Institute Calendar
April 2017
Wednesday, April 12th, 2017
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
The Pointed Gromov-Hausdorff Topology on Graphs, With Applications to Economics
Omer Tamuz,
Departments of Economics & Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Synthetic Studies toward Complex Natural Products
Thomas J. Maimone,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar
Self-Assembly and Symmetry Breaking of the Early Mouse Embryo
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz,
Professor of Mammalian Development and Stem Cell Biology,
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience,
University of Cambridge,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 13th, 2017
8:50am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Histotripsy: Focused ultrasound surgery based on nucleation of bubbles in tissue"
Adam Maxwell,
Professor,
Department of Urology,
University of Washington School of Medicine,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar
Near-optimal Adaptive Information Acquisition: Theory and Applications
Yuxin Chen,
postdoctoral scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech,,
CMS,
CALTECH,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Membrane proteins at the interface of life
Tamir Gonen,
Group Leader,
Janelia Research Campus,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Cancelled: Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar
Cancelled:
Scott Parazynski,
MD, Astronaut , Everest Climber, Physician, Pilot, Inventor ,
4:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
Dynamics and Rheology of Associating Polymer Gels
Ahmad K. Omar,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum many-body control
Manuel Endres,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Humanities Public Lecture
Dickens Noir: The Persistence of Victorianism in Post-War British Art and Culture
Lynda Nead,
Pevsner Professor of History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London; Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech,
Friday, April 14th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Chaos in 2D CFT and Spinning Particle in AdS
Chi-Ming Chang,
QMAP, UC Davis,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Quantum metrology gets real
Konrad Banaszek,
Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Poland,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Bettina Klaus, Universite de Lausanne
Object Allocation via Immediate-Acceptance: Characterizations and an Affirmative Action Application
Bettina Klaus,
Professor,
Department of Business and Economics,
Universite de Lausanne,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanoscience and nanophotonics for improved solar energy conversion
Erik Garnett,
Dr. ,
Nanoscale Solar Cells Group,
AMOLF Institute, Amsterdam,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Helping to paint a more realistic picture of the intergalactic and circumgalactic media through simulation
Devin Silva,
NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow,
Michigan State University,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Hypervelocity Impact Flash and Plasma on Electrically Biased Spacecraft Surfaces
Monica (Yayu) Hew,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Translation flow on holomorphic maps out of the poly-plane
Dmitri Gekhtman,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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BMB Seminar
DNA Damage Recognition Enabled by Repair Proteins containing Redox-active [4Fe4S] Metallocofactors
Edmund Tse,
Postdoc,
4:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Endpoint bounds for the lacunary spherical maximal operator
Laura Cladek,
Department of Mathematics,
The University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar--SEMINAR CANCELLED
New Electrolytic Media and Methods for CO2 Reduction
Mr. Brendon McNicholas,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fermi Arcs and Their Topological Character in the Candidate Type-II Weyl Semimetals WTe2 and MoTe2
Flavio Yair Bruno,
Ambizione Research Fellow,
University of Geneva,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Differentiating Blaschke products
Oleg Ivrii,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 15th, 2017
12:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sara Weir Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, April 17th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Seminar
Enantiomerically Enriched, Polycrystalline Molecular Sieves
Kramer Brand,
graduate student,
Chemical Engineering Department,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Earth Week Speaker Series
Winnett Lounge
Achieving a 100% Clean Energy Future
Nicole Capretz,
Founder and Executive Director, Climate Action Campaign,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Vector bundles and finite covers
Anand Deopurkar,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Georgia,
4:00pm
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6:30pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
Characterizing slopes for torus knots
Duncan McCoy,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Texas, Austin,