Institute Calendar
October 2017
Wednesday, October 25th, 2017
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CANCELLED | Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This talk has been cancelled.
Phil Haile,
Ford Foundation Professor of Economics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Rethinking the abyssal ocean circulation: bottom-intensified mixing on slopes
Jörn Callies,
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Molecular Design Strategies for Functional Soft Materials
Maxwell Robb,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Glaciology Field Work in Nepal
Amaury Dehecq,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Earth Science Section,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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German Film: Willkommen bei den Hartmanns
Movie screening for German 130a & 132a // In German with English subtitles
Thursday, October 26th, 2017
10:30am
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12:30pm
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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
"Scalable Thermal Energy Engineering Technologies"
Shannon K. Yee,
Professor,
School of Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:15pm
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2:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Searching for dark matter annihilation in nearby galaxy groups
Siddarth Mishra-Sharma,
Princeton University,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
How we know what not to think
Fiery Cushman,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychology,
Harvard University ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar
Cryo-EM Structures of Tau Filaments from Alzheimer's Disease Brain: Implications for Fibril Propagation arising from Patient-Based
Anthony Fitzpatrick,
Assistant Professor ,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Zuckerman Institute - Columbia University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
The Hasse-Weil zeta functions of orthogonal Shimura varieties
Yihang Zhu,
Department of Mathematics,
Columbia University ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Black holes, quantum information, and the foundations of physics
Steve Giddings,
Professor of Physics,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Synthetic Polymers as Molecular Platforms for Antimicrobial Peptide-Mimetics
Kenichi Kuroda, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor,
Department of Biologic & Materials Sciences,
University of Michigan School of Dentistry,
4:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
Reputation Management in late Eighteenth-century England: Angelica Kauffman, the Women and the Men
Amanda Vickery,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History,
Caltech,
5:30pm
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6:40pm
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Complexity in holography and QFT
Shira Chapman,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Shining Light On Quantum Magnetism
Nicholas Laurita,
IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
Hsieh Group,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Marcelo Fernandez, Caltech
Deferred Acceptance and Regret-Free Truthtelling: A characterization result
Marcelo Fernandez,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The history of inter- and circumgalactic gas since reionization
Phoebe Upton-Sanderbeck,
Graduate Student,
University of Washington,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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CMS/EE Special Seminar
Causal Inference in the Presence of Latent Nodes
Negar Kiyavash,
Associate Professor,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Volume conjectures for Reshetikhin-Turaev and Turaev-Viro invariants
Tian Yang,
Department of Mathematics,
Texas A&M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
New Reactions via Earth Abundant Element Photocatalysis
Julian West,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gevorkyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, October 28th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Keleshyan Wedding Party
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Abedi Wedding Party
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gorezar Wedding Party
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 29th, 2017
12:00am
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3:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Somers Wedding Party
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Monday, October 30th, 2017
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Photocatalytic Nitrite Reduction on CoMg Complexes: Mechanistic Insights into N–N Bond Formation
Tanvi Ratani,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Monodromic complexes, Koszul duality, and tilting characters of reductive
Shotaro Makisumi,
Department of Mathematics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
A deep thermal plume in the mantle beneath Hawaii? Constraints from tomography and reflection seismology
Robert D. van der Hilst,
Schlumberger Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Head of Department,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Unlocking the potential of CMS data: boosted Higgs, low-mass dijet resonances, and data scouting
Javier Duarte,
Fermilab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Keller Colloquium in Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Market Power in Power Markets: Folklore, Proofs, and Counterexamples
Assistant Professor Eilyan Bitar,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Curious Creatures: Aesthetics, Sentience, and the case of the Medieval Ape
Patricia Clare Ingham,
Associate Professor, Department of English, Adjunct Professor,
Department of Religious Studies,
Indiana University,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2017
9:30am
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10:30am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:10pm
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12:50pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Efficient classical simulation of noisy quantum circuit
Xun Gao,
Tsinghua University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
Strong conceptual completeness for L_{\omega_1\omega}
Ronnie Chen,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Derandomization: Polynomial Identity Testing and Isolation Lemma (2nd of 2 parts)
Rohit Gurjar,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
CMS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
TBD
Nancy Thomas,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
Michael Wong,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Constructing pseudorandom matrices with polynomial convolutions
Adam Marcus,
Mathematics Department,
Princeton University,
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 Social Sciences Seminar
Electoral Competition and Corruption: Theory and Evidence from India
Amrita Dhillon,
Professor of Political Economy,
King’s College London,
5:30pm
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6:40pm
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6:00pm
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9:00pm
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