Institute Calendar
January 2020
Friday, January 24th, 2020
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Friday, January 24th, 2020
8:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Monodromy relations in string theory from twisted homology
Eduardo Casali,
UC Davis/QMAP,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Cooperative and Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling in Solids
Xinwei Li,
Troesh Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics,
Hseih Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
SpECTRE: Rethinking simulations of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics
Nils Deppe,
Graduate Student,
Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science (CCAPS),
Cornell University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Revisiting and modeling the law of the wake & LES of flows with slender wings/blades and wakes
Gregoire Winckelmans,
Professor,
Mechanics, Materials, and Civil Engineering,
UCLouvain,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Harmonic maps and anti-de Sitter 3-manifolds
Nathaniel Sagman,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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The Keys to Success... Are Somewhere at the Bottom of My Purse
The Keys to Success... Are Somewhere at the Bottom of My Purse
Nancy Gray, Ph.D.,
President and CEO of the Gordon Research Conferences,
Gordon Research Conferences,
4:00pm
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inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
What Makes a Good Molecular Qubit?
Ruben Mirzoyan,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Spitzer: Final Voyage
Varoujan Gorjian,
Spitzer Research Scientist,
JPL,
Robert Hurt,
Spitzer Visualization Scientist,
IPAC,
Caltech,
Suzanne Dodd,
Former Spitzer Project Manager (2010-2016),
JPL,
Joseph Hunt,
Spitzer Project Manager (Current),
JPL,
- Public Event
8:00pm
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Saturday, January 25th, 2020
2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hakobyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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Sunday, January 26th, 2020
3:00pm
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Monday, January 27th, 2020
11:15am
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PhD Thesis Defense
EVOLVING STRATEGIES TOWARD THE SYNTHESIS OF CURCUSONE C
Austin C. Wright,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Geometric Langlands for hypergeometric sheaves
Lingfei Yi,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Probing the Nuclear Organization via Machine Learning"
Jian Ma,
Associate Professor,
School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Wildfires and Upheavals in the Cenozoic
Katherine Freeman,
Evan Pugh Professor,
Department of Geosciences,
Penn State University,
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Challenges in Reliable Machine Learning
Kamalika Chaudhuri,
Associate Professor,
Computer Science and Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
On the Exotic Particles of de Sitter Spacetime
Rachel Rosen,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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Special Chemical Biology Seminar
A Chemical Proteomic Atlas of the Druggable Lysine Proteome
Mikail Abbasov,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Department of Molecular Medicine,
The Scripps Research Institute,
4:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Borrowed Light: Art and Astronomy at the Villa Medici
Eileen Reeves,
Professor of Comparative Literature,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Tuesday, January 28th, 2020
9:30am
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IST Lunch Bunch
"Does This Vehicle Belong to You?": Extracting Social Meaning from Language by Computer
Dan Jurafsky,
Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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Frontiers in Biochemistry Seminar
Illuminating the dark proteome that regulates gene transcription by live-cell single-molecule imaging.
Shasha Chong, Ph.D.,
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
UC Berkeley,
2:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Approximate Bacon-Shor Code and Holography
Charles Cao,
QuICS, University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Investigation of the Fragments of Split Comet 73P
Ariel Graykowski,
Graduate Student,
Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Asymmetric Stem Cell Division and Germline Immortality"
Yukiko Yamashita,
Professor,
Cell & Developmental Biology,
University of Michigan Medical School,
4:00pm
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Taussky-Todd Lecture
Recent progress on the Birch--Swinnerton-Dyer Conjectures
Christopher Skinner,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
6:30pm
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Wednesday, January 29th, 2020
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Astronomy Colloquium
Gravitational Wave Astrophysics Without the Waves: Ultra-Compact Binary Discoveries with ZTF
Tom Prince,
Ira S. Bowen Professor of Physics,
Astrophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
"Finite-Length Performance of Spatially Coupled Codes and Its Applications"
Fredrik Brännström,
Professor, Head of Communication Systems Group,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Chalmers University of Technology,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The role of microbial communities in ecosystem responses to environmental change
Jennifer Martiny,
University California Irvine,
4:00pm
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Frontiers in Biochemistry Seminar
Beyond the annotated proteome and the canonical rules of translation.
Jin Chen,
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology,
UCSF,
4:00pm
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Taussky-Todd Lecture
The arithmetic of elliptic curves of rank one
Christopher Skinner,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
7:30pm
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Watson Lecture - The Legacy of the Spitzer Space Telescope
Thomas Soifer,
Harold Brown Professor of Physics, Emeritus; Director, Spitzer Science Center,
Caltech,
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Thursday, January 30th, 2020
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Mechanics of Wrinkled Structures
Andrej Košmrlj,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University,
12:00pm
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Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem Learning Seminar
Chern-Weil theory
Bowen Yang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,