Institute Calendar
April 2014
Thursday, April 10th, 2014
10:30am
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11:30am
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3:30pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Determination of quadratic forms by their representation numbers
Vinayak Vatsal,
Mathematics,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Organizing colloids in space and time: from viscoelastic nonequilibrium states to the directed assembly of reconfigurable conducting materials
Kenneth S. Schweizer,
G. Ronald and Margaret H. Morris Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Tale of three Eocene rivers in Sonora, Mexico, with implications for Pacific-North American plate motion budget and early Tertiary orogenic gold
John Nourse,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
p-adic distribution of period integrals for unitary groups
Eric Urban,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Emergent Phenomena at Oxide Interfaces
Harold Hwang,
Professor of Applied Physics, Departments of Applied Physics and Photon Science,
Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Recovery and Application of Greek Mathematics in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period
Noel M. Swerdlow,
Visiting Associate in History,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
'For the Benefit of All Mankind': The JPL Technology Transfer Program
Indrani Graczyk,
Manager,
Commercial Program Office,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Friday, April 11th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Achieving Target Equilibria in Network Routing Games without Knowing the Latency Functions
Umang Bhaskar,
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Center for Mathematics of Information,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
3d N=4 Gauge Theories, Hilbert series and Hall-Littlewood Polynomials
Noppadol Mekareeya,
CERN,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Combining Probes of Large-Scale Structure in the Precision Cosmology Era
Elisabeth Krause,
Post-doctoral Researcher,
Physics and Astronomy,
University of Pennsylvania,
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
Size and Temporal Effects on the Mechanical Behavior of Polymer Nanofibers
Ioannis Chasiotis,
Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Framed instantons and Khovanov homology
Christopher Scaduto,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Ligand Design for Iron-Catalyzed Nitrogen Fixation
Sidney (Sid) Creutz,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
'For the Benefit of All Mankind': The JPL Technology Transfer Program
Indrani Graczyk,
Manager,
Commercial Program Office,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 12th, 2014
12:00am
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12:00am
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Raab & Leddy Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ramirez Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 13th, 2014
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 14th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Materialities, Texts and Images (MTI) Program Working Group
Auditory Atmospherics: Noise, Environment, and Infrastructure in L.A.
Marina Peterson,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
The Right Type of Legislator (joint with Andrea Mattozzi)
Erik Snowberg,
Professor of Economics and Political Science,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Circuits underlying cortical decisions
Anthony Zador,
Professor,
Biology,
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Self-organized topological state with Majorana fermions
Marcel Franz,
Professor,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Crystal records from the Deep: A unique archive of magmatic processes from source to surface
Philipp Ruprecht,
Lamont Assistant Research Professor ,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Geochemistry,
Columbia University/Earth Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron
Nick Hutzler,
Harvard University,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The distribution of metals in the z~2.5 circumgalactic medium
Neil Crighton,
Swinburne,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Free Open Lecture
The Past, Present and Future of Understanding Earthquakes Using Space Observations
Dr. Andrea Donnellan,
Principal Research Scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
Mars Code
Gerard Holzmann,
Laboratory for Reliable Software (LaRS),
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Systems Biology SuperGroup Meeting
Grant Jensen,
Professor,
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,