Institute Calendar
Fall 2012-2013
Saturday, November 10th, 2012
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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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)
Exploring New Worlds with the Dawn Mission
Dr. Carol Raymond,
Dawn Deputy Principal Investigator,
JPL,
Saturday, November 10th, 2012
8:30am
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9:30am
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Bandari Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Hass Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, November 11th, 2012
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Monday, November 12th, 2012
9:00am
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9:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Large-scale galaxy formation on a moving mesh: gas accretion revised
Mark Vogelsberger,
Harvard/ITC/CfA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Folding: in silico, in vitro, in vivo
Martin Grubele,
Professor of Physics,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Illinois,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Visual Place Learning in Drosophila
Michael Reiser,
Ph.D,
Janella Farm Research Campus,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Formation and Evolution of Early Planetary Crusts: Magma Ocean Constraints
Carle Pieters,
Professor,
Department of Geological Sciences,
Brown University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Statistical Analysis of Results from Laboratory Studies in Experimental Economics: A Critique of Current Practice
Donald Green,
Professor of Political Science,
Columbia University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Solution Structure and Operator Symmetries: A Spin on High-Order, Compact and Practical Numerical Schemes for Differential Equations
Jean-Christophe Nave,
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
McGill University,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Giving Effective Feedback on Student Writing
Susanne Hall,
Campus Writing Coordinator in the Hixon Writing Center & Lecturer in Writing,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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International Education Week Lecture
TB and HIV: A Global Health Emergency and What We Are Doing About It
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
A Unified Framework for Approximating and Clustering Data
Michael Langberg,
Mathematics and Computer Science,
The Open University of Israel,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Everhart Lecture
Frankenstein Revisited: How a jellyfish made from rat and rubber advances engineering of artificial organs
Janna Nawroth,
Graduate Student,
Department of Biology,
1:15pm
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3:30pm
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2:30pm
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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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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Gravitational radiation from compact binaries with effective field theory
Andreas Ross,
Research Associate,
Carnegie Mellon University,
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
TBA
Debora Sijacki,
Dr.,
Institute for Theory and Computation,
Harvard University,
Debora Sijacki,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Real-time Imaging of Nanoscale Dynamics on Atomic Glass Surfaces
Martin Gruebele,
James R. Eiszner Prof. of Chemistry, Prof. of Physics, Prof. of Biophysics and Computational Biology,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Jason Damazo,
"Investigating the Boundary Layer Induced by Gaseous Detonations",
Rashad Moarref,
"Model-based scaling and prediction of streamwise energy spectrum at high Reynolds numbers",
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
TBD
Maria Kleshcheva,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Miki Nakajima,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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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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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
The Origin of Orbital Obliquity and Near-Resonances in Hot Exoplanetary Systems
Konstantin Batygin,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Institute for Theory and Computation,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Limited Willpower
Yusufcan Masatlioglu,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate battles between hemispheres during and since the ice age: Palaeoclimate insights from the record of Earth's mountain glaciers and drylands
Aaron Putnam,
Postdoctoral Research Scientist,
Department of Geochemistry,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Goofball Panic: Bureaucratic Rationality, Economic Interest, and Irrational Sentiment in Postwar American Drug Regulation
Nicolas Rasmussen,
Professor in the School of History & Philosophy,
University of New South Wales,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, November 15th, 2012
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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10:30am
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12:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
The Experimentalists Guide to Galactic Reynolds Numbers
Henrick Alfredsson,
Professor,
Department of Fluid Physics,
KTH Sweden,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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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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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
ATP-Dependent DNA-Mediated Signaling by the Helicase XPD
Timothy Mui,
Mr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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International Education Week Lecture
Winnett Lounge
Toilet Challenge Brings Hope to the Developing World
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:15pm
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Thesis Seminar
Dynamics of Earth's Hadley circulation
Xavier Levine,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Resnick Institute Seminar
Prineha Narang,
Zn-IV Nitride Based Light Absorbers for Photovoltaics & Photoelectrochemistry,
Materials Science,
Caltech,
Rob Usiskin,
Measuring Activity of Fuel Cell Catalysts via Electrosprayed Dots,
Materials Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Prefrontal Contributions to Decision-Making: Insights from Brain-injured Patients
Lesley Fellows,
Associate Professor,
Department of Neurology & Neurosugery,
McGill University,