Institute Calendar
Spring 2016-2017
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
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PhD Thesis Defense
Prototyping Diverse Synthetic Biological Circuits in a Cell-Free Transcription-Translation System
Shaobin Guo,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Structured Sampling for Covariance Compression
Piya Pal,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Engineered Biofilter for Water Sustainability
Sanjay Mohanty,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Neutrino physics with liquid xenon detectors
Michelle Dolinski,
Drexel University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Emerging Materials and Nanomanufacturing for Energy, Sustainability, and Critical Technology
Shenqiang Ren,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Temple University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Noncommutative Geometry from non-Laplace Type Operators
Ivan Avramidi,
Department of Mathematics,
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Leveraging Chemistry for Biology and Therapy: New Amination Strategies to Access Biologically Important Molecules
Qiu Wang,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Duke University,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Generating functions and enumeration in finite classical groups
Jason Fulman,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, May 11th, 2017
8:00am
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3:00pm
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11:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Geo-Alchemy: Carbonate Precipitation for Hazard Mitigation and Ground Improvement"
Edward Kavazanjian,
Professor,
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment,
Arizona State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Shuai Wang,
Graduate Student, Hsieh-Wilson Research Group,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture
Next-Generation Computing Using Spin-Based and 2D Materials
Jean Anne Incorvia,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford ,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
A Regularized Geometric Theta Lift for Diagonal Cycles
Zavosh Amir Khosravi,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Current and future searches for neutrinoless double beta decay
Michelle Dolinski,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Drexel University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Moving through intracellular phase space
Clifford Brangwynne,
Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering,
The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Medical Engineering Seminar
Strategies for bone and tendon regeneration
Hala Zreiqat,
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Head of Tissue Engineering and Biomaterial Research Unit,
University of Sydney,
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University, USA,
Friday, May 12th, 2017
8:00am
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11:00am
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Juba Ziani, Caltech
Efficiently characterizing games consistent with perturbed equilibrium observations
Juba Ziani,
Graduate Student,
Computer Science,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Feedback and its Role in Shaping (dwarf) Galaxies
Ferah Munshi,
VIDA Postdoctoral Fellow,
Vanderbilt University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Multifunctional Composites for Fly-By-Feel Autonomous Electric Vehicles
Fu-Kuo Chang,
Professor,
Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Conway mutation and knot Floer homology
Peter Lambert-Cole,
Department of Mathematics,
Indiana University ,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Seminar
Nonstoichiometric Oxides for Solar-Driven Thermochemical Fuel Production
Michael Ignatowich,
graduate student,
Chemical Engineering Department,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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BMB Seminar
Histone-binding of DPF2 mediates its repressive role in myeloid differentiation.
Ferdinand Huber,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar--POSTPONED
The Mechanism of N-N Bond Cleavage in a Phosphine-Supported Fe-N2 Complex
Mr. Niklas Thompson,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Short-Wavelength Infrared Photon Detector Based on Charge Injection
Caltech's Young Investigator Lecture Series
Vala Fathipour,
Post-Doctoral Scholar,
Electrical Engineering ,
University of California at Berkeley,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 13th, 2017
12:00am
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12:40pm
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3:50pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gevorkyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 14th, 2017
3:30pm
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Monday, May 15th, 2017
9:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Effective toughness of heterogeneous materials
Chun Jen Hsueh,
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CANCELLED | Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
This talk has been cancelled.
Marina Agranov,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Characterizing the Dust Environment on Mars During Powered Descent
Jason Rabinovitch,
Ph.D.,
Jet Propulsion laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Noncoding RNA-Mediated Genome Rearrangement
Laura Landweber,
Professor,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Biological Sciences ,
Colombia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
A metabolic constraint on marine biogeography in past and future climates
Curtis Deutsch,
Associate Professor,
School of Oceanography,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Non-WIMP dark matter and the structure of galaxies
Katelin Schutz,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Bioengineering Seminar
Making Micro-Biology Interactive, Accessible, and Programmable: Biotic Games, Cloud labs, and Synthetic Cell-Cell Adhesion
Ingmar Riedel-Kruse,
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering,
Bioengineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar
Getting the best reward: neuronal mechanisms for utility maximisation
Wolfram Schultz,
Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience,
Univerity of Cambridge, UK,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Physical Chemistry Seminar
Nanostructured Materials for Energy and Biomedical Applications
Jackie Ying,
Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, May 16th, 2017
11:00am
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1:00pm
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5/31
12:00pm
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Computational Literature How can a computer generate literary text?
Eran Hadas,
Lecturer in Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Humanities and Social Sciences,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
CALTECH,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Graduate Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar
Affine Grassmannian and Geometric Stake
Jize Yu,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Quantum and private capacities of low-noise channels
Graeme Smith,
JILA, CU Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy of Molecular, Biological and Materials Dynamics
Graham R. Fleming,
Professor of Chemistry,
Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
On the arithmetic degree of Shimura curves
Xinyi Yuan,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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CMA presents "Exploring the Deep Sea Aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's Falkor"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Carlie Wiener,
Schmidt Ocean Institute,
Victor Zykov,
Schmidt Ocean Institute,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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