Institute Calendar
October 2014
Wednesday, October 8th, 2014
6:30pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2014
9:30am
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11:00am
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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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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Monotonicity of relative entropies and convexity of some trace functions
Rupert Frank,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:15pm
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1:15pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
KMTNet: A Cold Exoplanet Census Through a Global Microlensing Survey
Calen Henderson,
Graduate Student,
Oregon 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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Resnick Fellows Seminar
Two Seminars: Better Enzymes for Biofuels and Green Chemistry--Solving the Cofactor Imbalance Problem & Model Complexes for Studying Heterometallic Effects Relevant to Fuel Cell Chemistry
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
How Black Holes Dine above the Eddington "Limit" without Overeating or Excessive Belching
Shane Davis,
Virginia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Sequential Equilibrium Distributions in Multi-Stage Games with Infinite Sets of Types and Actions
Philip J. Reny,
William C. Norby Professor in Economics and the College,
Department of Economics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Why do plants grow where and when they grow?
Kyla M. Dahlin,
ASP Postdoctoral Fellow,
Climate & Global Dynamics Division, Terrestrial Sciences,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
Thursday, October 9th, 2014
8:50am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Peter Carr, Morgan Stanley
Can Investor Beliefs be Extracted from Option Prices?
Peter Carr,
Global Head of Market Modeling,
Morgan Stanley,
12:00pm
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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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Logic Seminar
Chain conditions and elementary amenable groups
Jay Williams,
Postdoc,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Weil Sums of Binomials and Helleseth's Conjecture
Daniel Katz,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
California State University, Northridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Irreversibility, information and the second law of thermodynamics at the nanoscale
Christopher Jarzynski,
Director, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, Distinguished University Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Maryland, College Park ,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Rosetta – A Lesson on Comets, the Solar System and Mysteries of Earth
Art Chmielewski,
Manager, U.S. Rosetta Project,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Friday, October 10th, 2014
10:30am
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11:30am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Quantum spectral curve of N=4 SYM
Vladimir Kazakov,
Ecole Normale Superieure d'Universite Paris,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Control and Dynamical Systems Seminar
Coherent Lagrangian Vortices in Unsteady Continua
George Haller,
Prof. Dr.,
Nonlinear Dynamics,
ETH Zürich,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Natural Selection, Game Theory and Genetic Diversity
Georgios Piliouras,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Science,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Givental J-functions, Quantum integrable systems, AGT relation with surface operator
Satoshi Nawata,
NIKHEF,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
There's Government in Your Science
Josh Shiode,
John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow,
American Astronomical Society,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
On the Complex Rocking Response of Large Statues atop Ancient Multispondyle Columns Under Ground Motion: A Genious & Challenging Structural System
Anthony Kounadis,
Professor Emeritus,
Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
New results on Hitchin representations
Tengren Zhang,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Programmable Self Assembly with Particles and Polymers
Robert (Rob) Macfarlane,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Enhancement of the hidden-order/large-moment antiferromagnetic phase boundary in the URu2−xFexSi2 and URu2−xOsxSi2 systems
Noravee Kanchanavatee,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Maple Group,
Univ of California, San Diego,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Rosetta – A Lesson on Comets, the Solar System and Mysteries of Earth
Art Chmielewski,
Manager, U.S. Rosetta Project,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Saturday, October 11th, 2014
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, October 12th, 2014
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Keshishyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 13th, 2014
9:00am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
"Micromechanical Damage and Fracture in Elastomeric Polymers"
Stefanie Heyden,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Synthesis of Contact-Rich Behaviors with Optimal Control
Professor Emo Todorov,
Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Washington,
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
New insights into the global carbon cycle using chlorophyll fluorescence + Detecting the largest local methane hotspot in the continental US from space
Christian Frankenberg,
Research Scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Parametrically Enhanced Transmission of Hidden Photons via Longitudinal Modes
Yue Zhao,
SLAC,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Thinking on your Feet: Reinforcement Learning for Incremental Language Tasks
Jordan Boyd-Graber,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science Department,
University of Colorado Boulder,
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
When the clock ticks too fast: Lessons from premature ageing syndromes
Oliver Dreesen,
Ph.D.,
Institute of Medical Biology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Entanglement in one-dimensional quantum systems
Yi-Chen Huang,
IQIM,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Reciprocity relationships for gravitational-wave interferometers
Yuri Levin,
Monash University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Reciprocity relationships for gravitational-wave interferometers
Yuri Levin,
Monash University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Final Products of Stellar Evolution in High Metallicity Envirnonments and the UV Excess in Elliptical Galaxies
Prof. Giovanni Carraro,
ESO,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Dynamics of super-rotor molecules in an optical centrifuge
Amy S. Mullin,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Maryland, College Park,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
From Petabytes of Data to Insights on Genomic Networks, Epistasis and Cancer
Kevin White,
Professor of Biology,
Department of Human Genetics and Department of Ecology & Evolution,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Big Bang Scenarios Before the Discovery of the Red Shift: Alexander Friedman and the Foundations of Relativistic Cosmology
Alexei Kojevnikov,
Department of History,
University of British Columbia,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2014
10:00am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Gaps, Warps, Rings and Collisions: How Planets Interact with Debris Disks
Erika Nesvold,
NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Eigenvalues of the Laplacian and the Hadamard parametrix construction.
Isak Mottelson,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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Aldrich Lecture
Methods and Mechanism in Asymmetric Catalysis
Abigail G. Doyle,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Heterogeneous Integration for Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits
J. E. Bowers,
University of California Santa Barbara, California, USA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Random Choice and Private Information
Jay Lu,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Cornell University,