Institute Calendar
Fall 2012-2013
Saturday, November 24th, 2012
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Gharibi Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:30pm
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5:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Stepanyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, November 25th, 2012
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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Monday, November 26th, 2012
8:00am
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12/7
5:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Dimension Reduction in Discrete Time Portfolio Optimization with Partial Information
Andrew Papanicolaou,
Post-Doctoral Researcher & Lecture,
Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Cortical circuits underlying olfaction
jeffrey Isaacson,
Associate Professor,
University California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Inflationary Effects from High Energy Physics
Mark Jackson,
University of Paris,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
The Demand for Bad Policy When Voters Do Not Understand Equilibrium Effects (with Ernesto Dal Bó and Erik Eyster)
Pedro Dal Bo,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Brown 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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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, November 27th, 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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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Confidence and Overconfidence and Political Economy (joint with Pietro Ortoleva)
Erik Snowberg,
Professor of Economics and Political Science,
Caltech,
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
Visualizing curved spacetime: what we have learned
Aaron Zimmerman,
Tapir,
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
Gas and Dust in the Intergalactic Space
Brice Menard,
Prof.,
Johns Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Horowitz Seminar
Neurobiology of social behavior in the mouse
Catherine Dulac,
Higgins Professor ,
Dept. of Molecular and Cellualr Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Triggered convection, gravity waves, and the MJO: Towards a 3D Model (Da Yang); Meandering and the landscape record of river vertical incision (Ajay Limaye)
Da Yang,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Ajay Limaye,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
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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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Iron driven anaerobic methane oxidation in lake sediments
Orit Sivan,
Visiting Associate in Geobiology,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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On interactive wireless network security
EE Systems Seminar
Suhas Diggavi,
Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
UCLA,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, November 29th, 2012
10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Seismic Retrofit of Structures Using Innovative Sustainable Systems
Reginald Desroches,
Professor,
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Resnick Institute Seminar
Paul De Martini,
Grid 2020: Towards a Policy of Renewable and Distributed Energy Resources,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Learning to Simulate and Predict the Other
Hiroyuki Nakahara,
Laboratory for Mathematical Neuroscience,
Brain Research Institute, Institute of Chemical and Physical Research (RIKEN),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
A tandem junction microwire Si/WO3 device for water splitting
Matthew Shaner,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
John Grotzinger,
Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology,
Geological & Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Topological Phases in Correlated Materials
Yong-Baek Kim,
University of Toronto,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, November 30th, 2012
8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Multiscale Finite-Volume Method for Simulation of Nonlinear Coupled Flow-Transport Problems in Heterogeneous Porous Media
Hadi Hajibeygi,
ERE Department,
Stanford University,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Efficiency Loss in Cournot Oligopolies
Yunjian Xu,
Postdoctoral Scholar in Center for the Mathematics of Information,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Zooming in on Galactic Nuclei at the Dawn of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Bence Kocsis,
Einstein Fellow,
Center for Astrophysics,
Harvard University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Swelling Structures that Bend, Buckle, Twist and Snap their way to Functionality
Douglas P. Holmes,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Engineering Science & Mechanics,
Virginia Tech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Mechanistic Insight into Chromium-PNP Catalyst Activation and Selective Olefin Trimerization
Loi Do,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Social Science History Seminar
Political Parties and the Politics of Market Access in the Aftermath of Britain's Glorious Revolution
Dan Bogart,
Associate Professor,
Department of Economics,
University of California-Irvine,
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 1st, 2012
1:30pm
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4:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Mangassarian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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