Institute Calendar
April 2015
Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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1:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Dynamics of the homeomorphism group of the Lelek fan
Aleksandra Kwiatkowska,
Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Chemical Signatures of Planet Formation in Gas Rich Disks
Edwin Bergin,
U. Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Stochastic Dominance Analysis without the Independence Axiom
Simone Cerreia Vioglio,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Decision Sciences,
Universita Bocconi, Milan, Italy,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Experimental microbial sedimentology: seeing the processes that shaped enigmatic sedimentary structures
Giulio Mariotti,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences,
Louisiana State University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Open Lecture
Mars Helicopter Scout
MiMi Aung,
Autonomous Systems Deputy Division Manager,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Veritas Forum at Caltech
Caltech ASKS: What's the Matter? Searching for Meaning in a Cold, Dark Universe
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Hybrid Unsteady-flow Simulation Combining PIV/PTV and DNS: Family of data-assimilation algorithms and their capabilities
Takao Suzuki,
The Boeing Company,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
An HRE-binding Py-Im Polyamide Impairs Adaptation of Tumors to Hypoxia
Jerzy Szablowski,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
The advantages of precision in functional copolymers
Karen I. Winey,
Professor and TowerBrook Foundation Faculty Fellow,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Convergence polygons for p-adic differential equati
Kiran Kedlaya,
Stefan E. Warschawski Chair in Mathematics,
Mathematics,
UCSD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The CMB and Neutrinos
Lyman Page,
Henry De Wolf Smyth Professor of Physics; Chair, Department of Physics,
Princeton University,
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
10:00am
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4/10
7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus:Beckman Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Generalized Global Symmetries
Anton Kapustin,
Caltech and Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Allocation in tender auctions with several stakeholders where quality aspects matter
Thomas Greve,
Research Associate, Microeconomic Theory, University of Cambridge,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Enhancing Generalized Unitarity
Jacob Bourjaily,
Neils Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Weak lensing calibrated scaling relations of galaxy groups and poor clusters
Maggie Lieu,
Graduate Student,
Astronomy & Space Research (ASR),
University of Birmingham,
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
Instabilities in shear flows: local versus global analyses
Patrick Huerre,
Research director Emeritus (CNRS),
Hydrodynamics Laboratory - LadHyX,
Ecole Polytechnique,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
A graph TQFT for hat Heegaard Floer homology".
Ian Zemke,
Teaching Assistant,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Incidences between points and lines and extremal configuration of lines in Euclidean spaces
Noam Solomon,
Mathematics,
University of Tel Aviv,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Small Molecule Reactivity of an FeZr Complex Supported by a Dinucleating Ligand
Trixia Marie Buscagan,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Holographic quantum error-correcting codes: Toy models for the bulk/boundary correspondence
Fernando Pastawski,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Progress on the Triangular Hilbert Transform
Christoph Thiele,
Professor,
Bonn,
5:30pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus:Tofighi Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:30pm
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4/4
9:30pm
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Saturday, April 4th, 2015
12:00am
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12:00am
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8:00am
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4/5
6:00pm
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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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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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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Austin & Birk Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, April 6th, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Towards the Next 40 Years Supersonic Aerodynamic Decelerators: An Overview of the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator Project
Ian Clark,
Dr.,
Planetary Entry, Descent, and Landing,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometric graph-based methods for high dimensional data
Computing + Mathematical Sciences Seminar
Andrea Bertozzi,
University of California Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Computational Methods for Mesoscopic Fluid-Structure Interactions Subject to Thermal Fluctuations : Applications in Soft Materials and Microfluidics.
Professor Paul J. Atzberger,
Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics Department of Mechanical Engineering ,
University of California Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
South Sea Dreams: Pacific Exploration in Spanish Histories of the Americas, 1500-1550
Ricardo Padrón,
Associate Professor of Spanish,
Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese,
University of Virginia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Marked variation in aquatic chemistry and methane budgets of periglacial lakes in Greenland: Implications for exploration of Mars
Lisa M. Pratt,
Provost Professor and Chair,
Department of Geological Sciences,
Indiana University Bloomington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Higgs Boson as the Origin of Mass and Inflation
Hong-Jian He,
Tsinghua University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Iron Catalysis for the Synthesis of Value-Added Products
Jeffery A, Byers,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
Boston College,
Tuesday, April 7th, 2015
10:30am
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12:00pm
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