Institute Calendar
January 2020
Friday, January 17th, 2020
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, January 18th, 2020
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, January 19th, 2020
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Monday, January 20th, 2020
Tuesday, January 21st, 2020
10:00am
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3:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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IQI Weekly Seminar
Using redundant ancilla encoding and flags for low overhead magic state preparation
Christopher Chamberland,
Researcher,
Amazon Quantum Group,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Genome-Wide Mapping of Protein-DNA Interaction Dynamics"
Steve Henikoff,
PI,
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/HHMI,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
DECam/GROWTH follow-up of a possible neutron star-black hole merger
Igor Andreoni,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI Distinguished Seminar
From inverse design to implementation of practical (quantum) photonics
Jelena Vučković,
Jensen Huang Professor in Global Leadership, School of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and by courtesy of Applied Physics, Stanford University; Director of Q-FARM,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:30pm
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8:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar
Binary Component Decomposition of Matrices
Richard Kueng,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Light Echoes of Etz Carinae, Massive Star Mergers, and Pre-Supernova Eruptions
Nathan Smith,
Associate Professor of Astronomy,
Astronomy,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Impacts of Submesoscale Currents on Marine Life: From Phytoplankton to White Sharks
Leif Thomas,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Exploration: The Globe and Beyond
Exploring Islamic Maps: From the Earth to the Moon and the Cosmos
Karen Pinto,
Associate Research Professor,
College of Innovation and Design,
Boise State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Generalized Fishnet Statistics for Quasibrittle, Biomimetic, Nacreous and Architectured Materials: Design for Failure Probability <10-6
Zdeněk P. Bažant,
Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Northwestern McCormick School of Engineering,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Visual Culture Program
Super Recognizers to the Rescue
Sharrona Hyla Pearl,
Historian and Theorist of the Face and Body,
2:00pm
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2:50pm
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Avoid Surprises When Filling Out Your Withholding Form / 2pm session
Avoid Surprises When Filling Out Your New Federal Tax Withholding Form
3:00pm
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3:50pm
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Avoid Surprises When Filling Out Your Withholding Form / 3pm session
Avoid Surprises When Filling Out Your New Federal Tax Withholding Form
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem Learning Seminar
Pseudo differential operators II
Adam Artymowicz,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Friday, January 24th, 2020
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Monodromy relations in string theory from twisted homology
Eduardo Casali,
UC Davis/QMAP,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Cooperative and Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling in Solids
Xinwei Li,
Troesh Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics,
Hseih Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
SpECTRE: Rethinking simulations of relativistic magnetohydrodynamics
Nils Deppe,
Graduate Student,
Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science (CCAPS),
Cornell University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Revisiting and modeling the law of the wake & LES of flows with slender wings/blades and wakes
Gregoire Winckelmans,
Professor,
Mechanics, Materials, and Civil Engineering,
UCLouvain,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Harmonic maps and anti-de Sitter 3-manifolds
Nathaniel Sagman,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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The Keys to Success... Are Somewhere at the Bottom of My Purse
The Keys to Success... Are Somewhere at the Bottom of My Purse
Nancy Gray, Ph.D.,
President and CEO of the Gordon Research Conferences,
Gordon Research Conferences,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
What Makes a Good Molecular Qubit?
Ruben Mirzoyan,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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5:20pm
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5:30pm
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6:20pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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von Kármán Lecture - Spitzer: Final Voyage
Varoujan Gorjian,
Spitzer Research Scientist,
JPL,
Robert Hurt,
Spitzer Visualization Scientist,
IPAC,
Caltech,
Suzanne Dodd,
Former Spitzer Project Manager (2010-2016),
JPL,
Joseph Hunt,
Spitzer Project Manager (Current),
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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