Institute Calendar
January 2016
Saturday, January 2nd, 2016
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, January 4th, 2016
8:00am
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
The Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment: Insights into the High Latitude Carbon Cycle from 5 Years of Airborne Observations
Charles E. Miller,
Principal Investigator, Carbon in Aractic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE),
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
The Twisted Universe: Cosmic Polarization Tests of CPT Violation
Brian Keating,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Photophysics and Photochemistry of Nanoscale Semiconductors
Gordana Dukovic,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
9:00am
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5:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Neuro Lunch Meeting
Long Cai's Lab Presenting
Justin Lomont,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Chemistry,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Sheel Shah,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics ,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED - KROC Lecture
Event Cancelled
Susan Lindquist,
Professor of Biology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
The Art of Science Fiction Landscape Creation
Jonathan Berube,
VFX Art Director,
Berube Films, Hollywood,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
"Molecular and Solid-State Architectures for the Isolation of Reactive Species"
Eric Bloch,
Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard,
and Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
10:00am
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11:30am
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
TBA
Sergei Gukov,
Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Biomimetic processes for water treatment - CANCELLED
Julie Zilles,
Research Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:30pm
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10:30pm
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Thursday, January 7th, 2016
11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Integrative structural biology of Tetrahymena telomerase
Juli Feigon,
Professor of Biochemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Magnetic Toys in the Sky
Yuri Levin,
Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow,
Monash University,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, January 8th, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Super-Linear Gate and Super-Quadratic Wire Lower Bounds for Depth-Two and Depth-Three Threshold Circuits
Ryan Williams,
Stanford,
1:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Non-Linear Scale Interactions in a Forced Turbulent Boundary Layer
Subrahmanyam Duvvuri,
Graduate Student,
GALCIT,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Electronic Structure of an Unusual Redox Series of Iron-Nitrosyl Complexes
Matthew Chalkley,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
An Energy Barrier is Necessary for the Thermal Stability of Stabilizer Quantum Memories
Anna Komar,
Graduate Student,
Preskill Group,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Terry Sejnowski
While You Were Sleeping: Memory Consolidation
Terry Sejnowski,
Sejnowski,
Biology,
University of California, San Diego,
Saturday, January 9th, 2016
12:00am
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1/10
12:00am
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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, January 10th, 2016
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, January 11th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Chemical and Photoelectrochemical Behavior of Graphene-Covered Silicon Photoelectrodes
Adam Nielander,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Lewis group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Data-Driven Computational Approach to Understand Cancer Progression and Drug Resistance
Peng Jiang,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Surprising Physics of DNA on the Genome Scale
Taekjip Ha,
Department of Biophysics and Structural Biology,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CNS Seminar
Arithmetic and neural circuits underlying dopamine reward prediction errors
Naoshige Uchida,
Professor,
Center for Brain Science / Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Spin-orbit alignment in exoplanetary systems
Joshua N. Winn,
Associate Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Light Dark Matter from Boltzmann Factors
Josh Ruderman,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
"Electronically Doped Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals"
Alina Schimpf,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
10:00am
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12:00pm
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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
From Language to the Mind: Learning to Read Deception, Connotation, and Literary Success
Yejin Choi,
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Washington,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Chemistry Club Seminar
Learning from a Hard Problem: Vignettes from Graduate, Postdoctoral, and Independent Studies on Selective C-H Functionalization
Jared C. Lewis,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Chicago,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Logic Seminar
The countable admissible ordinal equivalence relation, III
William Chan,
Graduate Student,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
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
Continuing the Legacy of Supernova Cosmology
Prof. Ryan Foley,
Univ. of Illinois,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Mitochondrial Fission and Stress
Alex Van Der Bliek,
Professor, Biological Chemistry ,
Computing Technologies Research Laboratory,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
TBA
Alex van der Bliek,
Professor, Biological Chemistry ,
Computing Technologies Research Laborator,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Low energy probes of high energy physics
David Moore,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Planetary Science Seminar
Companions to Low-Mass Stars
Benjamin Montet,
Astrophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
A Pfaffian formula for monomer-dimer partition functions
Elliott Lieb,
Professor of Mathematics and Physics,
Mathematics,
Princeton University,
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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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Iron supply to an anemic ocean: Using Fe isotopes to trace global Fe sources
Seth John,
Associate Professor (Research),
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
mRNA Processing and Links to Human Disease
James Manley,
Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Life Sciences,
Columbia University Biological Sciences,
Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Atomic Packing and Structure-Property Correlations in Amorphous Metals
Evan Ma,
Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Engineering Proteins for Selective Catalysis
Jared C. Lewis,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Chicago,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Open Lecture
Building the First Spaceport in Low Earth Orbit
John Blincow,
Gateway Foundation,
Dr. Thomas R. Spilker,
Retired (JPL),
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:30pm
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11:00pm
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Thursday, January 14th, 2016
8:50am
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11:30am
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10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Molybdenum-Quinonoid Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity
Justin Henthorn,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Agapie group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Running rings (and spirals) around DNA: molecular mechanisms for initiating and controlling replication
James Berger,
Professor,
Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry,
Johns Hopkins Medical Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
On the set of L-space surgeries for links
Eugene Gorsky,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
Bounding 2-torsion in class groups
Jacob Tsimerman,
Assistant Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
What does a typical dynamical system look like?
Omer Tamuz,
Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Deep Space Atomic Clock
Todd Ely,
DSAC Principal Investigator,
JPL,
Allen H Farrington,
DSAC Project Manager,
JPL,
Friday, January 15th, 2016
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
"A Continuum Model for Slip-Twinning Interactions in Magnesium and Magnesium Alloys"
Yingrui (Ray) Chang,
Graduate Student,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Boltzmann Brains: Why They Appear, and Why They Are Bad
Sean Carroll,
Research Professor of Physics,
Physics Department,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Multifield Interactions for Programmable Metamaterials
Massimo Ruzzene,
Professor,
D. Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering ,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Transition Metal-Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation
Timothy P. (Patrick) Montgomery,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
A Fast and Scalable Method for A-Optimal Design of Experiments for Infinite-dimensional Bayesian Nonlinear Inverse Problems
Noemi Petra,
Assistant Professor,
School of Natural Sciences,
University of California, Merced,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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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)
Deep Space Atomic Clock
Todd Ely,
DSAC Principal Investigator,
JPL,
Allen H. Farrington,
DSAC Project Manager,
Saturday, January 16th, 2016
12:00am
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12:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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