Institute Calendar
October 2015
Thursday, October 1st, 2015
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CANCELLED: Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Slender structures of active materials
CANCELLED - Kaushik Bhattacharya,
Professor,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Cation-π Interactions: Computational Analyses of the Aromatic Box Motif and the Fluorination Strategy for Experimental Evaluation
Matthew Davis,
Mr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Atom interferometers measuring the fine structure constant and probing the dark sector
Holger Müller,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
UC Berkeley,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, October 2nd, 2015
8:00am
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11:00am
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8:00am
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11:15am
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2:15pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Pulsar timing limit on gravitational waves necessitates re-think of binary supermassive black hole evolution
Vikram Ravi,
Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar,
Dept of Astronomy,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Flow Stabilization by Crystals
Mahmoud Hussein,
Associate Professor, H. Joseph Smead Faculty Fellow,
Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Cable space surgeries via jointly primitive presentations of knots
Ken Baker,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Miami,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar
Deciphering Signaling Specificity in Development, One Phosphate at a Time
Philippe Soriano,
Dept. of Developmental and Regenerative Biology and Dept. of Oncological Sciences,
Icahn School of Medicine ,
Mt. Sinai, New York, NY,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar--RESCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER 6, 2015
Four-Electron Reductive Coupling of Carbon Monoxide
Joshua (Josh) Buss,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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7:15pm
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2015
12:00am
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8:00am
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11:00am
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10:20am
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1:20pm
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11:00am
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11:00am
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10/9
8:00pm
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2:20pm
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5:20pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nazarian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Zezaghian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus:Movsesian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, October 4th, 2015
8:00am
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11:00am
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8:00am
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4:30pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Atmajian & Hayek Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 5th, 2015
8:00am
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8:20pm
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9:30am
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3:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course
Observing Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Carbon Cycle from Space
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Mathematical and Experimental Frameworks to Study Fluctuations in Cells
Professor Johan Paulsson,
Associate Professor,
Department of Systems Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Using modern Fe-oxidizing microbes to unravel the evolutionary and geologic history of Fe oxidation
Clara Chan,
Associate Professor,
Geological Sciences,
University of Delaware,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Calculations in Dirac Gaugino Models: Operators, Expansions, and Effects
Jessica Goodman,
Ohio State University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2015
10:30am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Gapped boundaries, group cohomology and fault-tolerant logical gates
Beni Yoshida,
Perimeter Institute,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Weak containment of measure preserving group actions
Peter Burton,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Vibrational Signatures of Electronic Properties in Energy and Biology
Ryan P. Steele,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Off-label Uses of High-throughput Sequencing to Explore the Physical Genome
William Greenleaf,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Applied Physics (by courtesy),
Stanford University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Electromagnetic counterparts of neutron star mergers and the origin of heavy elements
Kenta Hotokezaka,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Making Corruption Harder: Asymmetric Information, Collusion, and Crime
Juan Ortner, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Boston University ,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Caltech Y's Centennial Kick-Off Celebration & PHD Movie 2 Screening
Jorge Cham,
artist, creator of the comic strip PHD; cofounder of PHD TV,
Iram Parveen Bilal,
founder and CEO,
Parveen Shah Productions,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
10:00am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
On the structure of band edges of 2d periodic elliptic operators
Ilya Kachkovsky,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
UC Irvine,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Mergers, Innovation, and Entry-Exit Dynamics: The Consolidation of the Hard Disk Drive Industry
Kosuke Uetake, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Yale School of Management,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Water, Satellites and Sustainability: The California Drought, The Global Groundwater Crisis and 21st Century Realities
Jay Famiglietti,
Senior Water Cycle Scientist and JPL Water Initiative Leader,
Department of Earth Science,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Toward mathematical characterization of "topological" phases of matter
Alexei Kitaev,
Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics,
Theoretical Physics and Mathematics,
Caltech,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Alpine Club Talk
"The Spaghetti Tour and Other Fine Peaks:" Climbing in the Alps
Phil Bates,
Sierra Club,
Thursday, October 8th, 2015
8:50am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Electrical manipulations of coherent phononic functionalities"
Young-Dahl Jho,
Professor,
School of Information and Communications,
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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11:40am
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1:20pm
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