Institute Calendar
Fall 2014-2015
Wednesday, December 10th, 2014
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Computational Predictions of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Structures and Binding Sites
Andrea Kirkpatrick,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Goddard group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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EE Systems Seminar
Index Coding - An Interference Management Perspective
Hua Sun,
Graduate Student,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
U. C. Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Island Rainfall Enhancement and the Tropical Climate
Timothy Cronin,
NOAA and HUCE Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Harvard University,
7:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, December 11th, 2014
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Biochemistry Seminar
Tuning the human biosensor for detecting and repelling viral infection
Anna Marie Pyle,
Professor; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Departments of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Department of Chemistry,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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Number Theory Seminar
The eigencurve at classical weight one points
Mladen Dimitrov,
Professor,
Mathematics,
University Lille 1,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Paul Dirac - the theorist's theorist
Graham Farmelo,
Visiting By-Fellow, Churchill College, Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Visualizing Disease: problems and Challenges in Pathological Illustrations
Domenico Bertoloni Meli,
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science,
Indiana University,
Friday, December 12th, 2014
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12/13
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12/13
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TAPIR Seminar
Some outstanding problems in the evolution of supernova progenitors
Samuel Jones,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Polyhedra inscribed in quadrics, AdS and HP geometries
Sara Maloni,
Mathematics,
Brown University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Catalytic Activation of Some C-H and C-O Bonds
Michael Haibach,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Combinatorial methods on actions on character varieties
Sara Maloni,
Mathemtics,
Brown University,
Saturday, December 13th, 2014
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12/14
12:00am
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12/14
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Rodriguez Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, December 14th, 2014
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12/15
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12/15
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Huang Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
1:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Alvazovi Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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Monday, December 15th, 2014
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Covalency in Actinides
Stosh Kozimor,
Staff Scientist,
Chemistry Division,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Tuesday, December 16th, 2014
9:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
"Synthetic Biology Tools for Targeted Incorporation of Non-Canonical Amino Acids into Cellular Proteins"
Alborz Mahdavi,
PhD Candidate,
Bioengineering,
Califoria Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Taussky-Todd Lecture
Taussky-Todd Lecture Series IV: Periods and global invariants of automorphic representations
Joseph Bernstein,
Professor of Mathematics,
University of Tel Aviv,
4:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Probing the Dark Matter Halo of the Milky Way
Prof. Nitya Kallivayalil,
Univ. of Virginia,
4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Choanoflagellate Colonies, Bacterial Signals, and Animal Origins
Nicole King,
Associate Professor,
Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Particle physics solutions to cosmological lithium problem
Maxim Pospelov,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Many-body effects in quasi-2D transition metal dichalcogenides
Timothy C. Berkelbach,
Ph.D.,
Princeton Center for Theoretical Science,
Princeton University,
5:00pm
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2014
2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Direct Simulation of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reaction Dynamics and Mechanisms
Joshua Kretchmer,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Miller group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Drug Discovery in Academia: A Successful Case Study
Michael E. Jung,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles,
8:00pm
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Thursday, December 18th, 2014
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Tuning and Organizing Solid-State Nanomaterials
Thomas J. Kempa,
Dr.,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Harvard University,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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Friday, December 19th, 2014
11:00am
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Proton-Coupled Reduction of Cyanide at a Single Fe Site: Protonated Intermediates and Thermochemical Considerations
Jonathan (Jon) Rittle,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Saturday, December 20th, 2014
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ha Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
Wednesday, December 24th, 2014
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12:00pm
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