Institute Calendar
February 2019
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
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9:00am
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10:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Higher Order Methods for Simulating Curvilinear Crack Propagation
Maurizio Chiaramonte,
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering ,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Patrycja Kielb,
PostDoc, Gray Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Barnabas Robotics -- Confessions of a Real-World Engineer: From Hardware Designer to Start-Up CEO (& the things in between)
Edward Li,
Barnabas Robotics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Small Gaps Between Primes
Alex Perozim De Faveri,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:10pm
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12:50pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group Seminar
Towards Private, Distributed, and Safe Autonomous Systems
James Anderson,
Senior Research Scientist,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Normal and abnormal termination of translation in bacteria.
Venki Ramakrishnan,
President of the Royal Society, and Group Leader,
Structural Studies Division,
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Smart Grid Seminar
Building Efficient, Sustainable & Resilient Grid by Controlling the Edge
Dr. Sonja Glavaski,
Program Director,
ARPA-E,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
General adversarial channels: When do large codes exist?
Sidharth Jaggi,
Associate Professor,
Department of Information Engineering,
Chinese University of Hong Kong,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Leveraging Cretaceous Great Valley forearc deposits to target the Jurassic arc: an integrated detrital ZTE/field-based geochronologic investigation of the southern Sierra Nevada batholith
Diane Clemens-Knott,
Professor Emeritus,
California State University, Fullerton,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Dynamics of continued fractions and Mazur-Rubin conjecture
Hae-Sang Sun,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
UNIST,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Deep learning for single-cell biology
David Van Valen,
Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
The quest for the structure of the machine that reads our genes.
Venki Ramakrishnan,
President of the Royal Society, and Group Leader,
Structural Studies Division,
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, February 15th, 2019
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
N=4 Super Yang-Mills correlators at strong coupling from string theory and localization
Silviu Pufu,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
W algebra and four dimensional N=2 Argyres-Douglas theory
Dan Xie,
Harvard CMSA,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Revival of the Fittest: Exploding Core-Collapse Supernovae
David Vartanyan,
Graduate Student,
Dept of Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Transfinite ζ-metrics
Zair Ibragimov,
Department of Mathematics,
CalState, Fullerton,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Linear-central filtrations and representations of the braid group
Nick Salter,
Department of Mathematics,
Columbia University,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
A Mechanistic Investigation of Nickel/Cyano-Box-Catalyzed Enantioselective Suzuki Alkynylation
Wanji (Wendy) Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
The Universe at Cosmic Noon
Rachel Theios,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
Saturday, February 16th, 2019
12:00am
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12:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Coronel Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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Sunday, February 17th, 2019
12:00am
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Monday, February 18th, 2019
12:00am
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12:00am
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
9:00am
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Controlling Electrochemistry Using Electrolyte Design
Chibueze Amanchukwu,
TomKat Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Sustainable Energy,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Grounding Reinforcement Learning with Real-world Dialog Applications
Zhou Yu,
Assistant Porfessor,
Computer Science,
UC Davis,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Using Site-Specific Carbon Isotope Ratios to Constrain the Formation Pathways of Alanine on Murchison Meteorite
Elle Chimiak,
Graduate Student,
Geochemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Metabolic Control of Development"
Utpal Banerjee,
Professor,
Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Genomes and AI: From Packing to Regulation
Caroline Uhler,
Associate Profssor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Institute for Data, Systems and Society,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Making the Impossible Possible (General Lecture)
Molly Shoichet,
University Professor and Canada Research Chair, Tissue Engineering Senior Advisor to President on Science & Engineering Engagement ,
Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry,
University of Toronto,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2019
9:00am
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TCS+ Talk
A Simple Sublinear-Time Algorithm for Counting Arbitrary Subgraphs via Edge Sampling
Sepehr Assadi,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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