Institute Calendar
May 2018
Friday, May 18th, 2018
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GALCIT Colloquium
Efficient modeling and control of three-dimensional turbulent flows using hydrodynamic stability
Georgios Rigas,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Surgery, Polygons and Instanton Floer homology
Yi Xie,
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics,
SUNY Stony Brook,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Targeted Nanoparticle Delivery of Therapeutics across the Blood-Brain and Blood-Tumor Barriers to Breast Cancer Brain Metastases
Emily A. Wyatt,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF & Microwave Seminar
Advanced 5G and SATCOM Phased-Arrays and Transceivers Using Silicon Technologies: THE END OF THE MARCONI ERA IS NEAR
Gabriel Rebeiz,
Distinguished Professor and Wireless Communications Industry Endowed Chair,
University of California, San Diego,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 19th, 2018
11:00am
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 20th, 2018
2:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, May 21st, 2018
11:00am
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4:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Green Hills Software -- Compiler Optimizations for the Fastest Code
Greg Davis,
Director of Engineering, Compilers,
Green Hills Software,
12:10pm
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12:50pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Advancing the Protein Catalyzed Capture Agent Technology to New Frontiers
Amy McCarthy,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Solving the Right Problems with AI
CMS Special Seminar
Crystal Rutland,
CEO and Founder, Particle Design,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemistry Club
Cu-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrofunctionalization
Stephen L. Buchwald,
Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Rise and Fall of Enceladus Life Finder: Life Detection in the Plume by Mass Spectrometry
Jonathan I. Lunine,
David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences,
Director, Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Redemption of the High Frequencies
Associate Professor Laurent Demanet,
Department of Mathematics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Towards a priori models for differential diffusion in turbulent non-premised flames
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Ph.D Defense
Nicholas Burali,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Gradient Descent with Identity Initialization Efficiently Learns Positive Definite Linear Transformations by Deep Residual Networks
CMS Special Seminar
Phil Long,
Research Scientist,
Google,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Engineering Ultrasound Sensors with Lego-Like Proteins
2018 Everhart Lecture Series
Anupama Lakshmanan,
Graduate Student,
BioEngineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Classical simulation of quantum circuits by dynamical localization
Adrian Chapman,
University of New Mexico,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
TBD
Megan Ansdell,
Center for Integrative Planetary Sciences,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Selective Vulnerability in Frontotemporal Dementia: Onset, Progression, and Relationship to ALS
William (Bill) Seeley,
Professor,
Neurobiolgy,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Here be Dragons: SNO+ and the path to THEIA
Gabriel Orebi Gan,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Estimating Signaling Games in International Relations: Problems, Solutions, and an Application to Economic Sanctions
Michael Gibilisco,
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
A History of Horrendous Corruption for Our Time: Edmund Burke's Impeachment of Warren Hastings in Speech and Caricature
Noel Swerdlow,
Professor Emeritus of the History of Science, University of Chicago; Visiting Associate, Caltech,
12:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
KELT, TESS, and Gaia: The Era of Precision Stellar Astrophysics and Exoplanetology
Scott Gaudi,
Ohio State,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Global Signatures of Phytoplankton Physiology
Michael Behrenfeld,
Professor,
Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology,
Oregon State University,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Exploring the 3D Nano and Atomic World: Coherent Diffractive Imaging and Atomic Electron Tomography
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
When Chemistry asks Biological Questions: Total Synthesis on the Driving Seat
Nuno Maulide,
Professor,
Department of Organic Chemistry,
University of Vienna,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Network Effects in Information Acquisition
Tommaso Denti,
Assistant Professor (Salvatore Faculty Fellow),
Department of Economics,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Young Investigators Lecture
Low-Complexity Modeling for Visual Data: Representations and Algorithms
Yuqian Zhang,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, May 24th, 2018
12:00am
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12:00am
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8:00am
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Ongoing
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10:30am
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12:30pm
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Has Performance Based Engineering Broken the Power Law?"
Thomas H. Heaton,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical & Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Generalized Benders Cuts for Infinite-Horizon Control Problems
Joe Warrington,
Senior Scientist,
Automatic Control Laboratory,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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6:30pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Predictive coding and hallucinations
Philip R. Corlett,
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University; Associate Research Scientist, Connecticut Mental Health Center, Yale School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Liquid-liquid Phase Separation in Polyelectrolyte Solutions: Effects of Charge Connectivity, Ion Association, and Backbone Hydrophilicity
Jian Qin,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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