Institute Calendar
October 2016
Friday, October 14th, 2016
3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
A monopole invariant for foliations without transverse measure
Boyu Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, October 15th, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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9:00am
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5:30pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Melendis Family Portrait Session
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Banuelos Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Ambarchyan Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Babaian Dergalestian Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:20pm
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6:20pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 16th, 2016
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Collier Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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7:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Huang Family Portrait Session
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 17th, 2016
9:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Spectroscopic, Electronic, and Mechanistic Studies of Silicon Surfaces Chemically Modified with Short Alkyl Chains
Noah Plymale,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar
Violence in History and in Contemporary Conflicts: Why History Matters for Today's Politics
Bettina Koch,
Associate Professor of Political Science, Virginia Tech; Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations Fellow,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
NonLERFness of arithmetic hyperbolic manifold groups
Hongbin Sun,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Difference-of-Convex Programming
Professor Jong-Shi Pang,
Viterbi School of Engineering ,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
How bright is the proton? A precise determination of the photon PDF.
Aneesh Manohar,
UCSD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Advances in Bio-Activated and Targeted MR Imaging Probes: Are We There Yet?
Thomas J. Meade,
Professor,
Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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The Thomas J. and Earleen Ahrens Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences
Origin of plate tectonics: From global to grain scales (and back again)
David Bercovici,
Frederick William Beinecke Prof of Geophysics,
Department of Geology and Geophysics,
Yale University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
Equivariant Floer homology
Sucharit Sarkar,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
ArtDoors: Artwork of the Outdoors
Kelvin Nguyen,
Southern California Mountaineers Association,
Tuesday, October 18th, 2016
8:30am
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3:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
From Pixels to Depth: Learning to Predict Shape from a Single Photograph
Oisin Mac Aodh,
Postdoc in Pietro Perona's Computational Vision Lab,
Engineering & Applied Science,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Prospects for Gravitational Wave Searches for Core-Collapse Supernovae within the Local Universe
Jasmine Gill,
Department of Physics,
ERAU,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Thompson's group F is not strongly amenable
Pooya Vahidi Ferdowsi,
Mathematics Department,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Overview and Status of the GMT Site, Enclosure and Facilities Design and Development
Dr. Bruce Bigelow,
Giant Magellan Telescope Organization,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Lateral lipid organization in model membranes
Peter Tieleman,
Professor of Biochemistry,
Biocomputing Group,
The University of Calgary,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Is Chromatin Just a Phase?
Gary Karpen,
Adjunct Professor,
Cell and Developmental Biology,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Bounds for Finite Linear Groups: From Jordan and Minkowski to a Question of Serre
Michael Collins,
Emeritus Professor,
Mathematics,
Oxford University,
6:00pm
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9:30pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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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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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Research talks from Resnick Graduate Research Fellow Cody Finke & Resnick Postdoctoral Scholar Justin Jasper
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Topics in Matrix Inequalities
Rupert Frank,
Mathematics Department,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The MUSCLES Treasury Survey: An X-ray to IR Spectral Survey of Low-Mass Exoplanet Host Stars
Kevin France,
U. Colorado,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
"Hotter Droughts" and the fate of Tropical Forests
Sassan Saatchi,
Senior Scientist,
Carbon Cycle Science Group,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Where Does the Entropy of Materials Come From?
Brent Fultz,
Barbara and Stanley Rawn, Jr., Professor of Materials Science and Applied Physics,
Applied Physics and Materials Science Department,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific Variables
Benjamin Jantzen,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Virginia Tech,
Thursday, October 20th, 2016
10:20am
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10:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Realistic grain shapes in the discrete element method with dilated polyhedral"
Christopher Senseney,
Professor - Lt. Col.,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
US Air Force Academy,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Molecular basis for the protection of ribosomal proteins from cellular degradation
Ferdinand Huber,
Graduate Student, Hoelz Research Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Visual Biochemistry: Understanding Biology by Watching Proteins on DNA, One Molecule at a Time
Stephen Kowalczykowski,
Distinguished Professor,
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics,
University of California, Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Eric Chauvin & Dave Ashby ,
GMTO,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar Series
‘The advancement and the perversion of mind at this particular time': The Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society, James Montgomery, and the Fate of Improvement
Jonathan Mee,
Professor of English,
University of York,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Special cycles on non-compact Shimura varieties
Zavosh Amir-Khosravi,
Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Broadening the Searchlight: New Ideas in Dark Matter Detection
Kathryn Zurek,
LBNL,
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
Asteroid Anchors, Rock Climbing Robots, Gecko Grippers, and Other Ways to Stick in Space
Aaron Parness,
Extreme Environment Robotics Group,
JPL,