Institute Calendar
October 2017
Thursday, October 19th, 2017
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Dynamics, Feedback, and Transient Antibiotic Resistance in Single Cells"
Mary Dunlop,
Professor,
Biomedical Engineering Department,
Boston University,
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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1:30pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Neuroimaging of pain and distress: From biomarkers to brain representation
Tor Wager,
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Asymmetry in Molecular Machines
Gino Cingolani,
Professor,
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,
Thomas Jefferson University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
Drugs and metal: using directed evolution to engineer biocatalysts for facile pharmaceutical production
Kari Hernandez,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology ,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
multiple zeta-half values, double shuffle equation, and connection with cusp forms
Ming Da,
Department of Mathematics,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Exploring new frontiers of quantum optical science
Mikhail Lukin,
Professor of Physics,
Harvard University,
5:30pm
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6:40pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 20th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The Markov property of the CFT vacuum and the entropic proof of the a-theorem
Eduardo Teste Lino,
Centro Atomico Bariloche,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Exactly Solvable Model for Two Dimensional Topological Superconductor
Zitao Wang,
Graduate Student, Xie Chen Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Searching for Biases in Observations of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies Using Simulations
Andrew Graus,
Graduate Student,
UC Irvine,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Turbulence in stratified flows: wakes of submersibles and flow over underwater topography
Sutanu Sarkar,
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering,
University of California at San Diego,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Concordance invariants from truncated Heegaard Floer homology
Linh Truong,
Department of Mathematics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar-CANCELLED
!! This talk will be rescheduled for a later date
Yigong Shi,
Professor,
School of Life Sciences,
Tsinghua University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Eigenvalue Asymptotics for Dirichlet-to-Neumann Operator
Victor Ivrii,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
TBA
Konstantin Tikhomirov,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
Cosmic Fireworks
Mansi Kasliwal,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
Saturday, October 21st, 2017
9:00am
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5:30pm
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9:00am
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11:00am
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Sunday, October 22nd, 2017
12:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sandrosyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, October 23rd, 2017
10:00am
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11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Coherent structures, their interactions, and their effects on passive scalar transport and aero-optic distortion in a turbulent boundary layer
Theresa Saxton-Fox,
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech Alumni Career Webinar Series
What Makes A Great Leader? Introduction to Leadership
Corinne Bendersky, PhD,
Associate Professor of Management and Organizations ,
Anderson School of Management,
UCLA ,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Synthesis of Pillar-Shaped Macrocyclic Compounds "Pillar[n]arenes" Providing Supramolecular Assemblies
Tomoki Ogoshi,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Kanazawa University,
4:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Categorification at prime roots of unity
You Qi,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Deconstructing the Neural Dynamics of Anticipation
CNS Seminar
Sotiris Masmanidis,
Assistant Professor,
Neurobiology,
UCLA Brain Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Of Babies and bathwater: can we reconstruct the global carbon cycle using the chemistry of ancient carbonate sediments?
John A. Higgins,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Geosciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Electoral Competition with Rationally Inattentive Voters
Filip Matejka,
Associate Professor with Tenure, CERGE-EI; Research Affiliate, Center for Economic and Policy Research,
Tuesday, October 24th, 2017
8:30am
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3:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
When is Biological Science Information Science?
Lior Pachter,
Bren Professor of Computational Biology and Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
CALTECH,