Institute Calendar
February 2017
Tuesday, February 21st, 2017
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Global IoT (Internet of Things Network)
Sabeer Bhatia,
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of SABSE Technologies Inc.,
12:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
Connes' embedding conjecture and ergodic theory
Peter Burton,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Topological quantum computation with gapped boundaries and boundary defects
Iris Cong,
Undergraduate Student,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Rectifiability of harmonic measure
Alexander Volberg,
Department of Mathematics,
Michigan State University,
4:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
The Role of Ice Compositions and Disk Dynamics for Snowlines and the C/N/O Ratios in Active Disks
Ana-Maria Piso,
Postdoc,
UCLA,
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Swift Lecture
Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies of Olefin Trimerization and Polymerization with Organometallic Catalysts
John E. Bercaw,
Centennial Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Soft Matter Physics of Red Blood Cells, Vesicles, and DNA
Vivek Narsimhan,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Spectral cluster bounds for orthonormal functions
Julien Sabin,
Département de Mathématiques,
Université Paris-Sud,
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Research talks from Resnick Fellow Rachel Ford & Postdoctoral Scholar Bradley Brennan
4:00pm
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Beckman Lecture
Searching for Selective Catalytic Reactions in Complex Molecular Environments
Scott Miller,
Irénée du Pont Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Yale University,
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Carbonyl sulfide as a new window on the carbon cycle
Ulli Seibt,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
UCLA,
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Materials Research Lecture
Quantum Nanophotonics
Jelena Vuckovic,
Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Department of Applied Physics,
Stanford University,
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
The Origins of Structure in Galaxies and Beyond: Turbulence, Gravity, & Feedback
Philip Hopkins,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Species Problem Problem and the No Solution Solution
Matt Haber,
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy,
University of Utah,
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Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Optimization Challenges in Deep Learning
Professor Benjamin Recht,
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
UC Berkeley,
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The End of the Modern Corporation: Deregulation and Ownership of Electric Utilities
Howard Rosenthal,
Professor of Politics,
New York University,
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CMA presents "L.A. Rocks: Simulated Asteroid Hits City"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Paul Chodas,
Navigation Engineer,
JPL,
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Combinatorics Seminar
On some algebraic constructions of extremal lattices
Lenny Fukshansky,
Department of Mathematics,
Claremont McKenna College,
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2017
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Controlling Nanocrystalline Structure and Properties with Segregation Engineering"
Timothy Rupert,
Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering & Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of California, Irvine,
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Dan Lin,
Graduate Student,
Hoelz Research Group, CCE, Caltech,
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Logic Seminar
Kreisel compactness and hyperdegrees
Vassilis Gregoriades,
Department of Mathematics ''Giuseppe Peano'',
University of Turin,
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Medical Engineering Special Seminar
Bioelectronic Devices for Personalized and Precision Medicine: From Wearable Biosensors to Medical Nanorobots
Wei Gao,
PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
University of California, Berkeley,
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Number Theory Seminar
Distinguished positive regular representations
Fiona Murnaghan,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
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Physics Research Conference
The quasiparticle of the quantum Hall fluids
Dam Son,
Professor of Physics,
University of Chicago,
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Polarization and Pandering in Common-value Elections
Joseph McMurray,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Brigham Young University ,
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Friday, February 24th, 2017
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Emergent de Sitter Spaces from Entanglement Entropy
Claire Zukowski,
Columbia University,
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12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Physics and Materials Science
3rd generation of Calphad databases – ongoing work at KTH, Sweden
Sedi Bigdeli,
Division of Computational Thermodynamics ,
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden,
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TAPIR Seminar
Exotic Astrophysical Channels for Black Hole Binary Formation
Nicholas Stone,
Postdoctoral Einstein Fellow,
Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory,
Columbia University,
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GALCIT Colloquium
Robust Estimators for Linear Dynamic Systems Based on Additive Cauchy Uncertainty
Jason Speyer,
Professor,
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Pin(2)-equivariant Floer homology and homology cobordism
Matthew Stoffegren,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
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EE Seminar
Half-Harmonic Generation: Enabling Photonic Solutions for Molecular Sensing and Non-Classical Computing
Alirexa Marandi,
Ph.D. ,
Stanford University,
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Informal Biology Seminar
Removing the Waste Bags: VCP/p97 Maintains Cellular Homeostasis by Driving Autophagy of Damaged Lysosomes
Hemmo Meyer,
Professor,
Molecular Biology,
University of Duisburg-Essen ,
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Rhodium-Conjugate Fluorescent Probes for Detection of Mismatched DNA
Dr. Adela Nano,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
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Saturday, February 25th, 2017
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Abddallat-Medina Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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Sunday, February 26th, 2017
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