Institute Calendar
February 2017
Tuesday, February 14th, 2017
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Special Seminar: Ji-Ho Park
Harnessing Exocytosis of Nanoparticles to Improve Cancer Nanomedicine
Ji-Ho Park,
Associate Professor,
Department of Bio and Brain Engineering,
KAIST,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Recovery maps in quantum thermodynamics
Alvaro Martin Alhambra,
University College, London,
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
Dr. Roberto Decarli,
MPIA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The dynamics of classifying geometric structures
William Goldman,
Mathematics Department,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Ceres Before and After Dawn (From an Old Scientist's Perspective)
Thomas McCord,
Researcher,
Bearfight Institute,
Wednesday, February 15th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Differential Reactivity at Edge and Terrace Sites of Layered Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Joshua Wiensch,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
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
A Transfer Matrix Approach to Scaled Limits of Christoffel-Darboux Kernels
Jonathan Breuer,
Department of Mathematics,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSRG Seminar
Some Limitations and Possibilities Toward Data-driven Optimization
Yaron Singer,
Professor,
Computer Science,
Harvard University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
From North Dakota to the Southern Ocean: Surprising atmospheric observations with climate and air quality implications
Eric Kort,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lectures
Ab Initio Electron-Phonon Calculations: Theory, Computation, and Applications
Marco Bernardi,
Assistant Professor,
Applied Physics and Materials Science Department,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
p-adic AdS/CFT
Sarthak Parikh,
Department of Physics,
Princeton 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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Veritas Forum at Caltech
Meaning-Making Methodologies: A Christian Mathematician and an Atheist Geoscientist Share Their Views on What Makes Life Worthwhile
Paul Asimow,
Eleanor and John R. McMillan Professor of Geology and Geochemistry,
Caltech,
Francis Su,
Professor of Mathematics,
Harvey Mudd College,
Katie Galloway,
NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow,
USC,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, February 16th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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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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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar
Reconstructing Regulatory Circuits Underlying T cell Function in Cancer
Meromit Singer,
Post-Doc,
Aviv Regev’s Lab,
Broad Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RESCHEDULED APRIL 6 - Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Andy Zhou,
Graduate Student,
Barton Research Group, CCE, Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Black History Month Series
Black History Month STEMinar featuring Tracy Drain of JPL
Tracy Drain,
Flight Systems Engineer,
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar
Small Structures Big Effects: Multiscale Structure-Function Relationships in Musculoskeletal Tissues
Alix Deymier,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Orthopedic Surgery,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Solving Integral Trinomial Equations
Mark Shusterman,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Tel Aviv University ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Particle Physics Beyond Colliders
Arsimina Arvanitaki,
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Aristarchus Chair in Theoretical Physics,
Perimeter Institute,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, February 17th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Spectral Networks, BPS Graphs, and BPS Quivers
Maxime Gabella,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Building a New Imperial State: Agency Problems and Separation of Powers in English North America
Sean Gailmard,
Professor,
Travers Department of Political Science,
UC Berkeley,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Observable Field Theory and its Application in Regularization of Shocks, Turbulence, and Two-Phase Flows
Kamran Mohseni,
W. P. Bushnell Endowed Professor ,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of Florida,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Determining the finite subgraphs of the curve graph
Ian Biringer,
Department of Mathematics,
Boston College ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Seminar
Miniaturized Power Management for New Frontiers in IoT and Beyond
Loai Salem,
Ph.D. graduate student,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Copper-Catalyzed Alkylation of Aliphatic Amines Induced by Visible Light
Mr. Carson Matier,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:10pm
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Saturday, February 18th, 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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10:00am
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4:30pm
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1:30pm
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4:30pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:20pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, February 19th, 2017
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, February 20th, 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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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Catalysis for Sustainable Chemical Processes and Energy Technologies
Matthias Beller,
Professor and Head,
Department of Applied Homogeneous Catalysis,
Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT Rostock),
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2017
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Cellular optogenetics: precision tools to probe how signaling pathways control cell fate
Jared Toettcher,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Molecular Biology,
Princeton University,