Institute Calendar
April 2012
Monday, April 9th, 2012
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Super-resolution via sparse recovery: progress and challenges
Laurent Demanet,
Assistant Professor,
Applied Mathematics,
MIT,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
8:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Privacy and Utility in Data Sets
Felix Wu,
Assistant Professor of Law,
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law,
Yeshiva University,
1:30pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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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
WISE
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"The cellular and molecular basis for planarian regeneration"
Peter Reddien,
Asso. Professor,
Biology,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Young Fluvial Valleys on Mars: Constraining the Water Source Using Quantitative Geomorphology
Reid Parsons,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Corannulene en Masse
Jay S. Siegel,
Professor,
Organic Chemistry Institute,
University of Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Substituting the End for the Whole: Why Voters Respond Primarily to the Election-Year Economy
Gabriel Lenz,
Assistant Professor of Political Behavior, American Politics,
University of California, Berkeley,
7:00pm
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9:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:00pm
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Electronic Structures and Reactivity Patterns of Dipalladium(II,II) Complexes
Alec Durrell,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Gray Group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
How will the Webb Space Telescope measure First Light Reionization, & Galaxy Assembly in the post WFC3 era?
Rogier Windhorst,
ASU,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Landing a Rover on Mars (do not try this at home)
Landing a Rover on Mars (do not try this at home)
Rob Manning,
Chief Engineer, Mars Science Laboratory,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Nuclear Physics at Two Kiloparsecs with Millisecond Pulsars
Scott Ransom,
NRAO,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
A Large-Market Rational Expectations Equibrium Model
Xavier Vives,
Professor of Economics and Finance,
IESE,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
Sparse Recovery over Networks
Kevin Tang,
Sparse Recovery over Networks,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Cornell,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Oil-Water Separations Research and Application to Oil Spill Cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico
Eric Hoek,
Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Thursday, April 12th, 2012
10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Plastic Island: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Lindsay Yee,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar - postponed
Trent Northen,
Staff Scientist,
Bioenergy/GTL & Structural Biology,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Linde Institute Distinguished Seminar
Foundations of Economic Performance A Practitioners View
Gene Huang,
Chief Economist and Vice President,
FedEx,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Unsaturated Soils and Geosynthetics - the Mysterious Response of the Covers at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal
Jorge Zornberg,
Professor,
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Inflation, infinity, equilibrium and the observable Universe
Andreas Albrecht,
Professor of Physics & Department Chair,
UC Davis,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Gale Crater: Exploring the Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site
Dr. Matthew Golembeck,
senior research scientist; Mars Exploration Program Landing Site Scientist,
JPL,
Friday, April 13th, 2012
2:00am
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3:00pm
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Recent Experience Applying Advanced Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification to Spacecraft Integrated Modeling
Lee Peterson,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Pincer-Enforced Nickel-Arene Interactions: Reactivity and Arene Activation
Sibo Lin,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Stochastic optimal control as a theory of brain-machine interface operation
Lakshminarayan "Ram" Srinivasan,
Principal Investigator ,
Department of Radiology,
University of California Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Analysing Alkaloids, Analysis Mania: What Liebig's 1830 Laboratory Notebook Can Tell Us About the Practice of Organic Analysis
Catherine Jackson,
Chemical Heritage Foundation,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Robotic Exploration of Planetary Bodies
Robotic Exploration of Planetary Bodies
Issa Nesnas,
Dr.,
JPL,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Eshagh Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Gale Crater: Exploring the Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site
Dr. Matthew Golembeck,
senior research scientist; Mars Exploration Program Landing Site Scientist,
JPL,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 14th, 2012
8:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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6:00pm
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12:00pm
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6:00pm
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2:00pm
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6:00pm
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sinoryan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, April 15th, 2012
9:30am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Born Believers: The Science of Children's Religious Belief
Dr. Justin Barrett,
developmental psychologist and anthropologist,
Oxford University,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, April 16th, 2012
12:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Discrete Steps and Inter-Subunit Coordination of a DNA Packaging Ring-ATPase
Carlos Bustamante,
Professor,
Molecular and Cell Biology, Physics, and Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Heavy-Element Enrichment in the Early Universe Observed with FIRE
Rob Simcoe,
MIT,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Learning to Tolerate the Microbial Self
Sarkis Mazmanian,
Assistant Professor,
Biology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Tibet-Himalaya Accommodation Zone: New Perspectives on Quaternary Tectonics
Kip Hodges,
Foundation Professor of Geological Sciences,
Director, School of Earth and Space Exploration,
Arizona State University,
4:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Community Structure in Networks
Mason Porter,
University Lecturer,
Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,
University of Oxford,