Institute Calendar
May 2019
Saturday, May 11th, 2019
2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Palasanian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Shahkaramy Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 12th, 2019
3:30pm
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Monday, May 13th, 2019
9:00am
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9:00am
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11:00am
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Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Connecting the speed-accuracy trade-offs in sensorimotor control and neurophysiology reveals diversity sweet spots in layered control architectures
Yorie Nakahira,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Proteomics Profiling and Functional Characterization of Caenorhabditis elegans Excreted/Secreted Proteins
Wen Chen,
Graduate Student,
BMB,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Virgin Orbit – Launching the Small Satellite Revolution
William Pomerantz,
Vice President, Special Projects,
Virgin Orbit,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Ivan de Araujo,
Professor,
The Fishberg Department of Neuroscience, Friedman Brain Institute Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Ice sheets: a cartoon
Christian Schoof,
Professor,
Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Towards Resolution of the MiniBooNE Anomaly with the MicroBooNE Experiment
Brooke Russell,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar/Chemical Physics Seminar
What did the metal know, and when did she know it? Ultrafast XUV spectroscopy reveals short-lived states in transition metal complexes and organohalide perovskites
Josh Vura-Weis,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Use of recombinant self-associating proteins for altering cellular fate and behavior
Mark Kozlowski,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, May 14th, 2019
9:00am
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10:00am
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11:30am
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IST Lunch Bunch
Learning Unbiased Ranking Functions
Thorsten Joachims,
Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science, and Amazon Scholar,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
A Crash History of Drones
Katherine Chandler,
Assistant Professor of Culture and Politics,
School of Foreign Service,
Georgetown University,
- Public Event
12:15pm
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12:45pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Hamiltonian simulation meets holographic duality
Toby Cubitt,
University College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED | Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
This seminar has been cancelled.
Camilo Garcia-Jimeno,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Revealing the chemistry in quantum chemistry: from diatomics to proton coupled electron transfer in enzymes
Gerald Knizia,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
The Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Adam Smith
The Structure of Optimal Private Tests for Simple Hypotheses
Adam Smith,
Professor,
Computer Science and Engineering,
Boston University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Evidence against Ancient Perchlorate in Gale Crater
Peter Martin,
Graduate Student,
Geochemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Biochemistry/General Biology Seminar
"A Weird Ion Channel for a Weird Ion: How Microbes Protect their Precious Bodily Fluids from Environmental Fluoride"
Christopher Miller,
Professor,
Biochemistry,
Brandeis University/HHMI,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Causal Simulation
Thomas Icard,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Stanford University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
9:30am
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3:30pm
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Resnick Fellows Seminar Day
Join us at the BIA for 7 sustainability science research talks presented by Resnick Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellows! All are invited to attend!
10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Quantum-inspired classical linear algebra algorithms: why and how?
Ewin Tang,
University of Washington,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Earth-Abundant Metal Oxides for Anodic Reactions in Acidic Electrolytes
Ivan Moreno-Hernandez,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Premodern roots of modern subjectivity
Gabriel Motzkin,
Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor of History,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Characterization of adaptor binding and substrate processing by VCP/p97
Emily Blythe,
Graduate Student,
BMB,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
In (Data-Driven) Pursuit of Galactic Archaeology
Melissa Ness,
Assistant Professor,
Astronomy,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The wetland methane paradox: how does O2 enhance methane production?
Xinning Zhang,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
An Impossibility Theorem for Wealth in Heterogeneous-agent Models with Limited Heterogeneity
Alexis Toda,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
UC San Diego,
Thursday, May 16th, 2019
10:30am
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11:30am
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Quantitative, Spatially-Resolved Measurement of Protein Synthesis in Neurons
Sophie Miller,
Graduate Student, Tirrell Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
12:15pm
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12:45pm
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Special CMX Seminar
Interpretable Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) via Feedforward Design
C.-C. Jay Kuo,
Director of the Media Communications Laboratory and Distinguished Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar
Home Equity Mitigates the Financial and Mortality Consequences of Health Shocks: Evidence from Cancer Diagnoses
Arpit Gupta,
Assistant Professor,
Stern School of Business,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Resolved Simulations of Particulate Flows
Andrea Prosperetti,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Houston,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Dark Matter in the Era of Gaia
Lina Necib,
Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Women in Chemistry Annual Seminar Speaker
Nitrate-initiated biogenic aerosol production: anthropogenically triggered atmospheric haze formation over forests
Dr. Juliane Fry,
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Studies,
Reed College,
Friday, May 17th, 2019
9:00am
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4:20pm
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James K. Knowles Lectures & Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium
Mechanics of cell-nanomaterial interaction: applications in nanomedicine and nanotoxicity
Huajian Gao,
Professor,
Engineering,
Brown University,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Sphere packing, quantum gravity and extremal functionals
Dalimil Mazac,
Simons Center,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Projected least squares: a numerically cheap quantum tomography procedure with optimal error bounds
Richard Kueng,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill and Tropp groups,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Mislearning from Censored Data: The Gambler's Fallacy in Optimal-Stopping Problems
Kevin He,
PhD Candidate in Economics,
Harvard University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Arithmetic Geometry Learning Seminar
Use of Kudla-Millson Theory in the work of Ichino-Prasanna
Zavosh Amir Khosravi,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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