Institute Calendar
November 2012
Thursday, November 8th, 2012
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Bounding the Size of Inclusions in a Body from Boundary Measurements
Graeme Milton,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Utah,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Optical, Molecular and Cellular Tools to Observe, Perturb, and Re-engineer Brain Circuits
Vivian Gradinaru,
Professor/Visiting Associate, Biology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Elicitation (and Evaluation) of Statistical Forecasts
Nicolas S. Lambert,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Probing Stellar Physics through Asteroseismology
Conny Aerts,
University of Leuven, Belgium,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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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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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Exploring New Worlds with the Dawn Mission
Dr. Carol Raymond,
Dawn Deputy Principal Investigator,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, November 9th, 2012
8:30am
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2:30pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Disordered AdS/CFT, Localization and Random Matrix Theory
Omid Saremi,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Real Time Markets: Success or Disaster?
John Ledyard,
Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Metamaterials from Rods and Pivots
Graeme Milton,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Utah,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Light-Mediated Pattern Formation during the Growth of Chalcogenide Nanostructures
Bryce Sadtler,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:30pm
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6:30pm
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4:30pm
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7:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Exploring New Worlds with the Dawn Mission
Dr. Carol Raymond,
Dawn Deputy Principal Investigator,
JPL,
Saturday, November 10th, 2012
8:30am
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9:30am
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10:00am
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2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Bandari Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hass Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 11th, 2012
1:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, November 12th, 2012
9:00am
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12:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Large-scale galaxy formation on a moving mesh: gas accretion revised
Mark Vogelsberger,
Harvard/ITC/CfA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Folding: in silico, in vitro, in vivo
Martin Grubele,
Professor of Physics,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Illinois,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Visual Place Learning in Drosophila
Michael Reiser,
Ph.D,
Janella Farm Research Campus,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Formation and Evolution of Early Planetary Crusts: Magma Ocean Constraints
Carle Pieters,
Professor,
Department of Geological Sciences,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Statistical Analysis of Results from Laboratory Studies in Experimental Economics: A Critique of Current Practice
Donald Green,
Professor of Political Science,
Columbia University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Solution Structure and Operator Symmetries: A Spin on High-Order, Compact and Practical Numerical Schemes for Differential Equations
Jean-Christophe Nave,
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
McGill University,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Giving Effective Feedback on Student Writing
Susanne Hall,
Campus Writing Coordinator in the Hixon Writing Center & Lecturer in Writing,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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International Education Week Lecture
TB and HIV: A Global Health Emergency and What We Are Doing About It
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
A Unified Framework for Approximating and Clustering Data
Michael Langberg,
Mathematics and Computer Science,
The Open University of Israel,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Frankenstein Revisited: How a jellyfish made from rat and rubber advances engineering of artificial organs
Janna Nawroth,
Graduate Student,
Department of Biology,
1:15pm
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3:30pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Gravitational radiation from compact binaries with effective field theory
Andreas Ross,
Research Associate,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
Debora Sijacki,
Dr.,
Institute for Theory and Computation,
Harvard University,
Debora Sijacki,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Real-time Imaging of Nanoscale Dynamics on Atomic Glass Surfaces
Martin Gruebele,
James R. Eiszner Prof. of Chemistry, Prof. of Physics, Prof. of Biophysics and Computational Biology,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Jason Damazo,
"Investigating the Boundary Layer Induced by Gaseous Detonations",
Rashad Moarref,
"Model-based scaling and prediction of streamwise energy spectrum at high Reynolds numbers",
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
TBD
Maria Kleshcheva,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Miki Nakajima,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
10:00am
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11:00am
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
The Origin of Orbital Obliquity and Near-Resonances in Hot Exoplanetary Systems
Konstantin Batygin,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Institute for Theory and Computation,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,