Institute Calendar
Spring 2018-2019
Saturday, April 27th, 2019
8:00am
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Weiss Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
9:00am
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6:00pm
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9:45am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Sunday, April 28th, 2019
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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Monday, April 29th, 2019
4:00pm
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4:50pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
Khovanov homology and the Fukaya category of the 3-punctured disc
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemistry Club Seminar
Nitrogenase - A Tale of Carbon(s)
Markus Ribbe,
Chancellor's Professor,
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, Department of Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Signals, Forces, and Cells: Decoding Tissue Morphogenesis
Jennifer Zallen,
Professor,
Sloan Kettering Institute/HHMI,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Ice, Sea Level and the Solid Earth in Antarctica
Natalya Gomez,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
McGill University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Data Perturbation for Data Science
Richard Samworth,
Professor of Statistical Science and Director of the Statistical Laboratory,
University of Cambridge & Teaching Fellow at Saint John's College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Non-Thermal Production of Bosonic Dark Matter
Raymond Co,
University of Michigan,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
A spectral sequence from Khovanov homology to knot Floer homology
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Caltech Associates East Coast Event: The Promise and Perils of Gene Editing
Off Campus
with David Baltimore, President Emeritus and Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Visual Culture Program - "Encoded Textiles"
Encoded Textiles: Engineering and Craftwork
Abdoulaye Konaté,
Artist; Founding General Director of the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers Multimédia Balla Fasseké Kouyaté in Bamako, Mali,
Daniela Rosner,
Assistant Professor of Human Centered Design and Engineering and Co-Director of the TAT Lab,
University of Washington,
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
9:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:15pm
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12:45pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Seminar
Engineering Coherent Defects in Diamond
Nathalie de Leon,
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Electric Excitations in Nanomaterials
Timothy Berkelbach,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Columbia University and Research Scientist Center for Computational Quantium Physics at Flatiron Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
The Origin of Mars' South Polar Massive CO2 Ice Deposit from Co-Evolution with Mars' Atmosphere
Peter Buhler,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Democracy in America? Partisanship, Polarization, and the Robustness of Support for Democracy in the United States
Milan Svolik,
Professor of Political Science,
Department of Political Science,
Yale University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
8:00am
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5/7
5:00pm
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8:00am
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5/15
5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Noninteractive Zero Knowledge for NP from Learning With Errors
Chris Peikert,
University of Michigan,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar
Marlene Cohen,
Associate Professor,
Department of Neuroscience and Associate Director, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition,,
University of Pittsburgh,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Cosmic "Dust" (Galaxies, Stars and Actual Dust)!
Philip Hopkins,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What can statistical state dynamics teach us about emergent coherent structures in stratified turbulence?
Joseph Fitzgerald,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Properties of Metallic Liquids at High Temperature and Their Relation to Glass Formation
Kenneth Kelton,
Professor of Physics and the Arthur Holly Compton Professor in Arts & Sciences,
Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Chemical Biology Approaches for Interrogating the Contributions of Altered Circadian Rhythms and Macrophages to Cancer Aggression
Michelle Farkas,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Massachusetts - Amherst,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Computational Imaging: a Quest for the Perfect Image
Jaebum Chung,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Subprime Mortgage Crisis and the Tea Party Movement: Evidence from Nationwide Campaign Finance and Real Estate Transactions
Zhao Li,
PhD Candidate in Political Economics,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
Thursday, May 2nd, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Programmable Structures: Shape and Property Reconfiguration
Andres Arrieta Diaz,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Purdue University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Investigating the role of the [4Fe-4S] cluster of yeast Dna2
Siobhán MacArdle,
Graduate Student, Barton Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
12:15pm
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12:45pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Noncovalent Interactions of Silent Agonist Binding to the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor
Catriona Blunt,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Fracton order: from quantum hard drive to foliated manifold
Xie Chen,
Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
Friday, May 3rd, 2019
12:00am
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12:00am
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