Institute Calendar
April 2015
Tuesday, April 21st, 2015
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
G4v - An Engineering Approach to Gravitation
Carver Mead,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
The Composition of Vesta: What we are learning about the Smallest Terrestrial Planet.
Eleonora Ammannito,
Postdoc,
Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Coarsening of Particle Systems
Professor David Levermore,
Mathematics Department,
University of Maryland, College Park,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Competing for Loyalty: The Dynamics of Political Support
Matias Iaryczower,
Assistant Professor of Politics,
Department of Politics,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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The Future of Earthquake Hazard Mitigation: How Will Earthquakes Impact Southern California?
Off Campus
- Public Event
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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IQI Special Seminar
Robust Phase Estimation with Applications to Single-Qubit Process Parameter Estimation
Shelby Kimmel,
University of Maryland in QuICS,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Earth Month Speaker Event
Winnett Lounge
The Energy/Water Nexus
Steve Frei,
Principal,
Affiliated Engineers, Inc,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Dendrites Inhibition in Rechargeable Lithium Metal Batteries
Asghar Aryanfar,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
1:30pm
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3:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Every analytic equivalence relation with all Borel classes is a Borel equivalence relation somewhere
William Chan,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Catalytic Synthesis of Tetrasubstituted Carbons Bearing Amines and Heteroaromatics
Catharine H. Larsen,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Riverside,
3:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Dynamic Rational Inattention
Philipp Sadowski,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Can Global Warming be Held to 2 Degrees Celsius above Pre-Industrial?
David Lea,
Professor,
Department of Earth Science,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Recent Progress in the Development of Efficient Thermoelectric Materials: The Case of Mg2Si1-xSnx Solid Solutions
Ctirad Uher,
C. Wilbur Peters Collegiate Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
The 4th Generator of the Odd K-Theory of 3-Dimensional Noncommutative Tori
Viktor Kasatkin,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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CPET Seminar - Filling the Great Teaching Void: Unusual Teaching Concepts
Armand R. Tanguay, Jr.,
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Biomedical Engineering, Ophthalmology, Physics, and Astronomy,
University of Southern California,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2015
12:00am
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10:00am
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3:00pm
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10:30am
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10:30am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Unraveling yielding in BCC metals from crystal plasticity calculations: A multiscale computational approach fitted to first principles calculations
Jamie Marian,
Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Exploiting riboswitches to study and manipulate bacterial signaling
Ming Hammond,
Assistant Professor,
Departments of Chemistry and Molecular & Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Strategic Network Formation with Many Agents
Konrad Menzel,
New York University,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
On the non-triviality of generalised Heegner cycles modulo p
Ashay Burungale,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Interferometry in a strong light
Cindy Regal,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
University of Colorado Boulder,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Everhart Lecture
Seminar Title TBA
Roarke Horstmeyer,
Graduate Student,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Man and Machine: Reports from the Front Lines of Exploration
Jeff J. Marlow,
PhD Candidate, Geobiology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Robots to the Rescue!: JPL's RoboSimian and Surrogate Robots are here to Help
Brett Kennedy,
Supervisor,
Robotic Vehicles and Manipulators Group,
JPL,
Friday, April 24th, 2015
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4/25
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Integral geometry and the entropic nature of points and lengths
Bartek Czech,
Stanford,
12:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Impact of Environment on Galaxy Evolution
Stephanie Tonnesen,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Carnegie Observatories,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Nonlinear Model Reduction in Computational Mechanics: Local Reduced Bases, Hyper Reduction, and Real-Time Simulations
Charbel Farhat,
Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures, Chairman of Department of Aeronautics an dAstronautics,
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
A characterization of virtually embedded subsurfaces in 3-manifolds
Yi Liu,
Taussky - Todd Instructor,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Unfolding the color code
Alex Kubica,
Graduate Student - Preskill Group,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Earth Month Workshop
It's not easy being green, or is it? How to reduce your carbon footprint in academia.
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)
Robots to the Rescue!: JPL's RoboSimian and Surrogate Robots are here to Help
Brett Kennedy,
Supervisor,
Robotic Vehicles and Manipulators Group,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, April 25th, 2015
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4/26
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4/26
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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Sunday, April 26th, 2015
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4/27
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12:00am
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4/27
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1:00pm
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3:20pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Richardson Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Shamamyan & Adanalyan Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Barsegyan Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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