Institute Calendar
March 2018
Monday, March 5th, 2018
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Cornelis Wiersma Visiting Professor of Neurobiology Seminar
Can defective genes be good for you? CYP2A6 metabolism alters risk for Smoking, Cancer and Cessation
Rachel Tyndale,
Canada Research Chair in Pharmacogenomics Head, Pharmacogenomics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Professor, ,
Pharmacology+Toxicology, & Psychiatry, ,
University of Toronto,
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Evolution of orogenic plateaus
Mark Allen,
Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
Durham University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Interaction of a quantum field with a rotating heat bath
Alejandro Jenkins,
University of Costa Rica,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
To Californium and Beyond
Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt,
Gregory R. Choppin Chair in Chemistry and Director, Center for Actinide Science & Technology,
Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Florida State University,
5:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2018
10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Network Algorithms and Delay Performance in Data Centers
R. Srikant,
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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6:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Writing and Publishing Your Applied Physics Paper
Eric Mills,
PhD,
Journal Manager,
"Applied Physics Letters," American Institute of Physics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"From Relative Perception in Cells, to Symmetry in Jellyfish"
Lea Goentoro,
Assistant Professor of Biology,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Peeking beyond the Standard Model: Muon g-2, Neutrino Mass Scale, and Free Neutron Decay
Martin Fertl,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Measuring Polarization in High-Dimensional Data: Method and Application to Congressional Speech
Jesse Shapiro,
George S. and Nancy B. Parker Professor of Economics,
Brown University,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2018
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Robot Planning for Underwater Sensing and Sampling
Gaurav S. Sukhatme,
Dean's Professor and Chairman ,
Department of Computer Science (Joint appointment in Electrical Engineering),
USC,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Metal Micro-lattices by Sintering of 3D-Printed Metal Particle Inks
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Reaction Development in the Amide Playground
Naoya Kumagai,
Ph.D., Chief Researcher,
Division of Chemistry,
Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Tokyo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Quantitative Biology Symposium
"3D Genomics"
Erez Lieberman-Aiden,
Assistant Professor,
Genetics,
Baylor College of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Single-Carbon Feedstocks for Sustainable Bioprocess Engineering
Ben Woolston,
Post-Doctoral Associate,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Shared Knowledge and Competition for Attention in Information Markets
Simone Galperti,
Assistant Professor of Economics, UCSD; Visiting Assistant Professor, Yale University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Adaptive Caching Algorithms with Optimality Guarantees for Arbitrary Network Topologies
Edmund Yeh,
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Northeastern University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Women's History Month Event
Who Am I? How Media Stereotypes Shape Gender Roles and What We Can Do About It
Thursday, March 8th, 2018
8:30am
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10:30am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Sequence Modeling via Segmentations
Chong Wang,
Google,
12:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Ab Initio Free Energy Calculations with Chemical Accuracy for Molecules - Surface Interactions
Joachim Sauer,
Prof.,
Chemistry,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
12:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Media Before Gutenberg
Ingrid Nelson,
Associate Professor of English,
Amherst College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Mathematics and Learning for Agile and Dynamic Bipedal Locomotion"
Jessy Grizzle,
Professor - Director of Robotics,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
NICER View: Astrophysics and Exploration from the International Space Station
Zaven Arzoumanian,
Senior Research Scientist,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, March 9th, 2018
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