Institute Calendar
May 2017
Thursday, May 18th, 2017
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POSTPONED | Chemical Engineering Seminar
This seminar will be rescheduled for a later date this fall.
Justin Hanes, Ph.D.,
Lewis J. Ort Professor of Ophthalmology; Director, The Center for Nanomedicine at the WIlmer Eye Institute,
School of Medicine,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Film Screening: "Containment," Intro and Q&A with the film's creators
Peter Galison,
Joseph Pellegrino University Professor,
Harvard University,
Robb Moss,
Chair, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies,
Harvard University,
Friday, May 19th, 2017
8:00am
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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
Applications of light-cone cuts in holography
Gary Horowitz,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Death of the Rentiers (1912-1957)
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal,
Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics; Ronald and Maxine Linde Leadership Chair, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Undergraduate Math Club Seminar
The Moduli Space of Flat Tori
Mark Greenfield,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Special Geometry & Physics Seminar
Mirror Symmetry for HOMFLYPT Knot Homology
Alexei Oblomkov,
University of Massachusetts,
1:30pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
The Bag6 Complex: Achieving Biological Complexity through Modularity
Amanda Mock,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Pulsar Accretion: This Time, It's Magnetized
Kyle Parfrey,
Einstein Fellow,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Towards CFD-Based Design of the Long-Time Behavior of Chaotic Aerodynamics
Qiqi Wang,
Associate Professor,
Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Tight Contact Structures via Admissible Transverse Surgery
James Conway,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:45pm
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BMB Seminar
A compass for weak magnetic fields based on photolyase repair of thymine dimers
Theodore Zwang,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Mechanistic Studies of Nickel Catalyzed Asymmetric Alkyl-Alkyl Suzuki Couplings
Mr. Bradley Gorsline,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Analysis on models of polymeric fluids
Konstantina Trivisa,
Department of Mathematics & Institute for Physical Science and Technology,
University Of Maryland,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 20th, 2017
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Williams Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, May 21st, 2017
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kirschner Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, May 22nd, 2017
12:00am
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8:50am
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CANCELLED | Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Brown Bag Seminar: Leah Klement, Caltech
This talk has been cancelled.
Leah Klement,
Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations Postdoctoral Instructor,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Biophysical Studies of Ligand-gated Ion Channels
Betty Wong,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
**Has been Calnceled**
Alison Ondrus,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
A Dynamical View of Optimization Algorithms
Ashia Wilson,
University of California at Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
TBA
Ashia Wilson,
Doctoral Student,
Statistics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Confronting CPT and Equivalence Principle with Cold Trapped Antihydrogen
Makoto C. Fujiwara,
TRIUMF,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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The James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences
Glacial diamictites and the evolving composition of the upper continental crust
Roberta Rudnick,
Professor, Geochemistry and Petrology, Continent Formation and Evolution,
Department of Earth Science,
University of California, Santa Barbara ,
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"High‐fidelity probabilistic model identification and monitoring of nonlinear dynamical systems"
Audrey Olivier,
2017 Caltech Young Investigator Lecturer in Engineering and Applied Science,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
earning with specifications
Ufuk Topcu,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Graduate Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar
Introduction to Rapoport-Zink Spaces III: Local Models
Zavosh Amir-Khosravi,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Hyper-invariant tensor networks and holography
Glen Evenbly,
University of Sherbrooke,
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. J. J. Eldridge,
Univ. of Auckland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Genetic Dissection of Neural Circuit Assembly and Organization
Linqun Luo,
Professor,
Biology,
Stanford School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Orbital Characterization of Exoplanets with the Gemini Planet Imager
Jason Wang,
Graduate Student,
Astronomy,
UC Berkeley,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2017
8:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Logic Seminar
A direct solution to the Generic Point Problem
Andy Zucker,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Structure of Gaseous Halos Around and Between Galaxies
Eliot t Quataer,
Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED | Finance Seminar: Will Goetzmann, Yale University
This talk has been cancelled.
Will Goetzmann,
Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies,
School of Management,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
DNA Sequencing: From Information Limits to Assembly Software
Thomas Courtade,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Methane in the Climate System: Monitoring Emissions from Satellites
Daniel J. Jacob,
Vasco McCoy Family Professor,
Department of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Arbitrary and Reconfigurable Optics
David Miller,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Etudes for the Inverse Spectral Problem
Nikolai G. Makarov,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Women in Chemistry Seminar
Shake, Rattle & Roll: Capturing Snapshots of Metalloproteins in Action
Catherine Drennan,
Professor of Chemistry and Biology; HHMI Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Thursday, May 25th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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8:00am
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10:30am
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12:30pm
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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
"Order and Chaos*: Collective Behavior of Crowded Drops in Microfluidic Systems"
Sindy KY Tang,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford 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
Rebekah Silva,
Graduate Student, Barton Research Group,
CCE, Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Development of Cu- and Ni-catalyzed C–C and C–N Bond Forming Reactions
Shoshana Bachman,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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EE Thesis Defense
Methods Advancing a Machine's Visual Awareness of People in Video
David Hall,
Ph.D. graduate student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Norman Davidson Lecture
Mechanisms in human DNA mismatch repair
Paul L. Modrich,
HHMI Investigator, and James B. Duke Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Biochemistry,
Duke University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Physics of Soft Particles
Henriette Elvang,
Associate Professor of Physics,
University of Michigan,
Friday, May 26th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Fuels and Materials from Sunlight and Water
Bryan Hunter,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
10:00am
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2:00pm
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