Institute Calendar
Fall 2012-2013
Wednesday, October 10th, 2012
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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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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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
A Canonical Model of Choice with Initial Endowments (joint with Yusufcan Masatlioglu)
Ahmet Efe Ok,
Department of Economics,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Microscale X-ray Imaging Applications of Synchrotron Radiation: Peering into the Earth with X-ray Vision
Samuel Webb,
Scientist,
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource,
Stanford University,
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, October 11th, 2012
10:00am
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11:00am
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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
Real-Time Predictions for Decision Using Reduced-Order Models
David Amsallem,
Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Stanford University,
11:30am
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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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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Discovery of New Roles for Chondroitin Sulfate in Neurotrophin Signaling and Retinotopic Development
Discovery of New Roles for Chondroitin Sulfate in Neurotrophin Signaling and Retinotopic Development
Claude Rogers,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Hsieh-Wilson group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Predictive Coding in Balanced Spiking Neural Networks
Sophie Deneve,
Group for Neural Theory, Laboratoire de Neurosciences cognitives,
Ecole Normale Superieure,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
A Converted Skeptic: Climate Change and its Human Origins
Richard Muller,
UC Berkeley,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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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
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Herschel Opens Up the Cool Universe
Paul Goldsmith,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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9:00pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, October 12th, 2012
12:00am
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10/13
12:00am
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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3:30pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Gromov-Witten invariants from the S^2 partition function
Vijay Kumar,
KITP,
UC Santa Barbara,
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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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Bargaining and Power in Networked Markets
Emerson Melo,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Dynamics of Nanoscale Mechanical Devices in Fluid with Applications to Atomic and Molecular Sensing
John E. Sader,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Melbourne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Polymerization Catalysis for the Precision Synthesis of Chiral and Sustainable Polymers
Garret Miyake,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
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)
Herschel Opens Up the Cool Universe
Dr. Paul Goldsmith,
JPL,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Saturday, October 13th, 2012
2:30am
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5:30am
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Photography on Campus: Flydog Photography(Pet Photo)
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum
Crowdfunding, Small IPO's and Private Offerings over the Internet: The NEw JOBS Act
Russ Frandsen,
Attorney at Law,
The Business Legal Group,
8:00am
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12:00pm
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9:00am
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11:00am
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Photography on Campus: Flydog Photography(Pet Photo)
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:30pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Meenasian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 14th, 2012
9:30am
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12:30pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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8:00pm
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11:00pm
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Monday, October 15th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
How Better Information Can Garble Experts' Advice (joint with Ben Golub and Andrei Kirilenko)
Matthew Elliott,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computer Science
Engineering Challenges at Quora
Adam D'Angelo,
Chief Executive and Co-Founder,
Quora,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The structural evolution of galaxies between z=0 and z=2.5
Daniel Szomoru,
Leiden,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Magmatic volatile reservoirs on the Moon as inferred from apatite
Francis McCubbin,
Senior Research Scientist 3,
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences ,
University of New Mexico,
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
Computational Complexity of Convex Bodies
Alexander Barvinok,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Michigan,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
8:30am
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3:00pm
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8:30am
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3:00pm
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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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IST Lunch Bunch
The Potts/Tutte Connection with an External Field
Joanna Ellis-Monaghan,
Professor,
Mathematics,
Saint Michael's College,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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