Institute Calendar
December 2017
Thursday, December 7th, 2017
12:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Tth-laccase and Its Reaction with Dioxygen"
Shabnam Hematian,
Postdoctural Fellow, Gray Research Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
From Chaperones to the Membrane with a BAM!
Karen Fleming,
Professor of Biophysics,
TC Jenkins Department of Biophysics,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Engineering Next-Generation T Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy
Yvonne Chen,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles ,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Extensions of vector bundles on the Fargues-Fontaine curve
Serin Hong,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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5:30pm
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6:40pm
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Friday, December 8th, 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
Entanglement in gauge theories and gravity
Jennifer Lin,
Institute for Advanced Study,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special ACM and CMX Seminar
Numerical Methods for Fractional Laplacians
Professor Gabriel Acosta,
Department of Mathematics,
Univeristy of Buenos Aires,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Reconciling optical and radio observations of the binary millisecond pulsar PSR J1640+2224
Sarah Vigeland,
Research Associate,
Department of Physics,
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:15pm
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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 Mixed-Signal, RF & Microwave Seminar
Nyquist Rate Healthcare: Silicon Systems to Close the Sub-Sampling Gap in Health Monitoring
Amin Arbabian,
Professor ,
Department of of Electrical Engineering,
Stanford,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Brown Dwarfs: Too Small a Star; Too Massive a Planet
Kaew Tinyanont,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
Saturday, December 9th, 2017
8:30am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Adimari Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Eyvazi Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, December 11th, 2017
10:00am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Gabriela de Oliveira Penna Tavares,
Graduate Student,
Computation and Neural Systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
On the structure of some p-adic period domains
Laurent Fargues,
Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu and CNRS,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2017
10:30am
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11:30am
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Neurolunch Seminar Series
Dr. David Maresca,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Chemical Engineering,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
Dr. Jerzy Szablowski,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Chemical Engineering,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:10pm
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12:50pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Beyond classical computing via randomized low-depth quantum circuits
Michael Bremner,
University of Technology Sydney,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Origins of AIDS
Kai Zinn,
Professor,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Philosophy Job Candidate
The Mass of Fields
Charles "Chip" Sebens,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Philosophy,
UC San Diego,
5:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
10:00am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Development of new CRISPR/Cas9-based tools to study drug interactions and endocytic pathogens
Michael Bassik,
Assistant Professor of Genetics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Multinomial logit processes and preference discovery: inside and outside the black box
Fabio Maccheroni,
Full Professor,
Department of Decision Sciences,
Bocconi University,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Life as a Ranger in Mount Rainier National Park
Tina Seeger,
Assistant Research Scientist,
Geology and Geochemistry,
Caltech,
Thursday, December 14th, 2017
9:00am
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10:00am
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The fully nonlocal, finite-temperature, adaptive 3D quasicontinuum method for bridging across scales
Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Ishan Tembhekar,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical Engineering,
Caltech,
10:30am
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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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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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CS Theory Seminar
Prover vs Simulator vs Discriminator: New Techniques for Cryptographic Proofs
Dakshita Khurana,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Portrait of the Angry Decision Maker
Jennifer Lerner,
Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Faculty Chair, Leadership Decision Making Program,
Friday, December 15th, 2017
9:30am
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10:30am
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
White Dwarf – Neutron Star Mergers: from Peculiar Supernovae to Pulsar Planets
Ben Tal Margalit,
Graduate Student,
Columbia University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 16th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Monday, December 18th, 2017
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Eph Receptor Clustering by Chondroitin Sulfate Inhibits Axon Regeneration
Greg Miller,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Colloquium in CMS and BBE
Scalable Bayesian Inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
Michael Betancourt,
Department of Statistics,
University of Warwick,
Tuesday, December 19th, 2017
10:30am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2017
9:30am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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