Institute Calendar
Fall 2012-2013
Monday, October 8th, 2012
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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11:30am
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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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5:00pm
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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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5:00pm
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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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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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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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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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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,