Institute Calendar
November 2018
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2018
10:00am
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4:00pm
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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11:40am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:20pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Contrasting the Hydrological Cycle in Past and Future Warm Climates - with Implications for Ocean Overturning Circulation
Natalie J Burls,
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences,
George Mason University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Precision microwave spectroscopy of positronium fine structure
Alberto M. Alonso,
University College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Robust Catalysts for Solar-Driven Water Splitting
Harry Gray,
Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry; Founding Director, Beckman Institute,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Analysis Seminar
Matrix monotone functions on general sets
Otte Heinävaara,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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The Future of Computing: Domain-Specific Accelerators
William Dally,
Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research, NVIDIA Corporation; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Tampering with Information
Odilon Camara,
Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech; Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall School of Business,
6:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Ascending Denali
Alexander Smirnoff,
Southern California Mountaineers Association,
Thom Wolfsen,
Southern California Mountaineers Association,
Todd Martin,
Southern California Mountaineers Association,
Thursday, November 8th, 2018
8:30am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Sparse Structural System Identification of Nonlinear Systems
Satish Nagarajaiah,
Professor,
Civil and Mechanical Engineering,
Rice University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Bacterial interactions in the small intestine of environmental enteropathy mouse model"
Roberta Poceviciute,
Graduate Student, Ismagilov Lab,
CCE,
Caltech ,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
CS Technical Interview Workshop with Alums Phil Naecker and Mason Smith
Phil Naecker,
TGS Management Company,
Mason Smith,
TGS Management Company,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Promises of Machine Learning for Space Exploration.
Shahrouz Ryan Alimo,
Scientist,
Machine Learninig,
JPL,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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** CANCELED ** T&C Chen Center for Brain-Machine Interface Distinguished Lecture Series.
"Dynamic Sensorimotor Control and Brain-Machine Interface"
He Cui,
Principal Investigator and Lab Head ,
Laboratory of Neural Mechanism of Motor Control ,
Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai, China,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Sloan-Swartz Seminar in Theoretical Neurobiology
"Population Coding of Hand Movements in the Primate Brain"
Hansjorg Scherberger,
Head, Research Group Neurobiology,
OPT German Primate Center, Gottingen, Germany,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Beckman Institute Seminar Series
A Constellation of Flow Cytometers and Cell Sorters -- Introducing a new Satellite Facility
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Hyperfinite subequivalence relations of treed equivalence relations, II
Anush Tserunyan,
Mathematics Department,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Electrodynamics inside and outside magnetars
Xinyu Li,
Graduate Student,
Deartment of Physics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
C3 – Computational Chemistry of Compounds
Aleksndra Vojvodic,
Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation,
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (CBE),
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Anoxia, Extinction, and the Carbon Cycle: Insights from Uranium Isotopes
Kimberly Lau,
Agouron Geobiology Postdoctoral Fellow,
University of California, Riverside,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Slopes in eigenvarieties for definite unitary groups
Lynnelle Ye,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The extent and observable properties of nuclear pasta in neutron star crusts
William Newton,
Assistant Professor,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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T & C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Distinguished Lecture
Toward a Normative Account of the Capacity Constraints in Cognitive Control: Shared vs. Separated Representations and Interactive vs. Independent Parallelism
Jonathan Cohen,
Robert Bendheim and Lynn Bendheim Thoman Professor,
Princeton University,
Friday, November 9th, 2018
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
't Hooft Defects, Monopole Bubbling, and SQM Localization
T. Daniel Brennan,
Rutgers University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar
A neuroeconomic measure of social avoidance
Johannes Schultz,
Assistant Professor,
Institute of Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research,
University of Bonn,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
A photonic link for donor spin qubits in silicon
Stephanie Simmons,
Asst Professor,
Silicon Quantum Technology Lab,
Simon Fraser University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Affine Grassmannian with examples
Victor Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
In Search of a Final-Parsec Telescope
Daniel D'Orazio,
Einstein Fellow,
Institute for Theory and Computation,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The Computation and Application of Quasi-Periodic Orbits in Space Trajectory Design
Daniel Scheeres,
Professor,
Aerospace Engineering Sciences,
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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Graduate Student Number Theory Seminar
On the formal arc space of a reductive monoid 1
Jize Yu,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Boronated Cyanometalates: Electronic Structure and Application to Redox Flow Batteries
Brendon McNicholas,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Sloan-Swartz Seminar in Theoretical Neurobiology
"The Relationship Between Implicit and Explicit Visuomotor Task Learning in Hippocampus and Parietal Cortex"
Christian Klaes,
Emmy Noether Group Leader,
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Saturday, November 10th, 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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11:00am
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2:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Majnounian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Balyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mktrumyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography