Institute Calendar
Fall 2011-2012
Sunday, November 27th, 2011
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Asatryan Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, November 28th, 2011
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
The role of pesticide-induced aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibition in the pathogenesis of Parkinsons disease
Arthur G. Fitzmaurice,
Graduate student,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
UCLA (Detached Duty Caltech),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Lights... Camera... Chemistry! Single-Molecule Imaging Tools for Synthetic Chemists & Dual Catalysis with Gold
Suzanne A. Blum,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of California, Irvine,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Computational approaches for linking comparative genomics to biochemistry and evolution
David A. Liberles,
Associate Professor,
Department of Molecular Biology,
University of Wyoming,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Rewiring and evolving bacterial signaling pathways
Michael T. Laub,
Associate Professor of Biology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Perspectives on Quantifying Uncertain Mechanisms in Dynamical Systems
Jinqiao Duan,
Associate Director,
IPAM,
UCLA,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
10:00am
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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
Design and Analysis of High-Performance Compressed Sensing Receivers
Azita Emami,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
"Understanding the SEDs of Galaxies"
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Advanced LIGO - What, Why, How, When
Dave Reitze,
LIGO,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Working at the Interface of Science and Art: Collections Research at the Getty
Karen Trentelman,
Senior Scientist,
Collections Research,
Getty Conservation Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Some Unpleasant Bargaining Arithmetics (joint with Hulya Eraslan)
Antonio Merlo,
Lawrence R. Klein Professor and Chair of Economics,
University of Pennsylvania,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Multiwavelength observations of dust-obscured galaxies revealed by gamma-ray bursts
Daniel Perley,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Moving mesh cosmology: the hydrodynamics of galaxy formation
Debora Sijacki,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Let it rain: A convergence of carbon and biodiversity hotspots in the wettest of tropical forests
Alan Townsend,
Professor,
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Highly Monodisperse Core-Shell Particles Created by Solid-State Reactions in Alloys
Mark Asta,
Professor ,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Berkeley ,
Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, December 1st, 2011
10:00am
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1:00pm
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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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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Uncertainty in Simulations
Yousuff Hussaini,
Visiting Associate,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
QHE, Metrology, and the New Kilogram
Klaus von Klitzing,
Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung,
Stuttgart, Germany,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, December 2nd, 2011
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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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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IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar
Validating and Characterizing Transiting Exoplanets from Space with EPOXI, Kepler, and Warm Spitzer
Sarah Ballard,
CfA,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Load-balancing Games in Cloud Systems
Jonathan Anselmi,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Basque Center for Applied Mathematics,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Deorbiting of Satellites/Debris: Technology Development and Demonstration Missions
Vaios Lappas,
Professor,
Surrey Space Centre,
University of Surrey,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Reversible Dihydrogen Addition Across a Nickel(0)Borane Unit: Thermochemistry and Olefin Hydrogenation Catalysis
Hill Harman,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
A Microwave Sensor to Aid in the Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
Bob Allison,
Professor,
Radiation Oncology and Biophysics ,
Eastern Virginia Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Intervention: A Design Framework for Resource Allocation Among Selfish Users
Yuanzhang Xiao,
Electrical Engineering,
UCLA,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
8:00am
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12/6
5:00pm
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