Institute Calendar
Fall 2012-2013
Saturday, October 27th, 2012
12:00am
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10/28
12:00am
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8:00am
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5:00pm
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Family Photography on Campus: Herrera Photo Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
10:00am
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3:00pm
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12:00pm
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9:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Felix Photo Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Detoma Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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3:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ghadimian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:30pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Biglari Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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9:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, October 28th, 2012
12:00am
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10/29
12:00am
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8:30am
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1:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Cary Engagement Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
11:00am
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3:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus:Zadourian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Monday, October 29th, 2012
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Topic to be Announced
Gaspar Bakos,
Prof.,
Princeton Univ.,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Optimal Mass Configurations for Lensing High-Redshift Galaxies (and how to find them in the SDSS!)
Kenneth Wong,
Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Radon and the tracing of geological fluids
Frederic Perrier,
Professor,
University of Paris Diderot,
IPGP,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Characterization and Applications of Metal-Metal Bonds in Early/Late Heterobimetallic Complexes
Christine M. Thomas,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
Brandeis University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Sailing the Waters Edge: Where Domestic Politics Meets Foreign Policy
Dustin Tingley,
Assistant Professor of Government,
Harvard University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Coding for Distributed Storage
Alex Dimakis,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering,
USC,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Tuesday, October 30th, 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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IST Lunch Bunch
Computational and Sample Tradeoffs via Convex Relaxation
Venkat Chandrasekaran,
Assistant Professor,
Computing & Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Information Aggregation in the Field: an Application to Sales Forecasting
Benjamin J. Gillen,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
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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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Topological stabilizer codes with a power law energy barrier via welding
Kamil Michnicki,
Graduate student,
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Some Like it Hot: What Observations Can Tell Us About Solar Coronal Heating
Joan Schmelz,
University of Memphis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
Torsion-bar Antenna for Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Detection
Ayaka Shoda,
University of Tokyo,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Dr. Paul Dimotakis,
"Progress in atmospheric CO2 concentration vertical-profile estimation methodology, with embedded sensitivity analysis and uncertainty quantification",
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Joint Biochemistry / Chemical Physics Seminar
Small-molecule Interrogation of Kinase Signaling and Membrane Protein Biogenesis
Jack Taunton,
Associate Professor,
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Titan's Upper Atmosphere: Observations by Cassini UVIS (Joshua Kammer); Aerosols in the Atmosphere of Venus (Peter Gao)
Joshua Kammer,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Peter Gao,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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7:00pm
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CubeSat: An Unlikely Success Story
Jordi Puig-Suari,
Professor ,
Professor of PolySat & CubeSat Programs,
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
8:00am
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11/6
5:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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1:00pm
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Astronomy Talk
Introduction to Unconscious Bias
Joan Schmelz,
University of Memphis / Chair, AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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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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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Planetary System Architectures from Kepler
Daniel Fabrycky,
University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Bayesian inference and Non-Bayesian Prediction and Choice: Foundations and An Application to Entry Games with Multiple Equilibria
Larry G. Epstein,
Department of Economics,
Boston University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Terrestrial Ecosystem Science at JPL: Global Carbon, Water, and Nutrients Cycling Impacts To and From Climate
Joshua Fisher,
Scientist,
Water & Carbon Cycles Group,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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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, November 1st, 2012
10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Focused Ultrasound to Expel Calculi from the Kidney
Michael Bailey,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Washington,
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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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Activated GTPase Movement on an RNA Scaffold Drives Cotranslational Protein Targeting
Kuang Shen,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
PKA: Assembly of a dynamic macromolecular signaling complex
Susan Taylor,
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Professor of Pharmacology,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Molecular clocks and the Cambrian-Explosion: What have we learned?
Bruce Runnegar,
Professor,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
New Views of the Physics of Solar Flares (and Subcosmic Rays)
Hugh Hudson,
University of Glasgow,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, November 2nd, 2012
10:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Supersymmetry on Curved Spaces and Holography
Claudius Klare,
Milan-Bicocca,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Nucleosynthetic Signatures of Supernova Neutrinos
Luke Roberts,
Lee Dubridge Postdoctoral Scholar,
Theoretical Astrophysics,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Bio-inspired Hierarchical Materials: Micromechanics, GPU-Based Simulation and 3D Printing
Matthew Begley,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Homogeneous versus Heterogeneous Water-Oxidation Catalysis with Cp*Ir Complexes
James Blakemore,
Senior Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,