Institute Calendar
April 2015
Monday, April 27th, 2015
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Aerospace Engineering Seminar
Mars 2020 Spacecraft Systems
Matthew Wallace,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
1:00pm
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2:30pm
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar
The Drinfeld-Lafforgue-Vinberg degeneration of the stack of G-bundles
Simon Schieder,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Controlling Cells through RNA Folding: Towards Design Principles for RNA Engineering"
Julius Lucks,
James C. and Rebecca Q. Morgan Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow,
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Manifolds, maps, and reinforcement learning
Sam Gershman,
Postdoctoral fellow,
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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The James R. and Shirley A. Kliegel Lecture in Geological and Planetary Sciences
The Oceans in a Warming World: How are the oceans changing and what role do they play in climate change?
John Charles Marshall,
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, April 28th, 2015
9:30am
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10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Innovate or die
Chris House,
Vice President,
Advanced Concepts and Technology Research,
BlackBerry,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Solar Geoengineering and Climate Risks
Douglas MacMartin,
Computing + Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
The Methanol-to-Olefins Reaction in SAPO-34 and SSZ-13: The Effect of Heteroatom Concentration
Mark Deimund,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
Prof. James Lloyd,
Cornell,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
On Some Master Equation Models Involving Pre-Reactive Complexes
John R. Barker,
Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science,
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CMA presents "Synthetic Biology: Faster, Better, Weirder"
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Andrew Hessel,
Distinguished Research Scientist,
Autodesk, Inc.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Zelda Activates the Zygotic Genome in Drosophila
Christine Rushlow,
Professor,
Department of Biology,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium
The microlocal codimension-three conjecture
Kari Vilonen,
Professor of Mathematics,
Mathematics,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Driving the very first steps to metabolism along mineral-laden paths
Michael Russell,
Scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Inequality and Social Comparisons
Elizabeth Maggie Penn,
Associate Professor of Political Science,
Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Worrying about Weeds: Exotic Plants and Biological Invasions in the Early Medieval Mediterranean
Paolo Squatriti,
Associate Professor of Italian,
University of Michigan,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2015
8:00am
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Ongoing
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Inter-hemispheric asymmetries in climate and ITCZ migrations
John Marshall,
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
High Efficiency Lanthanide-based Thermoelectric Materials for Space Power Generation Applications
Sabah Bux,
Technologist,
Thermal Energy Conversion Technologies Group,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Scalar Curvature for the Noncommutative 4-Torus and its Functional Relations
Farzad Fathizadeh,
Instructor,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
C–C and C–H Functionalization Based on Common Functional Groups
Guangbin Dong,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Texas-Austin,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program
"At the Intersection of Art and Science" - A Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates and Charles Gross
Joyce Carol Oates,
Author,
Charles Gross,
Neuroscientist,
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Soft Control: How cilia-generated flows affect bacteria-host associations
Eva Adnan Kanso,
Associate Professor,
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Southern California,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Engineering entropy in nanomaterials: the bad, the ugly, and the good
Fernando A. Escobedo,
Marjorie L. Hart Professor of Engineering,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Memory Engram Cells Have Come of Age
Susumu Tonegawa,
Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience, MIT Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Director, RIKEN Brain Science Institute,
Biology and Neuroscience,
MIT,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
"In vivo" Multiphoton Imaging of Mouse Brain
Chris Xu,
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies,
Applied and Engineering Physics,
Cornell University,