Institute Calendar
May 2012
Monday, May 21st, 2012
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Incentive Compatibility, Efficiency and Network Centrality in Public Good Games
Matthew Elliott,
Visiting Associate in Economics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Neural Patterns Similarity and Visual Perception
Jonathan Harel,
Computation & Neural Systems,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Detecting Small Planets Orbiting Small Stars Using Small Telescopes and GPS
Cullen Blake,
Princeton,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Integrative Moral Cognition
Joshua Greene,
Associate Professor,
Department of Psychology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Measuring time-lapse changes from noise and earthquakes
Roel Snieder,
W.M. Keck Distinguished Professor of Basic Exploration Science ,
Department of Geophysics,
Colorado School of Mines,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Big Science, 19th Century Style: Terrestrial Physics and the British Quest for the South Magnetic Pole
Edward J. Larson,
University Professor and Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law,
Pepperdine University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Regularization of Positive Definite Matrices: Connections Between Algebra, Graph Theory and Statistics
Bala Rajaratnam,
Statistics,
Stanford University,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Brown Bag/Graduate Student Seminar
The Art of Science
Roel Snieder,
W.M. Keck Distinguished Professor of Basic Exploration Science ,
Colorado School of Mines,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
The Biography of a Gene: Intellectual Property, HIV-AIDS, and Race in the Age of Biocapitalism
Myles W. Jackson,
Joint Dibner Family Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
NYU-Poly and NYU-Gallatin,
Francis Bacon Visiting Professor of History, Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Flexible Renegotiation and Persistent Private Information
Bruno Strulovici,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Promoting Chemistry With External Force: Covalent Mechanochemistry with First Principles Molecular Dynamics on Graphical Processing Units
Todd J. Martinez,
Professor of Chemistry and Professor of S.L.A.C. Photon Science,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Guidance laws and neural circuit dynamics underlying dragonfly prey capture"
Leonardo Anthony,
Group Leader,
Janelia Farm,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Standard Models for the Atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune
Glenn Orton,
Senior Research Scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Yeramian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
8:00am
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8:30am
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4:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Phase Transitions and Domain Structures in Ferroelectric Thin Films
Long-Qing Chen,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Early Results from the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH)
Marc Postman,
STScI,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Ocean Circulation, Ice Volume, and CO2 in the Late Pleistocene
Lorraine Lisiecki,
Professor,
Earth Sciences,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Cortical representations of olfactory input by transsynaptic tracing
Kazunari Miyamichi,
Research Specialist,
HHMI Dept of Biology,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Caltech Y Social Activism Speaker Series (SASS) Lecture
Human Trafficking, Healthcare and Underserved Populations in LA County
Susie Baldwin,
Dr.,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, May 24th, 2012
8:00am
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10:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Reliability of the Water Supply in Southern California, Part 2: The State Water Project
John Hall,
Professor of Civil Engineering,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
An "as-is" Model of Economic Decision Making
Ian Krajbich,
Senior Postdoc in Microeconomics, Experimental Economics, and the Foundations of Human Social Behavi,
Department of Economics,
University of Zurich, Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemcial Engineering Seminar
Tuning 2D and 3D suspension microstructure
James F. Gilchrist,
Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
Lehigh University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Tactile Acceleration Cues for Haptic and Robotic Systems
Katherine Kuchenbecker,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
From Black Holes to Biological Membranes: Utilizing the Local Nature of Physical Laws to Simplify Complex Problems
Ira Rothstein,
Professor of Physics,
Carnegie Mellon University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Sustainability Lecture
Being the Change: Can we learn from nature before it is too late?
Eugene Tssui,
Dr.,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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9:30pm
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11:00pm
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Friday, May 25th, 2012
11:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Cosmic Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei
Cosmic Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei
Günther Hasinger,
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling of Spacecraft Parachutes
Tayfun Tezduyar,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
Rice University ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Novel Approaches to Cleavage of Lignin-Related C-O Bonds
Alexey Fedorov,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Einstein-Picasso Question
Lewis Pyenson,
Professor of History,
Western Michigan University,
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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4:30pm
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5:15pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Design of an optomechanical accelerometer
Alex Krause,
Graduate Student,
Applied Physics,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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3:00am
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Saturday, May 26th, 2012
10:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Matthewsian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Apelian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:30pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Flament Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 27th, 2012
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, May 28th, 2012
8:00am
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5:00pm
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