Institute Calendar
March 2015
Friday, March 13th, 2015
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
From one Reeb orbit to two
Daniel Gardiner,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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14th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture 2015
The Monge-Ampere equation
Alessio Figalli,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
New Ligand Platforms for Iron-Dinitrogen Chemistry
Sidney (Sid) Creutz,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Saturday, March 14th, 2015
11:00am
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Casados Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Sunday, March 15th, 2015
1:00pm
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1:20pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Balyans Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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7:00pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Sandoval Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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6:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, March 16th, 2015
8:00am
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3/18
5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Ferrous iron sensing and responding in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Naomi Kreamer,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Determinantal representations of hyperbolic polynomials and hyperbolic varieties
Cynthia Vinzant,
Assistant Profrssor,
Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Econometrics and Applied Micro Seminar
Optimal Sup-norm Rates, Adaptive Estimation, and Inference in Nonparametric Instrumental Variables Estimation
Timothy Christensen,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Solar Energy Conversion and Electrocatalysis Using Earth-Abundant Nanomaterials
Song Jin,
Pofessor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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An Evening Lecture on Life at JPL
Greg Davis,
Chief Technologist for the Mechanical Systems Division at JPL,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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MTI Working Group Talk: Melissa Lo
Huntington Library, Seaver Classroom 3
'Proper Coordinates' and Dynamic Histories: Books, Scribbles, Things, and Ideas at the Huntington's Burndy Library
Melissa Lo, Assistant Curator of the Dibner Collections at the Huntington,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Systems Biology Supergroup Meeting
Experimental And Computational Analysis Of A Large Protein Network That Controls Fat Storage Reveals The Design Principles Of A Signaling Network
Bader Al-Anzi,
Zinn Lab, Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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Logic Seminar
TBA
Maciej Malicki,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Economics,
Warsaw School of Economics,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Beckman Institute Visibility Seminar
High Throughput Discovery Using The Caltech Center for Catalysis and Chemical Synthesis
Scott Virgil,
Director, Caltech Center for Catalysis and Chemical Synthesis,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Beckman Institute Visibility Seminar
High Throughput Discovery Using The Caltech Center for Catalysis and Chemical Synthesis
Scott Virgil,
Director, Caltech Center for Catalysis and Chemical Synthesis,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Biology Seminar
When Not to Let Your Heart Decide: Insights from Cardiac Systems Biology
Jeff Saucerman,
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering ,
Department of Biomedical Engineering,
University of Virginia,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar
Quantum systems with approximation-robust entanglement
Lior Eldar,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Charge dynamics and molecular intermediates of photo-catalytic interfaces
Tanja Cuk,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Faculty Scientist,
Chemical Sciences Division, LBNL,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Politics and Administration
Michael M. Ting,
Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs,
Department of Political Science,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wiersma Lecture
Reading the Neural Code in Behaving Animals, ~1000 Neurons at a Time
Mark Schnitzer,
Associate Professor of Biology and Applied Physics & Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Departments of Biology and Applied Physics,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, March 18th, 2015
8:00am
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
The Search for Efficiency in Synthesis: From Natural Products to Catalysis
Silas Cook,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Indiana University,
4:50pm
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6:00pm
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CMA presents "The Science and Speculations of Interstellar"
JPL
Kip S. Thorne (BS '62),
Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus,
Caltech,
Jonathan Nolan,
writer of film, fiction, and television,
Sean Carroll,
theoretical physicist and author,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, March 19th, 2015
12:00am
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12:00am
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8:00am
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3/29
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8:30am
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12:30pm
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10:00am
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7:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Tuning of α-synuclein Aggregation by Small Molecules and Proteins: In Vitro Mechanisms and a Few Mice
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Umea University, Sweden,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Patience and the Wealth of Nations
Armin Falk,
Director, Center for Economics and Neuroscience, University of Bonn,
Friday, March 20th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Bulk-Boundary Duality, Gauge Invariance, and Precursors
Vladimir Rosenhaus,
UC Santa Barbara,
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
The Promise of Strong-field General Relativity with Black Hole Binaries
Deirdre Shoemaker,
Professor,
School of Physics,
Georgia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Molybdenum-Quinonoid Complexes and Small Molecule Reactivity
Justin Henthorn,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special CNS Seminar
Neural Circuits for Elementary Motion Detection
Alexander Borst,
Director,
Department of Systems and Computational Neurobiology,
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology,
Saturday, March 21st, 2015
11:00am
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2:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Wood Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
10:00am
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1:00pm
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