Institute Calendar
October 2019
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019
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Astronomy Colloquium
Hints of the Earliest Galaxies
Steven Furlanetto,
Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy,
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Estimation of model parameters using a genetic algorithm
Pieter Houtekamer,
Environment Canada,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
"Understanding the Dynamic Evolution of Materials and Interfaces in Batteries"
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Stereoselective Alkene Carbofunctionalization via Radical and Two-Electron Pathways
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Steady-State Equilibria in Anonymous Repeated Games
Alex Wolitzky,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gates/Wittman Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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Thursday, October 24th, 2019
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Accelerating Scale Bridging via Surrogate Modeling
Jaroslaw (Jarek) Knap,
Dr.,
U.S. Army Research Laboratory,
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Biochemistry Seminar
"Opening Windows Into The Cell: Bringing Structure To Cell Biology Using Cryo-electron Tomography"
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Heterogeneity and Asset Prices: A Different Approach
Stavros Panageas,
Associate Professor of Finance,
Anderson School of Management,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Discovery and characterization of a novel prokaryotic nanocompartment in the freshwater cyanobacteria Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942
Robert J. Nichols,
Graduate Student,
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Reduced Whitehead groups of algebras over p-adic curves
Nivedita Bhaskhar,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Understanding "why": The role of causality in cognition
Tobias Gerstenberg,
Assistant Professor in Psychology,
Stanford University,
Friday, October 25th, 2019
10:00am
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Interactive viewing of Shannon Channel's transmission
Active Sensing for Quickest Event Detection in Networks
Ali Tajer,
Associate Professor,
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.,
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Networks of Optical Parametric Oscillators: From Ising Machines to Quantum Photonic Engineering
Alireza Marandi,
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics,
Caltech,
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Common-Value versus Common-Probability Auctions
Kathleen Ngangoue,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics and Center for Experimental Social Science,
New York University,
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Ignorance is Cheap: From Black Hole Entropy To Energy-Minimizing States In QFT
Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam,
UC Berkeley,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Field Formation of Compact Binaries: Common Envelope, Natal Kicks, and Gravitational Waves
A. Miguel Holgado,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
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GALCIT Colloquium
Exomars 2016 Entry Flight and Achievements of its Aerothermal Instrumentation Package COMARS+
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Saturday, October 26th, 2019
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Yu/Lin Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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Sunday, October 27th, 2019
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Monday, October 28th, 2019
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Algorithmic Trading Bots at Citadel
Eugene Bulkin BS '17,
Quantitative Developer,
Citadel,
12:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar/Number Theory Seminar
Moduli of Drinfeld shtukas over the projective line
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium - Seminar has been Canceled
Data-driven Decision Making and Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks
Urbashi Mitra,
Gordon S. Marshall Professor in Engineering,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
On the robustness of inflation to inhomogeneities
Raphael Flauger,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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The James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Origins of Life Systems Chemistry
John D. Sutherland,
Professor Group Leader,
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
Cambridge Biomedical Campus,
5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Exploring Jupiter
Candice Hansen-Koharcheck,
Senior Scientist,
Planetary Science Institute,
- Public Event
Tuesday, October 29th, 2019
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KNI Distinguished Seminar
Lithium Niobate Nanomechanical Devices: New classical and quantum opportunities
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CMI Seminar: Guannan Qu
Exponential stability of primal-dual gradient dynamics and its applications in network control
Guannan Qu,
CMI Postdoc,
Caltech,
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Perks and Pitfalls of Pebble Accretion — Implications for Planet Formation in the Inner and Outer Disk
Mickey Rosenthal,
Graduate Student,
UC Santa Cruz,
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Managing Protons and Electrons in Small Molecule Activation
Abhishek Dey,
Professor of Chemistry,
School of Chemical Sciences,
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS),
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Sequential Decision Making in the U.S. Supreme Court
Gabriel Lopez-Moctezuma,
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar
Holomorphic Field Theories and Vertex Algebras
Victor Zhang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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Wednesday, October 30th, 2019
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Astronomy Colloquium
Near Field Cosmology with the Rapid Neutron-Capture Process
Alexander Ji,
Carnegie Observatories,
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DOLCIT Seminar
Mitigating Bias in Generative Modeling
Aditya Grover,
PhD candidate in Computer Science,
Stanford University,
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Interconnected biological and physical controls on ocean carbon uptake: The influence of winter ventilation on the ocean's biological carbon pump
Hilary Palevsky,
Boston College,
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Affirmative Action in India
Bumin Yenmez,
Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure),
Boston College,