Institute Calendar
May 2013
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
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Bray Theory Workshop
Poverty and Self-Control
B. Douglas Bernheim,
Edward Ames Edmonds Professor in Economics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Global Warming Yardstick: What Warming Oceans and Rising Seas Tell Us about Anthropogenic Climate Change
Josh Willis,
Project Scientist - Jason-3,
Climate, Oceans and Solid Earth Sciences,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, May 16th, 2013
11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Progress and Challenges in Liquid Rocket Combustion Stability
Venke Sankaran,
Senior Scientist/ST,
AFRL/RQ, Edwards AFB,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Mechanism of an ATP-Independent Disaggregase
Thang Nguyen,
Grad Student, Shan Group,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Developing Peptide Based Capture Agents for Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Arundhati Nag,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Heath Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Synthesis and Biological Activity of Anticoagulant Heparan Sulfate Glycopolymers
Young In Oh,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Hsieh-Wilson Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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Special Seminar
The Beginning of Life and the End of Solar Systems
Dave Spiegel,
Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Prenatal Exposure to Testosterone Reduces the Gender Gap in Financial Risk Taking
Henrik Cronqvist,
McMahon Family Chair in Corporate Finance and George R. Roberts Fellow; Associate Professor of Financial Economics,
Claremont McKenna College,
Robert Day School of Economics and Finance,
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Biochemistry Seminar
How Parkinson's Disease Starts, and How It Might Be Stopped
Gregory Petsko,
Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry,
Department of Biochemistry,
Brandeis University,
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Generating functional materials from nanostructured polymers
Thomas H. Epps, III,
Thomas & Kipp Gutshall Professor of Chemical Engineering,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Delaware,
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Physics Research Conference
First Cosmology Results from Planck
James J. Bock,
Professor of Physics,
Caltech / JPL,
6:00pm
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Friday, May 17th, 2013
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PhD seminar
Investigations of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation in Laboratory Chambers
Christine Loza,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
11:00am
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Reactions of N2 and CO Facilitated by Metal-Acceptor Interactions
Daniel Suess,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Peters Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Fast evaluation of asymptotic waveforms from gravitational perturbations
Scott Field,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Joint Space-Science Institute,
University of Maryland,
3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
A Global Analysis of Tonal-Noise Generation on Airfoils
Peter Schmid,
LadHyx, Department of Mechanics,
Ecole Polytechnique,
3:30pm
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Adventures in Science, Technology and Business Since Caltech
Adventures in Science, Technology and Business Since Caltech
Stephen Wolfram,
President & CEO,
Wolfram Research, Inc.,
4:00pm
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Caltech Mixed-Signal, RF and Microwave Seminar
Nonlinear Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits
Hossein Hashemi,
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of Southern California (USC),
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Cooperative Bond Activation and Catalysis by Nickel–Borane Complexes
William Harman,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
5:30pm
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8:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mousaian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 18th, 2013
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Sunday, May 19th, 2013
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Ginn Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ginn Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
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Monday, May 20th, 2013
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Biophysics Lecture
Time Travel in Experimental Evolution
Richard Lenski,
Professor of Microbial Ecology,
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics,
Michigan State University,
4:00pm
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Chemistry Club Seminar
Bond Activations and New Transformations in Metal-Silicon Complexes: Implications for Hydrosilylation Catalysis
T. Donald Tilley,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
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CNS Seminar
Trying to understand the cerebellum well enough to build one
Michael D. Mauk,
Professor,
Department of Neuroscience,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Effective Field Theories for Topological Insulators via Functional Bosonization
Shinsei Ryu,
Assistant Professor,
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champagne,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Falling to Pieces: Fractures, Blockfalls and Avalanches at the North Pole of Mars
Shane Byrne,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Planetary Sciences,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Sniffing out BSM Physics with Standard Model Standard Candles
David Curtin,
SUNY, Stonybrook,
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Ideology and Nationalism in Basque Parliamentary Elections
Stephen Ansolabehere,
Professor of Government,
Harvard University,
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William and Myrtle Harris Seminar on Science and Civilization
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts
Andrew Robinson,
Author and Journalist,
4:15pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
'Illuminating the dark universe with quasar-induced ly-alpha emission'
Sebastiano Cantalupo,
UCO/Lick Observatory,
6:00pm
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
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Howard & Jan Oringer Seminar
Solving Hard Problems in Science and Education with Game-Based Expert Development
Zoran Popović,
Director, Center for Game Science,
Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Washington,
2:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
Prof. Annika Peter,
Prof.,
UC Irvine/Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Elucidating Correlations in Intracellular Dynamics
Aaron R. Dinner,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Chicago,
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General Biology Seminar
Intrisic biophysical diversity and connectivity of neuronal circuits
Troy Margrie,
Wellcome Trust Investigator,
Head of Division of Neurophysiology,
National Institute for Medical Research - London,
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum metrology and many-body physics with optical lattice clocks
Michael Martin,
JILA, University of Colorado,
4:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Puzzles in Giant Planet Formation
Katherine Kretke,
Researcher,
Southwest Research Institute,
4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Multilevel Monte Carlo Method
Mike Giles,
Professorial Fellow in Mathematical Finance at St Hugh's College,
University of Oxford,
5:00pm
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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
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Thesis Seminar
"Signal Transduction with Hybridization Chain Reactions"
Jonathan Sternberg,
Ph.D. Candidate in Bioengineering,
Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
CSI-Los Angeles: The Growth of Distant Galaxies and Reionization
Ranga- Ram Chary,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Truthful Equilibria in Dynamic Bayesian Games
Johannes Horner,
Professor of Economics,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Turbulence, submesoscales, and phytoplankton blooms at ocean fronts
John R. Taylor,
University Lecturer,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge,