Institute Calendar
March 2015
Monday, March 23rd, 2015
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4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Neuromorphic Chips: Combining Analog Computation with Digital Communication
Kwabena Boahen,
Professor,
Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering,
Stanford,
Tuesday, March 24th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Integrated Quantum Light-Matter Interfaces Based on Ensembles of Rare-Earth Ions
Erhan Saglamyurek,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Calgary, Canada,
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Efficient CBC parameter estimation and source classification
Carl-Johan Haster,
Department of Physics,
Birmingham,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Operationally-Motivated Uncertainty Relations for Joint Measurability and the Error-Disturbance Tradeoff
Volker Schotz,
ETH,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Hearing what gravitational wave standard sirens have to say
Chris Messenger,
University of Glasgow,
Wednesday, March 25th, 2015
9:00am
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9:01am
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9:30am
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10:30am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, March 26th, 2015
8:30am
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12:30pm
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10:30am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Special LIGO Seminar
Measurements of mechanical losses in black coating and bonding of silicon at low temperatures.
Leonid Prokhorov,
Physics,
Moscow State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar - CANCELED
!! CANCELED !! James Berger Biochemistry Seminar has been canceled
James Berger,
Professor,
Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry,
Johns Hopkins Medical Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Seminar
Surface Interaction Potentials and Dynamics: Quantitative Measurements and Implications
Paul Weiss,
KNI Distinguished Visiting Professor, Caltech;,
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and of Materials Science and Engineering,
UCLA,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Adventures From the Field - (Down and Dirty) Stories of Pursuing JPL Science from the Ground up to Space
Mark Helmlinger,
Remote Sensing Calibration, Characterization, and Validation Specialist,
Imaging Spectroscopy Group,
JPL,
Friday, March 27th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Targeting DNA Repeat Sequences with Py-Im Polyamides
Jeen Joo Kang,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dervan group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Finally Free: Unlocking Dark Matter Physics out of Galactic Substructures
Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
W.M. Keck Institute for Space Studies,
JPL / Caltech,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Applications of Cyclometalated Ruthenium Alkylidene Catalysts in Olefin Metathesis
Peter Dornan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Constraining Holographic Entanglement Entropy
Ning Bao,
DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics ,
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)
Adventures From the Field - (Down and Dirty) Stories of Pursuing JPL Science from the Ground up to Space
Mark Helmlinger,
Remote Sensing Calibration, Characterization, and Validation Specialist,
Imaging Spectroscopy Group,
JPL,
Saturday, March 28th, 2015
12:00am
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3/29
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12:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Avila & Adram Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, March 30th, 2015
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:15am
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12:15pm
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Special Biology Seminar -- CANCELLED
Merging Population and Molecular Biology, Fly Examples
Sergey Nuzhdin,
Principal Investigator,
Center for High-Performance Computing,
University of Southern California ,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Realizing the Benefits of an Academic / Industrial Collaboration During a Small Satellite Development
Professor Jens Eickhoff,
Space Technology Innovation,
Airbus,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Tropical schemes and the Berkovich analytification
Noah Giansiracusa,
RTG Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mathematics,
University of Georgia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"CRISPR-Cas Genome Surveillance: From Basic Biology to Transformative Technology"
Jennifer Doudna,
Professor,
Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago
Misspecified Recovery
Lars Peter Hansen,
David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current during the Last Glacial Maximum
Jean Lynch-Stieglitz,
Professor, Associate Chair,
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
Georgia Institute of Technology ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2015
9:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Gapped and gapless phases of frustration-free spin-1/2 chains
David Gosset,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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1:30pm
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LIGO Seminar
Optical losses and the optical power requirements in the traditional and the intracavity readout topologies of laser gravitational-wave detectors
F. YA. Khalili,
Physics,
Moscow State University,
1:30pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Single mode cavity to avoid parametric instability in laser gravitational wave detector
Sergey Vyachanin,
Physics,
Moscow State University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Collaborative Research Seminar
Water oxidation with all-inorganic earth-abundant catalysts
Dr. José Ramón Galán-Mascarós,
Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona, Spain,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Do We Know Enough to Design Biology?
Pamela Silver,
Professor,
Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Point Source Reconnaissance: Physical Studies of Near-Earth Asteroids
Nicholas Moskovitz,
NSF Fellow,
Lowell Observatory,