Institute Calendar
Fall 2012-2013
Monday, October 22nd, 2012
11:00am
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Special High Energy Physics Seminar
Geometry as Graviton Bose-Einstein Condensate
Georgi Dvali,
CERN,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Galaxy quenching and the remarkable stability of the velocity dispersion function since z~1.5
Rachel Bezanson,
Yale,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Methodology for reconstructing wind direction, wind speed and duration of wind events from aeolian dune deposits
Gary Kocurek,
Professor,
Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences,
University of Texas at Austin,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"The H-NOX Family of Heme Sensor Proteins: Discovery of a New Role for Nitric Oxide Signaling in Bacteria"
Elizabeth M. Boon,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Stony Brook University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Recent Advances in the Theory of Linear Programming
Jesús De Loera,
Professor,
Mathematics,
UC Davis,
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
8:00am
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6:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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10:30am
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Physics and Geometry Seminar
Quantum recursions and hyperideal polyhedra
Roland van der Veen,
TBA,
Berkeley,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Crossing the Software Education Chasm using Software-as-a-Service and Cloud Computing
Armando Fox,
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences,
UC Berkeley,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TED Talk Tuesdays
Tom Mannion,
Senior Director of Student Activities and Programs,
Campus Auxiliary Business Services,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Efficient distributed quantum computing
Steve Brierley,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
University of Bristol,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Jeff Eldredge,
UCLA, "Improving vortex models via optimal control theory",
Indrat Aria,
"Impact behavior of water droplet on a superhydrophobic surface",
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Exploring Interstellar Chemical Inventories Using cm-Wave Observations at the Green Bank Telescope (Brett McGuire), The Available Potential Energy of World Ocean (Zhan su)
Brett McGuire,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
Zhan Su,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Norman Davidson Lecture
Biochemical pathways to cell death
Xiaodong Wang,
Director & Investigator,
National Institute of Biological Sciences,
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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Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
9:00am
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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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12:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Galen in the Seventeenth Century
Gideon Manning,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Folk Theorem in Repeated Games with Private Monitoring
Takuo Sugaya,
Assistant Professor,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
North African dust emissions over the last 20,000 years: Estimating the abruptness, magnitude and climate impacts of past changes
David McGee,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Biochemistry / Chemical Physics Seminar
Millisecond-Long Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Proteins on a Special-Purpose Machine
David Shaw,
D. E. Shaw Research and Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics,
Columbia University,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Thursday, October 25th, 2012
10:00am
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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
How do you Scrape (Cold) Butter? Scratch Test: A New Approach for Multiscale Characterization of Fracture Properties
Ange-Therese Akono,
Ph.D. Student,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Resnick Institute Fellows Seminar: Brush Polymers for Optoelectronic Devices and Branch Flow Model: Relaxation, Convexification and Application to Optimal Power Control
Raymond Weitekamp,
Brush Polymers for Optoelectronic Devices,
Masoud Farivar,
Branch Flow Model: Relaxation, Convexification and Application to Optimal Reactive Power Control ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Forging together Cognitive and Decision Science Principles to Build Decision Field Theory
Jerome R. Busemeyer,
Provost Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences Cognitive Science Program,
Indiana University, Cognitive Science Program,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Accelerating microbial functional genomics
Trent Northen,
Staff Scientist,
Bioenergy/GTL and Structural Biology,
Lawrence Berkeley Lab,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Megafloods in the English Channel: the birth of island Britain
Sanjeev Gupta,
Professor,
Department of Earth Science & Engineering,
Imperial College London,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Topological Insulators: Opportunities, Materials and Challenges
Kang L. Wang,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Friday, October 26th, 2012
10:00am
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3:00pm
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UCLA Medical Scientist Training Program Interviews
Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Gauge Theory angle on Integrability
Samson Shastavili,
Trinity College Dublin,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Projects and Team Dynamics
George Georgiadis,
Graduate Student,
UCLA Anderson School of Management,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
F Theory vs Type IIB Orientifolds: Some global aspects
Raffaele Savelli,
MPI Munich,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Low-order Models for Control of Fluids: Balanced Models and Koopman Modes
Clarence W. Rowley,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University,
3:00pm
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10:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Fay Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"The Development of a Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Conjugate Addition of Arylboronic Acids to Cyclic Conjugate Acceptors"
Jeffrey Holder,
"The Development of a Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Conjugate Addition of Arylboronic Acids to Cyclic Conjugate Acceptors",
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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4:30pm
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6:30pm
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