Institute Calendar
October 2019
Tuesday, October 1st, 2019
12:00am
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11/1
12:00am
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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12:50pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Persuasive Images in Early Modern Scientific Books
Sachiko Kusukawa,
Professor of History of Science,
University of Cambridge,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Automatic Tensor Network Contraction
Johnnie Gray,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Imperial College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Jingcheng Liu
Approximate counting, phase transitions & geometry of polynomials
Jingcheng Liu,
Postdoc, Center for the Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
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, October 2nd, 2019
11:00am
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1:15pm
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12:00pm
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6:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry - Boehringer Ingelheim Symposium
Reeves: New Reactions from the Process Development of a BACE-1 Inhibitor. ● Ackermann: Sustainable C–H Activation From Late-Step Peptide Diversification
Lutz Ackermann,
Professor, Dr.,
Catalysis and Organic Synthesis,
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
From Protostars to Adolescence: A Tour of Young Stellar Systems
Gregory Herczeg,
KIAA / Peking University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
From the equator to the pole in a unified turbulence and convection parameterization
Yair Cohen,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Getting Settled in Your New Home: The Costs of Moving on Voter Turnout
Seo-young Silvia Kim,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 3rd, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Autonomous Decision Making under Uncertainty in Engineering Systems: Finding Optimal Dynamic Paths in Immense Spaces
Kostas Papakonstantinou,
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Penn State,
12:05pm
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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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Geology Club Seminar
"Modern halite deposition dynamics in the Dead Sea: Lessons for the deposition of thick halite sequences" & "Fluvial incision and coarse gravel redistribution across the modern Dead Sea shelf as a result of base-level fall"
Ido Sirota,
Graduate Student,
Institute of Earth Sciences,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Haggai Eyal,
Graduate Student,
Institute of Earth Sciences,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Friday, October 4th, 2019
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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High Energy Theory Seminar
Mixed anomalies, semi-classics and quantum distillation in QCD
Mithat Unsal,
North Carolina State University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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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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Number Theory Seminar
Fontaine-Mazur conjecture in the residually reducible case
Lue Pan,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
4:30pm
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5:20pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Fractal properties of the Hofstadter's butterfly and singular continuous spectrum of the critical almost Mathieu operator
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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5:30pm
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6:20pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Hodge-theoretic analysis on manifolds with boundary, heatable currents, and Onsager's conjecture in fluid dynamics
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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11:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Why is the Sky Dark at Night?
Alessandro Schillaci,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Saturday, October 5th, 2019
12:00pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Abdisho/Oganesian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Charkhroobian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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6:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Evelia Quinceanera Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Binney Photography Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Sunday, October 6th, 2019
8:00am
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hy Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Barsegnyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nazari Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 7th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:15pm
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12:45pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Combining astrophysics and geology to study the formation of Earth
Seth A. Jacobson,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Searching for Long Lived Particles at the LHC with Codex-b
Michele Papucci,
LBNL & Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Geometric Deformation in the Design of Organophosphorus Catalysts
Alexander Radosevich,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Tuesday, October 8th, 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
Walter Gonzalez,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Luis Sanchez,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
How deep learning is transforming earthquake seismology
Zach Ross,
Assistant Professor,
Geophysics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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12:50pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Visual Culture Program
Immortality Projects: Science and Art of Being Ephemeral
Natalie Andrew,
Professional Biologist and Visual Artist,
Brian Knep,
Media Artist,
12:05pm
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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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Chemical Physics Seminar
Exploring Fast Chemistries "On-Water": Emulsions, Electrosprays, and the Air- Water Interface
Himanshu Mishra,
Assistant Professor,
Environmental Science and Engineering Division,
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Jingcheng Liu
Uniform Sampling Through the Lovász Local Lemma
Jingcheng Liu,
Postdoc, Center for the Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Chasing Extinct Elements and Mysterious Carriers: Isotope Constraints on Solar System Formation
Francois Tissot,
Assistant Professor of Geochemistry,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
A Bridge Too Far?: Examining Bridging Assumptions in Common-Space Estimations
Jeffery A. Jenkins,
Provost Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law,
Sol Price School of Public Policy,
USC,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar
Free Field Theories and Their Observables (GW Vol 1, Chapter 2-4)
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:19pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Designing Research for Practical Social Innovation
Sera Linardi,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs,
University of Pittsburgh,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA)
Josiah Schwab,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Recent trend of air pollution in China - a sectorially resolved emission-inventory based evaluation
Shu Tao,
Peking University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
A Method to Estimate Discrete Choice Models that is Robust to Consumer Search
Giovanni Compiani,
Assistant Professor,
Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, October 10th, 2019
8:30am
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3:00pm
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8:30am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
From Patterned Sheets to Functional Morphing Structures
Paolo Celli,
Postdoctoral Scholar 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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12:00pm
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12:05pm
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1:00pm
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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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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Synthetic Genetic Systems for Rapid Mutation and Continuous Evolution in vivo
Chang C. Liu,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
"Watching a fine-tuned molecular machine at work: Structural and functional studies of the 26S proteasome"
Andreas Martin,
Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Policy Announcement Design
Semyon Malamud,
Associate Professor of Finance,
Swiss Finance Institute,
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
2H/1H variation in microbial lipids is controlled by NADPH metabolism
Reto Wijker,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
New frontiers in exoplanet science with high-contrast imaging and spectroscopy
Dimitri Mawet,
Caltech & JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Nothing is real, but thank God it's epistemic
Mario Hubert,
Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy of Physics,
Caltech,
Friday, October 11th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Dynamic Information Design with Diminishing Sensitivity Over News
Kevin He,
Linde Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Expanding polynomials for sets with additive or multiplicative structure
Cosmin Pohoata,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,