Institute Calendar
February 2016
Saturday, February 13th, 2016
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:30pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, February 14th, 2016
11:00am
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2:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, February 15th, 2016
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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6:00pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
9:00am
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6:00pm
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2/23
5:00pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Prashant K. Jain,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Materials Research Laboratory,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Intelligent Sensors for the Internet of Things: Parallel Computing on Chicago Street Poles
Pete Beckman,
Co-Director,
Northwestern-Argonne Institute for Science and Engineering,
Argonne National Laboratory,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Optimizing Electromagnetic Follow-up of LIGO-Virgo Events
Hsin-Yu Chen,
Physics,
University of Chicago,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The topological sectors in gauge theories. The deSitter vacuum during inflationary and dark Energy phases.
Ariel Zhitnitsky,
University of British Columbia,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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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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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
AGN Host Galaxies, Fueling, and Feedback to z ~ 2
Prof. Alison Coil,
UCSD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Einstein Seminar: Hanoch Gutfreund
The Genesis of General Relativity: Documented and Visualized
Hanoch Gutfreund,
Andre Aisenstadt Chair in Theoretical Physics,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Unmasking the Neutrino: The Standard Model and Beyond
Diana Parno,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Liam Paninski - Special Seminar in Computational Neuroscience
Challenges and Opportunities in Statistical Neural Data Analysis
Liam Paninski,
Professor,
Department of Statistics and the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
The Bane and Boon of Binary Exoplanet Host Stars
Johanna Teske,
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism,
Carnegie Institution of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Swift Lecture
Inorganic Control of Biological Self-Assembly
F. Akif Tezcan,
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Chemistry,
University of California, San Diego,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
9:00am
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4:30pm
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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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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Special Seminar: Unconscious Bias: Data, Studies, Next Steps
Prof. Alison Coil,
UCSD,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Demonstration of Deterministic Photon-Atom and Photon-Photon Interactions based on Single-Photon Raman Interaction (SPRINT)
Barak Dayan,
Senior Scientist,
Quantum Optics Group,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Seminar
Demonstration of Deterministic Photon-Atom and Photon-Photon Interactions based on Single-Photon Raman Interaction (SPRINT)
Barak Dayan,
Senior Scientist, Quantum Optics Group,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Effective Dynamics in Quantum Theory
Juerg Froehlich,
Professor,
Physics,
ETH Zurich and IAS Princeton,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Noncommutative Rational Surfaces and Special Functions
Eric Rains,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Why is there an ocean overturning circulation in the North Atlantic and not in the North Pacific? Exploring three hypotheses
David Battisti,
Professor of Atmospheric Sciences & Tamaki Endowed Chair,
Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality Since 1700
Peter Lindert,
Distinguished Professor of Economics,
University of California, Davis,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Analysis on Fractal Manifolds and Noncommutative Geometry: A Tale of Metrics, Hausdorff Measures and Geodesics
Michel Lapidus,
Professor of Mathematics,
Physics and Astronomy, and of Computer Science and Engineering,
UCR,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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9:00pm
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Veritas Forum at Caltech
The Accidental Academic: A Professor's Journey Through Science, God, and Making a Name for Himself
Cullen Buie,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
MIT,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Thursday, February 18th, 2016
12:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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CDS Seminar
Adaptive Horizon Model Predictive Control
Arthur Krener,
Distingushed Visiting Professor,
Department of Applied Mathematics,
Navel Postgraduate School,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Understanding dynamics and specificity in tail anchor membrane protein targeting
Meera Rao,
Ms.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
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
TBD
Prof. Simon White,
MPA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Droplet microfluidics for high throughput biology
Adam Abate,
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Fundamental Lessons From String Theory
Cumrun Vafa,
Donner Professor of Science and Professor of Physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
eIF3-directed translation regulation during cell growth and differentiation
Amy Si-Ying Lee,
Ph.D.,
Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, February 19th, 2016
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11:00am
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