Institute Calendar
Spring 2017-2018
Saturday, April 7th, 2018
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Monday, April 9th, 2018
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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12:10pm
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12:50pm
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BELS
"Cellular Variability and Information Flow in Signal Transduction Networks"
Roy Wollman,
Associate Professor,
Chemistry & Biochemistry,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
A Limit on Earth's Topography Revealed by Channel Steepness in Tropical Granitic Landscapes
George Hilley,
Associate Professor,
Department of Geological Sciences,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Search for a Higgs boson produced via gluon fusion and decaying to bb̄
Caterina Vernieri,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Harnessing Molecular Photon Upconversion Using Self-Assembled Multilayers on Metal Oxide Surfaces
Kenneth Hanson,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Florida State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Sufficient Statistics for Online Prediction via the Burkholder Method
Associate Professor Alexander (Sasha) Rakhlin,
Center for Statistics, IDSS Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
From Gaussian Multiterminal Source Coding to Distributed Karhunen–Loève Transform
Jun Chen,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
McMaster University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2018
10:00am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Maria Ashaber,
Postdoctoral Scholar ,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Yusuke Tomina,
Postdoctoral Scholar ,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Learning to Code Outside the Classroom
Philip Guo,
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science,
University of California San Diego,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
TBD
Samantha Trumbo,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
Ana Lobo,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Genetic Conflicts Shape Meiosis and the Origin of Species"
Harmit Malik,
Principal Investigator,
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Bayesian and Non-Bayesian Updating
Martin Cripps,
Professor of Economics,
University College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Women in Chemistry 2018 Annual Seminar
Novel Electrode and Support Materials for Energy Storage/Conversion Applications
Viola Birss,
Professor,
Director of Calgary Advanced Energy Storage and Conversion Research Technologies (CAESRT) ,
University of Calgary,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
America in the Age of Polar Fever
Hampton Sides,
American Historian, Author, and Journalist,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2018
10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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The Starting Line: Saving for retirement begins now
The Starting Line: Saving for retirement begins now
12:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Observation of the Higgs Boson in its Decay to Tau Leptons at CMS
Isobel Ojalvo,
Princeton University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Reconfigurable single-atom array for Rydberg atom quantum simulation
Hyosub Kim,
Department of Physics,
KAIST, South Korea,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Reading Seminar on Deligne's Weil II Paper
Adic Formalism
Tamir Hemo,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Dynamics of Microbial Populations and Biogeochemical Processes Impacting Aquatic Dead-Zones
Sarah Preheim,
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Environmental Health and Engineering,
John Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
First-Principles Based Multiscale Multiparadigm Methods with Applications to Complex Materials
William Goddard,
Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Remembering the Past: A New Form of Protein-based Inheritance
Daniel F. Jarosz,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical & Systems Biology,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Distribution Matching via Data Shaping
Paul Siegel,
Distinguished Professor, Endowed Chair Center for Memory and Recording Research,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Caltech Associates Pre-Watson Dinner and Lecture with Professor Victoria Orphan
"Microbial Life Support: The Invisible Living Networks That Shape Our Oceans"
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Latifian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 12th, 2018
8:30am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Mechanics-Guided, Deterministic 3D Assembly"
Yonggang Huang,
Professor,
Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering,
Northwestern University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Engineering Acoustic Biomolecules as Dynamic Molecular Sensors for Ultrasound"
Anupama Lakshmanan,
Graduate Student, Shapiro Research Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Molecular interactions at the nuclear periphery and LINCs to human disease
Brian Burke,
Professor and Research Director,
Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Tuning Nanoparticle Dispersion in Polymer Hosts and their Consequences on Properties
Sanat K. Kumar,
Bykhovsky Professor of Chemical Engineering,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Xing Huang, Washington University in St. Louis
Extrapolative Beliefs in the Cross-section: What Can We Learn from the Crowds?
Xing Huang,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Olin School of Business,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Searching for New Particles and Forces with Polar Molecules
Nicholas R. (Nick) Hutzler,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Caltech,