Institute Calendar
November 2015
Saturday, November 14th, 2015
1:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Chan & Ma Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:50pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Chen & Lee Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Permer & Oswald Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Davtyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 15th, 2015
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 16th, 2015
10:00am
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11:00am
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Applied Physics Seminar
The Application of Cryogenic Rare Earth Ion Dopants for Quantum Information and Biomedical Imaging
Jevon Longdell,
Senior Lecturer,
Department of Physics,
University of Otago, New Zealand,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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
Logarithmic geometry and some applications
Mattia Talpo,
Post Doc,
Mathematics,
UBC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The formation of planets by pebble accretion
Michiel Lambrechts,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Planetary Science,
Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Definite surfaces and alternating links
Josh Greene,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Boston College,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Prospects of direct search for dark photons and dark Higgs in p+A collisions at Fermilab E-1067/SeaQuest experiment
Ming Liu,
LANL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Metals Recycling and Photoredox: New Chemistry to Improve the Sustainability of the Rare Earth Elements
Eric J. Schelter,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Pennsylvania,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
A higher-height lift of Rohlin's Theorem: on \eta^3
Mike Hill,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
Tuesday, November 17th, 2015
10:30am
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12:00pm
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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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IST Lunch Bunch
Chaos in a Bottle: Experimental Studies of Nonlinear Population Dynamics
Robert Desharnais,
Professor,
Department of Biological Sciences,
California State University, Los Angeles,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Detecting topological order in the Heisenberg pictureWe introduce a numerical method for identifying topological order in two-dimensional models based on one-dimensional bulk operators. The idea is to identify approximate symmetries supported on thin str
David Poulin,
University of Sherbrooke,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
Weak containment of measure preserving group actions
Peter Burton,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
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
TBD
Dr. Johanna Teske,
Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism - CIW,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Understanding the chemical processes that affect growth rates of atmospheric nanoparticles
James N. Smith,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
The GRACE Follow-On Laser Ranging Interferometer
Brent Ware,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A Measurement of the Ar(n,p)Cl cross section below 50 MeV
Nick Walsh,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Knot homologies and their deformations
Paul Wedrich,
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics,
University of Cambridge,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Bureaucratic Agency Problems and Legislative Oversight
Sean Gailmard, Professor, Travers Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley,
Wednesday, November 18th, 2015
8:00am
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5:00pm
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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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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Compact manifolds with integral bounds on the negative part of Ricci curvature and the Kato class
Christian Rose,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Technische Universitat Chemnitz & UCLA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar
Numerically detectable spectrum: why there exists no constructive proof of Wiener's 1/f theorem
Nikolai Nikkolski,
Professeur Emérite,
Mathematics,
Bordeaux/ Steklov Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Evolution of the ISM in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies
Jin Koda,
Stonybrook,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Stochastic Sorting
Jan Eeckhout, ICREA Researcher, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Thesis Defense
Firing Patterns of Cerebellar Purkinje Cells During Locomotion and Sleep
Britton Sauerbrei,
CNS Graduate Student,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Giant planet polar cyclones: lessons from terrestrial hurricanes
Morgan O'Neill,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar
Interplay Between Morphogen and Cellular Competence in the Neural Tube Pattern Formation
Noriaki Sasai,
Associate Professor,
Developmental Biomedical Science,
Nara Institute of Science and Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Strongly Enhanced Light-Matter Interactions using Plasmonic Nanocavities
Maiken Mikkelsen,
Nortel Networks Assistant Professor of Electricaland Computer Engineering and Assistant Professor of Physics,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 19th, 2015
8:00am
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Ongoing
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Ultrafast Spectroscopy for Energy Research
Xianfan Xu,
Professor,
School of Mechanical Engineering,
Purdue University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Functional Characterization of a Novel MUTYH Variant
Kevin McDonnell,
Dr.,
Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center,
USC School of Medicine,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Development of Fluorescent Tools for Live Cell Imaging: Exploring the Possibility of Zinc Ions to Act as Cellular Messengers
Amy Palmer,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Mechanosensing at cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesions
Alexander Dunn,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
the Geometry Near Infinity of shrinking Ricci Solitons
Bennett Chow,
Mathematics,
UCSD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Some degenerate Whittaker functions for Sp_n(R)
Stephen Kudia,
Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Einstein's Equations From Entanglement
Brian Swingle,
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 20th, 2015
12:00am
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11/21
12:00am
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8:00am
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11:00am
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Towards in situ Single Cell Systems Biology
Eric Lubeck,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
What is Temperature of a Pure State?
Jared Kaplan,
Johns Hopkins University,
11:30am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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