Institute Calendar
November 2018
Monday, November 5th, 2018
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Formation of the lunar fossil bulges and its implication for the early Earth and Moon
Shijie Zhong,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
B Decay Anomalies: Still HQETing
Zoltan Ligeti,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Inexpensive Electrocatalysts for Nonconventional Water Splitting and Organic Transformation
Yujie Sun,
Associate Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Cincinnati,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Fast spectral solvers for computational science and engineering
Oscar P. Bruno,
Professor,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
CALTECH,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar
A Floer homology invariant for 3-orbifolds via bordered Floer theory
6:00pm
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8:30pm
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Caltech Associates Westside Dinner and Program:Talking to Cells
Off Campus
featuring Mikhail Shapiro, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Heritage Medical Research Institute Principal Investigator Schlinger Scholar
6:00pm
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11/12
7:00pm
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2018
11:50am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Off-policy Evaluation and Learning in Theory and in the Wild
Yu-Xiang Wang,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science Department,
UC Santa Barbara,
12:00pm
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12:50pm
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12:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Classical Verification of Quantum Computations
Urmila Mahadev,
University of California, Berkeley,
3:00pm
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5:30pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Saturn's Interior Rotation from Cassini Ring Seismology
Chris Mankovich,
PhD Candidate,
Astronomy & Astrophysics Department,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Recent developments on Falconer's distance set conjecture
Yumeng Ou,
Department of Mathematics,
Baruch College, CUNY,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Structural Models with Unobserved Choices
Yi Xin,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2018
10:00am
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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11:40am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:20pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Contrasting the Hydrological Cycle in Past and Future Warm Climates - with Implications for Ocean Overturning Circulation
Natalie J Burls,
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences,
George Mason University,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Precision microwave spectroscopy of positronium fine structure
Alberto M. Alonso,
University College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Robust Catalysts for Solar-Driven Water Splitting
Harry Gray,
Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry; Founding Director, Beckman Institute,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Analysis Seminar
Matrix monotone functions on general sets
Otte Heinävaara,
Department of Mathematics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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The Future of Computing: Domain-Specific Accelerators
William Dally,
Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research, NVIDIA Corporation; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Tampering with Information
Odilon Camara,
Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech; Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall School of Business,
6:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Ascending Denali
Alexander Smirnoff,
Southern California Mountaineers Association,
Thom Wolfsen,
Southern California Mountaineers Association,
Todd Martin,
Southern California Mountaineers Association,
Thursday, November 8th, 2018
8:30am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Sparse Structural System Identification of Nonlinear Systems
Satish Nagarajaiah,
Professor,
Civil and Mechanical Engineering,
Rice University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Bacterial interactions in the small intestine of environmental enteropathy mouse model"
Roberta Poceviciute,
Graduate Student, Ismagilov Lab,
CCE,
Caltech ,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
CS Technical Interview Workshop with Alums Phil Naecker and Mason Smith
Phil Naecker,
TGS Management Company,
Mason Smith,
TGS Management Company,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Promises of Machine Learning for Space Exploration.
Shahrouz Ryan Alimo,
Scientist,
Machine Learninig,
JPL,
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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** CANCELED ** T&C Chen Center for Brain-Machine Interface Distinguished Lecture Series.
"Dynamic Sensorimotor Control and Brain-Machine Interface"
He Cui,
Principal Investigator and Lab Head ,
Laboratory of Neural Mechanism of Motor Control ,
Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai, China,