Institute Calendar
April 2012
Ongoing
Ongoing
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4/1
5:00pm
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Sunday, April 1st, 2012
12:00pm
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8:00pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Liu Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Boosey Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, April 2nd, 2012
8:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
The Effect of Negotiations on Bargaining in Legislatures
Marina Agranov,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Engineering on the Back of an Envelope
Aerospace Engineering on the Back of an Envelope
Irwin Alber,
Senior Technical Fellow (ret.),
Space and Intelligence Systems,
Boeing,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Studies in Recombination and Dissociation Reactions for Energy Transfer and Electron Transfer of Nanocrystals and Dye Molecules
Zhaoyan Zhu,
Graduate Student in Chemistry,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Marcus group,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
How meltwater drives ice sheet dynamics
Christian Schoof,
Assistant Professor glaciology, fluid dynamics, applied mathematics,
Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Materials and Organic Chemistry Seminar
Designed Diffusion of Latex Polymers: A Smart Polymer System
Willie Lau,
Ph.D.,
Fellow,
The Dow Chemical Company,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
The Laplacian Paradigm: Emerging Algorithms for Massive Graphs
Shanghua Teng,
Chair,
Department of Computer Science,
USC,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
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
Computer Vision - 3D Shape
Roberto Cipolla,
Professor,
Information Engineering,
Cambridge University,
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
"Gas and the Galaxy "Main Sequence" Scaling Relation: What Have We Learned?"
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Predicting molecular crystal properties with quantum chemistry
Gregory Beran,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Disorder Effects in Graphene Nanostructures
Andrei Garcia,
Department of Physics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
A mechanism to detect vacuolar pathogens and its role in promoting pro- and anti-bacterial immune responses during TB infection
Jeffrey Cox,
Asso. Professor,
Microbiology and Immunology,
UCSF,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
A Coupled Level Set-Moment of Fluid Method for Incompressible Two-Phase Flows
Mark Sussman,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
Florida State University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Getting Easter Wrong in the Fifteenth Century, and What Is To Be Done
Noel Swerdlow,
Visiting Associate in History,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Understanding how synaptic plasticity shapes neural representations
Stijn Cassenaer,
Broad Scholar,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Core-Collapse Supernova Theory 78 Years after Baade & Zwicky 1934 -- Where we stand and where we are heading.
Christian Ott,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Computational Discovery of Novel Hydrogen Storage Materials and Reactions
Chris Wolverton,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Catalytic Dehydrative SN2' Reactions: Mechanistic and Synthetic Implications
Aaron Aponick,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Florida,
Thursday, April 5th, 2012
10:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Learning, Representation and Generalization of Uncertainty
Konrad Kording,
Associate Professor in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation/Physiology,
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Controlling Adaptive Materials and Structures with Electrons and Photons
William Oates,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Florida State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Dark Energy, Dark Matter and the Emergence of Gravity
Erik Verlinde,
Professor of Theoretical Physics,
University of Amsterdam/KITP,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Morphology control in conjugated polymers through molecular design
Rachel Segalman,
Associate Professor,
Chemical and Biological Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
The Afterlife of Isaac Newton: Accidents of the Archive and the History of Science
Sarah Dry,
Independent Scholar,
4:30pm
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7:30pm
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6:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, April 6th, 2012
9:00am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Clefted Equilibrium Shapes of Superpressure Balloon Structures
Xiaowei Deng,
Graduate candidate,
Aeronautics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Asymmetric Organoborane Conversions via the Amazing 9-Borabicyclo-[3.3.2]decanes
John A. Soderquist,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Puerto Rico,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Luminescent Probes for DNA Base Mismatches
Anna J. McConnell,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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4/7
2:00am
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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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Saturday, April 7th, 2012
12:00pm
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4/8
5:00am
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
12:00pm
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4/9
2:00am
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Monday, April 9th, 2012
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Action potentials and myelination in activity-dependent plasticity and development.
Doug Fields,
Chief,
Nervous System Development and Plasticity Section,
NIH, NICHD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Merger-Induced Black Hole Accretion and Star Formation: Observations vs. Simulations
Hai Fu,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
The Synaptome Meets the Connectome: Fathoming the Deep Diversity of CNS Synapses
Stephen Smith,
Prof. of Molecular and Cellular Physiology,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Control of Visual Spatial Attention by Prefrontal Cortex
Tirin Moore,
Associate Professor,
Department of Neurobiology and HHMI,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Revisiting the history of the global carbon cycle
Daniel Schrag,
Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Composite Weak Bosons and the LHC
Harald Fritzsch,
Ludwig-Maximillians University,