Institute Calendar
April 2017
Friday, April 21st, 2017
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Holographic lattice field theories
Ingmar Saberi,
University of Heidelberg,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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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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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Guillaume Roger, University of Sydney
Scale Effects in Dynamic Contracting
Guillaume Roger,
Senior Lecturer in Economics,
University of Sydney,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Edge of darkness: The splashback radius as a physical halo boundary
Benedikt Diemer,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Theory and Computation,
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA,
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
Wind Farm Modeling and Control for Power Grid Support
Dennice Gayme,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Symplectic Instanton Homology via Traceless Character Varieties: SO(3)-Bundles and Dehn Surgery
Henry Horton,
Department of Mathematics,
Indiana University ,
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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BMB Seminar
Transcriptomic Genetics: A new way to use RNA-sequencing data.
David Angeles Albores,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Breaking Lorentz Reciprocity: From Physics to New Wireless Communication Paradigms
Caltech's Young Investigator Lecture Series
Negar Reiskarimian,
PhD candidate ,
Electrical Engineering ,
Columbia University.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Electrochemical CO2 Reduction by Polymer-Immobilized Molecular Catalysts
Wesley Kramer,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fault-tolerance in topological stabilizer codes and universal workarounds
Tomas Jochym O'Connor,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro History Seminar
Did Edward Gibbon Meet Yelü Chucai?: Detecting Chinese Influence on European Historiography about the Mongol Empire
Matthew Mosca,
Assistant Professor of History,
University of Washington,
Saturday, April 22nd, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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8:00am
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11:00am
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kakosimidi Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, April 23rd, 2017
12:00am
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3:30pm
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Monday, April 24th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Fear
Ralph Adolphs,
Bren Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Professor of Biology,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
The James Webb Space Telescope; Its Mission, Design and Development
Jonathan Arenberg,
Chief Engineer for the James Webb Space Telescope and Space Science Missions,
Northrop Grumman,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Derived categories of canonical covers of bielliptic and Enriques surfaces in positive characteristic
Katrina Honigs,
Mathematics Department,
University of Utah,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
From Fluctuations to Function: The Role of Dynamics in Gene Expression and Iomolecular Function
Ruben Gonzalez,
Professor,
Chemistry ,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech - Amgen Collaborative Seminar 2017
David Reese,
Amgen, Senior Vice President, Translational Sciences,
Philip Tagari,
Amgen, Vice President, Research (Therapeutic Discovery),
Cindy Afshari,
Amgen, Vice President, Comparative Biology and Safety Sciences,
Sheldon Moberg,
Amgen, Head of Advanced Device Technology and Innovation,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Using Artificial-Intelligence-Driven Deep Neural Networks to Uncover Principles of Brain Representation and Organization
Daniel L.K. Yamins,
Assistant Professor ,
Psychology and Computer Science,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Survivors of giant impacts: fingerprints of the Earth's oldest mantle domains revealed by short-lived radionuclides
Hanika Rizo,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Art + Tech Panel: Computational Literature
Xtine Burrough,
Artist, Associate Professor in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication,
UT Dallas,
Nick Montfort,
Poet, Professor of Digital Media,
MIT,
Brian Kim Stefans,
Poet, Associate Professor of Literature,
UCLA,
Eran Hadas ,
Poet, Schusterman Visiting Israeli Artist,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
9:30am
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10:30am
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10:30am
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4/27
1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Impact of Deep Neural Networks and One of Its Mobile Applications
Charles Fan,
CTO of Cheetah Mobile (NYSE: CMCM),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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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. Ben Shappee,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar/Political Economy Theory Workshop
Self-Evident Events and the Value of Linking
Jimmy Chan,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Fudan University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Divide and Conquer - Synthetic Biology of Cell Division
Petra Schwille,
Professor,
Cellular and Molecular Biophysics,
Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Extremes: nonlinear PDEs, random walk, Gaussian processes and random matrices
Ofer Zeitouni,
Department of Mathematics,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Early History of the Moon & Mercury: Merging Magma Ocean Models with LRO, GRAIL & MESSENGER Data
Alex Evans,
Postdoc,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Molybdenum Metabolism in Humans and Plants: From Atomic Structures to Patient Therapy
Ralf Mendel,
Prof. Dr.,
Institute for Plant Biology,
Technical University of Braunschweig,
Wednesday, April 26th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Measurement-dependent Noisy Search: An Information Acquisition Approach
Tara Javidi,
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Logic Seminar
On The Interplay Between Representations and Topological Actions
Omer Tamuz,
Economics & Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,