Institute Calendar
November 2016
Wednesday, November 9th, 2016
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Shredding Light on Chemistry
Javier Read de Alaniz,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Historians in the Laboratory: The Making and Knowing Project
Pamela Smith,
Seth Low Professor of History, Director of the Center for Science and Society,
Columbia University, New York,
5:00pm
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8:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 10th, 2016
8:00am
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11/11
5:00pm
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8:50am
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11:30am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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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
"Design under Uncertainty through Integration of Stochastic Simulation and Surrogate Modeling Principles"
Alexandros Taflanidis,
Associate Professor and Frank M. Freimann Collegiate Chair in Structural Engineering,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Norte Dame,
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
Yapeng Su,
Graduate Student, Heath Research Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Cary J. Nederman, Texas A&M University
From Violence to Order: Changing Ideas of Tyranny during the Latin Middle Ages
Cary J. Nederman,
Co-Director, Ethics and Political Science; Professor,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Nanocrystal electrochromic smart windows
Delia Milliron,
Associate Professor; Fellow of the Henry Beckman Professorship; Fellow of the Frank A. Liddell, Jr. Centennial Fellowship in Chemical Engineering,
McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Nanomineralogy of Meteorites: Discovery of New Minerals Representing Extreme Conditions
Chi Ma,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar
Is HuR a Master Regulator of CD4+ T cell Differentiation? Fish Tales and (mis)-Adventures in Deep Sequencing
Ulus Atasoy,
Associate Professor,
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology,
University of Missouri School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
An approach to the Casselman-Jacquet functor
Alexander Yom Din,
Mathematics Department,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Electronic Nematicity in the Iron-Pnictide Superconductors
Abhay Pasupathy,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Columbia University,
5:30pm
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8:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Lee Engagement Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 11th, 2016
9:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:40am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CANCELLED Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Juba Ziani, Caltech
Efficiently characterizing games consistent with perturbed equilibrium observations
Juba Ziani, Graduate Student,
Computer Science,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Reversal of Fortune? Geography, Climate, and the Distribution of Income Across Countries
Steve Haber,
A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Professor of Political Science, Professor of History, Professor (by courtesy) of Economics at Stanford University,
Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Undergraduate Math Club Seminar
FERMAT'S LITTLE THEOREM AND EULER'S THEOREM IN THE GAUSSIAN INTEGERS
Milan Roberson,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holography and the quantum renormalization group
Elias Kiritsis,
University of Crete,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holography and the quantum renormalization group
Elias Kiritsis,
University of Crete,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Special Earthquake Engineering Seminar
"Hazard-compatible stochastic ground motion modeling & Mitigating seismic risk in the developing world: lessons learned in Haiti and promotion of alternative residential-housing solutions"
Alexandros Taflanidis,
Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Notre Dame,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Chick / Ely Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Surprising Physics of Boundary Layer Accretion
Mikhail Belyaev,
TAC Fellow, Postdoctoral Scholar,
UC Berkeley,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Active Semiconductor Nanowire and Metafilm Devices
Mark Brongersma,
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering ,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
The geometry of maximal representations in SO(2,3)
Jeremy Toulisse,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Cannabinoid-Induced Actomyosin Contraction Shapes Neuronal Structure and Connectivity at Multiple Spatiotemporal
Zsolt Lenkei,
INSERM Research Director,
ESPCI Paris-Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Classification and simulation of quantum phases by symmetric tensor networks
Shenghan Jiang,
Graduate Student,
Boston College,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 12th, 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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11:00am
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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: Collins & McIntyre Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Gharakhani Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Tang Wedding Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Hammack Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 13th, 2016
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Jimenez / Lei Photo Shoot
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2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Boswell Photo Shoot
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