Institute Calendar
November 2012
Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Emergence and frustration of Magnetism in a trapped ion quantum simulator
Wes Campbell,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Subtle but profound consequences of nanoscale fluctuations in biophysics and materials science: From side chain packing in proteins to nanocrystal self-assembly
Phillip Geissler,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Stochastic and self-organizing behaviors during the regeneration of hair stem cells
Maksim Plikus,
Assistant Professor,
Developmental and Cell Biology,
University of California - Irvine,
4:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Characterization of Exoplanet Atmospheres from Their Spectra: Trends in Chemistry (Michael Line); A search for main-belt comets in the Palomar Transient Factory survey (Adam Waszczak)
Michael Line,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Adam Waszczak,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Physicist Max von Laue: "Knight Without Fear or Fault"
Dieter Hoffman,
Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2012
8:00am
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2012
8:00am
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9:00am
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Friday, November 23rd, 2012
9:00am
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1:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Boyadzhian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Saturday, November 24th, 2012
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gharibi Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Stepanyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, November 25th, 2012
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Monday, November 26th, 2012
8:00am
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Dimension Reduction in Discrete Time Portfolio Optimization with Partial Information
Andrew Papanicolaou,
Post-Doctoral Researcher & Lecture,
Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Cortical circuits underlying olfaction
jeffrey Isaacson,
Associate Professor,
University California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Inflationary Effects from High Energy Physics
Mark Jackson,
University of Paris,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Demand for Bad Policy When Voters Do Not Understand Equilibrium Effects (with Ernesto Dal Bó and Erik Eyster)
Pedro Dal Bo,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Brown University,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Confidence and Overconfidence and Political Economy (joint with Pietro Ortoleva)
Erik Snowberg,
Professor of Economics and Political Science,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Visualizing curved spacetime: what we have learned
Aaron Zimmerman,
Tapir,
Caltech,
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
Gas and Dust in the Intergalactic Space
Brice Menard,
Prof.,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Horowitz Seminar
Neurobiology of social behavior in the mouse
Catherine Dulac,
Higgins Professor ,
Dept. of Molecular and Cellualr Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Triggered convection, gravity waves, and the MJO: Towards a 3D Model (Da Yang); Meandering and the landscape record of river vertical incision (Ajay Limaye)
Da Yang,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Ajay Limaye,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
10:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Iron driven anaerobic methane oxidation in lake sediments
Orit Sivan,
Visiting Associate in Geobiology,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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On interactive wireless network security
EE Systems Seminar
Suhas Diggavi,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
UCLA,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, November 29th, 2012
10:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Seismic Retrofit of Structures Using Innovative Sustainable Systems
Reginald Desroches,
Professor,
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Resnick Institute Seminar
Paul De Martini,
Grid 2020: Towards a Policy of Renewable and Distributed Energy Resources,
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Learning to Simulate and Predict the Other
Hiroyuki Nakahara,
Laboratory for Mathematical Neuroscience,
Brain Research Institute, Institute of Chemical and Physical Research (RIKEN),
4:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
A tandem junction microwire Si/WO3 device for water splitting
Matthew Shaner,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,