Institute Calendar
November 2017
Saturday, November 4th, 2017
3:00pm
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3:30pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Dominguez Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 5th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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Monday, November 6th, 2017
9:00am
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9:00am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Special Biology Seminar
Fish and FISH - A Window into the Eclectic Life of a Computational Biologist
Ewan Birney,
Director,
EMBL-EBI,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Developments and Prospects in Precision Timing Detectors
Artur Apresyan,
CERN,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Pyrrolo[3,2-b]Pyrroles - From Serendipitous Discovery to the Most Electron-Rich Aromatic Heterocycles
Daniel T. Gryko,
Professor,
Organic Chemistry,
Polish Academy of Sciences,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Non-monotonicity of the matrix exponential function, why it is a problem, and what to do about it
Professor Eric Carlen,
Department of Mathematics,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thomas J. and Earleen Ahrens Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences
Exoplanets and the Golden Age of Giant Planet Physics
Jonathan J. Fortney,
Professor,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of California, Santa Cruz,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2017
10:00am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Open research problems in computer graphics and games
J.P. Lewis,
Lead Researcher at SEED, Electronic Arts,
12:10pm
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12:50pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Numerical binary black hole mergers in dynamical Chern-Simons
Maria Okounkova,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:45pm
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3:45pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Stability in the homology of configuration spaces
Jenny Wilson,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Exoplanetary Atmospheres: Some Modeling Advances in Advance of JWST
Jonathan Fortney,
Professor,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of California, Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Dynamics, geometry, and the moduli space of Riemann surfaces
Alex Wright,
Department of Mathematics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Conditional equilibria of multi-stage games with infinite sets of signals and actions
Roger Myerson,
Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago; Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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6:40pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2017
12:00am
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11/12
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Caltech Associates President's Circle Travel Program: Napa and Sonoma
Off Campus
The Science of Wine with David Baltimore, Alice Huang, and Tom Mannion
9:00am
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11:00am
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11:30am
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TCS+ Talk
A Constant-factor Approximation Algorithm for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem
Ola Svensson,
EPFL,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:15pm
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5:15pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
A Thurston boundary for the Teichmüller space of an infinite Riemann surface
Francis Bonahon,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
A New Regime of Optical Variability in AGN: the Kepler Light Curves
Krista Lynne Smith,
KIPAC, Stanford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Diversity in Chemistry Initiative Seminar
Interrupting quorum sensing and cyclic dinucleotide signaling in bacteria and immune cells with small molecules
Herman Sintim,
Drug Discovery Professor,
Department of Chemistry, Institute for Drug Discovery and Purdue Institute of Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease ,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Air Quality and Climate in the Central Amazon
Scot Martin,
Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Electrons and Phonons in Solids
Philip Allen,
Professor,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Stony Brook University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
A Paradigm Shift in Slow Motion: On the History of Gravitational Waves
Alexander Blum,
Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science; Visiting Associate in History of Science, Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Wealth Effects and Information Acquisition
John Rehbeck,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Ohio State University,
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
Tragedy in the Tetons and Mount Whitney by Fair Means
Cody Finke,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Thursday, November 9th, 2017
8:50am
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11:30am
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