Institute Calendar
May 2019
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Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
8:00am
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5/7
5:00pm
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8:00am
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5/15
5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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TCS+ Talk
Noninteractive Zero Knowledge for NP from Learning With Errors
Chris Peikert,
University of Michigan,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar
Marlene Cohen,
Associate Professor,
Department of Neuroscience and Associate Director, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition,,
University of Pittsburgh,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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5:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Cosmic "Dust" (Galaxies, Stars and Actual Dust)!
Philip Hopkins,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
What can statistical state dynamics teach us about emergent coherent structures in stratified turbulence?
Joseph Fitzgerald,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Properties of Metallic Liquids at High Temperature and Their Relation to Glass Formation
Kenneth Kelton,
Professor of Physics and the Arthur Holly Compton Professor in Arts & Sciences,
Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Chemical Biology Approaches for Interrogating the Contributions of Altered Circadian Rhythms and Macrophages to Cancer Aggression
Michelle Farkas,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Massachusetts - Amherst,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Computational Imaging: a Quest for the Perfect Image
Jaebum Chung,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
The Subprime Mortgage Crisis and the Tea Party Movement: Evidence from Nationwide Campaign Finance and Real Estate Transactions
Zhao Li,
PhD Candidate in Political Economics,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
Thursday, May 2nd, 2019
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Programmable Structures: Shape and Property Reconfiguration
Andres Arrieta Diaz,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Purdue University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Investigating the role of the [4Fe-4S] cluster of yeast Dna2
Siobhán MacArdle,
Graduate Student, Barton Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
12:15pm
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12:45pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Noncovalent Interactions of Silent Agonist Binding to the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor
Catriona Blunt,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Fracton order: from quantum hard drive to foliated manifold
Xie Chen,
Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
Friday, May 3rd, 2019
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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8:00am
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5/4
5:00pm
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8:30am
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9:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Chemical Tools for Protein Imaging in Live Bacterial Cells
Samuel Ho,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
10:00am
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11:00am
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High Energy Physics Seminar
To the Heart of Neutrinos with CUORE and CUPID
Yuri Kolomensky,
UC Berkeley,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Room temperature photo-induced electron-hole gas-to-liquid transition in 2D materials
1:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
How single cells sense Smad3 signal
Christopher Frick,
Graduate Student,
BMB,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Applications of the Enantioselective Allylic Alkylation Toward the Synthesis of Complex Natural Products
Steven A. Loskot,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The NICER mission and the Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Sky
Andrea Lommen,
Professor,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
Haverford College,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Caltech Young Investigators Lecture
A Scalable Monolithic Computational Framework for Large-scale Simulation of Hydraulic Fracture
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
A scalable monolithic computational framework for large-scale simulation of fluid-driven fracture propagation
Bianca Giovanardi,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Single Photon Detectors, Parity Measurements and Heralded Cat States in the Microwave Domain
Andreas Wallraff,
Professor for Solid State Physics,
Department of Physics,
ETH Zurich, Switzerland,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Dielectric Metasurfaces from Fundamentals to Applications
Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
H2 Evolution from a Ni(III) Hydride
Nina X. Gu,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:20pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
High frequency limits and Burnett's conjecture in general relativity
5:30pm
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9:30pm
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5:30pm
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6:20pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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German Film: So weit die Füsse tragen
Movie screening for German 130c & 132c // In German with English subtitles
Saturday, May 4th, 2019
12:00am
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12:00am
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