Institute Calendar
October 2017
Tuesday, October 10th, 2017
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Dynamical chaos as a tool for characterizing multi-planet systems
Daniel Tamayo,
Centre for Planetary Sciences & Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Rid System: Endogenously Generated Metabolic Stress and its Control
Diana Downs,
Professor,
Microbiology,
University of Gerogia,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Career Concerns and the Dynamics of Electoral Accountability
Gabriel Lopez-Moctezuma,
Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
On the Rise and Decline of Visual Modes of Teaching Philosophy
Susanna Berger,
Assistant Professor of Art History,
Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
USC,
5:30pm
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6:40pm
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2017
10:00am
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11:00am
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Research talks from Resnick Graduate Research Fellow Vatsal Jhalani & Postdoctoral Scholar Akira Kudo PhD
12:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Dimension-free estimates for discrete spherical maximal functions
Ben Krause,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Modeling Ignorance: Uncertainty or Complexity?
Peter Bossaerts,
Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor,
University of Melbourne & the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health,
4:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Nested Periodic Matrices and Dictionaries: New Signal Representations for Periodicity Analysis
Srikanth Tenneti,
PhD Student,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Oxygen isotope fractionation in the CaCO3-DIC-H2O system
James Watkins,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Oregon,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Quasi 2D and 1D van der Waals Materials: From Fancy Physics to Practical Devices
Alex Balandin,
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
The Lithiated Flatlands and Beyond. Part I
Victor A. Snieckus,
Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus,
Department of Chemistry,
Queen's University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Bull in a China Shop - Trad Climhing in Wadi Rum, Jordan
Yair Cohen,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Earth Science Section,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
7:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, October 12th, 2017
8:50am
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CMS Special Seminar
RenderMap: Exploiting the Link Between Perception and Rendering for Dense Mapping
Claudio Pinello,
United Technologies Research Center,
Andrzej Banaszuk,
United Technologies Research Center,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Time dependent fluid mechanics at nanometer length scales"
John E. Sader,
Professor,
School of Mathematics and Statistics ,
The University of Melbourne, Australia,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Designing a phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility test for N. gonorrhoeae at the point of care"
Emily Savela,
Graduate Student, Ismagilov Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Towards Universal Representations for Image Recognition
Fisher Yu,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Etale and crystalline companions: some applications of the Langlands correspondence
Kiran Kedlaya,
Department of Mathematics,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) First Light
Matt Dobbs,
Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier 2),
Astrophysics & Cosmology in the Department of Physics,
McGill University,
5:00pm
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5:50pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ramirez-Elliott Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:30pm
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6:40pm
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Friday, October 13th, 2017
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GALCIT Colloquium
Data to Decisions: Computational Methods for the Next Generation of Aerospace Systems
Karen Willcox,
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
8:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Applications of the Average Null Energy Condition
Clay Cordova,
Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Universal Hamiltonians for Exponentially Long Simulation
Thom Bohdanowicz,
Graduate Student, Brandao Group,
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Projective Anosov representations and convex cocompact actions
Andrew Zimmer,
Department of Mathematics,
College of William and Mary,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Stretch-relaxation of DNA molecules in semidilute solutions
Ravi Prakash Jagadeeshan,
Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Modulating Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions Using Lipid-Modified Electrodes
Edmund Tse,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,