Institute Calendar
Winter 2016-2017
Friday, February 3rd, 2017
7:00pm
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Friday, February 3rd, 2017
12:00am
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2/4
12:00am
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12:00am
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2/4
12:00am
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Making Rational Decisions under Uncertainty and Model Complexity
A Celebration in Honor of Professor James L. Beck's Career and Tenure at Caltech
8:00am
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2/9
5:00pm
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8:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Undergraduate Math Club Seminar
A, D, and E in Exceptional Phenomena
William Ballinger,
Mathematics Department,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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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
Shock Compression and Strain Rate Effect in Semi-crystalline Polymers
Eric Brown,
Los Alamos National Lab,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Projective Structures with holonomy in (Quasi-)Hitchin representations
Qiongling Li,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Towards Terminal High-Valent Metal-Oxo Motifs on Multimetallic Scaffolds
Graham de Ruiter,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
ClearPath Indoor Robotic Guide for the Visually Challenged
Edward Katz,
Associate Professor,
Computer Science,
Loyola Marymount University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
The Science of Star Trek
Michael Wong,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, February 4th, 2017
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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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ashikyan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, February 5th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, February 6th, 2017
9:00am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Design and Evolution of Enzymes
Donald Hilvert,
Professor,
Chemistry and Applied Biosciences,
University of Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
CANCELLED: Automated Decision Making Under Uncertainty for Societal Benefit
Assistant Professor Emma Brunskill,
CS, Affiliate, Machine Learning ,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Origin of the glacial ramp
Wallace S. Broecker,
Newberry Professor of Geology,
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter with Supersymmetry
Bibhushan Shakya,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wolff Lecture
Advances towards MLC/Area and Hausdorff dimension of Julia sets
Mikhail Lyubich,
Mathematics Department,
Institute for Math Sciences at Stony Brook ,
8:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2017
10:30am
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Ongoing
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Information-performance tradeoffs in control
Victoria Kostina,
Assistant Professor ,
Electriacal Engineering,
CALTECH,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Prof. Daniel Weisz,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Single-Molecule Spectroscopy with Catalysts, Conductive Polymers, and Optical Microresonators
Randall H. Goldsmith,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Seeking signs of life within the Martian crust
Joseph Michalski,
Associate Professor,
Dept of Earth Sciences,
University of Hong Kong,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
10:00am
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Absolutely continuous spectrum and the spectra of periodic approximants
Yoram Last,
Einstein Institute of Mathematics,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Mesoscale aggregation of shallow marine cumulus convection
Christopher Bretherton,
Professor,
Departments of Atmospheric Science and Applied Mathematics,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
New Functional Materials as a Design Problem
Alex Zunger,
Research Professor,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Scalar curvature in the conformal geometry of Connes-Landi deformation
Yang Liu,
Mathematics,
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
A polytopal generalization of Sperner's lemma
Francis Su,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvey Mudd College,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, February 9th, 2017
8:50am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Zeros of polynomials in a finite grid
Anurag Bishnoi,
Department of Mathematics,
Ghent University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Quantum Spillover, Chiral Plasmons and Controllable Quenching of Super-radiance in Deep Subwavelength Optical Coatings"
Nicholas Xuanlai Fang,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Intstitute of Technology,
11:30am
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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
Shannon Stone,
Graduate Student,
Tirrell Research Group, CCE, Caltech,