Institute Calendar
April 2017
Saturday, April 8th, 2017
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Sunday, April 9th, 2017
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Monday, April 10th, 2017
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Wall-crossing formula for Gromov-Witten invariants
Chris Woodward,
Department of Mathematics,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Two Ways to Catch a Pathogen
Daniel Fletcher,
Purnendu Chatterjee Chair in Engineering Biological Systems,
Bioengineering,
University of California Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Fast-Spiking Interneurons Regulate Ensemble Calcium and Striatum-Dependent Learning
Anatol C. Kreitzer,
Senior Investigator,
Gladstone Institutes,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
What mathematical algorithms can do for the real (and even fake) world
Professor Stanley Osher,
Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science, Electrical Engineering & Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
River Deep, Mountain High: a fluvial perspective on the carbon cycle
Mark A. Torres,
Texaco Postdoctoral Scholar in Geology; AGEP Fellow,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
A small weak scale from a small cosmological constant
Ken Van Tilburg,
IAS,
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2017
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1:00pm
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IST LUNCH BUNCH
Acoustic Rendering: from audiovisual synthesis to wave control
Changxi Zheng,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science,
Columbia University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Math Graduate Student Seminar
An Introduction to the Kapustin-Witten Equations and Witten's Program
Siqi He,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Marianne Bronner Lab Presenting
Erica Hutchins,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Rosa Uribe,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Stephen Green,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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CD3 Seminar
Building Training Sets for Astronomical Data; A Bayesian Feature Transformation for Domain Adaptation
Pavlos Protopapas,
Inst. for Applied Computational Science,
Cambridge, MA,
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3:00pm
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Graduate Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar
Overview of Seminar Content
Serin Hong,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Semiconductor Quantum Technologies for Communications and Computing
Dirk Englund,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
Dr. Stephanie Tonnesen,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Quantum fluctuations in hydrogen bond networks: From proton transport to enzyme catalysis
Thomas E. Markland,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
The Intersection of Mechanosensory Hair Cell Activity, Mitochondrial Metabolism and Vulnerability to Damage
David Raible,
Professor,
Biological Structure,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Planetary Interiors Studied with Ab Initio Simulations
Burkhard Militzer,
Professor,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Social Mobility and Stability of Democracy: Re-Evaluating De Tocqueville
Konstantin Sonin,
John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor,
University of Chicago,
Wednesday, April 12th, 2017
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11:30am
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Logic Seminar
Graphs Generated by Commuting Borel Functions
Connor Meehan,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium: 2017 Neugebauer Lecture
Making the Most Accurate Possible Measurements with Telescopes
David Hogg,
NYU,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Query Complexity of Clustering
Arya Mazumdar,
Assistant Professor,
College of Information and Computer Sciences,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Can we predict western U.S. water?
Sarah Kapnick,
Research Physical Scientist,
Climate Variations and Predictability Group,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
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Finance Seminar: Cary Frydman, USC Marshall School of Business
The Role of Salience and Attention in Choice Under Risk: An Experimental Investigation
Cary Frydman,
Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics,
Marshall School of Business,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Mechanical Instability-driven Architecturing of Atomically-thin Materials – Where Shape Enables New Functions
SungWoo Nam,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
The Pointed Gromov-Hausdorff Topology on Graphs, With Applications to Economics
Omer Tamuz,
Departments of Economics & Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Synthetic Studies toward Complex Natural Products
Thomas J. Maimone,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar
Self-Assembly and Symmetry Breaking of the Early Mouse Embryo
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz,
Professor of Mammalian Development and Stem Cell Biology,
Physiology, Development and Neuroscience,
University of Cambridge,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, April 13th, 2017
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
"Histotripsy: Focused ultrasound surgery based on nucleation of bubbles in tissue"
Adam Maxwell,
Professor,
Department of Urology,
University of Washington School of Medicine,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSRG/DOLCIT Seminar
Near-optimal Adaptive Information Acquisition: Theory and Applications
Yuxin Chen,
postdoctoral scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech,,
CMS,
CALTECH,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Membrane proteins at the interface of life
Tamir Gonen,
Group Leader,
Janelia Research Campus,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Cancelled: Distinguished Medical Engineering Seminar
Cancelled:
Scott Parazynski,
MD, Astronaut , Everest Climber, Physician, Pilot, Inventor ,
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
Dynamics and Rheology of Associating Polymer Gels
Ahmad K. Omar,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum many-body control
Manuel Endres,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Humanities Public Lecture
Dickens Noir: The Persistence of Victorianism in Post-War British Art and Culture
Lynda Nead,
Pevsner Professor of History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London; Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech,
Friday, April 14th, 2017
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Chaos in 2D CFT and Spinning Particle in AdS
Chi-Ming Chang,
QMAP, UC Davis,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Quantum metrology gets real
Konrad Banaszek,
Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Poland,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Bettina Klaus, Universite de Lausanne
Object Allocation via Immediate-Acceptance: Characterizations and an Affirmative Action Application
Bettina Klaus,
Professor,
Department of Business and Economics,
Universite de Lausanne,
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2:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanoscience and nanophotonics for improved solar energy conversion
Erik Garnett,
Dr. ,
Nanoscale Solar Cells Group,
AMOLF Institute, Amsterdam,
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TAPIR Seminar
Helping to paint a more realistic picture of the intergalactic and circumgalactic media through simulation
Devin Silva,
NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow,
Michigan State University,
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6:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Hypervelocity Impact Flash and Plasma on Electrically Biased Spacecraft Surfaces
Monica (Yayu) Hew,
Stanford University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Translation flow on holomorphic maps out of the poly-plane
Dmitri Gekhtman,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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4:45pm
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BMB Seminar
DNA Damage Recognition Enabled by Repair Proteins containing Redox-active [4Fe4S] Metallocofactors
Edmund Tse,
Postdoc,
4:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Endpoint bounds for the lacunary spherical maximal operator
Laura Cladek,
Department of Mathematics,
The University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar--SEMINAR CANCELLED
New Electrolytic Media and Methods for CO2 Reduction
Mr. Brendon McNicholas,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Fermi Arcs and Their Topological Character in the Candidate Type-II Weyl Semimetals WTe2 and MoTe2
Flavio Yair Bruno,
Ambizione Research Fellow,
University of Geneva,
5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Differentiating Blaschke products
Oleg Ivrii,
Department of Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology,