Institute Calendar
December 2014
Ongoing
Ongoing
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12/5
5:00pm
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Monday, December 1st, 2014
8:00am
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4:30pm
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9:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Using Prediction Markets to Estimate the Reproducibility of Science
Anna Dreber,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Stockholm School of Economics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Higgs bundles, spectral data, and applications
Laura Schaposnik,
J. L. Doob Research Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Urbana Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Mars as a major ingredient to the Earth's recipe
Caroline Fitoussi,
Researcher Fellow - CNRS,
Laboratorie de Géologie de Lyon Terre, Planétes, Environnement,
École normale supérieure de Lyon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar-CANCELLED
Redox-, Coordination- and Photo-Chemistry in the f-Block: New Approaches to Improve the Sustainability of the Rare Earth Element Supply Chain
Eric J. Schelter,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Pennsylvania,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
8:00am
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12:00pm
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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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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Paul W. Merrill: The Man Who Discovered the Evolving Universe
Jacob Berkowitz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
An Approximate Version of Caratheodory's Theorem and Its Algorithmic Applications (part 2)
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Cellular Signaling and Patterning of Neurogenesis in Urchin Embryos
Robert Burke,
Professor and Chair,
Biochemistry and Microbiology,
University of Victoria,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The geometry of the Hitchin component
Richard Canary,
Professor,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
"Giving" in to Social Pressure (co-authored with Alvaro J. Name-Correa, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Huseyin Yildirim,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Duke University,
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Approximating the best Nash Equilibrium in n^{o(log n)}-time breaks the Exponential Time Hypothesis
Omri Weinstein,
Princeton,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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12/31
1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Inside Rounds and Venture Capital Returns
Michael Ewens,
Associate Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship,
HSS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The onset of large-scale dynamical instability in the Solar System
Konstantin Batygin,
Caltech (GPS),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Unbalanced Random Matching Markets: The Stark Effect of Competition (Joint with Itai Ashlagi and Yash Kanoria)
Jacob Leshno,
Assistant Professor Decision, Risk, and Operations,
Columbia Business School,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Resources for Climate Models
David Rutledge,
Kiyo and Eiko Tomiyasu Professor of Engineering,
Department of Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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CPET Seminar - Prof. Dennis Kochmann - Teaching a Quantitative Course
Effective Teaching of a Quantitative Course: From Designing to Teaching the Class
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, December 4th, 2014
8:00am
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12:00pm
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8:50am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Robotic Materials
Nikolaus Correll,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Replication Stress by Py-Im Polyamides Induces a Non-canonical ATR-dependent Checkpoint Response
Thomas Martinez,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
The "Would" to Power: Edward Jones's The Known World
Cindy Weinstein,
Professor of English; Vice Provost,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
The greatest ambit and the universal minimal flow from the Boolean algebra point of view
Dana Bartosova,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of San Paulo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
Swim pressure of active matter
Sho Takatori,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan School of Management
Evolutionary Foundations of Economic Behavior, Bounded Rationality, and Intelligence
Andrew Lo,
Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor; Professor of Finance,
MIT Sloan School of Management,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Mineralogy at Gale Crater Mars
David Vaniman,
Senior Scientist,
Planetary Science Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Gravity and Entanglement
Mark Van Raamsdonk,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of British Columbia,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Coming Soon to a Dwarf Planet in Your Solar System: NASA's Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt
Marc Rayman,
Director,
Dawn Project Mission,
Jet Proplusion Laboratory,
Friday, December 5th, 2014
12:00am
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12/6
12:00am
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8:00am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Metallaboratrane Facilitated E-H Bond Activation and Hydrogenation Catalysis
Henry Fong,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Peters Group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan School of Management
Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?: New Approaches to Funding Biomedical Innovation
Andrew Lo,
Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor; Professor of Finance,
MIT Sloan School of Management,
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
Recursion Relation for Conformal Blocks
Masahito Yamazaki,
IMPU, Univ of Tokyo,