Institute Calendar
May 2013
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
11:00am
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12:30pm
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1:10pm
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2:30pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Supermassive Black Holes in Giant Elliptical Galaxies
Chung Pei Ma,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Decentralized Exchange
Marzena Rostek,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Surface ocean impacts on the chemistry of the tropical free troposphere
Rainer Volkamer,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Minding the microbiome: how a commensal gut bacterium treats autism-related symptoms in mice
Everhart Lecture Series
Elaine Hsiao,
Post-Doc,
Biology,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, May 9th, 2013
12:00am
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5/10
12:00am
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9:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Boundary-Layer Instability and Transition Experiments in a Mach 6 Quiet Tunnel
Jerrod Hofferth,
Aerospace Engineering Department,
Texas A&M University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Social Regulation of Human Gene Expression
Steve Cole,
Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
UCLA School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Radar Imaging of Near Earth Asteroids
Dr. Lance Benner,
Research Scientist,
Asteroids, Comets and Satellites Group,
JPL,
Friday, May 10th, 2013
12:00am
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5/11
12:00am
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9:00am
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5/11
5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Localization in N=2* and related models
Alex Buchel,
Perimeter Institute,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
All Men Are Created Unequal -- A Wiser Wisdom of the Crowd
Pietro Perona,
Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering,
EAS,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Testing Gravity with Cosmology: a new Golden Age?
Pedro Ferreira,
Professor,
Astrophysics,
University of Oxford,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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CLARK B. MILLIKAN Lecture in Aerospace
Logarithmic scaling in wall-bound turbulent flows
Alexander Smits,
Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Mixed-Signal, RF and Microwave Seminar
High-Resolution mm-Wave Pulsed Radar for Imaging and Gesture Detection
Amin Arbabian,
Assistant Professor ,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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General Photography on Campus: Girl Scouts (Dr. Steven Mayo) Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Magnetic Alignment of High-Aspect Ratio Microwires into Vertical Arrays
Joseph Beardslee,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Leverage and Beliefs: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the Amsterdam Repo Market (joint w/ Hans-Joachim Voth)
Peter Koudijs,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
Radar Imaging of Near Earth Asteroids
Dr. Lance Benner,
Research Scientist,
Asteroids, Comets and Satellites Group,
JPL,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 11th, 2013
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 12th, 2013
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 13th, 2013
9:00am
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9:01am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Hamiltonian Theory of Fractionally Filled Chern Bands
Ganpathy Murthy,
Professor,
University of Kentucky,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Is the Genome Useful in Medicine?"
Steve Quake,
Professor of Bioengineering,
Department of Bioengineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Neural substrates of memory
Loren M. Frank,
Associate Professor,
UCSF Center for Integrative Neuroscience Department of Physiology,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Neutrinoless double-beta decay and other searches for physics beyond the Standard Model with the Majorana experiment
Reyco Henning,
University of North Carolina,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Organometallic Reactions Mediated by Low-Valent Uranium: Examining the Roles of Alkyl Substituents and Redox-Active Ligands in Fundamental Reactivity
Suzanne C. Bart,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
Purdue University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences
A Living, Breathing Ocean
William J. Jenkins,
Senior Scientist, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry,
Director NOSAMS,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Sunk Cost Fallacy in Driving the World's Costliest Cars
Teck-Hua Ho,
William Halford, Jr. Family Chair in Marketing,
Haas School of Business,
UC Berkeley,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Morphological Reduction of Neurons
Steven Cox,
Professor,
Computational and Applied Mathematics,
Rice University,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
The Myth of Economies of Scale: The Vendor Business Model
Janet Campagna,
Chief Executive Officer,
QS Investors, LLC,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Is there life beyond Quantum Mechanics?
Anton Kapustin,
Professor,
Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
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
Dr. Davy Kirkpatrick,
IPAC,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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GALCIT Special Seminar
Advances in combustion and aerospace propulsion applications
Sebastien Candel,
Professor,
Ecole Centrale Paris,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
GATA foctor regulation of HSC homeostasis and T cell development
Doug Engel,
G. Carl Huber Professor and Chair,
Cell and Developmental Biology,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Oceanography of Icy Worlds
Steve Vance,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Planetary Chemistry and Astrobiology,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMA Presents "Is There an Asteroid in Your Future?"
Chris Lewicki,
President and Chief Engineer,
Planetary Resources,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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