Institute Calendar
November 2015
Saturday, November 7th, 2015
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Miller Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sunday, November 8th, 2015
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Batmanidis Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Tsai Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, November 9th, 2015
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Proton-Coupled Reduction of N2 Facilitated by Molecular Fe Complexes
Jon Rittle,
Graduate Student in Chemistry,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Perverse sheaves on arc spaces and local L-factors
Alexis Bouthier,
Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Mixing Light and Sound in Nanophotonic Circuits
Peter T. Rakich,
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Faster Convex Optimization: Simulated Annealing with an Efficient Universal Barrier
Professor Elad Hazan,
Department of Computer Science,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Origin of Planets Found Close to their Host Stars
Kevin C. Schlaufman,
Carnegie-Princeton Fellow,
Department of Astrophysical Sciences,
Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
LHCb results on tetra- and penta-quark candidates
Tomasz Skwarnicki,
Syracuse University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Teaching Sponges New Tricks: Charge Transport and Catalysis in Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks
Mircea Dinca,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, November 10th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Energy Efficient Design: From Computing To Biomedical Devices
Azita Emami,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Entanglement entropy from thermodynamic entropy in one higher dimension
Mohammad Maghrebi,
JQI,
4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Fishing for Spectral Lines in the (Lensed) High-z Universe
Dr. Adi Zitrin,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Low Energy Muon Production For Future Muon experiments
Yu Bao,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
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Linus Pauling Lectureship
Nanoelectronic Tools for Brain Science
Charles M. Lieber,
Mark Hyman Professor of Chemistry / Chair,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Recent developments in graph Ramsey theory
David Conlon,
Royal Society University Research Fellow,
Mathematical Institute,
University of OXford,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2015
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Special Civil Engineering Seminar
Brighton i360 Tower Dynamics & Damping 2006 – 2015
Max Irvine,
Professor Emeritus,
University of New South Wales,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Instability and exponential dichotomy of Hamiltonian PDE
Chongchun Zeng,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Georgia Tech,
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Good Quotients of Spectral Triples
Branimir Cacic,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
Texas A & M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The asteroseismic revolution of red giant stars: from stellar interiors to the structure of the Milky Way
Dennis Stello,
Univ. Sydney,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Physics of Atmospheric Instability, Lightning, and Global Warming
David Romps,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth and Planetary Science ,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Paul Tetlock, Columbia University
Retail Short Selling and Stock Prices
Paul Tetlock, Professor of Business, Finance and Economics Division, Columbia University,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Multiple Phonon Scattering at Proximal Interfaces
Pawel Keblinski,
Materials Science and Engineering Department ,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY,
4:40pm
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6:00pm
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CMA presents "Food, Science, and Thinking Big: Recapturing Imagination in How We Innovate"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Chris Young,
co-founder and CEO,
ChefSteps,
6:00pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, November 12th, 2015
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Topological Methods in Robot Motion Planning
Subhrajit Bhattacharya,
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Department of Mathematics ,
University of Pennsylvania,
12:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Emotion inside out: From cartoon neuroscience to the predictive brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett,
University Distinguished Professor,
Department of Psychology,
Northeastern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Taylor coefficients of L-functions for function fields
Zhiwei Yun,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
Stanford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
SPECIAL DIVISION SEMINAR -- See the Sound: In Search of the Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational Waves
Mansi Kasliwal,
Assistant Professor of Astronomy,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 13th, 2015
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Which quantum field theories have emergent gravity?
Shamit Kachru,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Two-Source Dispersers for Polylogarithmic Entropy and Improved Ramsey Graphs - part 1 of 2
Gil Cohen,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Compact object mergers with spinning neutron stars
Will East,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Dept of Physics,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Creating Giant Reconfigurable Space Systems Using Thousands of Spacecraft: Guidance & Control Perspectives
Soon-Jo Chung,
Associate Professor,
Aerospace Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Cable space surgeries via jointly primitive presentations of knots
Olga Plameneuskaya,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
Stony Brook,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Learning Seminar
Cohomology of algebraic varieties
Xinwen Zhu,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
New Insights into Nitrogen Fixation by a Molecular Fe-Based Catalyst
Niklas Thompson,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
The quenched-induced geometric Hall response
Justin Wilson,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
4:00pm
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Fluid transport by aggregations of small swimming organisms
Monica Martinez-Ortiz,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Introduction to Radio Astronomy
IEEE MTT-S, Caltech Mixed-Signal, RF & Microwave Seminar
Sander Weinreb,
Sr. Faculty Associate,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Saturday, November 14th, 2015
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