Institute Calendar
December 2011
Ongoing
Ongoing
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12/2
5:00pm
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Thursday, December 1st, 2011
10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Uncertainty in Simulations
Yousuff Hussaini,
Visiting Associate,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
QHE, Metrology, and the New Kilogram
Klaus von Klitzing,
Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung,
Stuttgart, Germany,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, December 2nd, 2011
8:00am
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5:00pm
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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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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Validating and Characterizing Transiting Exoplanets from Space with EPOXI, Kepler, and Warm Spitzer
Sarah Ballard,
CfA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Load-balancing Games in Cloud Systems
Jonathan Anselmi,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Basque Center for Applied Mathematics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Deorbiting of Satellites/Debris: Technology Development and Demonstration Missions
Vaios Lappas,
Professor,
Surrey Space Centre,
University of Surrey,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Reversible Dihydrogen Addition Across a Nickel(0)–Borane Unit: Thermochemistry and Olefin Hydrogenation Catalysis
Hill Harman,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
A Microwave Sensor to Aid in the Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
Bob Allison,
Professor,
Radiation Oncology and Biophysics ,
Eastern Virginia Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Intervention: A Design Framework for Resource Allocation Among Selfish Users
Yuanzhang Xiao,
Electrical Engineering,
UCLA,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
8:00am
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12/6
5:00pm
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10:00am
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2:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, December 4th, 2011
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gavukyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ovakimyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, December 5th, 2011
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanostructured Layered Metal Chalcogenides
Wolfgang Tremel,
Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz/Germany,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Dissipative effects in the Effective Field Theory of Inflation
Diana Lopez Nacir,
Univ of Buenos Aires,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Toward a Bifunctional Catalyst for Hydride Manipulation
Travis J. Williams,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
The Welfare Impact of a New Good: The Printed Book
Jeremiah Dittmar,
Department of Economics,
American University,
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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6:30pm
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Social Science Conference
Finance: Genes, Brains, Decisions and Market Interaction
Various Speakers,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Fundamental Studies of Early Transition Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds: Structure, Electronics and Catalysis
Ian Tonks,
Graudate Student in Chemistry,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Bercaw group,
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
"Dwarf spheroidal galaxies: a landmark for galaxy formation"
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Thermionic and photon-enhanced emission for solar thermal energy conversion
Nick Melosh,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Exploring Protein Energy Landscapes by NMR Relaxation
Peter E. Wright,
Cecil and Ida M. Green Investigator, Professor and Chair,
Department of Molecular Biology,
Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Proteomic insights into mitochondrial form and function
Dave Pagliarini,
Asst. Professor,
Biochemistry,
UW - Madison,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
8:00am
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12/9
5:00pm
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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Tools for Data-Intensive Astronomy – a VO Workshop in Los Angeles
Tools for Data-Intensive Astronomy – a VO Workshop in Los Angeles
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Shocked Molecular Gas in Compact Groups: Can it Affect Galaxy Evolution in Dense Environments?
Phil Appleton,
IPAC,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The Demographics of Exoplanets with Gravitational Microlensing
Scott Gaudi,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Engineering the Microstructural Architecture of New Materials Using Freedom, Actuation, and Constraint Topologies (FACT)
Jonathan Hopkins,
Engineering Technologies Division,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Forecasting Elections: Voter Intentions versus Expectations
Justin Wolfers,
Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy,
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, December 8th, 2011
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Can Cell Populations Create Spatial Patterning During Organogenesis Using Strain Cues?
Brian Cox,
Teledyne,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
2012 and the End of Days Phenomena
Dr. Don Yeomans,
Manager,
NASA Near-Earth Object Program Office ,
JPL,
Friday, December 9th, 2011
8:00am
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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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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
2012 and the End of Days Phenomena
Saturday, December 10th, 2011
9:00am
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11:00am
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Untold Facets of an Entrepreneur's Success: Failure, Timing, Dumb Luck & Advice (Good and Bad)
Milton Chang,
Former CEO,
Newport Corporation,
Steve OÂ’Conner,
Founder,
Nanostream and Clinical Micro Sensors,
Roberta Jacobs,
Founding CEO, and Chief Operating Officer,
Cobaltcard from American Express and GreenWare Technologies,
Ari Mir,
Founder and CEO,
Lunch Money,
12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Chhen Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Bargegyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Fragoso Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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8:00pm
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12/11
12:00am
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10:00pm
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Sunday, December 11th, 2011
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Skeptics Society Lecture
Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything
Margaret Wertheim,
science writer,
Monday, December 12th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Neural Activity Reveals Preferences Without Choices
Alec Smith,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Economics,
HSS,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Taking Census of Extreme Hearschel-bright Starbursts at High-z
Caitlin Casey,
IfA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Dynamical functional organization of the human brain
Vinod Menon,
Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Neurology & Neurological Sciences and Neuroscience,
Sanford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Numerical modeling of landquakes
Anne Mangeney,
Professor of Geoscience,
University Paris Diderot-PRES Sorbonne Paris Cite ,
Head of the Seismology Group, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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11:30am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
LHC results of Higgs boson searches using 2010 and 2011 data
Harvey Newman,
Caltech,
1:15pm
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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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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
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Electromagnetic and Gravitational Waves Together
Tony Piro,
Tapir,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Inferring Genetic Architecture from “Systems Genetics” Studies
Norbert Perrimon,
Professor,
Genetics,
Harvard Medical School - Broad Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Smart Markets for Hydrological Resources
Robert F. Raffensperger,
Senior Lecturer in Management Science,
University of Canterbury, New Zealand,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:15pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies Lecture
Science in Cyberspace
S. George Djorgovski,
Professor,
Department of Astronomy,
Caltech,
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
8:00am
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8:00pm
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8:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Cellulase Engineering: Recombinatorial and Predictive Methods
Russell Komor,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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