Institute Calendar
April 2016
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
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Informal Biology Seminar
Metabolic Oscillations and Electrical Signaling in a Bacterial Biofilm
Gurol Suel,
Associate Professor ,
Molecular Biology,
Univeristy of San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Is Diamond the Best Conductor of Heat?
David Briodo,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
Boston College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar - CANCELLED
Development of New Transformations for Organic Synthesis and Material Science
Javier Read de Alaniz,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, April 7th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Recent Theoretical and Experimental Progress on Near-Field Thermal Radiation"
Zhuomin Zhang,
Professor,
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of 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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Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Survivor Support: How to Help Someone You Care About
Jenny Mahlum,
Health Educator ,
Counseling Center ,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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CD3 Seminar
Off Campus
Data Science: Machine Learning, Statistics, and Beyond
Padhraic Smyth,
Director, UCI Data Science Initiative,
Department of Computer Science and Department of Statistics,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Cellular control in a couple of clicks
Kristi Anseth,
Distinguished Professor,
Chemical and Biological Engineering,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Hodge classes on products of quaternionic Shimura varieties
Kartik Prasanna,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Biard Lecture: Basic Components of Solid-State Quantum Computing Hardware
Charles M. Marcus,
Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor,
Center for Quantum Devices,
The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, April 8th, 2016
9:30am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Many Dimensions of the Weak Gravity Conjecture
Tom Rudelius,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Using Quasars and the CMB to Probe Quantum Entanglement
Jason Gallicchio,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics,
Harvey Mudd College,
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
Adaptive Communication Networks and Cybersecurity for Heterogeneous Teams of Robots
Stephanie Gil,
Research Scientist,
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL),
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Knot Floer Homology and Khovanov-Rozansky Homology of Singular Links
Nathan Dowlin Filip,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Efforts Toward an Accurate Structural and Functional Model of the Oxygen Evolving Complex in Photosystem II
Heui Beom Lee,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 9th, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 10th, 2016
11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:30pm
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5:30pm
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9:00pm
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4/11
12:00am
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Monday, April 11th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar (Special Date)
Control of agile robots in complex environments with formal safety guarantees
Anirudha Majumdar,
PhD Candidate,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Development of Chemoenzymatic Labeling Approaches for the Detection of Fucosylated Biomarkers
Jean-Luc Chaubard,
Graduate Student in Chemistry,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Complex varieties with infinite Chow groups modulo 2
Burt Totaro,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Can Embedded Boundary Methods Compute High Reynolds Number Flow?
Professor Marsha Berger,
Computer Science Department,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
History Dependence in Networks of Close Relationships: Theory and Applications
James Rauch, Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Hierarchical analysis of extinction resistance in marine animal genera
Michael J. Foote,
Professor, Geophysical Sciences, Committee on Evolutionary Biology and College,
Department of the Geophysical Sciences ,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
TBA
T. Brent Gunnoe,
Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
University of Virginia,
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
10:30am
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12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Creating programmable disorder in self-assembled DNA nanostructures
Lulu Qian,
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering ,
Caltech,