Institute Calendar
Winter 2018-2019
Saturday, January 26th, 2019
2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Moradian & Arakelian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, January 27th, 2019
3:30pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, January 28th, 2019
12:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Special Cycles on Unitary Groups, Superspecial Abelian Varieties and Bruhat--Tits Buildings
Dimitar Jetchev,
EPFL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Deciphering the hidden worlds of marine microbes: Controls on phytoplankton biogeography
E. Virginia Armbrust,
Director, Professor,
School of Oceanography,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
(Re)Connecting Cosmology and General Relativity
Anna Ijjas,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Preferences for the Resolution of Uncertainty and the Timing of Information
Kirby Nielsen,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Economics,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, January 29th, 2019
9:30am
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10:30am
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Deep learning for single-cell biology
David Van Valen,
Assistant Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering,
CALTECH,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Seminar
The Cell is a Bag of RNA
Stephen Quake,
The Cell is a Bag of RNA,
Departments of Bioengineering, Applied Physics and Physics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
The Sizes of Kuiper Belt Objects
Yanqin Wu,
Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics,
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Fundamentals for Low Latency Communications
Vincent Poor,
Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Mechanisms Underlying Complex Behaviors"
Mauro Costa-Mattioli,
Professor,
Neuroscience,
Baylor College of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Maximize the overlap: Fusing source modeling and data analysis for LISA
Alvin Chua,
JPL,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2019
11:40am
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
General Strategies for Visible-Light Decaging Based on Quinone Photochemistry
David Walton,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED: Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Wetland Methane Paradox: How Does O2 Enhance Methane Production?
Xinning Zhang,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Building Brain Observatories for Large-Scale Cellular Surveys"
Christok Koch,
Chief Scientist & President,
Allen Institute,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Geometric Representation Theory Learning Seminar
The Tannakian formalism
Josh Lieber,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Atomic-Scale Materials Design for Advanced Membranes
Jeff Grossman,
Morton and Claire Goulder and Family Professor in Environmental Systems,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Demand Analysis with Many Prices
Whitney Newey,
Ford Professor of Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, January 31st, 2019
12:00am
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12:00am
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
New Designer Materials: Sculpting Electromagnetic Fields on the Atomic Scale
Maiken Mikkelsen,
James N. and Elizabeth H. Barton Associate Professor,
Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering,
Duke University,
11:00am
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1:30pm
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Caltech Associates Luncheon: The Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics
with Sean Carroll, Research Professor of Physics
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Breaking Badly: Chasing Fractures from Tectonic to Table-Top Scales
Ahmed Elbanna,
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Unlocking the activity of TrpB for synthesis of noncanonical amino acids"
David Romney,
PostDoc, Arnold Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Linear reductive algebraic groups
Bowen Yang,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:10pm
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12:50pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Artificial Intelligence in Fluid Mechanics
Petros Koumoutsakos,
Professor,
Computational Science ,
ETH Zürich ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Nitrogen isotope evidence for expanded ocean suboxia in the early Cenozoic
Emma Kast,
Department of Geosciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
The Gross-Zagier Formula over Shimura Curves via the Relative Trace Formula Approach
Li Cai,
Yau Mathematical Sciences Center,
Tsinghua University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Precision Timing at the LHC and Beyond
Si Xie,
Research Assistant Professor of Physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
How Do People Choose Between Biased Information Sources? Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Sevgi Yuksel,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
UC Santa Barbara ,
Friday, February 1st, 2019
12:00am
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12:00am
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Synthesis and Transmission Electron Microscopy of Transition Metal Trichalcogenides in the Single Chain Limit
Thang Pham,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Unification of integrability in supersymmetric gauge theories
Junya Yagi,
Perimeter Institute,
11:40am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Collective and local effects in the driven-dissipative dynamics of many-body quantum systems
Nathan Shammah,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Theoretical Quantum Physics Laboratory,
RIKEN, Japan,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Heterogeneously integrated membrane photonic devices on Si substrate for datacom and computercom applications
Shinji Matsuo,
Senior Distinguished Researcher,
NTT Device Technology Laboratories,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Be X-ray binaries: spinning stars messing up population synthesis predictions
Serena Vinciguerra,
Junior Scientist/Postdoc,
Observational Relativity and Cosmology,
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Planar orthogonal polynomials and boundary universality in the random normal matrix model
Haakan Hedenmalm,
Department of Mathematics,
Royal Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Fluid Mechanics Learning from Machines
Petros Koumoutsakos,
Professor,
Computational Science,
ETH Zurich,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Hyperbolic surfaces in Minkowski 3-space
Peter Smillie,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Proton-Coupled Reduction of Acetylene Gas at a Mononuclear Iron Site Yields a Paramagnetic Alkylidyne Complex
Cooper Citek,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,