Institute Calendar
January 2013
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
10:30am
–
11:30am
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
Lessons Learned: The Journey Of One Technical Woman
Telle Whitney,
CEO,
Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Astronomy Tea Talk
More than LESS: First results from the ALMA survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South
Alexander Karim,
Durham University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Supermassive pairs hiding in the cosmos
Sarah Burke-Spolaor,
JPL,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Dark Matter Detected in the Galactic Center?
Prof. Kevork Abazajian,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Kroc Lecture
Using Fixed Circuits to Build Flexible Behaviors
Cori Bargmann,
Investigator, Torsten N. Wiesel Professor,
Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior,
The Rockefeller University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Social Science Job Candidate Seminar
Information Revelation in Competitions with Common and Private Values
Xu Tan,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Department of Economics,
Stanford University,
5:00pm
–
7:00pm
Add to Cal
7:30pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
10:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A Theory of the Meridional Overturning Circulation and Associated Stratification of the Ocean
Maxim Nikurashin,
Physical Oceanographer,
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies,
University of Tasmania,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
General Biology Seminar
Conceptual Advance: the Hidden Syntax of Scientific Publication
Charles Yokoyama,
Director,
Research Administration,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
[Cancelled] Planetary-Scale Batteries: The Electrochemical Series at High Pressures and Temperatures
Abby Kavner,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
University of California Los Angeles,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Social Science Job Candidate Seminar
Strategic Learning and the Topology of Social Networks (Joint work with Elchanan Mossel and Allan Sly)
Omer Tamuz,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Weizmann Institute, Israel,
6:00pm
–
7:00pm
Add to Cal
7:00pm
–
8:00pm
Add to Cal
7:30pm
–
10:30pm
Add to Cal
8:00pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
8:00pm
–
10:00pm
Add to Cal
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
10:30am
–
12:30pm
Add to Cal
10:30am
–
11:30am
Add to Cal
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Locomotion of Microorganisms in Complex Fluids
Roberto Zenit,
Professor,
Departmento de Mecánica de Materiales y Reologia,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
12:00pm
–
1:30pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:30pm
Add to Cal
2:30pm
–
5:30pm
Add to Cal
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Chemical Engineering Seminar
Foam structure and rheology: the shape and feel of random soap froth
Andrew M. Kraynik,
Sandia National Laboratories (retired),
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
General Biology Seminar
Variability in longevity and the origins of individuality
Zachary Pincus,
Postdoctotal Fellow ,
Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology,
Yale University,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Geology Club Seminar
Sean Loyd,
Agouron Institute Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Physics Research Conference
Do bacteria play tit-for-tat? Dynamics of a public good in bacterial micro-colony.
David Bensimon,
ENS, Paris,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Social Science Job Candidate Seminar
Optimal Stopping with Private Information (joint work with Thomas Kruse)
Phillip Strack,
Ph.D Candidate in Mathematics and Economics,
Bonn Graduate School of Economics,
5:00pm
–
6:30pm
Add to Cal
6:00pm
–
7:00pm
Add to Cal
7:00pm
–
8:20pm
Add to Cal
7:30pm
–
10:30pm
Add to Cal
7:30pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
Friday, January 25th, 2013
8:00am
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
9:00am
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
James K. Knowles Lecture and Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium
Some Experiments on Nonlinear Waves in Solids
Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar,
Temple Foundation Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics,
University of Texas at Austin,
9:00am
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
10:00am
–
11:30am
Add to Cal
10:00am
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
UCLA Medical Scientist Training Program Interviews
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
11:00am
–
12:00pm
Add to Cal
High Energy Theory Seminar
Light states in Chern-Simons theory coupled to fundamental matter
Shamik Banerjee,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
12:00pm
–
1:00pm
Add to Cal
2:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
TAPIR Seminar
Strong-Field Gravitational Wave Tests of General Relativity
Nicolas Yunes,
Assistant Professor,
Physics,
Montana State University,
3:00pm
–
4:00pm
Add to Cal
GALCIT Colloquium
Optimisation and Learning for Artificial Swimmers
Petros Koumoutsakos,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"Ether Carbon-Oxygen Bond Activation by Group 9 and 10 Transition Metals"
Guy Edouard,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
–
6:30pm
Add to Cal
7:00pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
7:00pm
–
8:00pm
Add to Cal
7:30pm
–
9:00pm
Add to Cal
Saturday, January 26th, 2013
12:00am
–
1/27
12:00am
Add to Cal
11:00am
–
12:30pm
Add to Cal
1:30pm
–
5:00pm
Add to Cal
Wedding Photography on Campus: Vazquez Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
–
5:30pm
Add to Cal
Wedding Photography on Campus: Davidian / Safarian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
–
8:00pm
Add to Cal
7:00pm
–
10:00pm
Add to Cal
8:00pm
–
10:00pm
Add to Cal
Sunday, January 27th, 2013
12:00pm
–
3:00pm
Add to Cal
3:30pm
–
5:30pm
Add to Cal