Institute Calendar
February 2020
Saturday, February 1st, 2020
1:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Boiadjian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, February 3rd, 2020
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
A Pan-STARRS and TESS Search for Distant Planets
Matthew Holman,
Lecturer / SAO Astrophysicist,
Department of Astronomy,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Algorithms for Eliciting Machine Learning Metrics
Sanmi Koyejo,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
SUSY Rilles: A Speculation on Superstring Signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background
S. James Gates, Jr.,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Colloidal Electronics
Albert Tianxiang Liu,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Online Optimization with Preference Feedback, Structured Decision Spaces, and Safety Constraints
Yanan Sui,
Assistant Professor,
Tsinghua 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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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Cosmography and Black Hole Spectroscopy with Gravitational Waves
Will Farr,
Professor,
Stoneybrook,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Direct Characterization of Exoplanets with Long-Baseline Optical Interferometry
Jason Wang & Max Millar-Blachaer,
Post Doc,
Astronomy,
Caltech (Astronomy),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Neural Adaptations and Behavioral Strategies for Aerial Interception of Targets in Visually Guided Predatory Insects"
Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido,
Assistant Professor,
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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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8:00pm
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Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
8:00am
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2/11
5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Central limit theorem on conjugacy class measure of the symmetric group
Yuhui Jin,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
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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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Fault-tolerant quantum error correction in bosonic systems
Kyungjoo Noh,
Graduate Student,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Detecting the Shadow of the Black Hole in M87
Feryal Ozel,
Professor of Astronomy,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Radiative Drivers of Climate Change: Known Knowns and Known Unknowns
William Collins,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Biology Seminar
Engineered Protein Switches for Studying Dynamic Cellular Processes
Dustin Maly,
Professor and Raymon E. and Rosellen M. Lawton Distinguished Scholar in Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Those Who Stayed: Selection and Cultural Change during the Age of Mass Migration
Anne Sophie Beck Knudsen,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Economics,
Harvard University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, February 6th, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Snapping and Dancing Soft Structures
Francesco Dal Corso,
Associate Professor,
Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Trento, Italy,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Single cell spatial genomics with seqFISH+"
Chee Huat (Linus) Eng, Cai Group, CCE,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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▶︎ CANCELED: Special Chemical Biology Seminar
Structure, Occurrence, and Biological Functions of Chemical Modifications on Nucleic Acids
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem Learning Seminar
Invariance Theory
Bowen Yang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
The Christy Lecture: Cosmic alchemy in the era of gravitational wave astronomy
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Charge-Functional Soft Materials Design via Multiscale Molecular Modeling
Nicholas Jackson PhD,
Assistant Scientist,
Center for Molecular Engineering & Materials Science Division,
Argonne National Laboratory,
Friday, February 7th, 2020
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
OPE inversion and light cone bootstrap in generic dimensions
Carlos Cardona,
Bohr Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Conformal field theories are magical
Christopher White,
Postdoctoral Associate,
University of Maryland Condensed Matter Theory Center,
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 quest to observe the Turbulent Cascade in real time
Michael Brenner,
Michael F. Cronin Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics and Professor of Physics,
Applied Mathematics,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:50pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Cytochrome P450: Nature's Aircraft Carrier
Dr. Alec Follmer,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Chemistry,
Department of Chemistryt,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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5:50pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Beyond the Pale Blue Dot: Seeing Distant Planets
Rich Terrile,
Astronomer and Voyager Imaging Team Member,
NASA-JPL,
Rob Zellem,
Exoplanetary Astronomer,
NASA-JPL,
- Public Event
Sunday, February 9th, 2020
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, February 10th, 2020
11:00am
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Ongoing
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
DG center and cocenter of a monoidal category
Matt Hogancamp,
Mathematics Department,
Northeastern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
On the kinematics and dynamics of crystal-rich (hydrogranular) systems
George Bergantz,
Professor,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Shock Compression of Molybdenum Single Crystals to High Stresses Tomoyuki Oniyama, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. Thesis Defense
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Visual Culture Program
More Than Pretty Pictures
Felice Frankel,
Research Scientist, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Science Photographer,
- Public Event
Tuesday, February 11th, 2020
9:00am
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10:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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Visual Culture Program Workshop
Are your figures and cover submissions the best they can be?
Felice Frankel,
Research Scientist, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Science Photographer,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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