Institute Calendar
Spring 2016-2017
Sunday, April 16th, 2017
8:00pm
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Monday, April 17th, 2017
11:00am
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PhD Seminar
Enantiomerically Enriched, Polycrystalline Molecular Sieves
Kramer Brand,
graduate student,
Chemical Engineering Department,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Earth Week Speaker Series
Winnett Lounge
Achieving a 100% Clean Energy Future
Nicole Capretz,
Founder and Executive Director, Climate Action Campaign,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Vector bundles and finite covers
Anand Deopurkar,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Georgia,
4:00pm
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6:30pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
Characterizing slopes for torus knots
Duncan McCoy,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Learning to Coordinate: A Study in Retail Gasoline
David Byrne,
Senior Lecturer,
Department of Economics,
University of Melbourne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
How do alluvial rivers make themselves? Setting bankfull characteristics from a flow duration curve
Gary Parker,
W.H. Johnson Professor Geology,
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Effective theories for point sources
Cliff Burgess,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Tuesday, April 18th, 2017
9:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Earth Week Speaker Series
Winnett Lounge
The Fate of the Terrestrial Biosphere Under a Changing Climate
Joshua Fisher,
Climate Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Science Lead of the ECOSTRESS Mission,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
The Theory of Pseudo-differential Operators on the Noncommutative n-Torus
Jim Tao,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Advanced LIGO Calibration Uncertainty for Precision Astrophysics
Craig Cahillane,
LIGO,
Caltech),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Flat Photonics Using High Contrast Metastructures
Connie Chang-Hasnain,
Associate Dean for Strategic Alliances of College of Engineering and Whinnery Distinguished Chair Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Dr. Jen van Saders,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Special Seminar
Interferometric Vibration Sensing for Biomedical Applications and Nanostructures
Christian Rembe,
Professor of Applied Metrology,
Technische Universität Clausthal,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Communication Along and Between Chromosomes Governs Their Activity
Nancy Kleckner,
Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology,
Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Experimenting with Legitimacy: How Leaders' Choices about Group Profiling and Error Reduction Affect Compliance
Greg Huber,
Professor of Political Science,
Yale University,
Wednesday, April 19th, 2017
10:30am
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10:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
"Isoprene Oxidation Pathways and Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation Under Low-NO Conditions"
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Earth Week Speaker Series
Winnett Lounge
Environmental Justice in Los Angeles
Maya Golden-Krasner,
Senior Attorney, Climate Law Institute at the Center for Biological Diversity,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Ergodic theory from a new perspective
Amos Nevo,
Department of Mathematics,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology ,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
An Idiosyncratic Look at LIGO�s Detections and Prospects
Stan Whitcomb,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Condorcet Jury Theorem and Cognitive Hierarchies: Theory and Experiments
Ali Ozkes,
Postdoc, AMSE & Visitor in Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture
The Transport of Heat by Charge Carriers, Lattice Vibrations, and Spin Waves in Complex Materials
Annie Weathers,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
The University of Texas, Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Cover's Open Problem: "The Capacity of the Relay Channel"
Ayfer Ozgur Aydin,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climatic teleconnections during the last ice age: postcards and text messages from the North Atlantic
Christo Buizert,
Assistant Professor,
College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences,
Oregon State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
A Homology Theory for Smale Spaces
Ian Putnam,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Victoria,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Viral Muses to Inspire Chemistry
John C. Jewett,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Our Knowledge about the Past: Some Puzzles from Physics
Eddy Chen,
Graduate Student,
Department of Philosophy,
Rutgers School of Arts & Sciences,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 20th, 2017
8:00am
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4/21
5:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Physics-Based Approaches to Model Form Uncertainty Quantification for Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Combustion"
Michael E. Mueller,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University,
11:00am
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4/22
11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Earth Week Speaker Series
The Urban Canopy: Growth for the Next 100 Years
Daniel Goyette,
ISA Board Certified Master Arborist, The Huntington,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Research talks from Resnick Graduate Research Fellow Bryan Hunter & Postdoctoral Scholar Zhu Liu Ph.D.
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Habit and Self-Regulation
Wendy Wood,
Professor of Marketing and Provost Professor of Psychology,
Dept of Psychology & Marshall School of Business,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
The clumped-isotope geochemistry of exhumed marbles from Naxos, Greece
Uri Ryb,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Geochemistry,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Limit multiplicities of cohomological automorphic forms
Simon L. Marshall,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Can we reverse-engineer the brain?
Michael Roukes,
Robert M. Abbey Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, April 21st, 2017
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holographic lattice field theories
Ingmar Saberi,
University of Heidelberg,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Guillaume Roger, University of Sydney
Scale Effects in Dynamic Contracting
Guillaume Roger,
Senior Lecturer in Economics,
University of Sydney,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Edge of darkness: The splashback radius as a physical halo boundary
Benedikt Diemer,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Theory and Computation,
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA,
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
Wind Farm Modeling and Control for Power Grid Support
Dennice Gayme,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Symplectic Instanton Homology via Traceless Character Varieties: SO(3)-Bundles and Dehn Surgery
Henry Horton,
Department of Mathematics,
Indiana University ,
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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BMB Seminar
Transcriptomic Genetics: A new way to use RNA-sequencing data.
David Angeles Albores,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Breaking Lorentz Reciprocity: From Physics to New Wireless Communication Paradigms
Caltech's Young Investigator Lecture Series
Negar Reiskarimian,
PhD candidate ,
Electrical Engineering ,
Columbia University.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Electrochemical CO2 Reduction by Polymer-Immobilized Molecular Catalysts
Wesley Kramer,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fault-tolerance in topological stabilizer codes and universal workarounds
Tomas Jochym O'Connor,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro History Seminar
Did Edward Gibbon Meet Yelü Chucai?: Detecting Chinese Influence on European Historiography about the Mongol Empire
Matthew Mosca,
Assistant Professor of History,
University of Washington,