Institute Calendar
January 2018
Friday, January 19th, 2018
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Sculpting and Visualizing Micro-Chemical Environments: Tracking Mass Transport, Probing Chemical Kinetics, and Manipulating Suspensions
Todd Squires,
Professor and Vice Chair,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, January 19th, 2018
10:00am
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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
Emergent dimensions from large N confinement
Aleksey Cherman,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Improving gravitational-wave detector sensitivity with cryogenic test mass cooling
Johannes Eichholz,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Experimental Physics,
Adhikari Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
"Structural and functional characterization of the E coli MetNI methionine transporter"
Phong Nguyen,
Graduate Student, Rees Research Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Probing the Structure of Active Galactic Nuclei Using Light Echoes
Anna Pancoast,
NASA Einstein Fellow,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
New Frontiers in Imitation Learning
Yisong Yue ,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department ,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Homomorphisms of pure mapping class groups to the integers
Nicholas Vlamis,
Mathematics Department,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Architecture at the nanoscale: Design principles for next-generation catalysts in energy applications
Yuriy Román-Leshkov,
Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, January 20th, 2018
12:00am
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1:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Varterian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Rosa Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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5:20pm
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9:20pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, January 21st, 2018
12:00am
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, January 22nd, 2018
12:00pm
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12:10pm
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12:50pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Impulsive Energy Deposition to Enhance High-Speed Flight
Kelvin Kremeyer,
founder of Physics, Materials, and Applied Mathematics Research,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Measure reducibility of countable Borel equivalence relations (after Conley and Miller)
Forte Shinko,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Arc-like magmas generated by mélange-peridotite interaction in the mantle wedge
Véronique Le Roux,
Associate Scientist,
Department of Geology and Geophysics,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Statistical Methods for Two Problems in Biology
Associate Professor Daniela Witten,
Statistics and Biostatistics,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences Job Candidate Seminar
Identification with Latent Choice Sets: The Case of the Head Start Impact Study
Vishal Kamat,
PhD Candidate,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Quantum sensing in a new single-molecule regime
Peter Maurer,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University Department of Physics,
Department of Physics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
"What's New? Interpretable Discovery in Large Image Data Sets"
Kiri Wagstaff,
Principal Researcher in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning,
JPL MLS Group,
JPL,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Two challenges for DNA nanotechnology: building interfaces with silicon and cells
Paul W. K. Rothemund,
Research Professor,
Bioengineering, CMS, & CNS,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
TBD
Mike Sori,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Probing strong-field gravity: Black holes and mergers in general relativity and beyond
Leo Stein,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Dynamic Epistemic Risk
Boris Babic,
Weisman Postdoctoral Scholar Instructor in Philosophy of Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Sciences Job Candidate Seminar
Multidimensional heterogeneity and matching in a frictional labor market
Joanne Tan,
PhD Candidate,
Sciences-Po Paris,
Wednesday, January 24th, 2018
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Ocean Heat Uptake and Dynamical Sea Level Rise: Past and Future Uncertainty
Laure Zanna,
Associate Professor of Climate Physics,
Department of Physics,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Bridging the enormous span of length scales in lithium-ion batteries
Will Chueh,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Materials Science & Engineering ,
Stanford University ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Inference in Instrumental Variables Analysis with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
Kirill Evdokimov,
Assistant Professor,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:45pm
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CS9: Intro to CS Research and Industry
Snap -- Production Software Engineering -- Scott Bruce, Senior Software Engineer & Caltech Alum
Thursday, January 25th, 2018
10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Big Data — A New Research Frontier In Earthquake Engineering"
Ertugrul Taciroglu,
Professor,
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Chondroitin sulfation regulates perineuronal nets and synapse development"
Huiqian Huang,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Hsieh-Wilson Research Group ,
CCE,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Code Ocean -- Reproducibility Workshop: Best Practices and Easy Steps to Save Time for Yourself and Other Researchers
12:00pm
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1:20pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Fuzzy dark matter and the small-scale structure problem
Scott Tremaine,
Richard Black Professor,
School of Natural Sciences - Astrophysics,
Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Tracing the dynamics of interfacial electronic excited states from femtoseconds to seconds
Sarah B. King,
Dr.,
Department of Physical Chemistry,
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin,
Friday, January 26th, 2018
9:00am
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10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Data-driven Infrastructure Informatics in Smart and Resilient Cities
Thomas Matarazzo,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Senseable City Lab,
MIT ,
10:00am
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11:00am
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