Institute Calendar
June 2019
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6/14
4:00pm
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6/7
5:00pm
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6/6
12:00pm
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Saturday, June 1st, 2019
8:00am
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6/4
5:00pm
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8:00am
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Friedrich Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nazarian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Yepez(Barajas) Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, June 2nd, 2019
1:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Artinian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Lotfi Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, June 3rd, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
Does Privacy Still Matter? The Complexity of Data Privacy Regulations
Rona Yu,
Undergraduate Student (junior),
Computer Science,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Dynamics, Mechanics and Stability of Physical Gels
Ahmad Omar,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Total Syntheses of the C19 Diterpenoid Alkaloid Natural Products (–)-Liljestrandisine and (–)-Liljestrandinine
Alice Wong,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED | Literary Dimensions Seminar
This seminar has been cancelled
Aimee Bahng,
Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies,
Pomona College,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
8:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Batch Normalization Causes Gradient Explosion in Deep Randomly Initialized Networks
Greg Yang,
Associate Researcher 2,
Research areas Human language technologies Mathematics Artificial intelligence,
Microsoft,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Reformulated Ramsey relations and $\aleph_2$
Jeffrey Bergfalk,
Centro de Ciencias,
UNAM, Morelia Campus,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Design principles for organization and self-assembly for from equilibrium
Suri Vaikuntanathan,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
"Giant Exoplanet Physics from Population Statistics"
Daniel Thorngren,
Graduate Student; Newly Minted PhD,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
GW170817 and the EM counterparts of future GW events
Kunal Mooley,
NRAO / Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Aristotelian Mechanics in the Renaissance
Mark Schiefsky,
Visiting Associate in Philosophy, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; C. Lois P. Grove Professor of the Classics, Harvard University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, June 5th, 2019
8:00am
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6/7
5:00pm
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8:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Collusion in Brokered Markets
John Hatfield,
Professor,
McCombs Business School,
The University of Texas at Austin,
Thursday, June 6th, 2019
8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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5:30pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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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
Photoaffinity Tools for Understanding Neuroplasticity
Amelie Joffrin,
PostDoc, Hsieh-Wilson Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Planning Surveys of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope and their PTA Implications
4:30pm
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7:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
L-band multi-polarization radar scatterometry over global forests: modelling, analysis, and applications
Yu Xian Lim,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, June 7th, 2019
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Anyonic-String/Brane Träumerei: 4d Yang-Mills Gauge Theories and Time-Reversal Symmetric 5d TQFT
Juven Wang,
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Operator Algebras in Quantum Theory: A Practical Perspective
Oleg Kabernik,
Graduate Student, Raussendorf Group,
University of British Columbia,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Optimal Data Acquisition for Statistical Estimation
Juba Ziani,
Graduate Student,
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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5:30pm
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Black Hole Spin Misalignments in Microquasars
Greg Salvesen,
NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoc Fellow,
Department of Physics,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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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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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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German Film: Diplomatie
Movie screening for German 130c & 132c // In German and French with English subtitles
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
We Were The Discoverers: Witnessing the Exoplanet Revolution
Arpita Roy,
Millikan Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
- Public Event
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, June 8th, 2019
8:00am
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6/11
5:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gevorgyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Antanesyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, June 10th, 2019
9:00am
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6/12
12:30pm
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9:00am
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9:00am
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Tuesday, June 11th, 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
Rosemary Challis,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology and Biological Engineering,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Michael Altermatt,
Graduate Student,
Neurobiology,
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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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
"A Panchromatic Study of HAT-P-11b: A Cloudy Neptune with a Low Atmospheric Metallicity" & "Investigating Trends in Atmospheric Compositions of Cool Gas Giant Planets Using Spitzer Secondary Eclipses"
Yayaati Chachan,
Graduate Student,
Department of Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Nicole Wallack,
Graduate Student,
Department of Planetary Science,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
8:00am
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6/14
5:00pm
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8:00am
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9:00am
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9:00am
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10:00am
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10:00am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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1:30pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry - Merck Symposium
Novel Catalytic Approaches to the Synthesis of a Complex Drug Molecule
Dr. Aaron Whittaker,
Associate Principal Scientist,
Department of Process Research and Development,
Merck & Co. Inc.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in CMS
Wavefront sensing and control for high-contrast imaging in space
He Sun,
Ph.D. student,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University,
Thursday, June 13th, 2019
8:30am
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11:00am
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9:00am
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10:00am
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10:00am
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3:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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11:45am
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1:15pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
The function of Nab2 in coordinating nuclear processing of transcripts with their export to the cytoplasm
Murray Stewart,
Leaverhulm Emeritus Fellow,
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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2019 Herbert Newby McCoy Award Symposium
Asher Preska Steinberg,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Ferdinand Huber,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:30pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, June 14th, 2019
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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12:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, June 15th, 2019
Sunday, June 16th, 2019
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, June 17th, 2019
9:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Minimax Optimal Learning of Populations of Parameters
Ramya Korlakai Vinayak,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
School of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Washington in Seattle,
Tuesday, June 18th, 2019
8:00am
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
"Drawing Correlations Between Star and Hosted Planet Properties with the California-Kepler Survey" and "Space-Like Infrared Photometry with Palomar/WIRC"
Aida Behmard,
Graduate Student,
Department of Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Shreyas Vissapragada,
Graduate Student,
Department of Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Wednesday, June 19th, 2019