Institute Calendar
February 2015
Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
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Logic Seminar
The countable admissible ordinal equivalence relation,II
William Chan,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Mid-infrared and THz Quantum Cascade Laser Frequency Combs
Jérôme Faist,
Professor,
Institute for Quantum Electronics,
ETH Zürich,
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 2
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
Gravity and the unseen sky
Sydney Chamberlin,
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Metal Catalysis of Nontraditional Electrophiles
Mary P. Watson,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Delaware,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
New Martian Craters: Current Impact Rate, Morphology, and Lifetimes
Ingrid Daubar,
Postdoc,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:45pm
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Chen-Huang Sustainable Energy Seminar
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors--Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century
Dr. Burton Richter,
Paul Pigott Professor Emeritus,
Physical Sciences,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Blowup Dynamics in the Keller-Segel Model of Chemotaxis
Israel Michael Sigal,
Norman Stuart Robertson Chair in Applied Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
The Science and Economics of Photoelectrochemial Hydrogen Production
Matt Shaner,
Resnick Institute Graduate Research Fellow,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Standard Model with Compactified Spatial Dimensions
Bartosz Fornal,
Physics & Astronomy,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Stable Matching Under Forward-Induction Reasoning
Luciano Pomatto,
PhD Candidate,
Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern University,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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11:00pm
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Thursday, February 19th, 2015
12:00am
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2/20
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2/20
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Risk Management and Combinatorial Optimization for Sustainable Power Systems
Insoon Yang,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
University of California, Berkeley,
11:40am
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1:30pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Distinct Membrane Association Modes Facilitate Co-translational Protein Targeting
Yu-Hsien Hwang Fu,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Physics Research Conference
Advanced LIGO: A Prelude to Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy
David H. Reitze,
Senior Research Associate in LIGO and Executive Director of the LIGO Project,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Discovery and engineering new enzymes from nature
Yi Tang,
Professor and Vice-Chair,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
A General Framework for High Accuracy Solutions to Energy Gradient Flows from Material Science Models
Professor Brian Wetton,
Mathematics Department,
University of British Colombia,
Friday, February 20th, 2015
12:00am
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2/21
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2/21
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Learning Arbitrary Statistical Mixtures of Discrete Distributions
Yuval Rabani,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Moving Mesh Astrophysics
Paul Duffell,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Theoretical Astrophysics Center,
U.C. Berkeley,
2:30pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Hydrogels: tough water for new applications
Zhigang Suo,
Allen E. and Marilyn M. Puckett Professor of Mechanics and Materials,
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Harvard University,