Institute Calendar
March 2015
Thursday, March 5th, 2015
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NEW SPEAKER: Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
The power of expectations: examples in visual perception and decision-making
Peggy Seriès,
Lecturer, Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
p-Selmer growth in extensions of degree p
Kestutis Cesnavicius,
Research Fellow,
Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
IceCube and the Discovery of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos
Francis Halzen,
Hilldale and Gregory Breit Professor,
Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center and Department of Physics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Friday, March 6th, 2015
8:00am
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4:30pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Loop Amplitudes without Loop Integrands: Constraining the NMHV Ratio Function
Matt von Hippel,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Oscillations of Nearly Extremal Black Holes
Aaron Zimmerman,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Astrophysics,
CITA,
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Motion Planning and Control of Robotic Systems in Natural Environments
Marin Kobilarov,
Assistant Professor,
Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics,
Johns Hopkins University,
3:20pm
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6:20pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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14th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture 2015
The Monge-Ampere equation
Alessio Figalli,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Regularity for the Monge-Ampere equation, with applications to the semigeostrophic equations
Alessio Figali,
Professor and R. L. Moore Chair,
Mathematics,
University of Texas,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED!!! Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Dead Letters on Galileo's Sunspots
Eileen Reeves,
Associate Member of the Program in the History of Science,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:20pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Seminar Title TBA
Mariusz Mirek,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematical Institute,
University of Wroclaw,
Saturday, March 7th, 2015
12:00am
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nakada Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:40pm
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7:40pm
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3:45pm
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7:45pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, March 8th, 2015
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, March 9th, 2015
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Development of Bioinspired Isoindigo Derivatives in Organic Electronics
Minoru Ashizawa,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Organic & Polymeric Material,
Tokyo Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Synthesis, Oxidation and Photophysics of Perfluoroborated Tetrakis(pyrophosphito)diplatinate (II) and Density Functional Theory (DFT) Study of Electrochemical CO2 Reduction by Mn Catalysts
Yan Choi Lam,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Goddard/Gray group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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14th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture 2015
The Monge-Ampere equation
Alessio Figalli,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Insights from a global view of secondary metabolism: Small molecules from the human microbiota"
Michael Fischbach,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Learning of invariant representations in visual cortex: i-theory
Tomaso Poggio,
Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, McGovern Institute, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Brain Science Department,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Three-dimensional electrical resistivity of the continental US from Earth Scope magnetotelluric data
Gary Egbert,
Professor,
Department of Geology and Geophysics ,
Oregon State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Cross-order relations from maximal unitarity
David ,
Kosower,
CEA, Saclay,
4:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
On Not Being Someone Else: A Letter to My Sister
Andrew H. Miller,
Professor of English,
Indiana University,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
11:00am
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
A High Frequency Space Interferometer to Extend the Reach of the GW Detector Network
Rana Adhikari,
Professor of Physics,
PMA,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:45pm
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Special Neuroscience Seminar
Beyond Prosthetics: Turning Science Fiction into Science, and Science into Technology
Phillip Alvelda,
Program Manager Biological Technologies Office Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Andreev's theorem on projective Coxeter polyhedra
Gye-Seon Lee,
Mathematics,
Ruprecht-Karls Universitat Heidelberg,