Institute Calendar
November 2017
Thursday, November 9th, 2017
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Towards mechanics using quantum mechanics"
Phanish Suryanarayana,
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Exploring the Role of [4Fe4S] Clusters in DNA Repair Proteins and Determining the Length Limit of DNA Charge Transport"
Edmund Tse,
Postdoctural Fellow, Barton Research Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:45pm
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3:45pm
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Analysis Seminar
Sharp estimates for Hörmander-type operators with positive-definite phase
Marina Iliopoulou,
Department of Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar-CANCELLED
!! This talk will be rescheduled for a later date
Olga Boudker,
HHMI Investigator, and Professor of Physiology and Biophysics,
Department of Physiology and Biophysics,
Weill Cornell Medical College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaborations (CHHC) Seminar: Keith Pluymers, Caltech
Cow Trials and Murdered Rivers: Violent Landscapes and Resistance in the Early Modern World
Keith Pluymers,
Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen Postdoctoral Instructor in the Humanities,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Fluctuations and Hydrodynamic Interactions in Active Colloidal Suspensions
Patrick T. Underhill,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Supersingular Isogeny Graphs in Cryptography
Kristin Lauter,
Cryptography Group,
Microsoft Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Demonology: The Curious Role of Intelligence in Physics & Biology
James Crutchfield,
Professor of Physics, Directory of Complexity Sciences Center,
UC Davis,
5:30pm
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6:40pm
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Friday, November 10th, 2017
10:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Gravitational shockwaves on rotating black holes
Yoni BenTov,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Kitaev Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Teddy Mekonnen, Caltech
Ex-ante Comparative Statics: Responsiveness to Information Quality
Tewodros (Teddy) Mekonnen,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
GPU accelerated thermochemistry and radiative transfer on protoplanetary disks and exoplanet outflows
Lile Wang,
Graduate Student,
Princeton University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Nanophotonics in the Flatland: Controlling Light at the Nanoscale with Plasmonics and Metasurfaces
Koray Aydin,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Northwestern University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Matrix-stabilized Combustion: A Tortuous Path to Establish Advanced Combustion Technologies
Matthias Ihme,
Associate Professor ,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
Saturday, November 11th, 2017
12:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Abrahamian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hacopian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gezalian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Bagramyan/Keshishian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 12th, 2017
6:00am
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Vu Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 13th, 2017
4:00am
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11:50pm
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10:00am
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Informal Biology Seminar
How cell fate decisions are maintained by Polycomb Repressive Complexes
Oliver Bell,
Group Leader,
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA),
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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International Education Week Lecture
Economic Impact Analysis of Immigrant Entrepreneurs Across America
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
"Elucidating the role of O-GlcNAc glycosylation in neurobiology and neurodegeneration."
Elizabeth Jensen,
Graduate Student, Hsieh-Wilson Lab,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Singular support for coherent sheaves and categories
Dima Arinkin,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Biology as Information Dynamics
John Baez,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of California, Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Centennial Glacier Retreat as Categorical Evidence of Climate Change
Gerard H. Roe,
Professor, Associate Chair,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Accelerating axion dark matter searches with quantum information technology
Konrad Lehnert,
JILA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Artificial Photosynthesis by Light Absorption, Charge Separation, and Photoredox Catalysis
Han Sen Soo,
Nanyang Assistant Professor,
Division of Chemistry & Biological Chemistry, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, College of Sciences,
Nanyang Technological University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Importance Sampling the Union of Rare Events with an Application to Power Systems Analysis
Professor Art B. Owen,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Bayesian Indirect Inference and the ABC of GMM
Han Hong,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, November 14th, 2017
9:00am
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2:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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Arithmetic and Geometric Structures in Physics Seminar
Non-archimedean distributions attached to twisted tensor L-functions
Baskar Balasubramanyam,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
12:00pm
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12:45pm
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Caltech Alumni Career Webinar Series
The Nuts and Bolts of Instagram for Scientists
Paige Jarreau, PhD,
Science Communication Specialist,
Louisiana State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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