Institute Calendar
November 2018
Sunday, November 11th, 2018
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Sunday, November 11th, 2018
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Balyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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Monday, November 12th, 2018
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Explore JPL Seminar
Miriam Sun,
Senion Communication Systems Engineer,
Communications, Tracking and Radar Division,
JPL,
Vivienne Payne,
Group Supervisor,
Tropospheric Composition Group,
JPL,
Glenn Orton,
Senior Research Scientist,
JPL,
Jean-Pierre de la Croix,
Robotics Systems Engineer ,
Multi-agent Autonomy group (347N). ,
JPL,
12:00pm
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International Education Week Lecture
Advocacy from Within: An International Student's Experience in America
12:20pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Factorization and spectral decomposition of semi-infinite sheaves
Justin Campbell,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Towards a Global History of Biodiversity
Daniel Lewis,
Lecturer in History, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech; Dibner Senior Curator of the History of Science & Technology, The Huntington Library,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Radar observations of polar regions of Mars and the search for liquid water
Jeffery Plaut,
Senior Research Scientist and Project Scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar - SEMINAR POSTPONED - CHECK BACK FOR DATE
(Re)Connecting Cosmology and General Relativity
Anna Ijjas,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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KELLER Colloquium in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
How to Use Heuristics for Differential Privacy
Aaron Roth,
Associate Professor ,
Computer and Information Sciences,
University of Pennsylvania,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
9:00am
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A TIAA Financial Essentials Webinar
Estate Planning--Taxing Matters
Denise Lambert, CFP,
Director, Wealth Planning Strategies,
TIAA Individual Advisory Services,
Daniel Bollini,
Director, Wealth Planning Strategies,
TIAA Individual Advisory Services,
9:00am
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10:30am
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11:00am
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International Education Week Lecture
Studying in Denmark: Secrets of the 3rd Happiest Country in the World
12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Wearable Sweat Sensors for Personalized Health Monitoring
Wei Gao,
Assistant Professor,
Medical Engineering and Applied Science,
CALTECH,
12:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Classical and quantum simulation of quantum Gibbs state
Tomotaka Kuwahara,
RIKEN,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Electron Dynamics in Complex Environments: From Electron Transfer to Singlet Fission
Troy Van Voorhis,
Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemisty,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
"The Paradigm Shift Toward in Situ Hot Jupiter Formation" & "The Hazards of Few-Pixel Mineral Detections; or, How We Accidentally Found a New CRISM Data Artefact"
Elizabeth Bailey,
Graduate Student ,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Ellen Leask,
Graduate Student ,
Graduate Student ,
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General Biology Seminar
"A Mitochondrial Stress Response, Toxic Genomes and Aging"
Cole Haynes,
Associate Professor,
Molecular, Cell and Cancer ,
University of Massachusetts Medical School,
4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
From Feynman diagrams to commutative diagrams
Owen Gwilliam,
Department of Mathematics & Statistics,
U Mass, Amherst,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
A Road to Efficiency Through Communication and Commitment
Joao Ramos,
Assistant Professor,
Marshall School of Business,
USC,
5:45pm
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Caltech Associates Reception and Program: Illuminating the Brain—From Caltech Student to Breakthrough Neuroscientist
with Viviana Gradinaru (BS '05), professor of neuroscience and biological engineering and director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Postdoctoral Math Seminar
Passing from analysis to algebra to geometry - an example in representation theory of real groups
Alexander Yom Din,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
Poetry Reading
Eavan Boland,
Irish Poet and Author; Professor and Director of Creative Writing Program, English Department, Stanford University,
Wednesday, November 14th, 2018
9:00am
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Geometrization Learning Seminar
The double limit Theorem
Nathaniel Sagman & Dmitri Gekhtman,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Field measurements of OH and other radicals in the atmosphere and comparison with models
Dwayne Heard,
Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Leeds,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Element-specific Electron and Phonon Dynamics Measured with Transient Extreme Ultraviolet Spectroscopy
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Estimation with Aggregate Shocks
Jinyong Hahn,
Professor of Economics,
UCLA,
6:00pm
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Thursday, November 15th, 2018
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
The Route Towards Graphene Composites
Sameh Tawfick,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois,
12:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"New biocatalytic disconnections: Abiological enzymatic C–H functionalization enabled by directed evolution"
Kelly Zhang,
Graduate Student, Arnold Group,
CCE,
Caltech ,
12:00pm
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CMS Partner Tech Talk
Electronic Arts (EA) -- Powering Games with Data & AI
Ahmad Beirami,
Electronic Arts (EA),
12:00pm
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International Education Week Lecture
Empowering Developing Communities with Medical Technology and Training
12:00pm
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Decoupling Learning Seminar
An introduction to Kakeya estimates
Alex Perozim de Faveri,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Burnside problem and Zimmer program: which group can act on a manifold?
Sebastian Hurtado-Salazar,
Math Department,
University of Chicago,
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Systems Biology of Metabolism: Lessons from yeast that can translate to study cancer and the gut microbiota
Jens Nielsen,
Professor,
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden ,
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