Institute Calendar
October 2015
Friday, October 16th, 2015
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 16th, 2015
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Ehud Kalai
Learning and Stability in Big Uncertain Games
Ehud Kalai,
The James J. O'Connor Professor of Decision and Game Sciences,
Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Tests of strong gravity with compact objects
Emanuele Berti,
Associate Professor,
Dept of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Mississippi,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Rapid, High Quality Hypersonic Mission Design Using Indirect Methods
Michael Grant,
Assistant Professor ,
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Purdue University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Algebraic Knots, Upsilon invariant and optimal cobordisms
Shida Wang,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Indiana University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
New Cryogenic Targets for Nuclear Physics
David Kendellen,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
TUNL,
Duke University,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Saturday, October 17th, 2015
12:00am
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12:00am
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10:00am
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5:30pm
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1:30pm
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4:30pm
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1:40pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Meshefejian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 18th, 2015
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, October 19th, 2015
12:00pm
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10/23
1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Strange duality of Conformal Blocks
Swarnava Mukhopadhyay,
Brin Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mathematics,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
The Empirical Relevance of Cumulative Prospect Theory
Charles Sprenger, Associate Professor, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Quantum Chemical Games of Life
Ali Alavi,
FRS, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Sub-Linear Time Algorithms for "Big Data" Recovery Based on Sparse-Graph Codes
Professor Kannan Ramchandran,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Climate History of Mars: Was the Early Mars Climate "Warm and Wet" or "Cold and Icy"?
James W. Head, III,
Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor,
Department of Geological Sciences,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Distinguishing the new physics via the correlation of the single Higgs and double Higgs production
Hao Zhang,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Last Man Shralping: Sierra Ski Mountaineering on the Driest Winter in Recorded California History
Cody Finke,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 20th, 2015
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Coarse-grained representations of information in complex systems
Greg Ver Steeg,
Professor,
Information Sciences Institute,
USC,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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10/21
5:00pm
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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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CANCELLED || Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Impression of Influence
Justin Grimmer, Associate Professor of Political Science, Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Electronic Stopping under Proton Irradiation: Understanding Electronic Excitation Dynamics using First-Principles Theory
Yosuke Kanai,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The complex geometry of Teichmüller spaces and bounded symmetric domains
Stergios Antonakoudis,
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics,
University of Cambridge,
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Stability of Solid-Electrolyte Interfaces during Discharge in Li-Air Battery
Panagiotis Natsiavas,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Stability of Solid-Electrolyte Interfaces during Charge in Lithium Batteries
Panagiotis Natsiavas,
Graduate Student,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Dimension reduction for rotating Bose-Einstein condensates with anisotropic confinement
Christof Sparber,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Chicago,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Enabling Large Scale Sustainable Lighting through Efficient Heat Dissipation in LEDs & Controlled Mixing of Fresh Water & Salt Water for Renewable Energy
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
The Holographic Entropy Cone
Ning Bao,
DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Future of Astronomy is Super(conducting): Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for UVOIR Astronomy
Ben Mazin,
UCSB,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Sequential bidding in multi-stage all-pay auctions
Ella Segev, Senior Lecturer, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Submesoscale turbulence in the upper ocean
Jörn Callies,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Against Brute Fundamentalism: Gesturing Toward an Explanation of the Fundamental in Physics
Kerry McKenzie, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Analysis of a Classical Matrix Preconditioning Algorithm
Leonard Schulman,
Professor of Computer Science,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 22nd, 2015
10:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Phonon Dynamics in Simple and Complex Materials
Li Shi,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Texas Materials Institute,
University of Texas,
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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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Unexpected distribution phenomenon resulting from Cantor series expansions
Dylan Airey,
Undergraduate Student,
Mathematics,
University of Texas,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
The motivic class of the complement of arrangements associated to finite groups
Ivan Marino,
SNSF- Post Doc,
Mathematics,
University of Fribourg,