Institute Calendar
Fall 2012-2013
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
4:00pm
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Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Manuel Lombardini : Progress in the spherically converging Richtmyer-Meshkov instability,
Prakhar Mehrotra : Experimental investigation of inclined-jet injection into supersonic cross-flow,
and its effect on downstream separated-flow mixing,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Sec-Facilitated Protein Translocation and Membrane Integration
Bin Zhang,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Miller group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
10:00am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Have We Converged on an Understanding of the Dense Matter Equation of State?
James Lattimer,
SUNY/Caltech Kingsley Visitor,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, October 4th, 2012
10:00am
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1:00pm
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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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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Pattern Formation in Soft Elastic Films and Methods to Enhance Adhesion
Manoj Chaudhury,
Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Lehigh University,
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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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Guiding the Design of Synthetic DNA-Binding Molecules with Massively Parallel Sequencing
Jordan Meier,
Mr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
New frontiers in single polymer dynamics and molecular probe engineering for super-resolution imaging
Charles Schroeder,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Illinois,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Electronic nematic phases in high temperature superconductors
Ian Fisher,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, October 5th, 2012
8:40am
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11:40am
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9:30am
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12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Technology Advances for Radio Astronomy
Damon Russell,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technolgoy,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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Selective Functionalization of the Protein N-Terminus with N-Myristoyl Transferase in Bacteria
Selective Functionalization of the Protein N-Terminus with N-Myristoyl Transferase in Bacteria
Chethana Kulkarni,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Tirrell group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Velocity and feedback enhance 21-cm signal from first stars at z ~ 20
Anastasia Fialkov,
Tel Aviv University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Linear and Non-linear Viscoelastic Behavior of Rigid Polymers
Wolfgang Knauss,
Professor Emeritus,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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8:00pm
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Open House - Jim Hall Design and Prototyping Laboratory, Room 024 Spalding Lab
See event detail for location
5:15pm
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7:15pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Bogachadzhyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Saturday, October 6th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:30pm
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2:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ratavossian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: McKim Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Aramians Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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10/7
12:30am
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 7th, 2012
9:00am
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3:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, October 8th, 2012
9:00am
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Constraints on protoplanetary disk turbulence from radiative transfer models
Daniel Szomoru,
Leiden,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Can we see earthquakes before they happen?
Brendan Meade,
Associate Professor ,
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences ,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Advancing Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: New Molecules, Materials, Measurements and Modeling
Thomas Hamann,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Michigan State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Expectations as Reference Points? From Theoretical Appeal to Empirical Problems
Lorenz Goette,
Professor of Business and Economics,
Department of Economics,
University of Lausanne,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Deconstructing (and Reconstructing) Wall Turbulence: A Systems Approach
Beverley McKeon,
Professor of Aeronautics,
Graduate Aerospace Laboratories (GALCIT),
Caltech,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
9:00am
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3:30pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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Thesis Seminar
Ligan-Gated Ion Channels: Structure-Function Studies & Crosstalk with Other Receptors
Walrati Limapichat,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dougherty group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Topic to be announced.
Chaitanya Swamy,
Associate Professor,
Combinatorics & Optimization,
University of Waterloo,
1:15pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Empirical Laws of Galactic Rotation
Stacy McGaugh,
University of Maryland,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
A Molecule to Detect and Perturb the Confinement of Charge Carriers in Colloidal Quantum Dots
Emily A. Weiss,
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Sebastian Liska Cabrera,
"An Immersed Boundary Method for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations Based on the Lattice Green's Function Method",
Joe Jewell,
"Transition within a hypervelocity boundary layer on a,
4:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Hot on the Trail of Warm Planets Orbiting Cool M Dwarfs
John Johnson,
Astronomy Department,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Do Political Blogs Matter? Corruption in State-controlled Companies, Blog Postings, and DDoS Attacks
Maria Petrova,
UBS Assistant Professor of Economics, New Economic School, Moscow,
Visiting Associate Research Scholar, Ctr. for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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