Institute Calendar
April 2016
Thursday, April 21st, 2016
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 21st, 2016
8:00am
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11:00am
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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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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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Survivor Support: Help Survivors and Combat Rape Culture
Peace Over Violence ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Priors and constraints in human structure learning
Anne Collins,
Assistant Professor of Research,
Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Skin-inspired organic electronic materials and devices
Zhenan Bao,
Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Boundary cohomology of Shimura varieties
Benoit Stroh,
Mathematics Research Fellow,
Mathematics,
Institut Galilée Université Paris 13,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Antineutrino reactor monitoring and applications to nuclear non-proliferation safeguards
Patrick Huber,
Associate Professor of Physics, Center for Neutrino Physics,
Virginia Tech,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Earth Week Speaker Event
Investing in the Future of Transportation
Paul Yeh,
Partner,
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
CubeSats: Big Goals, Tiny Package
Andrew Klesh,
Chief Engineer for Interplanetary Small Spacecraft,
JPL,
Friday, April 22nd, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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4/23
12:00am
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8:00am
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11:00am
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8:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Information-theoretic bounds and phase transitions in community detection and high-dimensional clustering
Cristopher Moore,
Santa Fe Institute,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Cosmology beyond the power spectrum and how to keep it simple
Marcel Schmittfull,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics (BCCP),
U.C. Berkeley,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Earth Week Speaker Event
Accelerating Innovation: Physical Science Startups at Cyclotron Road
Raymond Weitekamp,
polySpectra project lead,
Cyclotron Road Accelerator ,
PhD in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Studies in Aquatic Locomotion: Discovery through simulations
Iman Borazjani,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University at Buffalo SUNY,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
TBA
Sam Ballas,
RTG Visiting Assistant Present,
Mathematics,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Off Campus
Finite time blowup for semilinear wave equations
Terry Tao,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Iron Hydride Complexes Supported by Simple Triphosphine Ligands as Precatalysts for the Catalytic Conversion of Dinitrogen to Ammonia
Trixia Marie Buscagan,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Atom waveguide QED for efficient multiphoton sources
Alejandro González-Tudela,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Lithosphere structure and dynamics beneath mainland China revealed by the CEArray
Fenglin Niu,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Assessing Scientific Theories
Stephan Hartmann,
Professor of Philosophy of Science and Alexander von Humboldt Professor,
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Off Campus
Harmonic maps and heat flows on hyperbolic spaces
Marius Lemm,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
CubeSats: Big Goals, Tiny Package
Andrew Klesh,
Chief Engineer for Interplanetary Small Spacecraft,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2016
12:00am
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4/24
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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4/24
12:00am
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8:00am
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11:00am
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8:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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1:00pm
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6:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 24th, 2016
8:00am
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11:00am
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8:00am
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Shaerzadeh Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, April 25th, 2016
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
"Synthetic circuits for feedback and detection in bacteria"
Victoria Hsiao,
Bioenigineering PhD Candidate,
Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
A new proof of the decomposition theorem
Brad Drew,
Department of Mathematics,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Perception as an inference problem
Bruno Olshausen,
Professor,
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and School of Optometry,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Planet Nine from Outer Space
Michael Brown,
Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor and Professor of Planetary Astronomy,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Inflatable Dark Matter and the Diphoton Resonance: New Phenomenology with a Simple Lagrangian
Sam McDermott,
SUNY Stony Brook,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High-level verifiable robotics
CMS Seminar
Hadas Kress-Gazit,
Associate Professor,
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar
Investigating Filaments of the Bacterial Cytoskeleton by CryoEM
Jan Lowe,
Structural Studies Division Head and Group Leader,
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Dynamic Materials: From Cephalopods to Shapeshifters
Alon A. Gorodetsky,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of California, Irvine,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Building and controlling complex interconnected systems
Nikolai Matni,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Tuesday, April 26th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Increased Brain Uptake of Targeted Nanoparticles by Adding an Acid-Cleavable Linkage Between Transferrin and the Nanoparticle Core
Andrew Clark,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Davis group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Interactive and Interpretable Machine Learning Models for Human Machine Collaboration
Been Kim,
Research Scientist,
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Eigenvalue Attraction and Disordered Hamiltonian Density of States
Ramis Movassagh,
IBM,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Crystalline coatings for gravitational-wave test masses
Garrett Cole,
President CRYSTALLINE MIRROR SOLUTIONS LLC,
CRYSTALLINE MIRROR SOLUTIONS LLC,
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
Continuous tensor networks for quantum fields: Scale invariance and loss of information along the RG flow
Guifre Vidal,
Perimeter Institute,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Logic Seminar
The complexity of the classification problem for multiplier algebras of Nevanlinna-Pick space
Michael Hartz,
Mathematics,
University of Waterloo,
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
How Can Software Promote Inquiry?
Prof. Matt Turk,
Univ. of Illinois,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemistry 250 Course: Advances in Pharmaceutical Research
Discovery and Development of Halaven, a Fully Synthetic Macrocyclic Ketone Analog of Halichondrin B, for the Treatment of Late-Stage Breast Cancer and Soft-Tissue Sarcoma
Frank Fang,
Dr., Ph.D., Vice-President,
Process Research & Development,
Eisai, Inc.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Computing Isomorphisms between Finite Fields using Elliptic Curves (pt 1 of 2)
Anand Kumar Narayanan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
CMS,
Caltech,