Institute Calendar
March 2017
Wednesday, March 8th, 2017
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, March 8th, 2017
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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11:30am
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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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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Full Measure Reducibility and Localization for Quasi- Periodic Jacobi Operators: a Topological Criterion
Rui Han,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Irvine,
1:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Research talks from Resnick Postdoctoral Scholars Allegra Liberman-Martin Ph.D. & Yuanyue Liu Ph.D.
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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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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Bray Theory Workshop
Risk Aversion as a Perceptual Bias
Michael Woodford,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar in Conjunction with the Young Investigators Lecture Series sponsored by the Caltech Division of Engineering & Applied Science
Bioelectrochemical Systems (BESs) for Energy Recovery from Wastewater
Christine Dykstra,
Graduate Student,
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Rich Optics from a Seemingly Simple System: Nanoparticle Arrays
Teri Odom,
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Associate Director of the International Institute of Nanotechnology (IIN),
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
The Berry Connection of the Ginzburg-Landau Vortices
Akos Nagy,
Department of Pure Mathematics,
University of Waterloo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Marine Natural Products Synthesis: A Platform for Chemical and Biological Discovery
Joshua G. Pierce,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
North Carolina State University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Ordered set partitions, generalized coinvariant algebras, and the Delta Conjecture
Brendon Rhoades,
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
Thursday, March 9th, 2017
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:50am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Characterizing thixotropy of fresh cement-based systems modified by clays"
Shiho Kawashima,
Professor,
Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics,
Columbia University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Arnab Mukherjee,
Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow,
Shapiro Research Group, CCE, Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Self-Force: Towards Waveforms for Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors
Anna Heffernan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Physics Department,
University of Florida,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Precisely Funtionalized Molecular Nanoparticles Are Unique Elements for Macromolecular Science: From "Nanoatoms" to Giant Molecules
Stephen Z.D. Cheng,
Frank C. Sullivan Distinguished Research Professor; Robert C. Musson Professor; Trustees Professor; Senior Editor, Polymer,
Department of Polymer Science,
University of Akron,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
From microshards to megaliths: A micro-analytical method to source far-travelled geological materials
Nick Pearce,
Professor,
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences,
Aberystwyth University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar
Controllable Engineered Biological Systems for Personalized Medicine
Sung Jin Park, PhD,
Research Associate,
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
New Approaches to Dark Matter
Justin Khoury,
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Pennsylvania,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Cold Atom Laboratory Mission: The Coldest Spot in the Universe
Anita Sengupta,
CAL Project Manager,
JPL,
Robert Thompson,
CAL Project Scientist,
JPL,
Friday, March 10th, 2017
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Quantum Gravity: A Free Lunch
Joshua Erlich,
College of William and Mary,
2:00pm
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6:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
A Virtual Platform for Future Manufacturing and Certification of Aerostructures
Tony Waas,
Boeing-Egtvedt Chair, Professor of Aerostructures,
Aeronautics and Astronautics,
University of Washington,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
TBA
Richard Canary,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Fluorinated Graphene as a Protective Layer on Silicon Photoanodes
Ms. Annelise Thompson,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special EE Seminar
The Future of Integrated Devices with Excited States
Prineha Narang,
Zi Environmental Fellow,
Harvard University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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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 Cold Atom Laboratory Mission: The Coldest Spot in the Universe
Anita Sengupta,
CAL Project Manager,
JPL,
Robert Thompson,
CAL Project Scientist,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, March 11th, 2017
8:00am
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3/14
5:00pm
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9:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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11:00am
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Munoz/Ferguson Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, March 12th, 2017
Monday, March 13th, 2017
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Optimal Schedules for Security Games
Omer Tamuz,
Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
TBD
Michael Lin,
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, of Bioengineering ,
Chemical and Systems Biology,
Stanford School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
Neural networks and knot theory
Mark Hughes,
Department of Mathematics,
Brigham Young University,
4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
The future of fMRI in cognitive neuroscience
Russell Poldrack,
Albert Ray Lang Professor ,
Psychology and (by Courtesy) Computer Science,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The First Decade of Sea Ice Seasonal Prediction
Cecilia M. Bitz,
Professor in Atmospheric Sciences,
Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Washington,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
Embeddings of contact manifolds
John Etnyre,
Department of Mathematics,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2017
10:00am
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11:00am
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Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Pursuit of Low-dimensional Structures in High-dimensional (Visual) Data
Yi Ma,
Professor,
Information Science and Technology,
ShanghaiTech University,