Institute Calendar
October 2017
Tuesday, October 24th, 2017
12:10pm
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12:50pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Entanglement transformation and the structure of matrix space
Yinan Li,
University of Technology Sydney,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
A recursion theoretic property of analytic equivalence relations
Howard Becker,
Visiting Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Combinatorics Seminar
Simple 3-designs constructed from finite classic groups and Preparata codes
Hao Shen,
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
"Models of phenotypic plasticity and its role in the transition to metastasis"
Herbert Levine,
Hasselmann Professor of Bioengineering, Co-Director, Center of Theoretical Biological Physics,
Department of Bioengineering,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Derandomization: Polynomial Identity Testing and Isolation Lemma (1st of 2 parts)
Rohit Gurjar,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
TBD
Michael Chaffin,
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Temperature Representation and Processing in the Drosophila Brain
Marco Gallio,
Assistant Professor,
Neurobiology,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
GW170817: Gravitational Waves from the Merger of Two Neutron Stars
Jess McIver,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Diophantine equations, L-functions, and Shimura varieties
Yifeng Liu,
Department of Mathematics,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors and Models of Moral Cognition
Eric Schwitzgebel,
Professor of Philosophy,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Incentive Effects of Horizontal and Vertical Inequality
Ricardo Perez-Truglia,
Assistant Professor,
Anderson School of Management,
UCLA,
5:30pm
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6:40pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2017
8:00am
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10/31
5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Laboratory studies of granular materials under shear: from avalanches to force chains.
Eloïse Marteau,
Graduate Student, Applied Mechanics,
10:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Arithmetic and Geometric Structures in Physics Seminar
p-adic Mellin amplitudes
Sarthak Parikh,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Debris Disks as Probes of Planetary System Evolution
Meredith MacGregor,
Harvard,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED | Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This talk has been cancelled.
Phil Haile,
Ford Foundation Professor of Economics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Rethinking the abyssal ocean circulation: bottom-intensified mixing on slopes
Jörn Callies,
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Molecular Design Strategies for Functional Soft Materials
Maxwell Robb,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Glaciology Field Work in Nepal
Amaury Dehecq,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Earth Science Section,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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German Film: Willkommen bei den Hartmanns
Movie screening for German 130a & 132a // In German with English subtitles
Thursday, October 26th, 2017
10:30am
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12:30pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Scalable Thermal Energy Engineering Technologies"
Shannon K. Yee,
Professor,
School of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:15pm
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2:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Searching for dark matter annihilation in nearby galaxy groups
Siddarth Mishra-Sharma,
Princeton University,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
How we know what not to think
Fiery Cushman,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychology,
Harvard University ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar
Cryo-EM Structures of Tau Filaments from Alzheimer's Disease Brain: Implications for Fibril Propagation arising from Patient-Based
Anthony Fitzpatrick,
Assistant Professor ,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Zuckerman Institute - Columbia University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
The Hasse-Weil zeta functions of orthogonal Shimura varieties
Yihang Zhu,
Department of Mathematics,
Columbia University ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Black holes, quantum information, and the foundations of physics
Steve Giddings,
Professor of Physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Synthetic Polymers as Molecular Platforms for Antimicrobial Peptide-Mimetics
Kenichi Kuroda, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor,
Department of Biologic & Materials Sciences,
University of Michigan School of Dentistry,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
Reputation Management in late Eighteenth-century England: Angelica Kauffman, the Women and the Men
Amanda Vickery,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History,
Caltech,
5:30pm
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6:40pm
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Complexity in holography and QFT
Shira Chapman,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Shining Light On Quantum Magnetism
Nicholas Laurita,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Hsieh Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Marcelo Fernandez, Caltech
Deferred Acceptance and Regret-Free Truthtelling: A characterization result
Marcelo Fernandez,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
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
The history of inter- and circumgalactic gas since reionization
Phoebe Upton-Sanderbeck,
Graduate Student,
University of Washington,