Institute Calendar
December 2013
Thursday, November 21st, 2013
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12/6
5:00pm
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Monday, December 2nd, 2013
12:00pm
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12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Insider Trading and Multidimensional Private Information
Tomasz Sadzik,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Simple Prices for Complex Markets
Nicole Immorlica,
Assistant Professor,
Theoretical Computer Science,
Northwestern University,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
A Cocktail of Thermally Stable, Chemically Synthesized Capture Agents for the Efficient Detection of Anti-gp41 Antibodies from Human Sera
Jessica Pfeilsticker,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Heath Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Neuroengineering: Molecular and Optical Axes of Control"
Feng Zhang,
Assistant Professor ,
Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Bioengineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
TBA
Johnpierre Paglione,
Assistant Professor,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Effects of electron scattering on the topological properties of nanowires: Majorana fermions from disorder and superlattices
İnanç Adagideli,
Sabanci University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Rodinia's rapid journey into the tumultuous Neoproterozoic Era
Nicholas Swanson-Hysell,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth and Planetary Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013
10:30am
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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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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Simplified Quantum Compiling with Complex Gate Distillation
Guillaume Duclos-Cianci,
Department of Physics,
University of Sherbrooke,
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
Real-Time Cosmology
Prof. Jeremy Darling,
Univ. of Colorado,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Peptide Aggregation: Structures and Mechanisms
Michael T. Bowers,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Circadian rhythms and sleep in flies
Michael Rosbash,
Director and Professor,
Biology,
Brandeis University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
TBD
Zhan Su,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science, GPS,
Caltech,
Cheng Li,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science, GPS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Mis-allocation of Political Capital
Frederico Finan,
University of California, Berkeley,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, December 4th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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AbbVie Symposium
Asymmetric Counteranion Directed Catalysis (ACDC): A General Approach to Enantioselective Synthesis
Benjamin List,
Professor, Dr., Managing Director,
Max-Planck-Institute for Kohlenforschung,
Max-Planck-Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Scientific highlights from the Palomar Robo-AO system and plans for a Mauna Kea Robo-AO
Christoph Baranec,
Univ of Hawaii,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Intermediation in Networks
Mihai Manea,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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CPET Seminar
From Odysseus to Caltech: How having (and being) a mentor can help you succeed
Candace Rypisi,
Director of Student Faculty Programs,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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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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9:30pm
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Thursday, December 5th, 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
Transient Thermal Systems Modeling and Control
Andrew Alleyne,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Design of Sequence-Specific DNA Binding Molecules for DNA Methyltransferase Inhibition
JJ Kang,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Resnick Fellows Xin Ning on "Shape-Adaptive Ultra-Lightweight Solar Concentrators" and Yiyang Liu on "Synthesis of Commodity Chemicals From Renewable Fatty Acids"
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Adaptive Inference in a Dynamic World
Joshua Gold,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:15pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
A New Avenue for an Old Therapy - Human Folate Receptors and Targeted Drug Delivery
Charles Dann III,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Indiana University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Life at the Single Molecule Level
Sunney Xie,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Quantitative Results on the Corrector Equation in Stochastic Homogenization.
Professor Antoine Gloria,
Department of Mathematics,
Université Libre de Bruxelles,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Planck Space Telescope: Revealing the Ancient Universe
Charles Lawrence,
Planck Project Scientist (U.S. Planck Team),
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, December 6th, 2013
8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Collisions in AdS and the thermalization of heavy-ion collisions
Wilke van der Schee,
Utrecht University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Investigations on the gaseous environment of distant galaxies
Michele Fumagalli,
Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow,
Carnegie Observatories, Princeton University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Combustion of Uncommon Alternative Fuels for Power Generation and Transportation
Jeffrey Bergthorson,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
McGill University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Complete Solution to the Most General Nonlinear Filtering Problems and Its Implementation
Professor Stephen Yau,
Tsinghua University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Heterocycle Synthesis via Homogeneous Gold Catalysis
Soren Kramer,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
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)
The Planck Space Telescope: Revealing the Ancient Universe
Charles Lawrence,
Planck Project Scientist (U.S. Planck Team),
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
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, December 7th, 2013
8:00am
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12/10
5:00pm
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5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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Monday, December 9th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:15pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Predictive Biology through Genome-scale Models
Bernhard Palsson,
Professor or Bioengineering,
Systems Biology Research Group,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Theory of Extremely Correlated Fermi Liquids
Sriram Shastry,
Professor,
UC Santa Cruz,