Institute Calendar
May 2012
Monday, May 14th, 2012
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High Energy Physics Seminar
How the CMB challenges cosmology's standard model
Glenn Starkman,
Case Western Reserve University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Correlation of Electronic Structure to Reactivity in Organometallic Catalysis and Polynuclear Small Molecule Activation
Theodore Betley,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Harvard University,
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Implicit Sampling, with Applications to Data Assimilation
Alexandre Chorin,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
10:00am
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Design and Analysis of Safety Critical Systems
Peter Seiler,
Assistant Professor,
Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics,
University of Minnesota,
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
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4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Ab initio Modeling of CO2 Reduction and CO2 Capture
Laura Gagliardi,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
What fruit flies teach us about RNA silencing
Phillip Zamore,
Prof. of Biomedical Sciences,
University of Mass.,
4:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
The Brown Dwarf Desert: A Tale of Some Stars Engulfing Their Massive Close-in Companions
Tristan Guillot,
Research Scientist,
Observatoire de la Cote dAzur,
CNRS (France),
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Rumor, Truths, and Reality: A Study of Political Misinformation
Adam Berinsky,
Associate Professor of Political Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
10:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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Aldrich Lecture
A General Method for Controlling Site-, Regio- and Stereoselectivity
Kian L. Tan,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Boston College,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The 11 Gyr Evolution of Star-forming galaxies: the HiZELS/H-alpha view
David Sobral,
Leiden Observatory,
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Matching Information
Hector Chade,
Professor of Economics,
Arizona State University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Perihuman aerosol science: UFPs, SVOCs, and the indoor microbiome
William Nazaroff,
Daniel Tellep Distinguished Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Berkley,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
POLYMER DEFORMATION DURING NANOSTRUCTURE FABRICATION BY MECHANICAL PROCESSING
Graham Cross,
CRANN Institute and School of Physics,
Trinity College Dublin,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Everhart Lecture
Navigating Without Eyes Or Ears: A Worms Tale of Survival Using the Sense of Smell
Adler Dillman,
Graduate Student,
Biology,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, May 17th, 2012
9:00am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Atmospheric Black Carbon: Measurements in the Los Angeles Atmosphere and Aging by Condensation of Organic Aerosol
Andrew Metcalf,
Graduate student ,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Towards Hybrid Human-Machine Vision Systems: Image Annotation using Crowds, Experts and Machines
Peter Welinder,
graduate student,
Compuation & Neural Systems,
11:30am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change, from CMIP5 to IPCC Reports
Jinqiang Chen,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science & Engineering,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Targeting tumors and the kidney with siRNA nanoparticles
Jonathan Eric Zuckerman,
BMB graduate student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Establishing a genetic and exogenous toolbox for studying multiple stages of vertebrate development in vivo
William Dempsey,
Bioengineering Option,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Decoding and Predicting Human Decisions
John-Dylan Haynes,
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
High-throughput cell control and analysis using inertial fluid physics
Dino Di Carlo,
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Design with Topology Optimization - From Material Architectures to Structural Systems
James Guest,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil Engineering,
John Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Beyond Watson and Crick: Recent advances in the use of DNA as a building material
Paul Rothemund,
Senior Research Associate,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 18th, 2012
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Thesis Seminar
Mechanistic Insights into Alkane C-H Activation and Functionalization by Metal Oxide Surfaces and Organometallic Complexes
Mu-Jeng Cheng,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Goddard group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The cusp anomalous dimension at three loops and beyond
Johannes Henn,
IAS,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy, Kinetics, and Quantum Chemistry of Atmospherically Relevant Reactions
Matthew Sprague,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Okumura Group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Communication with Multiple Senders and Multiple Dimensions: An Experiment
Alistair J. Wilson,
Assistant Professor,
Economics Department,
University of Pittsburgh,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
The Development of RNA-Based Control Systems to Regulate Signaling and Dictate Cell Fate in Model MAPK Pathway
Katie Galloway,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
2:00pm
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Chemistry Club Seminar
Photoionization, photodissociation or ultrafast relaxation? How aqueous aromatics deal with a UV photon.
Stephen Bradforth,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Southern California,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Lessons for Bio-Inspired Design: Fluid Dynamics of Embryonic Heart
Mory Gharib,
Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Bio-Inspired Engineering ,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Metal-filled Photonic Crystal Fibers: Plasmonics and Polarizers
Patrick Uebel,
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen,
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
In a Future Tense: Immigration Law, Counterfactual Histories, and Chinese Invasion
Edlie Wong,
Associate Professor of English ,
University of Maryland,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Saturday, May 19th, 2012
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10:00am
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11:00am
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 20th, 2012
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2:00pm
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6:30pm
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