Institute Calendar
Spring 2011-2012
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
8:00pm
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Exploring Protoplanets Through the Dawn Mission
Exploring Protoplanets Through the Dawn Mission
Dr. Carol Raymond,
Deputy Principal Investigator of the NASA Dawn Mission,
JPL/Caltech,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
10:00am
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1:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Seedbanks as Biodiversity Reserves: Not Your Typical Public Storage
Kaitlyn Lucey,
Graduate Student,
Environmental Science & Engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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1:30pm
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Harnessing the Brain for Language and Music
Mark A. Changizi,
Director of Human Cognition,
2AI Labs,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
An Error in Constitutive Equations Approach for Materials Identification
Wilkins Aquino,
Associate Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
The Discovery of Majorana Fermions in Condensed Matter?
Jason Alicea,
Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Benjamin Franklin's Book Shop
James N. Green,
Librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, May 4th, 2012
9:00am
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5:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Linde Institute/Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) Seminar
Bargaining and Power in Networked Markets
Emerson Melo,
Graduate Student,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Adaptive Aeroelastic Tailoring using Variable Stiffness Approaches
Paolo Ermanni,
Professor,
ETH Zurich,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
New Physics Searches at the LHC with Razor Variables
Christopher Rogan,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Synthesis and Polymerization Behavior of Asymmetric Group IV Phenoxide(pyridine)anilide Complexes
Rachel Klet,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
History of Science and the Historiography of Astrology
Steven Vanden Broecke,
University of Ghent,
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 5th, 2012
10:00am
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11:00am
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Karamian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Sunday, May 6th, 2012
10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:30pm
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11:00am
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Zakhari Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
12:30pm
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1:00pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, May 7th, 2012
11:00am
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12:00pm
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DNA-mediated Charge Transport in a Biological Context: Cooperation Among Metalloproteins to Find Lesions in the Genome
DNA-mediated Charge Transport in a Biological Context: Cooperation Among Metalloproteins to Find Lesions in the Genome
Pamela Sontz,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Barton Group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
DNA-mediated Charge Transport in a Biological Context: Cooperation Among Metalloproteins to Find Lesions in the Genome
Pamela Sontz,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Barton Group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
The Design, Synthesis, and Application of Ruthenium Metathesis Catalysts for the Preparation of Small Molecules and Polymers
Renee Thomas,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Grubbs group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
How to tie peptide knots
A. James Link,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Exceptional fossils and new technologies: revealing the big steps in our early evolution
John Long,
Vice President,
Research and Collections ,
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Functional Analogues of the FeFe Hydrogenases with an Emphasis on Hydride Intermediates
Thomas B. Rauchfuss,
professor of chemistry,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Statistics and Computation in the Age of Massive Data
Michael Jordan,
Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor,
EECS & Statistics,
UC Berkeley,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Tuesday, May 8th, 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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IST Lunch Bunch
Characterizing the Time Domain
Matthew Graham,
Computational Scientist,
Center for Advanced Computing Research,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Classification of Sub-10 nm Aerosol: Theory, Instrument Development, and Experiment
Andrew Downard,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
1:15pm
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3:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBD
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Applications of Surface Plasmons Polaritons in Opto-electronics & in Early Health Diagnosis
Alain Dereux,
Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
"Molecular and cellular mechanisms of memory allocation in neuronal networks"
Alcino Silva,
Professor,
Gonda Neuroscience and Genetics Center,
ULCA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Sciences
Jeffrey Andews-Hanna,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Geophysics,
Colorado School of Mines,