Institute Calendar
February 2016
Saturday, February 6th, 2016
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Ter-Grigorian Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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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, February 7th, 2016
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, February 8th, 2016
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Design, Synthesis, and Study of Novel Platforms for Iron-N2 Chemistry and Photoinduced, Copper-Mediated C-N Bond Formation
Sid Creutz,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Peters group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification for Solutions to Differential Equation Models
Dave Campbell,
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, and Director, Management and System Science,
Simon Fraser University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Dry Ice on Mars
Candice Hansen,
Senior Scientist,
Planetary Science Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Maximal representations and projective structures on iterated sphere bundles
Anna Wienhard,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics & Physics,
University of Heidelberg,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Type Ia Supernovae and Heavy Metals From Dark Matter
Joseph Bramante,
Notre Dame University,
4:00pm
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Informational Biology Seminar
3D Chromatin and Chromosome Conformations and Gene Expression Control
Peter Fraser,
Nuclear Dynamics Programme,
The Babraham Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
II_1 Factors with Non-isomorphic Ultrapowers
Adrian Ioana,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UCSD,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Reading Seminar
Computational and descriptive complexity
Martino Lupini,
Bateman Research Instructor,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Chern--Simons theory, surface separability, representation volumes, and dominations of 3-manifolds
Shicheng Wang,
Peking University,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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Learning Seminar
An introduction to Weil groups
Andrei Frimu,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Modeling and Control of Online Advertising
Niklas Karlsson,
VP,
Research and Development,
AOL/ Verizon,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Reducing My Platinum Footprint
Fundamentals of Sustainability Science and Engineering Guest Lecturer
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Probing the universe on a table top experiment
Atta Almasi,
Physics,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Revisiting the first-order theories of McDuff's II_1 factors
Isaac Goldbring,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Illinois at Chicago,
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
Probing Small Planets at Several AU with Microlensing
Dr. Jennifer Yee,
Harvard-CfA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Polynomials representing primes
James Maynard,
Mathematical Institute,
Magdalen College,
4:00pm
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2016
10:00am
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Orbits and Atmospheres of Directly Imaged Exoplanets
Quinn Konopacky,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Stratospheric variability and tropospheric responses
Aditi Sheshadri,
Postdoctoral Research Scientist,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Revising Current Concepts Regarding the Organization and Function of Immune Responses: Relevance to Health and Disease
Edward Medof,
Case Western,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Resonant-Phonon Harvesting
Massoud Kaviany,
Heat Transfer Physics Laboratory,
University of Michigan,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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11:00pm
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Thursday, February 11th, 2016
8:00am
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3:30pm
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11:30am
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10:30am
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11:00am
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Applied Physics Seminar
Frequency Divide-and-Conquer Approach to Creating Ultrabroadband Frequency Combs in the Infrared
Konstantin Vodopyanov,
21st Century Scholar Chair & Professor of Optics & Photonics, and Physics,
College of Optics,
University of Central Florida,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Novel Neurotechnologies: simultaneous 3D all-optical imaging and activation of neurons in living brains
Rafael Yuste,
M.D., PhD.,
Department of Biological Sciences,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Reconstitution of T cell signaling: new insights into the activation and suppression of the T cell response
Enfu Hui,
Ph.D.,
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology,
HHMI and University of California, San Francisco,
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 Europa Mission
Barry Goldstein,
Europa Mission Project Manager,
JPL,
Bob Pappalardo,
Europa Mission Project Scientist,
JPL,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, February 12th, 2016
12:00am
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2/13
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Exponential Integrators of EPIRK-type: Construction, Analysis and Implementation
Assistant Professor Mayya Tokman,
University of California, Merced ,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Probing Gravity: CMB Lensing, Galaxies, and Intensity Mapping
Anthony Pullen,
McWilliams Postdoctoral Fellow,
McWilliams Center for Cosmology,
Carnegie Mellon University,
3:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Weather Sensing and Laser Communications for Nanosatellites
Kerri Cahoy,
Boeing Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Foliations and flow box decompositions
Rachel Roberts,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Primes with restricted digits
James Maynard,
Professor,
Mathematical Institute,
Magdalen College University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar
Epigenetic Mechanisms of Tumor Initiation and Evolution
Bradley Bernstein,
Harvard,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar--CANCELLED
New Catalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
Sonja Francis,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Primes with restricted digits
James Maynard,
Professor,
Mathematical Institute,
Magdalen College University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Geodetic constraints on water in the Wharton Basin asthenosphere
Sylvain Barbot,
Earth Observatory of Singapore,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Cancellation for the multilinear Hilbert and simplex transforms
Terence Tao,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
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 Europa Mission
Barry Goldstein,
Europa Mission Project Manager,
JPL,
Bob Pappalardo,
Europa Mission Project Scientist,
JPL,