Institute Calendar
April 2015
Wednesday, April 8th, 2015
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Combinatorics Seminar
Structure and Pseudo-Randomness in Coding Theory
Shachar Lovett,
Assistant Professor,
CSE,
UCSD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Oceans of Information
Steven Hallam,
CIFAR Scholar and Associate Professor,
Department of Microbiology & Immunology,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Periods in Perturbative Quantum Field Theory
Emad Nasrollahpoursamani,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, April 9th, 2015
8:30am
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10:00am
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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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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Geometrical derivation of a set of ODEs of motion for constrained mechanical systems
Sotirios Natsiavas,
Professor,
Aristotle University,
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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Number Theory Seminar
Selmer ranks of twists of hyperelliptic curves and superelliptic curves
Myungjun Yu,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Workshop - Conclusions
Technology Concepts for the Next Generation VLA
Sander Weinreb (Caltech) and Tony Beasley (NRAO),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Cohabitation versus Marriage: Marriage Matching with Peer Effects (Co-authored with Aloysius Siow)
Ismael Mourifié,
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Overconvergent construction of anticyclotomic p-adic L-functions
Chan-Ho Kim,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Testing Quantum Systems
Umesh Vazirani,
Roger A. Strauch Professor of EECS, Computer Science Division,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, April 10th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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TAPIR Seminar
Dark Matter Detections in Photons Split by a Million in Energy: Interpretations of X-ray lines and Gamma-ray Bumps
Kevork Abazajian,
Professor,
Dept of Physics & Astronomy,
UC Irvine,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Entry, Descent and Landing Technology Investments Designed to Enable a New Era of Mars Exploration
Robert Braun,
David and Andrew Lewis Professor of Space Technology,
Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Groups presentable by products and an ordering of Thurston geometries by maps of non-zero degree
Christoforos Neofytidis,
Riley Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Binghamton University,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Photolabile Inorganic Complexes for the Triggering of Ion Channel Gating
Oliver Shafaat,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Matter Wave Interferometry in Microgravity - Towards Quantum Sensors in Space
Markus Krutzik,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Communications Architectures and Research ,
JPL,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Aghazaryan & Markaryan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Saturday, April 11th, 2015
12:00am
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4/12
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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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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1:00pm
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6:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Akopov Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, April 12th, 2015
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 13th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar
Merging Population and Molecular Biology, Fly Examples
Sergey Nuzhdin,
Principal Investigator,
Center for High- Performance Computing,
University of Southern California ,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Designing Dynamic Contests
Mohamed Mostagir,
Stephen M. Ross School of Business,
University of Michigan,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
From Mars to the Stars: Exploring New Worlds
Louis Friedman,
Dr.,
The Planetary Society,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Development and Application of Embedding Methods for the Simulation of Large Chemical Systems
Taylor Barnes,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Miller group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Life inside the cell: STORM, CRISPR and imagenomics"
Bo Huang,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Bayesian Inversion for Large Scale Antarctic Ice Sheet Flow
Professor Omar Ghattas,
Jackson School of Geosciences, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Wayne Ferson, USC
How Many Good and Bad Fund Managers Are there, Really?
Wayne Ferson, Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, USC,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Subsurface Microbiology in the Soudan Iron Mine
Jeffrey A. Gralnick,
Associate Professor,
Department of Microbiology,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar - RESCHEDULED TO MAY 26
First results from DarkSide-50
Maria Monzani,
Stanford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Metal-Carbon Multiple Bonds and New Vistas in Dehydrogenation Catalysis
Daniel J. Mindiola,
Presidential Chair Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
University of Pennsylvania,
Tuesday, April 14th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Collective behavior of asperities as a model for friction and adhesion
Srivatsan Hulikal,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Earth Month Speaker Event
Climate Change Adaptation
Robert Lempert,
Director,
Pardee RAND Graduate School,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
Getting More Women into Tech Careers and Why It Matters
Maria Klawe,
President,
Harvey Mudd College,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Nonlinear Linear Systems Analysis Applied to Networked Dynamical Systems
Enrique Mallada,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
Center for the Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Oncogenes Hijack T-cell Developmental Programs for Leukemogenesis
Jules P.P. Meijerink,
Dept. of Oncology,
Erasmus MC Rotterdam -Sophia Kinderziekenhuis,
4:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Impact Craters: A Useful Tool that Fights Against You Every Step of the Way
Stuart Robbins,
Research Scientist,
Southwest Research Institute,
4:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Preparing zeolites for specific applications in adsorption and catalysis (research lecture)
Avelino Corma,
Professor,
Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica,
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Everhart Lecture
Building a Brighter Future: Spectrum-Splitting as a Pathway for >50% Efficiency Solar Cells
Carissa Eisler,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2015
7:30am
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10:00am
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