Institute Calendar
November 2015
Ongoing
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11/13
11:30pm
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11/3
5:00pm
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Sunday, November 1st, 2015
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 2nd, 2015
8:00am
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12:30pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course
Fundamentals of Optical Frequency Comb Technology and Applications
8:30am
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12:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Fast Solvers for the High-Frequency Helmholtz Equation
Assistant Professor Leonardo Andrés Zepeda Núñez,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
P=W for nodal curves
Michael McBreen,
C L E Moore Instructor,
Mathematics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Coding Techniques for Emerging DNA-Based Storage Systems
Professor Olgica Milenkovic,
ECE Department,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Alkalinity, the rate of calcium carbonate dissolution, and storage of anthropogenic CO2 in the ocean
Jess Adkins,
Professor of Geochemistry and Global Environmental Science,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Recursive Jigsaw Reconstruction in HEP complex event topologies
Chris Rogan,
CERN,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Ligand and Catalyst Design with closo-Carborane Anions
Vincent Lavallo,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
University of California, Riverside,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD seminar
Photonic and Device Design Principles for Ultrahigh-Efficiency (>50%), Spectrum-Splitting Photovoltaics
Carissa Eisler,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Algorithms in nature
Saket Navlakha,
Assistant Professor,
Integrative Biology Laboratory,
Salk Institute for Biological Studies,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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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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IQI Weekly Seminar
CORRELATED WORLDLINE THEORY of QUANTUM GRAVITY: LOW-ENERGY CONSEQUENCES & TABLE-TOP TESTS
Philip Stamp,
Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics, Univ. of British Columbia,
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
Dr. Mark Swain,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Single Cell 42-plex Cytokine Analysis: From Normal Immune Defense to Autoimmunity
Rong Fan,
Associate Professor,
Department of Biomedical Engineering ,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
A Stronger Soft-Covering Lemma that assures Semantic Security in Wiretap Channels
Paul Cuff,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The Chemical Distance in Critical Percolation
Phillippe Sosoe,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, November 4th, 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
Subdiffusive concentration in First-Passage Percolation
Phillippe Sosoe,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Mechanistic Insights into the Base Metal Catalyzed Reduction of Dinitrogen to Ammonia -AND- Cytochrome P450-Catalyzed Nitrene Transfer: A Platform for Green Amination Chemistry
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Gapped Fermionic Phases of Matter and Spin Structures
Anton Kapustin,
Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics,
PMA,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Observing the Evolution of Solids in Protoplanetary Disks
Sean Andrews,
CfZ Harvard,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Ocean turbulence: from micro scale to large scale circulation
Ali Mashayek,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar
Mechanisms of Long Non-coding RNA Transcriptional Regulation
Jhumku Kohtz,
Research Professor,
Department of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Ultrafast Dynamics of Excited Electrons in Materials for Energy Applications
Marco Bernardi,
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science,
Applied Physics and Materials Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Development of New Catalytic Methods for the Synthesis of Natural Products
Pavel Nagorny,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Michigan,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Light, Atomic Clocks, and Testing Einstein's Assumptions
Dr. John L. Hall,
JILA, University of Colorado and NIST,
Thursday, November 5th, 2015
10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Triumph of Control Theory: How Hybrid System Models and Nonlinear Control Realized Efficient Dynamic Walking on the Humanoid Robot DURUS
Aaron Ames,
Professor,
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Inter-Domain Dynamics of an ATP-Independent Chaperone
Camille McAvoy,
Ms.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
From Dynamically Self-Assembling Materials to Chemical Reactivity in Confined Environments
Rafal Klajn,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Organic Chemistry,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
ATP-dependent and independent mechanisms of regulating chromatin
Geeta Narlikar,
Associate Professor,
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics,
UCSF School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
The N-terminal hypothesis for Alzheimer's disease
Georges Belfort,
Institute Professor,
Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Surprises in (strong/non linear) gravity
Luis Lehner,
Perimeter Institute,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Juno Mission to Jupiter
Steven Levin,
Project Scientist,
JUNO,
JPL,
Friday, November 6th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Shachar Kariv
Distinguishing nonstationarity from inconsistency in intertemporal choice
Shachar Kariv,
Department Chair and Benjamin N. Ward Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
University of California, Berkeley,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Quiver gauge theories, TQFT and integrable lattice models
Junya Yagi,
Univ of Warsaw,
1:30pm
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3:00pm
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General Chemistry Seminar
Non-Covalent Synthesis of Functional Supramolecular Systems
Bert Meijer,
Professor,
Organic Chemistry,
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
How gas accretion and galactic outflows affect galaxies and their haloes
Freeke van de Voort,
Joint TAC-ASIAA Fellow,
Dept of Astronomy,
UC Berkeley / ASIAA,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Toward physical realizations of information-theory models for small-scale thermodynamics
Nicole Yunger Halpern,
Graduate Student,
Preskill Group,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Constrained Trajectory Optimization from Formula 1 Racing to Hypersonic Vehicles
Timothy Jorris,
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics & California State University, Long Beach ,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
TBA
Peter Feller,
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mathematics,
Boston College,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Four-Electron Reductive Coupling of Carbon Monoxide
Joshua (Josh) Buss,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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3:30pm
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Learning Seminar
Abelian Varieties and polarized Hodge structures (II)
Pablo Solis,
Olga Taussky and John Todd Instructor in Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Learning Seminar
CM Abelian Varieties over C and their Hodge Structures
Brian Hwang,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Hybridization Approaches to Rare Sequence Variant Detection in Human DNA
Dave Zhang,
Ted Law Jr. Assistant Professor of Bioengineering ,
Bioengineering,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Mixed-Signal, RF & Microwave Seminar
Opportunities and Challenges for Photonics in Next-Generation Data Centers
Clint Schow,
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
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)
The Juno Mission to Jupiter
Steven Levin,
Project Scientist,
JUNO,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, November 7th, 2015
12:00am
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12:00am
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