Institute Calendar
February 2018
Thursday, February 8th, 2018
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CS9: Intro to CS Research and Industry
More than Recommendations: Data Science at Netflix -- Speaker: Becky Tucker, Caltech Alum
Thursday, February 8th, 2018
9:00am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Topological Mechanics of Critically Coordinated Lattices"
Tom Lubensky,
Professor,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Pennsylvania,
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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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Analytic Number Theory in Function Fields and Twin Primes in the Large Finite-Field Limit
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The life of vortex knots and links and the conservation of helicity
William Irvine,
Associate Professor,
James Franck Institute,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Approaching the Fundamental Limits of Learning
Vahid Tarokh,
Rhodes Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Mathematics, and Computer Science,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar: Young Investigator Lecture in Engineering and Applied Science
How vegetation impacts erosion
Qingjun (Judy) Yang,
PhD Candidate,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, February 9th, 2018
10:00am
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11:00am
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantization of the low temperature action in the SYK model
Josephine Suh,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Kitaev Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Interplay of Proton Transfer, Electron Transfer and Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Transition Metal Mediated Nitrogen Fixation
Benjamin Matson,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Theory of EM counterparts of neutron star mergers
Kenta Hotokezaka,
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Exploiting Sparsity for Modeling and Control of Dynamical Systems
Eurika Kaiser,
University of Washington,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
From Imaging Excitons at the Nanoscale to Emerging Device Applications
Lea Nienhaus,
Dr.,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
A Epiperimetric approach to singular points in the Alt-Caffarelli functional
Saturday, February 10th, 2018
12:00am
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9:30am
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11:00am
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11:30am
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Caltech Associates Orange County Luncheon and Program: China's Empress Dowager Cixi at the Bowers Museum
Off Campus
with Maura Dykstra, Caltech assistant professor of history
11:30am
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1:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ortiz Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Atachian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Movsesyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, February 11th, 2018
11:00am
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tash Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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Monday, February 12th, 2018
8:30am
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9:00am
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Title: Novel Motion Planning Algorithms for Multi-Agent Systems and Swarms
Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay,
Robotics Technologist ,
JPL,
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), IV
Forte Shinko,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Paul Hyams, Cornell University
House, Hand, and the Wolf's Head: Anglo-Saxon England and the Western Legal Tradition
Paul Hyams,
Professor Emeritus of History,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Tree-ring research and the terrestrial carbon cycle
David Frank,
Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Leptophilic forces now and then: reconciling (g-2)_\mu and H_0 with gauged L_\mu - L_\tau
Gordon Krnjaic,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Learning Versatile Behavior and Reusable Models through Real-World Interaction
Chelsea Finn,
Computer Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Bioengineering Seminar
"Engineering new functions with consideration of the host cell"
Tom Ellis,
Reader and Group Leader,
Centre for Synthetic Biology and Department of Bioengineering,
Imperial College, London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Map and Territory
Maayan Amir,
Artist and Lecturer,
Department of Fine Arts,
Haifa University ,
Ruti Sela,
Artist and Lecturer,
Department of Fine Arts,
Haifa University ,
Robert Simmon,
Senior Data Visualization Engineer,
Planet ,
Nicolas Wey-Gomez,
Professor of History,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Tuesday, February 13th, 2018
10:30am
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Dr. Bradley Dickerson,
Postdoctoral Scholar ,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Dr. Ysabel Giraldo,
Postdoctoral Scholar ,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Dr. Kate Leitch,
Postdoctoral Scholar ,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Local, Model-Agnostic Explanations of Machine Learning Predictions
Sameer Singh,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
University of California, Irvine,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
The Seiberg-Witten equations with multiple spinors in dimension three
Andriy Haydys,
Freiburg University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigator Lecture
Scalable Solid State Quantum Information Processing
Sara Mouradian,
PhD Candidate,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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