Institute Calendar
December 2014
Ongoing
Ongoing
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12/5
5:00pm
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Monday, December 1st, 2014
8:00am
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4:30pm
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9:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Using Prediction Markets to Estimate the Reproducibility of Science
Anna Dreber,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Stockholm School of Economics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Higgs bundles, spectral data, and applications
Laura Schaposnik,
J. L. Doob Research Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Urbana Champaign,
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
Mars as a major ingredient to the Earth's recipe
Caroline Fitoussi,
Researcher Fellow - CNRS,
Laboratorie de Géologie de Lyon Terre, Planétes, Environnement,
École normale supérieure de Lyon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar-CANCELLED
Redox-, Coordination- and Photo-Chemistry in the f-Block: New Approaches to Improve the Sustainability of the Rare Earth Element Supply Chain
Eric J. Schelter,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Pennsylvania,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
8:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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
Paul W. Merrill: The Man Who Discovered the Evolving Universe
Jacob Berkowitz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
An Approximate Version of Caratheodory's Theorem and Its Algorithmic Applications (part 2)
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Cellular Signaling and Patterning of Neurogenesis in Urchin Embryos
Robert Burke,
Professor and Chair,
Biochemistry and Microbiology,
University of Victoria,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The geometry of the Hitchin component
Richard Canary,
Professor,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
"Giving" in to Social Pressure (co-authored with Alvaro J. Name-Correa, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Huseyin Yildirim,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Duke University,
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Approximating the best Nash Equilibrium in n^{o(log n)}-time breaks the Exponential Time Hypothesis
Omri Weinstein,
Princeton,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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12/31
1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Inside Rounds and Venture Capital Returns
Michael Ewens,
Associate Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship,
HSS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The onset of large-scale dynamical instability in the Solar System
Konstantin Batygin,
Caltech (GPS),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Unbalanced Random Matching Markets: The Stark Effect of Competition (Joint with Itai Ashlagi and Yash Kanoria)
Jacob Leshno,
Assistant Professor Decision, Risk, and Operations,
Columbia Business School,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Resources for Climate Models
David Rutledge,
Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu Professor of Engineering,
Department of Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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CPET Seminar - Prof. Dennis Kochmann - Teaching a Quantitative Course
Effective Teaching of a Quantitative Course: From Designing to Teaching the Class
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, December 4th, 2014
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:50am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Robotic Materials
Nikolaus Correll,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
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
Replication Stress by Py-Im Polyamides Induces a Non-canonical ATR-dependent Checkpoint Response
Thomas Martinez,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
The "Would" to Power: Edward Jones's The Known World
Cindy Weinstein,
Professor of English; Vice Provost,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
The greatest ambit and the universal minimal flow from the Boolean algebra point of view
Dana Bartosova,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of San Paulo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
Swim pressure of active matter
Sho Takatori,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan School of Management
Evolutionary Foundations of Economic Behavior, Bounded Rationality, and Intelligence
Andrew Lo,
Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor; Professor of Finance,
MIT Sloan School of Management,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Mineralogy at Gale Crater Mars
David Vaniman,
Senior Scientist,
Planetary Science Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Gravity and Entanglement
Mark Van Raamsdonk,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of British Columbia,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Coming Soon to a Dwarf Planet in Your Solar System: NASA's Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt
Marc Rayman,
Director,
Dawn Project Mission,
Jet Proplusion Laboratory,
Friday, December 5th, 2014
12:00am
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12/6
12:00am
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8:00am
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8:00am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Metallaboratrane Facilitated E-H Bond Activation and Hydrogenation Catalysis
Henry Fong,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Peters Group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan School of Management
Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?: New Approaches to Funding Biomedical Innovation
Andrew Lo,
Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor; Professor of Finance,
MIT Sloan School of Management,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Recursion Relation for Conformal Blocks
Masahito Yamazaki,
IMPU, Univ of Tokyo,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Zen of Core Collapse: How to See A Supernova That Doesn't Happen
Elizabeth Lovegrove,
Graduate Student,
Astronomy & Astrophysics,
UC Santa Cruz,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Stress state effects in yield and flow responses of nanocrystalline metals
David L. McDowell,
Carter N. Paden Jr. Distinguished Chair in Metals Processing; Regents' Professor Mechanics of Materials; Executive Director, Institute for Materials,
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and School of Materials Science and Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Decouplings and applications
Ciprian Demeter,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
Indiana University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Quantifying residual properties of virtually special groups
Mark Hagen,
RTG Postdoctoral Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Protection of Photoanodes for Water-Splitting in Harsh Environments
Michael Lichterman,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
All-fermion electrodynamics and fermion number anomaly inflow
Shauna Kravec,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
Univ. of California, San Diego,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Scattering Theory for the Boltzmann Equation and the Arrow of Time (joint work with Claude Bardos, Irene Gamba, and Francois Golse)
David Levermore,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Maryland,
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)
Coming Soon to a Dwarf Planet in Your Solar System: NASA's Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt
Marc Rayman,
Director,
Dawn Project Mission,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
7:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 6th, 2014
8:00am
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12/9
5:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:30pm
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Quinceanera Photography on Campus: Rodriuguez Quinceanera Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Khachoyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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10:00pm
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