Institute Calendar
Week of April 7, 2019
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
All Day
Ongoing
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Sunday, April 7th, 2019
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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6:30pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, April 8th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Ken Nakayama,
Edgar Pierce Professor Emeritus,
Department of Psychology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Global Ecological Change Beyond the Year 2100
James T. Randerson,
Ralph J. and Carol M. Cicerone Professor, Earth System Science School of Physical Sciences,
Department of Earth System Science,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Primordial black holes as dark matter
Alexander Kusenko,
UCLA & Kavli IPMU,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
The Transfer of H+, H•, H-, and e- from M-H Bonds, and their Applications to Synthesis
Jack R. Norton,
Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
Columbia University ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
TBA
Hongyao MA,
Graduate Student,
Economics and Computation,
Harvard,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Social Science Seminar for Students
Behavioral Political Economy Experiments
Pedro Dal Bo,
Professor of Economics,
Brown University,
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Taka Suegami,
Visitor,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Daw- An Wu,
Lab Manager,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
12:15pm
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12:45pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Seminar - Special Event with Condensed Matter Physics
Making matter from light: Mott Insulators and Topological Fluids
Jonathan Simon,
Associate Professor of Physics & The James Franck Institute, and IME Fellow,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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4/10
5:00pm
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CANCELED -- General Biology Seminar
CANCELED
Stephen Libreles,
Professor,
Cell Biology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Coherent Electron Dynamics in Inter-dimensional Metals: From Atomically Precise Clusters to Plasmonic Transducers
Kenneth L. Knappenberger, Jr.,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
The trajectory of interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua
Davide Farnocchia,
Navigation Engineer,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Generalized Learning and Conditional Expectation
Simon Hutteger,
Professor of Philosophy,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Informational roles of pre-election polls
Jinhee Jo,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Political Science,
Kyung Hee University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Effects of branching on polymer conformation, crystallization and self-assembly of polymers
Joey Kim,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:30am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Discovery of Pulsars - A Graduate Student's Story
Jocelyn Bell Burnell,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Dual-Comb Spectroscopy for Open-Path Atmospheric Gas Measurements
Nathan Newbury,
National Institute of Standards & Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Joint Algebra and Geometry/Geometry and Topology Seminar
Cohomology of the space of polynomial morphisms on A^1 with prescribed ramifications
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
New Frontiers in Catalytic Heteroatom Transfer: Applications to Late-Stage Oxidation and Small Molecule Synthesis
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
New Frontiers in Catalytic Heteroatom Transfer: Applications to Late-Stage Oxidation and Small Molecule Synthesis
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Persuasion Meets Delegation
Anton Kolotilin,
Associate Professor,
UNSW Business School,
Thursday, April 11th, 2019
8:30am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Intergranular Strain Localization Patterns in Extremely Anisotropic Polycrystalline Aggregates of Magnesium
C. Can Aydıner,
Visiting Associate in Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:15pm
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12:45pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Metasurfaces: beyond diffractive and refractive optics
Ehsan Arbabi,
Graduae Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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CMX Special Seminar
Statistical Guarantees for the Bayesian Approach to Inverse Problems
Richard Nickl,
Professor of Mathematical Statistics,
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Stress, Fracture, and Erosion: Tectonic Controls on Landscape Evolution
Seulgi Moon,
Assistant Professor of Geomorphology,
Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
University of California Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Grad Students' Choice: Topological order and topological excitation
Xiao-Gang Wen,
Professor of Physics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Social Science Seminar for Students
Experiments on Infinitely Repeated Games
Pedro Dal Bo,
Professor of Economics,
Brown University,
Friday, April 12th, 2019
8:00am
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Meenan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Emergent higher symmetry in topological phases of matter
Xiao-Gang Wen,
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Seminar in CMS
Imaging a Black Hole with the Event Horizon Telescope
Katherine (Katie) Bouman,
Visiting Associate,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Strategy Choice In The Infinitely Repeated Prisoners Dilemma
Pedro Dal Bo,
Professor of Economics,
Brown University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Higher Spin Theories, Swampland and W-Supergravity
Dieter Luest,
MPI, Munich and Ludwig-Maximillians Univ,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
How polymers shape the physicochemical environment of the gut
Asher Preska Steinberg,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
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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3:00pm
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inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Investigating the Role of the Redox Active 4Fe-4S Cluster of Yeast DNA2
Siobhan MacArdle,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope: Revealing the Invisible
Marja Seidel,
Staff Scientist,
IPAC,
Caltech,
- Public Event