Institute Calendar
February 2015
Friday, February 20th, 2015
3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Fibered face theory and entropy for free-by-cyclic groups
Eriko Hironaka,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Florida State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Off Campus
Inverse Problems for Quantum Integrable Systems
Alvaro Pelayo,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Carbene Transfer Activity of Cytochrome P450: Kinetic Studies, Synthetic Application, and Identification of Deactivation Pathway
Hans Renata,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Overview of Holographic Entanglement Entropy via Illustrations
Shaun Maguire,
Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, February 21st, 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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2/22
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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2/22
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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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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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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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, February 22nd, 2015
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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2/23
12:00am
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12:00am
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2/23
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12:00am
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Monday, February 23rd, 2015
9:00am
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10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
The Terradynamics of Robotic and Biological Movement in Complex Terrain
Chen Li,
University of California, Berkeley,
9:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Seeding a New Kind of Garden: Synthesis of Symmetrically Stellated Bimetallic Nanocrystals as a New Class of Plasmonic Colloids
Sara Skrabalak,
Associate Professor, Dean's Fellow,
Chemistry,
Indiana University, Bloomington,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Twisted commutative algebras and related structures
Steven Sam,
Miller Research Fellow,
Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Engineered proteins for visualizing and treating disease"
Jennifer Cochran,
Associate Professor,
Departments of Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Towards Model-Based and Closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation
Caleb Kemere,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The natural variability of glaciers: was there a little ice age?
Gerard Roe,
Professor,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Learning Systems: Systems and Abstractions for Large-Scale Machine Learning
Computing & Mathematical Sciences Seminar
Joseph E. Gonzalez,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
AMPLab,
UC Berkeley,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
9:00am
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9:00am
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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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IST Lunch Bunch
Relative Entropy Optimization and Its Applications
Venkat Chandrasekaran,
Assistant Professor,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Targeted Nanoparticles for Mitochondial Medicine
Shanta Dhar,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Nano Therapeutics Research Laboratory, Chemistry,
The University of Georgia, Athens,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Naïve entropy of dynamical systems
Peter Burton,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
No signal yet: The elusive birefringence of the vacuum, and whether gravitational wave detectors may help.
Hartmut Grote,
AEI Hannover,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Generalized Low Rank Models
Madeleine Udell,
Computational & Mathematical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Planetary System Evolution: Gas Giants in disks, and Nonconservative Dynamics
David Tsang,
Postdoc,
McGill University,
5:30pm
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8:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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