Institute Calendar
May 2016
Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
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Finance Seminar: Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Princeton University
High Frequency Market Making
Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Otto A. Hack 1903 Professor of Finance and Economics, Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
CANCELLED
Ben Barres,
Professor of Neurobiology, of Developmental Biology, of Neurology and, by courtesy, of Ophthalmology,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
Stanford,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Distinct perpendicular bisectors
Ben Lund,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Rutgers,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Neural and hormonal systems underlying human reward-seeking behavior
Simon Dunne,
Graduate Student,
Computation & Neural Systems,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, May 26th, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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8:30am
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2:30pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
(CANCELLED) - "Manufacturing and applications of carbon nanotube surfaces"
(CANCELLED) John Hart,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts 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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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Discovery of a Carbohydrate Ligand for an Orphan Receptor
Matthew Griffin,
Mr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Resolution of the Band Gap Prediction Problem: Providing a New Tool for Materials Design
Jason Crowley,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Goddard group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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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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PhD Thesis Seminar
Protein-Glycan Interactions in Bacterial Recognition by Fc-gamma Receptor I and in Bitter Taste Receptor Activation by Steviol Glycosides
Fan Liu,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Diophantine Stability
Barry Mazur,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Adventures in quantum optimization with noisy qubits
Daniel Lidar,
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Chemistry and Physics,
USC,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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HSS 50th Anniversary Lecture
Dynamics and Information Processing of Competitive Market Behavior: Science and Application of Extracting the Wisdom of Crowds
Charles R. Plott,
William D. Hacker Professor of Economics and Political Science,
California Institute of Technology,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 27th, 2016
12:00am
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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6:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Chiral algebra of Argyres-Douglas theory from M5 brane
Wenbin Yan,
Harvard University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Agonist Binding Studies at Two Subtypes of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Involved in Parkinson's Disease and Addiction
Michael Post,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dougherty group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Shang-Hua Teng
Interplay between Influence Dynamics and Social Networks: Centrality, Cooperative Games, and Scalable Algorithms
Shang-Hua Teng, Seeley G. Mudd Professor, Computer Science Viterbi School of Engineering, USC,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD seminar
Ion Transport in Polymer Electrolytes: Principles for Design
Michael Webb,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Mechanistic Studies on the Trimethyl Lock Cyclization of Sulfur-Substituted Benzoquinones Triggered by Visible-Light
Clinton Regan,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dougherty group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Parametrizing general linear cosmological perturbations
Macarena Lagos,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
Imperial College London,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Tunable adhesion of soft elastomers
Kevin Turner,
Gabel Family Term Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), Materials Science and Engineering (MSE),
University of Pennsylvania,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Mechanistic Insights of Photoinduced, Transition Metal Mediated Catalysis
Tanvi Ratani,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Many-body localization: a dynamical perspective
Sarang Gopalakrishnan,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Off Campus
TBA
Joel Tropp,
Professor,
Applied & Computational Mathematics,
Caltech,
Saturday, May 28th, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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8:00am
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5/31
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1:00pm
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9:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Herrera Quinceanera Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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6:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Meschyan Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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6:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Mejia Wedding Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Castellanos Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, May 29th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Panossian Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, May 30th, 2016
8:00am
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9:00am
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3:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Decay of correlations and absence of superfluidity in the disordered Tonks-Girardeau gas
Robert Seiringer,
IST Austria,
Tuesday, May 31st, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Building the Next Generation Power Grid
Pedro Pizarro, PhD,
President,
Southern California Edison,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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