Institute Calendar
Fall 2013-2014
Thursday, December 5th, 2013
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AbbVie Symposium
Asymmetric Counteranion Directed Catalysis (ACDC): A General Approach to Enantioselective Synthesis
Benjamin List,
Professor, Dr., Managing Director,
Max-Planck-Institute for Kohlenforschung,
Max-Planck-Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Scientific highlights from the Palomar Robo-AO system and plans for a Mauna Kea Robo-AO
Christoph Baranec,
Univ of Hawaii,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Intermediation in Networks
Mihai Manea,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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CPET Seminar
From Odysseus to Caltech: How having (and being) a mentor can help you succeed
Candace Rypisi,
Director of Student Faculty Programs,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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8:00pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, December 5th, 2013
10:30am
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11:30am
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11:00am
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Transient Thermal Systems Modeling and Control
Andrew Alleyne,
Professor,
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
11:30am
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Design of Sequence-Specific DNA Binding Molecules for DNA Methyltransferase Inhibition
JJ Kang,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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4:30pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Resnick Fellows Xin Ning on "Shape-Adaptive Ultra-Lightweight Solar Concentrators" and Yiyang Liu on "Synthesis of Commodity Chemicals From Renewable Fatty Acids"
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Adaptive Inference in a Dynamic World
Joshua Gold,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:15pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
A New Avenue for an Old Therapy - Human Folate Receptors and Targeted Drug Delivery
Charles Dann III,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Indiana University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Life at the Single Molecule Level
Sunney Xie,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Quantitative Results on the Corrector Equation in Stochastic Homogenization.
Professor Antoine Gloria,
Department of Mathematics,
Université Libre de Bruxelles,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Planck Space Telescope: Revealing the Ancient Universe
Charles Lawrence,
Planck Project Scientist (U.S. Planck Team),
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, December 6th, 2013
8:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Collisions in AdS and the thermalization of heavy-ion collisions
Wilke van der Schee,
Utrecht University,
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
Investigations on the gaseous environment of distant galaxies
Michele Fumagalli,
Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow,
Carnegie Observatories, Princeton University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Combustion of Uncommon Alternative Fuels for Power Generation and Transportation
Jeffrey Bergthorson,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Engineering,
McGill University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Complete Solution to the Most General Nonlinear Filtering Problems and Its Implementation
Professor Stephen Yau,
Tsinghua University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Heterocycle Synthesis via Homogeneous Gold Catalysis
Soren Kramer,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
The Planck Space Telescope: Revealing the Ancient Universe
Charles Lawrence,
Planck Project Scientist (U.S. Planck Team),
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
7:30pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, December 7th, 2013
8:00am
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12/10
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, December 9th, 2013
12:00pm
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1:15pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Predictive Biology through Genome-scale Models
Bernhard Palsson,
Professor or Bioengineering,
Systems Biology Research Group,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Theory of Extremely Correlated Fermi Liquids
Sriram Shastry,
Professor,
UC Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
ARPA-E: A Fresh Perspective on Next-Generation EV Battery Technology
Ilan Gur,
ARPA-E Program Director,
Tuesday, December 10th, 2013
9:00am
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12:00pm
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Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar
The GW Discovery Space of Pulsar Timing Arrays
Curt Cutler,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
Dr. Jessica Werk,
UCSC,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Patterning the vertebrate gut: From physical forces to stem cells
Cliff Tabin,
Professor,
Dept. of Genetics,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Majorana ghosts: From topological superconductor to the origin of neutrino masses, three generations and their mass mixing
Zheng-Cheng Gu,
Caltech & Perimeter Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model
Lawrence Jin,
Ph.D. Student,
School of Management,
Yale University,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
The Mid-Infrared Properties of Directly Imaged Exoplanets
Andrew Skemer,
Arizona,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
8:00am
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12/13
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
From Circumstellar Disks to Extrasolar Planets: Observational Insights
Andrea Isella,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
On the Fine Structure of the Cepheid Metallicity Gradient in the Galactic Thin Disk
Prof. Giuseppe Bono,
University of Rome Tor Vergata,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Composite Weak Bosons and the New Boson at the LHC
Harald Fritzsch,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet,
4:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
New Materials and Devices for Chemical Sensing
Katherine Mirica,
Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, December 12th, 2013
9:00am
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11:00am
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Chemical-Scale Studies of G Protein-Coupled Receptors and Ligand-Gated Ion Channels
Ethan Van Arnam,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dougherty Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Competitive Policy Entrepreneurship
Alexander V. Hirsch,
Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs,
Princeton University,