Institute Calendar
February 2015
Friday, February 6th, 2015
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, February 7th, 2015
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, February 8th, 2015
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, February 9th, 2015
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Universal unipotent local systems and Maurer-Cartan systems of algebraic cycles
Majid Hadian-Jazi,
Scott Russell Johnson Research Assistant Professor in Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Efficient Optimal Strategies for Online Prediction
Professor Peter Bartlett,
Division of Computer Science and Department of Statistics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
New matrix decompositions for Gaussian communication networks
Anatoly Khina,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
Tel Aviv University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Accreting the Earth and Forming its Core: Experimental and Theoretical Constraints
James Badro,
Professor and Research Director,
Research Department Experimental Geophysics,
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Renormalization Group Evolution of Dimension Six Operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory
Elizabeth Jenkins,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Novel Small-Molecule Activation Pathways Exploiting Late-Metal/Silicon Cooperation
Matthew T. Whited,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
Carleton College,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Detachable Pockets and Epistolary Narrative: Material Spaces of Interiority in Samuel Richardson's Pamela
Julie Park,
Visiting Associate in the Humanities, Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
From sampling to fluid dynamics through geometric discretization
Mathieu Desbrun,
John W. and Herberta M. Miles Professor,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Topological quantum computation with anyons
Claire Levaillant,
UCSB,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
The countable admissible ordinal equivalence relation
William Chan,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Nanoscale Cavity Optomechanics for Quantum Optics and Sensing: Diamond, Si and More
Paul Barclay,
Assistant Professor and Alberta Innovates Scholar,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Calgary,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Tools from Optimization Theory and Applications to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, part 1
Dvijotham ("Dj") Krishnamurthy,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Gravitational Astronomy - Prospects and Challenges a Century after Einstein
B Sathyaprakash (Sathya),
School of Physics and Astronomy,
Cardiff Universtiy,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Are children's drawings good for anything?
Mehrdad Shahshahani,
Professor,
School of Mathematics,
IPM,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Stellar Tides As a Probe of Hot Jupiters' Origin and Fate
Francesca Valsecchi,
CIERA Fellow,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
Molecular Catalysis of CO2 Reduction
Jean-Michel Saveant,
Professor of Chemistry,
Molecular Laboratory of Electrochemistry, UMR CNRS,
University of Paris Diderot,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
10:00am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Spectral properties of the Fourier restriction operator and applications
Julien Sabin,
Mathematics,
U. Paris Sud Orsay,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Symposium
Understanding Palladium Ligation, Activation and Turnover in the Development of Novel Approaches to a Complex Clinical Candidate
Martin D. Eastgate,
Dr., Ph.D., Director,
Early-Phase Chemical Development,
Bristol-Myers Squibb,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Development of Materials for Future Energy Systems using Combinatorial Synthesis of Thin Film Materials Libraries and High-Throughput Characterization
Alfred Ludwig,
Professor,
Institute for Materials,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Precision Stellar Astrophysics: Asteroseismology and Large Spectroscopic Surveys
Marc Pinsonneault,
Ohio State,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Symposium
Mechanistically Promiscuous Metals
Cristina Nevado,
Professor Dr.,
Institute of Organic Chemistry,
University of Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Point-curve incidences in the complex plane
Joshua Zahl,
Pure Math Instructor,
Mathematics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Does planetary warming always dry out the continents? Lessons from theory, GCMs, and paleoclimates
Jack Scheff,
NSF AGS Postdoctoral Fellow,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Quantum photoelectrochemistry of nanoscale solar energy conversion processes
Petter Persson,
Theoretical Chemistry Division, Chemistry Department, ,
Lund University, Sweden,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
The Geometry of Entanglement in Multiboundary Wormhole Spacetimes
Shaun Maguire,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
8:30pm
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11:00pm
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Thursday, February 12th, 2015
8:50am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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4:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
From Systems to Networks: Theory and Computation for Distributed Predictive Control
Melanie Zeilinger,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
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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Distinguished Women in Aerospace
Space and Marketing of STEM
Wanda M. Austin,
President and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Invariance of some spectral sequence from symplectic Khovanov homology and Heegaard Floer homology
Robert Lipshitz,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Cooperation between the STT3A and STT3B oligosaccharyltransferase complexes to maximize glycosylation efficiency
Reid Gilmore,
Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology,
University of Massachusetts Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Biodegradable particles to engineer target cells from the outside in and from the inside out
Jordan J. Green,
Associate Professor,
Biomedical Engineering, Ophthalmology, Neurosurgery, and Materials Science and Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,