Institute Calendar
April 2015
Wednesday, April 15th, 2015
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Alternating knot with unknotting number one
Duncan Mccoy,
PhD. Student,
Mathematics,
University of Glasgow,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Active Galaxies in Cosmic X-ray Surveys: The Ecology of Distant AGNs
Dave Alexander,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Common Value Auctions with Costly Entry
Juuso Välimäki,
Professor of Economics, Helsinki School of Economics,
Visiting Professor,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Geometry, Topology, and Modern Classifications of Quantum Matter
Wentao (Winston) Fan,
Undergraduate,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar
Coordinating Division with Cell Growth and Differentiation
Jan Skotheim,
Assistant Professor of Biology,
Chemical and Systems Biology,
Stanford,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 16th, 2015
12:00am
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4/17
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Thermoelectric and spin-thermal solid-state energy conversion
Joseph Heremans,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Ohio State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
In-vitro Activation of Reconstituted Prokaryotic Ligand-Gated Ion Channel ELIC
Oliver Shafaat,
Department of Chemistry,
California institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Earth Month Speaker Event
Winnett Lounge
Remote Sensing of Global Carbon and Water Cycles
Narendra Das,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Pro-p Iwahori Hecke algebras are Gorenstein
Rachel Ollivier,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
UBC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Environments of Black Holes - New Understandings from NuSTAR
Fiona Harrison,
Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Solid catalysts for single and multistep reactions (general lecture)
Avelino Corma,
Professor,
Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica,
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain,
Friday, April 17th, 2015
12:00am
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4/18
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12:00am
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4/18
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8:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Yang-Mills-Einstein Theory as a Double Copy
Henrik Johansson,
NORDITA and Uppsala University,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Unfolding the color code
Alex Kubica,
Graduate Student,
Preskill Group,
12:00pm
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1:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Entanglement detection by interfering quantum many-body twins
Rajibul Islam,
Postdoctoral Fellow - Greiner Group, Rubidium Gas Microscopy,
MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Detection of Planted Solutions for Flat Satisfiability Problems
Quentin Berthet,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Molecular-Level Simulations of Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Gases
Michael Gallis,
Engineering Sciences,
Sandia National Laboratories,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
L-space surgeries on links
Yajing Liu,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Picture Multiple: Figuring, Thinking, and Knowing in Descartes's Essais (1637)
Melissa Lo, Assistant Curator of the Dibner Collections at the Huntington,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 18th, 2015
12:00am
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12:00am
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4/19
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8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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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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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Lee Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 19th, 2015
12:00am
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4/20
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12:30pm
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2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kwon Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 20th, 2015
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Dawn, Asteroid Retrieval and Solar Electric Propulsion
John Brophy,
Dr.,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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JCAP Seminar
In Situ Study of Materials Transformations at the Atomic Level
Haimei Zheng,
Staff Scientist,
Materials Science Division ,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
On the Long Run Volatility of Stocks
Carlos Carvalho,
Associate Professor of Statistics,
McCombs School of Business,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Planet migration by multi-body gravitational interactions
Cristobal Petrovich,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The shape of new physics in (semi-)leptonic B decays
Rodrigo Alonso de Pablo,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar--CANCELLED TO BE RESCHEDULED NEXT YEAR
TBA
Joel Rosenthal,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Delaware,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2015
10:30am
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12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Enabling Physics Discoveries, Networking for High Energy Physics and Data Intensive Science
Dorian Kcira,
Research Scientist,
Compact Muon Solenoid group, High Energy Physics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Systems Biology Supergroup Meeting
Dynamics of Epigenetic Silencing in Single Cells
Lacramioara Bintu, Elowitz Lab, Caltech ,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Near-linear constructions of exact unitary 2-designs
Debbie Leung,
Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Chromatic Circuit Assembly and Function in Drosophila
Chi-hon Lee,
Investigator,
Neuroscience,
NIH/NICHD,