Institute Calendar
Fall 2015-2016
Sunday, September 27th, 2015
7:00pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, September 28th, 2015
9:00am
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Implementing exoplanet direct detection and mapping capabilities at Keck and Palomar observatories
Dimitri Mawet,
Associate Professor of Astronomy,
Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy ,
California Institute of Technology,
6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Alpine Club Talk
Surfing in the Mentawais, Climbing Down Under (Frog Buttress, Arapiles and More) and a Winter at the Needles
Matt Shaner,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
Tuesday, September 29th, 2015
9:30am
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10:30am
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar
Observing Gravitational Waves from Core-Collapse Supernovae in the Advanced Detector Era
Sarah Gossan,
LIGO/Tapir,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
Dissecting the Embryo Using Single-cell RNA-Seq
Itai Yanai,
Faculty of Biology,
Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences and Engineering,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Electoral Imbalance and its Consequences
Carlo Prato, Assistant Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University,
7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Gaussian measures on manifolds of metrics
Dmitry Jakobson,
Peter Redpath Professor,
Professor,
McGill University, Montreal,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
"But Wait! There's more: A Wealth of Science from Millisecond Pulsars"
Scott Ransom,
NRAO,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Finance Seminar: Chris Parsons, UCSD
What's in a (School) Name? Racial Discrimination in Higher Education Bond Markets
Chris Parsons, Associate Professor of Finance, Rady School of Management, UCSD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
The Evolution of Vascularized Polymers and Composites: Regeneration and Remodeling
Nancy Sottos,
Donald B. Willet Professor of Engineering,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Problem of Motion in General Relativity
Dennis Lehmkuhl, Research Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Caltech,
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, October 1st, 2015
10:30am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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CANCELLED: Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Slender structures of active materials
CANCELLED - Kaushik Bhattacharya,
Professor,
Mechanical and Civil Engineering,
Caltech,
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
Cation-π Interactions: Computational Analyses of the Aromatic Box Motif and the Fluorination Strategy for Experimental Evaluation
Matthew Davis,
Mr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Atom interferometers measuring the fine structure constant and probing the dark sector
Holger Müller,
Assistant Professor of Physics,
UC Berkeley,
5:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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10:30pm
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Friday, October 2nd, 2015
8:00am
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11:00am
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8:00am
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11:00am
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11:15am
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2:15pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Pulsar timing limit on gravitational waves necessitates re-think of binary supermassive black hole evolution
Vikram Ravi,
Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar,
Dept of Astronomy,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Flow Stabilization by Crystals
Mahmoud Hussein,
Associate Professor, H. Joseph Smead Faculty Fellow,
Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar
Cable space surgeries via jointly primitive presentations of knots
Ken Baker,
Associate Professor,
Mathematics,
University of Miami,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Informal Biology Seminar
Deciphering Signaling Specificity in Development, One Phosphate at a Time
Philippe Soriano,
Dept. of Developmental and Regenerative Biology and Dept. of Oncological Sciences,
Icahn School of Medicine ,
Mt. Sinai, New York, NY,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar--RESCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER 6, 2015
Four-Electron Reductive Coupling of Carbon Monoxide
Joshua (Josh) Buss,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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7:15pm
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2015
12:00am
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12:00am
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8:00am
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11:00am
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8:00am
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11:00am
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10:20am
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1:20pm
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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11:00am
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10/9
8:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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2:20pm
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5:20pm
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3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Nazarian Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
4:00pm
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7:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Zezaghian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography