Institute Calendar
Winter 2019-2020
Saturday, January 25th, 2020
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hakobyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, January 26th, 2020
3:00pm
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Monday, January 27th, 2020
11:15am
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12:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
EVOLVING STRATEGIES TOWARD THE SYNTHESIS OF CURCUSONE C
Austin C. Wright,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Geometric Langlands for hypergeometric sheaves
Lingfei Yi,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Probing the Nuclear Organization via Machine Learning"
Jian Ma,
Associate Professor,
School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Wildfires and Upheavals in the Cenozoic
Katherine Freeman,
Evan Pugh Professor,
Department of Geosciences,
Penn State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Challenges in Reliable Machine Learning
Kamalika Chaudhuri,
Associate Professor,
Computer Science and Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
On the Exotic Particles of de Sitter Spacetime
Rachel Rosen,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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Special Chemical Biology Seminar
A Chemical Proteomic Atlas of the Druggable Lysine Proteome
Mikail Abbasov,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Department of Molecular Medicine,
The Scripps Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Borrowed Light: Art and Astronomy at the Villa Medici
Eileen Reeves,
Professor of Comparative Literature,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, January 28th, 2020
9:30am
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10:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
"Does This Vehicle Belong to You?": Extracting Social Meaning from Language by Computer
Dan Jurafsky,
Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Frontiers in Biochemistry Seminar
Illuminating the dark proteome that regulates gene transcription by live-cell single-molecule imaging.
Shasha Chong, Ph.D.,
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
UC Berkeley,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Approximate Bacon-Shor Code and Holography
Charles Cao,
QuICS, University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Investigation of the Fragments of Split Comet 73P
Ariel Graykowski,
Graduate Student,
Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Asymmetric Stem Cell Division and Germline Immortality"
Yukiko Yamashita,
Professor,
Cell & Developmental Biology,
University of Michigan Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Taussky-Todd Lecture
Recent progress on the Birch--Swinnerton-Dyer Conjectures
Christopher Skinner,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 29th, 2020
12:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Gravitational Wave Astrophysics Without the Waves: Ultra-Compact Binary Discoveries with ZTF
Tom Prince,
Ira S. Bowen Professor of Physics,
Astrophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
"Finite-Length Performance of Spatially Coupled Codes and Its Applications"
Fredrik Brännström,
Professor, Head of Communication Systems Group,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Chalmers University of Technology,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The role of microbial communities in ecosystem responses to environmental change
Jennifer Martiny,
University California Irvine,
4:00pm
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Frontiers in Biochemistry Seminar
Beyond the annotated proteome and the canonical rules of translation.
Jin Chen,
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology,
UCSF,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Taussky-Todd Lecture
The arithmetic of elliptic curves of rank one
Christopher Skinner,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Watson Lecture - The Legacy of the Spitzer Space Telescope
Thomas Soifer,
Harold Brown Professor of Physics, Emeritus; Director, Spitzer Science Center,
Caltech,
Thursday, January 30th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Mechanics of Wrinkled Structures
Andrej Košmrlj,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem Learning Seminar
Chern-Weil theory
Bowen Yang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Arrow of time in fluctuations of living systems
Nikta Fakhri,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Soft matter design and characterization in the era of machine learning (General Lecture)