Institute Calendar
January 2014
Friday, January 24th, 2014
9:00am
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6:00pm
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James K. Knowles Lecture and Caltech Solid Mechanics Symposium
Model Reduction in Multiscale Problems Focusing on Polar Ice
Pierre M. Suquet,
Senior Researcher,
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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4:45pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Binary inspiral with extreme mass ratios
John Friedman,
Distinguished Professor Emeritus,
Physics,
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Rare Earth Metal Ions in Manganese-Oxido Clusters as Models of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II
Po-Heng Lin,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, January 25th, 2014
12:00am
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1/26
12:00am
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12:00am
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1/26
12:00am
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, January 26th, 2014
12:00am
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1/27
12:00am
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Monday, January 27th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Manipulating microwave photons in complex circuits
David Schuster,
Assistant Professor,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Controlling Responses to Hypoxia and Reoxygenation: from Genes to Cells to Behavior
Dengke Ma,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Biology,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Effective Field Theory of Cosmological Large-Scale Structures
Leonardo Senatore,
Stanford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Rheological properties of the mantle lid beneath the Mojave region in southern California
Whitney Behr,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Geological Sciences,
The University of Texas at Austin ,
Tuesday, January 28th, 2014
9:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Information Flows, Technology Bubbles, and Gravity Models
Andrew Odlyzko,
School of Mathematics,
University of Minnesota,
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. Tony Pieo,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Quantum Effects and Coherent Dynamics in Biological and Biomimetic Systems
Gregory S. Engel,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Repurposing CRISPR as a Versatile Platform for Genome Engineering and Imaging
Stanley Qi,
Systems Biology Fellow,
UCSF Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology,
University of California San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint IQI/CMP Seminar
Quantum Information, Entanglement, and Many-Body Physics
Fernando Brandao,
Lecturer,
University College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Geologic Mapping of the Asteroid Belt
Francesca DeMeo,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, January 29th, 2014
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Live Fast Die Young: The Evolution of Massive Stars towards their Death
Selma de Mink,
CIT/Carnegie,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Topology, symmetry, and edge states in graphene heterostructures
Andrea Young,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Marsh collapse does not require sea level rise
Sergio Fagherazzi,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth and Environment,
Boston University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lectures
COMPLEX THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS
G. Jeffrey Snyder,
Faculty Associate,
Applied Physics and Materials Science,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lectures
COMPLEX THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS
G. Jeffrey Snyder,
Faculty Associate,
Applied Physics and Materials Science,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Snakes, Degrons, and Diabetes
Amit Choudhary,
Ph.D.,
Broad Institute, Harvard University,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, January 30th, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
High-throughput Mapping of Protein Energy Landscapes Using Novel Microfluidic Tools
Polly Fordyce,
Ph.D.,
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
University of California San Francisco,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
High-Level Verifiable Robotics
Hadas Kress-Gazit,
Assistant Professor,
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Cornell University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Quantum thermalization and many-body Anderson localization
David Huse,
Professor of Physics,
Princeton University,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, January 31st, 2014
11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Questioning Λ: where can we go?
Miguel Zumalacárregui,
Research Associate,
Institute for Theoretical Physics,
University of Heidelberg,
2:15pm
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3:15pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Artificial Metalloenzymes: Challenges and Opportunities
Thomas R. Ward,
Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Basel,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Large-Eddy Simulations of Fully Developed Turbulent Channel and Pipe Flows with Smooth and Rough Walls
Namiko Saito,
Graduate Student,
GALCIT,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
A Tandem Catalytic Approach to Upgrading Light Hydrocarbons: A Dual Homogeneous Ta/Ir System for Coupling Alkanes and Alkenes
David Leitch,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Extracting hidden structure from data: Robust Subspace Clustering and Phase Retrieval
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University,
5:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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