Institute Calendar
October 2014
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
10:30am
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12:30pm
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10:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Modeling and Computational Challenges for Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Combustion Systems
Suresh Menon,
Professor,
School of Aerospace Engineering,
Georgia Tech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Variations on the finite Gowers' Theorem and the Lelek fan
Dana Bartosova,
Mathematics,
University of San Paolo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Models for the origin of biological homochirality
Donna G. Blackmond,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
The Scripps Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Semyon Malamud, Swiss Finance Institute
Price Discovery Through Options
Semyon Malamud,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Swiss Finance Institute (SFI),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Is Time Hollow, or Just the Earth? The Strange Case of James Ross Island
Gillen Wood,
Professor of English and Director of the Sustainability Studies Initiative in the Humanities,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Exploring sp2-bonded materials: From graphene liquid cells to atomic collapse
Alex Zettl,
Professor of Physics,
Physics,
UC Berkeley,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 24th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Resurgence in quantum field theory: handling the Devil's invention
Aleksey Cherman,
University of Minnesota,
12:00pm
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12:45pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Ultrahigh-resolution quantum optical coherence tomography using ultra-broadband entangled photon pairs
Masayuki Okano,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Graduate School of Engineering,
Kyoto University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Making Supersymmetric Quivers from N=(0,2) Sigma Models
Arkady Vainshtein,
University of Minnesota,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar - NOTE: unusual time - 1:00p
Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Cluster Outskirts
Camille Avestruz,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
Yale University,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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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
Attosecond Electron Control
Mohammed Tharwat Hassan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Zewail group,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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7:20pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Saturday, October 25th, 2014
12:00am
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10:00am
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11:50am
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Plavdjian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nalbandian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gonzalez Carrasco Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, October 27th, 2014
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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PhD seminar
Effects of Self Energy of Ions on the Double Layer Structure and Interfacial Properties at the Dielectric Interface
Rui Wang,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Topology of the tropical moduli spaces M_{1,n} and M_{2,n}
Melody Chan,
NSF Postdoc Fellow ,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Implementing Probabilistic Graphical Models with Chemical Reaction Networks
Ryan P. Adams,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Can I Take a Peek? Continuous Monitoring of Online A/B Tests
Professor Ramesh Johari,
Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering,
Stanford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Identification and Estimation in Manipulable Assignment Mechanisms
Paulo Somaini,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Jupiter's Grand Attack
Konstantin Batygin,
Assistant Professor of Planetary Science,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Shining light on new physics with improved dijet resonance identification
Eder Izaguirre,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Molecular Design and Applications of Chiral Organic Ion Pair Catalysts Featuring Anion-Controlling Ability
Daisuke Uraguchi,
Associate Professor,
Graduate School of Engineering,
Nagoya University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Methods for Melting Temperature Calculations
Qijun Hong,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Van de Walle group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
9:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Understanding Opinions and Preferences in Product Networks
Julian McAuley,
Assistant Professor,
UC San Diego,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Swift Lecture
The Chemistry of BioHydrogen
Fraser Armstrong,
Pofessor of Chemistry and a Fellow of St. John's College,
Chemistry,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector Arrays for Optical Communication and Quantum Optics
Matt Shaw,
JPL,
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
Early Star Forming Galaxies and Cosmic Rionization
Prof. Dan Stark,
Univ. of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Causes and Consequences of Genetic Variation
Leonid Kruglyak,
Professor of Human Genetics and Biological Chemistry Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Founding Member, Computational Biosciences Institute,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar
Nash Codes for Noisy Channels
Bernhard von Stengel,
Department of Mathematics,
London School of Economics,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
8:00am
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Ongoing
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Control and Dynamical Systems Seminar
Analysis and Design of Optimization Algorithms via Integral Quadratic Constraints
Laurent Lessard,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Berkeley Center for Control and Identification,
University of California, Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Global Existence and Dispersion for the Klein-Gordon equation with long range nonhomogeneous nonlinearites
Avy Soffer,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Rutgers University,
12:15pm
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1:15pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Enabling the Search for Microbial Life in Other Worlds' Oceans with Digital Holographic Microscopy
Jonas Kuhn,
JPL,
1:30pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Heterometallic Manganese Oxido Clusters: Synthesis and Reactivity
Sandy Suseno,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Agapie group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Introduction to the Ricci and Kahler-Ricci Flows
Zhou Zhang,
School of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Sydney,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Reversing Climate Change: Using Carbon Technology to Offset Carbon Emissions
Frank Shu,
Professor Emeritus of University of California at Berkeley & San Diego, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Contracts with Framing
Yuval Salant,
Associate Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences,
Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Changes in the distribution of rain in response to warming
Angie Pendergrass,
ASP Postdoctoral Fellow,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Thursday, October 30th, 2014
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Nuclear Energy: Misconceptions, Research Frontiers, and Global Outlook
Harold McFarlane,
Interim Associate Laboratory Director,
Nuclear Science & Technology,
Idaho National Laboratory,