Institute Calendar
Monday, October 17, 2016
Monday, October 17th, 2016
9:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Spectroscopic, Electronic, and Mechanistic Studies of Silicon Surfaces Chemically Modified with Short Alkyl Chains
Noah Plymale,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar
Violence in History and in Contemporary Conflicts: Why History Matters for Today's Politics
Bettina Koch,
Associate Professor of Political Science, Virginia Tech; Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations Fellow,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
NonLERFness of arithmetic hyperbolic manifold groups
Hongbin Sun,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Difference-of-Convex Programming
Professor Jong-Shi Pang,
Viterbi School of Engineering ,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
How bright is the proton? A precise determination of the photon PDF.
Aneesh Manohar,
UCSD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Advances in Bio-Activated and Targeted MR Imaging Probes: Are We There Yet?
Thomas J. Meade,
Professor,
Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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The Thomas J. and Earleen Ahrens Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences
Origin of plate tectonics: From global to grain scales (and back again)
David Bercovici,
Frederick William Beinecke Prof of Geophysics,
Department of Geology and Geophysics,
Yale University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
Equivariant Floer homology
Sucharit Sarkar,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
ArtDoors: Artwork of the Outdoors
Kelvin Nguyen,
Southern California Mountaineers Association,