Institute Calendar
February 2015
Sunday, February 1st, 2015
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Monday, February 2nd, 2015
4:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Derived equivalent CY 3-folds from cubic fourfolds
John Calabrese,
RTG Lovett Instructor,
Mathematics,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Post-Selection Inference for Forward Stepwise and Least Angle Regression
Professor Robert Tibshirani,
Depts. of Health Research and Policy, and Statistics,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
From the top of the world to the bottom of the ocean: Neogene environmental change and the Himalayan orogeny
Pratigya Polissar,
Lamont Associate Research Professor,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Membrane fluid mechanics: phase separation discloses flow in lipid bilayers
Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith,
Ph.D,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015
10:30am
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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
Control and Optimization of Smart Grids
Steven Low,
Professor,
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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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 (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Phase transitions in non-Abelian string nets
Julien Vidal,
Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI-MDL Seminar
Ryan Hurley,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
Aaron Wolf,
Guidance and Control System,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Fate of dynamo upon freezing of an iron-rich core
Jie Li,
Professor,
University of Michigan,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
8:00am
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2/10
5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Renormalized volume and pseudo Anosovs
Greg McShane,
Mathematics,
Institut Fourier, France,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELED - Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Dave Penneys,
Assistant Adjunct Professor,
Mathematics,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Atmospheric signatures of changing global biogeochemistry
Ralph Keeling,
Professor,
Department of Geosciences Research,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Towards the Assembly of a Synthetic Bacterial Cell
Kumaran Ramamurthi,
Investigator, Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
Center for Cancer Research,
National Cancer Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Mapping protein conformational ensembles and folding pathways with temperature-jump two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy
Carlos R. Baiz,
Ph.D,
Department of Chemistry,
The University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
The Knowledge Society as a Practical Utopia and its Hidden Impact on Higher Education
Liviu Matei,
Provost and Pro-Rector; Professor in the Department of Public Policy ,
Central European University,
8:00pm
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9:30pm
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8:30pm
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11:00pm
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Thursday, February 5th, 2015
10:30am
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11:30am
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12:15pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Precision Motion Control with Manufacturing Applications
Andrew Alleyne,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Heterologous Expression and Nonsense Suppression of a Nicotinic Receptor Involved in Parkinson's Disease and Addiction
Michael Post,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Distribution of orders in number fields
Ramin Takloo-Bighash,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Illinois at Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Interstellar: A Physicist's Adventures in Hollywood
Kip Thorne,
The Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, February 6th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Thermalization time bounds for Pauli stabilizer Hamiltonians
Paul Kristan Temme,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Theoretical Physics,
Caltech,
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
The Fluctuating Intergalactic Ionizing Background Across Cosmic Time
Frederick Davies,
Graduate Student,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
UCLA,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Edward E. Zukoski Lecture
Multi-physics Modeling for Fire Protection
Sergey B. Dorofeev,
Assistant Vice President and Director of Fire Hazard and Protection Research,
FM Global,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Online Robust PCA or Online Sparse + Low-Rank Matrix Recovery
Namrata Vaswani,
Associate Professor,
ECE,
Iowa State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
Seminar Title TBA
Alex Iosevich,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Rochester,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Flat strips in rank one CAT(0) spaces
Russell Ricks,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Multifunctional Materials via Photolithographic Olefin Metathesis Polymerization
Raymond Weitekamp,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar
The Stability Problem for Extremal Black Holes
Stefanos Aretakis,
Veblen Research Instructor,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, February 7th, 2015
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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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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Sunday, February 8th, 2015
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Monday, February 9th, 2015
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Universal unipotent local systems and Maurer-Cartan systems of algebraic cycles
Majid Hadian-Jazi,
Scott Russell Johnson Research Assistant Professor in Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing and Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Efficient Optimal Strategies for Online Prediction
