Institute Calendar
April 2017
Friday, April 7th, 2017
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Shai Vardi, Caltech
Controlled Dynamic Fair Division
Shai Vardi,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The quadrupole formula: a hundred years later
Beatrice Bonga,
Graduate Student,
Penn State,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Understanding Implosion Performance on the National Iginition Facility: Progress Towards Inertial Confinement Fusion Ignition
Dan Clark,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Quantitative methods in hyperbolic geometry and applications to lifting curves simply
Priyam Patel,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Evidence of an Iron Diazenido in Protonation of an Iron N2 Adduct
Mr. Mark Nesbit,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Enhancing atom-light interactions with "selective radiance": the recipe to exponentially improve photon storage fidelities
Ana Asenjo Garcia,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Kimble Group,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special EE Seminar
Engineering at the Limits of the Nanoscale
Farnaz Niroui,
Ph.D. candidate ,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special EE Seminar
Engineering at the Limits of the Nanoscale
Farnaz Niroui,
Ph.D. graduate student,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special EE Seminar
Engineering at the Limits of the Nanoscale
Farnaz Niroui,
Ph.D. candidate ,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 8th, 2017
12:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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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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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Sunday, April 9th, 2017
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, April 10th, 2017
4:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Wall-crossing formula for Gromov-Witten invariants
Chris Woodward,
Department of Mathematics,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Two Ways to Catch a Pathogen
Daniel Fletcher,
Purnendu Chatterjee Chair in Engineering Biological Systems,
Bioengineering,
University of California Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Fast-Spiking Interneurons Regulate Ensemble Calcium and Striatum-Dependent Learning
Anatol C. Kreitzer,
Senior Investigator,
Gladstone Institutes,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
What mathematical algorithms can do for the real (and even fake) world
Professor Stanley Osher,
Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science, Electrical Engineering & Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
River Deep, Mountain High: a fluvial perspective on the carbon cycle
Mark A. Torres,
Texaco Postdoctoral Scholar in Geology; AGEP Fellow,
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
A small weak scale from a small cosmological constant
Ken Van Tilburg,
IAS,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2017
10:30am
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12:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Acoustic Rendering: from audiovisual synthesis to wave control
Changxi Zheng,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
Columbia University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
An Introduction to the Kapustin-Witten Equations and Witten's Program
Siqi He,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Marianne Bronner Lab Presenting
Erica Hutchins,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Rosa Uribe,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Stephen Green,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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CD3 Seminar
Building Training Sets for Astronomical Data; A Bayesian Feature Transformation for Domain Adaptation
Pavlos Protopapas,
Inst. for Applied Computational Science,
Cambridge, MA,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Graduate Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar
Overview of Seminar Content
Serin Hong,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Semiconductor Quantum Technologies for Communications and Computing
Dirk Englund,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Dr. Stephanie Tonnesen,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Quantum fluctuations in hydrogen bond networks: From proton transport to enzyme catalysis
Thomas E. Markland,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Intersection of Mechanosensory Hair Cell Activity, Mitochondrial Metabolism and Vulnerability to Damage
David Raible,
Professor,
Biological Structure,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Planetary Interiors Studied with Ab Initio Simulations
Burkhard Militzer,
Professor,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Social Mobility and Stability of Democracy: Re-Evaluating De Tocqueville
Konstantin Sonin,
John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor,
University of Chicago,
Wednesday, April 12th, 2017
10:00am
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11:30am
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Logic Seminar
Graphs Generated by Commuting Borel Functions
Connor Meehan,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium: 2017 Neugebauer Lecture
Making the Most Accurate Possible Measurements with Telescopes
David Hogg,
NYU,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Query Complexity of Clustering
Arya Mazumdar,
Assistant Professor,
College of Information and Computer Sciences,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Can we predict western U.S. water?
Sarah Kapnick,
Research Physical Scientist,
Climate Variations and Predictability Group,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Cary Frydman, USC Marshall School of Business
The Role of Salience and Attention in Choice Under Risk: An Experimental Investigation
Cary Frydman,
Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics,
Marshall School of Business,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Mechanical Instability-driven Architecturing of Atomically-thin Materials – Where Shape Enables New Functions
SungWoo Nam,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,