Institute Calendar
August 2016
Monday, August 1st, 2016
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Thesis Seminar
Structures and Reactions of Diplatinum Complexes
Tania Darnton,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:40pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, August 4th, 2016
9:00am
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8/6
3:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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CD3 Seminar
Data integration in genomics and systems biology
Roberto Tagliaferri,
Professor,
University of Salerno,
11:45am
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1:15pm
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Undergraduate Research Mentoring Workshop
Wrapping up the UR Experience for You and Your Mentee
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Sequencing is believing: probing the inner world of a cell by live-cell imaging and single-cell sequencing
Cheng-Zhong Zhang, Ph.D.,
Computational Biologist,
Single-Cell Genomics Center, Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School; and Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT,
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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Terrorism and War
Terrorism and War: From Khmer Rouge to ISIS
Sophal Ear,
Associate Professor, Diplomacy & World Affairs,
Occidental College ,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, August 5th, 2016
8:00am
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Saturday, August 6th, 2016
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Sunday, August 7th, 2016
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2016
10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Binary Black Hole Merger with An Accreting Companion
Lnqing Qwn,
Physics,
U Western Australia,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2016
12:00am
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8/14
12:00am
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10:00am
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11:30am
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Chirality and Light: Enantioselective Catalysis of Photochemical Reactions
Thorsten Bach,
Professor Dr. of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Technical University of Munich,
Thursday, August 11th, 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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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Cold Spots in Protein Evolution and Design
Julia Shifman, Ph.D.,
Group Leader,
Department of Biological Chemistry,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
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
The Rosetta Mission: Comet C-G up Close
Bonnie Buratti,
US Rosetta Project Scientist,
JPL,
Artur Chmielewski,
US Rosetta Project Manager,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Friday, August 12th, 2016
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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EE Special Seminar
Empirical Chaos Processes and their Application in Blind Deconvolution
Felix Krahmer,
Assistant Professor for Optimization and Data Analysis,
Department of Mathematics,
Technische Universität München,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Theory of Computing Seminar
Breaking symmetric cryptosystems using quantum period finding
Marc Kaplan,
Paris Tech,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Photography on Campus:Sedrakyan Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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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)
The Rosetta Mission: Comet C-G up Close
Bonnie Buratti,
US Rosetta Project Scientist,
JPL,
Artur Chmielewski,
US Rosetta Project Manager,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Stargazing Lecture
You Can’t Spell Exoplanets without Ex(ecutions)
Jessie Christiansen,
Staff Scientist,
IPAC,
Caltech,
Saturday, August 13th, 2016
9:30am
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6:00pm
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1:30pm
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5:00pm
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Photography on Campus: Pogosyan Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Photography on Campus:Foroughmand/Pashinian Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Photography on Campus:Foroughmand/Pashinian Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:30pm
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9:30pm
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Photography on Campus: Oganesyan Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, August 15th, 2016
9:30am
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10:30am
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MCE Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Phonon Boundary Scattering in Thin Silicon Membranes
Navaneetha Krishnan Ravichandran,
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Navarro Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Tuesday, August 16th, 2016
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD seminar
Organic-Free Synthesis of Small Pore Zeolite Catalysts for the Methanol-to-Olefins Reaction
Yuewei Lucy Ji,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, August 17th, 2016
10:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Ribonucleotides in our Genomes: How to Get Rid of Them
Peter Burgers,
Brennecke Professor of Biological Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Biochemistry,
Washington University, St. Louis,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thursday, August 18th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Caltech Reading Women
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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8/19
5:30pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, August 19th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CGSC Summer Seminar
Non-Canonical Amino Acids in Protein Science and Engineering
David Tirrell,
Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Director, Beckman Institute,
Caltech,
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Karimian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Saturday, August 20th, 2016
2:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Antonious/Alfi Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, August 22nd, 2016
8:15am
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12:30pm
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Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course
Mastering the Wave - The Whys and Hows of Exoplanet Imaging
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016
9:30am
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10:30am
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Beckman Institute Molecular Observatory Seminar
"Scientific Opportunities Offered by LCLS and Future Upgrades at SLAC"
Dr. Chi-Chang Kao,
Director,
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory,
Stanford University,
10:30am
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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2:30pm
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GALCIT Special Seminar
Decay of finite temperature superfluid helium-4 turbulence
Demosthenes Kivotides,
Dr.,
Chemical and Process Engineering,
University of Strathclyde,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2016
10:30am
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3:30pm
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12:10pm
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1:40pm
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Thursday, August 25th, 2016
10:30am
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11:30am
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2:00pm
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3:30pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, August 26th, 2016
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, August 27th, 2016
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2016
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Status of the Giant Magellan Telescope Project
Dr. Patrick McCarthy,
Giant Magellan Telescope Organization,
Wednesday, August 31st, 2016
9:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Towards a Hydrobromic Acid Splitting Device Using Earth-Abundant Materials
Christopher Roske,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
8:30pm
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11:00pm
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