Professor Peter Bartlett,
Division of Computer Science and Department of Statistics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
New matrix decompositions for Gaussian communication networks
Anatoly Khina,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
Tel Aviv University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Accreting the Earth and Forming its Core: Experimental and Theoretical Constraints
James Badro,
Professor and Research Director,
Research Department Experimental Geophysics,
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Renormalization Group Evolution of Dimension Six Operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory
Elizabeth Jenkins,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Novel Small-Molecule Activation Pathways Exploiting Late-Metal/Silicon Cooperation
Matthew T. Whited,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
Carleton College,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Detachable Pockets and Epistolary Narrative: Material Spaces of Interiority in Samuel Richardson's Pamela
Julie Park,
Visiting Associate in the Humanities, Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
From sampling to fluid dynamics through geometric discretization
Mathieu Desbrun,
John W. and Herberta M. Miles Professor,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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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 (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Topological quantum computation with anyons
Claire Levaillant,
UCSB,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
The countable admissible ordinal equivalence relation
William Chan,
Grad Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Nanoscale Cavity Optomechanics for Quantum Optics and Sensing: Diamond, Si and More
Paul Barclay,
Assistant Professor and Alberta Innovates Scholar,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Calgary,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMI Seminar
Tools from Optimization Theory and Applications to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, part 1
Dvijotham ("Dj") Krishnamurthy,
CMI Postdoctoral Fellow,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Gravitational Astronomy - Prospects and Challenges a Century after Einstein
B Sathyaprakash (Sathya),
School of Physics and Astronomy,
Cardiff Universtiy,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
Are children's drawings good for anything?
Mehrdad Shahshahani,
Professor,
School of Mathematics,
IPM,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Stellar Tides As a Probe of Hot Jupiters' Origin and Fate
Francesca Valsecchi,
CIERA Fellow,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
Molecular Catalysis of CO2 Reduction
Jean-Michel Saveant,
Professor of Chemistry,
Molecular Laboratory of Electrochemistry, UMR CNRS,
University of Paris Diderot,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
10:00am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Spectral properties of the Fourier restriction operator and applications
Julien Sabin,
Mathematics,
U. Paris Sud Orsay,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Symposium
Understanding Palladium Ligation, Activation and Turnover in the Development of Novel Approaches to a Complex Clinical Candidate
Martin D. Eastgate,
Dr., Ph.D., Director,
Early-Phase Chemical Development,
Bristol-Myers Squibb,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Development of Materials for Future Energy Systems using Combinatorial Synthesis of Thin Film Materials Libraries and High-Throughput Characterization
Alfred Ludwig,
Professor,
Institute for Materials,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Precision Stellar Astrophysics: Asteroseismology and Large Spectroscopic Surveys
Marc Pinsonneault,
Ohio State,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Symposium
Mechanistically Promiscuous Metals
Cristina Nevado,
Professor Dr.,
Institute of Organic Chemistry,
University of Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Combinatorics Seminar
Point-curve incidences in the complex plane
Joshua Zahl,
Pure Math Instructor,
Mathematics,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Does planetary warming always dry out the continents? Lessons from theory, GCMs, and paleoclimates
Jack Scheff,
NSF AGS Postdoctoral Fellow,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Quantum photoelectrochemistry of nanoscale solar energy conversion processes
Petter Persson,
Theoretical Chemistry Division, Chemistry Department, ,
Lund University, Sweden,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
The Geometry of Entanglement in Multiboundary Wormhole Spacetimes
Shaun Maguire,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
8:30pm
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11:00pm
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Thursday, February 12th, 2015
8:50am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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4:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
From Systems to Networks: Theory and Computation for Distributed Predictive Control
Melanie Zeilinger,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,
University of California, Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Distinguished Women in Aerospace
Space and Marketing of STEM
Wanda M. Austin,
President and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Invariance of some spectral sequence from symplectic Khovanov homology and Heegaard Floer homology
Robert Lipshitz,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Cooperation between the STT3A and STT3B oligosaccharyltransferase complexes to maximize glycosylation efficiency
Reid Gilmore,
Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology,
University of Massachusetts Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Biodegradable particles to engineer target cells from the outside in and from the inside out
Jordan J. Green,
Associate Professor,
Biomedical Engineering, Ophthalmology, Neurosurgery, and Materials Science and Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,