Institute Calendar
January 2017
Wednesday, January 11th, 2017
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Asymptotics of the eigenvalues of operators for mirror curves
Lukas Schimmer,
Mathematics Department,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, January 12th, 2017
8:50am
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11:30am
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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
"Physical Properties of Surface Materials on Mars and Selection of the InSight Landing Site"
Matthew Golombek,
Senior Research Scientist, Mars Exploration Rover Project Scientist, Mars Exploration Program Landing Site Scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Biophysical Characterization of an ABC L-methionine Transporter
Qi Wen Li,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
1:30pm
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4:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Chemical Discovery in the Microbial World
Emily Balskus,
Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Chemistry & Chemistry Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Generalized Kuga-Satake theory and good reduction properties of Galois representations
Stefan Patrikis,
Mathematics Department,
University of Utah,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The next questions in neutrino physics
Ryan Patterson,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Caltech,
5:30pm
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8:30pm
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5:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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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
Exoplanets: The Quest for Strange New Worlds
Eric Mamajek,
Deputy Program Chief Scientist,
NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program,
JPL,
Friday, January 13th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Magnetic field's travels from Lilliput to Brobdingnag: turbulent dynamo in a partially ionized plasma
Siyao Xu,
Peking University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
From Underwater Shock Focusing to Dynamic Fracture
Veronica Eliasson,
Associate Professor,
UCSD ,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Martingale methods in conformal mapping
Oleg Ivrii,
Mathematics Department,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
The Universe through X-ray Eyes
Fiona Harrison,
Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics; Kent and Joyce Kresa Leadership Chair, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
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)
Exoplanets: The Quest for Strange New Worlds
Eric Mamajek,
Deputy Program Chief Scientist,
NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program,
JPL,
Saturday, January 14th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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7:30am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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11:30am
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12:30pm
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4:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Barsoumian Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, January 15th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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8:00am
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4:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Coria Photo Shoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
A Transfer Matrix Approach to Scaled Limits of Christo ffel-Darboux Kernels
Jonathan Breuer,
Department of Mathematics,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hovanessian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, January 16th, 2017
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Learning to Optimize for Structured Output Spaces
Yisong Yue,
Assistant Professor,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Seminar
Engineering Protein Therapeutics: Using Non-Canonical Amino Acid Mutagenesis to Modulate Insulin Biophysics
Katharine Fang,
graduate student,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
3:30pm
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4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Prof. Rosalba Perna,
Stony Brook Univ.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Logic Seminar
A game-theoretic approach to Hjorth's turbulence theory
Martino Lupini,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,