Institute Calendar
October 2015
Sunday, October 11th, 2015
3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Khachatoorians Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 12th, 2015
9:00am
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4:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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8:00pm
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
K-Stability for Fano Varieties with Torus Action
Nathan Ilten,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Simon Fraser University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
What does ‘high precision' mean anymore? Probing and pushing the limits of geochronology
Noah M. McLean,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Geology,
The University of Kansas,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Tracking DNA Damage Repair with DNA Chips
Jason Slinker,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics,
University of Texas, Dallas,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Cycling to Hell and Back: My Race Across America
Vito Rubino,
Research Scientist,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 13th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Grid of the Future: Is Distributed Control the Answer?
Sonja Glavaski,
Program Director,
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Recovering elliptic curves from their p-torsion
Jacob Tsimmerman,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Surrogate Models of Numerical Relativity Binary Black Hole Waveforms
Jonathan Backman,
TAPIR,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Weak containment of measure preserving group actions
Peter Burton,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Andre-Oort and other problems in Unlikely intersections
Jacob Tsimerman,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Regularity theory for fully nonlinear integro-differential equations
Tianling Jin,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Tuning the Clock: Making Sense of Stellar Rotation with Kepler
Jennifer van Saders,
Carnegie,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Next Generation of Polymeric Membranes and Media for Sustainable Water Purification and Resource Recovery
Mamadou S. Diallo,
Associate Professor & Director of the Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Systems for Water Sustainability,
Graduate School of Energy, Environment, Water and Sustainability,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
In Situ Materials Science: Probing Microstructural Evolution of Metallic Materials in Real-Time
Nik Chawla,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
No Strain, No Gain: Advances in the Synthesis and Use of Cyclobutanes
M. Kevin Brown,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Indiana University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 15th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Towards Exascale Simulation of Turbulent Combustion"
Jackie Chen,
Sandia National Laboratories, Combustion Research Facility,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Cracking the Codes for Cellular Identity at the Single Cell Transcript Level
Ahmet F. Coskun,
Dr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Furstenberg-Poisson boundary 101
Omer Tamuz,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Humanities and Social Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Microbial fermentation for health and fashion
John Dueber,
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The powerful magnetic fields of red giant stars
Jim Fuller,
Postdoctoral Scholar in the TAPIR Group,
Caltech,
4:40pm
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6:00pm
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CMA presents Special Effects Wizardry in "The Martian"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Chris Lawrence,
Visual Effects Supervisor and Head of Computer Graphics,
Framestore,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 16th, 2015
8:00am
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5:00pm
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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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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Ehud Kalai
Learning and Stability in Big Uncertain Games
Ehud Kalai,
The James J. O'Connor Professor of Decision and Game Sciences,
Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Tests of strong gravity with compact objects
Emanuele Berti,
Associate Professor,
Dept of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Mississippi,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Rapid, High Quality Hypersonic Mission Design Using Indirect Methods
Michael Grant,
Assistant Professor ,
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Purdue University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Algebraic Knots, Upsilon invariant and optimal cobordisms
Shida Wang,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Indiana University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Kellogg Seminar
New Cryogenic Targets for Nuclear Physics
David Kendellen,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
TUNL,
Duke University,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Saturday, October 17th, 2015
12:00am
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12:00am
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10:00am
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5:30pm
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1:30pm
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4:30pm
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1:40pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Meshefejian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm
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7:30pm
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