Institute Calendar
February 2019
Thursday, February 7th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
TBD
Amine Benzerga,
Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
Texas A&M University,
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
TBD
Rebekah Silva,
Graduate Student, Barton Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Virtualitics -- AI-driven Visual Analytics Using Immersive Virtual Environments
Ciro Donalek,
Virtualitics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Heavy-traffic Delay Optimality in Pull-based Load Balancing Systems: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions.
Xingyu Zhou,
Graduate Student,
ECE,
The Ohio State University,
12:10pm
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12:50pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Prediction in immune repertoires
Aleksandra Walczak,
Permanent Researcher of the Centre National Recherche Scientifique at Laboratoire Physique Théorique,
Ecole Normale Supérieure,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, February 8th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Dynamic Imaging of Chiral and Topological Excitations in Magnetism
Felix Büttner,
postdoctoral researcher,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
A Systematic Approach to Tilted Black Hole Accretion
Chris White,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
KITP,
UC Santa Barbara,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Can energy-eddies of 100 meters size be understood from eddies of 1 centimeter size?
Adrián Lozano-Durán,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Stable cubulations in mapping class groups
Matthew Durham,
Department of Mathematics,
UC, Riverside,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Nickel-Catalyzed Secondary Alkylations and Fluoroalkylations via C–H Activation
Sebastian Lackner,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Uniform Bounds for the bilinear Hilbert transform
Gennady Uraltsev,
Department of Mathematics,
Cornell University,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
An introduction to Boolean-valued analysis
Asgar Jamneshan,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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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, February 9th, 2019
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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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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12:00am
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12:00am
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6:00am
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Forillo Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
9:30am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, February 10th, 2019
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, February 11th, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:30pm
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1:30pm
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INQNET Seminar
Direct characterization of ultrafast energy-time entangled photon pairs
Jean-Philippe Maclean,
Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC),
University of Waterloo, Canada,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Ramification of $p$-adic etale sheaves coming from ordinary
Joe Kramer-Miller,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Arc-continent collisions in the tropics set Earth's climate state
Francis Macdonald,
Professor,
Department of Geology,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Searching for physics beyond the Standard Model with underground detectors
Graham Giovanetti,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
"Watch Your Back!" Saul Bellow, The Dean's December, and the Gromer Case
Zachary Leader,
Professor of English Literature,
University of Roehampton,
Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
7:00am
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3:00pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Yon Jong,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
Dong-Wook Kim,
Graduate Student,
Computation & Neural Systems,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Fast large-deformation elastodynamics with accurate materials and consistent meshes
Jernej Barbic,
Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair and Associate Professor ,
Computer Science,
University of Southern California,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
VLBI Dynamical Analysis of L Dwarf Binary 2M J0746+2000
Qicheng Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Postdoctoral Math Seminar
A structure theorem for the orbits of $\Homeo_0(M)$
Lei Chen,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 13th, 2019
11:00am
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special TAPIR Seminar
Bayesian analysis for compact binaries
Yann Bouffanais,
Research Assistant,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Padova,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Plant Drought Tolerance: New Frontiers from Cells to Ecosystems
Lawren Sack,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Geometric Representation Theory Learning Seminar
The Springer correspondence
Lingfei Yi,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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IQIM/High Energy Physics Seminar
New Technologies for Sub-GeV Dark Matter Searches
John Doyle,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Tailoring Instability at the Atomic Limit for Novel Material Properties
SungWoo Nam,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Data Intensive Physical Organic Chemistry
Matthew Sigman,
Professor of Organic Synthesis & Asymmetric Catalysis,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Utah,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:30pm
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Caltech Associates East Coast Event: Challenges for the Next 50 Years of Space Exploration
Off Campus
with Bethany Ehlmann, Professor of Planetary Science and JPL Research Scientist
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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