Institute Calendar
May 2015
Thursday, May 14th, 2015
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Effect of Microstructural Interfaces on the Mechanical Response of Crystalline Metallic Materials
Zachary Aitken,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Breaking Ground – Mechanics of Variably Saturated Crushable Soils for Natural Hazard Assessment
Giuseppe Buscarnera,
Assistant Professor,
Departmnet of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Northwestern University,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Theoretically-informed simulations of tapered diblock copolymers
Lisa Hall,
HC Slip Slider Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Vanishing theorems for mixed Hodge modules and applications
Junecue Suh,
Assistant Professor,
PBSci-Mathematics Department,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Neutrinos are Everywhere
Joseph D. Lykken,
Theoretical Physicist, Deputy Director and Chief Research Officer, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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CPET Seminar - Putting Theory into Practice as a New Professor
Suzanne Kern,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of Biology,
Keck Science Department - Claremont McKenna, Scripps, and Pitzer Colleges,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Fire and Ice: Exploring Volcanoes on Earth and the Solar System
Rosaly M. C. Lopes,
Senior Research Scientist, Manager for Planetary Science, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Friday, May 15th, 2015
12:00am
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12:00am
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8:00am
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9:00am
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9:30am
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Thesis Seminar
Superionic Noble Metal Chalcogenide Thermoelectrics
Tristan Day,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
10:30am
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11:30am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Effect of Higher Derivatives on the Schwarzschild Solution
Kelly Stelle,
Imperial College,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Quantifying Earthquake Collapse Risk of Tall Steel Moment Frame Buildings Using Rupture-to-Rafters Simulations
Hemanth Siriki,
Ph.D.,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Kolmogorov width of discrete linear spaces: an approach to matrix rigidity
Sergey Yekhanin,
Microsoft Research,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Entanglement entropy and phases of gauge theories
Djordje Radicevic,
Stanford University,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Fields Medalist Stanislav Smirnov
The Ising Model of a Ferromagnet from 1920 to the Present Day
Stanislav Smirnov,
Professor of Mathematics,
University of Geneva; St. Petersburg State University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Transport of Flavored Neutrinos in Astrophysical Environments
Alexey Vlasenko,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
UCSD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Photoinduced, Copper-Catalyzed N-Alkylations of Carbazoles: A Mechanistic Investigation
Jun Myun (Joe) Ahn,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
TBA
Ryan Mishmash,
DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 16th, 2015
2:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Liang Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 17th, 2015
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, May 18th, 2015
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Secondary Organic Aerosol Composition Studies Using Mass Spectrometry
Kate Schilling,
Graduate Student, Seinfeld group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Dynamically Eliciting Unobservable Information
Nicolas Lambert,
Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Space Technology: Investments in our Future
Robert Braun,
Dr. ,
Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Amino Acid-based Bifunctional Phosphines for Enantioselective Nucleophilic Catalysis
Yixin Lu,
Professor of Chemistry, Deputy Head, Dean's Chair,
Department of Chemistry,
National University of Singapore,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Single Engineered Donor Atoms with Nuclear and Electron Spin Readout for Quantum Bits
David N. Jamieson,
Professor of Physics,
Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T), School of Physics,
University of Melbourne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Peter Feldhutter, London Business School
The Credit Spread Puzzle in the Merton Model – Myth or Reality?
Peter Feldhutter,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
London Business School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Freshly brewed continental crust
Esteban Gazel,
Assistant Professor of Geology,
Department of Geosciences,
Virginia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
How well can we test pre-inflationary physics?
Matthew Johnson,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Bridging the Gap between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis
Emilio Bunel, PhD,
Director of the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division,
Chemistry,
Argonne National Laboratory,
4:30pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Poetry Reading
Amy Gerstler,
Poet, critic, and journalist,
Tuesday, May 19th, 2015
9:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Simulation-Driven Optical Design of Semiconductor Nanowire Arrays for High Efficiency Photovoltaic and Photoelectrochemical Devices
Katherine Fountaine,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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10:50am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Toppling Analysis of Precariously Balanced Rocks under Earthquake Excitation
Swetha Veeraraghavan,
Ph.D.,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Gaurav Sukhatme,
Professor and Chairman,
Computer Science,
University of Southern California,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Systems Biology Supergroup
Regulatory RNAs in Cell Fate Reprogramming and Plasticity
Daniel Kim,
Wold Group,
Caltech,
12:40pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Mitigating Scarring and Inflammation during Corneal Wound Healing using Nanofiber-Hydrogel Scaffolds
Amy H.Y. Fu,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
"From molecules to organs: Microscopy and multi-scale nature of development"
Vikas Trivedi,
PhD Candidate,
Bioengineering,
Califoria Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
Prof. Carl Melis,
UCSD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Estimating Preferences in School Choice Mechanisms: Theoretical Foundation and Empirical Approaches
Yinghua He,
Assistant Professor,
Toulouse School of Economics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar -- CANCELLED
Tools for Mapping and Engineering the Brain
Edward Boyden,
Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences,
Synthetic Neurobiology Group,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
The Color of Kilonovae: Electromagnetic Signatures of Compact Object Mergers
Daniel Kasen,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
The Effect of Star-Planet Interactions on Planetary Climate
Aomawa Shields,
UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
UCLA,
Wednesday, May 20th, 2015
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
"Quantitative, time-resolved proteomic analysis using bio-orthogonal non-canonical amino acid tagging"
John Bagert,
PhD Candidate,
Bioengineering,
Califoria Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Novartis Symposium
Developing Synthetic Methods to Enable Innovation in Drug Discovery
Lawrence G. Hamann,
Dr., Ph.D., Executive Director,
Global Discovery Chemistry,
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Programming chemical kinetics: engineering dynamic reaction networks with DNA strand displacement
Niranjan Srinivas,
CNS graduate student,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Novartis Symposium
Strategies and Tactics for the Synthesis of Complex Alkaloid Natural Products
Richmond Sarpong,
Full Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Exceptional X-ray Weak Quasars and Their Implications for Accretion Flows, Broad Line Regions, and Winds
Niel Brandt,
Penn State,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
The Implementation Duality
Larry Samuelson,
A. Douglas Melamed Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
Yale University,