Institute Calendar
November 2011
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
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11/1
5:00pm
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
10:00am
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11/27
11:59pm
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10:00am
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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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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Motion control of autonomous systems: reconfigurable spacecraft and fast air vehicles
Marin Kobilarov,
Control & Dynamical Systems,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
"Black Holes, Dark Energy, and other Dark Matters"
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
How Transcription Circuits Evolve
Alexander (Sandy) Johnson,
professor and vice chair,
Microbiology and Immunology,
UC San Francisco,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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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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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
An Estimable Demand System for a Large Auction Platform Market
Gregory Lewis,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Molecular Tools for Monitoring Biodegradation of Emerging Water Contaminants
Shaily Mahendra,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Synthesizing pi-Conjugated Copolymers with Sequence Control using Ni Catalysis
Anne J. McNeil,
professor of chemistry,
University of Michigan,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:30am
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11/4
6:00pm
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2011 Southern California Symposium on Network Economics and Game Theory
2011 Southern California Symposium on Network Economics and Game Theory
10:30am
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11/4
6:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Chiral Phosphoric Acid as Versatile Catalysts for Enantioselective Transformations
Masahiro Terada,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Tohoku University,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Building new chemical function in living organisms
Michelle Chang,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
OptaSense: (truly) Distributed Seismic Sensing using Standard Fiber Optic Cables
Gregory Duckworth,
Director,
OptaSense Technical and Operations ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
A quest for sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays
Kumiko Kotera,
Fairchild Fellow, Caltech,
Researcher, CNRS, France ,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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Friday, November 4th, 2011
8:30am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Exploiting the Reactivity of Arynes for the Synthesis of Natural Products
Pamela Tadross,
Chemistry Graduate Student, Stoltz Group,
Chemistry & Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Developing and Validating Design Factors for Buckling-Critical Launch Vehicle Structures
Mark Hilburger,
Dr.,
Structural Mechanics and Concepts Branch,
NASA Langley Research Center,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Functionalization of Dinitrogen at Iron Metallaboratranes
Marc-Etienne Moret,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, November 5th, 2011
8:00am
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1:45pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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1:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Sousani Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, November 6th, 2011
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Thinking: Fast and Slow
Dr. Daniel Kahneman,
psychologist,
Princeton University,
2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kourinian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 7th, 2011
9:00am
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9:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Astrophysically Motivated Bulge Disk Decompositions in SDSS
Claire Lackner,
Yale,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Identification and Inference in Ascending Auctions with Correlated Private Values
Amit Gandhi,
University of Wisconsin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
From the Cambrian to the sushi bar: TRPA1 and the evolution of thermal and chemical detection
Paul Garrity,
Associate Professor of Biology,
Shapiro Science Center ,
Brandeis University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
New Approaches to Reconstructing Holocene sea levels
Alexander Simms,
Assistant Professor ,
Department of Earth Sciences,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Synthesis, Reactivity and Bonding in Uranium(IV-VI) Mono- and Bis-imido Complexes
James M. Boncella,
Technical Staff Member,
Materials Physics and Applications Division,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
The Convex Geometry of Linear Inverse Problems
Venkat Chandrasekaran,
UC Berkeley,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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9:15pm
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10:15pm
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Toward a Computational Information Theory
Michelle Effros,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,