Institute Calendar
December 2013
Tuesday, December 10th, 2013
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Resnick Institute Seminar
ARPA-E: A Fresh Perspective on Next-Generation EV Battery Technology
Ilan Gur,
ARPA-E Program Director,
Tuesday, December 10th, 2013
9:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
The GW Discovery Space of Pulsar Timing Arrays
Curt Cutler,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
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. Jessica Werk,
UCSC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Patterning the vertebrate gut: From physical forces to stem cells
Cliff Tabin,
Professor,
Dept. of Genetics,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Majorana ghosts: From topological superconductor to the origin of neutrino masses, three generations and their mass mixing
Zheng-Cheng Gu,
Caltech & Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model
Lawrence Jin,
Ph.D. Student,
School of Management,
Yale University,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Mid-Infrared Properties of Directly Imaged Exoplanets
Andrew Skemer,
Arizona,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
8:00am
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12/13
5:00pm
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9:30am
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10:30am
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9:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
From Circumstellar Disks to Extrasolar Planets: Observational Insights
Andrea Isella,
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
On the Fine Structure of the Cepheid Metallicity Gradient in the Galactic Thin Disk
Prof. Giuseppe Bono,
University of Rome Tor Vergata,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Composite Weak Bosons and the New Boson at the LHC
Harald Fritzsch,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
New Materials and Devices for Chemical Sensing
Katherine Mirica,
Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, December 12th, 2013
9:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Chemical-Scale Studies of G Protein-Coupled Receptors and Ligand-Gated Ion Channels
Ethan Van Arnam,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dougherty Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Competitive Policy Entrepreneurship
Alexander V. Hirsch,
Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, December 13th, 2013
8:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
\Delta I = 1/2 Rule for Kaon Decays derived from QCD Infrared Fixed Point
Rod Crewther,
University of Adelaide,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Beckman Institute Visibility Seminar
Optogenetics and CLARITY at Caltech: Development and Applications
Viviana Gradinaru,
Assistant Professor of Biology,
Biology and Biological Engineering,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Radical-chain Mechanisms in Nickel-catalyzed Stereoconvergent Cross-Coupling
Nathan Schley,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Saturday, December 14th, 2013
10:00am
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12/21
2:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Torosyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Garibyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tokadjian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, December 15th, 2013
10:00am
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1:00pm
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Family Portrait Photography on Campus: Jackson Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:00pm
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5:00pm
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Family Portrait Photography on Campus: Bulaon Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Cho & Lim Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, December 16th, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Electron Flow Through Cytochrome P450
Maraia Ener,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Gray Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Preparing and preserving low entropy states in optical lattices
Stephan Langer,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
University of Pittsburgh,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Planet formation in action: the role of dust trapping in transitional disks
Nienke van der Marel,
Leiden,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2013
9:30am
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10:30am
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2:00pm
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General Biology Seminar - Informal
Linking RNA from Mouse Models to Mechanisms
John Rinn,
Professor,
Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology ,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Reverse-engineering quantum theory: (anti-)matter waves, interferometry, and clocks.
Holger Mueller,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics,
University of California - Berkeley,
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
Prof. Zheng Zheng,
Univ. of Utah,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
How did our adaptive immune system evolve?
Max Cooper,
Professor,
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine,
Emory University School of Medicine,
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 18th, 2013
4:00pm
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Thursday, December 19th, 2013
10:00am
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11:00am
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
First-Principle Studies of the Initiation Mechanism of Energetic Materials
Wei-Guang Liu,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Goddard group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Fronto-Basal-Ganglia Circuits for Stopping Action
Adam Aron,
Associate Professor,
UC San Diego,
Friday, December 20th, 2013
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Organomimetic Chemistry of Aromatic Fluorine- and Boron-Rich Molecules
Alexander Spokoyny,
Dr. ,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,