Institute Calendar
November 2016
Thursday, November 17th, 2016
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Biochemistry Seminar
Novel membrane anchoring mechanism for archaeal surface proteins
Mechthild Pohlschroder,
Professor of Biology,
Department of Biology,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Optogenetic analysis of long-range prefrontal connections in learning
Ofer Yizhar,
Department of Neurobiology,
Weizmann Institute of Schience, Israel,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Hodge-Newton Filtration for p-divisible groups of Hodge type
Serin Hong,
Mathematics Department,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum mechanics and geometry of spacetime
Juan Maldacena,
Institute for Advanced Study,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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HSS 50th Anniversary Lecture
On the Trail of Medieval Relics: Tracking Sacred Journeys
Kate Craig,
Assistant Professor,
Department of History,
Auburn University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The James Webb Space Telescope: Successor to Hubble
Michael Ressler,
U.S. MIRI Project Scientist,
JPL,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, November 18th, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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11/19
12:00am
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9:30am
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PhD Seminar
Constant Stress and Pressure Rheology of Dense Colloidal Suspensions
Mu Wang,
graduate student,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Defects in Optically Active Semiconductors for Quantum Applications
Kai-Mei Fu,
Assistant Professor, Physics and Electrical Engineering ,
Department of Physics,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Undergraduate Math Club Seminar
Quantum Pseudo-Telepathy Games Entangled State Dimension
Chinmay Nirkhe,
Mathematics Department,
California Institute of Technology,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Growth and singularity in 2D fluids
Andrej Zlatos,
Department of Mathematics,
UC San Diego,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Measurement protocols for entanglement entropies and entanglement spectra of cold atoms
Hannes Pichler,
AMP,
Harvard-Smithsonian, Center for Astrophysics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
What is the contribution of blazars to the IceCube neutrino flux?
Maria Petropoulou,
Einstein Post Doctoral Fellow,
Physics and Astronomy,
Purdue University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Surface (nano)Droplets: Formation and Dissolution
Detlef Lohse,
Professor,
University of Twente,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
On the Pin(2)-equivariant monopole Floer homology of plumbed 3-manifolds
Irving Dai,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Off Campus
The weak solutions of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations
Cheng Yu,
Department of Mathematics,
The University of Texas at Austin,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Off Campus
Superradiance initiated inside the ergoregion
Gregory Eskin,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
The James Webb Space Telescope: Successor to Hubble
Michael Ressler,
U.S. MIRI Project Scientist,
JPL,
Saturday, November 19th, 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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12:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Photography on Campus : Agamalian Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Naz Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:20pm
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6:20pm
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Photography on Campus : Kyababychan Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 20th, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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Photography on Campus : Karaoghlanian Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:30pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, November 21st, 2016
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Entanglement Spectroscopy of Quantum Many-body Systems
Guanyu Zhu,
Joint Quantum Institute (NIST-University of Maryland),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Exoplanet Detectives: Seeking Clues to Explain the Diverse Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems
Heather A. Knutson,
Assistant Professor of Planetary Science,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Cation-Responsive Pincer-Crown Ether Complexes for Tunable Catalysis
Alexander Miller,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Multisymplectic HDG methods
Ari Stern,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Exploring chemical reaction spaces using a graph grammar approach.
Christoph Flamm,
Professor,
Theoretical Chemistry,
University of Vienna,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016
10:30am
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12:00pm
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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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Oringer Seminar Series
Making software for rockets and spacecraft
Josh Sulkin,
Lead Flight Software Engineer - Dragon Spacecraft,
SpaceX,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Multimessenger Astronomy in the First Two Years of Advanced LIGO
Alex Urban,
LIGO,
Caltech,