Institute Calendar

Mechanistic Insights into the Base Metal Catalyzed Reduction of Dinitrogen to Ammonia -AND- Cytochrome P450-Catalyzed Nitrene Transfer: A Platform for Green Amination Chemistry

3:30pm – 4:30pm

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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar

Gapped Fermionic Phases of Matter and Spin Structures

Anton Kapustin, Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, PMA, Caltech,

4:00pm – 7:00pm

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(Men's Water Polo) Caltech at Pomona-Pitzer

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Observing the Evolution of Solids in Protoplanetary Disks

Sean Andrews, CfZ Harvard,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Ocean turbulence: from micro scale to large scale circulation

Ali Mashayek, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Informal Biology Seminar

Broad 100

Mechanisms of Long Non-coding RNA Transcriptional Regulation

Jhumku Kohtz, Research Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Ultrafast Dynamics of Excited Electrons in Materials for Energy Applications

Marco Bernardi, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science, Applied Physics and Materials Science, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Development of New Catalytic Methods for the Synthesis of Natural Products

Pavel Nagorny, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan,

5:00pm – 6:30pm

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Light, Atomic Clocks, and Testing Einstein's Assumptions

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Dr. John L. Hall, JILA, University of Colorado and NIST,

Thursday, November 5th, 2015

10:30am – 11:30am

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Radioactive Sealed Sources Orientation

Keith Spalding B117

11:00am – 12:00pm

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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135

Triumph of Control Theory: How Hybrid System Models and Nonlinear Control Realized Efficient Dynamic Walking on the Humanoid Robot DURUS

Aaron Ames, Professor, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,

11:30am – 1:30pm

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Contribution Cafe

San Pasqual Walk

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Caltech Toastmasters Club Meeting

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

12:00pm – 1:30pm

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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151

Inter-Domain Dynamics of an ATP-Independent Chaperone

Camille McAvoy, Ms., Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,

2:00pm – 3:30pm

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Radiation Safety Orientation - Radioactive Material Handling

Keith Spalding B117

2:00pm – 3:00pm

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Special Chemistry Seminar

Crellin 151

From Dynamically Self-Assembling Materials to Chemical Reactivity in Confined Environments

Rafal Klajn, Assistant Professor, Department of Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

ATP-dependent and independent mechanisms of regulating chromatin

Geeta Narlikar, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, UCSF School of Medicine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

The N-terminal hypothesis for Alzheimer's disease

Georges Belfort, Institute Professor, Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Physics Research Conference

East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Surprises in (strong/non linear) gravity

Luis Lehner, Perimeter Institute,

7:00pm – 10:00pm

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Salsa & Bachata Class

South Catalinas Recreation Room

7:00pm – 8:00pm

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Theodore von Karman Lecture

JPL, von Karman Auditorium

The Juno Mission to Jupiter

Steven Levin, Project Scientist, JUNO, JPL,

Friday, November 6th, 2015

11:00am – 12:00pm

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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

No Transmission Principle in Holography

Netta Engelhart, UCSB,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

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Linde Institute/SISL Seminar: Shachar Kariv

Baxter 125

Distinguishing nonstationarity from inconsistency in intertemporal choice

Shachar Kariv, Department Chair and Benjamin N. Ward Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley,

1:00pm – 4:00pm

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Beckman Room open (Caltech's Science Museum)

Beckman Institute 131

1:00pm – 2:00pm

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High Energy Theory Seminar

Lauritsen 469

Quiver gauge theories, TQFT and integrable lattice models

Junya Yagi, Univ of Warsaw,

1:30pm – 3:00pm

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General Chemistry Seminar

Crellin 151

Non-Covalent Synthesis of Functional Supramolecular Systems

Bert Meijer, Professor, Organic Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

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TAPIR Seminar

Cahill 370

How gas accretion and galactic outflows affect galaxies and their haloes

Freeke van de Voort, Joint TAC-ASIAA Fellow, Dept of Astronomy, UC Berkeley / ASIAA,

2:30pm – 3:30pm

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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114

Toward physical realizations of information-theory models for small-scale thermodynamics

Nicole Yunger Halpern, Graduate Student, Preskill Group,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Constrained Trajectory Optimization from Formula 1 Racing to Hypersonic Vehicles

Timothy Jorris, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics & California State University, Long Beach ,

3:00pm – 5:00pm

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Geometry and Topology Seminar

TBA

Peter Feller, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, Boston College,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Four-Electron Reductive Coupling of Carbon Monoxide

Joshua (Josh) Buss, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

3:00pm – 3:30pm

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Learning Seminar

Abelian Varieties and polarized Hodge structures (II)

Pablo Solis, Olga Taussky and John Todd Instructor in Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,

3:30pm – 4:30pm

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Learning Seminar

CM Abelian Varieties over C and their Hodge Structures

Brian Hwang, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Bioengineering Lecture

Kerckhoff 119

Hybridization Approaches to Rare Sequence Variant Detection in Human DNA

Dave Zhang, Ted Law Jr. Assistant Professor of Bioengineering , Bioengineering, Rice University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Caltech Mixed-Signal, RF & Microwave Seminar

Moore B280

Opportunities and Challenges for Photonics in Next-Generation Data Centers

Clint Schow, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Santa Barbara,

7:00pm – 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 Juno Mission to Jupiter

Steven Levin, Project Scientist, JUNO, JPL,

7:30pm – 9:30pm

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Reel Rock Film Tour 2015

Ramo Auditorium

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