Institute Calendar
May 2017
Saturday, May 13th, 2017
8:00pm
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Sunday, May 14th, 2017
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 15th, 2017
9:00am
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9:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Effective toughness of heterogeneous materials
Chun Jen Hsueh,
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CANCELLED | Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
This talk has been cancelled.
Marina Agranov,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Characterizing the Dust Environment on Mars During Powered Descent
Jason Rabinovitch,
Ph.D.,
Jet Propulsion laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Noncoding RNA-Mediated Genome Rearrangement
Laura Landweber,
Professor,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Biological Sciences ,
Colombia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
A metabolic constraint on marine biogeography in past and future climates
Curtis Deutsch,
Associate Professor,
School of Oceanography,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Non-WIMP dark matter and the structure of galaxies
Katelin Schutz,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Bioengineering Seminar
Making Micro-Biology Interactive, Accessible, and Programmable: Biotic Games, Cloud labs, and Synthetic Cell-Cell Adhesion
Ingmar Riedel-Kruse,
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering,
Bioengineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar
Getting the best reward: neuronal mechanisms for utility maximisation
Wolfram Schultz,
Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience,
Univerity of Cambridge, UK,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Physical Chemistry Seminar
Nanostructured Materials for Energy and Biomedical Applications
Jackie Ying,
Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, May 16th, 2017
11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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5/31
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Computational Literature How can a computer generate literary text?
Eran Hadas,
Lecturer in Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Humanities and Social Sciences,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
CALTECH,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Graduate Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar
Affine Grassmannian and Geometric Stake
Jize Yu,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Quantum and private capacities of low-noise channels
Graeme Smith,
JILA, CU Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy of Molecular, Biological and Materials Dynamics
Graham R. Fleming,
Professor of Chemistry,
Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
On the arithmetic degree of Shimura curves
Xinyi Yuan,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:45pm
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6:00pm
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CMA presents "Exploring the Deep Sea Aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's Falkor"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Carlie Wiener,
Schmidt Ocean Institute,
Victor Zykov,
Schmidt Ocean Institute,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Continuous categories and continuous logic
Ronnie Chen,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Exploring the low surface brightness sky with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array
Pieter van Dokkum,
Yale,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
On Growth and Form: From Macromolecular Assemblies to Multicellular Tissues
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan,
Professor,
Departments of Physics and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED | Bray Theory Workshop
This talk has been cancelled.
Asher Wolinsky,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemistry Club Seminar
Transition Metal Signaling in the Brain and Beyond
Christopher Chang,
Professor,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
The critical exponent of a graph
Apoorva Khare,
Department of Mathematics & Department of Statistics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Nonconvex Optimization for High Dimensional Learning: From Phase Retrieval to Submodular Maximization
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi,
Assistant Professor,
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The global atmospheric loading of desert dust: Implications for climate and human health
Jasper Kok,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
TBD
Harry Atwater,
Professor,
Applied Physics and Materials Science,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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"A hidden dimension in cell-cell communication"
Everhart Lecture Series
Sandy Nandagopal,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
Thursday, May 18th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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5/21
12:00am
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2:00am
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4:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Machine Learning + Physics"
Julia Ling,
2017 Caltech Young Investigator Lecturer in Engineering and Applied Science,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Annet Blom,
Graduate Student, Dougherty Research Group,
CCE, Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Random variables, entanglement and nonlocality in infinite translation-invariant systems
Miguel Navascues,
University of Vienna,