Institute Calendar
October 2019
Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
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Astronomy Colloquium
Galactic Archaeology: Galaxy Formation and Nucleosynthesis
Evan Kirby,
Assistant Professor,
Astronomy,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Modeling the terrestrial biosphere in the Earth system: moving beyond the incorrect but useful paradigm
Gordon Bonan,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
"Pascal conductance series in ballistic one-dimensional LaAlO3/SrTiO3 channels"
Jeremy Levy,
Distinguished Professor of Condensed Matter Physics,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Strategy and Technology of Conflict
Sandeep Baliga,
John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences,
Northwestern University,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Causality: From Aristotle to Zebrafish
Frederick Eberhardt,
Professor of Philosophy,
Caltech,
- Public Event
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
The Timing of Soil Liquefaction and Its Potential for Improving Liquefaction Hazard Evaluation
Steve Kramer,
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Department of Civil Engineering,
University of Washington,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Repurposing Cytochrome P450s for Selective C–H Fluoroalkylation
Juner Zhang,
Graduate student,
CCE,
12:00pm
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DOLCIT Seminar
Machine Learning for the Real World: Provably Robust Extrapolation
Angie Liu,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
12:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
The geomorphology of the ocean floor: Advances in the assessment of marine hazards and natural resources
Aaron Micallef,
Senior Scientist,
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Compact Proton Therapy: Improving Access to Advanced Cancer Treatment
James Cooley,
Director of Advanced Development,
Mevion Medical Systems,
4:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
The Airing of Grievances: Are the Humanities Bullshit?
Gabriel Rosenberg,
Assistant Professor in Women's Studies,
Duke University,
Friday, October 18th, 2019
8:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Extensions of Kac-Moody algebras and Calabi-Yau singularities.
Miroslav Rapčak,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Defect-Level Switching: A New Mechanism for Electronic Devices
Rafael Jaramillo,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
MIT,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Edgeworth Conjecture with Small Coalitions and Approximate Equilibria in Large Economies
Federico Echenique,
Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
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GALCIT Colloquium
On the Interaction between Mechanics and Chemistry: Two Studies in Electrochemical Energy Storage and Heterogeneous Catalysis
3:00pm
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Saturday, October 19th, 2019
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Langley Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
10:00am
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kazandjian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Thomas/Mehra Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Baghdasarian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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Sunday, October 20th, 2019
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Monday, October 21st, 2019
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CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
AI in Space – From Earth Orbit to Mars and Beyond! (JPl)
Steve Chien,
Senior Research Scientist,
Mission Planning and Execution Section,
JPL,
Jagriti Agrawal,
Member of Technical Staff,
Artificial Intelligence Group,
JPL,
12:15pm
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CANCELED: Organic Chemistry Seminar
Exploring Stable Yet Unusual pi-Electron Materials by Making Use of Phosphorus and Sulfur
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Mechanics of Slow Earthquakes and Lab Earthquake Prediction
Chris Marone,
Professor,
Department of Geosciences,
Penn State University,
4:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium
Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems meet in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces.
Boumediene Hamzi,
Marie Curie Fellow,
Department of Mathematics,
Imperial College in London,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Connecting early Universe with Observations: from Primordial Black Holes to Sterile Neutrinos
Volodymyr Takhistov,
UCLA,
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019
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IST Lunch Bunch
Scalable Autonomous Driving in the Urban Core
Peter Carr,
Senior Staff Engineer at Argo AI and is responsible for overseeing the tracking and prediction aspects of autonomous vehicles,
Argo AI,
12:00pm
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Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory in the Verlinde category in positive characteristic
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Understanding coupled nuclear-electronic dynamics near a metal surface
Joseph Subotnik,
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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CMI Seminar: Guannan Qu
Distributed optimization in multi-agent systems: bridging the gap between centralized and distributed algorithms
Guannan Qu,
CMI Postdoc,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
"Earth as an Exoplanet: A Two-dimensional Alien Map" & "Regional Structural Orientation of the Mt. Sharp Group Revealed by In-situ Dip Measurements and Stratigraphic Correlations on the Vera Rubin Ridge"
Siteng Fan,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Nathan Stein,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Fast, "Robust", and Approximately Correct: Estimating Mixed Demand Systems
Bernard Salanie,
Professor and Chair,
Department of Economics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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William Bennet Munro History Seminar
Contestation and Representation: Community, Conflict, and History in Los Angeles
Lizeth Ramirez,
Librarian/Archivist for Los Angeles Communities and Cultures,
UCLA,
Dalena Sanderson-Hunter,
Librarian/Archivist for Los Angeles Communities and Cultures,
UCLA,
Devin Fitzgerald,
Curator of Rare Books and History of Printing,
UCLA,
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Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar
Basic Examples of Factorization Algebras
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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019
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