Institute Calendar
March 2015
Saturday, March 7th, 2015
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Seminar Title TBA
Mariusz Mirek,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematical Institute,
University of Wroclaw,
Saturday, March 7th, 2015
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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3/8
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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6:00pm
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2:30pm
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5:30pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nakada Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:40pm
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7:40pm
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3:45pm
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7:45pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, March 8th, 2015
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, March 9th, 2015
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Development of Bioinspired Isoindigo Derivatives in Organic Electronics
Minoru Ashizawa,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Organic & Polymeric Material,
Tokyo Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Synthesis, Oxidation and Photophysics of Perfluoroborated Tetrakis(pyrophosphito)diplatinate (II) and Density Functional Theory (DFT) Study of Electrochemical CO2 Reduction by Mn Catalysts
Yan Choi Lam,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Goddard/Gray group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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14th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture 2015
The Monge-Ampere equation
Alessio Figalli,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Insights from a global view of secondary metabolism: Small molecules from the human microbiota"
Michael Fischbach,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Learning of invariant representations in visual cortex: i-theory
Tomaso Poggio,
Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, McGovern Institute, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Brain Science Department,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Three-dimensional electrical resistivity of the continental US from Earth Scope magnetotelluric data
Gary Egbert,
Professor,
Department of Geology and Geophysics ,
Oregon State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Cross-order relations from maximal unitarity
David ,
Kosower,
CEA, Saclay,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
On Not Being Someone Else: A Letter to My Sister
Andrew H. Miller,
Professor of English,
Indiana University,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
A High Frequency Space Interferometer to Extend the Reach of the GW Detector Network
Rana Adhikari,
Professor of Physics,
PMA,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:45pm
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Special Neuroscience Seminar
Beyond Prosthetics: Turning Science Fiction into Science, and Science into Technology
Phillip Alvelda,
Program Manager Biological Technologies Office Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Andreev's theorem on projective Coxeter polyhedra
Gye-Seon Lee,
Mathematics,
Ruprecht-Karls Universitat Heidelberg,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Two little results in topology, motivated by quantum computation
Gorjan Alagic,
University of Copenhagen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Special Seminar
III-V acoustic devices and systems
Mina Rais-Zadeh,
Associate Professor,
EECS,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Luke Taylor, University of Pennsylvania
Intangible capital and the investment-q relation
Luke Taylor,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Reconstructing the neutron-star equation of state from gravitational-wave observations
Benjamin Lackey,
Syracuse University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar
Shaping the Blood: Lessons from Chromatin and Single Cell RNA Dynamics
Ido Amit,
Department of Immunology,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2015
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:30am
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Noncommutative Geometry, Equivariant Cohomology and Conformal Geometry
Raphael Ponge,
Visiting Scholar,
Mathematics,
Seoul National University & UC Berkeley,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Eisenstein series, unitary representations, and scattering amplitudes
Stephen Miller,
Professor and Vice Chair,
Mathematics,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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14th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture 2015
The Monge-Ampere equation
Alessio Figalli,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Dark Matter and Stellar Halos: Formation, Histories and Structure
Kathryn Johnston,
Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Broad Terms and Organizational Codes
Joel Sobel,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Analysis of observed and modeled rainfall seasonality properties with indicators based on information entropy
Salvatore Pascale,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Environmental Science & Engineering,
Caltech,
8:30pm
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11:00pm
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Thursday, March 12th, 2015
8:00am
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3/15
5:00pm
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8:30am
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12:30pm
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8:50am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Thermal Management at the Extremes
Ken Goodson,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
tRNA synthetase beyond translation: from vascular development to neurodegeneration
Xiang-Lei Yang,
Professor,
Department of Chemical Physiology and Department of Cell and Molecular Biology,
The Scripps Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
How entangled polymers undergo nonlinear deformation: an emerging worldview?
Shi-Qing Wang,
Kumho Professor,
Department of Polymer Science,
University of Akron,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Capacity of the Energy Harvesting Communication Channel
Ayfer Ozgur Aydin,
Assistant Professor,
Information Systems Laboratory,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Rapid Late Cretaceous True Polar Wander
Ross Mitchell,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
GPS,
Caltech,
Friday, March 13th, 2015
12:00am
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12:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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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
Price Contagion through Balance Sheet Linkages
Agostino Capponi,
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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