Institute Calendar
Spring 2018-2019
Saturday, April 13th, 2019
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9:30pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 14th, 2019
12:00pm
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4/17
1:00pm
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Monday, April 15th, 2019
4:00pm
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4:50pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Giant copper porphyry deposits and the making of a continent
Cin-Ty A. Lee,
Professor and Department Chair,
Department of Earth Science,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A new semiclassical picture of vacuum decay
Matthew Johnson,
York University & Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Design and Selection of Metalloenzymes and their Applications as Biocatalysts in Alternative Energies and as Biosensors in Environmental Monitoring, Medical Diagnostics and Imaging
Yi Lu,
Jay and Ann Schenck Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Role of Information and Learning in Bayesian Routing Games
Saurabh Amin,
Robert N. Noyce Career Development Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00pm
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5:50pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Ordinary and Extraordinary Germans: Complicity and Resistance during WWII
Jessica Shattuck,
American author,
- Public Event
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019
9:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Automated Data Summarization for Scalability in Bayesian Machine Learning
Tamara Broderick,
Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT,
EECS,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:15pm
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12:45pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
"Oxygen Sources on Europa" and "Seasonal Cycles Over a Broad Range of Planetary Climates"
Jiazheng Li,
Graduate Student,
Department of Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Ana Lobo,
Graduate Student,
Department of Planetary Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Chemical Biological Approach to Understanding Infection"
Deborah Hung,
Professor,
Molecular Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Shimura varieties, Galois representations, and torsion classes
Ana Caraiani,
Department of Mathematics,
Imperial College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Searching for Approval
Ali Hortacsu,
Professor of Economics,
University of Chicago,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Reaction Development for the Total Syntheses of the Terpenoid Natural Products (+)-Psiguadial B, (+)-Rumphellaone A, and (–)-Isodocarpin
Jordan C. Beck,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:45am
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2:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:30pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Observing the evolution of the Earth's carbon cycle from space
Anthony Bloom,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Deciphering patterns in selective small molecule:RNA interactions
Amanda Hargrove,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry,
Duke University; Duke University Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Correlated Large Contests
Juuso Välimäki,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Aalto University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, April 18th, 2019
10:00am
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3:00pm
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10:00am
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3:00pm
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10:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Architected Materials for Adaptive Energy Absorption and Bioinspired Self-Adaptable Materials
Sung Hoon Kang,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Hopkins Extreme Materials,
John Hopkins University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Structural and Functional Analysis of the Nuclear Pore Complex Cytoplasmic Filament Nup358
Si Nie,
PostDoc, Hoelz Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
12:15pm
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12:45pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Reassessing evidence of life in 3.7 billion yr-old rocks of Greenland, and lessons for Mars2020
Abigail Allwood,
Scientist,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Harden M. McConnell Lecture
An Enzymatic Process That Changed the World: Light-Induced Water Oxidation in Oxygenic Photosynthesis
Wolfgang Lubitz,
Professor,
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Building Single Molecules – reactions, collisions, and spectroscopy of two atoms
Kang-Kuen Ni,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Harvard University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, April 19th, 2019
8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Asymptotic Symmetries and the Soft Photon Theorem in Arbitrary Dimension
Temple He,
Asymptotic Symmetries and the Soft Photon Theorem in Arbitrary Dimension,
UC Davis,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Probing Topological Superconductivity in a Phase-Controlled Planar Josephson Junction
Hechen Ren,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Nadj-Perge Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Informational Robustness in Intertemporal Pricing
Jonathan Libgober,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of Southern California,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Visual Culture Program
Natural Features: Artists, Architects, and Scientists Imagine Space
Lize Mogel,
Artist and Counter-Cartographer,
Jeff Stuart,
Mission Design & Navigation Systems Engineer,
JPL,
Dilip da Cunha,
Architect and Planner; Co-Director, Risk and Resilience Master in Design Studies, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; Adjunct Professor, GSAPP, Columbia University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Chiral Heterocycles: Palladium-Catalyzed Synthesis and Medicinal Utility
Alexander Sun,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
CORRELATED WORLDLINE THEORY of QUANTUM GRAVITY
P.C.E. Stamp,
Professor - Condensed Matter Theory,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of British Columbia and Caltech,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Hairy Hydrodynamics
Peko Hosoi,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:50pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Molecular Recognition in Chemical and Biological Systems: Chemical Models and Biostructural Investigations
François Diederich,
Professor of Organic Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences,
ETH Zürich,
5:00pm
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5:50pm
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9:00pm
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