Institute Calendar
February 2015
Thursday, February 12th, 2015
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter at the Single Atom Level
Immanuel Bloch,
Professor of Physics,
Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
No way back: Charting Irreversible Climate Change with Jason-3
Joshua Willis,
Jason 3 Project Scientist,
JPL,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, February 13th, 2015
8:30am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar - Special Solid Mechanics Symposium
Mechanics of Soft Composites: The Interplay between Geometrical Structuring and Large Deformation to Achieve Novel Behavior
Mary C. Boyce,
Dean of Engineering,
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science,
Columbia University,
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Quantum Emitters in Wide Band Gap Semiconductors
Igor Aharonovich,
School of Physics and Advanced Materials,
University of Technology, Sydney,
12:00pm
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12:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Breaking the Minsky-Papert Barrier for Constant-Depth Circuits
Alexander Sherstov,
UCLA,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Giant Vibrating Spheres in Space: the effects of waves in stars, planets, and supernovae
Jim Fuller,
DuBridge Fellow,
TAPIR,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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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
Aero-Optics: a Photon Odyssey
Eric Jumper,
Professor,
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Notre Dame,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Thin groups in arithmetic and beyond
Elena Fuchs,
Asistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Univerity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Toda Systems, Cluster Characters, and Spectral Networks
Harold Williams,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Simulating an Interacting Quantum Gas Using Matrix Product States Generated with Superconducting Circuits(*)
Andreas Wallraff,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Luminescent Ruthenium Probes for DNA Mismatches
Adam Boynton,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Simulating an Interacting Quantum Gas using Matrix Product States generated with Superconducting Circuits
Andreas Wallraff,
Quantum Device Lab,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Isaac and Diana's Doves: Newton's Transformation of Philalethan Alchemy
William R. Newman,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor in History, 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)
No way back: Charting Irreversible Climate Change with Jason-3
Joshua Willis,
Jason 3 Project Scientist,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, February 14th, 2015
12:00am
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12:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tong Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:40pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mattson Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:40pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mattson Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, February 15th, 2015
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, February 16th, 2015
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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9:00am
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6:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
9:00am
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9:01am
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Geomechanics Seminar
Discrete Modeling of Granular Media: A NURBS-based Approach Citation
Keng Wit Lim,
Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
How VCs Decide
Evangelos Simoudis,
Senior Managing Director,
Trident Capital,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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General Biology Seminar
Colloids and Epigenetic Marks: A Comparison of Two Fashions, 1900 and 2000
Ute Deichmann,
Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences,
Ben-Gurion University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
What are nice combinatorial sequences?
Igor Pak,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Characterizing Topological Order with Matrix Product Operators
Burak Sahinoglu,
Universitat Wien,