Institute Calendar
December 2015
Ongoing
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12/4
5:00pm
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2015
8:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Inferring subsurface fault slip from orbiting satellite radar
Mark Simons,
Professor,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Quantum work fluctuations: notions and exact results
Sebastian Deffner,
Los Alamos,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Automatic continuity notions and locally compact Polish groups
Phillip Wesolek,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Université Catholique de Louvain,
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
Light-ish Elements in Dwarf Galaxies: The Enigmas of Lithium, Carbon, Magnesium, and More
Prof. Evan Kirby,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Sunlight and water – agents of chemical complexity in the environment
Veronica Vaida,
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Generalized Low Rank Models (part 1 of 2)
Madeleine Udell,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Near-future prospects for detection and astrophysical inference with pulsar-timing arrays
Stephen Taylor,
NASA-JPL,
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Jorumycin
Christopher Haley,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Stoltz Group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
New Developments for Scattering Amplitudes
Ulrich Schubert,
Max-Planck Institute for Physics,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Sulfur intermediates coupled to O, Fe, and C: What detailed chemistry and mineralogy can tell us about bioavailability
Greg Druschel,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
TBA
Anastasiia Tsvietkova,
Krener Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Some New Thoughts on EW Baryogenesis
Tao Liu,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Transport Properties of Materials from First Principles
Ole Løvvik,
Visiting Associate in Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2015
8:00am
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12:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Advancements in jet turbulence and noise modeling: accurate one-way solutions and empirical evaluation of the nonlinear forcing of wavepackets
Aaron Towne,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Hyperloop – Turning Concept Into Reality
Brogan BamBrogan,
Hyperloop Technologies, Inc.,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Redox Switching in Human DNA Primase
Elizabeth O'Brien,
Graduate Student, Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Redox Switching in Human DNA Primase
Elizabeth O'Brien,
Ms.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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1:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
TBA
Massimo Ruzzene,
Professor,
D. Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering ,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Decoding Genetic Variations: Algorithms for Haplotype Assembly
Haris Vikalo,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Texas - Austin,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Physics
The Donaldson-Thomas theory of K3xE and the Igusa cusp form
Jim Bryan,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Curvature directed assembly
Kathleen Stebe,
Richer and Elizabeth Goodwin Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
TBA
Laurent Fargues,
Directeur de Recherche CNRS ,
Mathematics,
Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Science communication and the making of The PHD Movie 2
Jorge Cham,
PHD Comics,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The InSight Mission: Journey to the Center of Mars
Bruce Banderdt,
InSight Principal Investigator,
JPL,
Friday, December 4th, 2015
8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Supersymmetric flavors on curved space and a precision test of AdS/CFT
Christopher Uhelmann,
Univ of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Ilan Lobel
A General Framework for Dynamic Pricing with Patient Customers
Ilan Lobel,
Assistant Professor of Information,
Operations and Management Sciences, Stern School of Business,
New York University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Integrated accretion disk angular momentum removal and astrophysical jet acceleration mechanism
Paul Bellan,
Professor,
Applied Physics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Discharge Channel Erosion in the Hall Effect Thruster
Mitchell Walker,
Associate Professor,
School of Aerospace Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology ,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Learning Seminar
Introduction to Tanakian Catagories
Jize Yu,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
A hybrid-parallel framework for the nonlinear implicit analysis of very tall buildings subjected to strong ground motion
Abel Dizon,
Graduate Student,
Mechancial and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Band Edge Control of Crystalline Silicon by Chemical Functionalization of the Surface
Noah Plymale,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Semiconducting-to-metallic Photoconductivity Crossover in Graphene
Alex Frenzel,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
UC San Diego,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
The InSight Mission: Journey to the Center of Mars
Bruce Banderdt,
InSight Principal Investigator,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 5th, 2015
8:00am
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12/8
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