Institute Calendar
October 2016
Saturday, October 8th, 2016
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1:30pm
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5:20pm
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Photography on Campus: Almasi/Keshishzadeh Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:50pm
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4:50pm
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2:00pm
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6:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Arabyan Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Mouradian Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Panosyan Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Pogosyan Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Madatian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:50pm
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6:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Giez Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, October 9th, 2016
9:00am
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1:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Banks Wedding Photoshoot
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 10th, 2016
12:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Secure State-Estimation and Control for Dynamical Systems Under Adversarial Attacks
Professor Paulo Tabuada,
Electrical Engineering,
University of California at Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Robert Marquez, UC Davis
Financial Frictions, Foreign Currency Borrowing, and Systemic Risk
Robert Marquez, Professor of Finance,
Graduate School of Management,
University of California, Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Water in Motion: Mysteries from Northern California
Inez Fung,
Professor of Atmospheric Science,
Department of Earth and Planetary Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Arun Viswanathan,
The New Space Race: Cyber Security for Space Missions,
CTM - The Aerospace Corporation Subcontract,
JPL, Cyber Security Improvment Project,
Jeremy Pecharich,
CTM - The Aerospace Corporation Subcontract,
JPL, Cyber Security Improvment Project,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Sofic groups
Peter Burton,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics Department,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Geometry and Physics Seminar
Topological quantum field theory and geometric invariants
Yongbin Ruan,
Professor,
University of Michigan,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Topological quantum field theory and geometric invariants
Yongbin Ruan,
William Fulton Collegiate Professor,
Mathematics Department,
University of Michigan LSA,
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
Multipartite Multichannel Interferometry for Quantum Information Processing
Barry Sanders,
University of Calgary,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Some Equivalence Relations without the Mycielski Property
William Chan,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics Department,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar - CANCELED
TBA
David Hughes,
Assistant Professor,
Entomology and Biology,
Penn State,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence
Yongbin Ruan,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2016
10:00am
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11:30am
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Global Bifurcations and Coherent States in Nonlinear Wave Equations
Eduard-Wilhelm Kirr,
Associate Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
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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7:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Nanophotonic Quantum Networks in Diamond
Alp Sipahigil,
Senior Graduate Student,
Department of Physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
AGN Triggering in Galaxy Mergers as Traced by Dual AGN and Offset AGN
Julie Comerford,
Colorado,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Catalysis and Chemical Mechanisms of Calcite Dissolution in Seawater
Adam Subhas,
Graduate Student,
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Impact of Defects on Efficiency of Light Emitters
Chris van de Walle,
Professor of Materials Science and the Herbert Kroemer Chair in Materials Science,
Materials Department,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Future Direction of Nucleoside Antibiotics, Synthesis and Novel Drug Target
Michio Kurosu,
Associate Professor,
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences,
University of Tennessee Health Science Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
How is an Olinguito like a Gothic church?
Aleta Quinn,
Ahmanson Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy of Science,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 13th, 2016
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Enabling large eddy simulations of realistic turbulent flows"
Johan Larsson,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
University of Maryland,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Role of Substrate in Tail-Anchored Protein Targeting
Un Seng Chio,
Graduate Student, Shan Research Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
From algorithms to lower bounds and back via the statistical query complexity
Vitaly Feldman,
IBM Research Almaden ,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Integrated Modeling of GMT
Dr. Antonin Bouchez,
GMTO,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture
Symmetry Through Geometry
Nalini Joshi,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Sydney,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture - POSTPONED
Ahmad K. Omar,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
New Topological Phases of Matter: Platform for emergent Dirac, Majorana and Weyl fermions
Zahid Hasan,
Professor of Physics,
Princeton University,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Against the Odds: Our Mountain Biking Adventure from Canada to Mexico
Vito Rubino,
Caltech Alpine Club,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, October 14th, 2016
8:00am
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Haifeng Xu, USC
Persuasion Through the Computational Lens
Haifeng Xu, Graduate Student,
Economics & Computation,
USC,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
The Timberland Economy in Southeastern Guizhou: Co-ownership, Securitization, and Risk-Sharing
Meng Zhang,
Ph.D. Candidate,
History Department,
UCLA,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Quasilocal free energy in GR: Positivity and monotonicity
Wolfgang Wieland,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Relativistic effects on LSS: power spectrum and bispectrum
Enea Di Dio,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
INAF-OATS (Trieste Observatory),
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Compliance and Instability in Hierarchical Structures: from morphing wings to metamaterials
Andres Arrieta,
Purdue University,