Institute Calendar
May 2011
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
8:30am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Can Nuclear Power Be As Safe As Milk?
Nahtan Dalleska,
lecturer in chemistry,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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5/13
5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
The Architecture of Human Telomerase RNA
Juli Feigon,
professor of biochemistry,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Towards a Computational Account of Human Pain and Aversive Learning
Benjamin Seymour,
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging,
University College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Volatiles in Arc Volcanoes: Understanding Volatile Loss from Melt Inclusions
Marion Le Voyer,
postdoctoral scholar in geological and planetary sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Technology and the Scientific Method: Tools and Policies for Addressing the Credibility Crisis in Computational Science
Victoria Stodden,
assistant professor of statistics,
Columbia University,
4:45pm
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6:00pm
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CMA presents "SpaceX: Growing a Launch Business from Scratch"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Gwynne Shotwell,
President,
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX),
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, May 13th, 2011
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
U-duality, Minimal Unitary Representations and AdS/CFT Duality
Munat Gunaydin,
Pennsylvania State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMA and the Caltech Y Present "America's Energy Challenges"
Dr. Steven Koonin (BS '72),
Under Secretary for Science,
U.S. Department of Energy,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Asymptotic Equivalence of Stable Matching Mechanisms
Sang Mok Lee,
graduate student in humanities and social sciences,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Donald Coles Lecture in Aerospace
Research Threads in Propulsion, from Wax Fuels to Wastewater
Brian J. Cantwell,
professor of engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
You drink. You drive. You go to jail. Where's recursion?
Daniel Everett,
dean of arts and sciences,
Bentley University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Overconnectivity - How Internet Enhanced Positive Feedback Drives Institutional Change
William Davidow,
Mohr Davidow Ventures and Caltech Trustee,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Gas-Phase Synthesis, Thermochemistry and Reactivity of Coinage Metal Benzylidenes and Aminonitrenes
Alexey Fedorov,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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5/14
3:00am
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Saturday, May 14th, 2011
9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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6:00pm
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12:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 15th, 2011
9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:30pm
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6:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:00pm
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11:00pm
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Monday, May 16th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Is it all connected? Understanding the Relationship Between Behavioral Phenomena
Pietro Ortoleva,
assistant professor of economics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biological Network Modeling Center Seminar
Image-based Morphometry in Medicine and Biology: Segmentation and Visualization of Summarizing Trends and Discriminating Information
Gustavo K. Rohde,
assistant professor,
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering ,
Carnegie Mellon University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Deformation Behavior of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Bundles
Shelby Hutchens,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
The Biological Activity of Rhodium Metalloinsertors
Russell Ernst,
graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
On the Role of Neutral Mutations in Adaptation
Joshua B. Plotkin,
assistant professor of biology, computer and information science,
the University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Efficient Estimation of Convex Moment Inequalities
Andres Santos,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
How Early Experience Shapes Circuits for Vocal Perception and Production
Richard Mooney,
professor of neurobiology,
Duke University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Some Windows into the Complexity of Earthquake Dynamics: Slow and Fast Rupture Patterns
Jean-Paul (Pablo) Ampuero,
assistant professor of seismology,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Some Simple Models to Study the Stability of Incompressible Fluid
Congming Li,
professor of applied mathematics,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Identification of Hysteretic Response of Individual Lateral Load Resisting Systems in a Torsionally-Coupled Shear Building under Seismic Excitations
Roshanak Omrani,
lecturer in civil and environmental engineering,
UCLA,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Protease Inhibitors and the Discovery of Telaprevir
Jeremy Green,
Chemical Research,
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Phage-host Interaction in Nature
Arbel Tadmor,
graduate student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Sustainable Ecosystems: Enabled by Supply and Demand Side Management
Chandrakant Patel,
senior fellow and director,
sustainable ecosystems research group,
HP Labs ,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be announced.
Todd Thompson,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Multiscale Simulation for Biomolecular Engineering: Protein Allostery and Deconstruction of Cellulose Microfibril
Jhih-Wei Chu,
assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Gene Therapy for Red-Green Color Blindness
Jay Neitz,
professor of ophthalmology,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Equilibrium Checks and Balances
James Robinson,
David Florence Professor of Government,
Harvard University,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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11:00pm
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2011