Institute Calendar
May 2017
Saturday, May 6th, 2017
12:30pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mesrobian Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tsarukyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Shamlyan Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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11:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 7th, 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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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, May 8th, 2017
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
SpaceX and the Aerodynamic and Aerothermal Challenges of Designing Reusable Rockets and Spacecraft
Andrew Tchieu,
Senior Aerodynamics Engineer,
Space Exploration Technologies,
SpaceX,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Seminar
Forces, Stresses, and the (Thermo?)Dynamics of Active Matter
Sho Takatori,
graduate student,
Chemical Engineering Department,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Reconstruction in Gauge Gromov-Witten Theory
Seunghee Ye,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Excitable and Other Dynamic Behaviors in Migrating Cells
Professor Pablo Iglesias,
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
"Winning by default: why is there so little competition in government procurement?" with Karam Kang
Robert Miller,
Richard M. Cyert and Morris DeGroot Professor of Economics and Statistics, Professor of Economics and Strategy,
Tepper School of Business,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Solid Earth constraints on the dynamics of the Antarctic Ice Sheet: insights from seismology
Douglas A. Wiens,
Robert S. Brooking Distinguished Professor,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Catalytic Transformations with Bimetallic Cooperation
Neal Mankad,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Illinois at Chicago,
Tuesday, May 9th, 2017
9:00am
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10:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Susanna Throop, Ursinus College
"Not Cruelty but Piety?" The Difficulties of Assessing "Crusading Violence" and Why It Matters
Susanna Throop,
Associate Professor of History,
Ursinus College,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Cyber Weapons of Mass Destruction for Every Budget
Dan O'Dowd,
Founder, President and CEO of Green Hills Software.,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Zhannetta Gugel,
Graduate Student,
Neurobiology,
California Institute of Technology,
Jie-Yoon (Remy) Yang,
Graduate Student,
Computation & Neural Systems,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
"Studies in Palladium-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylation: Enantioselective Total Syntheses of Structurally Diverse Alkaloids"
Beau Pritchett,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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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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Chemical Physics Seminar
SEMINAR POSTPONED
Daniel M. Neumark,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Meningeal Lymphatics Draining Neurological Diseases
Jonathan Kipnis,
Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair,
Neuroscience,
University of Virginia School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Enumerative geometry and geometric representation theory
Andrei Okounkov,
Mathematics Department,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Don't Twinkle, Little Star: How a Laser-Shooting Robot is Taming the Atmosphere and Bringing Space-based Astronomy to Earth
Everhart Lecture Series
Rebecca M. Jensen-Clem,
Astronomy,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
The Extraordinary Journeys of Louisa Catherine Adams
Louisa Thomas,
Author,
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
9:00am
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10:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
The deformations of thin nematic elastomer sheets
Paul Plucinsky,
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
10:00am
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11:30am
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Prototyping Diverse Synthetic Biological Circuits in a Cell-Free Transcription-Translation System
Shaobin Guo,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Structured Sampling for Covariance Compression
Piya Pal,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Engineered Biofilter for Water Sustainability
Sanjay Mohanty,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Neutrino physics with liquid xenon detectors
Michelle Dolinski,
Drexel University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Emerging Materials and Nanomanufacturing for Energy, Sustainability, and Critical Technology
Shenqiang Ren,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Temple University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Noncommutative Geometry from non-Laplace Type Operators
Ivan Avramidi,
Department of Mathematics,
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Leveraging Chemistry for Biology and Therapy: New Amination Strategies to Access Biologically Important Molecules
Qiu Wang,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Duke University,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Generating functions and enumeration in finite classical groups
Jason Fulman,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, May 11th, 2017
8:00am
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3:00pm
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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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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Geo-Alchemy: Carbonate Precipitation for Hazard Mitigation and Ground Improvement"
Edward Kavazanjian,
Professor,
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment,
Arizona State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Shuai Wang,
Graduate Student, Hsieh-Wilson Research Group,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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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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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture
Next-Generation Computing Using Spin-Based and 2D Materials
Jean Anne Incorvia,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford ,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
A Regularized Geometric Theta Lift for Diagonal Cycles
Zavosh Amir Khosravi,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Current and future searches for neutrinoless double beta decay
Michelle Dolinski,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Drexel University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Moving through intracellular phase space
Clifford Brangwynne,
Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering,
The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Medical Engineering Seminar
Strategies for bone and tendon regeneration
Hala Zreiqat,
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Head of Tissue Engineering and Biomaterial Research Unit,
University of Sydney,
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University, USA,
Friday, May 12th, 2017
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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