Institute Calendar
Spring 2016-2017
Friday, April 28th, 2017
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Vortices in 4d, N=2 SQCD and their Worldsheet Theory from Supersymmetric Localization
Efrat Gerchkovitz,
Weizmann Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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EE Special Seminar
Real-time Biosensors for Continuous Measurements of Specific Biomolecules in Live Animals
H. Tom Soh,
Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering & Department of Radiology,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Undergraduate Math Club Seminar
The cap set problem
Allison Wang,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:30pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Observing the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation with the South Pole Telescope
Christine Moran,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
TAPIR,
Caltech,
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
Integrating the Design of Structure, Control, and Signal Processing
Robert Skelton,
Research Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
Texas A&M,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Heegaard Floer invariants and satellite knots
Wenzhao Chen,
Department of Mathematics,
Michigan State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Plasmonics for Chemistry: Sensing and controlling chemical reactions using plasmons
Andrea Baldi,
PhD,
Dutch Institute For Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER) ,
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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BMB Seminar
Structural studies of a bacterial Atm1-type ABC exporter
Chengcheng Fan,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Average Decay of the Fourier Transform of Measures
Keith Rogers,
Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
A Possible Role for PCET in Nitrogen Fixation
Mr. Matthew Chalkley,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
On-chip quantum memories for telecom photons using ensembles of erbium ions
Ioana Craiciu,
Graduate Student,
Faraon Group,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Spectral theory of confining magnetic fields via symplectic geometry
San Vu Ngoc,
Department of Mathematics,
Universite de Rennes,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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German Film: Maskerade (in Wien)
Movie screening for German 130b & 132b // In German with English subtitles
8:00pm
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11:00pm
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Saturday, April 29th, 2017
12:00am
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2:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Minutti Engagement Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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6:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Voskerchyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Guyumdzhyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 30th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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Monday, May 1st, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSRG/DOLCIT
Representation power of neural networks.
Matus Telgarsky,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Preference Aggregation and Public Risk
Luciano Pomatto,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
"Characterization of the Nitrogenase Molybdenum-Iron Protein"
Christine Morrison,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Tensor Decompositions: A Mathematical Tool for Data Analysis
Tamara G. Kolda,
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff,
Data Science and Cyber Analytics,
Sandia National Laboratories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Fluxes in N and S metabolism of illuminated leaves: recent data using metabolomics and isotopic techniques
Guillaume Tcherkez,
Professor,
ARC Future Fellow Research School of Biology ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment,
Australian National University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The EW phase transition improved and unrealized
Patrick Meade,
Stony Brook University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Mechanistic and Electronic Structural Insights into the Metallobiochemistry of Nitrification
Kyle M. Lancaster,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Determinacy
Connor Meehan,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Oringer Seminar Series
Fairness, accountability and transparency in automated decision-making
Suresh Venkatasubramanian,
Associate Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah Member of the Board of Directors, ACLU Utah.,
University of Utah,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Graduate Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar
Rapoport-Zink Spaces
Zavosh Amir-Khosravi,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
The optimality of projections for quantum state exclusion
Abel Molina,
Institute for Quantum Computing,
University of Waterloo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Dr. Andrew Wetzel,
Carnegie Observatories - Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Light, Electrons, Protons: Lessons from Model Systems and Potentials for Photocatalysis
Jahan Dawlaty,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Canceled
Bassem Hassan,
Directeur of Recherche and Team Leader,
ICM Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière,
ICM Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Evidence for Recent and Ancient Faulting at Mare Frigoris and Implications for Lunar Tectonic Evolution
Nathan Williams,
Planetary Geologist,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Norms in Bargaining: Evidence from Government Formation in Spain
Thomas Fujiwara,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Princeton University,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
A History of the Vacuum in Theoretical Physics
Aaron Sidney Wright,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Suppes Center for History and Philosophy of Science,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017
8:00am
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5/9
5:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Commercial Expansion and Churning: Business Organization in Egypt between 1911 and 1948
Cihan Artunc,
Visiting Associate in Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Boehringer-Ingelheim Symposium
Hydrophosphination of Strained Rings
Carl Busacca,
Dr., Ph.D.,
Chemical Development,
Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
A Tale of Two Stars - Planetary Formation with Stellar Binaries
Gongjie Li,
Harvard,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Boehringer-Ingelheim Symposium
Privileged Chiral Spiro Catalysts for Asymmetric Catalysis
Qi-Lin Zhou,
Professor of Chemistry,
Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry,
Nankai University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Coding Theory for Modern Computing and Memories
Lara Dolecek,
Associate Professor,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Observations and modeling of the atmospheric boundary layer and its impact on the general circulation
Gunilla Svensson,
Professor,
Department of Meteorology and Bolin Centre for Climate Research,
Stockholm University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
How to break the electroweak symmetry naturally
Jing Shu,
Institute of Theoretical Physics,
The Chinese Academy of Science ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Materials by Design: 3-Dimensional Nano-Architected Meta-Materials
Julia Greer,
Professor,
Materials Science and Mechanics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Extracting the Universe from the Wave Function
Sean Carroll,
Department of Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, May 4th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
"What can we infer about the atmospheric composition within the South Coast Air Basin from remote sensing?"
Jacob Hedelius,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Sheared Pleated surfaces and Limiting Configurations for Hitchin's equations
Michael Wolf,
Department of Mathematics,
Rice University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Structure and Function of the Mycobacterial Mechanosensitive Channel of Large Conductance (MscL).
Nadia Herrera,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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2017 David Goodwin Memorial Lecture
"Powered by Beer Cans"
Douglas Hart,
Skolkovo Foundation Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,