Institute Calendar
October 2014
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
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General Biology Seminar
Causes and Consequences of Genetic Variation
Leonid Kruglyak,
Professor of Human Genetics and Biological Chemistry Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Founding Member, Computational Biosciences Institute,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics of Information Seminar
Nash Codes for Noisy Channels
Bernhard von Stengel,
Department of Mathematics,
London School of Economics,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
8:00am
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Ongoing
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Control and Dynamical Systems Seminar
Analysis and Design of Optimization Algorithms via Integral Quadratic Constraints
Laurent Lessard,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Berkeley Center for Control and Identification,
University of California, Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Global Existence and Dispersion for the Klein-Gordon equation with long range nonhomogeneous nonlinearites
Avy Soffer,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Rutgers University,
12:15pm
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1:15pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Enabling the Search for Microbial Life in Other Worlds' Oceans with Digital Holographic Microscopy
Jonas Kuhn,
JPL,
1:30pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Heterometallic Manganese Oxido Clusters: Synthesis and Reactivity
Sandy Suseno,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Agapie group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical 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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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Introduction to the Ricci and Kahler-Ricci Flows
Zhou Zhang,
School of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Sydney,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Reversing Climate Change: Using Carbon Technology to Offset Carbon Emissions
Frank Shu,
Professor Emeritus of University of California at Berkeley & San Diego, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Contracts with Framing
Yuval Salant,
Associate Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences,
Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Changes in the distribution of rain in response to warming
Angie Pendergrass,
ASP Postdoctoral Fellow,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Thursday, October 30th, 2014
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Nuclear Energy: Misconceptions, Research Frontiers, and Global Outlook
Harold McFarlane,
Interim Associate Laboratory Director,
Nuclear Science & Technology,
Idaho National Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Topology and convexity in the space of actions modulo weak equivalence, II
Peter Burton,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Towards a Computational Framework for How We Represent Other People
Damian A. Stanley,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Neuroeconomics,
HSS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Threshold for sand mobility on Mars calibrated from seasonal variations of sand flux
Francis Ayoub,
Software Engineer,
Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Ext analogues of branching laws
Dipendra Prasad,
Senior Professor,
Mathematics,
Tata Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Math, Physics and Duality
Mina Aganagic,
Professor of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Medical Engineering Seminar
Innovating Medical Devices to Improve Clinical Outcomes and Expand Global Access
Omar Ishrak,
CEO,
Medtronic, Inc.,
Friday, October 31st, 2014
9:00am
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3:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
A constructive approach to homological mirror symmetry
Siu-Cheong Lau,
Benjamin Peirce Fellow,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
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
Incentivizing Exploration [joint work with Peter Frazier, Jon Kleinberg, Robert Kleinberg]
David Kempe,
Associate Professor,
University of Southern California,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Impact of inhomogeneous blazar heating on the intergalactic medium
Astrid Lamberts,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The complex geometry of Teichmüller spaces and symmetric domains
Stergios Antonakoudis,
Dr.,
Pure Mathematics & Mthematical Statistics ,
Univ of Cambridge,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Hans W. Liepmann Lecture
IN LIGHT OF FLUID MECHANICS
Morteza (Mory) Gharib,
Vice Provost, Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bio-Inspired Engineering,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Neural Computations Central to Learning What to do in an Uncertain World
Erie Boorman,
Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Rationalization of Initiation Rates in a Series of Ruthenium Olefin Metathesis Catalysts Containing Chelating Benzylidenes
Keary Engle,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
TBA
Torsten Karzig,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Condensed Matter Theory,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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