Institute Calendar
October 2015
Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Topological Phases in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Systems
Alexey Gorshkov,
NIST/JQI,
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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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
In Quest of Low Mass Planets in the Habitable Zones of M Dwarfs
Prof. Suvrath Mahadevan,
Penn. State Univ.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Predictive Methods for Catalyst and Materials Optimization
Paul M. Zimmerman,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Coded MapReduce
Salman Aversimehr,
Assoc. Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
8:00am
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Ongoing
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8:30am
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3:00pm
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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
An Adiabatic Theorem for the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation
Gang Zhou,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
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
Big Data Meet Big Black Holes: Quasars in the Time Domain
George Djorgovski,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED || Finance Seminar: David Hirshleifer, University of California, Irvine
Visibility Bias in the Transmission of Consumption Norms and Undersaving
David Hirshleifer,
Merage Chair in Business Growth, Professor of Finance, Professor of Economics,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Dynamics of Ice Stream Variability in Past and Present Climates
Alex Robel,
NOAA CGC & Stanback Postdoctoral Scholar,
Geological & Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Materials by Design: Heterostructures with Targeted Nanoarchitecture and Tunable Properties
David C. Johnson,
Rosaria Haugland Foundation Chair in Pure and Applied Chemistry,
University of Oregon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Illuminating Biochemical Activity Architecture of the Cell
Jin Zhang,
Professor of Pharmacology,
Department of Pharmacology,
University of California, San Diego,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
TBA
Zeev Dvir,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science and Mathematics,
Princeton,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, October 29th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Understanding the mysteries of microstructure for highly reversible martensitic materials
Xian Sherry Chen,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Computer Science Seminar
Functional Reactive Programming for Real-Time and Cyber-Physical Systems: Response Time Analysis, Scheduling, and Verification
Albert M. K. Cheng,
Professor,
Computer Science,
University of Houston, Texas,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Biochemical and Biophysical Characterization of Huntingtin
Gwen Owens,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
The mechanism of protein transport into the endoplasmic reticulum
Rebecca Voorhees,
Ph.D., Sir Henry Wellcome fellow, Director of Studies for Natural Sciences (Biological),
Medical Research Council,
Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB), UK,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Oxide nanostructures: novel supports, active sites, and tandem catalysts
Justin M. Notestein,
Associate Professor,
Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
TBA
M. Hadi Hedayatzadeh,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Purdue,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Experiments Big and Small
Savas Dimopoulos,
The Hamamoto Family Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 30th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Emergent symmetries and 4D-2D relations for confining large N gauge theories
Aleksey Cherman,
Univ of Washington, Seattle,
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
Wave Excitation by Turbulent Stellar Convection
Daniel Lecoanet,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
UC Berkeley,
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Special HEP Seminar
The sPHENIX Detector at RHIC
Dr. Craig Woody,
Physics Department,
Brookhaven National Lab,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Numerical simulations of shock/turbulent-boundary layer interaction in a nearly-square duct
Ivan Bermejo-Moreno,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Center for Turbulence Research,
Stanford University and the University of Southern California,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Gauge theory on G2-manifolds
Thomas Walpushi,
C L E Moore Instructor,
Mathematics,
MIT,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Learning Seminar
Abelian Varieties and polarized Hodge structures
Pablo Solis,
Olga Taussky and John Todd Instructor in Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Optomechanics: a platform for exploring novel physics
Bassam Helou,
Graduate Student,
Yanbei Chen's Group,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Young Einstein's Scientific Environment in Pavia and Milan
Christian Bracco, Associate Professor, SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, CNRS, Sorbonne Universités, Paris,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, October 31st, 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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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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4:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Megerdomian Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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6:00pm
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9:00pm
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