Institute Calendar
Spring 2011-2012
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
4:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
Design with Topology Optimization - From Material Architectures to Structural Systems
James Guest,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil Engineering,
John Hopkins University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Beyond Watson and Crick: Recent advances in the use of DNA as a building material
Paul Rothemund,
Senior Research Associate,
Caltech,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 18th, 2012
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Mechanistic Insights into Alkane C-H Activation and Functionalization by Metal Oxide Surfaces and Organometallic Complexes
Mu-Jeng Cheng,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Goddard group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
The cusp anomalous dimension at three loops and beyond
Johannes Henn,
IAS,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy, Kinetics, and Quantum Chemistry of Atmospherically Relevant Reactions
Matthew Sprague,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Okumura Group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Communication with Multiple Senders and Multiple Dimensions: An Experiment
Alistair J. Wilson,
Assistant Professor,
Economics Department,
University of Pittsburgh,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
The Development of RNA-Based Control Systems to Regulate Signaling and Dictate Cell Fate in Model MAPK Pathway
Katie Galloway,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Chemistry Club Seminar
Photoionization, photodissociation or ultrafast relaxation? How aqueous aromatics deal with a UV photon.
Stephen Bradforth,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Southern California,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Lessons for Bio-Inspired Design: Fluid Dynamics of Embryonic Heart
Mory Gharib,
Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Bio-Inspired Engineering ,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Metal-filled Photonic Crystal Fibers: Plasmonics and Polarizers
Patrick Uebel,
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
In a Future Tense: Immigration Law, Counterfactual Histories, and Chinese Invasion
Edlie Wong,
Associate Professor of English ,
University of Maryland,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 19th, 2012
9:30am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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3:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 20th, 2012
1:00pm
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3:00pm
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2:00pm
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6:00pm
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6:30pm
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7:30pm
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Monday, May 21st, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Incentive Compatibility, Efficiency and Network Centrality in Public Good Games
Matthew Elliott,
Visiting Associate in Economics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Neural Patterns Similarity and Visual Perception
Jonathan Harel,
Computation & Neural Systems,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Detecting Small Planets Orbiting Small Stars Using Small Telescopes and GPS
Cullen Blake,
Princeton,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Integrative Moral Cognition
Joshua Greene,
Associate Professor,
Department of Psychology,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Measuring time-lapse changes from noise and earthquakes
Roel Snieder,
W.M. Keck Distinguished Professor of Basic Exploration Science ,
Department of Geophysics,
Colorado School of Mines,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
Big Science, 19th Century Style: Terrestrial Physics and the British Quest for the South Magnetic Pole
Edward J. Larson,
University Professor and Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law,
Pepperdine University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Regularization of Positive Definite Matrices: Connections Between Algebra, Graph Theory and Statistics
Bala Rajaratnam,
Statistics,
Stanford University,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Brown Bag/Graduate Student Seminar
The Art of Science
Roel Snieder,
W.M. Keck Distinguished Professor of Basic Exploration Science ,
Colorado School of Mines,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
The Biography of a Gene: Intellectual Property, HIV-AIDS, and Race in the Age of Biocapitalism
Myles W. Jackson,
Joint Dibner Family Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
NYU-Poly and NYU-Gallatin,
Francis Bacon Visiting Professor of History, Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:30pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
Flexible Renegotiation and Persistent Private Information
Bruno Strulovici,
Assistant Professor of Economics,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Promoting Chemistry With External Force: Covalent Mechanochemistry with First Principles Molecular Dynamics on Graphical Processing Units
Todd J. Martinez,
Professor of Chemistry and Professor of S.L.A.C. Photon Science,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Guidance laws and neural circuit dynamics underlying dragonfly prey capture"
Leonardo Anthony,
Group Leader,
Janelia Farm,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Standard Models for the Atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune
Glenn Orton,
Senior Research Scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
5:00pm
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7:00pm
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Engagement Photography on Campus: Yeramian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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