Institute Calendar
November 2013
Saturday, August 31st, 2013
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11/19
4:27am
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11/18
7:25pm
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Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
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11/5
5:00pm
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Friday, November 1st, 2013
10:00am
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11:00am
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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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12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Network Improvement Problem for Equilibrium Routing
Umang Bhaskar,
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Center for Mathematics of Information,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Newborn Pulsars as sources of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays
Ke Fang,
Graduate Student,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of Chicago,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Microscopic Suspension Feeders Near Boundaries: Feeding Restrictions and Strategies Due to Eddies
Rachel Pepper,
Miller Inst. Research Fellow,
Integrative Biology and Civil & Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Asymmetric Catalysis with Ferrocene Based Planar-Chiral DMAP Derivatives: Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies
Sarah Yunmi Lee,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 2nd, 2013
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Malkchyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Moses Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Karapetyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, November 3rd, 2013
12:00am
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12:00am
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Monday, November 4th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Unfree Labour: Did Indenture Reduce labour supply to Tea Plantations in Assam?
Bishnupriya Gupta,
Associate Professor in Economics,
University of Warwick,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Birth, life and fate of continental sediment in the wake of climate change and mountain uplift
Jane Willenbring,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth and Environmental Science,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
post-LHC R-Parity Violating Supersymmetry
Roberto Franceschini,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Molecular Programming Project Seminar
Model checking and strategy synthesis for mobile autonomy: from theory to practice
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Model checking and strategy synthesis for mobile autonomy: from theory to practice
Marta Kwiatkowski,
Trinity College, University of Oxford,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Outer Architecture of M Dwarf Planetary Systems Revealed Through High-Contrast Imaging
Brendan Bowler,
GPS, Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Electrical Engineering Systems Seminar
EE Systems Seminar
Mung Chiang,
Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University,
Electrical Engineering, Applied and Computational Mathematics and Computer Science,
Princeton University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Joint Applied Mathematics Colloquium / EE Systems Seminar
From Cloud to Fog
Mung Chiang,
Electrical Engineering, Applied and Computational Mathematics and Computer Science,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, November 5th, 2013
10:30am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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2:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
MOOC, MIIC, MOOE
Mung Chiang,
Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Princeton University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Development and Performance of MOSFIRE, the Multi-Object Spectrometer for Infrared Exploration at Keck Observatory
Prof. Ian McLean,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:45pm
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Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture
Geometrical Snapshots from Ancient Times to Modern Times
Tom Apostol,
Department of Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Molecular Modeling of Metal-Organic Frameworks: Breathing, Proton Conduction, and Spin Crossover
Francesco Paesani,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Spitzer Surveys of Super-Earth Transits and Sub-Saturn to Super-Jupiter Secondary Eclipses (Josh Kammer); Warm Inner Disks in the Infrared: Synthetically Removing Atmospheric Absorption for Greater Sensitivity (Masha Kleshcheva)
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Preferential Voting and the Selection of Party Leaders: Evidence from Sweden
Olle Folke,
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs,
Columbia University,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Materialities, Texts and Images Program Event
Genre as Artifact: Text and Image in American Autobiography from Benjamin Franklin to Ulysses S. Grant
Christopher Hunter,
Assistant Professor of English,
Caltech,
Wednesday, November 6th, 2013
9:00am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CMA presents "Dark Matter: The Universe through the Lens of Legendary Rapper GZA"
JPL
GZA,
Hip Hop artist,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
The microphysics of astrophysics: adventures in computational magnetohydrodynamics
Xuening Bai,
Harvard,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Diversity and Evolution of Aerobic Respiration and Denitrification
James Hemp,
Agouron Postdoctoral Scholar,
Geological & Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar
Optical stimulation of distinct cell assemblies generates a new artificial associative-memory
Kaoru Inokuchi,
Professor,
University of Toyama,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 7th, 2013
10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Pattern Formation in Soft Elastic Films and Methods to Enhance Adhesion
Manoj Chaudhury,
Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Lehigh University,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
DNA Protection by the Bacterial Ferritin Dps via DNA Charge Transport
Anna Arnold,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,