Institute Calendar
April 2013
Saturday, April 13th, 2013
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Balasanyan, Baburov Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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Monday, April 15th, 2013
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Special Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Earthquake Engineering Systems: Where it all Begins
Ting Lin,
Postdoctoral Fellow ,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Stanford University,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Klein Lecture in Aerospace Engineering
The Right Kind of Crazy: Risk, Reason, and the Physics of Landing
Adam D. Steltzner,
Manager of the Planetary Entry, Descent and Landing and the Small Body Access Office,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Chemical Probes to Study Fucosylated Glycans
Chithra Krishnamurthy,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Hsieh-Wilson Group,
Division of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Explaining a cell's evolutionary trade-offs in terms of proteome physical chemistry
Ken Dill,
Professor of Physics and Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Stony Brook University,
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Imaging neural ensembles during learning
Takaki Komiyama,
Assistant Professor,
Neurobiology/Neurosciences,
University California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Prospects and Challenges of Neutral Atom Quantum Simulation
David Weld,
Assistant Professor,
UCSB,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The lunar core dynamo
Benjamin P. Weiss,
Associate Professor of Planetary Sciences,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences ,
MIT,
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Evidence for and Obstructions to Partially Massless Gravity
Kurt Hinterbichler,
Perimeter Institute,
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Catalytic C–H Borylation: Evolution of a Synthetic Method
Milton R. Smith, III,
Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
Michigan State University,
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Development and Applications of Numerical Solvers for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations on Octree Adaptive Grids
Frederic Gibou,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics,
UC Santa Barbara,
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General Biology Seminar
Nucleosomes and the logic of gene regulation
Mark Ptashne,
Program Leader,
Molecular Biology Program, Center for Stem Cell Research,
Sloan-Kettering Institute,
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Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
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General Biology Seminar
The genetic basis of neural circuit development
Kevin Wright,
Postdoctotal Fellow,
Dept of Neuroscience,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Equilibrium value method for optimization problems and its applications in quantum computation
Xiaodi Wu,
University of Michigan,
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
Prof. Connie Rockosi,
UC Santa Cruz, UCO/Lick Observatory,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Hybrid Systems in Interaction with Radiation: New Avenues to Study Reactive Transients in Chemistry and to Design Novel Functional Materials
Bernd Abel,
Professor,
Chemistry Department,
Leibniz Institute of Surface Modification (IOM), Leipzig, Germany, and Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University Leipzig, Germany,
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General Biology Seminar
MicroRNAs and developmental robustness in C. elegans
Victor Ambros,
Co-director, RNA Therapeutics Institute Silverman, Professor of Natural Sciences,
Program in Molecular Medicine,
University of Massachusetts Medical School ,
4:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Primary Accretion of Planetesimals
Jeff Cuzzi,
Research Scientist,
NASA Ames,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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21st-Century Energy: Solar Storage in Hydrogen Gas
Everhart Lecture Series
James McKone,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
The Tree of Life: Metaphor, Models, and Reality
Joel Velasco,
Ahmanson Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy,
Caltech,
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Astronomy Colloquium
An Astronomical Time Machine: Light Echoes from Historic Supernovae and Stellar Eruptions
Armin Rest,
STScI,
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Bray Theory Workshop
A Revealed-Preference Theory of Sequential Rationality
Marciano Siniscalchi,
Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
Northwestern University,
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
How, why, and when is Pacific climate changing (and who cares)?
Amy Clement,
Professor,
Meteorology & Physical Oceanography,
Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Gradient and time-dependent mechanisms that pattern the Drosophila embryo
Stephen Small,
Professor and Chair,
Dept. of Biology,
New York University,
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Linus Pauling Lectureship (POSTPONED)
EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE IN THE FALL 2013
Charles M. Lieber,
Mark Hyman Professor of Chemistry,
Harvard University,
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Thursday, April 18th, 2013
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Nitinol: from Magic to Saving Lives
Tom Duerig,
Nitinol Devices and Components, Inc.,
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Chemoenzymatic Labeling of Fucosylated Cancer Biomarkers
Jean-Luc Chaubard,
Grad Student, Hsieh-Wilson Group,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
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Resnick Institute Grid 2020 Discussion
Resnick Institute Grid 2020 Discussion: Transactive Energy & Distributed Markets
2:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Multisensory Mechanisms of Body Self-Perception
Henrik Ehrsson,
Associate Professor,
Department of Neuroscience ,
Karolinska Institutet,
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Physics Research Conference
New Observations about Quantum Field Theory
Zohar Komargodski,
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
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Friday, April 19th, 2013
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Empirical Implications of Rank in Bimatrix Games
Siddharth Barman,
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Center for Mathematic of Information,
EAS,
Caltech,
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