Institute Calendar
March 2012
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
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Astronomy Colloquium
Watching a Little Gas Cloud on its Way into the Galactic Supermassive Black Hole
Andreas Burkert,
LMU Munich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
The Evolution of Theory of Mind
Arthur Robson,
Professor of Economics,
Simon Fraser University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
On the Time-Varying Trend in Global-Mean Surface Temperature
Zhaohua Wu,
Assistant Professor,
Meterology,
Florida State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Enriched and high-order finite elements for large, accurate ab initio electronic structure calculations
J. E. Pask,
Condensed Matter and Materials Division,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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Working at a Liberal Arts College: Getting in and Getting the Most Out of the Experience
Working at a Liberal Arts College: Getting in and Getting the Most Out of the Experience
Carmel Levitan,
Professor,
Cognitive Science,
Occidental College,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, March 8th, 2012
10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
The Quantum Electron Dynamics of Materials Subjected to Extreme Environments
Patrick Theofanis,
Graduate Student in Chemistry,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Goddard Group,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay
Dan Dwyer,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Diffusion Models for Two-Choice Tasks with Applications to Aging and Speed-of-Processing
Roger Ratcliff,
Cognitive Program Lab,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
On de novo Purine Biosynthesis: The Purinosome
Stephen Benkovic,
Evan Pugh professor of chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Penn State University,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Retrofitting membranes: wrapping up where nature left off
T. Kyle Vanderlick,
Professor,
Dean of School of Engineering and Applied Science,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Cyber-Enabled Investigations of Turbulence: Flow Physics and Petascale Algorithms
Pui-Kuen Yeung,
Professor,
Schools of Aeropace Engineering, Computational Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering,
Georgia Tech,
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Concepts of Completeness in Einsteins Critique of Quantum Mechanics
Don Howard,
Department of Philosophy,
University of Notre Dame,
4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Tight p-fusion frames for signal decomposition
Martin Ehler,
German Research Center for Environmental Health,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, March 9th, 2012
8:00am
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GALCIT Colloquium
Progress with Our Understanding of Rayleigh‐Taylor Driven Mixing
Malcolm Andrews,
XCP‐4 Group Leader,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Cell-Selective Biological Activity of Rhodium Metalloinsertors
Alexis C. Komor,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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Saturday, March 10th, 2012
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Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Social Entrepreneurship: Venturing from the Bottom Up
Jim Fruchterman,
CEO and Founder,
benetech,
8:00am
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10:30am
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8:00pm
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Sunday, March 11th, 2012
10:00am
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Skeptics Society Lecture
The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care
Dr. Eric Topol,
cardiologist,
3:00pm
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Monday, March 12th, 2012
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Strategic Social Pressure: Theory and Experiment (with Margaret Neale and Hugaveera Rao)
David Baron,
Visiting Professor in Economics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Galaxies in X-ray Groups: Finding Halo Centers and Tracking Evolution
Matt George,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Search for same-sign top-quark production and fourth-generation down-type quarks
Ning Zhou,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Understanding C-H Bond Activation in Heme Proteins: The Role of Thiolate Ligation in Cytochrome P450
Michael T. Green,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
Pennsylvania State University,
7:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Huntington Library
Size Does Matter! Massive Cluster of Galaxies and the Structure of the Universe"
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
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General Biology Seminar
The Tsc-mTOR pathway: an activity-dependent regulator of hippocampal synaptic plasticity and network excitability
Helen Bateup,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Dept. of Neurobiology,
Harvard Medical School,
2:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Exploring quantum soft matter in an AMO setting
Benjamin Lev,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Gravitational and Electromagnetic Signatures from the Tidal Disruption of Stars
Roland Haas,
Tapir,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Isolation and Exchange in Eighteenth-Century France
Emma Rothschild,
Harvard University,
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2012