Institute Calendar
October 2016
Wednesday, October 26th, 2016
8:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Local search yields approximation schemes for k-means and k-median in Euclidean and minor-free metrics
Claire Mathieu,
ENS,
11:50am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Extreme Power Density and Efficiency Power Converters for Grid Interfaced Applications—New Circuit Topologies and Control Techniques to Leverage Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Devices
Robert Pilawa-Podgurski,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Tropical energetic and precipitation responses to sea surface temperature perturbations: Zonal mean and the African Sahel
Spencer Hill,
NSF Postdoctoral Scholar,
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Extending the Range of the Glassy State in Metals
A. Lindsay Greer,
Head of the School of Physical Sciences, Professor of Materials Science,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
What is ‘orthodox' quantum mechanics?
David Wallace,
Professor of Philosophy,
USC,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Cokernels of Random Matrices and Sandpile Groups
Nathan Kaplan,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Irvine,
5:15pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 27th, 2016
10:30am
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12:30pm
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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
"Scaling Limits in Networked Control System"
Bassam Bamieh,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Adam Boynton,
Graduate Student, Barton Research Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
On Probabilistic Checking in Perfect Zero Knowledge
Michael Forbes,
MIT,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Mod p isogeny classes on Shimura varieties with parahoric level structure
Rong Zhou,
Department of Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Linking Interseismic Crustal Deformation to Long-Term Rock Denudation and Surface Processing in Taiwan
Mong-Han Huang,
NASA Postdoctoral Fellow,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Hasse Principle for multinorm equations
Eva Bayer-Fluckiger,
Mathematics,
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Physics and Biology of Morphogenesis
Boris Shraiman,
Susan F. Gurley Professor of Theoretical Physics and Biology, Permanent Member of KITP,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Using Algebraic Geometry for Computer Vision
Joe Kileel,
UC Berkeley,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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HSS 50th Anniversary Lecture
Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in Networks and Diffusion Processes
Matthew O. Jackson,
William D. Eberle Professor of Economics,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 28th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Leonard Schulman, Caltech
The Duality Gap for Two-Team Zero-Sum Games
Leonard Schulman, Professor of Computer Science,
Engineering & Applied Science,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Undergraduate Math Club Seminar
Welzl's Theorem on Graph Homomorphisms
Jalex Stark,
Mathematics Department,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Simulating Galactic Winds on Supercomputers Using "Cholla"
Evan Schneider,
Graduate Student,
University of Arizona,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Enabling Humanity's First Interstellar Missions: Directed Energy for Relativistic Flight
Philip Lubin,
UCSB,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Realization of prism manifolds by integer surgery
William Ballinger & Tynan Ochse,
Mathematics Department,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Theoretical Insights into Substrate Selectivity: P3EFe-N2 Mediated N2-to-NH3 Conversion vs HER
Mr. Benjamin (Ben) Matson,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, October 29th, 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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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Zerunian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Sunday, October 30th, 2016
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, October 31st, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Kerr Comb Generation: Dark Pulse Mode-locking in Normal Dispersion Microresonators
Andrew M. Weiner,
Scifres Family Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Volatile Cycling and Environmental Change on Early Mars
Bethany L. Ehlmann,
Assistant Professor of Planetary Science; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Scientist,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Partially Acoustic Dark Matter, Interacting Dark Radiation, and Large Scale Structure
Yuhsin Tsai,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Appreciation Problems of Neuroeconomics
Paul Hoyningen-Huene,
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute of Philosophy, Professor Emeritus; Universität Zürich, Department of Economics, Lecturer,