Institute Calendar
Winter 2017-2018
Saturday, February 3rd, 2018
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Aivazian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Shakhbandaryan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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Sunday, February 4th, 2018
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Monday, February 5th, 2018
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PhD Thesis Defense
Elucidating the Role of [4Fe4S] Clusters in DNA Replication and Repair
Phillip Bartels,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:10pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Gas-Turbine Heat Transfer – Challenges and Opportunities
Tom I-P. Shih,
J. William Uhrig and Anastasia Vournas Head and Professor ,
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics ,
Purdue University,
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
The small quantum group in type A and the diagonal coinvariants
Anna Lachowska,
EPFL,
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BELS
Microfluidics for 3D Tissue Engineering and Personal Health Diagnostics
Samuel Sia,
Professor,
Biomedical Engineering,
Columbia University,
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Minerology vs. thermodynamics, or, why are extracellular electron transfer pathways so complicated?
Daniel R. Bond,
Associate Professor,
CBS Plant/Microbial Biology,
University of Minnesota,
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Meta Material, First Direct Observation of Reverse Cherenkov Radiation, and Test of Babinet Principle
Min Chen,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Proteins in nanoporous hydrogels: adsorption, diffusion, and folding
Lydia Kisley,
Beckman-Brown Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology,
Tuesday, February 6th, 2018
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Nonlinear control and estimation theory for multi-agent autonomy and autonomous flying ambulances
Soon-Jo Chung,
Associate Professor of Aerospace and Bren Scholar; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Scientist,
Engineering and Applied Science,
CALTECH,
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Thoughts on the Potential of Quantum Computing for Nuclear Physics Grand Challenge Problems
Martin Savage,
University of Washington,
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CTLO-Physics-Mathematics Colloquium
Taking a scientific approach to teaching science and engineering
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
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Fred Adams,
Ta-You Wu Collegiate Professor of Physics,
College of Literature, Science and the Arts,
University of Michigan,
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
The Electronic-Structural Barrier to Higher Photoconversion Efficiency in Semiconductors
Scott Cushing,
DOE EERE Postdoctoral Fellow ,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Skewness, Tax Progression, and Demand for Redistribution: Evidence from the UK
Kirill Pogorelskiy,
Visiting Associate in Economics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 7th, 2018
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics Enabled Integrity Assessment of Urban Buildings
Hao Sun,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Lab for Infrastructure Sensing and Data Science,
University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). ,
12:00pm
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Caltech Alumni Career Webinar Series
How A Caltech Faculty Member Engages with the Wider World Through Social Media
Sean Carroll, PhD,
Research Professor of Physics,
Division of Physics, Math, and Astronomy,
Caltech,
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Logic Seminar
Measure reducibility of countable Borel equivalence relations (after Conley and Miller), III
Forte Shinko,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Eric Ashley, Ph.D.; Danielle Schultz, Ph.D.; Christopher Sinz, Ph.D. ,
Merck,
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American History Job Candidate Seminar
Crime Capital: Public Safety, Urban Development, and Black Politics in Post-Civil Rights Atlanta
Danielle Wiggins,
PhD Candidate,
Department of History,
Emory University,
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Astronomy Colloquium
Circumgalactic Matter Matters for Galaxy Evolution
Jessica Werk,
Univ of Washington,
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate Change in the West African Monsoon: Confusion, Consensus, and the Way Forward
Michela Biasutti,
Lamont Associate Research Professor,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Columbia University,
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Exciton-phonon interactions: theoretical techniques for light-induced structural changes
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EE Systems Seminar
Deep optimization: from learning deep models to tuning hyper-parameters
Meisam Razaviyayn,
Assitant Professor,
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering ,
USC Machine Leaning Center,
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CS9: Intro to CS Research and Industry
More than Recommendations: Data Science at Netflix -- Speaker: Becky Tucker, Caltech Alum
Thursday, February 8th, 2018
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Topological Mechanics of Critically Coordinated Lattices"
Tom Lubensky,
Professor,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Pennsylvania,
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Number Theory Seminar
Analytic Number Theory in Function Fields and Twin Primes in the Large Finite-Field Limit
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Physics Research Conference
The life of vortex knots and links and the conservation of helicity
William Irvine,
Associate Professor,
James Franck Institute,
University of Chicago,
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Approaching the Fundamental Limits of Learning
Vahid Tarokh,
Rhodes Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Mathematics, and Computer Science,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science,
Duke University,
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Special Seminar: Young Investigator Lecture in Engineering and Applied Science
How vegetation impacts erosion
Qingjun (Judy) Yang,
PhD Candidate,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, February 9th, 2018
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantization of the low temperature action in the SYK model
Josephine Suh,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Kitaev Group,
2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Interplay of Proton Transfer, Electron Transfer and Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Transition Metal Mediated Nitrogen Fixation
Benjamin Matson,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
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TAPIR Seminar
Theory of EM counterparts of neutron star mergers
Kenta Hotokezaka,
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,