Institute Calendar
Fall 2012-2013
Friday, November 2nd, 2012
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Catholic Cosmopolis: Rethinking Orientalism in Early Modern Rome
Daniel Stolzenberg,
Department of History,
UC Davis,
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2012
8:00am
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4:00pm
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8:30am
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9:30am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kazaryan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Yarmgyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Sunday, November 4th, 2012
1:00pm
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Monday, November 5th, 2012
4:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Explosive Deaths of Massive Stars
Iair Arcavi,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Planets of 1-4 Earth-Radii: Masses, Radii, and Densities
Geoff Marcy,
Professor of Astronomy,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Electrochemical Synthesis of Electrode and Catalyst Materials for Use in Solar Energy Conversion
Kyoung-Shin Choi,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Spitzer Surveys of Super-Earth Transits and Sub-Saturn to Super-Jupiter Secondary Eclipses (Josh Kammer); Warm Inner Disks in the Infrared: Synthetically Removing Atmospheric Absorption for Greater Sensitivity (Masha Kleshcheva)
Josh Kammer,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science, GPS,
Caltech,
Masha Kleshcheva,
Graduate Student,
Planetary Science, GPS,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Collective Self-Control
Alessandro Lizzeri,
Professor of Economics,
New York University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Fast Direct Solvers for Elliptic PDEs
Per-Gunnar J. Martinsson,
Professor,
Department of Applied Mathematics,
University of Colorado at Boulder,
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Resnick Sustainability Institute Chen-Huang Sustainable Energy Lecture
A Discussion with Dr. Arun Majumdar
Arun Majumdar,
Founding Director of ARPA-E and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy,
Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
A Network Approach to Public Goods
Matt Elliott,
Assistant Professor,
Economics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
QUIET
Anthony Readhead,
Prof.,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Fluid Mechanics Research Conference
Alejandro López Ortega,
"Numerical simulations of Richtmyer-Meshkov flow in multi-material problems",
Jason Rabinovitch,
"A Proposed Vertical Expansion Tunnel",
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Direct Detection of Exoplanets With High-Resolution Near-IR Spectroscopy (Alex Lockwood); Mapping Volatiles in Protoplanetary Disk (Ke Zhang)
Alexandra Lockwood,
Graduate Student,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Ke Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Astronomy Department,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Neurobiology Seminar
Functional Modules: what good are they, and how do we get them?
Margaret Livingstone,
Professor,
Neurobiology,
Harvard Medical School,
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Equilibrium Tax Rates and Income Redistribution: A Laboratory Study (joint with Thomas Palfrey)
Marina Agranov,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Photochemical signatures in rocks
James Lyons,
Associate Researcher,
Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
No More Nucleophiles: Direct, Selective Cross Coupling of Electrophiles
Daniel J. Weix,
Assistant Professor ,
Chemistry,
University of Rochester,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wiersma Lecture
What art can tell us about the brain
Margaret Livingstone,
Professor,
Neurobiology,
Harvard Medical School,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, November 8th, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Bounding the Size of Inclusions in a Body from Boundary Measurements
Graeme Milton,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Utah,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Optical, Molecular and Cellular Tools to Observe, Perturb, and Re-engineer Brain Circuits
Vivian Gradinaru,
Professor/Visiting Associate, Biology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Elicitation (and Evaluation) of Statistical Forecasts
Nicolas S. Lambert,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Stanford Graduate School of Business,
4:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Probing Stellar Physics through Asteroseismology
Conny Aerts,
University of Leuven, Belgium,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
Exploring New Worlds with the Dawn Mission
Dr. Carol Raymond,
Dawn Deputy Principal Investigator,
JPL,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, November 9th, 2012
8:30am
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2:30pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Disordered AdS/CFT, Localization and Random Matrix Theory
Omid Saremi,
UC Berkeley,
12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Real Time Markets: Success or Disaster?
John Ledyard,
Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Metamaterials from Rods and Pivots
Graeme Milton,
Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Utah,
3:00pm
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4:30pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Light-Mediated Pattern Formation during the Growth of Chalcogenide Nanostructures
Bryce Sadtler,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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