Institute Calendar
January 2018
Tuesday, January 16th, 2018
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
TBD
Ellen Leask,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
Jennifer Buz,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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POSTPONED - Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This talk has been rescheduled to Wednesday, January 24, 2018.
Kirill Evdokimov,
Assistant Professor,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, January 17th, 2018
10:00am
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11:00am
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Astronomy Colloquium
Welcome to the multi-messenger era: a report on the first binary neutron star merger detection
Jennifer Barnes,
Columbia,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment: A Vision to Enable Decentralized Water Treatment and Address Growing Challenges of the Water Energy Nexus
Pedro J.J. Alvarez,
George R. Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University; Director of the NSF ERC on Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Alexander Lipton, StrongHold Labs & MIT
Modern Monetary Circuit Theory and Stability of Financial Ecosystem
Alexander Lipton,
Founder and CEO, StrongHold Labs; Connection Science Fellow, MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Fundamental Neutron Physics at the ILL
Peter Geltenbort,
Institut Laue-Langevin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Halide Perovskites: Poor man's high performance semiconductors
Mercouri Kanatzidis,
Professor,
Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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Moore Lecture
"How to Hit HIV Where it Hurts"
Arup Chakrabirty,
Founding Director, Institute for Medical Engineering & Science; Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry and Biological Engineering, MIT,
Founding Steering Committee Member, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, & Harvard,
Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Shuttle Catalysis - a Conceptual Blueprint for Reversible Functional Group Transfer
Bill Morandi,
Associate Professor,
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Deterministic Random Matrices
Ilya Soloveychik,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
School of Engineering and Applied Science,
Harvard University,
5:30pm
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9:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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7:45pm
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CS9: Intro to CS Research and Industry
Topological Quantum Computation -- Professor Xie Chen, Caltech
7:00pm
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9:10pm
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Thursday, January 18th, 2018
8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Physics based modeling and data analytics for infrastructure system resilience
Elnaz Esmaeilzadeh Seylabi,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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CMA presents: The Art of Science Communication
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Paula Apsell,
Senior executive producer,
NOVA,
PBS,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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12:50pm
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Physics Research Conference
Unification from Scattering Amplitudes
Clifford Cheung,
Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Sculpting and Visualizing Micro-Chemical Environments: Tracking Mass Transport, Probing Chemical Kinetics, and Manipulating Suspensions
Todd Squires,
Professor and Vice Chair,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, January 19th, 2018
10:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Emergent dimensions from large N confinement
Aleksey Cherman,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Improving gravitational-wave detector sensitivity with cryogenic test mass cooling
Johannes Eichholz,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Experimental Physics,
Adhikari Group,
12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
"Structural and functional characterization of the E coli MetNI methionine transporter"
Phong Nguyen,
Graduate Student, Rees Research Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Probing the Structure of Active Galactic Nuclei Using Light Echoes
Anna Pancoast,
NASA Einstein Fellow,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
New Frontiers in Imitation Learning
Yisong Yue ,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department ,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Homomorphisms of pure mapping class groups to the integers
Nicholas Vlamis,
Mathematics Department,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Architecture at the nanoscale: Design principles for next-generation catalysts in energy applications
Yuriy Román-Leshkov,
Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, January 20th, 2018
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