Caltech Home > PMA Home > Calendar
open search form
Show Options
Tuesday, November 1
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Galaxy evolution as seen by SHINING
  • Eckhard Sturm, MPE,
iCal icon
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
"Black Holes, Dark Energy, and other Dark Matters"
iCal icon
Wednesday, November 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler
  • David Kipping, CfA,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
High energy emission from SNe and super-eccentric hot Jupiters
  • Boaz Katz, IAS,
iCal icon
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
iCal icon
Thursday, November 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
A quest for sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays
  • Kumiko Kotera, Fairchild Fellow, Caltech, Researcher, CNRS, France ,
iCal icon
Friday, November 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Topic to be Announced
  • Julian Sonner, Imperial College,
iCal icon
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Bubbles of nothing and the big bang
  • Adam Brown, Princeton,
iCal icon
Monday, November 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Astrophysically Motivated Bulge Disk Decompositions in SDSS
  • Claire Lackner, Yale,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
A Discussion of CDF's Recent B_s-->mu+mu-Result
  • Doug Glenzinski, FNAL,
iCal icon
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
The Convex Geometry of Linear Inverse Problems
  • Venkat Chandrasekaran, UC Berkeley,
iCal icon
Tuesday, November 8
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
"Extra-Solar Planets via Bayesian Model Fitting"
iCal icon
Wednesday, November 9
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Bounds on the Density of States for Schrodinger Operators
iCal icon
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Characterizing Extrasolar Parents and Their Children
  • Kaspar von Braun, IPAC, Caltech,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Ultracompact white dwarf binaries; a fresh look
  • Paul Groot, Radboud University,
iCal icon
Thursday, November 10
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Marketing For Scientists
  • Marc Kuchner, GSFC,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Experimental identification and manipulation of topological insulators
  • David Hsieh, MIT,
iCal icon
Friday, November 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
SCFT's and Macdonald polynomials
  • Abhijit Gadde, Caltech,
iCal icon
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
How Much Energy Does It Cost to Make a Hole in the Fermi Sea?
iCal icon
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Photons to Bits and Beyond: The Science and Technology of Digital Image Sensors
  • Eric Fossum, Professor, Engineering, Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering,
iCal icon
Monday, November 14
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
A Supersymmetric Transfer Matrix Approach to Random Band Matrices
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Downs 103
Improving Collider Searches with Effective Field Theory
  • Nicholas Dunn, UC Berkeley,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Kinematics and Energetics in the Nuclei of Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies
  • Vivian U, CfA,
iCal icon
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Random matrix theory and the informational limit of eigen-analysis
  • Raj Rao Nadakuditi, Assistant Professor, EECS, University of Michigan,
iCal icon
Tuesday, November 15
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
"Probing Extrasolar Planet Atmospheres through Transmission Spectroscopy"
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Binary Black Hole Simulations with SpEC
  • Mark Scheel, Tapir, Caltech,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Annenberg 213
Equilibrium Pricing of Semantically Substitutable Digital Goods and Welfare ?Theorems for the Resulting Mixed Economy
  • Vijay Vazirani, Professor, College of Computing, Georgia Tech,
iCal icon
Wednesday, November 16
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Quantum Walks and Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle
iCal icon
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
CANCELLED
  • Kerri Cahoy, MIT,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Tidal Disruption of Stars by Massive Black Holes
  • Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UCSC,
iCal icon
Thursday, November 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Black Holes- the Harmonic Oscillators of the 21st Century
  • Andrew Strominger, Gwill E. York Professor of Physics Director, Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, Harvard University,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies : a landmark for galaxy formation.
  • Pascale Jablonka, (EPFL, Switzerland / Caltech) ,
iCal icon
Friday, November 18
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Topic to be Announced
  • Andrew Strominger, Harvard University,
iCal icon
Monday, November 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
A Solution to the mu/Bmu Problem in Gauge Mediation with Hidden Gauge Symmetry
  • Norimi Yokozaki, Univ of Tokyo,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Early-type galaxies: the last 8 billion years
  • Sugata Kaviraj, Imperial College,
iCal icon
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Analysis of Large-Scale Interconnected Dynamical Systems
  • Igor Mezic, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara,
iCal icon
Tuesday, November 22
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Gravitational Lensing : an Astrophysical Tool
  • Georges Meylan, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Imaging voltage: from E. coli to neurons
  • Adam E. Cohen, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics, Department of Physics, Harvard University,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
First Results from the Double Chooz
  • Arthur Franke, Columbia University,
iCal icon
Wednesday, November 23
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dynamics of the Support of the Equilibrium Measure in a Quartic Field
iCal icon
Monday, November 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
  • Kate Whitaker, Yale,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
The MEG Experiment
  • William Molzon, The MEG experiment, UC Irvine,
iCal icon
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Annenberg 105
Perspectives on Quantifying Uncertain Mechanisms in Dynamical Systems
  • Jinqiao Duan, Associate Director, IPAM, UCLA,
iCal icon
Tuesday, November 29
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
"Understanding the SEDs of Galaxies"
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Advanced LIGO - What, Why, How, When
  • Dave Reitze, LIGO, Caltech,
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Working at the Interface of Science and Art: Collections Research at the Getty
  • Karen Trentelman, Senior Scientist, Collections Research, Getty Conservation Institute,
iCal icon
Wednesday, November 30
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room)
Multiwavelength observations of dust-obscured galaxies revealed by gamma-ray bursts
  • Daniel Perley, Caltech,
iCal icon
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Jacobi Matrices and Their Generalizations in Pade Approximation
iCal icon
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Moving mesh cosmology: the hydrodynamics of galaxy formation
  • Debora Sijacki, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
iCal icon