Institute Calendar
Winter 2016-2017
Sunday, February 5th, 2017
Monday, February 6th, 2017
9:00am
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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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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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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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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7:30pm
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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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12:00pm
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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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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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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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11:30am
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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,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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SPECIAL: Planetary Science Seminar
Titan: Unanswered Questions, Recent Discoveries, and Why We Need to Go Back
Alexander Hayes,
Assistant Professor of Astronomy; Director, Spacecraft Planetary Imaging Facility,
Cornell,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Metasurfaces: From Nanoantennas Inclusions to Patterned 2D Sheets
Hossein Mosallaei,
Associate Professor and Director of Metamaterials Laboratory,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Northeastern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture- POSTPONED
Ahmad K. Omar,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Oscillator representation interpretation of Tate's thesis
Alexander Yom Din,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Supremacy
Scott Aaronson,
David J. Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science,
University of Texas at Austin,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Glacial Ice Melt and Sea Level Rise
Alex Gardner,
Earth Scientist,
JPL,
Friday, February 10th, 2017
10:00am
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2:00pm
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Lean Startup Workshop
Farzin Samadani,
Co Founder at Curious Me,
Christie Canaria,
Program Manager at NCI SBIR Development Center,
11:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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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
High Fidelity Simulation of Brittle Fracture Problems with Universal Meshes
Adrian Lew,
Associate Professor, Lee Otterson Faculty Scholar,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics and Computation ,
Stanford University,