Institute Calendar
October 2017
Friday, October 27th, 2017
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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CMS/EE Special Seminar
Causal Inference in the Presence of Latent Nodes
Negar Kiyavash,
Associate Professor,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Volume conjectures for Reshetikhin-Turaev and Turaev-Viro invariants
Tian Yang,
Department of Mathematics,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
New Reactions via Earth Abundant Element Photocatalysis
Julian West,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gevorkyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 28th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Keleshyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Abedi Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gorezar Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 29th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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3:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Somers Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 30th, 2017
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Photocatalytic Nitrite Reduction on CoMg Complexes: Mechanistic Insights into N–N Bond Formation
Tanvi Ratani,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Monodromic complexes, Koszul duality, and tilting characters of reductive
Shotaro Makisumi,
Department of Mathematics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
A deep thermal plume in the mantle beneath Hawaii? Constraints from tomography and reflection seismology
Robert D. van der Hilst,
Schlumberger Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Head of Department,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Unlocking the potential of CMS data: boosted Higgs, low-mass dijet resonances, and data scouting
Javier Duarte,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Market Power in Power Markets: Folklore, Proofs, and Counterexamples
Assistant Professor Eilyan Bitar,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Curious Creatures: Aesthetics, Sentience, and the case of the Medieval Ape
Patricia Clare Ingham,
Associate Professor, Department of English, Adjunct Professor,
Department of Religious Studies,
Indiana University,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2017
9:30am
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10:30am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:10pm
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12:50pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Efficient classical simulation of noisy quantum circuit
Xun Gao,
Tsinghua University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Strong conceptual completeness for L_{\omega_1\omega}
Ronnie Chen,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Derandomization: Polynomial Identity Testing and Isolation Lemma (2nd 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
Nancy Thomas,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
Michael Wong,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Constructing pseudorandom matrices with polynomial convolutions
Adam Marcus,
Mathematics Department,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Electoral Competition and Corruption: Theory and Evidence from India
Amrita Dhillon,
Professor of Political Economy,
King’s College London,
5:30pm
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6:40pm
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6:00pm
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9:00pm
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