Institute Calendar
November 2018
Ongoing
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11/20
4:00pm
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11/6
5:00pm
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Thursday, November 1st, 2018
8:00am
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11/2
5:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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A TIAA Financial Essentials Webinar
Market-Proof Your Retirement
Miguel Shefferson,
Director,
TIAA Institutional Financial Services,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Recovery of Function in Major Spinal Cord Injury using Spinal Stimulatio
Joel Burdick,
Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Scientist,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:30am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Nic96 recruits and positions the Channel Nucleoporin Trimer to establish a functional diffusion barrier of the Nuclear Pore Complex"
Stefan Petrovic,
Graduate Student, Hoelz Lab,
CCE,
Caltech ,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Northrop Grumman -- Automating Flight Path Generation for Drones
Sokun Kan,
DevOps Lead, Advanced Mission Program,
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:45pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:15pm
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GALCIT Special Seminar
Leonardo is Dead, Long Live the Leonardos
Roger Malina,
Arts and Technology Distinguished University Chair,
School of Arts Technology and Emerging Communication,
University of Texas at Dallas,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Hyperfinite subequivalence relations of treed equivalence relations
Anush Tserunyan,
Mathematics Department,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3:15pm
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4:15pm
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GALCIT Special Seminar
The Grand Challenges Scholars Program: Preparing Students for Global Engineering
C.D. Mote, Jr.,
President, National Academy of Engineering,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Sphericity and Symmetry Breaking in Asymmetric Diblock Copolymer Melts
Frank Bates,
Regents Professor,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Distributed deformation within an accretionary wedge as a possible slow earthquake mechanism
William Schmidt,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Automorphic Forms on Quaternionic Symmetric Domains
Zavosh Amir Khosravi,
Mathematics Department,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Gigapixel Maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background
Suzanne Staggs,
Henry DeWolf Smyth Professsor of Physics,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 2nd, 2018
12:00am
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12:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
A geometric perspective on 5d/6d spectra and anomalies
Monica Kang,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Quantum Error-Correcting Codes in Low-Energy Subspaces
Eugene Tang,
Graduate Student,
Preskill Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar
Information Design in Service Systems and Markets
Krishnamurthy Iyer,
Assistant Professor,
School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE),
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Triangles in Cayley graphs
Zachary Chase,
Mathematics Department,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Bootstrapping the long-range Ising model
Connor Behan,
Stony Brook University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Localization in fractonic random circuits
Rahul Nandkishore,
Asst Professor of Physics,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Graduate Student Number Theory Seminar
An Introduction to Braverman-Kazhdan's Program
Liyang Yang,
Mathematics Department,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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5:00pm
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5:45pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2018
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Yeu & Kasumyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Melkonyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Artoonian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, November 5th, 2018
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Semidefinite Approximations of the Matrix Logarithm (and related functions)
Pablo Parrilo,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
On analogues of modular units for the moduli stack of Drinfeld shtukas
Zhiyuan Ding,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Formation of the lunar fossil bulges and its implication for the early Earth and Moon
Shijie Zhong,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
B Decay Anomalies: Still HQETing
Zoltan Ligeti,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Inexpensive Electrocatalysts for Nonconventional Water Splitting and Organic Transformation
Yujie Sun,
Associate Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Cincinnati,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Fast spectral solvers for computational science and engineering
Oscar P. Bruno,
Professor,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
CALTECH,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
A Floer homology invariant for 3-orbifolds via bordered Floer theory
6:00pm
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8:30pm
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Caltech Associates Westside Dinner and Program:Talking to Cells
Off Campus
featuring Mikhail Shapiro, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Heritage Medical Research Institute Principal Investigator Schlinger Scholar
6:00pm
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11/12
7:00pm
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2018
11:50am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Off-policy Evaluation and Learning in Theory and in the Wild
Yu-Xiang Wang,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science Department,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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12:50pm
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12:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Classical Verification of Quantum Computations
Urmila Mahadev,
University of California, Berkeley,
3:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Saturn's Interior Rotation from Cassini Ring Seismology
Chris Mankovich,
PhD Candidate,
Astronomy & Astrophysics Department,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Recent developments on Falconer's distance set conjecture
Yumeng Ou,
Department of Mathematics,
Baruch College, CUNY,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Structural Models with Unobserved Choices
Yi Xin,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,