Institute Calendar
Fall 2013-2014
Tuesday, November 19th, 2013
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High Energy Physics Seminar
High Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrions in IceCube
Claudio Kopper,
Univ of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
O-O Bond Breaking and Bond Making with Nickel Complexes
Charles G. Riordan,
Professor and Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Education,
Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Delaware,
4:00pm
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Megafloods down the Tsangpo Gorge, southeastern Tibet
David R. Montgomery,
Professor of Earth and Space Sciences,
University of Washington,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Bright and dark: satellite galaxies as a test of galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter
Anna Nierenberg,
UCSB,
Tuesday, November 19th, 2013
8:00am
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12:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
Reservoir Modeling and Simulation with Uncertainty
Xiao-Huo Wu,
Exxon Mobil Upstream Research Company,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Bose-Hubbard model on a graph is QMA-complete
David Gosset,
University of Waterloo,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Bose-Hubbard model on a graph is QMA-complete
David Gosset,
University of Waterloo,
4:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Watching the wave function collapse: observing single quantum trajectories of a superconducting qubit
Kater Murch,
Department of Physics,
Washington University, St. Louis,
4:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
CANCELED — The Thirty Meter Telescope: How California, Canada, China, India and Japan are Working Together to Build a Next Generation Extremely Large Telescope
Gary Sanders,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Seeing Gravitational Waves: Transients in the Local Universe
Dr. Mansi Kasliwal,
Carnegie Observatories,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Wavefunction Antisymmetry and Molecular Dissociation: Fixing Coupled Cluster Theory
Frederick R. Manby,
Professor of Theoretical Chemistry,
Centre for Computational Chemistry, School of Chemistry,
University of Bristol, UK,
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General Biology Seminar
Activation of gene expression and patterning at the beginning of Drosophila development
Michael Eisen,
Associate Professor,
Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Active, sterile neutrinos and dark matter in models with new U(1) gauge symmetry
Rathin Adhikari,
Centre for Theoretical Physics, New Delhi,
4:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Ejecta from Impacts: New Experiments and Insight from Missions
Brendan Hermalyn,
Research Scientist,
NASA Ames/Univ. of Hawaii,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
On the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions (with Thierry Verdier, Paris School of Economics)
Alberto Bisin,
New York University,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
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11:30am
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JCAP Special Seminar
Atomic Layer Deposition for Interface Control and Stabilization in Solar Photoelectrosynthesis Cells
Gregory N. Parsons,
Alcoa Professor; NC State Nanotechnology Initiative Director,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
NC State University, Raleigh NC ,
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Bray Theory Workshop
Efficiency and Information Aggregation in Auctions with Heterogeneous Agents
Sevgi Yuksei,
PhD Student,
New York University,
4:00pm
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Chemical Biology Seminar
Meditopes, meMabs and Multivalency: Discovery and Applications of a Novel Non-Covalent Peptide-Antibody Interaction
John C. Williams,
Associate Professor,
Department of Molecular Medicine,
City of Hope,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Energetically Consistent Sub-Grid Eddy Parameterizations for Eddy-Permitting Ocean Models
Malte Jansen,
NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow,
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Learning the Learning Rate: How to Repair Bayes When the Model is Wrong
Professor Peter Grünwald,
CWI Amsterdam & Leiden University ,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, November 21st, 2013
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Micro-Deformation Mechanisms of Particle-Filled Magnetorheological Elastomers: Experiments, Theory and Numerics
Kostas Danas,
Research Assistant Professor,
Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides,
LMS, Ecole Polytechnique,
12:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Remodeling Cell Membranes with Glycosaminoglycans to Control Signaling Pathways
Abby Pulsipher,
Dr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Fluorescence Microscopy of Nicotinic Cetylcholine Receptors: Illuminating the Molecular Basis for Nicotine Dependence
Crystal Noelle Dilworth,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Lester Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Decision-Making in Perception and Action
Angela Yu,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Beyond the pore: From mRNA export to translation
Susan Wente,
Senior Associate Dean for Biomedical Sciences, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology,
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology,
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine,
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Physics Research Conference
Many-Body Localization: What is It and What are Its Implications?
Chetan Nayak,
Microsoft Q Station,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Exploring chemical reaction spaces using a graph grammar approach.
Christoph Flamm,
Professor,
Theoretical Chemistry,
University of Vienna,
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Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences
Exploring chemical reaction spaces using a graph grammar approach.
Christoph Flamm,
Professor,
Theoretical Chemistry,
University of Vienna,
Friday, November 22nd, 2013
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Scattering Amplitudes, Unitarity, and the Positive Grassmannian
Jacob Bourjaily,
Harvard,
12:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
The Complexity of Nash Equilibria as Revealed by Data
Siddharth Barman,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
From Plasma Microphysics to Global Dynamics in Clusters of Galaxies, Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flows, and the Solar Wind
Matthew Kunz,
NASA Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow,
Astrophysical Sciences,
Princeton University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The Generation of Stress in the Storage Particles of Lithium-Ion Batteries
Robert McMeeking,
Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Structural Materials,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Metal Complexes Supported by Non-innocent Para-terphenyl Diphosphine Ligands
Kyle Horak,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Representing Order Information in Elementary Geometry: Diagrams vs. Axioms
John Mumma,
Philosophy Department,
California State University of San Bernardino,
4:30pm
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6:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Bozoghlanian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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10:00pm
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8:00pm
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Saturday, November 23rd, 2013
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