Institute Calendar
January 2015
Thursday, January 22nd, 2015
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Moore Distinguished Scholar Lecture
The evolution of renormalization group theory
Garnet Chan,
A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Theoretical Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Princeton University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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JCAP Seminar
Photosensitization of Single Crystal Semiconductors: From Photography to Multiple Excitons
Bruce Parkinson,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and the School of Energy Resources,
University of Wyoming,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Family Floer cohomology and mirror symmetry
Mohammed Abouzaid,
Mathematics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Biology Seminar
Exploiting Orthogonality in Chemical Biology and Materials Science
Ellen Sletten,
Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanomembranes and Soft Fabrication Methods for High Performance, Low Cost Energy Technologies
Ralph Nuzzo,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Searches for Particle Dark Matter
Tim Tait,
Professor of Physics,
Physics,
UC Irvine,
Friday, January 23rd, 2015
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Investigating the Redox Properties of Human DNA Primase
Elizabeth (Liz) O'Brien,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
A novel application of flame hole dynamics to consistent turbulent nonpremixed combustion modeling
Carlos Pantano,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Off Campus
A Random Pointwise Ergodic Theorem with Hardy Field Weights
Benjamin Krause,
Teaching Assistant,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Superfluid Optomechanics
Laura DeLorenzo,
Graduate Student, Schwab Group,
Applied Physics,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Off Campus
Academic Wages, Singularities, Phase Transitions and Pyramid Schemes
Robert McCann,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, January 24th, 2015
12:00am
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10:00am
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Heidi Hood & Frances Mena Assc #4626
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus:Kang Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Dolmajian 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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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 25th, 2015
2:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Dornan Engagement Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, January 26th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Moore Distinguished Scholar Lecture
Embedding theories in quantum chemistry
Garnet Chan,
A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Theoretical Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Princeton University,
2:00pm
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2:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Analog and Stochastic Computation in Living Cells and Supercomputing Chips
Rahul Sarpeshkar,
Professor,
RLE,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
The birational geometry of moduli spaces of sheaves on the plane
Izzet Coskum,
Professor,
Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science,
UIC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Predictive Stochastic Modeling of Spatiotemporal Fluctuations in Signal-Activated Gene Regulation
Professor Brian Munsky,
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the School of Biomedical Engineering,
Colorado State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Triggered seismicity in Oklahoma: Probing fluid flow, fault zone structure, and fault interactions
Kathleen M. Keranen,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
TBA
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede,
Professor,
Chemistry,
Umea University, Sweden; Visiting Associate, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial / History and Philosophy of Science Seminar
Credit, Thanks, and Blame in Print: the Strategies of Conrad Gesner (1516-65)
Ann Blair,
Henry Charles Lea Professor of History,
Harvard University,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2015
9:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
The use of recent advances in electron microscopy to study ribosome structure
Venki Ramakrishnan,
Joint Head, Structural Studies Division, Group Leader,
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:45pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
One-ended subforests and strong treeability
Andrew Marks,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Wigner functions negativity and contextuality in quantum computation
Nicolas DelFosse,
University of Sherbrooke,