Institute Calendar
February 2016
Thursday, February 4th, 2016
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Order and disorder in light-responsive materials for energy applications
Bradley F. Chmelka,
Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Slopes of overconvergent modular forms over boundary of the weight space
Ruochuan Liu,
Professor,
Mathematics,
BICMR,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Large Hadron Collider: Awakening at the next energy frontier
Anyes Taffard,
Associate Professor,
Physics & Astronomy,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Dissecting Human Transcription Dynamics by Single-Molecule Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Zhengjian Zhang, Ph.D.,
Senior Scientist,
Transcription Imaging Consortium,
Janelia Research Campus of HHMI,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, February 5th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Topology optimization of silicon anode structures for lithium-ion battery applications
Sarah Mitchell,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Fluid Manifesto: Topological sigma models and dissipative hydrodynamics
Mukund Rangamani,
UC Davis,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Algorithms from natural lower bounds
Valentine Kabanets,
Simon Fraser University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
From GUT scale to galaxies: probing the early universe with large-scale structure
Fabian Schmidt,
Scientific Staff Member,
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA),
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
Dynamics and suppression of instabilities in magnetohydrodynamic implosions
Wouter Mostert,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Graduate Aerospace Laboratories ,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Informational bottlenecks in control systems
Gireeja Ranade,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Microsoft Research, Redmond,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Theory of arrested spinodal decomposition: physical gels, porous glasses, and the glass transition
Magdaleno Medina-Noyola,
Professor,
Instituto de Fisica "Manuel Sandoval Vallarta",
Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Exponential Lifetime Improvement in Topological Quantum Memories
Charles Edouard Bardyn,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Condensed Matter Theory,
Saturday, February 6th, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Ter-Grigorian Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
3:30pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, February 8th, 2016
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Design, Synthesis, and Study of Novel Platforms for Iron-N2 Chemistry and Photoinduced, Copper-Mediated C-N Bond Formation
Sid Creutz,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Peters group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification for Solutions to Differential Equation Models
Dave Campbell,
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, and Director, Management and System Science,
Simon Fraser University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Dry Ice on Mars
Candice Hansen,
Senior Scientist,
Planetary Science Institute,
4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Maximal representations and projective structures on iterated sphere bundles
Anna Wienhard,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics & Physics,
University of Heidelberg,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Type Ia Supernovae and Heavy Metals From Dark Matter
Joseph Bramante,
Notre Dame University,
4:00pm
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Informational Biology Seminar
3D Chromatin and Chromosome Conformations and Gene Expression Control
Peter Fraser,
Nuclear Dynamics Programme,
The Babraham Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
II_1 Factors with Non-isomorphic Ultrapowers
Adrian Ioana,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UCSD,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Reading Seminar
Computational and descriptive complexity
Martino Lupini,
Bateman Research Instructor,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Chern--Simons theory, surface separability, representation volumes, and dominations of 3-manifolds
Shicheng Wang,
Peking University,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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7:30pm
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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Learning Seminar
An introduction to Weil groups
Andrei Frimu,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Modeling and Control of Online Advertising
Niklas Karlsson,
VP,
Research and Development,
AOL/ Verizon,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Reducing My Platinum Footprint
Fundamentals of Sustainability Science and Engineering Guest Lecturer
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Probing the universe on a table top experiment
Atta Almasi,
Physics,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Revisiting the first-order theories of McDuff's II_1 factors
Isaac Goldbring,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Illinois at Chicago,
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
Probing Small Planets at Several AU with Microlensing
Dr. Jennifer Yee,
Harvard-CfA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Polynomials representing primes
James Maynard,
Mathematical Institute,
Magdalen College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2016