Institute Calendar
January 2017
Friday, January 13th, 2017
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Exoplanets: The Quest for Strange New Worlds
Eric Mamajek,
Deputy Program Chief Scientist,
NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program,
JPL,
Friday, January 13th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Magnetic field's travels from Lilliput to Brobdingnag: turbulent dynamo in a partially ionized plasma
Siyao Xu,
Peking University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
From Underwater Shock Focusing to Dynamic Fracture
Veronica Eliasson,
Associate Professor,
UCSD ,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Martingale methods in conformal mapping
Oleg Ivrii,
Mathematics Department,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
The Universe through X-ray Eyes
Fiona Harrison,
Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics; Kent and Joyce Kresa Leadership Chair, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
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)
Exoplanets: The Quest for Strange New Worlds
Eric Mamajek,
Deputy Program Chief Scientist,
NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program,
JPL,
Saturday, January 14th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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7:30am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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11:30am
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12:30pm
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4:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Barsoumian Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, January 15th, 2017
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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8:00am
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4:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Coria Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
A Transfer Matrix Approach to Scaled Limits of Christo ffel-Darboux Kernels
Jonathan Breuer,
Department of Mathematics,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hovanessian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, January 16th, 2017
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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8:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Learning to Optimize for Structured Output Spaces
Yisong Yue,
Assistant Professor,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Seminar
Engineering Protein Therapeutics: Using Non-Canonical Amino Acid Mutagenesis to Modulate Insulin Biophysics
Katharine Fang,
graduate student,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:30pm
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1/23
1:30pm
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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
Prof. Rosalba Perna,
Stony Brook Univ.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Logic Seminar
A game-theoretic approach to Hjorth's turbulence theory
Martino Lupini,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
Inorganic Molecular Precursors: The Quest for Function Through Structure
Alexandra Velian,
Dr.,
Department of Chemistry,
Columbia University,
5:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Stability of solitary waves in the nonlinear Dirac equation
Andrew Comech,
Department of Mathematics,
Texas A&M University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Understanding how Weather Responds to Changes in Climate
Derek Posselt,
Research Scientist,
Atmospheric Physics and Weather | Earth Science Section,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Integrating High Throughput Experimentation with Theory and Computation for the Discovery of Solar Fuels Materials
John M. Gregoire,
Thrust Coordinator for Photoelectrocatalysis,
Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Primary and secondary pairings for pseudodifferential symbols
Alexander Gorokhovsky,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
Phase Transitions and Adsorption at the Atomic and Nanoscale: From Storing and Separating Gases to Manipulating
Jarad Mason,
Dr.,
Department of Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, January 19th, 2017
8:30am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Soft Living Materials and Machines: From Theory to Design"
Xuanhe Zhao,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Keynote Address by Dr. Robert Ross
MLK Week 2017
Robert Ross,
President and CEO,
California Endowment,
1:00pm
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3:50pm
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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
Prof. Todd Thompson,
Ohio State Univ. ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
How I learned to stop worrying and to love both instantons and anti-instantons
Nikita Nekrasov,
Professor of Physics,
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics,
Stony Brook University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, January 20th, 2017
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Indices, Particles, Surfaces, and Monsters
Shu-Heng Shao,
Institute for Advanced Study,