Institute Calendar
May 2014
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
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CANCELLED General Biology Seminar
Peter Turnbaugh,
Bauer Fellow,
FAS Center for Systems Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
Dr. Laura Perez,
NRAO,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Understanding Non-Covalent Interactions Involving Aromatic Rings
Steven E. Wheeler,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX,
4:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Black holes, star products and entanglement
Monica Guica,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Seasonal Cycles in Terrestrial Planetary Climates
Jonathan Mitchell,
Assistant Professor,
Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Dynamic Agenda Setting (joint with Ying Chen)
Hulya Eraslan,
Johns Hopkins University,
Wednesday, May 14th, 2014
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Validity of spin wave theory for the quantum Heisenberg model
Robert Seiringer,
Mathematics,
IST Austria,
12:00pm
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Logic Seminar
The Generic Point Problem and Closed Subgroups of $S_\infty$, I
Andy Zucker,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
Carnegie Mellon University,
3:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
New perspectives on the ocean's role in transient climate change
Kyle Armour,
James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Advanced semiconductor devices: from nanotechnology-based photovoltaics to infrared thermal sensing
Dr. Giacomo Mariani,
Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, May 15th, 2014
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Interaction of a Mach 2.25 Turbulent Boundary Layer with Elastic Panels using Direct Numerical Simulation
Daniel Bodony,
Associate Professor,
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Unnatural Amino Acid Probes of a Prokaryotic Cys-Loop Receptor Homolog
Matthew Rienzo,
Mr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Density Functional Theory Embedding for Correlated Wavefunctions
Jason Goodpaster,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
2:30pm
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Logic Seminar
The Generic Point Problem and Closed Subgroups of $S_\infty$, II
Andy ,
Zucker,
Mathematics,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
A Model of Choice and its Predictions
Aldo Rustichini,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture
32nd Annual Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture
Avi Wigderson,
Professor,
School of Mathematics,
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Explorations in the Physics and Mathematics of Moonshine
Shamit Kachru,
Professor of Physics,
Stanford University,
5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mark Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Friday, May 16th, 2014
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8:00am
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5/17
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Stability and Robustness of Dynamical Network Flows
Ketan Savla,
Assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering ,
University of Southern California,
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TAPIR Seminar
I-Love-Q
Nico Yunes,
Assistant Professor,
Physics Department,
Montana State University,
3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Advancing EDL Technologies for Future Space Missions: From Ground Testing Facilities to Ablative Heatshields
Jason Rabinovitch,
Graduate Student,
Aeronautics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Knotting and Unknotting Surfaces
Nathan Sunukjian,
Instructor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Stony Brook University,
4:00pm
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Davidson Lecture
Personalized health care in post genomic era
Richard Scheller,
Executive Vice President ,
Research and Early Development,
Genentech,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Enantioselective Olefin Metathesis with Cyclometalated Ruthenium Complexes
John Hartung,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Unconventional magnetism in dissipative atomic systems
Tony Lee,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Institute for Theoretical Atomic Molecular nad Optical Physics (ITAMP),
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Natural Kinds as Categorical Bottlenecks
Laura Franklin-Hall,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
New York University,
8:00pm
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Saturday, May 17th, 2014
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Sunday, May 18th, 2014
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kobayashi Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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Monday, May 19th, 2014
8:15am
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course
Multi-Functional Energy Projecting Systems for Planetary Exploration
9:00am
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The novel function of a protein-conducting channel in cotranslational protein targeting
Thesis defense
David Akopian,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Decentralized Bargaining: Efficiency and the Core
Matthew Elliott,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
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Brf1 post-transcriptionally regulates pluripotency and differentiation responses downstream of Erk MAP Kinase
Thesis defense
Fred Tan,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Development of Protein-Catalyzed Capture (PCC) Agents with Application to the Specific Targeting of the E17K Point Mutation of Akt1
Kaycie Deyle,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Heath group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Imaging an Active Volcano using Seismic Tomography and Coda Interferometry – Recent Results from Mount Erebus, Antarctica
Richard Aster,
Professor and Department Head ,
Deapartment of Geosciences,
Colorado State University,
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Salt-free Reduction of Tantalum and Tungsten Halides for Generating Low-valent Catalytically Active Species
Kazushi Mashima,
Professor,
Chemistry,
Osaka University,
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Banach Space Projections and Petrov-Galerkin Estimates
Ari Stern,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:15pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Lessons in Near-Field Cosmology from Simulating the Local Group
Shea Garrison-Kimmel,
UC Irvine,
Tuesday, May 20th, 2014
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IST Lunch Bunch
How to Create a Perfect Microscope by Adding a Computer
Changhuei Yang,
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering and Medical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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