Institute Calendar
November 2016
Friday, November 18th, 2016
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, November 18th, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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11/19
12:00am
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9:30am
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10:30am
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9:30am
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10:30am
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PhD Seminar
Constant Stress and Pressure Rheology of Dense Colloidal Suspensions
Mu Wang,
graduate student,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Defects in Optically Active Semiconductors for Quantum Applications
Kai-Mei Fu,
Assistant Professor, Physics and Electrical Engineering ,
Department of Physics,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Undergraduate Math Club Seminar
Quantum Pseudo-Telepathy Games Entangled State Dimension
Chinmay Nirkhe,
Mathematics Department,
California Institute of Technology,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Growth and singularity in 2D fluids
Andrej Zlatos,
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Measurement protocols for entanglement entropies and entanglement spectra of cold atoms
Hannes Pichler,
AMP,
Harvard-Smithsonian, Center for Astrophysics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
What is the contribution of blazars to the IceCube neutrino flux?
Maria Petropoulou,
Einstein Post Doctoral Fellow,
Physics and Astronomy,
Purdue University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Surface (nano)Droplets: Formation and Dissolution
Detlef Lohse,
Professor,
University of Twente,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
On the Pin(2)-equivariant monopole Floer homology of plumbed 3-manifolds
Irving Dai,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Off Campus
The weak solutions of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations
Cheng Yu,
Department of Mathematics,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Off Campus
Superradiance initiated inside the ergoregion
Gregory Eskin,
Department of 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 James Webb Space Telescope: Successor to Hubble
Michael Ressler,
U.S. MIRI Project Scientist,
JPL,
Saturday, November 19th, 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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12:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Photography on Campus : Agamalian Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Naz Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:20pm
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6:20pm
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Photography on Campus : Kyababychan Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 20th, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Photography on Campus : Karaoghlanian Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, November 21st, 2016
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Entanglement Spectroscopy of Quantum Many-body Systems
Guanyu Zhu,
Joint Quantum Institute (NIST-University of Maryland),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Exoplanet Detectives: Seeking Clues to Explain the Diverse Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems
Heather A. Knutson,
Assistant Professor of Planetary Science,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Cation-Responsive Pincer-Crown Ether Complexes for Tunable Catalysis
Alexander Miller,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Multisymplectic HDG methods
Ari Stern,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Exploring chemical reaction spaces using a graph grammar approach.
Christoph Flamm,
Professor,
Theoretical Chemistry,
University of Vienna,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Oringer Seminar Series
Making software for rockets and spacecraft
Josh Sulkin,
Lead Flight Software Engineer - Dragon Spacecraft,
SpaceX,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Multimessenger Astronomy in the First Two Years of Advanced LIGO
Alex Urban,
LIGO,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
A unified treatment of tidal disruption by Schwarzschild black holes
Mike Kesden,
Assistant Professor,
University of Texas, Dallas,
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
Separating quantum communication complexity and approximate log-rank
Ankit Garg,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Microsoft Research, New England,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Bruce Hoffman, Georgetown University
The Rationality of Terrorism and Other Forms of Political Violence: Lessons from the Jewish Campaign in Palestine, 1944-1947
Bruce Hoffman,
Professor, Director of the Center for Security Studies and the Security Studies Program,
Walsh School of Foreign Service,
Georgetown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Rhythms for Cognition: Communication through Coherence
Pasqual Fries,
Professor,
Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience - Max Planck Society,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thursday, November 24th, 2016
8:00am
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11/25
5:00pm
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2:30pm
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5:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Peru Wedding Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 25th, 2016
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Saturday, November 26th, 2016
10:00am
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3:00pm
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Photography on Campus : Musakhanyan Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Kasbarian/Skenderian Wedding Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:30pm
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8:30pm
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Monday, November 28th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSRG/DOLCIT SEMINAR
How We Can Use Optimization to Design Electric Power Markets to Support Socially Optimal Decisions
Benjamin F. Hobbs,
Theodore M. and Kay W. Schad Chair of Environmental Management,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Systems Biology Adventures in Brain Wiring and Drug Discovery
Steve Altschuler & Lani Wu ,
Professor,
Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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RSRG/DOLCIT SEMINAR
Opting Into Optimal Matchings
Nika Haghtalab,
Graduate-Research Assistant,
Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University,
Tuesday, November 29th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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CCHF Virtual Merck Lecture Series
Enabling High-throughput Experimentation through High-throughput Analysis
Yun Mao,
Dr., Ph.D., Director,
Analytical Research and Development, Merck Research Laboratories,
Merck & Company, Inc.,