Institute Calendar
January 2020
Monday, January 13th, 2020
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Thinking about Simulations of Quantum Field Theories using Digital Quantum Computers
Martin Savage,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science Job Candidate
Land Concentration and Long-Run Development: Evidence from the Frontier United States
Cory Smith,
PhD Candidate,
Department of Economics,
MIT,
Tuesday, January 14th, 2020
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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Dix Planetary Science Seminar
Stellar Flares and Habitable (?) M-dwarf Worlds with TESS
Max Gunther,
Postdoc,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
SEMINAR RESCHEDULED TO 05/26/2020
Marian Walhout,
Professor,
Molecular Medicine,
University of Massachusetts Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, January 15th, 2020
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Astronomy Colloquium
Do We Understand Tidal Disruption Events?
Wenbin Lu,
David and Ellen Lee Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Astrophysics,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
Data-Driven Control for Societal-Scale Cyber-Physical Systems
Yuanyuan Shi,
Fifth-year PhD student,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Decarbonizing Natural Gas by Reactive Separation in High Temperature Liquids
Eric McFarland,
University of California Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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Special Chemical Biology Seminar
An activity-guided map of electrophile-cysteine interactions in primary human immune cells.
Ekaterina Vinogradova,
LSRF Pfizer Research Fellow,
Department of Chemistry,
The Scripps Research Institute,
7:30pm
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Thursday, January 16th, 2020
10:30am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
History of the Free Body Diagram
John F. Hall,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Nitrene Transfer Catalyzed by a Non-Heme Iron Enzyme and Enhanced by Non-Native Small- Molecule Ligands"
Nathaniel Goldberg,
Graduate Student, Arnold Group, CCE,
12:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
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Jessica Helfand,
Artist-in-Residence (Winter 2020) and Lecturer in Visual Culture,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
Ralph Adolphs,
Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology; Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair, Caltech Brain Imaging Center; Director, Caltech Brain Imaging Center,
Caltech,
1:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Neurons that control social states in Drosophila Melanogaster
Yon II Jung,
Graduate Student,
BMB,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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2:45pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Hida-theoretic simplicial deformation rings and Selmer groups
Jacques Tilouine,
Universite Paris 13,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Local p-indecomposability of modular p-adic Galois representations
Haruzo Hida,
Department of Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Physics Colloquium
Cosmology in the era of multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves
Marcelle Soares-Santos,
Brandeis University,
4:00pm
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Ruth & Eddie Hughes Lecture
How is electrical signal generated? Structural and mechanistic investigations of Nav channels
Nieng Yan,
Shirley M. Tilghman Professor of Molecular Biology,
Department of Molecular Biology,
Princeton University,
Friday, January 17th, 2020
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Hemisphere partition function, LG orbifolds and FJRW invariants
Mauricio Romo,
Tsinghua University,
12:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Robust encoding of a qubit in a molecule
Victor Albert,
DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Preskill Group,
12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Cleaving Strong Bonds through Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer
Matthew J. Chalkley,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Optimal perturbations in linear stability of two fluid columns of different densities subject to gravity
3:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Novel Chemistry of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Nitric Radicals and New Ambiphilic N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
Professor Eunsung Lee,
Visiting Associate in Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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Special CMX Seminar
Posterior Contraction Rates for Some Possibly Nonlinear Inverse Problems
Sergios Agapiou,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Cyprus,