Institute Calendar
Week of March 3, 2019
Monday, January 7th, 2019
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Thursday, February 28th, 2019
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Sunday, March 3rd, 2019
11:00am
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, March 4th, 2019
11:30am
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1:30pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group Seminar
One if by Land and Two if by Sea: A Glimpse into the Value of Information in Strategic Interactions
Vijay Subramanian,
Associate Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Michigan,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Affine Springer fibers and commutative algebra
Oscar Kivinen,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Ice sheets, climate, and sea level, in the past and into the future"
Nicholas Golledge,
Associate Professor,
Antarcitc Research Center,
Victoria University of Wellington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Inference, Computation, and Visualization for Convex Clustering and Biclustering
Genevera Allen,
Associate Professor,
Departments of Statistics, Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Searching for dark matter annihilation in the Milky Way halo
Laura Chang,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Humanities Seminar
The Forgotten Founder of Quantum Mechanics: The Science and Politics of Physicist Pascual Jordan
Ryan Dahn,
Visiting Scholar,
Department of History and Sociology of Science,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Predictive Simulations of Redox and Electron Transfer Events on Biomolecules: The Case of Cryptochromes
Ksenia Bravaya,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
Boston University,
Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
TBA
Patricio Vela,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Georgia Tech,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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Center for Selective C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium
Olivier Baudoin,
University of Basel,
Peng Liu,
University of Pittsburgh,
Huw Davies,
Emory University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Advanced LIGO searches for sub-solar mass ultracompact objects
Ryan Magee,
Penn State / Caltech,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
Designer Matter: New Frontiers in Wave Interactions with Meta- and Nano-structures
Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Electrical and Systems Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
"(Semi-)automating CRISM Analysis: Refinement of Martian Surface Mineralogy using Factor Analysis and Target Transformation" & "Probing the Gas Content of Late-Stage Protoplanetary Disks with N2H+"
Nancy Thomas,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Dana Anderson,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Special Seminar
Designer Matter: New Frontiers in Wave Interactions with Meta- and Nano-structures
Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Electrical and Systems Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Visiting Newton's Atelier Before the "Principia," 1679-1684
Michael Nauenberg,
Professor of Physics, Emeritus,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar
"How a soil bacterium responds to light"
Tilman Lamparter,
Botanical institute,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Estimation of Peer Effects in Endogenous Social Networks: Control Function Approach
Hyungsik Roger Moon,
Professor in Economics,
USC,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
8:00am
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11:50am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Strongly log concave polynomials, high dimensional simplicial complexes, and an FPRAS for counting Bases of Matroids
Shayan Oveis Gharan,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Seminar
New Opportunities with Old Optical Materials
Marko Lončar,
Tiantsai Lin Professor of Electrical Engineering,
John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture
New Polymers from Old Monomers: Advances Enabled through Catalyst Discovery
Geoffrey W. Coates,
Tisch University Professor,
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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EE Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Thomas Kailath
On the process of making breakthroughs in engineering
Thomas Kailath,
Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Trends in Earth System Modeling and Emerging Data Science Opportunities
Christiane Jablonowski,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Thomas Jefferson's Networks of Knowledge
Barbara Oberg,
Senior Research Scholar,
Department of History,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Smart Materials from Programmable Polymers
Grigory Tikhomirov,
Senior Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology & Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Bioengineering Seminar
"Why the world is simple"
A. A. (Ard) Louis,
Professor,
Rudolph Peierls Center for Theoretical Physics,
Oxford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Collective Hold-Up
Santiago Oliveros,
Professor of Economics,
University of Essex,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, March 7th, 2019
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Instabilities and Phase Transitions in Multiphase Flow through Porous Media.
Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu,
Miller Fellow,
Department of Earth & Planetary Science,
Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression in Mammalian Cells"
Arash Farhadi,
Graduate Student, Shapiro Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Probing the 2D Fermi-Hubbard Model Under a Quantum Gas Microscope
Matt Nichols,
PhD student, Zwierlein Group,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group Seminar
Non-Convex Learning: Optimization and Robustness
Hongyang Zhang,
Ph.D. candidate,
Machine Learning,
Carnegie Mellon University,
12:10pm
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12:50pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Dust to Dirt: The Microbiome of the Air and Soil
Emma Aronson,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology,
University of California Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Humanities Seminar
Oil Under the Sea: Technological Vision and Visual Persuasion across the French Mediterranean
Brian Jacobson,
Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and History,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Physics and Energy
Washington Taylor IV,
Professor of Physics; Director, Center for Theoretical Physics; Division Head, Theoretical and Nuclear Particle Physics,
MIT,