Institute Calendar
March 2016
Friday, March 4th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Self-Optimizing Synthesis of Structured Chalcogen Alloys in Response to Tailored Photoexcitation
Azhar Carim,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, March 5th, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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10:20am
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1:20pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Ghofranian & Pabon Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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4:30pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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6:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Coronado Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:40pm
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6:40pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, March 6th, 2016
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, March 7th, 2016
8:00am
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8:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Seminar in Mathematics
Higher Pentagram Maps via Cluster Mutations and Networks on Surfaces
Michael Gekhtman,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Notre Dame,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
A holistic approach to the preparation of composites of polymers and nanoparticles: from molecule to manufacture
Tony McNally,
Professor and Chair in Nanocomposites,
International Institute for Nanocomposites Manufacturing,
WMG, University of Warwick, England,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Oxygen, Manganese, and Early Life on Earth
Joan S. Valentine,
Distinguished Research Professor,
Department of Chemistry & Bichemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2016
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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6:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Women's History Month Event
International Women's Day Celebration and Photography Opening Lunch Reception
Azita Emami,
Professor of Electrical Engineering ,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
Simona Bordani,
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
A linear time algorithm for quantum 2-SAT
Sevag Gharibian,
Virginia Commonwealth University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Describing finite groups by short first-order sentences
Andre Nies,
Professor,
Computer Science,
University of Auckland,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Atomic-Layer Semiconducting Crystals for Emerging 2D Devices and Nanosystems
Philip Feng,
Assistant Professor,
Case School of Engineering,
Case Western Reserve University,
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
First Results from Advanced LIGO
Prof. Alan Weinstein,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
MULTI-MESSENGER MONSTERS!!!
Sarah Burke Spolaor,
National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Towards homological mirror symmetry for hypersurfaces in toric varieties
Denis Auroux,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
The Masses, Densities, and Orbital Dynamics of Exoplanets
Lauren Weiss,
Department of Astronomy ,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar
Stable Endosymbiosis Drives the Evolution of Complex Cellular and Genomic Mosaics
John McCutcheon,
Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Division of Biological Sciences ,
University of Montana,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar
Stable endosymbiosis drives the evolution of complex cellular and genomic mosaics
John McCutcheon,
Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR),
University of Montana,
Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Modeling the stretch blow moulding process: from plastic bottles to biomedical scaffolds
Gary Menary,
Director,
Blow Moulding Technolgies, Belfast, Northern Ireland,
1:30pm
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3/11
2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Gravity Dual of Relative Entropy and Comments on Bulk Reconstruction
Jennifer Lin,
IAS,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Eta Invariant and Analytic Torsion
Xianzhe Dai,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UCSB,
3:30pm
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6:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Thinking Big (and Small) : Frontier Science in the Era of Wide Field Lensing Surveys
Alexie Leauthaud,
Kavli IPMU, Tokyo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture
Global Approaches for Protein and Ligand Discovery in Native Biological Systems
Benjamin Cravatt,
Chairman,
Department of Chemical Physiology,
The Scripps Research Institute,