Institute Calendar
October 2018
Monday, October 8th, 2018
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Geology of Candidate Landing Sites for the Mars-2020 Rover Mission: Issues in Site Selection
Bethany Ehlmann,
Professor of Planetary Science; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Scientist,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Search for the electric dipole moment of the electron with molecular ions
William Cairncross,
University of Colorado,
4:00pm
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KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
From Acoustics to the Lindelof Hypothesis
Thanasis Fokas,
Professor of Nonlinear Mathematical Science,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge,
6:00pm
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
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IST Lunch Bunch
New Frontiers in Imitation Learning
Yisong Yue,
Assistant Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Engineering and Applied Science,
CALTECH,
12:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Algebraic Complexity Theory: Lower bounds and Derandomization (2nd of 2 parts)
Ben Lee Volk,
CMI Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
The Power of Convection
Stuart Bartlett,
Postdoc,
Planetary Science ,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Explanation in Contexts of Causal Complexity: Lessons from Psychiatric Genetics
Lauren Ross,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science,
UC Irvine,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
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Astronomy Colloquium
From Exotic to Familiar: Observing Exoplanet Atmospheres in the Coming Decade
Caroline Morley,
UT Austin,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Carbon-water coupling: processes, model uncertainties and observational constraints
Pierre Gentine,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Making Oxidation Easier in Ultra High Vacuum
Bharat Jalan,
Associate Professor and Distinguished Shell Chair,
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Redefining Druggability using Chemoproteomic Platforms
Daniel K. Nomura,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology and Nutritional Sciences and Technology,
University of California, Berkeley,
5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
The Space Barons and the New Space Age
Christian Davenport,
Author, Staff Writer,
The Washington Post,
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Alpine Club Talk
Ski Mountaineering Around the Sierra
Cody Finke,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science & Engineering,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 11th, 2018
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Starting Robotic Industry on the Moon and Mars
Philip Metzger,
Florida Space Institute,
University of Central Florida ,
12:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Redox inhibition of a DNA repair enzyme through [4Fe4S] Cluster Nitrosylation"
Levi Ekanger,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Barton Group,
CCE,
Caltech ,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Facebook -- The Development History of Facebook's Safety Check
Andrew Huang,
Facebook,
12:00pm
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Decoupling Learning Seminar
The Stein-Tomas theorem and the Knapp example
Lei Chen,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Marked groups with isomorphic Cayley graphs but different Borel combinatorics
Felix Weilacher,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Learning Fast or Slow
Terrance Odean,
Rudd Family Foundation Professor of Finance,
Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Landscape evolution and the critical zone in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico
Emma Harrison,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
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Number Theory Seminar
p-converse to a theorem of Gross-Zagier, Kolyvagin and Rubin
Ashay Burungale,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
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Organic Chemistry Special Seminar
Radical reactions for control freaks: New synthetic methods involving aryl radicals and strong C–F bonds
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Spotting the elusive Majorana under the microscope
Ali Yazdani,
Class of 1909 Professor of Physics and Director, Princeton Center for Complex Materials,
Princeton University,
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Special Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Small Molecules to Particles - Do Interfaces Promote New Particle Formation over Remote Oceans?
Rainer Volkamer,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Colorado Boulder,
5:30pm
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Caltech Associates Panel Discussion: From Science to Solutions, A Panel on Climate Change
with Tapio Schneider, Theodore Y. Wu Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering and JPL Senior Research Scientist
Friday, October 12th, 2018
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Channeling Quantum Interactions: experiments in waveguide QED with superconducting quantum circuits
Oskar Painter,
John G Braun Professor of Applied Physics and Physics; Fletcher Jones Foundation Co-Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute,
12:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
What is ... Chern-Simons theory?
Sunghyuk Park,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
QPOs, global modes and magnetized discs
Janosz Dewberry,
Graduate Student,
Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics,
Cambridge University,
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GALCIT Colloquium
Synthesis and Experimental Testing of Minimum Energy Adaptive Structures
Gennaro Senatore,
School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL),