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3:30pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, May 9th, 2016
9:00am
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9:00am
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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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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Segre classes of monomial schemes and Segre zeta functions
Paolo Aluffi,
Mathematics,
Florida State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
De Sitter Wavefunctionals and the Resummation of Time
Matthew Baumgart,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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The James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences
Density, Topography and Erosion: Linking mantle flow, surface processes and density variations in the Earth's crust
Jean Braun,
Professeur des Universités,
Université Grenoble Alpes Grenoble, France,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
"Conversation" at Polymer Ends: Self- versus Pairwise- Association of Telechelic Polymers
Boyu Li,
Graduate Student, Kornfield group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
Computational Biology in Translational Cancer Research
Xiaole Shirley Liu,
Professor,
Biostatistics and Computational Biology,
Harvard School of Public Health,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar
Algebraic Theories and Duality
Ronnie Chen,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
An invariant set-theoretic approach to "no analytic mad families
Asger Törnquist,
Mathematics,
University of Copenhagen,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD seminar
Bioorthogonal Noncanonical Amino Acid Tagging for Selective Analysis of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Proteome
Brett Babin,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Dr. Sagi Ben-Ami,
CfA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Developing experiments to visualize the dynamics of biomolecular recognition and binding
Andrei Tokmakoff,
Henry G. Dale Distinguished Service Professor,
Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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GALCIT Special Seminar
Collaboration opportunities with NASA Langley Research Center
Steven Reznick,
Dr.,
GALCIT,
NASA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Processing Tastes in Drosophila
Kristin Scott,
Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development,
Molecular & Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Geophysics at Pluto and Charon: A first look
Francis Nimmo,
Professor,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics
Lecture 3: New Results on Bounded, Complete Minimal Surfaces
Peter Jones,
Professor,
Mathematics & Applied Math,
Yale University,
Wednesday, May 11th, 2016
9:00am
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10:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Operator scaling and applications to non-commutative rational identity testing
Ankit Garg,
Princeton University,