Institute Calendar
April 2012
Monday, April 23rd, 2012
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Creating Large Mass Athermal Phonon Detectors with 1-10eV Trigger Thresholds for Coherent nu½-N scattering and Exotic Dark Matter Application
Matt Pyle,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Biological Methane Oxidation
Amy C. Rosenzweig,
Associate Professor,
Departments of Molecular Biosciences/Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Numerical Analysis
Joseph Grcar,
SIAM Visiting Lecturer,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
9:30am
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10:30am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
A Time-Reversal Method for Deep Tissue Imaging
Changhuei Yang,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering,
Caltech,
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
"Star Formation in Extended Disk Galaxies"
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Organization and Assembly of Neural Circuits
Liqun Luo,
Professor,
Department of Biology,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
From protoplanetary disks to exoplanetary atmospheres: New views from Hubble
Kevin France,
CASA & Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences,
Univ. of Colorado,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Religious Practice and Political Trust in India: Exploring the Causal Role of an Attribute
Jasjeet Sekhon,
Associate Professor of Political Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
8:30am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Two Dynamical Aspects of Quasi-periodic Jacobi Cocycles: (Self) Duality and Upper Bounds for the LE
2:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Water in space: from interstellar clouds to planet-forming disks (14th Annual Greenstein Lecturer)
Ewine van Dishoeck,
Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands & Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching,
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Many-to-Many Matching Design
Alessandro Pavan,
Professor of Economics,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Seeing the forest AND the trees: Modeling ecosystem-climate interactions
Naomi Marcil Levine,
NOAA Postdoctoral Fellow,
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Information Science and Technology Seminar
Dispelling an Old Myth about an Ancient Algorithm
Vijay Vazirani,
College of Computing,
Georgia Tech,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Hierarchical Materials Mechanics
Alfred Crosby,
Associate Professor,
Polymer Science & Engineering Department,
University of Massachusetts Amherst,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Visualizing Information Transfer through the Plasma Membrane with Small Molecules
Alanna Schepartz,
professor of chemistry,
Yale University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, April 26th, 2012
9:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
A Review of the Environmental Impact and Politics Associated with the Keystone XL Pipeline Project
Rebecca Schwantes,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science & Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Reactions of OH Radicals, H Atoms, and Solvated Electrons in Pressurized High Temperature Water
David M. Bartels,
Professor,
Radiation Laboratory,
University of Notre Dame,
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Control, Learning and Exploration in Human Decision-Making
Etienne Koechlin,
Director, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives,
Ecole Normale Supérieure, France,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Reward Prediction
Jeremiah Cohen,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
From Sunlight to Fuels and Power: Radiative Transfer and Properties
Wojciech Lipinski,
Assistant Professor,
College of Science and Engineering,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum Coherence in Photosynthesis
Birgitta Whaley,
UC Berkeley,
Birgitta Whaley,
Professor of Chemistry,
UC Berkeley,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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Friday, April 27th, 2012
10:45am
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11:45pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Large-eddy Simulation of Flat-plate Turbulent Boundary Layer at Large Reynolds Numbers
Michio Inoue,
Graduate candidate,
Aeronautics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Fundamental Studies and Applications of Ruthenium-Based Z-Selective Metathesis
Myles Herbert,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Cevorcian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, April 28th, 2012
9:00am
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Fashion Photography on Campus: Waddell Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
9:00am
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12:00pm
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11:30am
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Wedding Photography on Campus: MinasyanWedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Cao Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Vihosrovyan Wedding Party
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4:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Daldumyan Wedding Party
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Sunday, April 29th, 2012
10:00am
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
Dr. Leonard Mlowinow,
author,
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, April 30th, 2012
12:00pm
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CMA presents "Making Science Sustainable: How Caltech is Going Green"
John Onderdonk,
Director of Sustainability Programs,
Caltech,