Institute Calendar
October 2015
Thursday, October 22nd, 2015
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Physics Research Conference - TeachWeek Keynote Lecture
Confessions of a Converted Lecturer
Eric Mazur,
Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics,
Harvard University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 23rd, 2015
9:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
On the shape dependence of entanglement entropy
Dean Carmi,
Tel Aviv University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Evolution of baryons in the high-redshift universe
Hamsa Padmanabhan,
Research Scholar,
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Organization and Evolution of Coherent Structures in Turbulent Boundary Layers
Ellen Longmire,
Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics,
University of Minnesota,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Learning Seminar
An Introduction to Mumford-Tate groups
Emad Nasrollahpoursamami,
Grad Student,
mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Chemistry Seminar
A Guide to Open Access Publishing
Lauren Graham,
The Royal Society of Chemistry,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Saturday, October 24th, 2015
12:00am
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12:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Tsai Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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2:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Torres Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Yu Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Brown Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nazarian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:30pm
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9:00pm
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6:00pm
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Sunday, October 25th, 2015
12:00am
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6:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Tsai Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 26th, 2015
12:00am
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Heavier Group 14 Element-Based Pincer Type Complexes: New Catalysts for Efficient Molecular Transformations Featuring Non-innocent Behavior of a Silyl Ligand
Jun Takaya,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Tokyo Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
What makes a neural code convex?
Nora Youngs,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mathematics,
Harvey Mudd College,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The impact of Glaciation on the Earth's surface
Frédéric Herman,
Associate Professor,
Faculty of Geosciences and Environment; Institute of dynamics of the Earth's surface,
University of Lausanne, Switzerland,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Cosmological Relaxation of the Electroweak Scale
Surjeet Rajendran,
UC Berkelely,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Chemical Problems and Solutions for Nanomaterials at the 2D Limit
Tina T. Salguero,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Georgia,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Adventures in Iceland: Trekking in the Backcountry
Jeremy Brouillet,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
9:30am
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IST Lunch Bunch
KnightShift: Achieving Energy Proportionality Through Server-level Heterogeneity
Murali Annavaram,
Associate Professor,
Ming-Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Crackle, crackle little blade: experimental investigations of mechanical up conversion in Advanced LIGO suspensions
Gabriele ,
Vajente,
LIGO,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Two and Three Finger Caging of Polygons and Polyhedra
Tom Allen,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Topological Phases in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Systems
Alexey Gorshkov,
NIST/JQI,
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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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
In Quest of Low Mass Planets in the Habitable Zones of M Dwarfs
Prof. Suvrath Mahadevan,
Penn. State Univ.,
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Predictive Methods for Catalyst and Materials Optimization
Paul M. Zimmerman,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Coded MapReduce
Salman Aversimehr,
Assoc. Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
8:00am
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
An Adiabatic Theorem for the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation
Gang Zhou,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Big Data Meet Big Black Holes: Quasars in the Time Domain
George Djorgovski,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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CANCELLED || Finance Seminar: David Hirshleifer, University of California, Irvine
Visibility Bias in the Transmission of Consumption Norms and Undersaving
David Hirshleifer,
Merage Chair in Business Growth, Professor of Finance, Professor of Economics,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Dynamics of Ice Stream Variability in Past and Present Climates
Alex Robel,
NOAA CGC & Stanback Postdoctoral Scholar,
Geological & Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Materials by Design: Heterostructures with Targeted Nanoarchitecture and Tunable Properties
David C. Johnson,
Rosaria Haugland Foundation Chair in Pure and Applied Chemistry,
University of Oregon,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Illuminating Biochemical Activity Architecture of the Cell
Jin Zhang,
Professor of Pharmacology,
Department of Pharmacology,
University of California, San Diego,
4:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
TBA
Zeev Dvir,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science and Mathematics,
Princeton,
7:30pm
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Thursday, October 29th, 2015