Institute Calendar
November 2017
Tuesday, November 14th, 2017
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International Education Week Lecture
Inspirations + Transformations: My Journey from Cairo to Caltech
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Rethinking Datacenter Management with Game Theory
Benjamin Lee,
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering ,
Duke University,
12:10pm
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12:50pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Science Seminar
Gravitational-wave polarizations: what have we learned, what will we learn, and why does it matter
Maximiliano Isi,
LIGO,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Matrix Product Operators in Quantum Information
David Perez-Garcia,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
An Operator Algebraic Tool for Deducing Measure Equivalence of Groups
Daniel Hoff,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
From Network Coding to Sidon Spaces
Netanel Raviv,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Icy ocean world interiors from gravity and topography
Doug Hemingway,
Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Autoduality of Jacobians for singular curves
Dima Arinkin,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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
Searching for Policy Reforms
Avidit Acharya,
Assistant Professor,
Stanford University,
4:45pm
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6:00pm
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CMA presents: First the Desert, Then the Stars: The Dubai Future Foundation, the Museum of the Future, and the 21st Century
Noah Raford,
Chief Operating Officer and Futurist-in-Chief,
Dubai Future Foundation,
5:30pm
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6:40pm
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2017
9:00am
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5:00pm
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9:30am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Attacks on Blockwise Local PRGs and Indistinguishability Obfuscation
Vinod Vaikuntanathan,
MIT,
11:00am
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11:00am
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Max Williams Lecture
Study of Human Diseases at the Intersections of Engineering, Sciences and Medicine
Subra Suresh,
President-Designate and Distinguished University Professor Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Arithmetic and Geometric Structures in Physics Seminar
A multiplier functional calculus
Michael Hartz,
Department of Mathematics,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Environmental sustainability at the intersection of climate and human change
Efi Foufoula_Georgiou,
Distinguished Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Breaking down Bacterial Cell Walls to Understand Inflammation
Catherine L. Grimes,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Delaware,
6:30pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 16th, 2017
8:00am
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Ongoing
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Fundamental Solutions in Elastodynamics: Pathologies, Outright Errors, and Paradoxes"
Eduardo Kausel,
Professor Emeritus,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Research talks from Resnick Graduate Research Fellows Xiaoqi Ren & Sebastian Lee
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Materials Science Special Lecture
Molecular Dynamics—From the First Principles of Quantum Mechanics to Computer Aided Materials Design
Anders Niklasson,
Theoretical Division,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
A string-inspired SYK model and some 4d black hole phenomenology
Tarek Anous,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Steering Photons: From detectors and smart windows to space propulsion and quantum forces
Jeremy Munday,
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Targeted manipulation of injured glia through nanomedicines: towards treatments for neuroinflammation and CNS disorders
Rangaramanujam Kannan,
Arnall Patz Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmolgy & Co-Director at Center for Nanomedicine,
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Energy harvesting and energy cooperating wireless networks: A new frontier for communication and information theory
Aylin Yener,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Tarun Chordia, Emory University
p-hacking: Evidence from two million trading strategies
Tarun Chordia,
Professor of Finance,
Goizueta Business School,
Emory University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Globally analytic representations of the pro-p Iwahori of GL(2) and
Laurent Clozel,
Département de Mathématiques d’Orsay,
Université Paris-Sud,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Unresolved Problems in Neutron Decay
Chen-Yu Liu,
Assistant Professor,
CEEM/Physics Department,
Indiana University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Institute-wide Seminar
Opportunities and Challenges in a Borderless Global Research Enterprise
Subra Suresh,
President-Designate and Distinguished University Professor,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,
5:30pm
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6:40pm
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8:30pm
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