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Thursday, March 1st, 2018
11:00am 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

"Folding gels and shells: Geometric design principles for reconfigurable materials"
Ryan Hayward, Professor, Polymer Science and Engineering , University of Massachusetts Amherst,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

"Rhodium-Cyanine Fluorescent Probes For Specific Detection And Signaling of DNA Mismatches"
Adela Nano, Postdoctural Scholar, Barton Research Group, CCE, Caltech,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk

Lessons Learned in Scaling Facebook
Bobby Johnson, Founder and CTO, Interana,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Exploring Emergent Phenomena in Complex Oxide Thin Films
Ruijuan Xu, PhD Candidate, Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar

Understanding the shape of single-cell data via manifold learning
Smita Krishnaswamy, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Yale University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Structural and mechanistic insight into bacterial and eukaryotic N-glycosylation reactions
Kaspar Locher, Professor of Molecular Membrane Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Making Machines the Size of Cells
Marc Miskin, Kavli Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in Nanoscale Science, Cornell University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Robert Engle, New York University

How Much SRISK is Too Much?
Robert Engle, Michael Armellino Professor of Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University,
4:00pm 6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Towards a p-adic Deligne– Lusztig theory
Charlotte Chan, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Friday, March 2nd, 2018
10:30am 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Splittability and Noether's Theorem in Quantum Field Theory
Daniel Harlow, MIT,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Scrambling in quantum spin chains
Brian Swingle, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Joint Linde Institute/SISL and Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar: Konrad Menzel, NYU

Many-Player Asymptotics for Estimating Models of Network Formation
Konrad Menzel, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, New York University,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Interfacial Engineering of Quantum Materials
Shuolong Yang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kavli Institute, Cornell,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Stimulus-Response Behavior of Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Gels
Kenji Urayama, Professor, Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan,
2:00pm 3:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar

Aggregation-Induced Emission: From Fundamental Study to Practical Applications
Benzhong Tang, Chair Professor, Department of Chemistry, Division of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST),
3:00pm 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Self-similarity in boundary layers
Bruno Eckhardt, The Philipps University of Marburg,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Unoriented Cobordism Maps on Link Floer Homology
Haofei Fan, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
3:00pm 4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Spin-coherent dot—cavity electronics
Michael Ferguson, ETH Zurich,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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BELS

"Making the Most of Limited Signals"
William (Bill) Bialek, Professor, Physics, Princeton,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar

Singular moduli for real quadratic fields
Jan Vonk, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University,
Saturday, March 3rd, 2018
12:00pm 5:30pm
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Women's History Month Event

Off Campus
International Women's Day March
1:00pm 6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Yeranyan Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm 5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Celano Wedding Party

Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, March 4th, 2018
Monday, March 5th, 2018
9:00am 10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Hybrid Dynamical Systems for Robust Control, Optimization, and Learning in Societal Systems
Jorge Poveda, Graduate Student Researcher, University of California at Santa Barbara,
12:00pm 1:00pm
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12:00pm 1:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar

Convex Relaxations of Chance Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow
Andreas Venzke, Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark,
1:00pm 2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar

Transformational Technologies in Ground Transportation
Peter Sweatman, CAVita ,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Localized Chern Characters for 2-periodic complexes
Jeongseok Oh, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Cornelis Wiersma Visiting Professor of Neurobiology Seminar

Can defective genes be good for you? CYP2A6 metabolism alters risk for Smoking, Cancer and Cessation
Rachel Tyndale, Canada Research Chair in Pharmacogenomics Head, Pharmacogenomics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Professor, , Pharmacology+Toxicology, & Psychiatry, , University of Toronto,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Evolution of orogenic plateaus
Mark Allen, Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Interaction of a quantum field with a rotating heat bath
Alejandro Jenkins, University of Costa Rica,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

To Californium and Beyond
Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt, Gregory R. Choppin Chair in Chemistry and Director, Center for Actinide Science & Technology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University,
Tuesday, March 6th, 2018
12:00pm 1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH

Network Algorithms and Delay Performance in Data Centers
R. Srikant, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar

Writing and Publishing Your Applied Physics Paper
Eric Mills, PhD, Journal Manager, "Applied Physics Letters," American Institute of Physics,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar

"From Relative Perception in Cells, to Symmetry in Jellyfish"
Lea Goentoro, Assistant Professor of Biology, Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Peeking beyond the Standard Model: Muon g-2, Neutrino Mass Scale, and Free Neutron Decay
Martin Fertl, University of Washington,
4:00pm 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Measuring Polarization in High-Dimensional Data: Method and Application to Congressional Speech
Jesse Shapiro, George S. and Nancy B. Parker Professor of Economics, Brown University,