Institute Calendar
November 2014
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
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Number Theory Seminar
The Langlands-Shahidi method over function fields for the classical groups and the Ramanujan conjecture.
Luis Lomeli,
Dr.,
MSRI,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Neural Sources of Preference Distortion
Mathias Pessiglione,
Principal investigator (Inserm researcher) ,
Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (ICM),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
Prof. Nathan Smith,
Univ. of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
The Revolution will be Compartmentalized: Technology for Distributed Drug Discovery
Brian M. Paegel,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
The Scripps Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Sliding Rocks of Racetrack Playa—Rock Movement without aliens or giant magnets, just floating ice and light winds
Richard Norris,
Professor of Paleobiology,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Medical Engineering Seminar
Integrating hemodynamic stress and oxidative stress to assess unstable plaque
Tzung Hsiai, MD, PhD, FAHA,
Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering,
Division of Cardiology,
UCLA School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Taussky-Todd Lecture Series II: Convexity and subconvexity bounds for automorphic periods
Joseph Bernstein,
Professor of Mathematics,
University of Tel Aviv,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum dot micromaser driven by single electron tunneling
Jason Petta,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 14th, 2014
8:00am
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12:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Modularity and Greed in Double Auctions
Inbal Talgam-Cohen,
Hsieh Family SIGF Fellow,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Donor-Bidge-Acceptor Biradicals in Ground- and Excited States: Correlation of Exchange and Electronic Coupling with Excited-State Wave Function Mixing
David A. Shultz,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
North Carolina State University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Rates of Stellar Tidal Disruption as Probes of the Supermassive Black Hole Mass Function
Nicholas Stone,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Astrophysics Laboratory,
Columbia University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Self-similarity in the inertial region of wall turbulence
Joe Klewicki,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of New Hampshire and University of Melbourne,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Non-uniquely ergodic laminations and limit sets of geodesics in the Thurston compactification of Teichmüller space
Babak Modami,
Visiting Scholar,
Mathematics,
UIUC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Comparison of Molecular Co and Fe Complexes in the Catalytic Conversion of N2 to NH3
Trevor Del Castillo,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The impact of Alexander von Humboldt and Humboldtian science in the United States
Sandra Rebok,
Huntington Library/Spanish National Research Council ,
4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Electron tunneling in Van der Waals heterostructures
Chandni U. ,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Eisenstein Group,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 15th, 2014
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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11/16
12:00am
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12:00am
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11/16
12:00am
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12:00am
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11/16
12:00am
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7:30am
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10:30am
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Le & Nguyen Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
9:00am
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nguyen Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ortega & Hazboun Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Avanessian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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Sunday, November 16th, 2014
12:00am
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11/17
12:00am
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12:00am
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11/17
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12:00am
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11/17
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 17th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Moduli spaces of principal bundles and compactifications of character varieties
Christopher Manon,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematical Sciences,
George Mason University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Building molecular assemblies to control the flow of biological information"
Ahmad S. Khalil,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Boston University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Neng Wang, Columbia Business School
A Theory of Liquidity and Risk Management Based on the Inalienability of Risky Human Capital (joint with Patrick Bolton and Jinqiang Yang)
Neng Wang,
Chong Khoon Lin Professor of Real Estate and Finance,
Columbia Business School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Measuring CO2 from Space with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory –2 (OCO-2)
David Crisp,
Senior Research Scientist and OCO-2 Science Team Leader,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Probing physics behind neutrino masses
Kaladi Babu,
Oklahoma State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Minimal Seufaces with Arbitrary Topology in H^2xR
Baris Coskunuzer,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
Koc University and MIT,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar
Combinatorial tangle Floer homology
Ina Petkova,
G. C. Evans Intructor,
Mathematics,
Rice University,
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
10:30am
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12:00pm
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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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IST Lunch Bunch
Autonomous Aerial Mobility on Earth and in Space
Larry Mathies,
Senior Research Scientist,
Computer Vision Group,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Systems Biology Supergroup Meeting
A New Circuit Element in the Synapse: From Biochemistry to Systems Biology
Mary Kennedy,
The Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Biology,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Information Causality, Szemeredi-Trotter, and algebraic variants of CHSH
Mohammad Bavarian,
MIT,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
A new approach to amenability and Ramsey theory
Andy Zucker,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
Prof. Brian Metzger,
Columbia Univ.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Boltzmann's Dog and Darwin's Finch: The statistical thermodynamics of self-replication and evolution
Jeremy L. England,
Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Career Development Assistant Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar -- Kroc Lecture
Stem Cells in Silence, Action and Cancer
Elaine Fuchs,
Professor,
Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development,
Rockefeller University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Dark Matter and the Theory for Baryon Number at the LHC
Pavel Fileviez Perez,
MPIK, Heidelberg & Caltech,
Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Coding for Interactive Communication Made Communication Efficient and Easy (or "How to make conversations robust to noise.")
Bernard Haeulpler,
Carnegie Mellon University,