Institute Calendar
January 2017
Friday, January 20th, 2017
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Undergraduate Math Club Seminar
Some aspects of arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Tynan Ochse,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
TAPIR Seminar
Twofold Symmetries of the Pure Gravity Action
Grant Remmen,
Graduate Student, Theoretical Physics, Hertz Fellow,
Caltech,
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
GALCIT Colloquium
Color of Turbulence
Mihailo Jovanovic,
Professor of Electrical Engineering Systems,
USC,
3:30pm
–
4:30pm
Add to Cal
Applied Physics Seminar
How Small Can One Shrink a Laser?
Jacob Khurgin,
Professor,
Department Of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
7:00pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
Saturday, January 21st, 2017
12:00am
–
12:00am
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
7:00pm
Add to Cal
5:15pm
–
8:15pm
Add to Cal
6:00pm
–
9:30pm
Add to Cal
Associates Northern California Program: One Among Us
Off Campus
One Among Us: How Machines and Humans are Sharing a Workspace
Sunday, January 22nd, 2017
9:00am
–
12:30pm
Add to Cal
Photography on Campus: Wang Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
–
5:30pm
Add to Cal
Monday, January 23rd, 2017
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
Special Chemistry Seminar
Spectroscopy, Chiral Analysis, and Quantum Manipulation of Cryogenically Buffered Polyatomic Molecules
David Patterson,
Ph. D, Senior Scientist,
Department of Physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
The Springer correspondence For symmetric Spaces and Hessenberg Varieties, I and II
Kari Vilonen,
School of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Melbourne,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Arthur D. Riggs Lecture
Adventures in Complexity, Technology, Systems Biology, Systems Medicine and Healthcare
Leroy Hood, MD, PhD,
President & Co-founder,
Institute for Systems Biology,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Structured Factor Models to Find Interpretable Signal in Genomic Data
Professor Barbara Engelhardt,
Computer Science Department Center for Statistics and Machine Learning ,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Closing the loop: The three-dimensional nature of the ocean's overturning circulation
Andrew F. Thompson,
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
8:30pm
–
10:30pm
Add to Cal
Tuesday, January 24th, 2017
10:30am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Path-Complete Lyapunov Techniques: when Algebra and Combinatorics meet in Control"
Raphael Jungers,
Professor,
UCLouvain, Belgium and University of California, Los Angeles,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
IST LUNCH BUNCH
Overlapping Qubits
Thomas Vidick,
Assistant Professor ,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
IQI Weekly Seminar
Constructing topological models by symmetrization: A Projected Entangled Pair State study
Norbert Schuch,
Research Group Leader,
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Intergalactic Medium Near Reionization
Prof. George Becker,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Logic Seminar
Anti-basis results for graphs of infinite Borel chromatic number
Zoltan Vidnyanszky,
Mathematics Department,
York University/University of Toronto,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Special Chemistry Seminar
Visualizing Molecular Vibrations: Chemical Imaging for Biomedicine
Lu Wei,
Ph.D.,
Department of Chemistry,
Columbia University,
7:00pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
7:00pm
–
8:00pm
Add to Cal
7:30pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
Wednesday, January 25th, 2017
8:00am
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
EAS Special Seminar
The Office of Naval Research Science and Technology in Support of the US Navy and Marine Corps
Ellen S. Livingston, Ph.D.,
University Research Initiatives, Office of Naval Research, Arlington VA,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Mathematical Physics Seminar
A homological upper bound on critical probabilities for hyperbolic percolation
Nicolas Delfosse,
IQIM,
Caltech,
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
Planetary Science Seminar
Planetary Science Seminar
Sanjeev Gupta,
Professor of Earth Science,
Imperial College London,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The California Drought
Richard Seager,
Professor,
Palisades Geophysical Institute,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Materials Research Lecture
Architected Materials: Performance Through Deformation
Katia Bertoldi,
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Open Quantum Subgroups and Induced Representations
Mehrdad Kalantar,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Houston,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
A tutorial on metric learning with some recent advances
Nakul Verma,
Research Specialist,
Janelia Research Campus HHMI,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Special Chemistry Seminar
Frontiers of 2DIR Spectroscopy: From Protein Aggregation to Wide-Field Microscopy
Arnaldo L. Serrano,
Ph.D,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
6:00pm
–
7:30pm
Add to Cal
Art + Tech Panel: Machines and Vision
Daniel Landau,
Artist; Senior Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Centre, Herzliya, Israel; PhD Researcher,
Alto University Media Lab, Helsinki,
Pietro Perona,
Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
Janet Vertesi,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Sociology,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
–
10:00pm
Add to Cal
7:30pm
–
8:30pm
Add to Cal
8:00pm
–
10:00pm
Add to Cal
Thursday, January 26th, 2017
10:30am
–
12:30pm
Add to Cal
10:30am
–
11:30am
Add to Cal
11:00am
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Logic Seminar
Locally compact quantum groups, their subgroups, actions, boundaries and representation theory
Mehrdad Kalantar,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Houston,
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Fundamental Studies of High-Pressure Multi-Species Turbulent Mixing and Combustion"
Josette Bellan,
Senior Research Scientist,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech and Jet Propulsion Laboratory ,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
Organic Chemistry Seminar
Cyclopolymerization Using Grubbs Catalysts
Tae-Lim Choi,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Seoul National University,
2:00pm
–
3:30pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
Special TAPIR Seminar NOTE: Different Day than Usual
Recent progress of compact binary merger simulations in Kyoto group
Kenta Kiuchi,
Research Associate Professor,
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Logic Seminar
Large scale geometry of homeomorphism groups
Kathryn Mann,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Physics Research Conference
Imaging and remote sensing of other worlds
Dimitri Mawet,
Associate Professor of Astronomy,
Caltech,
7:00pm
–
10:00pm
Add to Cal
7:00pm
–
10:00pm
Add to Cal
7:30pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
Friday, January 27th, 2017
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
EE Special Seminar
Fundamentals and Applications of Nanoelectrokinetic Ion Concentration Polarization Devices
Sung Jae Kim,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
Seoul National University,