Institute Calendar
April 2018
Wednesday, April 18th, 2018
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Topological Quantum Computing with and without Majoranas
Daniel Litinski,
PhD Candidate,
von Oppen Group,
Freie University Berlin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:15pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Olfactory receptor-based sensors to accelerate the engineering of chemical-producing microbes
Pamela Peralta-Yahya,
Assistant Professor,
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
"Mass Migration: a Galactic, not just an Earthly Phenomenon"
Hans Walter Rix,
MPIA,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Human Health Impacts of Water Reuse in the Changing Climate: Pathogen Control for Global Water and Food Safety
Thanh (Helen) Nguyen,
Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Chair of Environmental Engineering and Science Program,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Costly Concessions: An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfectly Transferable Utility
Alfred Galichon,
Professor of Economics and Mathematics,
New York University, FAS and Courant Institute,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Recovering a hidden hamiltonian cycle via linear programming
Yihong Wu,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Statistics and Data Science,
Yale University,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Art + Tech Seminar
Critical Making
Matt Ratto,
Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto; Director, Critical Making Lab; Director, Semaphore Research Cluster on Mobile and Pervasive Computing,
Thursday, April 19th, 2018
8:30am
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11:30am
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9:00am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Programming dynamic behaviors in molecular systems and materials"
Elisa Franco,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Riverside,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Materials Design Criteria for Next-Generation Redox Flow Batteries
Fikile R. Brushett,
Raymond A. (1921) and Helen E. St. Laurent Career Development Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Andrea Buffa, Boston University
Institutional Investors, Heterogeneous Benchmarks and the Comovement of Asset Prices
Andrea Buffa,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Boston University,
4:00pm
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Norman Davidson Lecture
"Reconstructing Developmental Landscapes . . .One Grain at a Time"
Eric Lander,
President and founding Director,
Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
A cargo-sorting DNA robot
Lulu Qian,
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Regenerative Medicine Special Seminar
Recent progress on the Hadwiger-Nelson problem
Forte Shinko,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
Collective Violence in Rural Medieval Japan
Morten Oxenboell,
Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures,
Indiana University Bloomington,
Friday, April 20th, 2018
8:00am
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8:00am
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11:30am
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TAPIR Seminar
Physics of Hot Gas in Galaxy Clusters on Macro and Micro Scales
Irina Zhuravleva,
Phys Sci Res Assoc,
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The hydrodynamics of sea lion locomotion
Megan Leftwich,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
George Washington University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
On the Road to a Billion Planets
Jessie Christiansen,
Staff Scientist,
IPAC,
Caltech,
Saturday, April 21st, 2018